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The Many Ways That Police Brutality Payouts Cost Taxpayers

September 28, 2016March 16, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 392 Views 2 percent raise, Accountability, assault, Brazil, Brutality, casino licensing fee, city managers, city schools, Civil rights, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, cost to taxpayers, dailygazette.com, deductible levels, direct complicity, Dishonesty, double-standards, evaluating police merit, excessive force, freedom, general fund, Harassment, Justice System, kelly patterson, lawsuits, Martha K. Huggins, misconduct liability insurance, municipal government, New York, ny, officer base pay, overtime, payout, PBA, pension, pension indebtedness, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police Benevolent Association, Police brutality, Police Brutality Raises Costs to Taxpayers, police civil rights abuses, police salaries, Police State, police violations of human rights, police-related liability insurance, premiuims, private attorneys’ fees, professor, public education, Public safety, rewarding police violence, rights, risk-manage, Schenectady, Schenectady City Council, Schenectady Police Department, scholar of Brazil, settlements, taxes, taxpayer costly, taxpayers, The Daily Gazette, Transparency, Tulane Professor Emerita, Tulane University, Union College

The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Martha K. Huggins, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. The post

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Personal Responsibility And The Cult Of Law Enforcement

September 4, 2016 Georgia Sand 413 Views Aaron Rosas, abuse, Adequate Funding, Agency, Agendas, Blame, blaming the victim, bureaucracy, Children, cigarettes, City of Cleveland, Claims, Cleveland, Cleveland Police's Patrolman's Association, concealed carry, Concealed Carry Permit, conservatives, Criminal History, Disingenuous, Drinking, drugs, Erik Scott, Ethics, Fake Firearms, gambling, Hurricane, Ian Birk, Illogical, JERONIMO YANEZ, John T. Williams, law enforcement, Lawfully Carrying A Weapon, LCMPD, liberals, Lip Service, Logical, Moral Agency, murder, Natural Disaster, obedience, Obey Orders, park, personal responsibility, Philando Castile, police, police accountability, Police Union, previous criminal history, punishment, Real Fire Arms, settlement, shooting, shooting victim, Stephen Loomis, Tamir Rice, taxpayers, toys, United States, war on drugs, weapon

The term “personal responsibility” is often tossed around in conservative circles. While the concept of personal responsibility is not problematic per se,

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Las Vegas Police Jailed Paraplegic for Two Weeks; Accused of Robbery Where Suspect Ran Away

June 10, 2016June 11, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 555 Views Accountability, Antwine Hunter, assault, Brutality, burglary, CA, California, CCDC, cell phone, Civil rights, clark county, clark county detention center, Compton, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, defense attorney, Detectives, Dishonesty, double-standards, Downtown Las Vegas, DTLV, Elana Graham, excessive bail, excessive force, freedom, Harassment, Herbert Hutson, Judge Eric Goodman, Justice of the Peace, Justice System, kelly patterson, larceny, las vegas, las vegas metropolitan police department, Las Vegas Review Journal, lawsuit, leg braces, logic, lvmpd, LVRJ, metro, Nevada, NV, Palm Pizza, paralyzed from the waist down, paraplegic, photo lineup, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, prosecutor, rights, robbery, Roy Nelson, scanner, settlement, slammed to ground, taxpayers, UPS, video, warrant, wheelchair, wrongfully arrested

On May 21st, Antwine Hunter was assaulted by an officer from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and slammed onto

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Police Wife Writes About the “Secret Epidemic” of Police Domestic Violence

April 9, 2016April 9, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1075 Views #ThinBlueLies, 50 percent of all calls, abuse rate for cops, abused police spouse, Accountability, Alex Roslin, Anthony Bouza, assault, Australia, battered woman, Blue code of silence, Brutality, brutality against civilians, CAJ awards, Canada, Canadian Association of Journalists prizes for investigative reporting, Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, Chief Daniel LaBella, child abuse, Civil rights, cop block, cop marriages, cop psychology, cop wives, copblock, copblock.org, cops protecting each other, Corruption, crime wave, de facto licence to abuse, deliberate indifference, desperate isolation, disavowed generalized and virtually unchecked, Dishonesty, domestic abuse, domestic violence, domestic violence awareness month, domestic violence by law enforcement, Double Standard, double-standards, efficacy, enthusiasm, estranged wife, ex-wife of cop, excessive force, extramarital affairs, far-reaching social ramifications, Featured, ferocity, freedom, gold prize in the National Magazine Awards, Harassment, holster sniffers, Homicide, infamous blue wall of silence, Joseph Longo Jr, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kristin Palumbo-Longo, lapd, law enforcement marriages, lawsuit, Lieutenant Detective Mark Wynn, Los Angeles, mafia, Montreal, Ms. Blog, Ms. Magazine, Ms. Magazine Prison and Domestic Violence Shelter Program, multi-million-dollar lawsuits, murder, murder-suicide, Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, Negligence, New York, new york police department, nine nominations, NMAs, nuisance property laws, officer-involved domestic violence, OIDV, omerta, one of the most surreal crime epidemics ever, open secret, PBS, police, police abuse, police accountability, police actions may have enhanced the danger, police alcoholism, Police brutality, police divorce, police domestic violence, police investigator, police killings of African Americans, Police State, police supervisors, Police Wife, police wives, powerless to protect, professional courtesy, prone to other forms of misconduct, protection orders, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Police Department, researching how to get help, rights, settlement, sexual abuse, sexual harassment of female drivers at traffic stops, sexual harassment of women cops, social inequality, south africa, spouse abuse, stabbing, steep price, strict unwritten code, subjugation of Native Americans, Susanna Hope, sustained domestic violence complaint, taxpayers, Tennessee, The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence, tragedy, trained in the use of physical force, training and tools to track web use phone calls and travels, troubling behavior, UK, upto 15 times higher than among the public, Utica, utter secrecy, very little hope of help, video, violence against fellow officers, violence against women, virtually unknown to the public, we all pay, women fleeing domestic violence, women's shelter, worldwide phenomenon, wrongful death lawsuit

