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Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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jimbob said:
As I said elsewhere - it looks as though Chief Wiggum or even Boss Hawg might be affectionate idealised versions of smalltown cops rather than harsh stereotypes.
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And Cartman's version was pretty much spot on for all of them.
 
A Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy has resigned while awaiting discipline over allegations that he tried to force a pregnant tenant from a Kenner apartment amid a federal freeze on evictions, while allegedly tapping a sheriff’s office computer to dig up attachments on her.
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Cop resigns after caught trying to illegally evict a woman. Cutting through the Gordian knot of "whos a bigger scumbag, a cop or a landlord" by simply being both at once.

It's the second time McClendon has resigned from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. He worked there as a process server for First Parish Court in Metairie but left in 2009 after being booked with skimming nearly $10,000 from the parish schools system, where'd he also worked.
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https://www.nola.com/news/article_9f260baa-aebb-11eb-a3c8-f3cba6133811.html
 
Babbylonian said:
I don't. I think police culture is a separate, broken place where people go in decent and end up monsters.
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Yeah but given how they avoid hiring people who are too smart, and the kind of person who might want to become an officer, and the behaviour we observe, I'd think there's more than a few of those in there... plus the bad-appling of the good ones has to come from somewhere, originally.
 
Cop convicted of murder for April 2018 killing of suicidal man.

While two other officers were on the scene trying to talk down the suicidal man holding a gun to his own head, Officer William Darby arrived and almost immediately shot the man with a shotgun, killing him.

Darby shot Parker, who was white, while responding to a call after the man phoned 911 saying he was armed and planned to kill himself. A one-time colleague, Genisha Pegues, testified that while Parker was upset, he was talking to her and posed no immediate threat despite a gun held to his head.
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Even after being convicted of murder, local police maintain that Darby followed policy.

A city police review cleared Darby of wrongdoing and officials allowed him to remain an officer, with Huntsville taxpayers helping fund his defense against charges brought by a Madison County grand jury.

The guilty verdict left police “in the first stages of shock,” Chief Mark McMurray said in a statement.
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Pigs endorse literal murder.

https://apnews.com/article/al-state-wire-trials-shootings-6c3086a61eefc9605d171e3446c1e844
 
Last year, a Forest Grove, Oregon, police officer was charged with second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree disorderly conduct after he allegedly vandalized a home that displayed a Black Lives Matter flag on Oct. 31. On Thursday, a second police officer was indicted because he allegedly failed to arrest the first officer and instead drove him home. Perhaps the second cop figured the first cop wasn’t actually a criminal but was dressing as one for Halloween, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say police officers are just less likely to be dedicated to doing their jobs when the job requires them to arrest other cops.

The Associated Press reports that Officer Bradley Schuetz was indicted by a grand jury on one count of first-degree official misconduct for declining to arrest Officer Steven Teets.
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Cop charged for failing to arrest off-duty cop that was engaged in criminal activity, instead assisting him to flee the scene.

https://www.theroot.com/2-oregon-police-officers-charged-in-incident-involving-1846855260?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=theroot
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Cop charged for failing to arrest off-duty cop that was engaged in criminal activity, instead assisting him to flee the scene.

https://www.theroot.com/2-oregon-police-officers-charged-in-incident-involving-1846855260?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=theroot
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If they were not a police officer I think they would have been charged as an accessory, instead of "misconduct".

Arguably, crimes by police officers should have a greater consequence, not lesser.
 
gnome said:
If they were not a police officer I think they would have been charged as an accessory, instead of "misconduct".

Arguably, crimes by police officers should have a greater consequence, not lesser.
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Sounds like the original cop is getting some pretty favorable treatment too. Reporting on the incident makes it sound a lot like the belligerent cop was trying to force entry and attack the resident, well beyond just vandalism and disorderly conduct that he was ultimately charged with.
 
Belz... said:
It's policy to shoot suicidal people?

Well it sure cuts to the chase.
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Well, I've seen video a police sniper shooting the gun out of the hand of a suicidal person. Since this moron used a shotgun, I'm guessing that's not what he had in mind.
 
Craig4 said:
Well, I've seen video a police sniper shooting the gun out of the hand of a suicidal person. Since this moron used a shotgun, I'm guessing that's not what he had in mind.
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The victim was shot in the face with a shotgun at close range. Deliberate murder.
 
Belz... said:
Well, how else would you disarm someone pointing the gun at their head?

Pew pew!
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How detached from both the public and reality does this department have to be to be surprised that the guy got found guilty? You really have to live in your own little world to think shooting someone in the face who is suicidal (and not threatening anyone else) isn't murder.
 
Craig4 said:
How detached from both the public and reality does this department have to be to be surprised that the guy got found guilty? You really have to live in your own little world to think shooting someone in the face who is suicidal (and not threatening anyone else) isn't murder.
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It's the "this is within our guidelines" part I find worrysome.
 
Craig4 said:
How detached from both the public and reality does this department have to be to be surprised that the guy got found guilty? You really have to live in your own little world to think shooting someone in the face who is suicidal (and not threatening anyone else) isn't murder.
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I have nothing more than a hunch, but I think there is a bit of a cultural shift on how the public views the police, and that is finally starting to have some impact in the court systems.

I doubt whether or not this verdict would have happened 10 years ago. The jury watched a bodycam, something that would not have existed in the recent past, that shows our cop friend entering the situation and killing the victim within the span of 11 seconds. All told our murderer spent less than a minute on the scene before using lethal force.

Body camera video showed Darby grab a shotgun from his patrol car and sprint to the house. Less than a minute later, he shot Parker in the face. Darby testified that he had to take over the situation from Pegues, a senior officer, because he believed she was putting herself in danger by talking to Parker.

Darby walked up to the house and shouted for Pegues to “point your fu**ing gun at him,” bodycam video showed. Darby repeatedly shouted for Parker to drop his gun. Darby fired the fatal shot 11 seconds after entering the house, according to the video.
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Sprinted into the house, chastised his fellow cop that was actually trying to de-escalate a tense situation, and shot a suicidal man in the face all within 11 seconds. Pure Cop Brain at work.

People are seeing these bodycam and cellphone videos of cops being wildly aggressive, escalation happy freaks, and it's corroding the foundation of impunity that police have relied on for so many years. You love to see it.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/huntsville-police-officer-william-ben-darby-convicted-of-murder-for-shooting-jeffrey-parker.html

In a way, I understand the surprise being expressed by the police here. The rules are changing.

ETA: This murderer is currently free on bond pending sentencing.
 
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Belz... said:
They let people out on bond AFTER the verdict? What kind of madness is this?

And what kind of sentence is he looking at? I mean, not if he were a regular person of course.
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I'm not familiar enough with Alabama to know whether or not it is common for convicted murderers to be free on bond. It also strikes me as unusual.

Reporting claims he faces a 20 year minimum sentence. Not seeing much wiggle room there for preferential treatment. Dude is totally screwed unless he can win an appeal, which seems very unlikely given how rarely post-conviction appeals are successful.

ETA: There's a delicious irony to "tough on crime" laws making it difficult for a convicted pig to worm his way out of a stiff sentence for an on-duty murder. Powerful "leopards eating faces party" energy for a cop getting absolutely destroyed by our extremely punitive justice system.
 
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Belz... said:
They let people out on bond AFTER the verdict? What kind of madness is this?

And what kind of sentence is he looking at? I mean, not if he were a regular person of course.
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It's not uncommon. For non-violent crimes, you get told where to report to serve your sentence and show up. It's pretty rare for a murder conviction though.
 
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