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Cop Sues NYPD Over Quotas, Slams The Racketeering Culture

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In New York City, police rarely talk on the record at all, especially about a touchy subject like quotas. But, as NPR reports, Officer Adhyl Polanco is an exception...

"The culture is, you're not working unless you are writing summonses or arresting people," says Polanco.

One of the dirty secrets in law enforcement that no one likes to talk about is quotas. Police departments routinely deny requiring officers to deliver a set number of tickets or arrests. But critics say that kind of numbers-based policing is real, and corrodes the community's relationship with the police.

Polanco joined the force in 2005, and pretty quickly, he says, it became clear that his supervisors only cared about two things: tickets and arrests.

 

"I can tell my supervisors that I took three people to the hospital and I saved their lives. That the child that I helped deliver is healthy," says Polanco. "I can tell them that. But that's not going to cut it."

 

Polanco says he encountered an unwritten rule that officers are expected to bring in "20 and one." That's 20 tickets and one arrest per month. But it was tough to get anyone outside the department to believe him, because NYPD officials would always deny there were any quotas. They still do.

 

"There is no specific target number that we go for," said NYPD Commissioner William Bratton at a press conference in January. "There are no quotas, if you will."

 

Since taking over the department last year, Bratton has insisted he's more interested in the quality of arrests than the quantity. The NYPD declined to comment for this story.

"If citizens believe that tickets are being issued or arrests are being made for reasons other than the goal of law enforcement, which is about public safety," says Robinson, "then their trust in the legitimacy of the system is really eroded."

So why does numbers-based policing seem to persist in some departments?

Maybe because it's an easy way to track officer productivity. Tim Dees, a retired Reno, Nev., police officer who has also taught criminal justice, says it's the quality of police work that counts, not the quantity.

 

"That's a much more difficult metric to gauge," says Dees. "The satisfaction of the citizen, very difficult to put a value on that. And it's much easier for, frankly, lazy administrators to make it into a numbers game."

 

But some rank-and-file officers say the numbers game can actually make their jobs harder. NYPD Officer Adhyl Polanco says that in order to be effective, he needs the trust of the community.

 

"Nobody in the community wants people selling drugs in their building," Polanco says. "Nobody in the community wants shootings, so if we work with the people who don't want that, together we can identify who the criminals are. But what happens when you start harassing innocent people because I have to come up with my 20 [tickets]?"

 

Those tickets might look like productivity on paper, says Polanco. But he argues they're not actually making anyone safer.

But as Daniel Drew of Dark-Bid.com notes, In the NYPD, it's clear that the police are protecting and serving themselves at your expense...

To Protect And To Serve. But they never said they were protecting you.

 

The boys in blue are indistinguishable from the Crips or any other street gang in their extortion activities.

 

Officer Adhyl Polanco is suing the NYPD. He secretly recorded conversations in the Bronx. A sergeant said in the recording, "Next week, it could be 25 and 1. It could be 35 and 1. Until you decide you're going to quit this job and become a Pizza Hut delivery man, this is what you're going to be doing until then." 35 and 1 means 35 tickets and 1 arrest.

 

Polanco said, "Nobody in the community wants shootings, so if we work with the people who don't want that, together we can identify who the criminals are. But what happens when you start harassing innocent people because I have to come up with my 20?"

 

I wonder if there is a quota for running over citizens in your police cruiser? That quota was met yesterday.

 

To Protect And To Serve

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Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:55 | 6000968 JuliaS
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Do ambulances drivers have quotas? Do they get to drive around the city running people over until the wagon fills up?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:01 | 6000999 Squid-puppets a...
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"quality policing is a difficult thing to measure"

uh, what is it about the Ferguson 'feedback' that is quite so unclear??

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:06 | 6001017 macholatte
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Video: Armed National Guard Troops Patrol Residential Streets in California Soldiers practice blocking traffic http://www.infowars.com/video-armed-national-guard-troops-patrol-residen...
Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:11 | 6001040 Whoa Dammit
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 A cop figures out that he is just a municipal revenue generator, proving why they do not like to hire people with high IQs.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001146 nailgunnin4you
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Obama and the democats will have him silenced shortly

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:29 | 6001332 Vullsain
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Along with the republicans. BTW I upvoted you. I just do not buy the narrative that there is any substantial difference between the scumbag left/right of the one party. Great to see a cop stand up like this for what is just and right.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:46 | 6001606 erkme73
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There is no such thing as a "good cop".  Good cops either quit in protest, or have their careers destroyed trying to expose corruption.   Either way, they are no longer cops.   That's the problem with the entire law enforcement mentality.  It's the boys in blue against everyone else.  If they don't have each other, no one else will.  Thus, if you cross the line and "snitch" on questionable or illegal behavior, you'll be kicked out of the club faster than you can so boo.

