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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping
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Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    And yet, not one single person was surprised by this outcome. Except maybe the one good cop that was left in the LAPD.

    Now that he’s gone, we can confidently say ACAB.

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      Oh no! The one good apple

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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      It’s only 99% of them that make the rest look bad

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    The level of open corruption on display is astounding. It is my fault for thinking a police department or district attorney would respect the rights of whistleblowers. ACAB

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    Finally we see what it takes to get a cop suspended WITHOUT pay…thin Blue line indeed.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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      Thin yellow stream

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      As thin as their skin

  • Abyssian@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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    They say they make whistleblower laws so you feel safe in coming forward when people in positions of power are doing terrible things, but it generally seems more like they want you to come forward so they can ruin your life and get rid of all the people not on board with doing terrible things.

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    A separate administrative investigation of Flores by the LAPD found him guilty of policy violations and recommended a 22-day suspension without pay,…

    …followed by summary execution by his one or more of his fellow officers the next time he goes on a call with one who can cover it up and later claim some black guy did it.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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      They don’t even have to do that themselves, they can just delay responding when he calls for backup.

      • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
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        Platoon type of shit.

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    “Felony Eavesdropping” is that like “Ninja’ing With Intent to Distribute”?

    I mean, if we’re just making up obviously bullshit charges now…

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      All party consent state.

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        Were they working at the time? Do LAPD officers wear body cams? Seems like law enforcement officers, at least while working, should reasonably expect to be recorded all the time, which would be implied consent.

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          You’re right (and it’s great to see someone that understands implied consent) but they’re absolutely going to make him fight for it. Meaning that if the goal is to discourage the behavior, they’ll charge anyway and let the defense attorney argue it.

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            I know. The cruelty is the point.

      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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        I hate that 12 states are all-party consent. If you’re part of a conversation you should be allowed to record it, and 38 states agree.

        I went to jail after being falsely charged with assault and it was only my recordings of our conversations that saved my ass. To think in California I could have been charged with a felony for providing evidence my accuser was a scheming liar is crazy to me.

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      Notable that these recordings would have occurred in public.

    • Dultas@lemmy.world
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      Don’t they have body cameras. They should have no expectation of privacy if they do.

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        Not in the locker rooms, and typically only switched on when actively engaged in activities

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    ACAB because the bastards get rid of the good ones.

    https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127580159/houston-tipping-lapd-death-lawsuit

    https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/jordan-v-city-new-london-policing-hiring-and-iq-when-all-answers

    https://www.acluwv.org/press-releases/police-officer-fired-not-shooting-files-suit-against-municipality/

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    Holy shit we found them. It’s the one good cop.

    Unfortunately they pulled a David McBride on him (Aussie whistleblower who worked as a military lawyer during the Afghanistan conflict, was tasked by higher ups to move blame from war criminals to more innocent soldiers, the news corp he leaked it to threw him under the bus and reframed it as “all these soldiers doing no harm and its the system punishing them” days before his whistleblowing trial because big america stepped in)

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    Can someone post the text of this article? Apparently I’m supposed to sign away my rights to sue them for anything or engage in any class action by simply reading the article.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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      Loads fine without JavaScript. Just use a secure or text browser

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    Bruh body cameras are always recording, what a fucked up system. This is why there are no good cops

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      Right? How can you have an expectation of privacy when you are wearing a recording device all fucking day?

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        Yeah, but they were promised those cameras would come down with mysterious “technical issues”, and bro broke that trust! /s

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      Which means cops have already given permission to be recorded by their fellow cops. That doesn’t mean only the normal stuff, it means the bad stuff, too.

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      They’re not always recording. There’s been a lot of cops who got in trouble for turning theirs off.

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    What happened to qualified immunity

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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      That only counts when the cops are going after civilians

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    If people realized chaos owns humanity regardless of government than maybe they would live for truth and order would be able to grow from natural chaos like the universe/God intended.

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    _ _ _ _.

  • badmancrooks@kopitalk.net
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    ACAB

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