Deputies compete in arrest contests

[RamboLiberal]

Source: LA Times

Participating in sports such as football, weightlifting and boxing has long been part of the culture within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. But deputies have recently been playing some new games -- on-duty enforcement competitions that have police watchers across the country crying foul.

One recent competition, described in an internal Sheriff's Department e-mail obtained by The Times, was called "Operation Any Booking." The object was to arrest as many people as possible within a specific 24-hour period.

Other one-day competitions have included "Operation Vehicle Impound," a contest aimed at seizing as many cars as possible. And another challenged deputies to see how many gang members and other suspected criminals could be stopped and questioned.

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But police accountability experts, civil libertarians and defense attorneys condemned the practice, saying that it trivialized traumatic encounters such as arrests and having a car impounded, and raised questions about deputies' motives in taking such actions.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-games4oct04,0,3881557.story?coll=la-home-center

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Outrageous and recipe for abuse!

[awoke_in_2003]

1. And people wonder why i hate cops. nt

[Riktor]

2. Gotta love Hell-A

I wonder what the NYPD is going to do to one-up the LAPD.

[LeighAnn]

3. Saw this on Reno 9-11

They were competing for tickets to witness an execution :(

[soothsayer]

5. Loved that one!

[provis99]

4. I'm only surprised it wasn't the LAPD

Oh wait. LAPD doesn't specialize in mere "arrests". They specialize in videotaped brutality.