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To protect and to serve is the motto of police departments across America, but who protects Americans from bad police and bad policing. To some, police are good to others police are nothing more than crooks with a badge, while others see police as a taxpayer funded extortion racket. Police are human and make mistakes like the rest of us but they should be held to a higher standard if they are to uphold the law, you cannot be a crook nor can you violate people’s rights or the law and uphold the law. When a bad police officer is caught, they tell us there are only a few bad officers, but that is not true whole units and whole departments have been found to be guilty of committing crimes. How many times have officers violated the law but not held accountable for their actions? How many times have police said one thing and videos show something completely different from the official police version? How many times have police officials had to walk back what they said after a video comes out showing what really happened? How many times have police office lied before a video came out to show they were lying. Now wonder police do not want you to film them and may explain why some office turn off their cameras to prevent the truth and protect the lies. Now some places want to protect police by stopping citizens from filming police to protect the police at the expense of innocent citizens. If we do not hold police accountable for their actions, they will not stop and it will become more dangerous for citizens if they are held to account for there actions. When a city tires to hold an officer(s) accountable how many times have police unions threaten the blue flu to prevent the city from taking any action against a bad officer(s). Taxpayers pay the police to protect us we do not pay them to threaten not to protect us. Because taxpayers pay the police to protect us, we have the right to hold bad officers accountable for their actions. Police watch is dedicated to keeping an eye on police corruption, police misconduct and bad police for you.
Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement. It is an extreme form of police misconduct or violence and is a civil rights violation. It also refers to a situation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a person. Police violence includes but is not limited to physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, inaction of police officers, and in some cases, death.
Police corruption is a form of police misconduct in which law enforcement officers end up breaking their political contract and abuse their power for personal gain. This type of corruption may involve one or a group of officers. Internal police corruption is a challenge to public trust, cohesion of departmental policies, human rights and legal violations involving serious consequences. Police corruption can take many forms, such as bribery.
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During COVID-19, police collect bribes and turn toward brutality and abuse

Hundreds of people report bribery and corruption
Since January, Transparency International’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALAC) have received over 1,500 reports relating to COVID-19, including those involving police and military abuse. ALACs offer free and confidential legal advice to witnesses and victims of corruption in more than 60 countries around the globe. In many countries, police officers and soldiers are demanding bribes from people who pass roadblocks, stay out past curfew, and want to leave quarantine centers. They are even demanding bribes from essential workers, like doctors and nurses, who are trying to get to or home from work.
History, Contemporary Problems, Further Readings

The violation of state and federal laws or the violation of individuals' constitutional rights by police officers; also when police commit crimes for personal gain. Police misconduct and corruption are abuses of police authority. Sometimes used interchangeably, the terms refer to a wide range of procedural, criminal, and civil violations. Misconduct is the broadest category. Misconduct is "procedural" when it refers to police who violate police department rules and regulations; "criminal" when it refers to police who violate state and federal laws; "unconstitutional" when it refers to police who violate a citizen's CIVIL RIGHTS; or any combination thereof. Common forms of misconduct are excessive use of physical or DEADLY FORCE, discriminatory arrest, physical or verbal harassment, and selective enforcement of the law.
By Leonard Moore

police brutality in the United States, the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. police officers. Forms of police brutality have ranged from assault and battery (e.g., beatings) to mayhem, torture, and murder. Some broader definitions of police brutality also encompass harassment (including false arrest), intimidation, and verbal abuse, among other forms of mistreatment.
There were 15 days in 2021 when police did not kill people in the U.S
A rundown of some of the most corrupt police departments.
washingtonpost.com/

In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States. In that time there have been more than 5,000 such shootings recorded by The Post.  After Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so. The Post’s data relies primarily on news accounts, social media postings and police reports. Analysis of more than five years of data reveals that the number and circumstances of fatal shootings and the overall demographics of the victims have remained relatively constant.
By Ethan Brightbill

With protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd taking place in all 50 states, many Americans are reckoning with the history of police brutality in the United States for the first time. While headlines about police violence in the U.S. may seem like a new trend, the truth is that police brutality and misconduct has a long history in our country. Between 2013 and 2019 alone, 7,666 people were killed by police. In fact, black Americans are two-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by police than white Americans.
Rashad Robinson

