Good Cops?

[Old_Trapper70]

I have to wonder why people hold cops in such high esteem when things like this continue to happen. In the video it shows where cops, medics, inmates, supervisors, all watched for 7 days while an inmate died in his cell:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-rikers-island-bill-whitaker/

"Preet Bharara: What you really had, we found was-- was a culture of violence on top of a code of silence, and that is a deadly combination. And I mean that literally, as we found in a number of cases that we have brought in connection with Rikers Island.

Concerned by those deaths and a stream of alarming reports about Rikers Island, Preet Bharara who is the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, launched a two-year investigation into the jail complex.

Preet Bharara: We found in an alarming number of cases there was no discipline with respect to officers at all. You had an officer who had dozens of complaints against him and was never disciplined once, or maybe just one time, and that's something that has to change. People have to understand that there are consequences for their actions, not just the inmates, but the officers as well."

 

[dogtowner]

Prison guards are cops now ?

 

[Old_Trapper70]

Prison guards are cops now ?

Unless they are part of a "private guard" company, which are not considered part of law enforcement, then yes, they are.

 

[dogtowner]

Interesting.

Not sure how surprising this is. Complaints have to be quite common and largely frivolous.

But this guy should have been noticed sometime over the course of a week.

Hard job + low pay = some bad outcomes

 

[Old_Trapper70]

Interesting.

Not sure how surprising this is. Complaints have to be quite common and largely frivolous.

But this guy should have been noticed sometime over the course of a week.

Hard job + low pay = some bad outcomes

Try watching the video of the investigation. Guards, cons, supervisors, whomever, all watched as the guy died.

Complaints are one thing, actual issues are another.

 

[dogtowner]

Try watching the video of the investigation. Guards, cons, supervisors, whomever, all watched as the guy died.

Complaints are one thing, actual issues are another.

Gotta wonder about the why.

 

[Jason76]

Some stuff is pretty creepy, like male cops sexually assulting women prisoners. You see a lot of that stuff on these crime shows.

If those shows are correct, and not some type of politically correct propoganda, then basically cops are getting away with crap that normal people couldn't in their wildest dreams.

Of course, the notion prison is hell, especially for males, is something not even up for debate. Even with cops being nice, the other prisoners are usually a problem.