Ridiculous Police News (Specific events)

[archibaldcrane]

What the fuck did I just watch.

Wow

At least a number of these cops "officer go fuck yourself", the CHP ground-and-pound cop, etc are actually getting removed from the force.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0...925-story.html

[Acevalefor]

Did that officer already have his gun drawn, or has he been standing in front of a mirror practicing his John Wayne draw?

[archibaldcrane]

Oh, that cop was already fired and faces 20 years if convicted.

Didn't need a grand jury to indict him either.

[BaneTheBrawler]

fortunately he's also a terrible shot and only hit the guy once in the hip.

[archibaldcrane]

Just interesting that the only way to convict a cop if video evidence. Think of how often cops commit violent crimes off camera - shit must happen constantly.

[notorious bum]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[archibaldcrane]

If this guy pointed his car in a different direction he's still on the force.

[Obiron]

He was giving safety tips and trying to be the "Good ol' Boy Scout" cop by saying "Just be safe" in general and some idiot in a newspaper took it completely off the wall.

You're a bigger idiot if you can't see that.

Ok, I'll admit that the video shown by the news makes it sound worse than it was. I'll downgrade his insane comment to just a poorly chosen comment. I searched for the full interview, which is up on the news station's website.
The interviewer asked how a person should feel safe when pulled over given recent events, and he responded that first and foremost they should try not to be pulled over in the first place. Yeah, that's a "Good ol' Boy Scout" answer, but since the interviewer specifically referred to those recent events, I just think it was a poor choice of words on his end, and got blown out of proportion because of that.

[Blubbartron]

If this guy pointed his car in a different direction he's still on the force.

THIS. This cannot be reiterated enough. And it's also why good cops are pushing hard for cameras on all officers, and bad cops are vehemently against them.

[Nephlite]

THIS. This cannot be reiterated enough. And it's also why good cops are pushing hard for cameras on all officers, and bad cops are vehemently against them.

Can't stress this enough. We're getting them, and I couldn't be happier. The Union won an argument about them recording all the time due to our departments history of admin abuse. We're looking at cameras that you can self-initiate and cameras that automatically activate when your call sign is activated by Dispatch.

[noblemountain]

Fuck that, they should be on at all times. There is no excuse with todays tech and battery life that lapel cams aren't worn at all times while on duty.

[Penthesilea]

Fuck that, they should be on at all times. There is no excuse with todays tech and battery life that lapel cams aren't worn at all times while on duty.

but the memory storage needed would be insane. think about all the exagigabytes needed to keep that data for 20 years

[Melena]

Ok now you are being stupid, but yes, storage for 12hrs+ of HD video per officer, per day, with every day being retained for 2-3 years, ideally backed up incrementally daily and fully weekly at an office location is nuts. The sheriff's office I worked for (i just recently took a promotion with another county agency) was up to the point where we were needing Petabytes of storage to meet the county's mandated 3 years of video retention.

[Salodin]

It's not that it's too hard to do, but you'd pretty much have to create a new department to store all this new data. Either that or hire a private company, which is probably better imo.

Still, at a time when were cutting back on budgets, it's a hard sell with out being very creative on cutbacks or just plain giving the departments more money (lol yeah right).

[Melena]

I.T is always the first department that gets cut for budget.

As for a private company, that may not be as logical as possible. I know DOJ has strict regulations of what can and can not be accessible on a law enforcement network. For it to be an outside company retaining, backing up and making accessible the storage, it would probably have to be a company already vetted by the fed's and you know anything with that is going to have a ridiculous markup.

[liggy 0]

Just interesting that the only way to convict a cop if video evidence. Think of how often cops commit violent crimes off camera - shit must happen constantly.

copblock.org has at least 5 NEW videos daily. of the craziness that happens. i had to take them off FB just because its too much spam. shits crazy.

[Nephlite]

Most of their video's are completely out of context and no backstory. They're also the ones who upload petty, minor BS (like running red lights or stopsigns) and are the advocates for the "Am I Being Detained?" assholes.

[archibaldcrane]

Wait, who are the "am i being detained" assholes?

[archibaldcrane]

Ok now you are being stupid, but yes, storage for 12hrs+ of HD video per officer, per day, with every day being retained for 2-3 years, ideally backed up incrementally daily and fully weekly at an office location is nuts. The sheriff's office I worked for (i just recently took a promotion with another county agency) was up to the point where we were needing Petabytes of storage to meet the county's mandated 3 years of video retention.

I still think you could do it effectively and fairly cheaply by burning blu-rays. Back them up in triplicate if you want.

[Melena]

I still think you could do it effectively and fairly cheaply by burning blu-rays. Back them up in triplicate if you want.

And where are you going to store these disks? Who is going to be in charge of them to make sure they get misplaced.

Like I asked before, please find me any fortune 500 company with 1500+ employees, tasked with storing and maintaining at least 500gb of data that uses only blu ray disks and burners. As is, the DOJ requires it to be done remotely and digitally. Even if it was feasible to do that daily, how many blu ray disks is that going to be? Looking at essentially 5-6 blu ray disks a day, every day as well as paying people whose only jobs are maintaining the inventory, securing them and burning them. It just doesn't sound logical at all