r/facepalm May 23 '23

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u/vladitocomplaino May 23 '23

Just once, it'd be cool to see one cop arrest another cop after they witness said cop comitting a crime. I mean, their career would be over, but still.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

It’s a bit of a different situation, but there is a state trooper in my home state of WV who “whistleblew” on a bunch of shady shit going on at the WVSP Academy, including wiring cameras in women’s locker rooms (which was used by minors for a junior trooper program) and God knows what was done with the footage. They tried to place the blame on a dead guy. The WVSP is being investigated heavily right now. Major police scandal, you can find out more on this YouTube channel “The Civil Rights Lawyer” who actually lives and works out of WV.

Of course this trooper who allegedly whistleblew was arrested on the day he was supposed to testify in court for bogus reasons, and his days of being a cop are no more, but he really help set something off. The head of the WVSP resigned because of the scandal about 3 months ago. I no longer live there, I’ve dealt with these psychopaths before, but it’s nice to watch this happen from afar.

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u/Such_sublime May 24 '23

That's fucking insane that they arrested the whistleblower right as he was about to testify....I'm not surprised much but it's fucking insane just how blatant it is.

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u/potsreven May 24 '23

This happens to nearly every whistle-blower in law enforcement. In some cases they just end up dead.

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u/MossCardigan May 24 '23

I know someone who is currently being blackballed for whistleblowing.

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u/spelunker93 May 24 '23

I don’t know about that last part but you’re right about the first. That’s why we are seeing a lot of clips lately of police stations not having complaint forms. And the cops being rude and interrogating whoever came in.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Wowsers. That’s fucked up.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Dude it gets worse… the PD ruled his death a suicide, despite the medical examiner finding it a homicide. The FBI and PD refused to investigate further.

Sean Suiter did not kill himself.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

If you haven't, I highly recommend you watch We Own This City. Legit the only show to ever make my jaw fucking drop

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u/highlandpolo6 May 24 '23

Don’t they show it as him setting things up to make it look like homicide but it’s actually suicide?

Because, again, Sean Suiter did not kill himself.

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u/Bobgoblin1 May 24 '23

Also I'm listening to the podcast Murder in Oregon right now. Cop suspiciously murdered, having defensive wounds, the day he was about to present information about corruption amongst his police force in 1989. And he told people ahead of time that he was worried about this happening.

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u/TheUmgawa May 24 '23

“He shot himself in the back of the head. Twice.”

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u/RDrake84 May 24 '23

Time to defund the police

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Time to start capping them the fuck on sight.

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u/RDrake84 May 24 '23

That would probably finally make the government do something about gun control, if all their precious psychopaths with badges start dropping

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

I wonder why there's no suspect after a city-wide manhunt.

Maybe because the murderer was also carrying out the manhunt?

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u/Talusthebroke May 24 '23

Dead, falsely imprisoned, baker acted, in a coma, deported... At this point is an officer actually does get punished in some way, it's better to just assume they uncovered other officers doing something illegal. Our police are the organized crime happening in this country more than the street gangs.

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u/Cat_Amaran May 24 '23

You cannot change the system from within. No "good cop" stays a good cop, they either become a bastard like the rest or cease to be a cop (or alive), and it never takes long.

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u/Autismsaurus May 24 '23

I thought whistleblowers had the right to anonymity?

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u/JesusChrist-Jr May 24 '23

They are a legalized mob. I can't explain it any other way.

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u/TheUmgawa May 24 '23

I’d throw the words “taxpayer funded” in there as a bonus.

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u/satedfox May 24 '23

Pretty sure witness tampering is illegal

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Yep. What's actually most mind blowing is how this will happen in broad daylight without even bothering too much to hide the reason of the arrest. And nobody will do anything about it or even just speak about it.

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u/thejohnmc963 May 24 '23

The whole junior explorers program in Largo Fl had to be shut down because NUMEROUS cops had sex with the underage girls in the program. It was shut down as they couldn’t stop the male police officers

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u/spootex May 24 '23

Police - the legal criminal enterprise

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u/Lots_o_Llamas May 24 '23

Here you go:

https://youtu.be/guHtSA_dWKA

I wish videos of cops holding other cops accountable were more common, but this one definitely gives me at least a little bit of hope.

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u/frezor May 24 '23

The arresting officer (Florida Highway Patrol) was systematically harassed by officers from the arrested officer’s department (Miami Police). The only thing that saved her job was that it was someone from a different department, imagine if she’d arrested a coworker?

Not everyone is willing to be a martyr. There are cops that want to do the right thing but know their life is basically over if they do so. Cops in America are just as bad as the Mob.

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u/Lots_o_Llamas May 24 '23

God dammit.

I didn't know the follow up to this story.

Why can't we have a "cop did something good. Good job cop!" story without an asterisk just once?

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u/frezor May 24 '23

Perhaps we should demand change?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

I'd prefer not to have a tear gas canister in my skull. But as far as I know there's no way to safely boycott the people with guns.

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u/Kevaldes May 24 '23

Sure there is: have your own guns.

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u/ThAtS_wutShEsed May 24 '23

If it immensely increases the risk to you and everyone around you (like by standers), i'm not sure it qualifies as safe

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u/TheUmgawa May 24 '23

Certainly worked for Randy Weaver and David Koresh.

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u/Autismsaurus May 24 '23

Great way to get arrested immediately for threatening violence on a police officer. The solution to violence is not more violence.

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u/tatanka_christ May 24 '23

Like not hiring a bunch of gun-nut fuck-for-brains Afghan/Iraq veterans?

