Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-futu...conspiring-fabricate-criminal-charges-against

And like I always say when cops get caught doing things like this, we're only catching a small fraction of the times they are doing this. Considering how rarely they get recorded when they aren't aware, it would be Pollyannaish and naive to think we are catching anything other than a minuscule fraction of the times cops illegally frame, kill, brutalize and ruin people's lives.

These cops haven't been charged by the way, and it took the person they were trying to frame more than a year to get the charges dismissed -- and that is when their little conspiracy against him was on tape. The mass majority of people cops do this to of course don't have that advantage -- so just imagine how much more hopeless their situations are -- which, again, is pretty much all people this happens to.

Also, don't forget cops kill about 1000 people per year and that we have the highest incarceration rate in the developed world by far -- and then remember that the primary thing holding cops accountable is the cops themselves. Cops like the ones caught on tape framing this protester.

So next time you believe the cops side of the story instead of the side of the story of the person they brutalized or imprisoned, remember cases like this.

 

Did you read the article? The bad apple argument just doesn't hold water. Take note that none of the cops involved in this situation (including a supervisor) put a stop to it. None of them reported it. They all acted like it was common place. Seriously, what are the chances that, of all the times cops were accidentally caught on a recording, that it would occur at a time when all the cops in the situation were just "bad apples" who were framing someone.

Again, I'm sorry, but that is naive. This is common place.

I mean, if it wasn't common place then it wouldn't have taken a year to get the charges dropped , these cops would have been prosecuted and police would be clamoring for these guys to be held accountable - but that isn't the case.

 

The problem is that it has been a year and they haven't been. It was an uphill battle and a year of litigation even to get the fraudulent charges dropped. I think that tells you something about how our justice system views cops committing these types of acts, and what level of accountability cops are held to.

That's the majority of the problem -- we are over policed. I am sure a lot of cops are probably good people when they start out, but having that much unaccountable power over people is not conducive to them staying good people.

Yes, I do disagree. I'm not trying to be hostile here, I am just debating you a bit on the opinion you gave. If you'd rather not be debated on it then I'll be happy to disengage.