White nationalists pervade law enforcement. Fighting far right violence means continuing our fight for police accountability. As mass violence continues, many of us have become rightly afraid for the people we love. We want justice, but we also want protection. So what are the solutions we’re hearing about following this month’s violence? One idea we must reject is the idea of trusting law enforcement to protect us from white nationalist violence, given how much they contribute to it. If people in law enforcement want to be seen as experts on defeating white nationalism, shouldn’t they have to get rid of all the white nationalists in their own ranks first? White nationalists pervade law enforcement. There is a long history of the military, police and other authorities supporting, protecting or even being members of white supremacy groups.
The Infographics Show

Cops are supposed to be the good guys, but in today's new video you will find out how the most corrupt police force abused their power and finally got caught!
Several key findings

BALTIMORE — An exhaustive 500 plus page report was released Thursday detailing the roots of one of Baltimore City's biggest police corruption scandals. New York based law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP were hired two years ago to oversee the review, by then City Solicitor Andre Davis. It surrounds the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force, formerly made up of now federally convicted felons Wayne Jenkins, Momodu Gondo, Jemell Rayam, Daniel Hersl, Marcus Taylor, Maurice Ward and Evodio Hendrix. Other members of the force were caught up in the scandal as well including Thomas Allers, Keith Gladstone, Ivo Louvado, Victor Rivera, Carmine Vignola and Robert Hankard. As of December 2021 — 12 of those 13 men have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.
By Kevin Rector, James Queally, Ben Poston

Hundreds of criminal cases involving three city police officers charged earlier this month with falsifying evidence are now under review by prosecutors after corruption allegations sparked questions about whether their past police work could be suspect. Prosecutors are already analyzing pending cases to determine if they can move forward on the strength of evidence other than the charged officers’ testimony, but past cases and convictions — including those based on plea deals — could also be revisited, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said.
Robert Lewis and Jason Paladino

Their crimes ranged from shoplifting to embezzlement to murder. Some of them molested kids and downloaded child pornography. Others beat their wives, girlfriends or children. The one thing they had in common: a badge. Thousands of California law enforcement officers have been convicted of a crime in the past decade, according to records released by a public agency that sets standards for officers in the Golden State. The revelations are alarming, but the state’s top cop says Californians don’t have a right to see them. In fact, Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned two Berkeley-based reporters that simply possessing this never-before-publicly released list of convicted cops is a violation of the law.
White supremacists are infiltrating our law enforcement agencies, our armed forces and public office to protect and, promote the white supremacist agenda
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes.
The Origins of Modern Day Policing
The origins of modern-day policing can be traced back to the "Slave Patrol." The earliest formal slave patrol was created in the Carolinas in the early 1700s with one mission: to establish a system of terror and squash slave uprisings with the capacity to pursue, apprehend, and return runaway slaves to their owners. Tactics included the use of excessive force to control and produce desired slave behavior. Slave Patrols continued until the end of the Civil War and the passage  of the 13th Amendment. Following the Civil War, during Reconstruction,  slave patrols were replaced by militia-style groups who were empowered  to control and deny access to equal rights to freed slaves. They  relentlessly and systematically enforced Black Codes, strict local and  state laws that regulated and restricted access to labor, wages, voting  rights, and general freedoms for formerly enslaved people.
By: Dr. Gary Potter

The development of policing in the United States closely followed the development of policing in England. In the early colonies policing took two forms. It was both informal and communal, which is referred to as the “Watch,” or private-for-profit policing, which is called “The Big Stick” (Spitzer, 1979). The watch system was composed of community volunteers whose primary duty was to warn of impending danger. Boston created a night watch in 1636, New York in 1658 and Philadelphia in 1700. The night watch was not a particularly effective crime control device. Watchmen often slept or drank on duty. While the watch was theoretically voluntary, many “volunteers” were simply attempting to evade military service, were conscript forced into service by their town, or were performing watch duties as a form of punishment. Philadelphia created the first day watch in 1833 and New York instituted a day watch in 1844 as a supplement to its new municipal police force (Gaines, Kappeler, and Vaughn 1999).
It is important to examine the history of policing in the United States in order to understand how it has progressed and changed over time. Alterations to the purpose, duties, and structure of American police agencies have allowed this profession to evolve from ineffective watch groups to police agencies that incor-porate advanced technology and problem-solving strategies into their daily operations. This section provides an overview of the history of American policing, beginning with a discussion of the English influence of Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police. Next, early law enforcement efforts in Colonial America are discussed using a description of social and political issues relevant to the police at that time. And finally, this
section concludes with a look at early police reform efforts and the tension this created between the police and citizens in their communities. This section is organized in a chronological manner, identifying some of the most important historical events and people who contributed to the development of American policing.
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