Posted on 04/06/2023 5:59:14 PM PDT by Enterprise
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 300 undercover Los Angeles police officers filed legal claims against the city and police department Tuesday after their names and photographs were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online.
The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition posted more than 9,300 officers’ information and photographs last month in a searchable online database following a public records request by a reporter for progressive news outlet Knock LA. Hundreds of undercover officers were included in the database, although it’s not clear exactly how many because the database doesn’t specify which officers work undercover.
The officers were not given advance notice of the disclosure, and the backlash has roiled the department. The inspector general is investigating Chief Michel Moore and the agency’s constitutional policing director Liz Rhodes after an officers’ union filed a misconduct complaint.
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The claims allege negligence and seek unspecified damages. The plaintiffs say they can no longer work as undercover officers and, in some cases, may not be able to work in policing altogether going forward.
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“These are LA cops. How many have arrested people over gun control violations?”
It does get harder to have sympathy for the police when we what the nation’s #1 police force, the FBI, has turned into.
“At all levels of government and officialdom, the criminal incompetence of our “public servants” (lol) is surpassed only by their villainous treason.”
That about sums up the situation.
Not in the least.
tell it to the Jan 6 committee and the Biden syndicate.
Really?
So when one of their kids or wives gets murdered or raped because someone targets them for revenge, you have no sympathy?
And you wonder why the world is the way it is.
Inability to separate policy from humanity is a lonely sad place to live.
First, it doesn’t seem clear that they did as there is an open record law
If there is a law it’s wrong-it might seem sensible but we don’t need secret police in this country. Plenty of unjust laws get enforced while just ones are ignored
See post 6 and stop your whining.
We don’t need secret police in this country. We don’t need gestapo tactics. I’m not for doxing, but these people work for us, they need to stop thinking they are privileged somehow, able to lie and not be lied to, able to hide unconstitutional action behind a hidden badge. Get in uniform, get in a black and white, walk a beat, look for and stop criminals. Stop creating them or creating process crimes.
Sir Robert Peele had it down pretty good back in the day.
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Post 25 and post six sounds like a lot of whining to me.
No it’s not. Police entrap people all the time using illegal means in the name of enforcement.
I disagree. I think post 6 is enlightening. My 80 year old mom, who is as straight arrow that ever lived doesn’t like police harassment via random traffic revenue collections. She has been stopped for no reason multiple times in her older but not recent years. She thinks they are collecting revenue and not fighting crime. When you lose people like her, there is an issue. Yet the PoPo don’t look internally they double down in that blue vs the world attitude.
So you were for secret police and secret courts. Got it.
Regardless of my opinion on undercover police. Their actions endanger entire families. One off duty officer at a ball game had a known LA gang member come up to him and tell him he saw his photo on that web site. Cartels are going to be in every big city if they aren’t there already. Going to be hard to fight them.
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