Journalists expose cases of police brutality, misconduct

[SummerMadness]

Police were called about a fight he was having with
his girlfriend. I've had scores of fights and the
neighbors never call the police on me. Only me?
Jeter resisted arrest and refused to exit his car.
Lucky he wasn't shot dead.

What's ridiculous about your post is that it's completely not the reality of the case. There's a reason why the police officers in this case served prison time. Jeter was not resisting arrest, nor was he reaching for anyone's gun as the police officer repeatedly shouted. The entire time he was complying with his hands up. And of course there was the slamming Mr. Jeter into a car after he was handcuffed.

It's quite obvious that if you simply looked at the facts of the case, you would have come to the same conclusion, as the prosecutors dropped the case against Jeter after the video came to light and the jury that heard all the facts convicted the police officers.

It's also quite sad that part of the issue with addressing police corruption are the people that will make things up on behalf of the police like saying a person that is complying is resisting or saying something mean to a police officer is resisting. A police officer that acts violently because they do not like someone's attitude should not be a police officer. Let me guess, you also believe Michael Slager, Daniel Holtzclaw and the police officer that murdered Luquan McDonald got a raw deal?

 

[usexpat97]

You can think anything you want.
Sit down and shut your mouth and you will survive an arrest.
What Does the Bible Say About Peace?
What Does the Bible Say About Be Quiet?

I hope to God you are not a cop.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Journalists expose cases of police brutality, misconduct

This is a very timely release because over the weekend, a police use of force database was also released to the public. Transparency and compiling these statistics is the start to police reform.
The 25 police departments that used kicks, pepper spray or other force the most, ranked
The Force Report

Don't you just love how when you post articles like these that the immediate response is to deflect from the seriousness of the issue of police brutality (against minorities) with whataboutisms?

 

[SkyWriting]

What's ridiculous about your post is that it's completely not the reality of the case. There's a reason why the police officers in this case served prison time. Jeter was not resisting arrest, nor was he reaching for anyone's gun as the police officer repeatedly shouted. The entire time he was complying with his hands up. And of course there was the slamming Mr. Jeter into a car after he was handcuffed.

Your not reading the rest of the story.

He was fighting with girlfriend. So much that the police were called. After driving away from the scene, he was pulled over. He refused to get out. Pinned in by squads he was pulled through the broken windshield because he refused to exit his car voluntarily.
Then after that he finally raised his hands. Too little, too late. Granted, that
small concession got him his settlement. Well played Jeter.

Wait, it gets worse. People in the city intentionally provoke police violence against themselves because they usually don't die from it and it's an opportunity to be a hero with all their friends and family and make $1.6 million that they would never be able to save in 30 years working a job.

You wouldn't believe this mentality exists until you see new mothers pushing baby carriages into moving traffic well ahead of them, crossing the street, in the off-chance the kid will get hit and they can collect more money in a settlement than anyone they have ever known has. And never have to work again.

If you've not lived in the hood a few years, you wouldn't believe it.
MILWAUKEE 53206

 

[SummerMadness]

Your not reading the rest of the story.

He was fighting with girlfriend. So much that the police were called. After driving away from the scene, he was pulled over. He refused to get out. Pinned in by squads he was pulled through the broken windshield because he refused to exit his car voluntarily.
Then after that he finally raised his hands. Too little, too late. Granted, that
small concession got him his settlement. Well played Jeter.

Wait, it gets worse. People in the city intentionally provoke police violence against themselves because they usually don't die from it and it's an opportunity to be a hero with all their friends and family and make $1.6 million that they would never be able to save in 30 years working a job.

You wouldn't believe this mentality exists until you see new mothers pushing baby carriages into moving traffic well ahead of them, crossing the street, in the off-chance the kid will get hit and they can collect more money in a settlement than anyone they have ever known has. And never have to work again.

