Idk man, every union ive seen, theres always the laziest workers, that dont care about doing a crap job because theyre practically immune to getting fired. Even for gross incompetence
@@BaronVonQuiply Thats an understatement. Pizza delivery drivers will be invited into drug dens and gang spots on occasion. Its crazy but gangsters gotta eat too
When I was in college in the 90’s I was a journalism major. Once we were trying to find a place to cover a story & couldn’t find it so we saw a police officer & asked him for directions. We figured berths was a small town (but we weren’t from there) he would know but he didn’t have a clue. Then saw a pizza place & suggested we ask them. They got their driver & he was able to lead us directly to where we needed to go. From that point on (before GPS) I always knew go to the pizza place first if you’re lost.
I had a warrant for fines, paid fines. Got pulled over months later, warrant STILL active!!! Fortunately I had the receipt in my wallet. They are in no hurry to drop warrants. Lazy fucks.
That's why they'll ask for I.D. from everyone they so much as say hello to. Gotta check on one of the thousands of warrants they issued then forgot about.
You probably didn't get any instructions about needing to notify other departments. Once you pay the fines, you still have to let the right people/departments know about the payment. They don't do it for you.
When the stupidity of Law Enforcement, & the Criminal Juctice System is so bad, I don't question why people feel the need to protect themselves from both Leo's & the Court System. Sadly, the system is never going to change. Immunity for the entitled & the stupid, armed with badges & guns is so wrong. Yeah, things are getting ugly. Perhaps the system & it's members should be subject to their own B.S. Breakdown the door & arrest the family of a cop or judge, & see what happens. Somebody's leaving in a body bag. 😕
And they handcuffed a little girl. What kind of police officers are these that they fear a little girl? And they wonder why police are becoming despised by so many people. I know someone will say "a few bad apples" but what they seem to be missing is the last part of that phrase. It spoils the whole bunch. We need more cops like Serpico who wanted to reform the departments.
@@xolotl8860 I know, right? That is one reason our country is so messed up. There is the right thing to do and the profitable thing to do. In these cases the settlement is more profitable. But the cops won't learn their lesson.
@@donowen33 the amount of money they are getting should also be questioned, they are better than a military Unit and they Get Immunity! Get better pay 💰
Police agencies routinely screen out applicants who score too highly on an IQ test as being more likely to be insubordinate. The Supreme Court upheld this practice decades ago. The results speak for themselves.
Illegal warrant leads to an illegal search, if you have video of an officer searching your house or keeping you detained after they realize they have the wrong house you have a six digit payout! 💰💰💰
And there never seem to be any consequences for the police or the judges that sign search warrants willy-nilly, apparently without asking important questions.
It is policy across the country to NOT hire people with critical thinking skills as a police officer. A person with these skills would never enforce 1/3 of the laws police arrest over. Dumb cops is not a mistake, it's by design!
Lots of people love them. Trump wants to give them more power and less accountability. Trump: “"We're going to give our police their power back," he told rallygoers in Waukesha, "and we are going to give them immunity from prosecution."…"I am also going to indemnify our police officers. This is a big thing, and it's a brand new thing, and I think it's so important. I'm going to indemnify, through the federal government, all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States from being destroyed by the radical left for taking strong actions against crime."
Our local police intercepted the pizza delivery driver to deliver the pizza and make an arrest. The people opened the door expecting the pizza, the police presence was unexpected.
Or, as Trump says: “"We're going to give our police their power back," he told rallygoers in Waukesha, "and we are going to give them immunity from prosecution."…"I am also going to indemnify our police officers. This is a big thing, and it's a brand new thing, and I think it's so important. I'm going to indemnify, through the federal government, all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States from being destroyed by the radical left for taking strong actions against crime."
Qualifying immunity makes sense when they are correctly doing their job. The problem is the version of qualified immunity that we have now assume they were correctly doing their job. What should exist is a defense of qualified immunity. In other words there would still be a trial and the officer can argue and show that X, Y, and Z was correctly within their job and the law and then let a jury decide if that is true.
@@meritholdingllc123 the alternative? That wants police accountability? If Trump gets in you don’t get to complain about police having more power. He also wants to INCREASE Civil Asset Forfeiture. Again, as long as you don’t complain and accept that you want that and vote for it, no problems. He said what he plans on doing, which includes huge increases in police funding, removing the little existing accountability they have, removing the DOJ investigation squad Biden created, and massive increases in Civil Asset Forfeiture. You don’t get to complain though.
