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Grundulum posted:One thing that came up towards the end of the last thread was a suggestion that officers be allowed to turn in blank report forms, but also be harshly punished for turning in a false report. What unintended consequences would this have? Knowingly filing a false report is a firing offense and a crime pretty much everywhere, but appears to be rarely prosecuted, either due to the difficulty in proving the "knowingly" part of the offense, or due to institutional apathy. Based on my time working for the government, I suspect it is a little of column A and a little of column B.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 06:43 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 08:25 |
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I'm deeply uncomfortable with the precedent set by implied consent/no refusal laws, even though I understand the reasoning, so I'm pretty OK with Garrity.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 08:30 |
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Also, this is a bit more like your employer accusing you of stealing and demanding that you give a sworn statement in front of their lawyers or get fired. I personally think that a person shouldn't lose their job for exercising their legal rights, but since the Constitution generally doesn't bind private employers, this would be an issue for union mediation or similar. Not coincidentally, I think the decline of labor unions in the US has been bad for workers.PostNouveau posted:What is the reasoning behind no refusal laws? I have similar feelings about Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Association, which paved the way for random drug testing of employees in safety-sensitive positions. While I recognize the importance of making sure that pilots, air traffic controllers, locomotive engineers, and police officers aren't coming to work high, allowing this one suspicionless, warrantless search because we really need it is the camel's nose under the tent.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 18:23 |
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PostNouveau posted:Are those weak-poo poo charges? What kind of felony is second-degree riot? Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 30, 2015 |
# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 23:04 |
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A Fancy Bloke posted:Clearly they are just big dorks. How could anyone like that be dangerous? PostNouveau posted:Is it only murder that the accessories get charged with the same crime as the triggerman? I just saw a story where a getaway driver took a murder charge on an armed robbery gone south.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 00:53 |
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Grundulum posted:That makes sense if conspiracy is an included lesser charge, and the jury could convict on it even if they acquit on the act itself. (I think someone said that's the case in CO.) If not, then charging with both seems like a good way to ensure that something sticks. Be that as it may, I don't think the prosecutor's decision not to throw in a conspiracy charge is an attempt to let misunderstood white youth off the hook, as KomradeX and Dexo suggested at the start of this discussion.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 02:34 |
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Jarmak posted:I understand the argument for negligent homicide but I just really don't think its a winner, if that chokehold had been uniformly banned then you'd have a strong case but since in other departments it would have been allowable under their policies I just don't think that case has a chance. Civil negligence is a different issue however, though you'd have to go after the department because there's no way that conduct pierces qualified immunity. Jarmak posted:First off he wasn't "choked to death" which implies the cop kept him in a hold until he was dead and would be legit lethal force. This level of force is much more in line with something like throwing a suspect to the ground and accidentally putting his head into the curb in the process. It's a non-lethal level of force that resulted in accidental death, in many departments it is a completely authorized method to effect a non compliant arrest.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 20:37 |
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I think the problem with your hypothetical is that "being face down in a puddle of water" isn't a medical problem, whereas a gunshot wound or difficulty breathing are.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 22:46 |
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falcon2424 posted:I disagree; a blocked airway is as medical as anything else. I agree that the police have an obligation to ensure that people in their custody receive appropriate medical care, whatever that may be, but I think making the officers themselves responsible for providing that care is problematic legally. Most officers aren't going to be certified EMT-Bs, so you'd basically be requiring them to provide untrained medical care to injured suspects. If an officer shoots a suspect, and the suspect dies shortly afterward while the same officer is treating them, can the officer be sued for malpractice? Charged with murder?
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 00:04 |
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Javid posted:I feel like failing to be familiar with the policies you work under should be some sort of negligence. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Dec 2, 2015 |
# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 00:26 |
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falcon2424 posted:I agree that there should be a caveat like, "provide aid to mitigate ongoing injuries, within the scope of the person's training." A lot of medical interventions carry risks for the patient.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 01:58 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Except dogpiling a non-violent suspect until he suffocates can not by any stretch of the imagination be called a necessary medical intervention. Was Freddie Gray suffering from an acute case of verticalitis? Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Dec 2, 2015 |
# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 02:17 |
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falcon2424 posted:Why would the officer (or anyone else) be liable for providing reasonable first aid? Especially first aid that they're trained to give?
