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What's the thread title? We are NOW starting to hold officers accountable for their actions. The protests have had a real positive effect.
We are still sweeping illegal actions by the police under the rug (see my earlier thread from this morning) but we are starting to make a difference.
Nonsense. Police misconduct and abuse have always been held accountable. Each situation has to be handled on an individual basis. Some shootings are justified, while others are not.
Nonsense. Police misconduct and abuse have always been held accountable. Each situation has to be handled on an individual basis. Some shootings are justified, while others are not.
I could post thousands where they were not. It was clearly shown that the officers in the Tamir Rice shooting lied. Were they held accountable? No.
"I could post thousands" of articles that are probably very biased.
Did YOU sit in on each and every of the investigations and hear ALL the details of the investgation that you disapprove of the actions on?
NO!
Let's be honest, you post ONLY articles that you agree with.
You didn't answer my question. Not only did the officers lie, so did the prosecutor. He said that the grand jury refused to indict. They never got a chance to.
The protests are making a difference. From the increased use of video to actual charges being brought forth in Chicago to things like this.
Baltimore police failed to share misconduct complaints with civilian oversight board; promise to do so now
Baltimore police have agreed to share complaints about officer misconduct with the Civilian Review Board, a beleaguered group created nearly two decades ago to provide citizen oversight of city law enforcement, after the department failed to forward hundreds of cases.
According to a Baltimore Sun analysis, Baltimore police did not forward to the board from 2013 to 2015 more than two-thirds of the police misconduct cases that are under its purview. The board takes complaints alleging excessive force, abusive language, harassment, false arrest and false imprisonment.
Under the agreement facilitated by City Hall last month, police will send the Civilian Review Board all citizen complaints but withhold investigative and personnel files until the board obtains a notarized copy from the complainant. The board had planned to go public with allegations that police were not following the law.
I have NO issue with police being investigated if they have crossed the line, and with this mechanism for doing so.
One condition though-IF complaints are investigated and the complaints are found to be false, the initiator of the complaint is charged with slander, made to pay a fine payable to the officer in question and made to pay the cost of the investigation. I suspect (and would like to see stats either way) that the vast majority of the complaints are bogus.
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