In one of my first criminal justice courses, the professor claimed that there were students in that room, to learn how to get away with crimes. He wasn't lying!
Regarding cases such as the task force in Baltimore, the question isn't how were they finally caught. The question is how many cops in the department knew what was going on and didn't report them because of the code of protecting the Thin Blue Line.
I don't want to hear about them being underpaid they know this before they become Cops, had a family member who was a Cop and he managed on his salary and plus to walk the straight and narrow! No excuses
NYC cop Frank Serpico blew the whistle on how dirty NY cops could be back in the '60s & "70s, book was written about it called "Serpico", good read. And then let's talk about Brookside, Alabama that entangled the entire police department. NOPD back in the '90s was scarily corrupt. I've known a lot of good cops, but it doesn't take more than one bad cop to destroy an entire force. Even worse is when the city attorney or the district attorney is onboard.
Police, especially in small departments in the U.S. are often very poorly trained. The job tends to attract people who are bullies, or who felt victimized as kids, and want revenge. Interactions with people who have mental stability issues can frequently go wrong very quickly.
Y'know, being a Chicano living in Mexico with my own stories of cops here and hearing about the US' police stories all the time, I genuinely couldn't imagine a cop who isn't corrupt
That Miami cop got off easy. It's BS that all his sentences are running concurrent....it should be consecutive. He basically only got a 25 years sentence.
Let me tell you about how the pastor of my church and the corrupt police set me up, I rented a house that had a mother-in-law suite. It was like a nice little apt. I had a roommate that had moved out, my pastor came to me with a sob story of this old couple that had accidentally burned down their house with a candle in the bathroom. I felt sorry for them and let them move in, telling them I would give them time to get on their feet. The woman told me they had a lot of friends, and that they came over all times of the day and night. They had their own entrance, so I thought it would be ok. One night, I heard a car late at night, I looked out and the one young girl went to the door, while the other stayed in the car, she pulled a meth pipe out of the ashtray and was banging it to clean it out. I saw that people only came to their door when their porch light was on. One day, someone knocked on my door, when I answered it, the man was tweaking out really bad and asking for the woman. This made me angry, by now I had figured out I let drug dealers move into my house. I had 4 children. I went to the pastor, who at first tried to talk around it, but then confessed he knew they burned down their house when their meth lab blew up. I asked him to come with me to confront them and tell them to leave, he did with another man from the church. We all sat in my living room, and I told them they had to leave, they just laughed at me, I told them I was going to call the police, again, they laughed and said: "Where do you think we get our best stuff from." I ended up moving out very quickly, and I moved away from that area. I was afraid I would get caught in between a gun battle if I didn't leave. The way I feel about it, the cops and the church are all criminals until they prove they aren't. Guilty until proven innocent.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When you have never had your actions questioned nor suffered any consequences, your mind tells you that you are ALL powerful.
I was in a zoom class today and greed and pride were brought up. The instructor said greed is never satisfied. This is why the cops got involved in their criminal activity and it kept escalating. Greed always once more.
I was playing this in the background & heard a very unique name, a blast all the way from elementary school. What a way to find out what happened to someone you went to school with, that they became a dirty cop. 😮
@@JeshuaSquirrel thats why there are no good cops, hell no good first responders in general. firefighters and EMTs can get off the hook easier than the common man too.
There was a lot of that being done at one particular police station in Los Angeles. It was called the Rampart station. When I had jury duty one year and the defendant who was a young man who had been driving drunk and had been pulled over by the California highway patrol. During jury selection, we were asked if we were automatically believed law enforcement. The judge kept saying remember Rampart when speaking to potential jurors. That was like saying don’t forget cops can be corrupt.
Im the daughter of a 27yr retired police officer & nothing pissed my dad off more then dirty cops. I agree with my dad when he said the small percentage of bad cops make it so hard for all the good ones.