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 02:31 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Most states have Good Samaritan laws that limit the liability, and BSA hasn't taught tourniquets in a long long time. And cops do let people bleed to death before getting them medical care, so I think it'd be worth it.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 07:49 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:ETA: Sorry, didn't see your edit. I don't think what you're saying is true, because I am pretty sure that if I committed a crime, someone got fatally hurt during its execution, and died in spite of me attempting to subsequently save their life, it would still be considered a homicide. Watermelon City posted:Someone is dying in front of you and you're scratching your chin going gee I don't know what's my liability? DrNutt posted:So rather than have to deal with the occasional litigation, you think it is preferable to let someone bleed to death. That's pretty lovely. Like I said, it's workable, but it has the potential to create situations that I think people concerned about policing and justice would be unhappy with.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 22:26 |
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Nothing I wrote had anything to do with the police knowingly and provably killing people unlawfully.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 22:57 |
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VitalSigns posted:There's no Good Samaritan law where anyone would have immunity to those allegations KomradeX posted:This is what literally happened when that NYPD officer shot that dude in NYCHA housing he called his partner than I actually think they're Union Rep, to figure this or while this dude bleed to death in a stairwell in November quote:Fliedner, the lead prosecutor in the case, did not mention the order in court Wednesday. He did say, however, that another report by the Daily News -- which claimed Liang texted his union representative right after the shooting -- was false.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 00:07 |
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Also where are you finding $600 EMT-B courses, because it's like two grand minimum around here.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 01:44 |
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Yeah, I don't think "they should have just let the knife wielding man go where he wanted to" is a reasonable solution.Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Do you know how ridiculous you sound when the outcome was that the guy didn't harm anyone and was subdued and lived? Because sometimes the outcome looks like this: (you can skip to 7:00 for the violence, but it's worth watching the lead up.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75RTkGbiJpk&t=246s
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2015 22:43 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Yet there are plenty of videos of cops in other countries, in the rare occasions that they have to resort to deadly force, there is usually an aimed shot or two fired. The situation is then re-assessed, and if the suspect is still a threat, more shots are fired.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 02:20 |
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I feel like, if the police have surrounded you, pepper sprayed you, shot you with beanbags, and yelled at you to drop the weapon or they will fire, you've had a lot of chances to give up peaceably at that point.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 08:51 |
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I'm just curious what the liability would be if he, say, missed and shattered the dude's hand at the wrist. Or loving killed him. I'm pretty sure maiming someone for life in order to stop their suicide isn't covered under QI.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 08:28 |
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VitalSigns posted:Or that bridge shooting-out-the-engine block case earlier. One of the arguments was that since spike strips might kill the driver, therefore you're justified in just executing him on purpose. Regardless of QI, that cop should not be working as a cop anymore, because that's not how it should work, police should still be trained to use the least lethal but still effective method of containing the threat, not take the opportunity to blow someone away once the minimum threshold of legality for lethal force is met.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 20:02 |
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Radbot posted:I don't give a gently caress about ballistics or any of that poo poo, beyond the fact that most rounds that most officers shoot around the world will still be lethal even if they have hit their target first.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 21:38 |
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chitoryu12 posted:the first one has the bizarre attempt by the police to demand that the man currently bleeding to death on the ground show them his hands and then handcuffing him without beginning medical treatment.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2015 18:35 |
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KomradeX posted:How is that not negligent homicide? He was literally behaving recklessly with a loving weapon He can still get taken for everything in a civil suit.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 20:55 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Why wouldn't this fall under qualified immunity? The shooter was clearly acting in an official role at the time.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 21:13 |
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Javid posted:If he's that incompetent with a firearm, he shouldn't be a cop. Entirely true, but wholly irrelevant to bringing him up on criminal charges or filing a civil suit against him.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2015 00:11 |
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A Fancy Bloke posted:Oh and arguing the semantics behind the phrase "active shooter" because that's surely the important thing to focus on. I then explained that the reason they didn't was because the incident wasn't an active shooting according to the FEMA definition. Then oohhboy and VitalSigns got mad because they were wrong about what an active shooter is per the people who promulgate active shooter protocol.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2015 08:19 |
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I seriously don't get your point here. Recently, it was argued that the SFPD shouldn't have shot a guy with a knife (who had already stabbed one person) because he tried to walk away. Yet now you're arguing that the police should have killed this guy dead before he could hurt his wife again. The police shouldn't have shot these other people, but since they did, they should also have to shoot this cop as a matter of fairness?
