Baltimore terminates its relationship with Commissioner Batts.
He's gone. He got the call Wednesday morning. The mayor, the union, and much of the city lost confidence in his ability to lead, realizing that he'd failed to address the culture of brutality endemic in the BPD while keeping the streets safe. The mayor held a press conference later in the day stating:
"Too many continue to die on our streets, including three just last night and one lost earlier today", Rawlings-Blake said. "Families are tired of feeling this pain, and so am I. ... We need a change."
We definitely need a change, but is this something to rejoice? I don't know.
We're still waiting for the Department of Justice's report to provide us the context of what happened
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He was definitely considered an outsider, a cleaner. Upon his installment in 2012, we thought we'd see change.
He claimed West Side! He ran up through the LBC (Long Beach, CA) and Oakland PD, which is pretty harsh territory. Its as grimy as my bloody asphalt memories of Gotham in the nineties, with sulfur propelled shrapnel embedding itself in the concrete walls of the darkest borough. I can't imagine doing that job, while listening to the bass of "187 on an undercover cop" bump through the subs of that untouchable sky blue drop-top Deville who's spinners alone cost more than your month's gross salary. (Speaking of which, he now leaves with 190k severance).
Commissioner Batts scared police insiders with his temerity to call audibles to the Feds on his own, rightfully swinging at the blue when the field was out of bounds. Cops just don't do that very often, he was... an
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According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the move infuriated rank-and-file officers, who cast Batts as a "showboat" who didn't go to bat for his officers, and then jumped ship when the going got tough.
Those are some words, but are they fair?
See, its different when Governors calls the DOJ on the police. They're held accountable to the public and swayed by opinion and police understand that. Polls matter on election years. However, as we've heard before, the fraternal order of "Blue No Wrong" does not like to be questioned - especially from inside. When the Mayor of New York merely "suggested" that we needed to discuss policing tactics, the police union all but went on strike.
Why can't you be on the side of the police and the people, especially when police ("like corporations my friends") are people too? In all seriousness, why can't the police even question their own without us turning on them? The good cops are supposed to, but when they blow the whistle we ignore them or question their motives because they provide a narrative contrary to the comfortable lie we've
Its hypocritical and embarrassing for the country because we say we hate the police because of what the media is showing us, Which isn’t our fault but this is The United States Of America and we’re free to have our own opinion so we should be held accountable for our thoughts about being hypocritical about needing the police.
As history has provided us facts showing that with great power also comes great responsibility. The great power part has not been as considerable of a problem as the great responsibility has because as police officers start off at the academy, they quickly recognize the authority they will shortly have. The past and known data has revealed to us that a lot of these officers do demonstrate great control and responsibility, but there is a fraction of officers who are corrupt in many sorts of ways that have conveyed inspection and absence of faith in law enforcement all over America. Thankfully, these actions have consequences and the law makes sure that these corrupt public servants get the punishment they deserve.
Although police officers take an oath to protect and serve citizens in our society. we have some officers that our corrupt and willing do anything just to protect themselves from being exposed from their unethical behavior. In 1994 three officers from New Orleans police department committed an unspeakable crime murder for hire and a violent drug gang. The killing of Kim grove was thirty-two years old and was gunned down by police officer that were there to protect her instead they killed her.
On December 20, 2014, both Liu and Ramos were sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn when they were shot at point-blank range. Neither officer had the opportunity to draw their weapon as they were killed with no warning. The mentally derange killer traveled from Baltimore vowing to kill NYPD officers in retaliation for Eric Garner cases. After the ambush assassination, the killer fled the scene and onto a subway station. He killed himself as officers were closing
A Department history review on P.O. Oneal revealed that she was appointed on July 1, 2003 and assigned to the 83 Precinct on July 12, 2004. She was modified on November 18, 2015 and assigned to the Housing Bronx/Queens Viper Unit on November 19, 2015. Her current address listed is 23A Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn NY, phone #(718) 855-1239, her previous address is 4 Vernon Avenue, #2C, Brooklyn NY. She reported sick total of twenty nine times during her career. P.O. Oneal was on level one performance monitoring from April 28, 2009 till May 1, 2009. She was suspended from October 19, 2015 till November 20, 2015. An ICIS inquiry shows total of seven cases involving P.O. Oneal. A CPI inquiry revealed twenty one events including charges and specifications,
According to the Wall Street Journal, during the news conference called by the Sergeants Benevolent Association on Friday, Sgt. Adonis declined to speak. She had been promoted to sergeant just two weeks before Garner’s death. Under the departmental policies, her probationary term would have been up if she had not been leveled with charges. For now, she will remain on probation until the completion of her internal case. Internal charges can lead to dismissal from the department.
