Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

TIL that the the Sherriff Department that brought you this:

are also responsible for this:


At least he asked the Airman to drop the gun AFTER he murdered him!

The Sheriff mentions that the Deputy announced himself and he went out of his way to say that the deputy did not cover the peep-hole.

What he did not address that the deputy purposefully avoided being visually ID'd by the resident by stepping away from the door.

It’s kinda tricky the issue about stepping away from the door. We are taught not to stand in the “fatal funnel” when knocking on a door. All that aside, this deputy needs to be charged and jailed.
 
CNN) — “Please don’t shoot,” Notan Eva Costa, a 48-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant living in Queens, begged the two New York City police officers who entered her home after her teenage son called 911.

Lying on the floor, the mother of two stretched her hand out to the officers, terror and distress audible in her voice.

It was too late. One of the police officers fired his gun at least four times, fatally wounding 19-year-old Win Rozario. Less than two minutes had passed since police entered the family’s home.

The officers “killed my son in minutes,” Costa said through an interpreter at a Wednesday news conference. “Before they came, everything was calm. Then they came and created chaos and murdered him in front of me.”……….




 
In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times.

Most violations involved pinning people facedown in ways that could restrict their breathing or stunning them repeatedly with Tasers, an Associated Press investigation found.

Some officers had little choice but to break policing best practices — safety guidelines that are recommended by government agencies, law enforcement groups and training experts — to save a life or protect someone.

Many other violations were harder to explain. Officers at times prematurely resorted to weapons or physical holds during routine calls or misread a person’s confusion as defiance in medical emergencies, setting off a string of mistakes. In other cases, they kept applying force even after they had people handcuffed and controlled.

For its investigation, AP catalogued 1,036 deaths over a decade’s time after officers had used force not involving their guns. In about half, medical officials ruled that law enforcement caused or contributed to the deaths, but they usually didn’t mention whether policing best practices were followed.

Counting violations of best practices also was difficult when departments didn’t document important details or withheld their files. But based on a review of tens of thousands of pages of police and court records, as well as hundreds of hours of body-camera video footage, AP found:

— Officers breached the guidelines in three or more ways in roughly 440 deaths, or about 45% of the time. In others, a single mistake sometimes fueled life-threatening injuries.

— Many who died were on drugs or alcohol, or had underlying medical conditions, making them more vulnerable to misapplied force, just as best practices forewarned.


— In about 30% of the deaths where police went outside the guidelines multiple times, the officers or bystanders were facing imminent or potential danger. Safety practices may excuse officers under those circumstances.


Because of how policing is set up in the United States, there are no national rules for how officers apply force. Best practices provide some direction but aren’t mandatory. In the end, individual departments or states set their own policies and training.…….


 
As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access.


Officers in Austin and San Francisco — two of the largest cities where police are banned from using the technology — have repeatedly asked police in neighboring towns to run photos of criminal suspects through their facial recognition programs, according to a Washington Post review of police documents.


In San Francisco, the workaround didn’t appear to help. Since the city’s ban took effect in 2019, the San Francisco Police Department has asked outside agencies to conduct at least five facial recognition searches, but no matches were returned, according to a summary of those incidents submitted by the department to the county’s board of supervisors last year.


SFPD spokesman Evan Sernoffsky said these requests violated the city ordinance and were not authorized by the department, but the agency faced no consequences from the city. He declined to say whether any officers were disciplined because those would be personnel matters……

 
my wife's cousin applied to BRPD, but he failed the psych exam (too much racial tendencies, is what his dad told me) so he wasnt able to join the academy. so he joined the EBR Sheriff's office, theirs was much less rigorous, lower standards. smh .
 
The crisis of US police shootings has been increasingly well-documented by advocates and journalists, with data now suggesting officers fatally shoot an average of more than three people every day.

Since George Floyd’s murder four years ago, there has been growing scrutiny of a more hidden epidemic of police violence: deaths at the hands of officers who did not use guns.

An Associated Press investigation in March found that more than 1,000 people died in US police custody from 2012 to 2021 after officers used “less lethal” tactics, including pinning victims face down and stunning them with Tasers. In hundreds of those cases, medical officials deemed the deaths “accidents” or “natural” despite officers’ use of force.

Dr Roger A Mitchell Jr, former chief medical examiner of Washington DC, has become a leading voice in the push to uncover the true scale of these fatalities. In his book Death in Custody published last year, he and co-author Jay Aronson, founder of Carnegie Mellon’s center for human rights science, lay out the nation’s systemic failure to track deaths caused by police and correctional officers.

The book scrutinizes bias in death investigations, exploring how coroners and medical examiners have produced autopsies that minimized or erased the role of police, and in effect, blamed victims for their own deaths.


Mitchell has worked with victims’ families, testified in Congress and in high-profile criminal trials and reviewed “accidental” deaths that he determined should have been labeled police “homicides”. Now chief medical officer for ambulatory care at Howard University, Mitchell spoke with the Guardian about the lack of progress since Floyd’s killing and his proposed solutions……..

 
my wife's cousin applied to BRPD, but he failed the psych exam (too much racial tendencies, is what his dad told me) so he wasnt able to join the academy. so he joined the EBR Sheriff's office, theirs was much less rigorous, lower standards. smh .
well, he probably dodged a bullet (lol). i know a few brpd and it is a sheet show from the mayor down.
 

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