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| Despite Laws And Lawsuits, Quota-Based Policing Lingers
(NPR) posted 04/07/2015 In New York City, police rarely talk on the record at all, especially about a touchy subject like quotas. But Officer Adhyl Polanco is an exception. 'The culture is, you' ... City Leaders Question Why Police Issued 'Credible Threat' Warning On Day Of Gray Funeral (Baltimore Sun) posted 06/26/2015 City leaders questioned Thursday why the Baltimore Police Department issued a public warning, on the morning of Freddie Gray's funeral, that gang members had teamed up to 'tak ... How Bloated Pensions Contribute to Police Brutality (Radley Balko) posted 10/15/2015 There are a few chits at a city’s disposal when negotiating with a police union. One tool is more money — higher salaries, better benefits, more favorable overtime ... Vicious Police Abuses Alleged in Cicero (Courthouse News Service) posted 07/18/2012 CHICAGO (CN) - Cicero police shot a man in the back as he rode a bicycle and let him bleed to death, then planted a gun by him, 'threatened to kill' a witness, and intimidated ... Oakland fires 80 police officers, lists crimes cops will no longer respond to (Raw Story) posted 07/16/2010 The Oakland Police Department is feeling the burn of California's unending budget crisis, as 80 officers were laid off Tuesday night after negotiations between city and police ... New York Police Declare Their Own Safety 'Top Priority' (Antiwar) posted 12/22/2014 ... the department, the nation’s largest into a flurry of panic and outrage, and has police union leaders turning up the rhetoric on anybody and everybody the police do ... Astonishing Heroism: Police Officer Thwarts Suicide Attempt By Letting the Jumper Land on Him (The Free Thought Project) posted 07/27/2015 ... China — As July quickly becomes one of the deadliest months in history for U.S. police killings, (105 dead), police in China are making headlines in a positive ligh ... Speeding police officer kills two teenagers in car crash, one was pregnant -- "Evidence showed the police car took no evasive action when a reasonable person would have" (Times Record News) posted 07/15/2011 ... An initial report from the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals a Wichita Falls police officer involved in a fatal accident June 30 was driving his police cruiser in ... Chicago: New Law Bans Police Use Of Ticket Quotas (Chicago Tribune) posted 06/18/2014 Legislation signed Sunday by Gov. Pat Quinn bans Illinois police departments from assigning ticket quotas and evaluating officers based on how many citations they issue. ... Photographing a Rittenhouse cop leads to disorderly conduct charge - later dismissed (Philly.com) posted 09/06/2011 ... what happened last month to the University of Cincinnati student. The reason? Police said he was interfering with a police investigation when he tried to photograph ... More on Police Lies (PoliceMisconduct.net) posted 02/14/2013 ... with possession of a knife (recovered from his pants pocket) after he was searched by a police officer who swore — under penalty of perjury — that the client ... Texas Police Accused of Hiding Evidence (Courthouse News Service) posted 04/23/2011 ... BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CN) - A man claims he spent 4 years in prison based on a Brownsville Police jailer's false assault charge against him, and BPD's concealment of a vide ... Police: Motorist called 911 several times before he died in road-rage shooting (CNN) posted 01/13/2014 ... up to when he was apparently run off the road in Pennsylvania and then shot to death, police said Friday. ... Riot police hose down angry farmers at WTO protest (Sydney Morning Herald) posted 12/17/2005 POLICE directed fire hoses and fired pepper spray at groups of demonstrators in Hong Kong yesterday as anti-World Trade Organisation protests intensified. Trouble began w ... Former Sanders Spox: 'We Don't Need White People Leading The Democratic Party' (InformationLiberation) posted 11/24/2016 ... to hear from the millennials and the brown folks.'WATCH: CNN responded with shock and outrage and attacked Sanders for her 'racist identity politics.' .. ... Rock throwing reported in Santa Ana (The Orange County Register) posted 05/02/2006 SANTA ANA — Police asked other law enforcement agencies for help this afternoon after a group of 1,500 protesters jammed traffic on Bristol Street near 1st Street and Ed ... Lawsuit can proceed against Lima police: Girl was arrested for obscene gesture (Toledo Blade) posted 10/22/2013 ... — A girl whose mother was shot and killed before her eyes in 2008 by a Lima police officer can sue police for arresting her three years later for directing obscene ... Michigan Police Enter Home and Shoot Man to Death Before Confiscating Surveillance Video That Possibly Captured Shooting (PINAC) posted 05/07/2015 ... a surveillance video camera that may have captured the shooting has been confiscated by police, who are now refusing to release the footage to the family or their lawyer. ... Holmes' doctor warned police before Colo. movie attack (USA Today) posted 04/05/2013 Records show Colorado university psychiatrist warned police a month before July mass shooting that suspect had homicidal thoughts and was a public danger. [...]Soon after ... Raped police officer offered cash to quit (The Globe and Mail) posted 11/12/2012 A female police officer who was sexually assaulted by a male colleague has spent nearly three years being sidelined from her job – and says she is now being offered a fe ... |