19:10 I've heard that most prisoners don't like those kind of monsters that go after children anyways when their locked up so they go out of their way to make life a personal hello for them. And their right
$90K? Cops in our largest cities can make upwards of $300k with base salary, overtime, and benefits. They are overpaid and underworked. I saw a video yesterday where SIXTEEN Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies showed up to arrest one INNOCENT unarmed man for supposedly stealing his own truck. The main duty of patrol officers these days is not law enforcement. It is revenue enhancement. They do it in various ways from ticketing homeless people to traffic tickets for minor things that would have generated either a warning or no stop at all 20 years ago. Our cops have qualified immunity, unions that support them no matter what, sweetheart labor contracts, judges, DA's, police chiefs, and Internal Affairs departments that are intent on exonerating them when they do wrong. They rarely face the same kind of punishments ordinary citizens face when convicted of a crime. What you see in this video is the exception, not the rule, when it comes to sentencing cops. When it comes to suing a cop in civil courts for abusing the rights of citizens, if you can overcome their qualified immunity, any judgment levied against them is almost always paid by their employing city, county, or state. As rare as a harsh prison sentence is for a cop, it is even rarer that they have to pay out of pocket when sued in civil court for their abusive behavior. 250 years ago Benjamin Franklin told us that no foreign nation would ever conquer us. He warned that the conquering army would spring from within. Our modern day police force is becoming that army.
No they don't. The average salary in LA is 80K a year. They also don't make money off of writing tickets. The county may make money, but not the officers. Just more paper work for them. My dad was an officer for 30+ years, and believe me he did not make a ton of money.
@@LancerX916 Yes, some of them do. I never said the cops make money directly off of tickets. My Dad was also a cop for most of his life. It does not change the fact that today's law "enforcement" is corrupt as a group. Fact: The county pays the cops. Some of that money comes from the county's share of traffic fines. The same holds true with city cops. Quit believing in your fantasy that today's cops are like your Dad, or mine.
Definitely need to take Cost of Living into account. It all depends on what state/county you work in. Someone in California or New York doing the same job as me for the same period of time do make more than I do, because of the locality pay.
This sounds like looking at PDs in the big cities (LA, SF, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Washington DC, Detroit, Miami, Chicago, New York City) which are the most corrupt areas in the country and calling all of america's police a 'conquering army' lol. Police corruption has a long history in those cities especially NYC and Chicago. Most other medium to smaller cities don't have anywhere near the scandals these places have which collectively have more officers than all the big cities. Notice how all the stories in this video were cops from big cities? Baltimore, Miami, London. Not a surprise at all. Also a lot of the fact that PDs in the big democrat-run cities aren't doing their jobs properly anymore is a policy decision. The democrats have handicapped them; they can no longer arrest a lot of criminals that need to be; they let them go all the time and are focusing their time on getting the greedy city leadership more revenue. Democrat leaders always want more and more money to spend they can never have enough. California's GDP is astronomically high with huge industries in silicon valley and agriculture and their tax revenue is one of the highest in the country yet they still somehow spend more than they take in. I've lived in smaller cities (victoria, BC, canada and lexington, Ky) my whole adult life and never had a problem with crimes being committed by a police department. Never even heard of a scandal on the news. But I did hear of a few in Vancouver which is next door to victoria and another big city lol. Also I looked it up and the LAPD is literally the highest paid police in the country next to the CIA and national guard salaries. Not exactly representative of the whole country. The average salary of a cop in america is $57000 per year. Higher paid senior officers make an average of up to $94000 at the top end. Junior officers only make around $30000 per year in many states which is pretty modest; can barely live off that alone these days my brother works entry-level in a toyota factory and makes more than that lol. Lastly I should say; if you want the police behavior to change and go back to arresting real criminals and not nickel and diming their citizens, elect conservative mayors and DAs. Its the democrat policies that are the reason for that and it will not change unless they are out of office.
I have many many friends who are officers all over the US and none of them could even dream of seeing $300,000. Cops aren't paid squat and yet they risk their lives for our safety day after day, and in return they are torn down, trashed on the news, injured, threatened, and killed. I bet none of us would go back to our own jobs the next day if we were treated the way police officers are every day. There are a few bad apples, just like there are at any job, but I believe police have the most difficult job possible with the way the US is right now and they keep going to work day after day because they want to protect and serve. Throw the bad ones in jail, I'm all for that, but dont lump them all in 1 basket because very few are bad.
