U.S. police organizations criticize response to alleged brutality

[IDemo]

Source: Reuters

U.S. police are being unfairly targeted in response to allegations of police brutality, leaders from three police organizations said at the first public meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama's policing task force on Tuesday.

In a tense back and forth, Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury told the task force that the media and public figures often rush to judgment against officers involved in fatal shootings rather than respecting due process.

He pointed to the federal response to the grand jury decision not to indict a white officer involved in the fatal shooting of a black unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, a decision that sparked violent protests.

Obama formed the task force of law enforcement officers, academics, and civil rights advocates in the wake of the grand jury decision and charged them to deliver a set of best practices within 90 days that local police departments could follow to build community trust and decrease the perception of a racial bias.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/13/usa-police-task-force-idUSKBN0KM2AU20150113

[99th_Monkey]

1. Shame on the Media and Public for believing their lying eyes.

Call a WAAmbulance for these serial whiners ... cell phone camaras do not lie.

Fuck these sos-called "unions" .. they're no more a union than the KKK is a "benevolent society".

[bluestateguy]

2. Then I encourage them to look to themselves as to why people might be thinking that

What could the police be doing and saying that might be causing people to feel that way?

Why might people be angry with the police?

How could the police earn back the people's trust?

This is a good time for the police to look to themselves for answers to those questions.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Good luck with that.

I totally agree that this should be an 'ah-ha' moment for police
to reflect a little and begin to effectively police themselves and
their criminal behavior ... but ... I see no sign of that happening,
sad to say.

[Demeter]

3. Because we have ordinary average citizens beating up on cops night and day

Give me a break!

[bravenak]

4. Tell Kelly Thomas and Tamir Rice about unfair.

[christx30]

8. Let's add Akai Gurley to that list.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141121/east-new-york/man-shot-by-police-pink-houses-nypd-says

Totally innocent, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Shot to death by a rookie cop. Very sad story.

[bravenak]

9. Yep.

No reason for him to be dead at all.

[christx30]

11. Most of the cops I've read

think the worst thing that should happen to Officer Peter Liang, is retraining.

I mean, if I was scared in a housing development, and I shot someone, not knowing they were a cop, I would spend the rest of my life in prison. But a cop that kills an innocent person just goes back to class? He didn't fail algebra.

[bravenak]

12. Crazy.

They really just see us as obstacles.

[christx30]

14. And they wonder, with a straight face,

why police are not trusted, and why the public is calling for more accountability.

[CANDO]

6. Respect due process!!!

Tell that to the dead people whom you trigger happy bastards killed! Where is those people's due process?

[iscooterliberally]

7. Alleged?

[Taitertots]

10. "Perception of a racial bias"? No, systemic racial bias is a quantitatively proven fact

We should work on a plan to reduce systemic racial bias, not a plan to hide it (change perception).

The police are proving they are incapable of reforming themselves by refusing to accept the most obvious facts.

[workinclasszero]

13. Who you gonna believe?

Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury or your lyin eyes and videos of many, many cop crimes???

Keep turning up the heat on our military cop overlords people. Apparently they are starting to feel the heat!

[blkmusclmachine]

15. "Alleged." It's like John Wayne Gacy asking how all those dead boys wound up in his crawlspace.

[Sparhawk60]

16. Due Process???

Is due process when, after a few weeks of vacation time, the hero cop is cleared of any wrong doing in shooting yet another unarmed Black man? Or is it due process when no one is charged after a Black man with his hands cuffed behind his back still manages to shot "Himself" in the head?

[Sunlei]

17. I don't think any police need "Fraternal Order of Police" anymore? they're NOT a gang, they don't ne

they don't need protection.

Police have awesome benefits, policy that gives them paid time off or desk jobs, and excellent working conditions.

It's the citizens who need protection from body slammer police, kicks, punches, and death.