Until they figure out how to get rid of the gang mentality that protects the most vile of cops, they are ALL bad.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:25 | 6001818 Government need...
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When a cop 'crosses over', he becomes a good cop.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:39 | 6001581 rum_runner
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Right, yeah, good point.  If only we had another Bush in the oval office things would be stellar.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:04 | 6001011 nmewn
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I think the unions all got together in general agreement that firefighters have some sort of patent on the idea of "creating work", thats not to say they can't run over a few to help out their "brothers" ;-)

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:10 | 6001271 yrad
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Watch out for Firefighters!! You might get raped with a sausage!

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/five-volunteer-firefighters-in-e...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:05 | 6001014 zaphod
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Do they get to drive around the city running people over until the wagon fills up?"

Stop giving them ideas, they take these suggestions seriously.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:17 | 6001049 kaiserhoff
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I was talking to an EMT last week.  I thought it odd that they sent six guys to take care of one diabetic who had the shakes in McDonald's.  He told me about half their calls are "bariatric", polite word for hopelessly fat.

One regular, weighs in at 545lbs.  With the stretcher each guy is dead-lifting a hundred pounds.  Your tax dollars in action, and mine.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:19 | 6001070 centerline
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Not surprised.

On a similar note, friend of mine is a doctor.  Says the people who bitch the most are the ones getting shit for free.  The peolpe with insurance are the ones who don't complain.  Says about eveything I need to know about the state of affairs we are in.  He agrees.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:20 | 6001062 junction
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That "productivity" standard did not apply to Jessica Tisch, who, when she was about 25, was put in charge of security for downtown Manhattan.  She and other BFFs of Mayor Bloomberg's daughter got hired by Police Commissioner Ray (My Son Greg Is Not A Rapist!) Kelly.  Her father is a billionaire, but Jessica apparently got a free ride from city taxpayers to go to Harvard's School of Government, staying on the city payroll while she went to school in Boston.  Naturally, the bird cage liner we call newspapers in NYC took a hands off attitude to this incompetent patronage hire.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:27 | 6001107 ThroxxOfVron
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DO 'Fire Fighters' have quotas, too?

IF they don't have fires to put out and the whole department is gonna get canned; do they set the fires themselves or do they get someone else to do it for them?

 

Do District Attorneys and Judges have quotas?

How many people have to found guilty and sent to prison/fined/have their futures diminished to meet these secret goals of the beneficiaries of the increasingly for-profit/corporate prison industrial complex?

( Tough-on-crime! ) politicians, attorneys, judges, police officers, etc are NOT barred from owning debt or equity in private for-profit prisons.

One would think that allowing politicians, cops and judges, etc. to own interests in for-profit prisons might encourage them to cage their rental streams for long periods at excessive costs to the citizenry.

Did someone say something about Mandatory Sentencing guidlines and fat profits funnelled to pensions..

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:43 | 6001593 rum_runner
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Dude look at Ferguson.. something like HALF of the city's budget came from fines and citations.  Regardless of what you think of Michael Brown, it's hardly surprising the black community there is sick of the King's men riding around, shaking them down to fill the coffers.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 15:20 | 6003986 Zymurguy
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And it's not just Ferguson, brah.  Look into nearly any municipality that size anywhere in the US and you'll see similar.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:56 | 6000970 sleigher
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Start with the police department, then move on down to DC where the real racketeering culture lives.  The entire US Government Inc. is a racket.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:55 | 6000972 LetThemEatRand
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Funny thing is that even cops are being replaced by machines.  Red light cameras, donut eating bitchezzz.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:57 | 6000976 Jumbotron
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Fascism on Parade.

73 year old Grandpa "Fantasy Cop" who shot an unarmed man and apoligized while said man bled to death, was NOT properly trained in either his service revolver or TASER.  And the Tulsa police falsified the records showing he was.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=50454

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:57 | 6000977 HowdyDoody
Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:01 | 6000997 kaiserhoff
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My money's on the kid.

That fat phuck will never catch her.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:09 | 6001476 NoPension
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Lucky she's not in South Carolina. He would just stop, draw his weapon, roll his head like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, and blow her little disrespecting head off.
The Day will come. I hope I'm still around to participate.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:00 | 6000983 JustObserving
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Every NYPD cop had a quota for stop-and-frisk too (that is how they averaged 1800 stops-and-frisks in NY City per day under fascist Bloomberg) but it was always officially denied.

In any case, here is how US cops compare to those in the UK:

UK cops killed 58 since 1900

US cops killed 111 in March 2015 alone.


Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:00 | 6000994 nmewn
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How many tickets?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:18 | 6001016 kaiserhoff
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This is so weird.  The arrest thing is just plain wrong, but would it wear his ass out to write one parking ticket a day in a sewer like New Yawk?  He should be able to squeeze that in between a two hour lunch and doughnut break number 5.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:10 | 6001035 JustObserving
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How many tickets?