Yes, they are and should be held to a higher standard. Same for myself and my occupation. I took an oath over 15 years ago and I take that very seriously.
Police SHOULD be held to a higher degree in the law and penalties should be automatically doubled. Police SHOULD be requires to attend university level courses of at LEAST 8 years, if it takes 8 years for someone to save a life as a doctor, it should be the same for someone entrusted with the law to take a life. Police SHOULD be required to have an IQ test with stringent standards to have that position. Police SHOULD be required to take many, and random, psychological tests by 3rd parties ( and results posted front page within every community, with mandatory dismissal of anyone that shows ANY sort of Narcissistic behaviors). Police SHOULD be subjected to national laws and standards so all laws enforceable against the people are standard and known. Police SHOULD be outlawed to utilize things like "qualified immunity" and "civil forfeiture" 100%.
I went to prison once for b&e. A new inmate came in. He had molested a kid and he was proud of it. That night, 198 men ran a train on him. I was the only one that didn't participate
All 198 of them should have gotten extra desserts for a couple of years since they couldn't receive medals for their good deed! I hope he's still getting 'abused '
In my dad’s police department at least, college educated cops commit almost no crimes and have almost no complaints. Just requiring a college degree would make things dramatically better.
When I was 17yrs old I was driving home from a friend's house at 3am. I was not speeding, so I called my dad who was a police officer. He told me to drive to the local police station as to not be pulled over alone so late at night.
I have several family members that are in-law enforcement. Summer detectives summer actually in sex crime units. I have a Uncle that is a sheriff in Virginia. trust me when I tell you. They have told me some stories about scene corruption abuse of power. At the end of the day like my Uncle said, it's a bad ones that make it harder for the good ones like myself. To get trust amongst the people. He always tells me got too many cops out here. That use that so-called shield the badge as a means of doing whatever they want because they're addicted to power.
I honestly think they did believe they would get away with it. Its a lot easier to convince yourself of that when you are the authority, and it seems like everyone you know is in on it... I mean, as long as you don't get on the radar of the Feds, who is going to catch you?
One of the rare instances where they're held accountable, like you said right in the beginning if anyone should be held to a higher standard its cops. Where we're at now disgraceful and i would feel secondary embarrassment from being in the same line of work.
You ask why and it reminded me of one of my favorite Dune quotes > Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Psychopaths and sociopaths are skilled at mimicry. Most do not advertise why they want to be police. A lot of the characteristics needed to be police (or fire, for that matter) can also be seen in the anti-social personalities. Police also are heavily male dominated and are hardly sympathetic to gender-based crime (SA or domestic violence). Plus, it appears there is a very big blue line between police and civilians. Not an easy job--tendency is to protect brothers in arms, many times blindly. There have been changes, but changes is very slow. Re, your comment about police pay. No, police generally are not well paid--depends on the municipality since it is a tax-based issue here in the States. One of the depts in my county prior to Covid starting pay was 18K. Some departments are part-time forces, or simply have only the Chief. The Floyd video is like a live snuff film. Ever see the movie, 'Training Day'--very scary view of corruption of an individual. There is an Oklahoma City Deputy was convicted of serial rape--picking vulnerable women. He was on staff for 3 years--so likely he honed his skills before joining the police--and used his power and badge to rape with impunity. All police corruption--individual or systemic-- puts good police who are the majority at-risk, tears apart at the relationship between police and community, and in general makes all less safe. Serve and protect is a mindset among 'good' police.
Lol they really ain't, I don't think you understand what happens to a fed in prison especially one that's sexually assaulted kids, the officers in the jail won't care or protect them and the inmates hate that stuff to, not to mention he probably put some of them dudes in prison, Trust me being a criminal fed is the worst case if you go jail
"You don't get life for stealing a packet of crisps." Tell that to the man in Louisiana doing life for stealing hedge clippers, or the men in California doing life for stealing pizza and for stealing a handful of VHS tapes. Welcome to the "three strikes you're out" law.
90% of the police in CA make 100k or more and then add the benefits and all the perks and your basically at 150k. The highest cop makes 300k in CA plus benefits
Well just because you expose yourself doesn't mean you're a murderer and rap**t. There's a lot more that gets off exposing themselves and nothing more, then there's killers.
