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The Bad Cop Database
- galdosdi 11y agoIt's hilarious to hear the police response: > a spokesman for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the largest police union in New York, passed on a statement from union president Pat Lynch, saying... > “Where is the database of the thousands of police interactions each day that save lives, take guns and drugs off the streets, prevent terrorist acts and demonstrate the concern and caring of our officers?” I would be delighted to see NYPD build and release such a database. The reason the public is forced to cobble together their own database is because the NYPD refuses to release information themselves. If you're a highly secretive recluse, and as a result people have to rely on rumors instead of first-hand information about you, then that's kind of your own damned fault. What did you expect? I hope this really does pressure police departments into being more open.
- gorbachev 11y agoPat Lynch will defend his gang members no matter what they've done. No matter what (alleged, hah!) crimes the gang member has perpetrated, he will come to their defense. No questions asked, uncritically and always on the side of the gang members. In his book his gang never does anything wrong. Unarmed citizens die in a hail of bullets, no problem, not his gang's fault.
- tamana 11y agoIt is an easy complaint to address: just open this database to reports of good police interactions, just like Amazon does for products. I would appreciate a resource that told me which police officers are trustworthy.