If you've not lived in the hood a few years, you wouldn't believe it.
MILWAUKEE 53206

Keep making things up, thankfully justice was served and all the stuff you're attempting to smear Mr. Jeter with is irrelevant.

 

[SummerMadness]

Excessive force claims cost N.J. taxpayers millions every year. Here are some of the costliest.

Encounters between police and suspects turned violent more than 40,000 times over five years, according to an NJ Advance Media investigation.

That’s more than 20 times a day on average.

But for the tens of thousands of people who had force used against them, each incident was one of the most memorable moments of their lives, leaving behind criminal charges, physical injuries and lingering psychological problems.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Excessive force claims cost N.J. taxpayers millions every year. Here are some of the costliest.

When one reads that first paragraph that states 40,000 uses of force over 5 years....one would be justified in thinking "Wow! That's a lot of force! What is going on there!?!"

But then this paragraph shows up just a little further down the page....

There is no central system for tracking police force, whether justified or not, but NJ Advance Media’s investigation turned up at least 109 excessive force lawsuits against officers and police departments since 2012.

109??? That's it? They looked at 40 thousand incidents....and only 109 were excessive force lawsuits. That's lawsuits...not excessive force convictions. So it's not even 1% of the time the police use force....it's 0.25% of the time police use force that the person arrested feels like they were treated excessively (or at least enough to file a lawsuit).

Even if we assume that the real number of excessive force incidents is double what the stats show.....that means that 99.5% of the time, NJ police are doing their job correctly.

That's a pretty outstanding police department.

 

[usexpat97]

Even if we assume that the real number of excessive force incidents is double what the stats show.....that means that 99.5% of the time, NJ police are doing their job correctly.

Now that's some seriously questionable math.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Now that's some seriously questionable math.

Never made it past fractions did you?

 

[SummerMadness]

Now that's some seriously questionable math.

Questionable math happens when one doesn't fully understand statistics or think they can armchair refute a statistical analysis (usually with invalid arguments).

 

[Ana the Ist]

Questionable math happens when one doesn't fully understand statistics or think they can armchair refute a statistical analysis (usually with invalid arguments).

Or they passed 4th grade math. 1% of 40,000 is 400....and 109 is just slightly more than 25% of 400. That leaves us with 0.25% of 40,000.

That's actually generous too...because it assumes that all 109 are convictions. If any government agency were doing their jobs correctly 99.75% of the time....they'd be considered amongst the best in the world lol.

This isn't a problem, and these cops aren't in need of reform....they should be receiving medals.

 

[usexpat97]

Questionable math happens when one doesn't fully understand statistics or think they can armchair refute a statistical analysis (usually with invalid arguments).

109 cases brought against cops. And of all the remainder, only another 109 did not happen to have witnesses videoing them, they properly suppressed evidence so that there was no case a civil rights attorney was willing to pick up, or the cop properly befriended the DA, as did Darren Wilson. Or they didn't MURDER someone so there was never a wrongful death suit in the first place.

LOL! Math THAT bad doesn't involve failing 4th grade math. Somehow, I bet that math magically improves a lot when calculating their union dues.

 

[SummerMadness]

109 cases brought against cops. And of all the remainder, only another 109 did not happen to have witnesses videoing them, they properly suppressed evidence so that there was no case a civil rights attorney was willing to pick up, or the cop properly befriended the DA, as did Darren Wilson. Or they didn't MURDER someone so there was never a wrongful death suit in the first place.

LOL! Math THAT bad doesn't involve failing 4th grade math. Somehow, I bet that math magically improves a lot when calculating their union dues.

Pretty much, I often chuckle at the notion of someone "refuting" a statistical analysis without actually analyzing anything, but that's generally how the game is played. The thing to remember is these poor arguments are only used to argue that black people should continue to accept a substandard, inequitable treatment, they would never argue something like this for another subject (e.g., if the topic were plane crashes, they wouldn't be calling for anyone to ignore the problem).