@kabirconsiders, there was an excellent TV series from the early '00s called The Shield, about a fictional corrupt police unit, They were an elite task force for breaking up gangs and drug rings but but prove to be dirtier than the criminals. Great performances, ran for 7 seasons, give it a go.
23:00 he didnt exactly complete cut off oxygen, he cut off oxygenated blood to the brain. Which is an awful way to die and he knew exactly what he was doing. Its something id never do for more than 15 or so seconds in the ring.
In order for a cop to go to prison the union has to abandon them. If the union stands behind the cop they cannot get anything worse than a paid suspension. The union won't stand behind the cop if the cop hasn't cut them in or wasn't acting on behalf of whichever criminal organization that run the union... or if they need a scapegoat.
Bruh, of course you can trust the police 99% of the time. There are 167,000 police in the UK and about 600,000 in the USA. These stories are horrific, but are only a drop in the bucket compared to all of the diligent officers in both countries. The problem with today’s world, subjects like this one concentrate all the bad stories into a short TH-cam video.
It's Cops like this that give the Police Dept. A bad name. This stains the good Cops that really try hard to Protect and Serve . This is Shameful to his Family and the Dept.
The Miami cop reminded me of a guy I went to high school with, in the late 00s, who became a cop and ended up being arrested for the same evil stuff about 5-6 years ago. He was finding kids (boys and girls, all like 12-16) who did very minor things wrong and threaten them with being arrested, telling their parents, etc unless they…yeah. He got caught because one of his victims was a city commissioner’s son who told their dad what happened
Re Couzens and he must have said something to other officers…. Maybe, but maybe not. My father was a narcissist and emotionally and mentally abusive. But if u asked anyone outside our immediate family they would have said he was the best person they knew. People can be VERY GOOD at disguising their behaviour.
So. Much. This. Nobody believed that my parents were abusive. It wasn't until 9th grade that I had a friend over who just happened to overhear my mother berating me that I had confirmation I wasn't crazy and definitive proof that I wasn't a liar. My parents were terrible but, to the outside world, they were great. Nobody knew that I was such a good child because I was afraid of what would happen if I messed up.
Instead of defunding police as they have done in many states in the US, they need to require more training and education of anyone who is attempting to become an officer. There should also be ongoing evaluations throughout their careers in order to keep track of their mental and emotional states. I understand some people saying that they should behave themselves (not take bribes) no matter what they get paid, but, since they are doing a fairly dangerous job, it would seem that there should be a federally placed minimum salary for police that is at 70 grand. These changes might go a long way in assuring that we have better people serving as our peace keepers. Unfortunately, our society is not peaceful enough at this time to do without them.
My ex-fiance was a horrible racist. I am still embarrassed to have known him. My mom raised my sister and me to respect police officers . . . as she worked for our local P.D. of dedectives, and my aunt. I needed to let him go after hearing some horrific stories. I believe there are good people, who take their positions seriously.
What officers make varies greatly. A lot depends on what department you work for. In small towns many have second jobs doing security work. Law enforcement can be local, state or federal. My cousin is a full time sheriff’s deputy, a part time police officer and part time security guard.
Born and raised in Maryland, I can attest that Baltimore has been hopelessly lost for many years. My family move to the rural south to get away from Sodom and Gomorrah 43 years ago and I never looked back. I cannot imagine how bad it is there now. Anyone voluntarily living in Baltimore is a part of the problem. The city needs to be abandoned and burned down.
That Miami cop won't last long in prison. The inmates "take care" of guys that abuse kids. Plus, being a cop on top of that isn't going to help him. Nothing would surprise me coming out of Baltimore. That place is a lost cause. How the residents haven't voted out all the leadership there by now is beyond belief. Good luck to anyone that is still living in Balti-morgue.
I tested for the police department when I was 21 (38 years ago). They gave intellectual, psychological and physical tests in Vegas at that time. I think they still do because this State depends on visitors being treated well, so we can't afford to have unhinged police officers. The pay is good and they can retire after 20 years of service. I was 15 pounds overweight, so I didn't qualify.
