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> an individual's legal team could use this tool determine if an arresting officer has a history of abuse and police perjury. No self-respecting attorney would

> an individual's legal team could use this tool determine if an arresting officer has a history of abuse and police perjury. No self-respecting attorney would ever trust a third-party site with zero verification. You would literally get more accurate information from Twitter or Facebook. > I imagine the impetus for this comes from the widespread accounts of cops that have long histories of abusive behavior and evidence tampering being tolerated and indeed covered up by the police. All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways, this site doesn't actually solve anything. Anything posted here can be safely ignored. If anything, this site's layout should just be translated to an official city's website for handling complaints, so that they can spend the money to use it and make it effective.

heavyset_go 5y ago
> No self-respecting attorney would ever trust a third-party site with zero verification. You would literally get more accurate information from Twitter or Facebook. Of course they wouldn't, but now they have leads they can reach out to and verify. And if they want to give testimony, and the court will hear them, then they can do so under the threat of perjury. > All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways, this site doesn't actually solve anything Except this hasn't been the case. There are plenty of examples of abuse of power by law enforcement being brushed under the rug by authorities until the public or their team of lawyers pressured them into doing something about it.
jonathankoren 5y ago
> All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways, I don't know why you believe this, because there's mountains of evidence contradicting this very thought. A simple google search for "poilce misconduct" will give page after page of both studies and individual cases where officers were known be abusive or committing perjury or mishandling evidence and yet this this information remained secret, and the officer remained employed for decades. For instance David Cimperman had a long history of comitting felonies, perjury, and evidence tampering, and yet he became the Chief of Police for Amsterdam, OH. In what world is this considered "correctly handled"? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/police-officers-police-chiefs-sheriffs-misconduct-criminal-records-database/2214279002/ https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/0...

heavyset_go 5y ago

> No self-respecting attorney would ever trust a third-party site with zero verification. You would literally get more accurate information from Twitter or Facebook. Of course they wouldn't, but now they have leads they can reach out to and verify. And if they want to give testimony, and the court will hear them, then they can do so under the threat of perjury. > All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways, this site doesn't actually solve anything Except this hasn't been the case. There are plenty of examples of abuse of power by law enforcement being brushed under the rug by authorities until the public or their team of lawyers pressured them into doing something about it.

jonathankoren 5y ago

> All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways, I don't know why you believe this, because there's mountains of evidence contradicting this very thought. A simple google search for "poilce misconduct" will give page after page of both studies and individual cases where officers were known be abusive or committing perjury or mishandling evidence and yet this this information remained secret, and the officer remained employed for decades. For instance David Cimperman had a long history of comitting felonies, perjury, and evidence tampering, and yet he became the Chief of Police for Amsterdam, OH. In what world is this considered "correctly handled"? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/police-officers-police-chiefs-sheriffs-misconduct-criminal-records-database/2214279002/ https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/0...