Every officer from this point forward will be judged (and convicted) on a shot-by-shot basis.

 Police union blasts ‘sham trial and shameful’ Van Dyke guilty verdict

“This is a day I never thought I’d see in America, where 12 ordinary citizens were duped into saving the asses of self-serving politicians at the expense of a dedicated public servant,”
“This sham trial and shameful verdict is a message to every law enforcement officer in America that it’s not the perpetrator in front of you that you need to worry about, it’s the political operatives stabbing you in the back. What cop would still want to be proactive fighting crime after this disgusting charade, and are law abiding citizens ready to pay the price?”

Hero Cop Jon Burge passed away.

Burge was the victim of a anti-police witch hunt and people should not judge the Chicago Police by his actions.

RIP Jon Burge

A convenient Boogeyman for all sorts of crooked reporters, lawyers and professors.

Used to smear an entire Department, 99.9% of whom never worked for him.

May you find the peace that eluded you in life.

[Qualified Immunity] Case law justifies entering a house without a warrant.

 Series of indictments nearly wipes out Llano Police Department

"The cases that were indicted recently in Llano County involve complicated constitutional and legal principles that lawyers, judges and constitutional scholars cannot even agree on…When you start prosecuting police officers for official oppression based on grey or unsettled areas of law; they are not taught that law in the academy or subsequent training, or there are no policies or procedures available you are soon going to run into a situation where officers will hesitate to act - this will result in an innocent victim or Officer being seriously injured or worse." - Travis Williamson, Officer Grant Harden's Attorney"
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"Chief Ratliff guilty of all three counts against him in the Nutt case. The jury determined Ratliff omitted the facts related to Nutt's case. The chief had originally pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was then sentenced to six months in jail but the judge probated his sentence for a year so he won't have to serve any jail time.

“My attorney is working on an appeal now, so I can’t say anything just yet,” Ratliff told KXAN when contacted this week. “When it’s all said and done, I have a lot to tell. There’s case law that justifies what we did."

"1st amendment Auditors"

 Leon Valley hit with lawsuit over ‘auditor’ arrests

“It’s not about the First Amendment, not about weapons or open carry,” Salvaggio said. “This is all about money. These people make money posting videos to YouTube or suing local government. They have Go Fund Me and PayPal sites. They’re all anarchists.

“Put some faith and trust in our authority figures”

Fraternal Order of Police director: “Put some faith and trust in our authority figures
Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police,

“There’s no chain of custody with these videos,” Pasco says. “How do you know the video hasn’t been edited? How do we know what’s in the video hasn’t been taken out of context? With dashboard cameras or police security video, the evidence is in the hands of law enforcement the entire time, so it’s admissible under the rules of evidence. That’s not the case with these cell phone videos.”
“You have 960,000 police officers in this country, and millions of contacts between those officers and citizens. I’ll bet you can’t name 10 incidents where a citizen video has shown a police officer to have lied on a police report,” Pasco says. “Letting people record police officers is an extreme and intrusive response to a problem that’s so rare it might as well not exist. It would be like saying we should do away with DNA evidence because there’s a one in a billion chance that it could be wrong. At some point, we have to put some faith and trust in our authority figures.”

Police Dash Cam, Police and Jail surveillance video videos should only be used to protect Police, not as a internal affairs “gotcha-head hunter” tool.

Letter to Editor of NY Post

By Patrick J. Lynch

Manhattan: Your editorial “Body cam blackout” (May 15) got it wrong. Neither the appellate judge’s ruling nor the existing law governing the release of body-cam footage would “bury the videos forever.” Instead, they will force the NYPD and City Hall to follow a clear process before releasing the videos, one that protects the rights of everybody involved. The current law allows a judge to release videos after hearing from and considering the rights of all interested parties, including both police officers’ safety and the public’s undeniable right to privacy in many situations. Police video sometimes captures New Yorkers’ most embarrassing or painful moments — should they or their family be forced to relive those moments over and over?

The federal court ruling mandating the NYPD’s body-worn camera pilot program said nothing whatsoever about the public release of videos. But the NYPD and City Hall, in their rush to roll out the cameras ahead of the federal monitor’s study, have treated the program as a political and public relations tool, ignoring the law and arbitrarily releasing videos to suit their own ends. Nobody should feel comfortable with that approach, especially when a clear and fair process already exists in law.

Patrick J. Lynch, president, Patrolmen’s Benevolent Assoc.

Someone should mind his own business.

Police officer who "unlawfully" entered a man's mobile home, tased then arrested a man who told him to "fuck off."for parking his cruiser in the man's parking spot being sentenced to 27 months after saying "I don't need no warrant".
The courts mistakenly rule he very, very clearly did

After Two Decades of Abuse, P.O. Matthew Corder Finally Convicted