“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Posted on 10/24/2021 9:02:37 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
In a police department with a history of brutality, Captain Javier Ortiz holds a special distinction as Miami’s least-fireable man with a badge, a gun and a staggering history of citizen complaints for beatings, false arrests and bullying.
Over his 17 years on the job — including eight as the union president of the Fraternal Order of Police in South Florida — 49 people have complained about him to Internal Affairs as he amassed 19 official use-of-force incidents, $600,000 in lawsuit settlements and a book’s worth of terrible headlines related to his record and his racially inflammatory social media posts, many of which attacked alleged victims of police violence.
Yet Ortiz has repeatedly beaten back attempts to discipline him. He returned to work in March from a yearlong paid suspension during which state and federal investigators examined whether he “engaged in a pattern of abuse and bias against minorities, particularly African Americans … [and] has been known for cyber-stalking and doxing civilians who question his authority or file complaints against him.” The investigation was launched after three Miami police sergeants accused him of abusing his position and said the department had repeatedly botched investigations into him.
But investigators concluded their hands were tied because 13 of the 19 use-of-force complaints were beyond the five-year statute of limitations, and the others lacked enough hard evidence beyond the assertions of the alleged victims. The findings underscored a truism in many urban police departments: The most troublesome cops are so insulated by protective union contracts and laws passed by politicians who are eager to advertise their law-and-order bona fides that removing them is nearly impossible — even when their own colleagues are witnesses against them.
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I found this interesting note about FL's Policeman's Bill of rights:
An even more significant obstacle in the bill of rights is a rule that officers must be shown all evidence against them before they are interviewed about complaints — a right that isn’t afforded to civilians and that flies in the face of normal investigative techniques. It allows officers to tailor their responses to the evidence, avoid being caught in lies and even, says former Miami police chief Art Acevedo, “interfere with the investigation or retaliate” against witnesses.
List?
How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power?
Police unions maybe?
Well during the days when Miami was the drug capital there were scores of dirty cops. New York too. Now the drugs mostly come by a different routes so they gotta work harder to buy Porsches.
“How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power?”
We put up with it.
That’s how.
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How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power?
Police unions maybe?
Not unusual. Remember, cops are dealing day in and day out, with the worst people,on the planet, and most cops are falsely accused many times by the scum that get arrested. You can see this for yourself just by watching the show cops, and seeing how many perps IMMEDIATELY start screaming about “police brutality” as they are wrestled to the ground while trying to beat the crap out of the cops. I’m amazed he only had 49 complaints in 20,years actually. That is a little over 2 per year, and the cop probably arrests hundreds if not 1000s per year of the worst of the worst.
Not saying he is innocent, just pointing out some facts that people, always conveniently never bring up,when complaining about cops.
I wouldn’t blame the police unions, much. A union acts pretty much like a defense attorney. It’s the union’s job to advocate for the membership, just as an attorney advocates for his client.
The majority of the blame goes to the politicians who set the ground rules, and who accept stupid rules in the union contracts.
And give another slice of the blame to the police brass. They often find it easier to look the other way when a bad cop surfaces.
Why are there never any articles on how bad teachers keep their jobs?
Something tells me he’s asking to end up like the Sician Revenge scene in the Godfather. You know DiNiro goes back there to deal with the goon that killed his mother.
The same way corrupt politicians stay in power. The police are just another department of government. Conservatives really need to understand this simple fact. There are not just a few bad apples in government. There are barrels of absolutely rotten apples and the police are no exception. Logic should tell you this but conservatives hold on to the belief that somehow putting on a badge purifies the soul. If that were the case then the FBI would be the purest of all, are they?
Write one.
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
The Miami River cops went to prison
I knew some of them
This article is over the top nonsense
You want a mean as dogs southern city police force
Why look no further than the Crescent City
Now that is really bad boy and girls po po
Here you go?
How do bad teachers keep their job? Tenure.
> Why are there never any articles on how bad teachers keep their jobs? <
Take a look at my post #8. Just replace the words “police” and “cop” there with the word “teacher”.
By the way, I was a public school teacher for decades. So I would know. The above word replacement is a correct one.
If you don’t mind me jumping in, teacher tenure is often misunderstood. Tenure just means that a teacher can only be fired for cause.
In my neck of the woods, a public school teacher does not get tenure until his/her third year of teaching. During those first two years the teacher can be fired for any old made-up excuse.
And that does happen. For example, a school board member has a relative who wants a teaching position. So a good untenured teacher is fired for some flimsy reason to make room for that relative. (I saw that happen.)
Now here’s the problem. School boards are often too lazy to fire a tenured teacher when there is cause to do so. That’s the real crime.
Democrat anti gun police unions indeed.
Funny how this article picks and chooses their examples of police abuse. Nothing about Chicago, about corrupt mayors like Lightfoot hiring yes men through covid vaccination nor about DOJ chummy prosecutors…
“There are barrels of absolutely rotten apples and the police are no exception.”
I can’t believe there are that many bad cops walking the streets. Management and unions maybe.
I am aware of the three year rule. But how difficult is it to fire a tenured teacher??
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