A Neutral Look at Police Brutality, shared with CopBlock.org by Matthew Pelletier of http://Accelerated-degree.com cites outlets such as DOJ’s National Criminal Justice Reference Service for a somewhat inside look behind the thin blue line.
I love these infographics – they take seemingly-dry statistics and make them visually appealing, which helps in their overall objective of communicating information.
Let’s unpack this graphic:
- Many of the stats speak directly to the culture that exists today in policing, a system that suffers from server perverse incentives since it is an artificial monopoly. In plain English that just means that while cops claim to serve and protect you the “customer,” they put themselves and their colleagues first. Turning a blind-eye to an overly-aggressive and heavy-handed colleague is the norm. As is ostracizing the rare (but increasing!) colleague who speaks-out against such actions. And that’s not surprising – police employees are sheltered from competition and any real mechanism of accountability (just check out the last data-point to see how responsive Chicago PD has been), save for withdrawing your consent. Fortunately, that’s the angle many are now advocating.
- One caption near the bottom says: “79% of police feel that reports in the news media have caused the public to distrust law enforcement” – that level of distrust is earned. If the lamestream media didn’t default to giving a free pass to aggressors who wear a badge that number would likely be closer to 100% Just think of how most news outlets back off from asking tough questions or posting personal information when the accused aggressor wears a badge.
- re: the “A few bad apples” portion – might these rates be higher if filing a complaint actually made any difference? Hell yes they would. Instead, most people wronged by someone wearing a badge realize that it’d be a waste of their time to file a complaint. Just how much justice can be had when the investigators and aggressor work for the same outfit? When the “rules” are created out of thin air and interpreted by their friends? When omitting or distorting the truth is so rampant that the word testlying is common vernacular. This is why Cop-Reports.com was created.
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Not suprising at all.
Wow.
One of the more interesting and disturbing facts in this infographic: ““79% of police feel that reports in the news media have caused the public to distrust law enforcement””
IOW, it isn’t that *police misconduct itself* causes public distrust of law enforcement, but *media reporting about police misconduct*, at least per nearly 4 in 5 cops!
Just an idea here…. if police would stop the rampant misconduct, media wouldn’t have to report about it….
@jsexton: your insight is far too deep for any cop to comprehend. Thanks.
Cops are cunts!!! Fuck’em in the neck!!!!
I had a white neighbor who was a cop and he admitted to me that he put blacks in jail or charged them because they were black. He admitted thath he charged them a lot when they lived in public housing and were not married to the women they lived with
There was a similar graphic put together by an insurance company two or three years ago, that Injustice Everywhere had linked on their website.
Can’t wait to hear the cop apologists come here claiming that this report is incorrect or biased.
there is only one problem with our country.GANGS of all types!they use the same mentality and same words [fear and intimidation]in a different order to justify their b.s..they both will kill you.slowly or quickly.stand up to them there are worse things than death.
What a stinky pile of crap.