[url]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/video-recorded-arrest-gets-nypd-cop-indicted-on-assault-charges/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;394441][URL]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/video-recorded-arrest-gets-nypd-cop-indicted-on-assault-charges/[/URL][/QUOTE]

Gee! And that cop didn't even choke someone to death. Fortunately for him, the fix will still be in once it gets to court, if it even does.

[url]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/bystanders-video-shows-cops-shooting-killing-fleeing-man/[/url]

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[url]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/dash-cam-shows-police-striking-suspect-until-cop-turns-off-recording/[/url]

Hopefully this article is not even partially true: [url]http://dcpost.org/florida-law-officer-planting-evidence-lying-part-of-the-game-exclusive-interview/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;395842]Hopefully this article is not even partially true: [URL]http://dcpost.org/florida-law-officer-planting-evidence-lying-part-of-the-game-exclusive-interview/[/URL][/QUOTE]

I am afraid that not even Hope can stretch that far.

Welcome to the real world...:sad:

I don't know how many decades I have known of the expression "throw down gun," but quite a few.

Then there are the notorious cases of Sgt. Pilcher of Scotland Yard, who made a career of hounding pop musicians. Among many, there was the [URL="http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/03/12/george-pattie-harrison-drugs-squad-raid/"]raid on George Harrison's house[/URL] in which a large chunk of hashish was "discovered" in one of Harrison's shoes.

Besides planted "evidence," there are thousands of cases of fumble-fingered defendants who manage to "drop" contraband in font of a cop. These are known as "[URL="http://blog.simplejustice.us/2011/02/03/when-dropsy-was-always-the-answer/"]dropsy cases.[/URL]" (Minimally related: "dropsy" is an archaic term for the swelling and fluid retention resulting from congestive heart failure.)

[QUOTE]Back in the 1960s, following the Supreme Court’s monumental decision in [I]Mapp v. Ohio[/I] that held the exclusionary rule to be applicable to the states [INDENT][I]You mean there was a time when it didn’t?
Yes, Tiffany, there was; a time, long, long ago[/I].[/INDENT]the police were suddenly compelled to come up with explanations for the otherwise rampant conduct of warrantless searches of people they decided, for whatever reason, needed searching. And suddenly, out of nowhere, came the dropsy search.

Dropsy was when a police officer merely approached a person, without any questions or commands, and, inexplicably, the person would let a package whose contents were unknown fall from his hands to the ground. He would drop it. By doing so, he abandoned it, thus removing it from the purview of the warrant clause, whether state or federal.[/QUOTE]

U.S. preparing to sue Ferguson police
 

The proof will be in the pudding. Since Ferguson is hardly unique in having such police practices, I fear that it will be a long time before improvement appears on a national scale. Bonus Cliche: "It's a long row to hoe."

[QUOTE](Reuters) - [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/us-usa-police-ferguson-idUSKBN0LN04020150219"]The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to sue the Ferguson, Missouri, police department [/URL]over allegations of racially discriminatory practices unless the police force agrees to make changes, CNN reported on Wednesday.
The network, citing sources, said the Justice Department would not charge the white Ferguson police officer involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last August but was expected to outline allegations of discriminatory Ferguson police tactics.
The department would file suit if Ferguson police did not agree to review and change those tactics, CNN reported.
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Tamir Rice 'directly and proximately' responsible for own police shooting
 

[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/01/tamir-rice-directly-proximately-responsible-police-shooting-death-city"]Yep. Kid shouldn't have got in the way of that bullet. (or something.....)[/URL] [/SNARK]

[QUOTE]The death of Tamir Rice was “directly and proximately” caused by the 12-year-old’s own actions, the city of Cleveland has argued in a defense document following a civil claim from the boy’s family. Rice was [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/26/tamir-rice-video-shows-boy-shot-police-cleveland"]shot dead by a police officer[/URL] last November.
When he was shot, Rice was holding a toy gun that police mistook for a real firearm. The incident sparked widespread criticism that [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/03/officer-who-fatally-shot-tamir-rice-had-been-judged-unfit"]officer Timothy Loehmann, who killed Rice[/URL], employed a drastic overuse of force.


The city of Cleveland’s defense, [URL="http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2015/02/city_of_cleveland_responds_to.html"]filed with the US district court[/URL] on Friday, argues that both Rice and members of his family are to blame for any damages, injuries and losses arising from the incident. The argument lists 20 lines of defence, including that Rice did not “exercise due care to avoid injury” and that members of his family, including his mother and teenage sister, who have lodged the claim, sustained damages “caused by their own acts”.
[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/08/cleveland-police-handcuffed-sister-tamir-rice-lay-dying-video"]
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[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/08/cleveland-police-handcuffed-sister-tamir-rice-lay-dying-video"]Video footage of the incident[/URL] outside the Cuddell Recreation Center in Cleveland was obtained by local media under freedom of information laws. It shows Rice’s 14-year-old sister pushed to ground, handcuffed and taken to the back of a patrol car after arriving on the scene and seeing her brother lying in front of her.
[/QUOTE]EDIT:
[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/02/tamir-rice-blame-cleveland-mayor-apologizes"]Cleveland Mayor apologizes[/URL] after city smears dead 12-year-old.