The problem is that potential recruits can take the psychological test more than once until they figure out the right answers or just apply for a different nearby dept. and keep going until they eventually get in. I know someone who failed their psychological 3x and the Chief just gave him an exception. He’s been a cop for close to a decade now. He’s a good cop, but he never should’ve been a cop at all and it made me realize that the psychological exams are just a formality that can be waived and not a barrier to entry for a lot of departments, especially smaller ones.
day-1 of a police officer, quota-quota-quota ... day-2, ticket-ticket-ticket ... day-3, arrest-arrest-arrest ... day-4, lie-lie-lie ...promotions are based on THESE items !! ... this is truth & reality !!
I just read a study on sexual misconduct by cops which went from officer's having sex in the department or cars on duty to rape and coercion using t he badge and uniform and victims are mostly victims already and the author of the study was a cop for 25yrs and said that there are thousands upon thousands and thousands of the sex offenders what i don't know is was that just in his area or allover
@@vickismith4180 The person I was responding to was speaking about the DS in general. He (at least the way I inferred it) wasn’t speaking about any specific case involving the DS and a police officer, he’s merely saying that in his state if anyone earned the DS they can expect for it to be carried out … no stays and no changing the penalty from death to life without parole. For me, Texas most certainly fits that description.
Criminals don't want change in the last year and a half I've seen about 1000 videos of the criminal acts from minor incidents to major issues not including articles i have read and a couple of studies
Lust and greed are forms of obsession. With the object of obsession placed before them, they literally can't resist it, no matter the price they may pay. I guess it's a form of psychological slavery. But they had ready access to help to break their habit, and failed to take advantage of it. They deserve no sympathy.
It’s nice that he shows remorse… but 25 years ain’t enough… we trust police inherently. 25 years for the crime + X years for the betrayal. Politicians are also paid very well, so they won’t sell-out. 🤷🏻♂️ they still do though.
Many police officers make absolute crap pay. In some areas, cops make less than McDonalds workers. To get to those high levels of pay that you're thinking of, they have to take on side gigs like traffic patrol or working at events. Many work as bouncers or security guards, as well. In order to make $90k in most departments, you've basically got to be working 80 hour weeks. It's a big part of the problem. We're not paying them enough to attract the best and brightest - and most departments want a bachelor's degree, too! Now, some areas pay much better, don't get me wrong. That's not the norm, though.
Your over estimating an officers income. At the Michigan State Police, I was hired in at $19 an hour to start as an inspector in the specialized enforcement division in 2016
Growing up in New York City in the 80's nothing like this surprises me...
In one of my first criminal justice courses, the professor claimed that there were students in that room, to learn how to get away with crimes. He wasn't lying!
Brian Koberger did.
@@lareeseblaque8303 he must've been a piss-poor studen because so far it hasn't helped.
George Floyd was Minneapolis, Minnesota not Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Regarding cases such as the task force in Baltimore, the question isn't how were they finally caught. The question is how many cops in the department knew what was going on and didn't report them because of the code of protecting the Thin Blue Line.
I don't want to hear about them being underpaid they know this before they become Cops, had a family member who was a Cop and he managed on his salary and plus to walk the straight and narrow! No excuses
They're all sorry they were caught.
Correct.The cop that got 25 yrs pleading with the judge for mercy ??? REALLY ??? He put innocent citizens in jail and now he wants-MERCY ???
NYC cop Frank Serpico blew the whistle on how dirty NY cops could be back in the '60s & "70s, book was written about it called "Serpico", good read. And then let's talk about Brookside, Alabama that entangled the entire police department. NOPD back in the '90s was scarily corrupt. I've known a lot of good cops, but it doesn't take more than one bad cop to destroy an entire force. Even worse is when the city attorney or the district attorney is onboard.
I'm from Baltimore and they didn't get enough time.
Shout out to the BBC for doing a great job in covering this.
Police, especially in small departments in the U.S. are often very poorly trained. The job tends to attract people who are bullies, or who felt victimized as kids, and want revenge. Interactions with people who have mental stability issues can frequently go wrong very quickly.
