Re:How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops
by pjc50 on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @11:25AM
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police departments do not keep these kinds of statistics
That is a big part of the problem itself.
What about brandishing a weapon or charging the officer, or attempting to assault the officer? We don't know because this kind of evidence is never taken into account
.. and a number of recent high-profile cases involve the police claiming these things happened while the video footage showed they didn't.
The UK system is supposed to regard every death by police firearm as an incident that is fully investigated by the independent police complaints commission. (Does America even have one of those?) The system is not perfect (e.g. Mark Duggan, Jean Charles de Menezes) but it works reasonably well.
The Mark Duggan fiasco concerns me in that I think some of the bad relations between US police and the black public are "leaking" into UK culture.
That is a big part of the problem itself.
What about brandishing a weapon or charging the officer, or attempting to assault the officer? We don't know because this kind of evidence is never taken into account
.. and a number of recent high-profile cases involve the police claiming these things happened while the video footage showed they didn't.
The UK system is supposed to regard every death by police firearm as an incident that is fully investigated by the independent police complaints commission. (Does America even have one of those?) The system is not perfect (e.g. Mark Duggan, Jean Charles de Menezes) but it works reasonably well.
The Mark Duggan fiasco concerns me in that I think some of the bad relations between US police and the black public are "leaking" into UK culture.