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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:39 am Post subject: Police Investigating the Police |
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3 Off-Duty Police Officers Beat Man in Vancouver
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Vancouver police are recommending charges against two of the three off-duty officers involved in the brutal beating of a man outside a hotel on Burrard Street early last Wednesday morning.
Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu said Monday that the off-duty West Vancouver police officer involved in the beating will be charged with one count of robbery, while a New Westminster officer will be charged with one count of assault and one count of possession of stolen property. |
Should the police investigate the police? This is something I've often wondered about while reading about incidents like the one above. It's true that many police officers are married to or related to officers in neighboring police departments. How can one do their job obectively knowing that they may have to charge or investigate their brother, cousin, or best-friend from the Academy? Some pretty crazy stuff has happened in B.C. over the last couple of years, especially in the Vancouver area, with the police. Has the public's perception (and international perception - i.e., the Polish man that was tazered adn died at Vancouver Airport) of police in Canada suffered? |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:37 am Post subject: |
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I've seen it time and time again. Police brutalizing people, breaking laws and cetting away consistently getting away with it. There should be an independent comitte or organisation set up to investigate criminal wrong doing by police.
All to often they feel they are above the law and lie to protect themselves and their like. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| riverboy wrote: |
| I've seen it time and time again. Police brutalizing people, breaking laws and cetting away consistently getting away with it. |
You and me both, brother.
Just a few months ago, a state trooper was beeping a loudspeaker at me for going 42 or 43 in a 45 mph zone. I was about to turn left in about a third of a mile, so I didn't switch into the right lane. I figured he could if he wanted. He kept beeping his loudspeaker. Finally, he got into the right hand lane and gave a really assholey look when he passed me and zoomed down the highway at what had to have been at least 60 mph. If he would've had his lights or siren on, I would've moved for him, but he didn't. He was speeding to where? I don't know. Maybe a donut shop?
In the early 90s, my dad called the police to get some marijuana removed from his land. They ignored him for weeks until he told them not to worry, that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation would be coming a week later. Only then did it become an urgent matter, with a cop in town coming to the farm the very next day to remove the marijuana. Dad went up there with some farm hands and was breaking the roots off of the plants and the cop freaked out and said, "No, don't do that!"
A former cop in Georgia told me that the cops in his town would pull over blacks and have fun with them. The black guy would try to bullshit his way out of the speeding ticket the way anyone does. The cop would tell him that they really couldn't write him a ticket if he wasn't there, if he walked off, etc. The black guy would go, "Really?" and the cop would say, "Of course!" So the black guy would be walking away, and the cop would get on his radio and call for backup, that the person was fleeing. The cops would run down the guy, tackle him, and arrest him. Hopefully, they have car cams now.
The same guy said they would use a baton and smash the bottles of homeless drunks while the bottles were still in their hands.
He also had a story about running onto the course at the Masters and stealing the flag from the 18th hole and the plastic cup in the hole, and escaping with it after getting chased by security. That was actually a really cool story.
That's why I hate the Patriot Act so badly. When placing an order for gold over the phone with Blanchard, APMEX, and so on, one can only wonder how many corrupt law enforcement officials may be listening. Even if a person stores their gold in a safety deposit box, it's protected from most criminals. But corrupt law enforcement officials can just say that you're a suspected terrorist and get access to your safety deposit box and its contents.
I would bet that the number of thefts and home burglaries as a result of wire taps would probably be mind-boggling. |
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