Those were tickets to the nether world

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:17 | 6001060 nmewn
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Well, the article is about "legailized" theft & robbery under the cover of a badge, is it not?

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 07:52 | 6002377 Refuse-Resist
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How many revenue harvests? Err I mean checkpoints?

 

Around here, lots. Especially in the poorest areas of the county, where the blue heroes know that these poor people, who hvae to drive to survive, will drive regardless of them having required permits and documention.

They arrest 20+ people here EVERY FUCKING DAY here for these 'crimes'.

 

FUCK.

THIS.

SHIT.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:03 | 6001258 junction
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A retired NYPD Narcotics lieutenant, in a story on Courthouse News Service, indicated that the Marijuana Reform Act of 1977 made possession of an ounce of pot or less a violation of the law (not a crime) similar to a traffic ticket.   Almost all those pot arrests were illegal, as the cops, judges and prosecutors all knew.  The cops got "collars for dollars," increased overtime to process illegal arrest (good also for their pensions) and the judges and prosecutors got numbers, justification to keep their useless jobs.  Every law enforcement racist who okayed these arrests should be fired for perjury, filing false reports, since they signed off in writing on false arrests.  Once one lawyer gets a hefty settlement from New York City to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit (under section 1983), that will unleash a feeding class-action frenzy.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 07:55 | 6002385 Refuse-Resist
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in NC, mary jane is 'decriminalized' so if a person gets caught with less than an ounce it's a misdemeanor. But, here's the kicker:  if said person has a pipe, bong, or a pack of rolling papers, it's considered a much worse crime.

So you can have your weed, but if dare posesse the means to smoke it (even a can fashioned as a pipe is paraphanelia) then you get fucked much worse.

Justice? FUCK YEAH!

Inflicked, show no mercy; motheruckin wicked.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1vGXiZOoo

 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:19 | 6001315 Stumpy4516
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How many times did they stop and frisk the jewish.  How many times do they confiscate the money or diamonds from the jewish claiming is must be drug related?

Chicago has very strict gun laws also but there are reports the cops had an "enhanced interrogation" program for certain suspects for many years and got away with it. No one seems to be scheduled for investigation much less prosecution for this.

Bloomberg goes to Aspen and states guns should be taken from the minorities.  He then asks the local news not to release the tape or video and even the local community activist group (this one very liberal and all about equality)  then refused to release the video or talk about it.

What happens when/if a black/latin cop runs over a middle aged white person with his cop car, or shoots an unarmed white who has been taken down in the back then claims he meant to tazer him (Arizona and Calif).   No, it will not happen, there is not that kind of bond among the blacks or latins (or whites).

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 07:56 | 6002389 Refuse-Resist
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Does Bloomberg also include the 2% in his definition of 'minorities' or the blue heroes, also a minority?

 

Thought not.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:28 | 6001825 Government need...
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"I never fucked anybody over in my life that didn't have it coming to 'em. You got that?"


Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:58 | 6000986 Shizzmoney
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Values in NYC: banksters do not go to jail, a black man choked to death by police, but a coyote is safely sedated by city officers

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:59 | 6000989 nmewn
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The state is broke! We need moar seatbelt tickets issued, a ban on texting and changing the radio dial in traffic and even moar conflicting signage put up to impede & disorient drivers! Kick that fucking wailing baby into the street and cite her ass for jay walking for crying out loud!

We're fighting for our damned jobs here!!!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:09 | 6001030 BrosephStiglitz
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May as well just build a giant "Hamster Wheel" in Times Square to power a public-sector-only municipal grid and be done with it.  Why bother keeping up the charade at the 11th hour?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:15 | 6001051 centerline
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You know it is coming.  Not just cops.  Firefighters, teachers,... you name it.  If it has a .GOV behind it, they are coming from every angle possible through every orifice possible.

SAVE OUR PENSIONS!!!!

The great "Public" fucking the "Private" sector (who has already been fucked) is right around the corner.  As opposed to the mild screwing that is occuring now.

Think you can out-vote this?  HA HA HA HA.  Good luck.  Ancient Rome, bitches.

Got a house (pay up).  Got a car (pay up).  Want to buy groceries (pay up).  You get the idea.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:25 | 6001088 nmewn
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You know it.

