Comments on: Rochester police use selective enforcement of parking laws to harass attendees at a meeting in support of Emily Good

By: knoxblox

knoxblox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Some (I hope) helpful reporting on the criminal justice system:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/myths-of-the-criminal-justice-system_n_879768.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/myths-of-the-criminal-justice-system-part-two_n_881975.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/myths-of-criminal-justice-part-three_n_883935.html

I find myth number 5 to be of special interest to the topic at hand.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, but if you are an officer that disagrees, why bust someone’s chops for parking half an inch away? If you think it’s wrong why not give people the same slack you normally would. If any of these officers felt that way they could have just eyeball’d them and said they look close enough, or pulled out their ruler and said that it was close enough, using the kind of vigilance that they typically use to enforce this law.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

At least the cops went home safe

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sounds like a good plan to me. Apparently they didn’t have to do their Real Job — like look for some Real criminals

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Watch the video again. Can you spot the police car parked 24″ from the curb?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

stay classy rochester

By: fenrox

fenrox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know, Is there like a list anywhere that tracks how many cops are fired and jailed for any crimes committed while in the force? It seems they 100% of the time get away or get to ‘Quit’ quietly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good work folks! Keep harassing them right back!

People need to start giving them guff when they try and do things like order food, get gas, shopping.. make their lives as difficult as possible..force them to get a real job or behave

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

god complexes, whats new

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fascists of a feather flock together. Every officer in this should be fired for attempted intimidation and discrimination. To do this where they are and not everywhere is targeting a group of ppl.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LOL, Rochester Police, quite embarrassing yourself.

It’s obvious you can’t even get the guts up

to look at the camera

or the woman in the eyes.

Quit pretending.

It is not convincing in the slightest, losers.

Very embarrassing for you.

Don’t try to hold your heads up high, you can’t. Your conscience won’t allow it.

By: Teller

Teller — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anon #6749: Glad to provide you with something to love. Nothing like it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The bad guys are already polarized against the police.
(I know, I was a police officer for eighteen years)
The police depend on the goodwill of the people for information, for cooperation, for support … and for votes when tax levies are placed on the ballot.
Not to mention balloting on judges and mayors who may be more or less favorable to the police.
The bad guys are already polarized and united against the police.
They have enough enemies.
The police don’t need to go out of their way to make enemies of the honest citizens.

By: fenrox

fenrox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Also I wish the woman used yesterday’s rule, Don’t talk to the cops unless you must. Don’t say anything colorful or unnecessary. If you want to talk, talk to yourself away from the cops.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thugs. Why not drop a note to their Union?

http://www.locustclub.org/contact.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

some are more equal than others.

check this out:

http://www.fox4now.com/story/14952893/fort-myers-police-officer-suspended-for-showing-up-drunk

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Incredibly, bewilderingly stupid.”

Kind of like defending these idiots in the first place. Even still, you are passively defending them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

disgusting. that is all.

By: GreenJello

GreenJello — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! Looks like they just filmed the police harassing them. When will the police learn?

By: Powell

Powell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That is super f-ed up. What a bunch of thugs. Just another reason to hate police.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

whoa whoa dude, I really dont think thats the right attitude. You shouldnt lump all policemen together like that “just another reason to hate policemen” I agree these police officers are not behaving acceptably, but that doesnt mean all officers are terrible people. They are people just like everyone else, with feelings and mistakes.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why is the camerawoman “sorry?” This kind of thing isn’t really a good place for sarcasm, these officers and their tattoos are acting like 3rd graders. “Moooooommm, Billy is one inch over on my side of the car seat!! HE WON’T MOVE OVER”

If these people are smart, they’ll start going after the union and (former) officers on disability retirement.

By: Scatterfingers

Scatterfingers — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How dare anyone demand checks and balances on police power, or rights of any kind.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There are no good cops, no not one. Any cop who stands by while his co workers do this kind of stuff is a bad cop. Any cop who gives “professional courtesy” is a bad cop. Any cop who takes something for free from a citizen is a bad cop.

By: OldRipbeak

OldRipbeak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I saw at least four patrol cars and four officers. Sounds like Rochester’s PD is overstaffed if they can afford to send that many resources to a parking ‘emergency.’

By: Unmutual

Unmutual — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok. I humbly retract everything I said yesterday.

These guys are pigs of the highest order.

By: Tensegrity

Tensegrity — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good idea. And a class-action lawsuit filed for victims of crimes committed in that time period.

Nothing motivates corrective behavior like hitting them in the wallet.

By: Sighmaster

Sighmaster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey! Remember community policing? Me neither.

By: yosemite

yosemite — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wait, wait everybody, don’t forget we are a nation where anything can be changed by the slow, sure hand of the democratic process, all within the bounds of our local, state, and federal laws, because there is transparency in government and law enforcement institutions, and all laws will be applied equally to everyone without regard to race, gender, or political views, and…

Uh, yeah. That’s why we need Lulzsec. And Anonymous. And civil disobedience. They’re not the only colors in the palette, but they’re necessary ones.

The alternative? The deck perpetually stacked against the individual, in favor of the government and corporate institutions, responded to by our ineffectual hand-wringing. Do you think we’d have fair copyright laws and technological advances if we didn’t have piracy? Do you think we’d have government transparency without Wikileaks? Do you think we’d have civil rights laws without civil disobedience?

Nope, nope, and nope.

By: Thebes

Thebes — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is how a Police State works.
Virtually everyone is made into a “criminal” by a system of laws so complex none can even count them all.
Then these laws are selectively enforced against the Police State’s opposition, while gregarious violations of other laws are never enforced against its allies.

Now “go with the flow” or get your’s, “taxpayers”.