I had a deputy almost arrest me because I looked like my brother and they were looking for him. Have him my ID and tried to help him with his location, but he still told me he was going to take me in. Turns out they already had my brother.
@@Daves_Not_Here_Man_76probably before body cams or cam turned off. It quickly becomes “perpetrator attacked officer when questioned about his brother. Appeared intoxicated and used fists while assaulting the officer. Perpetrator resisted arrest, assaulted officer of the law, caused a public disturbance, attempted to flee scene of crime.” ~ which one do you want to plea down to?
They did something similar to a guy in my neighborhood. One of the brothers committed a crime. They KNEW which brother did it. They arrested the other brother thinking he would snitch on his brother. He wouldn't. They charged him for the crime. He laughed because not only did he NOT do it but he wasn't even nearby when the crime happened. He just assumed the jury would find him not guilty. The jury found him guilty. He didn't snitch and the brother who committed the crime let him go to prison.
Also because there is a solid pipeline directly from infantry to police. I've been to a few job faires at my local Army base, and I swear every LE agency within 100 miles shows up to recruit.
Sometimes I'm glad that I live in a country where the police are NOT routinely armed. Indeed there was a lot of hand-wringing even before Tasers were issued to all officers. (Remember folks that Tasers are fatal in plenty enough of cases, such as if used against people under the influence of Amphetamine drugs, or if used against elderly people with mental health issues). Here, only some police carry firearms normally, while other officers have them available to be issued, for those rare occasions required. The local Police are generally seen by most citizens as friendly and the sorta person you'd approach and ask directions from, if you're wandering lost around a city centre's business district. Private Security guards are virtually never armed with guns, and have nothing more than a radio and a large torch/flashlight. Armoured car cash transit vans voluntarily disarmed their staff over 50 years ago. No getaway car beats a radio message and a helicopter, so cash in transit robberies are almost unheard of.
I LIVE IN LOUISVILLE KY. About 2 months ago, two officers came to my apartment searching for someone. I told them I lived in my apartment about 6 months. They got mad at me when I said it would be common sense and due diligence to check with the apartment office first to see who lives in the apartment.
Do you realize how many tens of thousands of dollars we pay them to have a pet dog? A dog who does no better than chance at finding the things he is an "expert" at finding.
"In military fashion" No reason to destroy a home and terrorize the vulnerable public. The entire organization should know FOR SURE the information is fresh.
Tax payers elected the mayor who hired the police chief who supervises his officers to act as they do. It seems to be hard for some people to connect the dots so I did it for you/them. People stop talking about the poor tax payers on the hook because they ARE responsible for their STUPID choice on who they elected.
@@bovinityleak2066 Police are always trying to justify their inflated budget, SWAT, and "tank". Police will report they used them X times but they don't say how many of those times a simple surveillance would have shown the person no longer lives there or is already in custody.
Per Steve's "Both sides gave up something so it's probably fair" comment: Why should the plaintif have to give up anything? The keystone kops busted in, breaking windows "Military Style" under completely false pretences. The Man,Woman and Child deserve much more. They were placed in mortal danger. All it would have taken is one trigger happy cop and this would have been much more tragic.
I read a story about a young man who was arrested he called his father who told his son he was getting a good lawyer. Later that night police executed a arrest warrant for the son at the father’s house killing the father.
Trump: “"We're going to give our police their power back," he told rallygoers in Waukesha, "and we are going to give them immunity from prosecution."…"I am also going to indemnify our police officers. This is a big thing, and it's a brand new thing, and I think it's so important. I'm going to indemnify, through the federal government, all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States from being destroyed by the radical left for taking strong actions against crime."
@@richland1980 democrats and republicans don’t run departments 🤡 Also, none of that changes what Trump stated, not that Trump waits to terrible Bidens oversight committees for police started in 2022. Keep coping and excusing that you actual want more police actions and immunity by voting for Trump.
most of the cops involved were probably just following orders, with no power to question or verify. Find out who called the shots and make them pay the judgement
I’ve often wondered if tax payers have a right to do a class action lawsuit to get lawsuit money like this refunded. Yeah there might be insurance but insurance just means the payments are made over a longer time frame as rates go up. In general I support the cops but there is almost zero reason to do swat team raids on houses. With a little bit of finesse you can get the person with the outstanding warrant to come to you.
The scariest part of this for me was when he said the department has a H-I-S-T-O-R-Y of improper searches. You would think that a police force who makes a mistake would correct that UNLESS they just don't give a damn.....
