SF Police Dept "Morale Building" video
edith head
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/08/MNGQIG4PLD1.DTLdude i don't know what is up with our police dept. first the "fajita gate" scandal, then the arrest of the police chief and his son for drunken brawling in an az restaurant, and now this racist video. i saw clips on the news and there is a scene of a cop running over a homeless black woman in Bayview/Hunters Point...and it's intended to be funny!i don't understand how the police dept in probably thee most liberal metropolitan in the country can produce something so racist, homophobic, & sexist. what a bunch of meatheads!
^^these cops are pretending to do tai chi to some "vaguely Asian music"
^^these cops are pretending to do tai chi to some "vaguely Asian music"
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so true
exactly!!
The results of that poll are seriously
SG
Hmmm...While not defending this video at all, I'm always suspicous of this attitude. Sure like all jobs there are good and bad police officers its just their strengths or faults are magnified by the power they hold.
However people who always shout the police down are usually just as quick to call for their help when they or one of their family are robbed/raped/burglarised etc...
Seriously, I'm glad somebody wants to do it. Being a cop has got to be one of the worst occupations.
that is actually very true. the city bureucracies here such as MUNI and the SFPD are insanely corrupt, make ridiculous salaries and are kinda ineffective and they get these high positions due to nepotism. we have one of the lowest solved crimes percentage in the country. it amazes me how top MUNI and SFPD officials make so much money and are untouchable when any scandals arise. During fajita gate scandal, the DA Terrence Hallinan indicted the top brass of the SFPD for conspiracy and coverup, only to overturn it due to mounting pressure and most of these officers got a slap on the wrist.
I'm sorry to here that.
It's strange and unfair to cast a whole section of society in a poor light because of the job they do.Surely no one here would do that based on race/sexuality???
However,I would be interested to hear anyones suggestions for an alternative to keep the peace...
an officer helped me out recently by arresting my stalker, so no hate here. it wasn't a san francisco police officer though...it was a rural, small town officer in another state
HOW ABOUT THE HONOR SYSTEM MANNNN!
I agree. I have zero tolerance for racist/crooked/corrupt/whatever cops, but I also don't like it when peopple try to tar every law enforcement officer in the country with the same brush, in no small part because I think trying to color every cop that way diminishes the very real problem of cops who actually are that way.
Of course, lots of people don't like cops because cops bust them for doing something wrong. I have never understood the mentality of people who get caught red-handed doing something illegal and then want to scream up and down about "crooked cops."
HE"S RIGHT - PIGS ARE PIGS.
NOW, WOULD SOMEBODY SHUT THAT DAMN DOG UP!
To quote a San Francisco Chronicle article: "The San Francisco Police Department solved, on average, just 28 percent of the city's murders, rapes, robberies, shootings, stabbings and other serious assaults between 1996 and 2000, a Chronicle computer analysis shows."
Rest of article here: SFPD Dead Last In Solving Violent Crime
Of course this article is from a couple years ago. If anyone can find something that shows the crime clearance rate from the last couple years I'd be interested. It's possible it has improved, but I don't live in the city so I don't know. Just to throw in to relief how bad it has been there, if you were shot in San Francisco there's a good chance the police department wouldn't even bother to investigate it, let alone solve the crime.
Thousands of "whodunit" violent crimes go uninvestigated by the department's inspectors.
A person who is shot, treated at a hospital and then released is not guaranteed an investigation, said SFPD Lt. Henry Hunter, the supervisor who oversees investigations of serious assaults.
"Unless we have a named suspect, we're not going to assign the case," said Hunter. "The solvability is too low."
Like most other aggravated assault victims, that person must come down to the Hall of Justice for a follow-up interview by an inspector, he said.
"If a person is just shot and they don't come in, that won't be assigned necessarily," Hunter said. "Even if a person comes in, it doesn't mean it's going to be assigned."
did you know that charlie was a scientologist?
I did not know that, but I know that Bob Odenkirk does the funniest Charlie impersonation ever.
Charlie .... is love.
a few years ago i lived in an area that had a lot of coach house style car garages - separate little buildings past the backyard. my roommate's car had been broken into as had the cars and/or homes of six other places on my block.
i lived with four other people in a really big house - you could come home and not be sure if no one or everyone was home. i came home one night and went to check the back door before i went upstairs when i noticed a face on the other side of the door. my hand was on the doorknob and so was his on the other side. my heart stopped and then it jumped into my throat. dude and i locked eyes and then he leapt off the porch and was gone. for all i know, he heard me come in and was just leaving. i shouted out 'is anyone home' and i finally heard a response form my roommates on the third floor. i ran up there, we called the cops, they got there in 5 minutes and after hearing what happened and acknowledging all the break-ins, the cops' response was to close up their notebooks, chuckle and say that it was probably someone who had the wrong house.
WTF???????
now we live next to an alley that is frequented by drunks in the summer time. *a*** has chased a car with a dude and two crack whores out of there. the neighbours call the cops on the drinkers, but i won't. for what? i'd rather not have that conversation or make the alley dudes/dudettes have it either. they leave when you ask them to and always clean up after themselves - beer cans, sherry bottles and even cigarette butts!
i think we need cops and most definitely there are good people in forces and people who genuinely want to help and make a difference. but all those good intentions don't mean shit when they stand by that 'brotherhood' and that code of silence and let the assholes/'bad' cops get away with bullshit behaviour. as soon as one of those good cops doesn't stop or report another cop from doing wrong, then they are just as bad. they have the courage to get shot in the face, but not stand up and say this is wrong?
i don't like cops because there is no system to prevent or discourage shit like ms damn's post from happening. and there is no real accountability.
it's pretty shitty to feel like if i do get in trouble - i don't really feel like i have someone or something i can trust in or rely on to call.
"Police, Wild Beasts, Dogs on A Leash"
One of the most perfect statements.
It doesn't take much to post on the internet either... but at least they are there attempting to police the streets and keep the peace.Things would be a lot more dangerous with no police out there at all.
They are doing something constructive for society in general, ask yourself,...
What do you do????
well only 28% worse in SF's case.
That's still 28% worse...
Society needs someone to enforce it's accepted rules, with them it would be anarchy, and that does not work. Try and name a country that has no form of law enforcement for the population...
It's all ways a bit "cool" not to accept that a police are needed, but I think with maturity comes understanding...IM
can you please be a little more condescending?
no one here has said get rid of cops completely. the general sentiment is that the cops that are in place now are not meeting the needs of all members of society, are not doing what they are meant to do and are abusing their power in some rather deplorable ways.