US police officers took a trip to Scotland to learn how to handle potentially-dangerous situations without resorting to using deadly force, the Scotsman reported.

Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-police-teach-nypd-how-to-avoid-deadly-force-1-3974216

Been there, done that. Both sides.

Paid Vacation.

Sometimes imbibing in alcohol, with your 'Host' or 'Visitor'.

:) :) :) :) :)

I see:)
But something has to be done.

Tactics used by the Scottish police work well. Unlike trigger-happy US cops, who already killed over 1,000 people in 2015 alone, Scottish police shot only two people over the last 10 years.
Some folks might think that with such "soft" tactics Scottish policemen are killed more often than their US counterparts. But the opposite is true — while 33 police officers died in the United States as a result of assault this year, Scotland had its last policeman killed by violence in 1994, according to the Scotsman.

Standard Operating Procedure:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/nyregion/clinton-correctional-facility-inmate-brutality.html wrote:

The internal affairs unit of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has long been mired in dysfunction. Its former director of operations is awaiting trial on charges of sexually harassing several subordinates.
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The Times was also able to obtain a copy of a hand-held security video recorded by an officer that documented the last 45 minutes of Mr. Strickland’s life. It was made public last month, after the newspaper petitioned the court and argued for its release in the course of a lawsuit filed by the Strickland family. Usually these suits are dismissed or settled before they reach trial. But the family’s decision to push ahead with the case compelled the officers involved to testify in court several weeks ago, and made public evidence that would normally be off limits.

Accountability is typically elusive in these kinds of cases. Officers rarely speak up about wrongdoing for fear of reprisals from their fellow guards and will lie to protect them, current and former corrections officials said. They are also shielded by a union that even high-ranking members of the corrections department acknowledge holds tremendous sway over what goes on inside the prisons.

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Try changing the Culture of other Peoples and Countries.

Why not start with China, India, or Iran. Tell me how that turns out.

I think the UK has had a lot of practice in telling cultures how to
Then they pack up and go home
They never learned the culture before, so it failed just as Vietnam did for the French and the USA.

However one thing is correct, the US police should be disarmed for all normal duties. Might help them realize it is the law that needs to be respected, not the size of the gun. When they learn it, then the citizens as large can too.

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Why not start with China, India, or Iran. Tell me how that turns out.

You mean cops in those countries?
Have you met anyone?

Why not start with China, India, or Iran. Tell me how that turns out.

You mean cops in those countries?
Have you met anyone?

Janne...

Thailand, Japan, Mexico, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Russia (KGB), Canada, Spain (visiting), Argentina (brother In-law), etc.

What I found interesting. Was a commonalty of beliefs.

Didn't matter what Political or Cultural System they came from.

Police, around the world, deal with the same problems on a daily basis.

But the police in other countries do it without killing large volumes of the population. Some data by Danish police,

Comparisons published in a study by the Danish police on firearm use between 1996 and 2006.

They identified the number of people killed by police in several European countries and accounted for population by giving the number of people killed per one million residents. They used population figures from the year 2000.

Here’s what they found:

• Denmark: number of people killed by police between 1996 and 2006: 11 people — number of people killed per one million residents: .187 people

• Sweden: 13 people — .133 people

• Norway: 3 people — .060 people

• Finland: 2 people — .034 people

• Germany: 81 people — .089 people

• The Netherlands: 24 people — .137 people

• England/Wales: 25 people — .042 people

If we take Five Thirty Eight’s estimate that 1,000 people are killed by police in the United States every year and divide it by the 2000 population of 282 million, the American situation for just one year would look like this:

US: 10,000 people killed — 35.5 killed for every one million residents

Are you comfortable with that?

WinterKnight...

Doesn't matter how other Cultures Operate.

The USA Culture. Is a Gun/Cowboy Culture.

Having lived and travelled extensively in Western Europe. I have come to the conclusion that, for some inexplicable reason: Western Europe really believes that The USA is Europe 'Primitive'.

Although our Cultures share much. They are not really the same.

Case in point... GUN VIOLENCE.

Western European Culture responds by giving Authority more power to protect them.

American Culture responds by Individually 'Stocking up' on Guns. Thereby taking Individual responsibility for their protection.

WinterKnight...

You may believe America is thereby, Uncivilized.

America believes giving Authority more Power. May perhaps, be more Dangerous than any Protection.

Just a different Culture.

If you wish I will change my definition from Uncivilised to uncultivated and maybe even cowardly, unwilling to face the world without a gun in your hand.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/05/cambodian-authorities-crack-down-on-violence-by-reminding-officers-off-duty.html

Cambodian authorities are cracking down on gun-related violence — by reminding police officers they are banned from carrying firearms while off duty.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-cop-arrested-after-leading-troopers-on-high-speed-chase/

ROSEDALE, Md. -- Investigators say an off-duty Baltimore police sergeant reached nearly 150 mph in a high-speed chase with Maryland state troopers on New Year's Day,

So he gets paid vacation

Sgt. Hopkins has been suspended with pay pending the investigation.

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http://abc7.com/news/lapd-detective-charged-w--witness-intimidation-false-imprisonment/1177907/

LOS ANGELES (KABC) --
A Los Angeles Police Department detective has been charged with intimidating a witness and false imprisonment that involved an off-duty sexual relationship she had with a man she met online, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.

Christine Wycoff, 44, is scheduled to be arraigned on Feb. 22 at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. She was arrested Thursday by LAPD officers and then posted a $150,000 bail.