Where I live, one of the local TV news outlet is questioning the amount paid out in settlements for actions that the cops found justified. Nothing like getting to investigate yourselves. 😡
Louisville, police aint paying out any money. The taxpayers are, that's why the police don't care. They'll just raise your. Taxes, so that way, they got more money to Violate. rights.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 Million tax payer dollars over 5 years ...as they have lost their insurance carrier due to this type of incompetence.
The old …Guilty by association. Friend of mine and another passenger who was just a guy he recognized that worked at a local party store got stopped by our local police for window tint. My friend only picked up the party store clerk because he ran out of gas and was giving him a ride to town as a kind gesture. During the stop the police learned the clerk had a warrant. They searched him and found marijuana. My friend got arrested, along with the clerk for possession. During the arrest the clerk kept telling the police it was his (own) marijuana. This went all the way to trial. Took the jury 5min to find my friend not guilty. They saw right through what they were trying to do - get a conviction. Afterwards the judge scolded the prosecution for bringing this charge/case as far as they did. He stated all charges should have been dropped 13 months ago. This arrest cost my friend his job, unnecessary lawyer fees, and mountains of stress.
Further evidence why qualified immunity needs to be done away with. The prosecutor should have been forced to pa the victim's attorney fees and reimbursement for lost wages.
Dog the Bounty Hunter always used to make a big deal about verifying the warrant before acting. It seems like the police department should be held to at least the same standard.
Dog faced consequences when he screwed up (iirc he'd did get in trouble a couple of times...) Bounty Hunters are poorly regulated in a number of states and yet face more consequences for mistakes than "professional" Police...
It could have been like this: He didn't finish that job on time and didn't get paid for it. Lacking the money his rent wasn't paid and he couldn't get his van out of impound, and now he and his family is living on the streets. He'd have been better off being fired from a regular job where he would have gotten one last paycheck and had unemployment insurance to fall back on. People who don't work for themselves don't understand how different it is from having a regular job, and how that until you make a lot of money (after giving about 1/3 to 1/2 of it away constantly) you're risking everything every day you go to work. But to us it's worth it to not have to deal with the BS of being an employee. It ain't for everybody!
@@P_RO_ if things are that tight, you’re doing it wrong. One of my trucks could be in impound and I could miss pay or jobs for a good year or two before I really feel it. Maybe longer with stock dividends.
@@EnthalpyAndEntropy Were you there from the start? And the economy ain't good enough to be like that everywhere. It takes years to be able to have breathing room when you're self-employed.
" Do Not Expect Your Government To Solve Your Problems, Government Is The Problem! " This is a perfect example of why the requirements of being a Police Officer need to be better than just a High School Diploma or a GED!! Absolutely NO common sense is shown here. Screw it, Let the Tax Payers pay for it.
So who paid for the property damage? Yes those 3 deserve the money they recieved but the person who ownwed the property had cost that I am sure the police did not want to pay.
I know a guy who was on trial for SA. the police didn't realize until the defense lawyer brought it up in court that the guy was in the middle of a 3 month sentence and was physically locked up in the county jail at the time of the alleged assault. he should've never been charged to begin with considering he was in their jail
In my Father's Time - showing any sign of Stupidity in your Profession was a precursor of being shunned by Co-Workers, caste out from Employment and bringing shame to your Parents and Spouse... Imagine if The World was run on Intelligence, Common-Sense and Morals?
Once again, the district judge rules that the cops did no wrong so the case is appealed and the appeals court determines the facts of the case don’t support the cops claim. There was a recent case in Nevada where a guy was arrested for disorderly conduct and obstruction because he argued with some cop. He was convicted by the local court and the conviction was overturned on appeal because the defendant was exercising his first amendment right to protest and the arrest was retaliation for invoking his right to speak. Local courts are incapable of policing the police. You see it over and over. And some police take improper advantage of that situation.
This is to dissuade attorneys from taking these types of cases. Their attorney had to lose in district court then appeal it, fight for 5 years for only a 180k settlement on one of the most slam dunk cases. 40% of 180k for 5 years of work the attorney would go broke.
"Knowledge in the possession of the police department is imputed to all officers in that department." This means if one cop knows the suspect is in custody, they all know. Slam dunk win.
Sadly, this child will no longer look at LEO's as someone to trust or go to for help. I find my confidence in the LEO Community erodes daily, even though I have several family members that are LEO's.
