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ajadedidealist
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Police Brutality?

A propos of this article: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/officer-testifies-he-used-baton-to-subdue-suspect/. Do you think police brutality is a big problem here in NYC? Have you or anyone you know experienced this sort of violence from NYPD officers?
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
One of my best friends worked with a girl who got too drunk one night in a bar. Her friends put her in a cab back to her apartment in the East Village. The cabbie couldn't get her out of the car, so he flagged down a cop car and they took her up to her apartment. For the next several hours, they took turns raping her. They would leave the apartment, drive around the streets for a bit and then come back and rape her again.
She moved back to SF and began trial proceedings because she was being harassed so much by cops when she pressed charges. They almost got away with it, but she lived above a bar . . . and the outdoor security camera showed them entering the apartment several times between 2 and 6 am. So incredibly sad. But, I'm glad they went to jail, at least.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@JenMac I heard that report on the news .. its scary to say the least.

@ajadedidealist here's the update to the Michael Mineo case-http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/officers-acquitted-in-mineo-trial/.... couldn't stop reading all the comments seems as if ordinary New Yorkers are outraged by the verdict....
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hhusted
hhusted 2yrs+
@JenMac: I have no respect for cops to begin with. They think because they have badges and a gun they have power and authority. So they can abuse that authority. I told a cop one day, while we were talking, that cops are only given the authority we, as citizens allow. He agreed with me, but did say there are crooked cops who take their authority too far.

I got even with a cop one time for giving me a faulty ticket. The cop ended up with desk duty for a long time.

@Ajadedidealist: I hate police brutality and will not stand for it. If I see a cop involved in something that he is not justified in doing, I will say something.
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
I have respect for cops. They put themselves in danger to protect us every single day. So, saying all of them abuse their authority is a pretty sweeping generalization. It's just sad when nobody knows who they can trust. It's like a doctor telling you you had to remove a kidney just so he could sell it, or something.
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