Posted on 12/10/2014 8:23:35 AM PST by jmaroneps37
In the early 1980s the New York City Police Department received a number of civilian complaints about the conduct of its officers. Among those complaints was one that had to be the most infuriating, embarrassing and heartbreaking even the toughest street cops had ever heard.
The complaint came from a woman who said that while she was pregnant she felt faint and collapsed to the sidewalk in the streets of New York’s Greenwich Village, then subsequently became unconscious. This brought attention from a police officer who was on foot patrol nearby. From there the story was picked up by a witness.
The witness told investigators that he had personally observed the police officer kneel down next to the woman and a after a few seconds drive his nightstick into her stomach. He said he saw an ambulance crew take the woman to a nearby hospital and he followed them right to the emergency room.
Thereafter the worst part of the incident happened according to the male witness. He said the woman then lost her baby!
In short, he had witnessed a cop violently thrust his nightstick into the woman’s stomach for no reason and this caused her to lose her baby. To recap: the complaint said a witness had testified that he saw the police officer slam his nightstick into a pregnant woman’s stomach causing her to lose her baby.
Reading the first several paragraphs of the report on the complaint made me want to crawl under a table in embarrassment. Nevertheless, as I continued reading I realized the story was changing.
What the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s (CCRB) investigator’s report revealed was that things were far different than what a quick initial reading indicated.
The CCRB found that the “witness” had not seen anything...
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One isolated incident should not diminish the entire group. I said the vast majority NOT all. There are bad apples in any profession. But you know that.
I’ve had bad luck. I’m sure there are good cops. I’ve seen good Departments (see above).
Also, there is a real problem with some of the sorts of people attracted to the profession.
I was at a cousin’s beach place this summer, and some friends of theirs from the police academy were there with their families. They were heavily tattooed, treated their wives like dirt, ignored their kids, drank to excess, and put my family at risk.
I’m sure there are nice folks among cops too. The guy across the street is an ex-cop who is quite a good guy.
But folks like the ones at the beach scare the bejeezus out of me. Those guys get a gun and color of authority? Yikes.
Ouch, glad I didn’t make that list!
Hang out here long enough and sooner or later someone will yank your chain and create the temptation to pi$$ right back at them. I find it’s therapeutic to compose a double barrel blast and preview it, then back off to leave the troll stewing in their bile. If I had gone ahead and posted some of the replies I’ve composed over the years I’d probably have been banned from this site ages ago.
This retread is particularly annoying. Some avoid confrontation and some look for it.
So when?
Is it my turn already?
In Millbrae, CA there was a police officer named Richard Dixon.
He was one of the greatest "good" inlfuences in my life.
He once pulled me over to inform me that everyone in his department was fully aware that I was driving on a suspended license, and he even gave me advance warning that a fellow cop was lying in wait for me to get in my car after work so as to arrest me.
He is most likely long gone, but he was a gem.
That’s good advice.
Oh, and I have learned to try to avoid the religion discussions. No matter what you write somebody will take a walk down your throat in crampons. Just sit back and watch the gladiators go at it. G*d will sort it all out in His own good time.
I’m with you on that one too!
governments armed enforcers???....these guys/gals are your nighbors and they WORK FOR YOU...blindly supporting?????no one supports evil actions...on the other hand, it is far easier to apologize for and correct the actions of the extremely rare police misbehavior than to justify the actions of a thug like Travon who was slamming the head of a neighborhood watch person into the sidewalk, or the thug in Missouri who was a strong armed robber and who had attacked YOUR police officer, attempted to disarm him, and then attacked him again to do whatever your imagination can think up.
Maybe you relate to the man in New york who refused to be placed under arrest when told to do so. This would have been his 32nd bust....The police (your officers) cannot just say O.K. then, we'll see you tomorrow....doesn't work that way. I have some empathy for the three victims in these cases...my empathy is based on the fact that they were NEVER raised, as children, to respect authority. Their fathers, for the most part, were absent. The problem, in todays society is NOT the authorities, it is the same groups who ignore the realization that society has rules that we must all conform to. I am 76 years old and the same groups who defy authority now were doing so in the 50's and 60's and 70's. Their family structure is practically nonexistant and these poor kids are truly the victims...not of society, but of their own racial/ethnic surroundings....they have almost no chance at all and it is NOT OUR FAULT.
Been there, done that.....that's what the court is for...I've NEVER entered a guilty plea to anything and I certainly wouldn't have in that case. I have had the same accusation and the court heard my testimony and that of the officer, neither of us lied, and the judge tossed it and reminded the officer to be more observant as to the reality of the situation...
Luckily, the cop was in such a ticket-production mode that he forgot to reset his machine. He was an Oregon trooper, and only writing tickets to Washingtonians. So, he wrote my truck a ticket with my license plate number, but attributed it to the driver of the last truck he pulled over from Washington.
So, I didn’t have a ticket. In my name, anyhow. I just sat on it, never paid, and I’m sure they washed it away as lost revenue. Because that’s all it was to them, revenue from out-of-staters. Meaningful law enforcement be damned. Revenue for the welfare state is all that guy was about that day.
They did nothing......Soooo, you kept the wallet?
Am appropriate answer is as follows:
The wallet contained the name and address of the car thief. He subsequently had an unexplained "accident".
You said to Bettyprob “Bite me troll.”
Yes, she is. Her thread postings and comments on other threads, suggest she is a troll.
Yup. And a retread at that.
“I hate every last one of you.”
I don’t see my name on the list - does that mean you and I are still meeting behind the barn tomorrow?
As usual. Bring the riding crop and wear those heels I like.
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