The beat goes on. This was in today's local paper.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loca.../14085607/

Quote:A Phoenix police sergeant shot and killed a 50-year-old woman while trying to serve a mental-health order at a west-side apartment Thursday afternoon, officials said.

Sgt. Tommy Thompson, a police spokesman, said officers had a court order to take Michelle Cusseaux to a mental-health facility.

Officers went to the Graybriar Condominiums, 3810 N. Maryvale Parkway, to pick up Cusseaux at about 2:15 p.m.

Thompson said caseworkers "were trying to get her to come in for treatment. It got to the point that she wouldn't do that. ... She had a weapon and was making threats."

So, apparently just easier to kill her and save the county the money of treating her.

(August 15, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So, apparently just easier to kill her and save the county the money of treating her.

As if cops could think that far ahead while hopped up on adrenaline. Just more dickless dimwits going off (half-cocked).

Apparently thinking is not high on the priority list. Apparently, eyesight is not a requirement, either.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/15/sa...for-a-gun/

Quote:San Jose police fatally shoot woman, 19, after mistaking power drill for a gun

They expected to see an Uzi


and instead saw this...


WTF. Close enough.

Never thought I'd agree with Rand Paul on something.

Quote:How did this happen?

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

And Paul was doing okay until that point.

It's irrelevant. If some cop blew you away I have no doubt that every other cop on the force would close ranks behind him to insist that you did something to warrant it.

They think of themselves as cops first and citizens second. And that's where Paul goes off the rails.

(August 15, 2014 at 6:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Apparently thinking is not high on the priority list. Apparently, eyesight is not a requirement, either.

Blue suicide. Just another hurting person availing themselves of the free hot lead the police love to share.

The heroes of the Ferguson police force have much to answer for.

This story from 2009 sounds very believable in the context we see of rampant police racism.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...y-lie.html

Quote:The officers got the wrong man, but charged him anyway—with getting his blood on their uniforms. How the Ferguson PD ran the town where Michael Brown was gunned down.

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.

“On and/or about the 20th day of Sept. 20, 2009 at or near 222 S. Florissant within the corporate limits of Ferguson, Missouri, the above named defendant did then and there unlawfully commit the offense of ‘property damage’ to wit did transfer blood to the uniform,” reads the charge sheet.

The address is the headquarters of the Ferguson Police Department, where a 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis was taken in the predawn hours on that date. He had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number.

Not enough real crime in Florida so the cops invent some to pad their stats.


[urlhttp://www.wtsp.com/story/news/investigations/2014/08/07/law-enforcement-crosses-lines-on-sex-stings-entrapment/13734121/[/url]

Quote:POLK COUNTY, Florida – In the decade since Chris Hansen and "To Catch a Predator" popularized Internet sex stings, more than 1,200 men in Florida alone have been arrested, accused of preying on underage teens and children for sex.

But as the stings put more and more men behind bars, detectives are working harder and harder to keep up their arrest numbers. And the tactics they're using to put alleged sexual offenders in jail are sweeping up large numbers of law-abiding men, too.

A yearlong investigation by 10 Investigates reveals many of the men whose mugshots have been paraded out by local sheriffs in made-for-TV press conferences were not seeking to meet children online. Instead, they were minding their own business, looking for other adults, when detectives started to groom and convince them to break the law.

(August 14, 2014 at 4:41 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We are turning into any other banana republic.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-28782308

Quote:In one photo, police officers are responding to the protests in armoured vehicles, initially developed to withstand improvised explosive devices.

Other photos show police wearing army green shirts and camouflage pants, similar to the uniforms of US marines, and carrying guns based on the military-used M4 carbine.

I have to wonder what the difference is between this, and using the military for law enforcement (which has been prohibited by the Posse Comitatus Act since 1878).

The difference is that the cops are NOT the army...no matter how much dress-up they do.