This post was originally published at the “Ms. Magazine” blog in October of 2015 by Alex Roslin and Susanna Hope

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Corruption by Six Philadelphia Drug Cops Cost Taxpayers Over $50 Million

February 5, 2016February 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 615 Views Accountability, assault, Brian Reynolds, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, corroborating witnesses, corrupt cops, Corruption, Dishonesty, dismissed cases, double-standards, Drug war, extortion, FBI, framing, Harassment, Heroes, intense and sophisticated FBI interrogations, John Speiser, Justice System, kelly patterson, libel, Linwood Norman, Michael Spicer, pa, Penn, Pennsylvania, perjury, Perry Betts, Philadelphia, Philadelphia mayor, Philadelphia police commissioner, philadelphia police department, police, police abuse, police accountability, prosecution costs, Public Defender's Association, rights, robbery, settlements, slander, stolen property, taxpayers, the war on some drugs, Thomas Liciardello, Update, video, war on drugs

The following post was submitted anonymously, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. The case of the six Philadelphia cops discussed in

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Copblocker Discusses Lack of Police Employee Accountability on RT

February 8, 2014 Pete Eyre 325 Views affluenza, ameera david, anesson joseph, California, charlie beck, chris dorner, cop block, copblock.org, delray beach, douglas r kozlik, dui, eric holder, eric sanders, Florida, incentives, jean boyd, lapd, lawsuit, mariam carey, palm beach county, Pete Eyre, ric bradshaw, riley shaw, rt, russia today, secret service, sergio molina, settlement, tania grein, taxpayers, Texas, us capitol police, video

From the video description: The eight Los Angeles Police Department officers who mistakenly fired on two women during the manhunt

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Milwaukee Police Misconduct Has Cost Taxpayers $14 Million, Group Says

November 23, 2012November 23, 2012 CopBlock 267 Views Derek Williams, excessive force, Harriet Callier, Journal Sentinel, lawsuits, Legistar, milwaukee police department, Milwaukee WI, taxpayers, U.S. attorney

According to the Journal Sentinel, a coalition of residents Tuesday presented the U.S. attorney’s office with hundreds of pages of

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NYPD cops remain employed despite viciously beating and leaving teen stranded in swamp

July 4, 2012January 1, 2014 CopBlock 274 Views Assistant District Attorney Mario Mattei, Brett Klein, camil2003, Federal Court, felony charges, Jason Leventhal, New York Daily News, New Yorkers, nypd, Officer Richard Danese, Officer Thomas Elliassen, Rayshawm Moreno, Staten Island Standard, taxpayers

–More evidence of the systematic nature of the casual brutality that is committed every day by officers who hold themselves

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FBI – Your Tactics Aren’t Welcomed In This Peaceful Community

May 31, 2012January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 673 Views b. traven, bard jardis, bounty hunders & child predators, bradley jardis, complete liberty, cop block, copblock.org, crimethinc, dadaorwell, Dave Ridley, drug prohibition, evolution, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, FreeKeene.com, incentives, inside the fbi entrapment strategy, josh nilsson, kac, keene, keene activity center, keene police departemnt, Kurt Hoffman, law enforcement, nhunderground, Pete Eyre, phil christiana, phillip christiana, porcfest, porcupine freedom festivan, ratchet effect, revolution, Rich Paul, robert higgs, self-government, Self-ownership, taxpayers, tim mcveigh, Update, video

Below is the transcript of my video with relevant links. Below that is the embedded Crimethinc document mentioned. Here’s a

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