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[...] Two Former West Palm Beach Officers Indicted After Beating Handcuffed Suspect [...]

By: Carlyle Moulton

Carlyle Moulton — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:42:32 +0000

My supply of outrage has long ago been exhausted, i think soon after I made the mistake of Googling “Amadou Diallo NYPD shot”.

For every one of these cases where there is video evidence against the police there are 1000 or more where it is absent.

The above video simply shows normal operating procedure.

By: lottakatz

lottakatz — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:46:50 +0000

Dredd, Your statement begs the question ‘why?’. When I worked as a labor advocate I would run into situations that were out of control from top to bottom regarding management. I dubbed it ‘CwC’, Comfortable w/Corruption and would use terms like ‘that Department has a high CC index’.

What that meant was that the whole chain of command was so corrupt ie: peers covering for peers, management backing their story, upper level management that knew what was really going on backing their lower level management, that (moral) corruption was institutionalized and people were so comfortable with it that they assumed they were invincible.

That IMO is exactly what we have going on with cops doing what they do even though they know that there are cameras. Even if they’re caught, so what? They won’t be prosecuted and if they are they won’t be convicted because the prosecutors’ office, judges and jury’s are in on the corruption.

Who can even imagine how often this kind of thing goes on or how high the level of violence is for police to feel so comfortable that they don’t care that there are cameras? Maybe ask the Bart shooting victim in SanFran? Oh, wait, can’t do that.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:35:02 +0000

FF LEO,

Nuff said. Good luck in your pursuit.

By: Dredd

Dredd — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:30:08 +0000

The eye of Big Brother is upon them, still they cannot resist the pleasure of violently taking advantage of weaker people.

Gives new meaning to the bully pulpit doesn’t it?

It is a definite meme which belongs to Straussian neoCons.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/06/coup-in-military-molded-neocon-dogma.html

By: Former Federal LEO

Former Federal LEO — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:28:16 +0000

Anonymously Yours,

I would be rude by not replying to you with a brief explanation. You and I can both continue to contribute to this blawg without interacting directly with each other and that is what I choose to do.

I am not condemning nor judging you because I have no standing whatsoever to do so. However, please leave me out of your discussions and replies, as I will do with yours.

Good luck with your legal practice.

Thank you.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:59:18 +0000

Well FF LEO, is it as hot out west as it is in Texas?

By: Former Federal LEO

Former Federal LEO — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:49:19 +0000

I am pleased to see corrupt LEOs brought to justice.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:47:01 +0000

Sounds good to me. Can they be detained in Cuba awaiting trial? Maybe they could take a bath using a waterboard.