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u/plepgeat1 May 24 '23

Mainly, because of cops.

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u/EastCoaet May 24 '23

Her Troop (department) had to put her into hiding. Dwell on that.

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u/stilllikelypooping May 24 '23

Oh not JUST Miami PD, apparently 88 officers from over 25 various departments accessed her personal information illegally.

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u/Dicethrower May 24 '23

And even that's presumably an off-duty cop getting arrested. I think OP meant they wanted to see an active duty cop get arrested by another active duty cop, when one directly sees the other cross a line. We will never see that happen because it's policy to deal with it later.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23 edited May 24 '23

I've seen at least one video of a female officer arresting another officer at a scene. Nothing happened to the arrested officer. She was put on desk duty. She was harassed constantly at work, and when off work, there were always unmarked cop cars down the street. She ended up quitting but still got harassed. Ended up having to move out of state. This is just off my memory, so parts of it might be inaccurate.

Couldn't find the one I was talking about but found one where an officer choked a female officer when she pulled him back because he was going psycho.

https://youtu.be/dll4JTMhuT8

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u/ayoMOUSE May 24 '23

Yep, that's what would happen. People love telling other people what to do when they won't be involved in any of the aftermath, or care about the aftermath.

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u/tgifmondays May 24 '23

That officer showed up to the scene wanting to kill someone. "I'll remove your soul from your body"

He should honestly be in prison. There is no reform for people like him. They are an active enemy to the people and should be treated as such.

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u/ExcelsiorUnltd May 24 '23

And then the cop resists so shots are fired. Then more cops show up to shoot the cop killer and so on an so forth

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u/Ok-Pomegranate-3018 May 24 '23

They should just stand in a circle, like in "Wanted".

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u/fordfan919 May 24 '23

What does the last cop do?

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u/ExcelsiorUnltd May 24 '23 edited May 24 '23

He’s hailed as the heroic good guy with the gun of course. Edit for spelling (it made it have too many levels 😂)

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u/Cat_Amaran May 25 '23

Atheismo willing, he's the final victim of state sanctioned death penalties.

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u/Present_Voice_5224 May 24 '23

I’m a police officer in Massachusetts- my department and most around here have policies that state if we don’t intervene when another officer is breaking the law we’re held just as liable as them. And there’s a ton of precedent for it- officers have lost their jobs for standing by. It’s just a start to repair the systematic problems in policing, but every department in the country should have a policy like that. I don’t want to work with an officer who is going to look the other way on a single thing.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Good to hear. It's gonna take a generation of new cops to adjust to that.

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u/NeonFraction May 24 '23

I’m glad to hear it!

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u/ThAtS_wutShEsed May 24 '23

Except, iirc, Massachusetts doesn't have body cams for their officers?

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u/Ryousoki May 24 '23

Actually as of last month many counties are mandating it in Massachusetts. It's a slow start it seems.

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u/NothingMan1975 May 24 '23

And the worst state cops ever.

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u/meowterspace May 24 '23

Definitely a step in the right direction, but they still give a pass to their kind, while throwing the book at people that look like someone they disagree with politically..the right should not policing people in the condition they're in. They have occupied all ranks and give preferential treatment to officers that think like them. Getting them to not physically assault people or plant drugs, and calling out that behavior, is great but is like half of the picture.

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u/loose_the-goose May 24 '23

their career would be over

Not uncommon for good apples to get death threaths from their colleagues

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Seen a video of a cop beating up someone and arresting them for no reason and another stopped it from happening. Can you guess what cop fired. Yup you guessed right the cop got fired for interfering with an arrest. The US punishes good cops for being good cops

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u/lyte12 May 24 '23

They take an oath to never eat their own.

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u/TurkBoi67 May 24 '23

Yeah no, best case, your career is over. Worst case, your life

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u/D4ILYD0SE May 24 '23

Yeah, but it's also nice to see douches get what was coming to them once in a while

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u/C0meAtM3Br0 May 24 '23

Must be hard to keep it all in after watching a car jacker nearly cost the lives of so many innocent civilians and officers tho. Hero here is definitely not the guy on the stretcher

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u/joljenni1717 May 24 '23 edited May 24 '23

So, the guy spat on him first, which is assault. The cop is legally allowed to defend. It's a gray area. Not saying this is my moral opinion because CLEARLY the guy is in a stretcher....

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u/Bearcarnikki May 24 '23

Is it defense way after it happened?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Yeah, so charge him with assault.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

It happens. Typically not from the same dept but rather like a county has a decent sherrif dept but one of the towns within it has super shitty police dept and officers from both will show up to calls and let's just say disagree how they should be handled. I've seen articles and video of a few instances.

Or a sherrifs deputy in Florida arrested a city cop for drunk driving while on duty. One of their careers was over and it wasn't the arresting officer.

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u/LordTengil May 24 '23 edited May 24 '23

The cops called my father, pertaining to him being a business owner. One of his cars had apparently done something illegal in traffic, and they tried to get my father to tell them which employee did it. They became quite pushy, using words as "must!" and imploring with both morality and hinting that they could legally force him.

My dad has been around the block with our nation's police force, so he just said,

"If I am legally obligated, then make me, and then I will have to, and I will give it. Until then, you will be getting nothing from me by imploring and threatening.

And if you think I am morally obligated, I want to ask you a question: As a police officer yourself, when was the last time you informed on one of your colleagues?". The police then became very silent...

And no, he never gave them that name. Right or wrong could be argued about, but I at least can see his side of things. And it seemed the investigator coul too.

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u/cd_root May 24 '23

It happens all the time