We're Supposed to Trust These People?

[KMFJD]

That's the 2nd feeble old person NSW police have beat up lately

https://twitter.com/x/status/1659551635096453123

not so 'proud' boys now

 

[KMFJD]

Just a few bad apples...writting a few thousand fake tickets to skew the fact that they are racially discriminating

Auditor: Highly likely CT troopers submitted 25K+ false tickets

There is a “high likelihood” hundreds of Connecticut State Police troopers...

www.ctinsider.com

 

[ch33zw1z]

Just a few bad apples...writting a few thousand fake tickets to skew the fact that they are racially discriminating

Auditor: Highly likely CT troopers submitted 25K+ false tickets

There is a “high likelihood” hundreds of Connecticut State Police troopers...

www.ctinsider.com

It’s not clear yet if they were trying to cover up racial profiling, but it’s certainly a motivation to consider.

It also makes them look more productive, and potentially getting more OT depending on what point of their shift they’re submitting false traffic stops.

Either way, this is huge, widespread, and not just CT. Policing is 100% a numbers game, just like any other service.

 

[KMFJD]

Woman, 95, Tasered by officer at Cooma aged care home, approached on walking frame with a knife, police say

Police said the officer’s duty status was under review, as civil liberties groups demanded an independent investigation into incident that left Clare Nowland in critical condition

www.theguardian.com

Australia this time.

95 year-old woman shuffles towards them using a walking frame, holding a knife. So of course they tase her. No other option, obviously. How could a cop possibly be expected to outrun a 95-year-old with a walking frame, or disarm her?

I suppose had it been the US they'd have shot her, mind.

Officer said 'na bugger it' before tasering 95yo Clare Nowland, court documents allege

NSW Police allege in court documents Senior Constable Kristian White's decision to deploy his taser on the elderly woman "does not meet the threshold" of acceptable use for officers.

www.abc.net.au

bit of an update, the dude is rightfully fucked....

~Senior Constable White was allegedly heard to say "stop just ... Na ah heck it" before using the taser, the police documents state.

 

[pmv]

Yet another one (is there anyone in the Met who _isn't_ a criminal?)

Former Met police officer jailed for rape of female colleague and 16-year-old girl

Judge says force protected Adam Provan by ignoring officer’s complaints, allowing him to attack teenager

www.theguardian.com

 

[pmv]

Going some way off the topic of "cops", and into really super-bleak territory, this is a huge story at the moment

Parents of baby killed by Lucy Letby say they got a ‘total fob off’ from hospital

Exclusive: after newborn son was murdered, family say repeated calls to Countess of Chester’s medical director were unanswered

www.theguardian.com

What strikes me is that, as with Harold Shipman, what would surely have helped would have been having systems in place to quickly spot statistical abnormalities over things like death rates?

Her motives seem absolutely unfathomable, to me. Not sure there's any real way to completely protect against such apparently completely random madness, but proper monitoring surely would have picked up that _something_ was going wrong much earlier?

 

[pmv]

Another one demonstrating it's not just cops

GP is struck off for string of derogatory Facebook posts

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Ricky Allen, who worked as a GP and hospital doctor in England for more than 30 years, said only a 'brainless halfwit' would get a Covid jab.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[pmv]

Another one

Ex-Met police officer convicted of multiple counts of rape

Cliff Mitchell was recruited to Met despite being accused of raping a child

www.theguardian.com

A man recruited by the Metropolitan police as an officer despite being accused of raping a child was convicted on Wednesday of 13 counts of raping a woman and a child, as well as kidnap.

I read the Couzens report expecting evidence of rank misogyny. What I found was almost worse | Gaby Hinsliff

This litany of apathy and sloppiness suggests police forces are incapable of the reform needed after Sarah Everard’s murder, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

This guy was recruited several months _after_ Couzens murdered Sarah Everard. As the article above points out, he got the job at the same time as those in charge of the Met were expressing horror at the previous rapist-murderer cop and declaring 'never again' and that it was a lone 'bad apple'.

 

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A particularly bizarre, and extreme, example

French serial killer appeared on TV game show during 35-year manhunt

One of France’s most elusive serial killers appeared on a popular television game show during the 35-year police hunt for him, where he spoke about keeping people safe.

uk.yahoo.com

François Vérove appeared on the game show Everyone Wants to Take Their Place in 2019
One of France's most elusive serial killers appeared on a popular television game show during the 35-year police hunt for him, where he spoke about keeping people safe.
Francois Vérove, also known as “the pockmarked killer” because of his complexion, has been linked to nine murders, including minors, and 30 cases of rape and abuse.
The married former officer of the cavalry regiment of the Republican Guard managed to evade capture for decades, even though he appeared in 2019 on the show Everyone Wants to Take Their Place on state channel France 2.

(It's not clear to me from the article if he appeared on the gameshow while being a fugitive, i.e. the cops were actively looking for him, or if his appearance occurred before they had identified him as a suspect. The headline seems to imply the former, but the dates in the article seem to imply the latter - which is a bit less shocking. Either way, it seems he was involved in the investigation of at least one of the murders he latter confessed to - which sounds like the plot of a movie)

 

[igor_kavinski]

That's just great. Want to be above the law? Just become a law enforcement officer!

 

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This one's more farcical than fascist - it's like a plot-line from Eastenders Brookside. That it all came to a head in the carpark of Screwfix would have been a nice touch by the script-writers, if someone had written it.

Ex-cop punched inspector he caught having sex with his wife in Screwfix car park, court told

A former police officer has claimed he acted in self-defence when he punched an inspector who he caught having sex with his wife, a jury has heard. Gavin Harper, 45, had placed a tracking device on the car driven by his wife, policewoman Stephanie Glynn, because he said he suspected her of...

uk.yahoo.com

A former police officer has claimed he acted in self-defence when he punched an inspector who he caught having sex with his wife, a jury has heard.
Gavin Harper, 45, had placed a tracking device on the car driven by his wife, policewoman Stephanie Glynn, because he said he suspected her of having an affair.
He followed her to a Screwfix car park in Birkenhead, Merseyside, where he found her having sex with her colleague, Andrew McLullich, 42, on the back seat on the evening of 16 February 2021, Liverpool Crown Court was told.