Wycoff allegedly began a sexual relationship with a man she met in June 2014. It lasted several months, but when it deteriorated she is suspected of making repeated threats against the man, who reported it to the LAPD.

During the LAPD's internal investigation, Wycoff is suspected of threatening the victim that if he cooperated with the police, she would accuse him of domestic violence.

Authorities said she later filed a report with the Torrance Police Department that the man had sexually assaulted her. He was arrested, but later released.

The D.A.'s office charged her with false imprisonment for having caused the man's arrest by creating a false report of a crime and with dissuading a witness on suspicion of making threats during an LAPD internal investigation.

If convicted, Wycoff faces up to four years and eight months in state prison. The case remains under investigation by the LAPD.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, William Congreve said that.

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http://ktla.com/2016/01/29/lapd-officers-gets-year-in-jail-must-register-as-sex-offender-for-exposing-himself/

A Los Angeles Police Department officer on Friday was sentenced to one year in jail for attempting to commit a lewd act with a 12-year-old girl and indecently exposing himself to five female victims in Huntington Beach, prosecutors said.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3429400/Former-NYPD-officer-busted-running-prostitution-ring-employed-police.html

A former officer with the New York City Police Department was busted for allegedly running a prostitution ring while still employed by the police.

In a complaint made public Tuesday, prosecutors accused Eduardo Cornejo of trafficking at least ten different women to be sold to prostitution in a scheme that stretched from Long Island to New Jersey.

Cornejo, 33, allegedly arranged the sale of sexual services at motels in the New York metropolitan area, often conducting his shady side business immediately after getting off shifts working for the NYPD.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/07/texas-newspaper-plans-to-publish-names-addresses-police-officers.html?intcmp=hpbt3

A Texas newspaper announced its plans Saturday to publish the names and addresses of every San Antonio police officer following a deadly officer-involved shooting last week.

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Hard to run a clean department when the man at the top is a crook!
http://abc7.com/news/former-lasd-sheriff-lee-baca-will-plead-guilty-attorney-says/1194963/

LOS ANGELES (KABC) --
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will plead guilty to a single count of making false statement in connection with a federal investigation into county jails, his attorney said Wednesday.

The FBI launched an investigation into civil rights abuses and corruption inside the Los Angeles County jails in 2010.

In September 2015, Baca wasn't granted immunity in an upcoming corruption trial of his former LASD Undersheriff Paul Tanaka.

Prosecutors allege that Tanaka oversaw a secret plan in 2011 to hide inmate-turned FBI informant Anthony Brown from FBI handlers. Brown was booked and re-booked under a series of false names, moved to multiple locations and eventually told by sheriff's officials that the FBI abandoned him.

Seven former LASD deputies, sergeants and lieutenants were convicted in 2014 for their roles in the operations.

Baca hired his own criminal defense attorney should he be called to the stand in Tanaka's trial, which is scheduled for March 22.

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Interesting ...
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2016/02/there-is-no-first-amendment-right-to-film-cops/470670/

Despite what the ACLU has long advised, you do not have the right to take photos or record videos of cops—except when you’re planning to actively challenge police activity with the images.
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In a society where police are protected if they shoot you with guns but you’re not protected if you shoot the police with cameras, law enforcement has an outsized legal advantage over ordinary citizens.

“That’s arguably why there are so many problems with the police now,” says Roper. “Because the policeman’s word was always taken as the final truth.

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Still being paid ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29590450/live-updates-santa-clara-county-jail-guard-hearing

SAN JOSE -- Three Santa Clara County jail guards accused of beating a mentally ill inmate to death and attacking another inmate lost a fierce battle to stop a judge from holding them over for trial on assault and murder charges.
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on paid administrative leave.

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Video shows white cops performing roadside cavity search of black man

You need to read this a quick summary is almost impossible.

Never fight, or argue, with the cop.

Wish the parents and Community 'Leaders' of today, would understand this truism.

Be enslaved by the commies

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Never fight, or argue, with the cop.

Wish the parents and Community 'Leaders' of today, would understand this truism.

Be enslaved by the commies

Another Garyism...

You're sinking faster and faster.

BTW: Where exactly is your 'bottom'.

It's deeper than most I have met.

On a more serious level.

Gary SLDM (Some Lives don't Matter) -

Are you advocating striking a Police Officer, whom you believe (either correctly or incorrectly) is violating your Rights?

Or should you (if you are correct). Sue, and make a lot of money?

If you state you believe in violence against Police: Then I will rename you:

Gary EMLDM (Even More Lives Don't Matter).

So what you are saying is that the only way to deal effectively with fascism is to submit to it?

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Reality Internet Personality

Never fight, or argue, with the cop.

Wish the parents and Community 'Leaders' of today, would understand this truism.

Be enslaved by the commies

Another Garyism...

You're sinking faster and faster.

BTW: Where exactly is your 'bottom'.

It's deeper than most I have met.

On a more serious level.

Gary SLDM (Some Lives don't Matter) -

Are you advocating striking a Police Officer, whom you believe (either correctly or incorrectly) is violating your Rights?

Or should you (if you are correct). Sue, and make a lot of money?

If you state you believe in violence against Police: Then I will rename you:

Gary EMLDM (Even More Lives Don't Matter).

So what you are saying is that the only way to deal effectively with fascism is to submit to it?

It would appear so. That would explain a lot of his posting, that he is actually advocating for fascism in the United States. I'm sure from a police perspective it is much easier to be a police officer in DPRK than in a constitutional republic.

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