I'm having fun with "school administrators" now, there's another group of sanctimonious TBTF blood sucking vampires churning out zombies.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:55 | 6001225 centerline
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The sad thing is that good people suffer no matter what.  My wife and I are big supporters of the local schools.  We pay hundreds a year extra and volunteer hundreds of hours.  Seems every year it is not enough though.  The deficit gets bigger each year.  Most other parents are absent regardless of ability.  Pretty pathethic statement.  In my area, the wealthy ones (including moms who dont work - lots of those here... I live in a nice area) are many and they dont do shit.  At least the working parents have an excuse.  My wife and I are included in the "working lot."  Funny thing though... welfare queens are just as bad as wealthy assholes.  Funny how things come full circle in terms of narcissism, entitlement, neglect, etc.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:37 | 6001373 nmewn
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Yeah I hear ya.

I'm careful to stick to the top heavy "administrative staff" side of it lest everyone think I'm for turning out dullards, which naturally I'm not and there are some good teachers in there, one of them posts here on ZH and she's one of the good ones.

But (theres always one of those buts...lol) its kinda tribal, in the sense they circle to protect their own, in normal circumstances understandable, not when the damage is to one of my own.

For instance, squire was in English honors and doing horribly. I asked him what the deal was and he said (naturally) the teacher sucks. Weighing his obvious teenage bias and rebel nature against the teacher in question demanding all notebooks be in YELLOW...lol...I thought it worth looking into.

She was old, trying to make it to retirement. No doubt deserving of all PAST accolades but not at the expense of my son and as it turned out...7/8 of the class getting C's & D's. This is honors, they're all bright kids.

So after repeated calls & emails to the guidance counselor & the teacher went unanswered from Mrs.N (who was on the verge of melting down and doing some serious damage) I decided the best thing to do was to go plant my happy-ass down in the front office and demand a meeting with the principal. After the whole "Do you have an appointment?" and "He's very busy, don't know if he can see you." and me being, well...me...in the front office...I was escorted back to his eminences chambers and the guidance counselor was there. The teacher was not there.

After cordialities (and glares toward the guidance counselor from me) are exchanged I informed him that squire is moving out of that class. Then he goes into the whole "He should just work harder!" routine, to protect the teachers capabilities. I said no, pull up his grades, I said you see that...zeros...he's given up on her...I want him out right now or I take him out of this school, period.

I got a text from____ a half hour later, he was moved to another English class, that was lest year.

This year, he's back in English honors, straight A's.

We don't and shouldn't let the system (as it stands) abuse our families.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:03 | 6001257 centerline
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Oh, school admins... they dont give a shit.  They just push kids down the same educational sausage grinder.  Period.  Nothing else.

Love the one my daugher has.  But, not afraid to put my foot up his ass either.  He knows the truth.  He knows I know the truth.  And we both exist.  Still a shame though.  Reality is that I am my kids guide and my job is to ram-rod the system to make it possible.  Ironic huh?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:38 | 6001389 nmewn
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Yah, see above ;-)

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:15 | 6001053 HTZMR
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I was ticketed just recently by a state trooper in New Baltimore, NY, for not switching to the left lane as he was parked on the side of the road ticketing some other poor bastard. He drove away as my girlfriend and i were making sense of a law neither of us ever heard of. Five minutes later we saw him on the side of the road ticketing someone else. I contested it in court - they reduced it to a parking violation but demanded 175 dollars. I was furious. Shameless revenue scheme and felt exactly like i was being robbed by the authorities.
But only a couple of months i was stopped for an illegal u-turn right before a toll bridge in NYC. I had a drink or two that night because i came from a wedding. I had to walk in a straight line and all that, no prob and i passed flying colors but i bet if the cop was a prick like that state trooper he could have ticketed me for a DUI or some other trumped up charge but bless him, he had mercy on me and let me go on with a warning.Thank you, officer, to this day, you didnt think about quotas. I havent forgotten.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001140 nmewn
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Yeah, they started that shit down here in Fla too.

It used to be (as a common courtesy) for people on the side of the road with flat tires or cops or tow trucks, whatever, if you can, you would just move over to the other lane to give them some room.

Now its a "law"...supposedly if you can you must, it'll be your word against a government employee, in a government courtroom and we all know how that usually turns out.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:17 | 6001503 thatthingcanfly
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Same In Arkansas.

I got nailed by an ASP Corporal last October under circumstances similar to the above - cop was harassing someone else for speeding, I passed by in the nearest lane, cop left his first victim to chase me down. He was abrasive and rude to me, interrupting me repeatedly as I tried to explain to him that it appeared to me the left lane was occupied by passing traffic. He acted as if he had just caught me knocking over the liquor store or something.

Went to court over it in February. The trooper played his dashcam video, which only showed my departure from the scene of his traffic stop. It did, however, show several other cars in the left lane, though the last one in line had passed me by the time my truck entered the frame of view.

On the witness stand, I described the corporal as "the archetypal bully with a badge." I looked right at him when I said it. This pissed off the DA royally. Pity, she was kinda hot.