Criminal justice has garnered massive national attention in the past few years in America. Multiple police shootings, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other hot-button issues have occupied the media on a daily basis. This attention has led many Americans to question the integrity and efficacy of the government institution that was designed to uphold the law and seek justice for its people. However, this system is severely damaged and its definition of justice has been perverted and contorted beyond recognition, resulting in unfair and discriminatory treatment of the people it has been sworn to protect.
against officers who violate their civil rights. Next, the media and political effects documented in this study suggest that external oversight can
One thing I realized after learning about police reform efforts in Chicago was that this process may have started with revolutionary ideas and passion and determination, but truly changing the police infrastructure requires stamina and the willingness to endure countless mistakes and attempt to fix them along the way. The grand idea itself, i.e. justice for those who experienced discrimination and brutality as a result of unjust policing practices, is powerful. Reformers and activists should never forget that. However, as the countless court rulings against the efforts of reformers and the repeated acquittals of policemen have shown, relying on an idea alone is not pragmatic or practical, and it is up to the activists to garner continued interest
Since a very young age we have been taught to put our trust into police officers. If we are in distress, they are always there to help since it is their job to protect and serve the common citizen. So what happens when the individuals we are supposed to trust to bring justice are the ones causing the injustice we see in the news? Recently, several police officers have been under fire for their excessive use of force. The number of casualties caused by police officers in the recent years have citizens demanding a reform in the system that officers work under.
In light of recent events, Minneapolis finds itself within heat of national topic, police brutality. Jana Kooren of ACLU of Minnesota writes in The Hard Truth of the Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protests: Communities of Color Have No Trust in Their Police Force. The authors main point of the article was to articulate the disaster that affects African Americans disproportionately. Jamar Clark is one in a thousand this year who have died in the hands of police who have overexerted their power. He sadly became another member of this deadly year, when two police officers shot him when he allegedly interfered with emergency responders helping an assault victim. She continues to emphasis how this problem is not local at it’s root, but national.
Despite the fact that some cops may utilize their energy to undermine and behave in any way they if it's not too much trouble there are numerous officers that serve and secure; taking the guarantee that they pledged to truly, which is the thing that larger part of the populace today neglects to figure it out. Verging on consistently, cops are tasked out to restore arrange or recover peace in rushed circumstances and are confronted with the test to utilize power without it being viewed as a "lowlife" or danger to the group or far more terrible accused of a wrongdoing of Police mercilessness. More regularly than any other time in recent memory, daily papers, sites, and TV have dialed in on these
In policing, and in so many parts of our lives, there is a code of silence, and we adhere to it. We don 't snitch, we don 't rat on other people because it 's not part of our culture. But if one desires to consider themselves as an ethical person, it 's not just about our ethics, it 's about what to do when others do things that are unethical also. We truly are our brother 's keeper and it policing it 's mores o than any place else. Police officers will put their lives on the line for someone in an instant. If we see an officer in trouble on a traffic stop, a fight on the sidewalk or whatever it is, we jump in and put our lives on the line instantly without even thinking about it. And yet those same cops that will risk their lives instantly, are the same ones that don 't step in, and don 't say anything when they see other officers doing something that could lead to the loss of their career, the loss of their family or the loss of their freedom.
While the criminal justice system is trying to keep the race culture under control and keep communities at ease about police officers targeting people of color. It lacks the ability to control people’s emotions because they feel that no one will hold the police responsible when they make mistakes or step outside their scope of duty. The prosecutors do not offer a clear path of how it will be investigated through their office. They do not look at everything with a fine-tooth comb to make the right decisions. The DA’s office makes fast decisions that either end up in dismissal or a hung jury when taken to trial.
The motivation behind the police in the administration is to secure and serve and to convey crooks under the control of the law. Police are in charge of getting lawbreakers who undermine the job, property and tranquility of different subjects. But it's a different reality brought up by the article, "Trayvon Martin Case Shadowed by Series of Police Missteps." The New York Times has the police department be viewed as tragic heros. For it states what the police officers could of done that night to know what really happen, like “The police were not able to cover the crime scene to shield evidence from the rain, and any blood from cuts that Mr. Zimmerman suffered when he said Mr. Martin pounded his head into a sidewalk may have been washed away.”