" "
Your story sounds wrong.
That's too bad. Got a better one?
Maybe I can find one.
Blood. Quite a lot of blood.
Is that so?
I think we'll let the police in on this. We'll have some law.
Yeah. Why not?
Who are you, soldier?
Marlowe's my name; I'm a private detective.
Who's the girl?
A client of mine. Geiger tried to throw a loop on her, so we came up here to talk things over.
Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key.
Yeah, wasn't it? By the way, how'd you happen to have one?
That any of your business?
I could make it my business.
I could make your business mine.
Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.
EDDIE MARS: All right. I own this house. Geiger's my tenant. Now what do you think of it?
PHILIP MARLOWE: You know some nice people.
-- I take them as they come.
{The Big Sleep, 1946}
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The American Conservative
"Seven Reasons Police Brutality Is Systemic, Not Anecdotal"
July 2, 2014
--------------------------- [continued] ----------------------- 3. Consequences for misconduct are minimal.
In central New Jersey, for instance, 99 percent of police brutality complaints are never investigated. Nor can that be explained away as stereotypical New Jersey corruption. Only one out of every three accused cops are convicted nationwide, while the conviction rate for civilians is literally double that.
In Chicago, the numbers are even more skewed: There were 10,000 abuse complaints filed against the Chicago PD between 2002 and 2004, and just 19 of them "resulted in meaningful disciplinary action."
On a national level, upwards of 95 percent of police misconduct cases referred for federal prosecution are declined by prosecutors because, as reported in USA Today, juries "are conditioned to believe cops, and victims' credibility is often challenged."
Failure to remedy this police / civilian double standard cultivates an abuse-friendly legal environment.
4. Settlements are shifted to taxpayers.
Those officers who are found guilty of brutality typically find the settlement to their victims paid from city coffers. Research from Human Rights Watch reveals that in some places, taxpayers "are paying three times for officers who repeatedly commit abuses: once to cover their salaries while they commit abuses; next to pay settlements or civil jury awards against officers; and a third time through payments into police 'defense' funds provided by the cities."
In larger cities, these settlements easily cost the public tens of millions of dollars annually while removing a substantial incentive against police misconduct.
5. Minorities are unfairly targeted.
"Simply put," says University of Florida law professor Katheryn K. Russell, "the public face of a police brutality victim is a young man who is Black or Latino."
In this case, research suggests perception matches reality. To give a particularly striking example, one Florida city's "stop and frisk" policy has been explicitly aimed at all black men.
Since 2008, this has led to 99,980 stops which did not produce an arrest in a city with a population of just 110,000. One man alone was stopped 258 times at his job in four years, and arrested for trespassing while working on 62 occasions.
Failure to address this issue communicates to police that minorities are a safe target for abuse.
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Blogging Congress (continued)
Texas
District 1 Louie Gohmert Republican
District 2 Ted Poe Republican
District 3 Sam Johnson Republican
District 4 John Ratcliffe Republican
District 5 Jeb Hensarling Republican
District 6 Joe Barton Republican
District 7 John Culberson Republican
District 8 Kevin Brady Republican
District 9 Al Green Democrat
District 10 Michael T. McCaul Republican
District 11 K. Michael Conaway Republican
District 12 Kay Granger Republican
District 13 Mac Thornberry Republican
District 14 Randy Weber Republican
District 15 Vicente Gonzalez Democrat
District 16 Beto O'Rourke Democrat
District 17 Bill Flores Republican
District 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democrat
District 19 Jodey Arrington Republican
District 20 Joaquin Castro Democrat
District 21 Lamar Smith Republican
District 22 Pete Olson Republican
District 23 Will Hurd Republican
District 24 Kenny Marchant Republican
District 25 Roger Williams Republican
District 26 Michael Burgess Republican
District 27 Blake Farenthold Republican
District 28 Henry Cuellar Democrat
District 29 Gene Green Democrat
District 30 Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat
District 31 John Carter Republican
District 32 Pete Sessions Republican
District 33 Marc Veasey Democrat
District 34 Filemon Vela Democrat
District 35 Lloyd Doggett Democrat
District 36 Brian Babin Republican
Utah
District 1 Rob Bishop Republican
District 2 Chris Stewart Republican
District 3 Jason Chaffetz Republican
District 4 Mia Love Republican
Vermont
At Large Peter Welch Democrat
Virgin Islands
At Large Stacey Plaskett Democrat
Virginia
District 1 Robert J. Wittman Republican
District 2 Scott Taylor Republican
District 3 Robert C. Scott Democrat
District 4 A. Donald McEachin Democrat
District 5 Thomas Garrett Republican
District 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican
District 7 Dave Brat Republican
District 8 Don Beyer Democrat
District 9 Morgan Griffith Republican
District 10 Barbara Comstock Republican
District 11 Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly Democrat
Washington
District 1 Suzan DelBene Democrat
District 2 Rick Larsen Democrat
District 3 Jaime Herrera Beutler Republican
District 4 Dan Newhouse Republican
District 5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers Republican
District 6 Derek Kilmer Democrat
District 7 Pramila Jayapal Democrat
District 8 David G. Reichert Republican
District 9 Adam Smith Democrat
District 10 Denny Heck Democrat
West Virginia
District 1 David McKinley Republican
District 2 Alex Mooney Republican
District 3 Evan Jenkins Republican
Wisconsin
District 1 Paul D. Ryan
District 2 Mark Pocan Democrat
District 3 Ron Kind Democrat
District 4 Gwen Moore Democrat
District 5 F. James Sensenbrenner Republican
District 6 Glenn Grothman Republican
District 7 Sean P. Duffy Republican
District 8 Mike Gallagher Republican
Wyoming
At Large Liz Cheney Republican
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