Lets ignite change for police reform nationwide!

Families across America urge the U.S. federal government to set a higher standard of policing by strengthening accountability mechanisms and securing critical reforms to end police brutality, biased racial profiling, and militarized policing targeting youth and communities of color across our nation.

Sign the petition and protest. 

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/its-time-for-police-reform

Mothers, fathers, and other family members demand change that protects our young people from reckless policing. Families across America urge the federal government to take definitive and immediate action, including but not limited to the following reforms: 

• A fully-resourced and rigorous civil rights and criminal investigation by the DOJ into discriminatory policing, excessive force, and death or injury by police in every state in the country; 
• A comprehensive, streamlined, public national-level database of police shootings; excessive force, misconduct complaints, traffic and pedestrian stops, and arrests, broken down by race and other demographic data, with key privacy protections, the exclusion of personally identifying factors and information, and deportation immunity for civilians; 
• Mandating of Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST) in every state and inter-state coordination between all POSTs; 
• An executive order that creates a strong and enforceable prohibition on police brutality and discriminatory policing based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, immigration status, disability, and housing status; 
• Increased funding for the DOJ's Office for Civil Rights to ensure additional, accessible state-level responders for police and other civil rights violations Divestment of federal anti-drug grants and federal funding for police departments that demonstrate abuse of power and massive reinvestment in community controlled and based policing practices; 
• Support for the passage of the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA); 
• Streamlined national use of force matrix and mandating that state and local police have clear and streamlined matrices; and 
• Strict limits on asset seizure without due process and the transfer of any military equipment to local law enforcement under the 1033 program, guidelines that ensure that the equipment is not used on non-violent protesters, and an end to the requirement that such military weaponry is used within a year. 

How dumb can you be? Caught on camera: cop kicks fellow cop in the head then punches the actual suspect in the face.

Dumb ass cop. Just watch the video and you decide.

 

NYPD robs a citizen and pepper sprays the victim and his sister

Desperate cops do desperate things. New York officers started harassing a man by the name of Terrel Haskins when Lamard Joye asked the officers if was necessary to harass Haskins. That's when attention turned on Joye and he was pushed against a fence by an officer who then began to search him taking cash out of Joye's pocket. The amount stolen was reported to total $1300. Joye repeatedly asked for his money back but the officer responded with pepper spray. A woman tries to identify the officer asking for a badge number and she too was pepper sprayed.

Huffington post reports, Joye's lawyer Robert Marinelli, told the publication it was one of the most disturbing things he had ever seen.

“I believe that this officer made an assumption that any money Mr. Joye possessed was obtained illegally and therefore he would not report the theft. This assumption was wrong," Marinelli said.
"Mr. Joye is a hardworking taxpayer deserving respect."

The lawyer told the New York Post that his client had $1,300 on him so he could treat he and his wife to a night on the town in celebration of his 35th birthday.

ABC 7 eyewitness news also reported that the officer has not turned the money in or wrote a report about the incident further proving the cop was just looking for valuables to take.


Read the full article from Huffington post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/nypd-steals-1300_n_5959432.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black+Voices

APD Officer makes remark about shooting James Boyd 2 hours before shooting

You may have heard about the wrongful death of a Albuquerque homeless man in March 2014. Audio has recently been released of Officer Keith Sandy joking about shooting the man. Two hours before Keith Sandy shot and killed homeless camper James Boyd, he was recorded telling another officer that he would shoot Boyd in the penis with a shotgun. Its obvious that they wanted to shoot him. Boyd had a knife but was too far to actually bring harm to the officers. They couldn't wait to use their weapons and dog on this man. Watch the video below and listen to the audio following. 

Make the NYPD Adopt On-Body Cameras

There is a petition that we need you to sign. It will prompt the new mayor of New York to consider mandatory on-body cameras on every police officer. We need to make this mandatory across the United States but small steps can make huge changes.

Petition excerpts:  There is a simple way to make a dramatic change in police misconduct: require officers to wear on-body cameras that record their interactions.... Other police departments are using on-body cameras with amazing success. In the first year after the Rialto Police Department in California adopted the cameras in 2012, the number of complaints filed against officers fell by 88 percent compared with the last year. More importantly, the use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent.

Help us usher in police reform and sign the bill:
https://www.change.org/petitions/bill-de-blasio-make-the-nypd-adopt-on-body-cameras

Crooked Cops and Prescription drugs

According to KLTV, 37 year old Monty Allen Clark, A former Grapeland, Texas police officer, is charged with second-degree obtaining controlled substances with a fraudulent prescription. The investigation also revealed Clark filled prescriptions for Adderall by forging a doctor's signature
It is also reported that a Wallings pharmacist, said he knew Clark for more than a year and said he has filled numerous prescriptions for Clark.

Read the full article here: 

http://www.kltv.com/story/25652900/grapeland-k-9-officer-arrested-on-prescription-drug-charge

Missing money and drugs from North Slope Borough Police Department in Alaska since 2013... no one knows who took it.

According to the Arctic Sounder evidence including Money and Drugs have been stolen from a police department evidence room in North Slope Borough, Alaska. A memo was written and presented to two supervisors and not much has come of it.   Officer Gary Moore reported, "he was told when he met with the district attorney in Fairbanks that the there was no case because another member of the police department had told the assistant district attorney that the evidence had since been found." But when Moore returned to work he asked the evidence custodian who stated that the evidence had not been found. Moore labeled this "police mis-conduct". Over the past month, Moore disclosed the memo to the Alaska State Troopers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage, the Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions and North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower.

"The mayor has authorized an independent outside investigator to look into the matter," said John Boyle, the mayor's chief advisor in an email response. "In addition, the investigator will perform an audit of the North Slope Borough Police Department evidence room and procedures."

For all they know the suspect could still be working at the Police Department. 

I will be surprised if they find out who's responsible. 

Read full article here

http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1413missing_money_drugs_raises_questions