I hope everyone who has heard the cry of a victim claiming to have been framed and ignored it reflects on having done so.
Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
51–60 of 268 posts
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#52> black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. Black men make up 1 million out of 2.3 million people in prison. 4.7% of all black men* are in prison. A black man has a 70% chance of being in prison at some point in his life. Are you suggesting the police are framing all of these people? While police…
Actually, black Americans are primed for entry into "the system" from kindergarten. It's called "the school to prison pipeline" and it has been conclusively shown that blacks get disproportionate punishment at every phase of life.
Similar things have been done to other minority populations, especially indigenous populations, in other countries, with much the same results.
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#53> black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. Black men make up 1 million out of 2.3 million people in prison. 4.7% of all black men* are in prison. A black man has a 70% chance of being in prison at some point in his life. Are you suggesting the police are framing all of these people? While police…
Given that this isn't an isolated incident, and we're seeing black people on the receiving end of a great deal of police misconduct over the past couple of years (Laquan McDonald and the subsequent cover up is the most recent example), perhaps it's time you consider that the reason arrest rates for black people are so high is because they are targeted unjustly. Not because they're actually committing crimes at higher…
The higher criminality drives the police mistreatment. If you're a police offer and interact with mostly black criminals all day, your priors are set so that you think most blacks are criminals. So when you see an honest black person, you assume he's guilty of _something_, and consider framing him the honest thing, since you believe you're just putting the black man away for crimes he's doubtlessly committed, but for which you have no evidence.
(You should understand that _explaining_ something is different from _endorsing_ it. Of course we should judge people by their actions only. It is _understandable_, however, why the current police culture might have arisen.)
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#54I can't see the article when I click through - anybody got a mirror?
I also get nothing. Was it taken down?
It's working fine for me (and I have ad blocking + noscript on). Perhaps try the Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahenry...
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#55It seems like there is a smoking gun in this case (though I didn't review the evidence thoroughly). Widespread availability of video recording and distribution has provided many more smoking guns. Certainly, there are many more incidents where no smoking gun evidence is available. For a long time, black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved. It was and is a grave…
Opinion: 1) Police are corrupt. Maybe not all of them, but enough of them that "police are corrupt" is true. This will always be the case. Police don't fight crime, nor prevent it. They create it. If you think this isn't so you haven't had enough exposure to them. Maybe my opinion is coloured by my experience: illegal search of person, car, and house. They ransacked my house, stole money and property from me. It took…
just curious, what race are you and what country do you live in?
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#56Keep the leaks coming world! The joke is that anyone who is truly qualified to run for office doesn't want the job. I hope that the more leaks like this that come out, more qualified people will realize they can't just stand by idly thinking the system will just fix itself. I imagine Snowden leaks alone have gotten far more "qualified" people engaged in civic activities than we'll ever truly comprehend, and have take…
> Keep the leaks coming world!
Seriously. I can't imagine how something like this, or Snowden's docs, could have leaked in the pre-internet days. It's so easy to replicate & distribute information now, and the process by which stories make the "front page" is so democratic.
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#57If this story is not picked up in the larger media I will be disgusted, but I'm happy to see this come to light. Trust is a huge part of the police/citizen relationship, and it's in a bad state.
it seems to be going viral...I hope it is
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#58It seems like there is a smoking gun in this case (though I didn't review the evidence thoroughly). Widespread availability of video recording and distribution has provided many more smoking guns. Certainly, there are many more incidents where no smoking gun evidence is available. For a long time, black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved. It was and is a grave…
I propose that if an officer is caught planting evidence or government official is caught covering up such acts and found guilty that the officer or official will serve twice and amount of time and twice any monetary amount the wronged served. And follow the drug war policy of mandatory sentences so no judge can reduce the sentence. For examole if these guys planted evidence that resulted in 10 guys behind bars, each…
> These scumbags were not scared of the consequences of what they were doing.
That's because they knew there would be no consequences to be scared of.
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#59> black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. Black men make up 1 million out of 2.3 million people in prison. 4.7% of all black men* are in prison. A black man has a 70% chance of being in prison at some point in his life. Are you suggesting the police are framing all of these people? While police…
> Downvote me all you want: it won't change the facts.
I downvoted you because you are simply incorrect about the facts. Black people make up 12% of the US population, and use illicit drugs at approximately a proportionate rate. Yet, black people make up more than half of the prison population of drug offenders, and nearly two thirds of those under any form of criminal supervision for drug offenses.
Why are you saying otherwise?
Re: Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
#60> black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. Black men make up 1 million out of 2.3 million people in prison. 4.7% of all black men* are in prison. A black man has a 70% chance of being in prison at some point in his life. Are you suggesting the police are framing all of these people? While police…
Given that this isn't an isolated incident, and we're seeing black people on the receiving end of a great deal of police misconduct over the past couple of years (Laquan McDonald and the subsequent cover up is the most recent example), perhaps it's time you consider that the reason arrest rates for black people are so high is because they are targeted unjustly. Not because they're actually committing crimes at higher…
It could be both. It could also be that the two phenomena are related in more ways than one. I'm not a sociologist and this isn't my wheelhouse, but I can both imagine a world in which exposure to crime can jade law enforcement against a community - and one in which a community can become jaded by corrupt law enforcement.