why ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS. A thread.

this thread will contain mentions of domestic violence, rape, police brutality, etc. this is a trigger warning.

Domestic abuse.

in 2013, a study noted the lack of data surrounding police officers and domestic violence.

That study examined 324 cases of domestic violence involving officers.

It found that 281 officers from 226 law enforcement agencies were arrested for domestic violence.

"Some of the officers had multiple criminal cases &/or multiple victims. There were 70 OIDV cases during 2005, 116 cases in 2006, & 138 cases in 2007. The percentage of total police crimes that were OIDV cases remained relatively stable from 2005 (17.2%) to 2007 (16%)”

Of all the cases, police officers who were arrested, charged and convicted of abuse, more than half kept their jobs.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/kutv.com/amp/news/local/40-of-police-officer-families-experience-domestic-violence-study-says

Police brutality.

Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting

36% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population

Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015.

Only 13 of the 104 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime. 4 of these cases have ended in a mistrial or charges against—

the officer(s) being dropped and 4 cases are still awaiting trial or have a trial underway. Only 4 cases (Matthew Ajibade, Eric Harris, Paterson Brown Jr., and William Chapman) have resulted in convictions of officers involved, with a fifth case (Walter Scott) resulting in—

the officer pleading guilty.

Source: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed 

About 1 in 1,000 Black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a new analysis of deaths involving law enforcement officers. That makes them 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die during an encounter with cops.

“That 1-in-1,000 number struck us as quite high,” said study leader Frank Edwards, a sociologist at Rutgers University. “That’s better odds of being killed by police than you have of winning a lot of scratch-off lottery games.”

For Latino men and boys, the risk was up to 1.4 times higher than it was for whites. For Native American men, the risk was 1.2 to 1.7 times higher. Overall, women’s risk of being killed by police was roughly 20 times lower than the risk to men.

Even so, there were clear differences by ethnicity and race.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men%3f_amp=true

Rape.

According to research from Bowling Green State University, police officers in the US were charged with forcible rape 405 times between 2005 and 2013. That's an average of 45 a year. Forcible fondling was more common, with 636 instances.

"Police sexual misconduct and cases of police sexual violence are often referred to as hidden offenses, and studies on police sexual misconduct are usually based on small samples or derived from officer surveys that are threatened by a reluctance to reveal these cases."

"I have to think it's a much worse problem than my data suggests," said Stinson, himself a former police officer.

What data is available paints a jarring picture. One statistic from Stinson indicates that for every sexual assault that makes the news, there are almost always more victims -- on average, five more.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html