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Here you go dumbass, the second leftwing commie pinko sources in four posts:
The Liberal: The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/nyregion/police-violence-seems-to-result-in-no-punishment.html?_r=0
Police Violence Seems to Result in No Punishment
DEC. 4, 2014
Big City
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
When a grand jury on Staten Island declined, on Wednesday, to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing of Eric Garner, some critics blamed Staten Island itself, easily equating it with a culture of police coddling and conservatism. But grand juries, so willing to issue indictments in so many instances, rarely do so in cases involving police officers who have killed civilians. And they have failed to do so in far more liberal environments — in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The year 1999 was a horrific one for police shootings in New York City. On Feb. 4, Amadou Diallo was killed in the doorway of a Bronx apartment building after the police, mistakenly believing he was reaching into his pocket for a gun, fired 41 shots. Several months later, at the end of August, Gidone Busch, a mentally disturbed Orthodox Jewish man, was shot a dozen times in Borough Park in Brooklyn by four police officers, after he struck one on the arm with a hammer. A few days later, in September, an unarmed man named Richard Watson was fatally shot by the police in Harlem after he fled on foot in the wake of an accusation that he had evaded a taxi fare.
Graphic: Fatal Police Encounters in New York City
Mr. Watson’s death represented the fifth fatal shooting by police officers in four weeks. The new millennium would get underway with the killing of Patrick Dorismond in March 2000 after an undercover narcotics agent shot him outside a Midtown Manhattan bar; he too was without a weapon. None of the police officers involved in the Busch, Watson or Dorismond cases faced criminal charges. Officers in the Diallo case were acquitted. Thirteen years after the shooting, the Police Department gave one of them, Kenneth Boss, the right to use his gun again.
In the current moment, police violence, like campus sexual assault, seems to be in a pandemic phase. Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that 461 felony suspects had been killed by police officers across the country last year, the highest figure in two decades. We are possibly, if not surely, experiencing a crisis of manhood in which the young respond to their fears in a time of rising insecurity with a concomitant blast of brutality. Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; Officer Pantaleo; and Peter Laing, the police officer who killed Akai Gurley last month in the Pink Houses in Brooklyn, are all in their 20s.
Whatever the collective psychological causes, it is almost certain that the absence of real repercussions impedes restraint.
“If you believe in deterrence theory,” as Jeffrey A. Fagan, a Columbia University law professor who specializes in policing, put it to me, “then you believe that people will refrain from wrongdoing if they believe that punishment is real. But the legal system is incapable of creating the same kind of deterrent effects for police officers.” Right now, there would appear to be no obvious downside to the use of excessive force beyond personal upset and dislocation.
Graphic: 5 Key Moments in the Death of Eric Garner
Apart from that are the broad latitude and deference that prosecutors give police officers in these cases. “The way the questioning often goes, it allows the officer to set forward a narrative that gives a series of justifications for his actions,” Professor Fagan said. That narrative has to be challenged, and in many cases it isn’t.
As anyone who has watched “Law & Order” knows, the relationship between police officers and prosecutors is typically steeped in fealty, which is why advocates of police reform have called for independent prosecutors to be assigned to cases involving potential criminal misconduct on the part of the police.
“Is there hand-in-hand complicity? I believe there is,” Jeffry L. Emdin told me. Mr. Emdin, a former assistant district attorney in the Bronx, represented the family of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer, Richard Haste, two years ago. “The district attorney’s office works daily with members of the N.Y.P.D.,” Mr. Emdin said. “I’ve had A.D.A.s vouch for the credibility of officers coming under civil rights violations,” he told me, referring to prosecutors who could be expected to bring charges.
In one instance he had a client who alleged that a police officer broke his nose in a precinct house. “The D.A.'s office said, ‘No, no, he couldn’t have done that.’ ”
The city believes that requiring police officers to wear cameras, a program that is to begin immediately, will help reduce instances of transgression. It’s hard to absorb the logic of that after the Garner decision, given that the existence of a video demonstrating the use of a chokehold on Mr. Garner failed to persuade the grand jury that Officer Pantaleo’s actions even demanded a criminal trial.
In a television appearance on Wednesday night, the city’s public advocate, Letitia James, called upon Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to push for independent prosecutors in these cases. Asked about this the next day, Governor Cuomo, whose initial response to the Garner decision was relatively dispassionate, deflected. “I think we should look at the whole system,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any one answer.”
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