This Year in Bad Cops
December 25, 2013 3:51 AM   Subscribe

“This year we learned, again, that the people who are in charge of enforcing the law have no idea what they were doing.” “.. 2013 mostly looks like another brick in a vast concrete wall—law enforcement as a whole was awful, individual cops and departments were worse. Lives were ruined and dogs were shot.” –Lucy Steigerwald

Salt Lake City’s Chris Burbank scored her Good Cop of the Year award though.

Year round, Cop Block (twitter, facebook, previously) and Police the Police (twitter, facebook) help publicize misconduct and abuse by law enforcement by encouraging documenting suspicious police activity and raising awareness of specific abuses. Also occasionally worth clicking through tags like law, police, police misconduct, cop watch, etc. elsewhere.

Related : Cato's You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist (original source).
posted by jeffburdges (2 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Clearly an honest effort but to me it still reads more as outragefilter than best of the web. If this is to be reworked, maybe not lead with the inflammatory broad-brush quote? -- goodnewsfortheinsane



 
And, for the forgotten majority of law enforcement personnel who risk their lives every day, never break the law, and do the best job they can, Merry Christmas, stay, safe and know that we appreciate all you do.
posted by HuronBob at 4:08 AM on December 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Let's hope they can rouse themselves enough to actually arrest the other type of officers when they break the law, HuronBob.
posted by jaduncan at 4:10 AM on December 25, 2013 [2 favorites]


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