That's actually the best part of this whole encounter. Police are government agents that are not to be trusted. They are not your friend. Kids need to know this early. We 80 and 90's kids consumed an unhealthy amount of coppaganda in our childhoods.
I remember a story from years ago of a man who had the same name as a criminal. He was arrested and held in jail for some months. . The day he was being taken to his criminal trial the transporting officer went to pick him up. That officer took one look at the photo he was giving and immediately knew it was the wrong person. He took him to court and he was released immediately. The entire time he was in jail nobody took 5 seconds to look at the picture to double check to make sure they had the right person.
If I am remembering correctly that case one was a white male, and the other was a black male, with about 20 years difference in age, and about 8 inches in height.
@@karlrovey That's exactly what they want you to do. No trial means no decision made against their improper actions and no precedent set which could protect some other innocent person in the future. I'll chance it with a jury. I don't want excessive money, I want true justice and a guarantee that their BS ends with me.
Louisville resident here. LMPD ordered me out my car at gunpoint, in my driveway yelling show me your hands and open the door at the same time. RADIOED FOR A SUSPECT DESCRIPTION AFTER I WAS OUT THE CAR. their policy is fuck you up and figure it out later. why would I make a 3 point turn to get in my driveway 10 feet in front of them if I'm wanted?
The cops knew the child was completely innocent even if the guy on the warrant was there. Then the cop knew it was just the son of a woman working on the property. They still kept the child in handcuffs. The kid looks to be about 10. They taunted the kid and made fun of him for crying. I'm surprised they didn't punch the kid while in handcuffs.
@@johnpublic6582 So traumatizing the family and giving them PTSD for life including the kid isn't enough? In other cases the police have killed the whole family look up Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicolas in Texas.
NO Steve! The Judge is at fault as well. Tax payer $$ should not be spent on the settlement but the officers, their supervisor, council, mayor, prosecutor, jail personnel, and the Judge! Immunity needs to be removed and professional liability should happen. The judge kept his head in the sand rather than verifying facts. Head in the sand management is no excuse since Enron and Worldcom. The good taxpayers should not have to pay for bad work by all parties.
It's not a judge's job to verify facts. In most cases, it's the job of the parties to present the facts and testimony. The difference with a warrant is that there is only one party: law enforcement.
@@EXROBOWIDOW He looks at them and agrees, it is his job! He is partially responsible at that point. It is like he is the manager of what goes on in his court and he should have consequences to decisions made and those that come to him.
The judge who signed the warrant here was the same judge that signed the warrant that led to police murdering Breonna Taylor in March of 2020. LMPD uses her for a reason, and that reason is that she let them get away with too much crap.
There wasn't enough information to say this warrant wasn't the one issued before he was arrested the first time and they just failed to mark the warrant as fulfilled or closed or whatever the term is.
How stupid can they be? Like this is just blatant harassment, gross negligence, and willful ignorance. No judge should have ever signed that warrant in this case. Bad bad bad justice
This happened to my neighbor based on a phone number. He had added a new line for business purposes. It had formerly belonged to a big drug dealer. There was no checking to see it had only been assigned for a couple of weeks! He is a quiet reclusive man who was washing dishes when they raided his home. A flock of wild geese had decided to winter at his home. When they saw he was under attack they charged the SWAT team. Because of their size they were attacking and pecking at the genital areas! LOL It looked like a Chinese fire drill over there. The commander of the raid was very interested in how he trained the geese to attack and, at first, refused to believe it was in defense of one of their flock members! Luckily, it ended with laughing and apologies. One member of the team had the sense to call and report the incorrect address and was given a different one. They went about half a mile and got the correct people! I enjoy your videos. Thanks.
I once befriended a goose at a park. Didn't feed it or anything. I came to watch other people feeding ducks & geese. After they were out of bread, everyone (humans & animals) started to leave. 1 goose stayed behind picking up the scraps. I looked at it & said something to it. It looked back at me, & from that day on, we were friends. I would visit the park every few days, make this whistle call with my 2 hands, & it would come from the other side of the pond. I was able to pet it, hold it, but it would hiss at anyone else. Eventually had to stop coming to the park once it found its mate.
That is one of the funnier stories here on YT. A swat team raiding a house and a flock of geese protecting the house. I hope none of the geese got hurt, as the SWAT team claiming they had to shoot geese in "self-defense". I hope that did not happen.
None of the officers were held accountable, they were promoted, they conducted a good raid in their minds. Why would it stop happening. Now the cops that did this are in charge training other officers. This was 5 years ago and it just settled.