The judge found me guilty. Said he thought I didn't reduce my speed enough. But looking that motherfucker in the eyes when I called him a bully with a badge was worth the $180.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:30 | 6001830 Government need...
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Hope you sugared the pig's tank and checked the air in his tires.  Maybe even left some thermite on his hood. . .

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 04:42 | 6002114 Aussiekiwi
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And you got the cop of the street for awhile, so that's a community service too.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:02 | 6002399 Refuse-Resist
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It's like that everywhere my friend.

What's interesting to me is when people get their AHA moment. IOW, they've spent their whole lives being peacable and trying to be law abiding. But then they have a traffic encounter with a blue hero.

You wouldn't believe the shit I hear from nice people being treated like goddamn criminals. And the funniest part is that the habitual offenders (we call them frequent fliers -- assault, meth, coke, B/E, larceny, DWI) keep being released.

Catch and release program for the real crminals, harassment, abuse and financial ruin for the good people.  Here, minimum cost for any ticket is $190 court cost, plus $50+ for fine. If you want an attorney (because in NC any ticket requires your appearance in court - no check mailing here) it's another $150 and the attorney can reduce the violation to keep it off your insurance.

Total cost for any violation: $400.

FUCK THIS SHIT.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:15 | 6001054 tarabel
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There is only one way to eradicate this nazi nonsense--

Allow every person convicted of a minor offense to donate the full proceeds of their fine, court costs, victim compensation fund, and/or whatever other surcharges are imposed to the charity of their choice rather than to the coffers of the court system.

The Declaration of Independence specifically inveighed against the evils of a judicial system that profited from guilty convictions and got nothing out of innocence.

Take the money out of their evil racket and their evil racket will go away.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:18 | 6001068 strangeglove
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I got a no seatbelt ticket in Manhatten 2 years ago while I was pumping gas at the Hess station over the Fordham Rd Bridge. The fat Lazy cop sits in the gas station parking lot and writes ticket s while you pump your gas.

needless to say I stopped going to the city Fuck Them! I used to spend a lot too. still Do but not in NYC

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:19 | 6001072 MFL8240
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Everyone complains about police officers when they are on the wrong side of the law but, when they need them, they are the greatest people in the world.  This recent hate of police is a direct result of black agitators like Sharpton, Holder and Hussein the agitator in chief.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:42 | 6001173 Crash Overide
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I can't remember anytime in the last 20 years where I saw a cop do anything other than write a bullshit ticket or show up to a crime after it happened. Not hating on cops I know a bunch of decent ones, I can only speak from my experiences.

 

When seconds count, the police are minutes away.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:21 | 6001508 NoPension
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NEED a cop. Yeah, right. Like a fucking hole in the head. Oops, don't give em ideas.

There is not one interaction with a cop, I can think of, with a positive outcome.

In Maryland, the State Police sponsor a Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics. I bet attendance would double if Starbucks or The Trash Guy sponsored the event.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:31 | 6001365 armageddon addahere
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Wait till you need a cop and see what you get. I have needed them a few times and they did NOTHING unless they made things worse. One nearly got me killed. And that was over 30 years ago.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:58 | 6001452 SubjectivObject
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Behold the ubiquitous MSM infected sheeptard.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:16 | 6001689 Offthebeach
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I can shoot my own labradoodle, thank you very much.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:31 | 6001832 Government need...
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Or maybe the anger directed to thugpigs is related to all the murderin' and lyin' that the thugpigs perpetrate. . .

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:07 | 6001892 Stumpy4516
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We have learned NOT to call them.  Car break ins, a person sleeping under the tree, someone testing doors in the alley, and so on.

The lady up the street and my next door neighbor (until she passed) call ME.  Strangers parking in front of house at night, someone in backyard, was that someone shooting a gun at 11:30, weird guy at door who hangs around.  Guy hit her car so she called me to come, told her she had to call a cop for this one, she asked (required) that I stay with her until the cops left.  (One of the cops was a total ass for no reason too)  She is late 70's.

After a false 911 call the cops show up and want to search her house.  She says NO you cannot come into my house.  And calls me to see if I will come over if the cops will not leave.

The distrust is deeper than you may think.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:06 | 6002411 Refuse-Resist
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When the cops are called people get hurt. Doesn't matter why they're called.  Somebody's getting arrested, and if there are kids anywhere near, DSS/CPS is called in.

Those social justice warriors have almost unlimited power and absolutely no accountabilty.

 

Never talk to police. Don't call them ever. Don't look at them, and for God's sake do not exceed the speed limit by more than 5 (2 am this rule is invalid) EVER.

 

If you should have the opportunity to protected and served, remain silent, admit nothing, and refuse all search requests -- whether you're clean or have 50 kilos of cocaine in the trunk.

Refuse.

