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NYPD's Twitter Campaign Backfires
An anonymous reader writes "A NYPD community outreach campaign designed to show images of citizens with cops turned ugly quickly when a deluge of images depicting police brutality came in. From the article: 'The responses soon turned ugly when Occupy Wall Street tweeted a photograph of cops battling protesters with the caption "changing hearts and minds one baton at a time." Other photos included an elderly man bloodied after being arrested for jaywalking.' Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says, 'I kind of welcome the attention,' of the #myNYPD project."
...well, there were batons.
Do some ride-alongs with cops and see the entire story.
A few friends of mine have. They said these new patrol cars have very little legroom, and that's it's very hard to sit comfortably with their hands tied behind their back.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
and what punishment the officers received?
and what promotions the officers received?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
To the NYPD, "community outreach" means a longer baton.
I don't know anyone who thinks the police "can do no wrong". Police are people just like the rest of us. The vast majority of them are stand up individuals who are honestly trying to help. The problem with these videos, is that they show a small fraction of everything police do, but have the effect of making it appear that all police are corrupt power hungry violent tempered men. So, as I've said before....comdemn those who misbehave and get them off the force, but stand behind those who risk their lives to make this a better and safer place to live.