(February 28, 2012 at 7:04 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I try to hold out hope, but you know, this isn't the first time you hear about something absolutely crazy going on with the police - in the same general area of the country, they beat some dude on the supposition that he was "drunk" when he was really having a seizure, and the video camera caught them laughing about it.

(February 28, 2012 at 7:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(February 28, 2012 at 7:04 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I try to hold out hope, but you know, this isn't the first time you hear about something absolutely crazy going on with the police - in the same general area of the country, they beat some dude on the supposition that he was "drunk" when he was really having a seizure, and the video camera caught them laughing about it.

Yeah, as if beating a guy because he was drunk would be so justifiable. Never mind having a laugh about it afterwards.

I often wonder why we as a society allow such people to work in law enforcement.

(February 28, 2012 at 7:31 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Greater police protection would make things safer for our children..if they weren't so busy doing whatever the fuck it is they do when they don't respond...lol.

For awhile in St. Pete, the average response time for a 911 call involving a possible murder was longer than the response time for possible tampering with GTE's telecomm boxes.
(JABIL, Raytheon, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and MacDill AFB)

(February 28, 2012 at 8:38 am)Tiberius Wrote: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...95937.html

Quote:Stephen Slevin was driving along a rural highway in southern New Mexico in August 2005 when traffic police pulled him over and arrested him on suspicion of drink-driving, along with a string of other motoring offences.

By the time all of the charges against him were dismissed and Mr Slevin was released from custody, it was 2007. For reasons that remain unclear, officials had forced him to spend the intervening two years in solitary confinement.

During the ordeal, he claims to have been denied access to basic washing facilities for months at a time. He'd lost a third of his body weight, grown a beard down to his chest and was suffering from bed sores. Prison officials had also ignored his pleas to see a dentist, forcing him to pull out his own tooth. They declined other requests for attention, including an audience with a mental health professional. He duly became delirious and says that by the time of his release he'd "been driven mad".