 

But it's still not safe to resist.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:04 | 6002403 Refuse-Resist
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Downvote becaues it's obvious you haven't yet had the opportunity to interact with a blue hero lately.

 

Your tune will change brother once you have that chance.

 

Or, maybe you're one of them and you get let go and don't get the full experiecne us un-connecteds get?

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 17:26 | 6004472 MeelionDollerBogus
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Right now it's often the cops on the wrong side of the law, and those calling the cops for help getting shot by the cops so they won't call again - because they're dead.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:46 | 6001187 Weaponized Innocense
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Political income of the gov who wants to steal all ur IP and pimp u out into their warlord economy from the bedsheets to world war three!
Yea same political income as those who act like they can save u from what this cop is talking about......

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:50 | 6001209 Youri Carma
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Stalin had these kinda quota's too. And that's no joke.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:54 | 6002523 Offthebeach
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Stalin personly only killed maybe 50.

Ah, but for a some swag and a badge, you can get some real hustlers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:59 | 6002544 Ghordius
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Oh oh. You are talking about Stalin. Bad move. The propaganda war around Russia is including Stalin

just recently I was reading someone that claimed that 40% of Russians approve of Stalin, and that Uncle Joe is having a comeback, after decades of Anti-Stalinism

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:52 | 6001219 Lurk Skywatcher
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"Those tickets might look like productivity on paper, says Polanco. But he argues they're not actually making anyone safer."

Replace "tickets" with "wars" = American Foreign Policy... it makes sense to streamline things by having the same process for fucking up everything.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:00 | 6001249 the not so migh...
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if your not cop your little people

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:05 | 6001265 gdpetti
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Same productivity with the numbers as we had in Vietnam.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:15 | 6001499 dirtscratcher
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It's not just cops that have quotas, it's fireman and other government employees too.

Last year my 5 year old son came into the house saying "I made smoke". We discovered that he was playing with matches. My buddy a fireman happened to come by and gave him "the Talk". After I commented how great it is to have a job like his. he shrugged and said sometimes he hated his job. I pushed him and he explained that every firmean in this city has to do a shift twice a month on inspection duty. This involves going to businesses and "inspecting' for fire code violations. He said tha this is nothing but a shakedown. He described how these business owners hated to see him coming. One event in particular troubled him. he walked into a business and the owner literally broke down crying. This guy was hanging on by a thread and he just knew that this inspection was going to cost him. My buddy pretended to make his tour and left without writing anything up. At the end of the conversation he told me " I always wanted to be a fireman to help people. This is not what I signed on for"

If that's not enough for ya, here's another. About a year after the onset of the Great Financial Crisis, I ran into another buddie's brother. I asked about how things were regarding the economy and his job. He had worked for the County in the Health Department involving the installation and inspection of septic systems, but related how he had recently been transferred to the toxic waste unit. He said his job was secure as long as he was generating revenue that totalled double his salary. He described how these inspections were a joke and merely an excuse to extort money. I just shook my head and then he related "If you think that's bad, the Code Enforcement Division is even worse. They look to hire ex-cops. They're just looking to screw you over and they generate tons of money".

Public servants. Ha!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:37 | 6001559 NoPension
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Here's one for ya....

We built a building. Commercial manufacturing, about 40 jobs. On our site, we where monitored by Maryland Dept of Enviroment. MDE. We went by the book. Routine reports, signed and in a book. NO VIOLATIONS! Not one. A neighbor screamed bloody murder from the outset of the project. We cut and cleared "HER!" woods. ( I suppose she could have paid a million, and kept them, but I digress) And this whack job made dozens of phone calls, up to the Governor's office. Martin O' Malley, by the way. Your warned.
Project passes all inspections, gets an occupancy and the private owner starts operation. Invested about 5.5 million.
Six months later, he gets a fine from MDE. $147,000.00 . For sediment leaving the site. ( reread above reports comment)
He/ we get a high priced lawyer and challange. It's an obvious bullshit shakedown. The lawyer gets it down to $40,000. The owner squawks. Attorney states he can get it quashed, legal fees.......yup..$40,000!
Wrote those motherfuckers a check. Worse than the Mob in my opinion.
And that's a god damn true story.
Cost that poor guy $50,000 with legal fees.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:15 | 6001504 Chuck Knoblauch
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Equating Cops to Pizza Hut Delivery Boys?

An insult to the delivery profession.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:40 | 6001583 22winmag
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Cops love steroids.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:51 | 6001621 Shirley Swanepoel
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Thank you to Mr. Polanco willing to go on the record about this. Unfortunately for every one good cop there are five bad ones. Avoid the cops like the plague.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 03:06 | 6002036 Condor96
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Article ...  CUBA, USA, Cia, Castro etc .... 

 

http://blogdigeopoliticainternazionale.blogspot.it/2015/04/i-piani-di-de...