No they won't. Government minions are legally immune from these kinds of suits. More fun is that all homeowners policies exclude claims when the Government does things like this. The innocent will continue to feel the hurt from this for a long time while the Cops have already forgotten about it. Reality sucks.
I really think that the militarization of our police force is a symptom of us military members having nothing to do so they move their training over to the police force which encourages that behavior. I'm a veteran, I know many service members from the era I served in who would have no problem doing these things in the police force, and were just as idiotic in the military as they are being in the police force.
@@cobracommander9138 Don't get excited. You should see what that cop does to his own kids secretly at home. ( I only say that as a statistical certainty, not an actual fact. )
You would have thought at least they would drive past with an unmarked car ten minutes before to ensure that there was no obvious trap, children's party etc going on.
@@johnclements6614 That requires a depth of thought beyond the capacity of any government employee. How dare you expect them to think when you know how much that hurts them?
It would make sense if this was the 1800s with no radios or internet to communicate with. For one department to not know something but this isn't the 1800s
The Judge should be held accountable along with the officers. If I have to check and see if the person is in custody or if their warrant is valid, before I go out to return them to jail. The Judge, and Police should be held to the same standards. Verify, Verify, Verify, so easy.
Oklahoma recently did something similar to my grandmother. My brother has been in prison for a while over a year I think and they raided her house looking for him. I wonder how many of these happen that we never hear about like my grandmothers case.
To even a local government, a $180,000 judgement is peanuts. Less than a parking ticket. If we 'd want to see government actually address this sort of entitled carelessness, there will have to be judgements in not just hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions against the responsible entities and hard time -- or worse -- imposed upon responsible officials.
1 of the 10 cops should have known the warrent was no longer needed. 1 of the 10 cops should have known they had the wrong address. 1 of the 10 cops should have realized with a painting truck out side that a contract worker is likely inside. 1 of the 10 cops should have had sense enough to knock on the door prior to damaging the property. 1 of the 10 cops should have realized that there was no reason to cuff anyone who did not fit the discription of the susspect. All 10 of the cops should be forced to be retrained in common sense.
The government is immune and homeowners policies exclude damages caused this way. So the homeowner-the least involved and most innocent of all parties- pays for someone else's wrong. It's the Amerikan way, comerade!
This actually happened to me, when I was a kid, though not in such action movie style. My parents had gotten divorced some years prior, and one day the police showed up looking for my dad, at an address he had never lived at, when he was in fact, already in jail. These police were fairly polite, they didn't handcuff anyone, though they did spend an uncomfortable amount of time hanging around after the situation was explained to them.
I had a homeless man use my address in Berkeley ca for his parole. If you Google the address He's listed as the resident. The state doesn't bother to check with the homeowner. Another reason why I left Berkeley
Here in Atlanta, GA they check, at least probation, don't know about parole. Some counties have the same agency for both probation & parole, while others have separate agencies. They checked everytime I reported a new address. Had 1 come physically inside my apartment. Another time, they came unannounced, so I wasn't there, so they Zoom call me. Ask me to show my room, mailbox address #, outside of the house.
I've had mail show up for people I've never heard of. I've lived in my house for decades, and none of those names has ever been associated with my address, unless it was prior to the previous owner (not likely). One time I mentioned to the mail carrier about one of these, and he stated that they were probably giving out fake addresses for nefarious purposes. This was my thought, too. I mark the mail "not at this address" or some such wording, with the name circled, and put it back out on the mailbox, to let the USPS know it's wrong (they already know, most likely). Lately we've received several pieces of mail for the people over on the next street who have the same house number as ours. Or we receive mail for our next door neighbor. Mail carrier errors are fairly common. Usually nothing serious happens, but if the police are looking for someone who's using your address, that could become a real problem.
What justification is there for the vandalism of the property and the smashing of windows. That's apart from the assault on the inhabitants. They sound utterly incompetent on so many levels especially their communication with the victims of their incompetence.
If you are going to enter a house to execute an arrest warrant, why wouldn't you surveil the house for a few minutes; perhaps doing something crazy like looking into the windows, before using flash bangs or destroying things and breaking in? When you see the family calmly interacting and painting the walls, maybe you could just surround the house and then knock on the door?
Steve this is the incompetence we see from law enforcement everyday! Steve, bye now I would think bye now you would have covered enough of these too know the incompetence and lack of responsibility of law enforcement!!! It’s mind boggling!!!
