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Hmm. If we could all agree that they were using excessive force, we could probably all agree to kick them off the force. So I guess official policy is out of the question. I wonder if there is any unofficial listing?

A quick Google and presto:
http://www.motherjones.com/cri...

Also:
http://www.ratemycop.com/

Apparently closed since 2015. Well, thinking about it, this is never gonna be functional. I know way too many criminals that refuse to take responsibility for their actions, and have completely unrealistic expectations about how LEOs treat them.

Still, nice idea, though.

In all honesty, I'm unfamiliar with those shelters. For these reasons:

Travel fare to Watsonville is unavailable, I would be uncertain whether soup kitchens would be providing reliably, thre travel time via bus is long enough to place it effectively out of reach in terms of keeping the other basic needs met, and the Salinas / Watsonville area is notorious for its gang violence. The only homeless shelter users I know that have talked about being there have been the violent, drug-oriented jailhouse jocks. It didn't make sense for me to ever make the trip. Once you know the resources in an area, you tend not to want to chance not having them if you're somewhere new.

A site like RateMyCop for homeless shelters might be pretty cool, though it's unlikely that homeless people would ever get on the internet and use it effectively.

The church-provided soup kitchens in Santa Cruz, I can provide objective feedback. Nearly always, they're predominated by awesome, caring people with a minor proportion of power-trippers. Roughly half the time, the power-trippers will have the official authority in the place, which makes things difficult. We've had churches permanently ban people from the feeds based on nothing more than personal whimsy or dislike. A lesbian couple was banned from the Elm Street Mission permanently, for example. I've encountered that personally from two church soup kitchens, the Elm Street and the St. Francis. As a result, the HSC is the only remaining daily feed within accessible distance that I have access to, and they only serve dinner and breakfast. When they claimed not to have the funds to keep the awesome kitchen staff on to make dinners (despite simultaneously creating a brand-new $30k a year managerial position), local churches came in to take up a significant amount of the load.

http://www.ratemycop.com/index.php?st=CA&dept=13791

It already exists, its called Rate My Cop from the article.

a woman posts a link to a municipal government website, so the mayor sends her a cease-and-desist letter and then launches a police investigation on her to intimidate the woman and coerce her into removing the link. and you see nothing wrong here?

I think I found her site, and her site is actually worse than the police department's web site (if you can believe it). It kept on making my firefox crash, the only way I could see it was with Internet Explorer. Otherwise, her site is pretty interesting content-wise, it's no wonder the city hates her guts.

[Warning: use IE to open, not firefox] http://sheboyganshenanigans.com/?cat=6

And also, I found another site that dared linking to the Sheboygan PD.

http://www.ratemycop.com/index.php?st=WI&dept=8376 (ah, the wonders of the internet)

Yeah the police don't like it when databasing is used to track them. The president of the California Police Chiefs association is petitioning the legislature for a law making sites like this illegal.

No, it's just that it requires www. http://ratemycop.com/ redirects to http://sites.godaddy.com/sites.html, http://www.ratemycop.com/ loads the site properly. Sounds more like some DNS noob worked on their records.

No, it's just that it requires www. http://ratemycop.com/ redirects to http://sites.godaddy.com/sites.html, http://www.ratemycop.com/ loads the site properly. Sounds more like some DNS noob worked on their records.