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 03:29 | 6002063 robertocarlos
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If a cop kills a cop is that a crime?

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 04:32 | 6002107 Aussiekiwi
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If its done in the forest and nobody sees then its ok.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:17 | 6002438 SystemOfaDrown
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Yes! But "No" if one of the following:

A. 1st Cop is shot and killed by 2nd Cop, while running away because he owes back pay on child support.

B. 1st Cop is taken out by 2nd Cop's police vehicle.

C. 1st Cop is shot and killed by 2nd Cop who mis-identifies his tazer for a gun.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 04:31 | 6002106 Aussiekiwi
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The problem with 'unofficial' quotas is that with any conversation with any police officer you are always aware on both sides that they are listening for a reason to arrest you or write you a ticket, so people just stop cooperating with the Police resulting in a far more dangerous community for everyone and a us and them attitude.

I guess that's the new awesome policing that we have.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 06:17 | 6002187 Bumbu Sauce
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The Rise of the Praetorian Class

Excerpt:

Legions and Lictors – the Praetorian Class

The Praetorian Class includes members of the Armed Services, federal, state and local law enforcement personnel as well as numerous militarized officials including agents from the DEA, Immigrations, Customs Enforcement, Air Marshalls, US Marshalls, and more. It also includes, although to a lesser extent, various stage actors in the expanding security theater such as TSA personnel. The main mission of the Praetorian Class is to keep the order of the day. This requires displaying an intimidating presence in their interactions with the Economic Class.

As the Praetorian Class ascends, the clear, albeit unstated, message that emerges is that actions and events in the Economic Class only occur with its tacit consent. Whether driving on roads, traveling in the air, visiting public land, walking down the street or even living in your own home, every action you take is predicated on its permission. By preconditioning the populace to enforcement of its edicts, most of which are completely arbitrary, the Praetorian Class sets itself up for a high degree of autonomy in its actions. This is confirmed by the fact that consequences for malfeasance within the Praetorian Class are almost never observed, and when it happens, it typically becomes a grotesque spectacle in which one of their own is sacrificed as an example, so as to keep appearances of effective internal controls.

Members of the Praetorian Class are typically recruited from the Economic Class and usually from the lower socio-economic spectrum, which offers them an opportunity for personal and professional gain that otherwise might be out of their reach. Early on in the training and indoctrination process, a strong emphasis is placed on teamwork and advancing the welfare of the team above the individual. While independent thought is never overtly discouraged, the fact is that questioning authority and failing to display complete loyalty to the team results in censure, shunning and even expulsion. Naturally, the recruit learns in short order which behavior is rewarded and responds accordingly. This forges a lifelong, unbreakable bond between the brothers-in-arms. This bond can be observed when people proudly display unit insignia and decorations decades after their departure from service.

As they serve in their martial role, members of the Praetorian Class learn to despise members of the Political Class and to view the plight of the Economic Class with detachment or even contempt. Law enforcement and military personnel will converse behind closed doors about the most horrific injustices and brutalities with cavalier amusement. While perhaps natural, their training for violence and teamwork is a fundamental cause for why members of the Praetorian Class abandon their roots and in time come to view their peers “back on the farm” with contempt. Likewise, the steady displays of the craven and treacherous character of the Political Class causes the Praetorian Class to privately disavow emotional allegiance to their masters, usually early in their service.

Naturally, as the members of the Praetorian Class socially distance themselves from both their origins and their masters, even though they are paid to do their bidding, a new group identity among them emerges. Adoption of this group identity, forged by the training, indoctrination and work, defines membership in the Praetorian Class. Some of the characteristics of this identity include:

  • Viewing everything and everyone according to a perceived threat posture. The members’ thought processes, beliefs and actions center on viewing the world through a paradigm of a graduated conflict spectrum and how to posture themselves accordingly. Even in the most mundane settings, their conversations tend to be awkward if not centered on their martial duties.
  • Tight internal socialization. Because they view life through a martial paradigm, members tend to socialize almost exclusively amongst themselves. Immediate family members are expected to do the same, which naturally occurs anyway as they can share experiences that external relationships simply are unable to address.
  • Loyalty is the highest honor. Whether referred to as the blue wall of silence or the brotherhood in arms, even the most egregious transgressions are buried. If the misdeeds are internal, meaning member versus member, the justice is handled internally. On the other hand, external missteps are typically swept under the rug and significant chicane is experienced by outsiders who seek to learn the truth.

In a relatively free and peaceful society, members of the communities that form the Praetorian Class lead a discrete existence. Members of the military commute to and from their place of work and are largely invisible to both the Political and Economic Class, certainly in communities that are not “Praetorian” communities. Attendance at cultural events in uniform is frowned upon, if not explicitly forbidden. During these times, members of the military and law enforcement are expected to live and operate outside the perception of other members of society, their purpose and function regarded with a sense of detachment and perhaps even subtle curiosity.

