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Boston may be a bad example. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-state-drug-lab-where-chemist-faked-tests-n30746 https://www.nbcnews.co

Boston may be a bad example. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-state-drug-lab-where-chemist-faked-tests-n30746 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-... https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description

dragontamer 5y ago
I've never heard of asset forfeiture being abused in the bigger cities. And the small town cops in my area are known for harassing African Americans more than the city cops (the city cops have significant numbers of African Americans: less than the proportion of the population but way better than the town-cops) ------------ > https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description Uhhhhh. That's... not really a problem on my scale. I mean, yeah, that's a hassle but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZwRBXfFmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZwRBXfFmU This here is small town cop harassing an African American. And we only know about it because he's an Army Officer (a low ranking one, but still, the Army sticks up for their members). Who knows how many African Americans did those small town cops harassed before they messed with the wrong man? Don't get me wrong here: any kind of stop is a big hassle. But... my bar for "serious police misbehavior" is set at a certain level based on what's going on in my area. The blogpost, while a hassle, is not anywhere close to some of the stories I'm hearing just in the past couple of months. > https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-state-drug-lab-where-chemist-faked-tests-n30746 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-... Sounds to me that someone was double-checking the results and caught the problem. We don't have those assurances in other locations. In a city, you have a citizen's board, good defense lawyers, and other "defenses" who can stand up to injustice from the police departments. That's WHY a city-cop can get their ass busted if they make these kinds of mistakes. I mean yeah, it sucks that they're still finding injustices, but at least people are tasked with finding abuse. In a small town cop where the Sheriff is elected every 4 years by a population who just doesn't give a care, no one has any recourse or defense system against the Sheriff or their deputies. None at all. Its "Wild West" mode, where Sheriff can do whatever the heck they want, and the citizens are ignorant of the injustices their Sheriff does (so they keep electing them over and over again). I have more faith in Police Commissioner systems, or straight up adversarial systems like NYPC (which has an adversarial Citizen's Review Board to represent citizens: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/index.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/index.page).

dragontamer 5y ago

I've never heard of asset forfeiture being abused in the bigger cities. And the small town cops in my area are known for harassing African Americans more than the city cops (the city cops have significant numbers of African Americans: less than the proportion of the population but way better than the town-cops) ------------ > https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description Uhhhhh. That's... not really a problem on my scale. I mean, yeah, that's a hassle but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZwRBXfFmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZwRBXfFmU This here is small town cop harassing an African American. And we only know about it because he's an Army Officer (a low ranking one, but still, the Army sticks up for their members). Who knows how many African Americans did those small town cops harassed before they messed with the wrong man? Don't get me wrong here: any kind of stop is a big hassle. But... my bar for "serious police misbehavior" is set at a certain level based on what's going on in my area. The blogpost, while a hassle, is not anywhere close to some of the stories I'm hearing just in the past couple of months. > https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-state-drug-lab-where-chemist-faked-tests-n30746 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-... Sounds to me that someone was double-checking the results and caught the problem. We don't have those assurances in other locations. In a city, you have a citizen's board, good defense lawyers, and other "defenses" who can stand up to injustice from the police departments. That's WHY a city-cop can get their ass busted if they make these kinds of mistakes. I mean yeah, it sucks that they're still finding injustices, but at least people are tasked with finding abuse. In a small town cop where the Sheriff is elected every 4 years by a population who just doesn't give a care, no one has any recourse or defense system against the Sheriff or their deputies. None at all. Its "Wild West" mode, where Sheriff can do whatever the heck they want, and the citizens are ignorant of the injustices their Sheriff does (so they keep electing them over and over again). I have more faith in Police Commissioner systems, or straight up adversarial systems like NYPC (which has an adversarial Citizen's Review Board to represent citizens: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/index.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/index.page).