Y'know, being a Chicano living in Mexico with my own stories of cops here and hearing about the US' police stories all the time, I genuinely couldn't imagine a cop who isn't corrupt
Organized crime won't tolerate an honest cop.
@@gallendugall8913 Oh,I get it. LOL.
It is the corrupt or criminal who put the lionshare of cops at risk. It is not that common, but grabs headlines.
I lived in Mexico for a few months and witnessed officers openly taking bribes. They didn’t even try to be discreet about it.
That Miami cop got off easy. It's BS that all his sentences are running concurrent....it should be consecutive. He basically only got a 25 years sentence.
Let me tell you about how the pastor of my church and the corrupt police set me up, I rented a house that had a mother-in-law suite. It was like a nice little apt. I had a roommate that had moved out, my pastor came to me with a sob story of this old couple that had accidentally burned down their house with a candle in the bathroom. I felt sorry for them and let them move in, telling them I would give them time to get on their feet. The woman told me they had a lot of friends, and that they came over all times of the day and night. They had their own entrance, so I thought it would be ok.
One night, I heard a car late at night, I looked out and the one young girl went to the door, while the other stayed in the car, she pulled a meth pipe out of the ashtray and was banging it to clean it out. I saw that people only came to their door when their porch light was on. One day, someone knocked on my door, when I answered it, the man was tweaking out really bad and asking for the woman. This made me angry, by now I had figured out I let drug dealers move into my house. I had 4 children.
I went to the pastor, who at first tried to talk around it, but then confessed he knew they burned down their house when their meth lab blew up. I asked him to come with me to confront them and tell them to leave, he did with another man from the church. We all sat in my living room, and I told them they had to leave, they just laughed at me, I told them I was going to call the police, again, they laughed and said: "Where do you think we get our best stuff from." I ended up moving out very quickly, and I moved away from that area. I was afraid I would get caught in between a gun battle if I didn't leave. The way I feel about it, the cops and the church are all criminals until they prove they aren't. Guilty until proven innocent.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When you have never had your actions questioned nor suffered any consequences, your mind tells you that you are ALL powerful.
I was in a zoom class today and greed and pride were brought up. The instructor said greed is never satisfied. This is why the cops got involved in their criminal activity and it kept escalating. Greed always once more.
I was playing this in the background & heard a very unique name, a blast all the way from elementary school. What a way to find out what happened to someone you went to school with, that they became a dirty cop. 😮
Out of curiosity….we’re you surprised or did you think “I’m not surprised?”
@@KathyM1611 I was genuinely surprised!! Of course, we were single-digit ages back then but he was a very nice kid.
NOTHING worse than a corrupt cop.
Is there a not corrupt cop? Others in their departments knew what was happening and said nothing because of the code is silence.
@@JeshuaSquirrel thats why there are no good cops, hell no good first responders in general. firefighters and EMTs can get off the hook easier than the common man too.
@@JeshuaSquirrel Correct.If you snitch other cops won't back you up in an emergency situation.
Corrupt judges are worse than corrupt cops.
The planting of evidence is incredibly insidious.
And incredibly common no doubt.
There was a lot of that being done at one particular police station in Los Angeles. It was called the Rampart station.
When I had jury duty one year and the defendant who was a young man who had been driving drunk and had been pulled over by the California highway patrol. During jury selection, we were asked if we were automatically believed law enforcement. The judge kept saying remember Rampart when speaking to potential jurors. That was like saying don’t forget cops can be corrupt.
Im the daughter of a 27yr retired police officer & nothing pissed my dad off more then dirty cops. I agree with my dad when he said the small percentage of bad cops make it so hard for all the good ones.
19:10 I've heard that most prisoners don't like those kind of monsters that go after children anyways when their locked up so they go out of their way to make life a personal hello for them. And their right
Due to what you’re describing, most prisons now house child predators separately from the general population.