As the Political Class increasingly calls upon the Praetorian Class to ensure their order, however, their martial nature becomes more visible in the fabric of day-to-day life. This serves several purposes. For one, it allows the Political Class to demonstrate its willingness to use unlimited force to achieve its objectives, something that was always the case but is now made publicly visible. Rationalizing the increased public profile, a stream of honorifics is bestowed upon the Praetorian Class so that they may be presented as defenders of the Economic Class. This is accomplished through the time-tested use of pageantry, pomp and circumstance.

Over time, additional perquisites are bestowed upon the Praetorian Class including preferential treatment in both private and public facilities. Preferred air travel accommodations for uniformed personnel, including dedicated lines at TSA checkpoints and preferential boarding, have recently emerged as cultural standards that further distance the Praetorian Class from the masses.

Another clear change is the physical appearance of members of the Praetorian Class. The uniforms transition from relatively inconspicuous attire to “battle uniforms” such are those now standard issue to both the military and law enforcement personnel. These optics reinforce the position of the Praetorian Class as maintainers of public order, convey a message of physical dominance and establish chronic low-level fear among the masses. Sometimes referred to as the militarization of the police force, this characterization traditionally refers to the increasing firepower in even municipal police departments. Frequently lost in this observation, however, is the psychological impact that such a heavily armed police presence has on the “civilian” population – specifically that it further separates the Praetorian Class from the Economic Class.

As the influence of the Praetorian Class grows, so do the resources it consumes. This is manifested in the form of continuous “equipment” upgrades, training budgets and costly “interagency collaboration” in addition to the usual staff augmentation. This, of course, has the ancillary benefit of directing resources to equipment and service providers that are favored by the Political Class and in some cases may in fact be the primary purpose.

Perhaps less obvious is the need to constantly keep the Praetorian Class on the march. A bored Praetorian is a dangerous creature that will start looking for things to do. In order to keep the Praetorian Class engaged, they must be fed a continuous source of adversaries that they in turn actively engage. In “peace time,” actual engagement is replaced by training and rehearsing the defeat of the adversaries.

 

While the Praetorian Class emerges as its own entity, with allegiance only to the members' peers, the most senior of the Praetorians are eventually invited to join the Political Class. Prior to that occurring, they are vetted for suitability, after which they become “made men.” Consider the long list of senior military officers and police chiefs that joined the ranks of the political elite. It is a sight to behold, their new-found support of the Political Class, a class they had silently held in contempt until their recent assumption. Metropolitan police chiefs, district attorneys and joint chiefs of staff are selected for political compatibility, not conviction of character.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 06:54 | 6002233 b a n n e d
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Ferguson quotas  20 bullet a mounth

how many bullet left in your firearm this mouth!

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:53 | 6002522 Buster Cherry
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The Harris County Precint 5 Constable in Houston has a "Neighborhood Watch" contract program where a neighborhood pays for a deputy to be on rolling patrol for one or more.shifts. Trouble is, a week after the ink dries, the constable id nowhere to be seen in your neighborhood. The one we had was caught asleep in his car by an HOA board member responsible for security.

They are ripoff artists with these neiggborhood watch scams and its sad.to have the very agency you hired above and beyond the high taxes we.already pay be the biggest thief in the neighborhood.

Now, if.you wanted to actually see a PCT 5 deputt outside his air conditioned cruizer you had to go to Beltway 8, where they would be handing out tickets to make more.money for.the county.

Off topic but I notice.the Houston cops have swit hed from blue uniforms to black. I sarcasticly ask myself why any cop would want.to.wear.anything other than white in this Houston heat.

I guess.they all want to look like killers now...

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 09:16 | 6002589 cherry picker
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After reading all the comments here, going to the USA as a tourist would be far from anyone's agenda, Mexico and the cartels seem more friendlier as I hear the cartels provide protection to tourists as they own tourist places to launder money and they like the tourist $ too, so scaring them away doesn't make sense, regardless which side of the law they are on.  :)

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 10:14 | 6002802 WTFUD
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. . . and there we have it . . . the filth go onto the streets looking for trouble as a route to promotion. Great incentive, ya!

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 10:28 | 6002859 mastersnark
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To be fair, we do need them to shoot our dogs, flash bang our children, and run check points so I suppose we can all swallow our pride and put up with this.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 12:53 | 6003376 SmittyinLA
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it went downhill when the police were forbidden (illegally) from inquiring about immigration status or booting alien criminals.

Across the nation law enforcement submitted to criminal invasion for less than TJ street whores (they get paid in cash no promises).

Bankrupt municipalities with broken promises to law enforcement are the payback for submitting to criminal invasion.

 

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