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From shock to outrage: Cases of WA Police taser abuse follow a depressingly familiar pattern

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-24/shock-to-outrage-wa-police-taser-abuse-follows-familiar-patter...

 

police need to learn the public now carry video cameras.

no longer can they get away with stuff they once did.

 

i'm a fan of '1st amendment audits' on youtube, videos filmed by citizens in the USA trying to teach govt officers (police, military, postal workers) they have the Constitutional Right to film anything they can see from plublic places. often getting detained and arrested.

 

i'm not sure what the LAWS here are regarding filming police doing their job but if i was being manhandled by police i would want a film of it.

 

it mentions in this story a camera was taken from a witness and returned AFTER being erased! thats destroying evedence in my eyes.

 

luckily for some of these people the incidents were caught on CCTV, without which they would have nothing to fight back with.

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i understand where you are coming from but I think video can be edited to skew the evidence.

For example, say you have someone being quite violent and attacking people, then police move in and manhandle him to the ground and several are on him, holding him down to handcuff him.

If you only show the end bit and not the part that went before, you might think-poor man, whereas in fact maybe the man was lucky police were so restrained and he wasn't shot.

 

I've seen this sort of thing happen with bullying videos where you see someone being hit but i often think-what went before that, we need to know.

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of course common sense comes into it when viewing youtube videos.

its pretty easy to spot 'doctored' videos.

or videos that start 'after' police are actually manhandling someone.

 

very true, without seeing an event from the start a viewer can get the wrong idea of whats happening, tv current afairs shows have been playing that game for a long time.

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While there are still plenty of genuine police trying to provide a community service, there are too many cowboys that have been allowed into the force. This is particularly the case with traffic cops, but the general force is not immune. These guys will twist the rules and newsflash, manipulate the truth and downright lie ( perjure themselves ) in court in order to get a conviction.

 

I used to have a lot of respect for the police, but have had too many bad experiences with them recently. No doubt the job of policing is getting harder with the rise in drug offences including ice and a general lowering of community standards over time as more people become welfare dependent and intergenerational welfare dependancy reaches second and third generations. Unfortunately I suspect this is driving the good guys from the force leaving the rougher, tougher more heartless types to do the job. Its just lucky the courts are still reasonable and can see through the overzelous policing they see everyday.

 

This is one case where I support the bleeding heart, socialist do gooders. It is due to them that the judiciary and court system provide a safety net to counter balance the socially & morally corrupted police force we now have.

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ASIO investigator detained on honeymoon has no confidence in Qld police complaint system

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/no-confidence-in-qld-police-complaint-system-asio-invesigator/...

 

This is exactly whats happened in the USA, police getting caught on video 'doing their job' then deleting evidence from victims phones and lying in reports.

when the 'internal investigation' reports (if there even is one) its 'nothing to see here, all did their jobs fine'

 

bad police backed by bad supervisors and covered up by police investigating themselves.

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