I’ll just say again: Every police chase is a danger to innocent people’s lives. No stolen car is worth that risk.

To a lot of cops, the occasional high-speed chase is one of the job’s best perks, right up there with beating people up.

Wow, this is pretty big news. ‘Excited delirium’ is what cops frequently claim ‘really’ killed someone after they’ve killed someone, and I’d always thought cops being cops were full of it — exaggerating the hell out of some legit condition. But no, they’re exaggerating the hell out of hokum that’s “largely discredited.”

I’ll be very curious to see how the American College of Emergency Physicians vote comes down.

Asking that question might get you tased and arrested.

If it didn’t, no-one overseas would even imagine a vacation to America, where they’d have no rights.

Cops are supposed to de-escalate. Supposed to have some common sense.

Why bother to chase someone over a traffic ticket?

A recurring theme in police misconduct.

It’s starting to smell like Atlanta’s plan is to build Cop City no matter how much opposition there is. It’s the opposite of everything I remember from civics class, where the teacher said, "We have a democracy so people don’t feel they need to resort to violence…"

If it’s not illegal to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana, I’d like to understand why she and the baby were tested for pot in the first place.

Different flavors of the same poison. Cops, prison guards, probation officers, agencies like this, shitty judges, etc — they all have the authority to fuck over people’s lives with minimal or no oversight.

It seems wacky and you’re probably joking, but Teen Vogue has solid news and political coverage. It’s in my news surf cycle, has been for years.

US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

To date, only one officer has been fully decertified by the commission, which was created by a 2020 policing reform law to give the state more supervision of police departments and their officers.

I guess the Massachusetts decertification program is better than nothing, but not by much, if in three years they’ve found just one cop in the whole state who shouldn’t be a cop.

They deserve each other! :)

Claiming “he was gonna run me down” is an excruciatingly common cop lie. I’ll believe it when there’s video that shows it.

Nah, that’s just a stereotype. I haven’t been shot in weeks.

Deals like this are so ordinary and expected, both the perp and perp’s lawyer seem bewildered that things didn’t go as planned.

I know the feeling. Been doing what little one man can about this for a long, long time, and it’s always the same story.

Long sigh… Tired, indeed.

The article doesn’t really say it, but the nullifying ‘qualified immunity’ means the victim can sue.

It’s as close to a victory as we the people are allowed. :)

If you have a point, make it.