Ok it was mentioned there is not a thread for Law Enforcement Officers (LEO for short)and other similar jobs for discussion.
This is for discussing the actual jobs, ranks, training, culture, relations to military bodies that exist, and any other variety of topics that can arise pertaining to the World of Policing.
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Cross-posted from the South East Asia thread:
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Boston has made a new effort towards transparency in police shootings
by meeting with community and religious leaders to share information and video footage after the fact. Could this become a new national standard?
Darnell Williams, CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, declared after watching the video that Rahim “was not on a cellphone and was not shot in the back.”
edited 4th Jun '15 9:23:23 AM by TobiasDrake
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In Britain — Home Office making police cuts without understanding, National Audit Office report says
The NAO’s findings come weeks after Theresa May, the home secretary, accused the Police Federation of crying wolf about the impact of austerity as she warned rank-and-file officers to brace themselves for fresh cuts.
Auditors set out to assess the forces’ financial sustainability. Their report concluded: “The [Home Office] has insufficient information to determine how much further it can reduce funding without degrading services or when it may need to support individual forces.”
They noted that the police watchdog HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) provides regular information on policing, checking and verifying data provided by forces through inspections.
The report added, however, that this was insufficient information to “identify signs of the sector being unable to deliver services, unclear links between financial reductions and service pressures, and limited data on police productivity.”
The Home Office should build on an ongoing review of funding formulas for police and adopt an approach “that takes account of forces’ local circumstances more fairly”, the report recommended. Although statistics show crime falling since 2010, police forces were said to have an “insufficient understanding of the demand for services” and “will need to transform the service they deliver if they are to meet the financial challenge and address the changing nature of crime”.
Forces have successfully reduced costs but most “do not have a thorough evidence-based understanding of demand, or what affects their costs”, the report said. “It is therefore difficult for them to transform services intelligently, show how much resource they need, and demonstrate that they are delivering value for money,” it added.
Auditors have examining official figures and found that funding for forces has been cut by £2.3bn, or 25%, between 2010-11 and 2015-16.
Overall, the amount handed to police and crime commissioners (PC Cs), who set budgets in most of the 43 forces, fell by 18% in real terms over the period when local council tax receipts received by forces were included. The total available to individual forces fell by between 12% and 23%. Separate figures show the number of officers fell by 16,659 between 2010 and 2014.
Financial reserves across all forces with comparable data have increased by 35% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2013-14, the report said, but stressed that “this is not necessarily a sign of financial health”.
It's got to the stage where the Sussex Police Federation has launched an anti-cuts campaign, which states that further cuts will risk public safety.
edited 4th Jun '15 9:29:15 AM by Greenmantle
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So the funeral for the guy who wanted to target Pamela Geller is done. I can't believe that he wanted to target police, knowing that he's heading to Too Dumb to Live territory.
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Interesting demographic chart. Glad my state hasn't managed to break double digits yet.
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Don't you live in Nebraska? In which case you're 3rd per capita! 
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Why would you draw your gun on an unarmed teen to break up an fight?
edited 9th Jun '15 3:09:01 PM by RabidTanker
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Because cops think that behind every black person's eyes lies an infinite well of berserker strength, and all it takes is a light spark before you have an unstoppable behemoth of destruction lumbering down upon you.
It's stupid and bullshit, but it's a popular enough idea that there's even a word for it. Actual lawyers have tried to build cases around the idea that sometimes black people just go off and brutalize folks because being an oppressed minority has psychologically damaged them.
edited 9th Jun '15 3:44:23 PM by TobiasDrake
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Achae: Hey that is only because no one wants to live here. Seriously most of states population is in two cities on the eastern end of the state. Given the recent problems with Police in Lincoln and Omaha over the past few years I am surprised the count isn't a bit higher.
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If that's the case, I should have an Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde complex by now because I'm being oppressed by society.
Although it's true some people can go berserk at the slightest threat, but that usually comes from anger-management issues or an certain category of neurological disorders rather than being a long-term victim of heavy-handed racism.
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Indeed. When I was a toddler, I summoned up the strength to break a locked cabinet door off its hinges, because I was a self-important little shit who wasn't getting his way.
It's true that some people can be incredibly dangerous when they fly off the handle, but this is thoroughly unrelated to their position in society.
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Well the McKinney Police Corporal who was placed on administrative leave had retired with full benefits. Although he's still under investigation.
In semi-related news, the You Tube video is causing an shitstorm in the comments section.
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Charges of homicide (or manslaughter) have been suggested in the case of Tamir Rice, an African American child who shot by a cop while he was waving around a pellet gun.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33104823
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@Tobias - Wow. Black rage. I did hear that word being used as a joke, but I did NOT know it was actually a freaking legal term. 
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That lithp ith very dithtracting...
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Looks like they since shot through the assailant's armoured van windscreen and believe he's now dead. They're sending in a bomb disposal robot to investigate if the vehicle is rigged to explode (or, assumedly, has a wounded yet homicidal dude hiding in the footwell).
I played 5 Nights At Freddy's for the first time today. Couldn't help but be reminded of that when I thought about the person manning the robot and looking through its camera. Hope he's tensed for a jump scare.
This is probably the first few cases of police stations being directly attacked in first-world countries ever since... the Cold War.
Looks like the suspect opened fire on officers because of his disgust at the criminal justice system with a child custody case.
Yeah, but... Didn't he kind of prove the court decision right by the way he reacted? Call me silly, but... I'd not want a child's care given to a guy with that much of an anger management issue. -_-
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edited 13th Jun '15 8:08:18 PM by AngelusNox
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More like I Resemble That Remark!.
"Abandonment of a corpse". Yeah, sounds like business as usual. Christ, mothers are killing themselves with their children too in an accelerated fashion the past year.
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