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2015 22:22 |
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EDIT: You know what, it doesn't really matter.
Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Dec 15, 2015 |
# ¿ Dec 15, 2015 03:55 |
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All the articles are going to say is, "two guys are suing the PD for $$$ damages, claim that they were just minding their own business when a cop decided to shoot them and frame them for armed robbery." I don't know whether anyone has cared enough to dig up their original court transcripts, or even whether doing so wold reveal anything relevant. This looks like the filing, but apparently you need a login to view it. Looks like they filed a similar suit last year? IDK, stop reading clickbait like HuffPo and treating it like legitimate journalism. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Dec 16, 2015 |
# ¿ Dec 16, 2015 01:14 |
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RareAcumen posted:It's tumblr- sorry- but I think this is kinda relevant It's not really though, because quote:It’s impossible to determine from the data whether individual complaints were dismissed for good reason, or whether investigators missed or failed to take into account evidence that would have resulted in more complaints being upheld. If you pursue the related Chicago Tribune investigation, it notes that quote:Nearly 60 percent of all the complaints were thrown out without being fully investigated because the alleged victims failed to sign required affidavits. What's more, investigators won't consider an officer's complaint history as part of the investigation, and many of the cases come down to the word of the officer versus the accuser. It appears that most of these allegations are being dropped because the complainant doesn't follow through, or because there isn't enough evidence to substantiate them, rather than because they're being improperly dismissed.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 22:42 |
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E:nmDiscendo Vox posted:It would be interesting to see if, like habeas claims, some significant portion of the complaints are coming from a small number of crazy people flooding the system. Here's the data, have at it.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 23:04 |
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DARPA posted:I wonder why people trying to complain an officer violated their rights wouldn't want to risk their freedom over swearing an affidavit that carries a felony charge if the justice system decided to gently caress them (again)? So the department should, what, punish officers on the basis of unsworn statements?
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 23:20 |
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DARPA posted:I'd say Yes? Why does a statement need to be sworn to investigate something internally? It isn't a criminal trial. It's an administrative punishment by their employer. If what the officer did gets elevated to a criminal matter then the statement can upgrade its sweariness. Trabisnikof posted:How about investigate them and look at other complaints against the officer when doing so? You're right they shouldn't be punished without an affidavit, but as police remind us constantly, an investigation isn't a punishment. Investigate complaints and look at officer's history of repeat complaints when investigating.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 23:33 |
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It's OK when we do it to really bad people. Martial law will end once the revolution has been safeguarded.
Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Dec 17, 2015 |
# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 23:46 |
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DARPA posted:They aren't fully investigating though. They're saying "All we have is the initial complaint. Case closed." before they even look into it. It's the "only evidence" because they haven't been bothering to look for anything more. "Hey officer DARPA, did you use an ethnic slur when you stopped a woman on Friday?" "Nope." "Well, she says you did." "I see. Well, I didn't. Has she submitted a sworn statement to that effect?" "No." "Was there anyone else present?" "No." "OK, have a nice day."
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 23:56 |
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DARPA posted:More like,
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2015 00:11 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 08:25 |
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botany posted:And you know that how? Trabisnikof posted:Funny that when its a police investigation of police, getting investigated or having unsworn testimony collected against you is some horrible violation of officer's rights. But if police did that to anyone else, it would be their job. DARPA is literally talking about suspending people without pay in the post I quoted, so don't accuse me of moving the goal posts. DARPA posted:These aren't crimes (yet, and if they get elevated then the burden of proof does as well). These are customer service issues... Instead of confrontational, the department should be vigorously trying to resolve issues instead of adding barriers to investigation. "Come back Monday - Friday between 9 and 5 to sign your complaint with a supervisor" is a great way to prevent your buddies from facing up to what they've done, and a terrible way to serve the community. DARPA posted:The department is treating people reporting issues as the enemy, rather than people they serve.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2015 00:35 |