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Odoreida

(1,549 posts) Mon Jul 16, 2018, 04:22 AM Jul 2018

The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found

The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found (Biscayne Park, FL)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article213647764.html

The indictment was damning enough: A former police chief of Biscayne Park and two officers charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record.

But the accusations revealed in federal court last month left out far uglier details of past policing practices in tranquil Biscayne Park, a leafy wedge of suburbia just north of Miami Shores.

Records obtained by the Miami Herald suggest that during the tenure of former chief Raimundo Atesiano, the command staff pressured some officers into targeting random black people to clear cases.

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Just one data point, but is there any doubt this sort of thing is a lot more common?

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The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found (Original Post) Odoreida Jul 2018 OP

And this type heaven05 Jul 2018 #1

The only reason this particular case was stopped was ... Odoreida Jul 2018 #2

your last line summarizes heaven05 Jul 2018 #3

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

1. And this type

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 08:23 AM

Jul 2018

of racist behaviour is NOT AN ANOMALY in this country. Generation after generation, white racist bullshit to contend with up to and including death by racist police and citizens alike.

Odoreida

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2. The only reason this particular case was stopped was ...

Reply to heaven05 (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 11:40 AM

Jul 2018

... he was a small town top cop trying to be "perfect".

That sort of overreach will not fly.

But in big cities where it's understood there are going to be plenty of unsolved crimes, they improve the statistics a little.

There doesn't even have to be an explicit conspiracy, just have it understood that collars resulting in convictions are good for a cop's career.

And likewise the racism is often systemic rather than explicitly ideological. After all there are times when white people are framed by cops for various motives.

But when it's just a matter of improving one's statistics, so much easier to get away with doing it to blacks.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

3. your last line summarizes

Reply to Odoreida (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 18, 2018, 06:46 AM

Jul 2018

every racist arrest in amerika, yesterday, today and more than a 99.999999% chance it will happen tomorrow, NATIONWIDE.

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