There is something Rotten in the State of Policing in the US

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There's Something Rotten in the State of Policing in the USA

I read this article by Brently and while it is about policing in the US, there are many similarities, that is it is very simlar situation in other countries and while not such an extreme when it comes to use of force, under right circumstances it could end up the same under outside stimuli, problem being in the kind of people doing those jobs and higher ups as always. When it comes to my experiences with how thhe system is corrupt in country I live, here are some:

1. While on the academy, one lecturer of higher rank that is obesse choked cleaning women. There was an ambulance present. It was all hushed up but other cleaning women said what happened to us cadets. Guy got two days off as the cleaning women. Officers from station that did intervention were suprised he kept his job because it was not the first time. Other lecturers were instructrd to be silent.

2. During the practical work as a cadet in one city station, guys in the patrol with which I was assigned drank much(and the other cadet but I did not) and the guy said to me not to talk, I talked about it only to few fellow cadets. Chief of shift did not like me because I did not get into police syndicate because he was in charge of that and for every new member would get benefits. Working with one other in the patrol who was very arrogant toward us cadets and clients and attacked me for smoking during intervention to some neighbour dispute and after guy saying he will write about it and me saying to write what he wants he went to the chief of shift who wanted me to apologise to this officer threating me I would never work as an officer. When I did in a grey stone way guy got upset. In the end the story went out I snitched two others mentioned above to chief of station that spread to other stations in the city, I suspect this chief of shift had something to do with it.

3. On the academy one lecturer/instructor threathend other women cadet she will never work if he pulled strings because she commented on something in her bear.

4. Instructors getting very drunk during some social gathrrings in the presence of cadet , so much that saliva went out of thrir mouths, while cadets could not use or posses any alchohols during whole 11 months there in boot camp.

5.Lecturer instructing us how to cover in reports if using too much force.

There were and other many situations.

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6. One inspector during the theft from store discharged his weapon on the robber while he was running away, he missed him but the bullet went between him and other officer that was chasing him, it was caught on camera but it was all hushed up and that inspector went to pension. He did not have legal justification to use his firearm, they forced him to go because he had numerous prior incidents.

I have to go now but will continue when I ll have time if it is allowed.

 

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7. One deputy chief caused three traffic accidents under DUI, but continued to work as nothing happened, thanks probably to political connections.

8. Current chief of station was put on this position by former health minister or better to say through his influence, that was mayor of that town before coming to former goverment.

9. Wife of one chief of shift caught stealing in market during his shift, she said she forget to pay while he acted as nothing happened, it was not the first time for her, he was also caught with her stealing in field by one men who decided to stay silent. She also probably beats him . While working under him he lied that I said something against other officer so I had to write a report. Never saw such a low of lowest scum in my life.

10. Deputy of chief of station caught on camera stealing alcohol drink, internal affair started investigating, so he went to pension instead of being fired.

11. Chief of station went to court after allegations of taking bribes. Local business men asked to testify, but did not say nothing against him.

12. Chief of station son starting fights because he can get away with it, and did get away.

13. Leader of sector son taking his service firearm and robbing betting office, he was caught, and leader of sector is still working.

14. Officer discharging his firearm under influence on a parking lot when not on service and giving waitress to fire it.

15. One deputy chief of station when officers used force said to them to freely beat people when there are legal conditions to use force, another chief said when one person pushed officer and they used force to not allow that to happen, to beat people up in those situations, because we are police not babysitters.

16. Some officers getting special treatment other not, one officer under influence getting driven home by deputy chief, other officer damaged patrol car rear mirror and bought cheap new without deputy chief reporting it, other officer also damaged car and deputy chief reported it so he had to pay fine that was high.

17. One deputy chief buying his college diploma and when going to get it he went to wrong neighbouring college.

 

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18. One officer that was stationed to other city because of taking bribes and through favors got this one even though married having an affair with owner of bar, and fining people for DUI going to other bars to increase customers in her bar.

19. Squad leader under who I am having bad relations with above mentioned officer and his lover, that is not going to her bars, where there are free drinks for police as in most others, she saying that he invited her to his weekend house as one other also did, both being married, I suppose he was jelaous, because the story he said is that he caught above mentioned in car having affair while driving patrol car, to me seems more like a spying.

20. Same squad leader using patrol car for private purposes, taking things from some sponsors like meat, drinks, having connection to higher ups in the ministry, because he s calling them, probably to influence through them chiefs in station, the story goes in past he got from local buisnissmen who sells meat meat worth about less then 10000 euros during one period and used it to influence those higher ups he is calling now. He was transfered to this station in the past because new chief was not fond of his snitching for self gain like former one.

21. Same squad leader letting go young guy who wanted to run away with his car because under DUI but ended in ditch, because he was the son of men at who we ate before that same night.

22. Above mentioned chief of shift whose wife stole locked up his cousin for domestic violence, in the past he helped smuggle people like others, and many others did take bribes in the traffic until there came stricter controls and punishments, like one other said 10 years ago if you did not take bribes you would not go out of station.

23. While on academy on practical work one officer punching a drunk men barely conscious for going towards him while he was in a cell with two other officers.

24. While on academy on practical work one officer was dropped on parking lot where his lover was waiting in the car while we carried on, prior to that he was showing a picture of his two kids on mobile phone.


Most of these examples I saw or they happened in the station, some others I found out through talk by others, and I did not dvelve much in their relationships but some married had affairs with others from station, and beyond, others were cheated by their wifes, to give you a clue of their inner landscapes. And there is much snitching, back stabbing from pure menace or self gain, and from that there is also an fear from others and from messing up, but if one messes up others are first to talk about it, but are not looking in their yard first. Some others are affraid and are just standing while there is a need for them in confrontational situations, but they want them to be affraid because those kind of people follow orders. It is all about statistics, in this case money. It is same in many countries, except few exceptions, the poorer the country the worse it is, but the system is rotten to the core, normal person can not survive in such an enviroment for long or get s burnt out. The change can come only from outside, by throwing it. This squad leader does not work nothing, pure swine, I do most of the work, from writing reports and writing fines, and he then says you re not working nothing and sleeping, once we got to blows and did not speak for some period.

I am thinking about leaving because this job makes me depressed, once I took a gun and put it at my head when the serious depression kicked in but did not pull the automatic break, I did not have a balls to do it. The thing is I won t find other job and then I have to pay a debt back for not fulfilling my contract, so I ll end up unemployed and in debt, there is also no family support.