The narrator said Milwaukee.....george floyd was in Minneapolis
$90K? Cops in our largest cities can make upwards of $300k with base salary, overtime, and benefits. They are overpaid and underworked. I saw a video yesterday where SIXTEEN Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies showed up to arrest one INNOCENT unarmed man for supposedly stealing his own truck. The main duty of patrol officers these days is not law enforcement. It is revenue enhancement. They do it in various ways from ticketing homeless people to traffic tickets for minor things that would have generated either a warning or no stop at all 20 years ago. Our cops have qualified immunity, unions that support them no matter what, sweetheart labor contracts, judges, DA's, police chiefs, and Internal Affairs departments that are intent on exonerating them when they do wrong. They rarely face the same kind of punishments ordinary citizens face when convicted of a crime. What you see in this video is the exception, not the rule, when it comes to sentencing cops. When it comes to suing a cop in civil courts for abusing the rights of citizens, if you can overcome their qualified immunity, any judgment levied against them is almost always paid by their employing city, county, or state. As rare as a harsh prison sentence is for a cop, it is even rarer that they have to pay out of pocket when sued in civil court for their abusive behavior. 250 years ago Benjamin Franklin told us that no foreign nation would ever conquer us. He warned that the conquering army would spring from within. Our modern day police force is becoming that army.
No they don't. The average salary in LA is 80K a year. They also don't make money off of writing tickets. The county may make money, but not the officers. Just more paper work for them. My dad was an officer for 30+ years, and believe me he did not make a ton of money.
@@LancerX916 Yes, some of them do. I never said the cops make money directly off of tickets. My Dad was also a cop for most of his life. It does not change the fact that today's law "enforcement" is corrupt as a group. Fact: The county pays the cops. Some of that money comes from the county's share of traffic fines. The same holds true with city cops. Quit believing in your fantasy that today's cops are like your Dad, or mine.
Definitely need to take Cost of Living into account. It all depends on what state/county you work in.
Someone in California or New York doing the same job as me for the same period of time do make more than I do, because of the locality pay.
This sounds like looking at PDs in the big cities (LA, SF, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Washington DC, Detroit, Miami, Chicago, New York City) which are the most corrupt areas in the country and calling all of america's police a 'conquering army' lol. Police corruption has a long history in those cities especially NYC and Chicago. Most other medium to smaller cities don't have anywhere near the scandals these places have which collectively have more officers than all the big cities. Notice how all the stories in this video were cops from big cities? Baltimore, Miami, London. Not a surprise at all. Also a lot of the fact that PDs in the big democrat-run cities aren't doing their jobs properly anymore is a policy decision. The democrats have handicapped them; they can no longer arrest a lot of criminals that need to be; they let them go all the time and are focusing their time on getting the greedy city leadership more revenue. Democrat leaders always want more and more money to spend they can never have enough. California's GDP is astronomically high with huge industries in silicon valley and agriculture and their tax revenue is one of the highest in the country yet they still somehow spend more than they take in. I've lived in smaller cities (victoria, BC, canada and lexington, Ky) my whole adult life and never had a problem with crimes being committed by a police department. Never even heard of a scandal on the news. But I did hear of a few in Vancouver which is next door to victoria and another big city lol.
Also I looked it up and the LAPD is literally the highest paid police in the country next to the CIA and national guard salaries. Not exactly representative of the whole country. The average salary of a cop in america is $57000 per year. Higher paid senior officers make an average of up to $94000 at the top end. Junior officers only make around $30000 per year in many states which is pretty modest; can barely live off that alone these days my brother works entry-level in a toyota factory and makes more than that lol.
Lastly I should say; if you want the police behavior to change and go back to arresting real criminals and not nickel and diming their citizens, elect conservative mayors and DAs. Its the democrat policies that are the reason for that and it will not change unless they are out of office.
I have many many friends who are officers all over the US and none of them could even dream of seeing $300,000. Cops aren't paid squat and yet they risk their lives for our safety day after day, and in return they are torn down, trashed on the news, injured, threatened, and killed. I bet none of us would go back to our own jobs the next day if we were treated the way police officers are every day. There are a few bad apples, just like there are at any job, but I believe police have the most difficult job possible with the way the US is right now and they keep going to work day after day because they want to protect and serve. Throw the bad ones in jail, I'm all for that, but dont lump them all in 1 basket because very few are bad.
Yes, they are and should be held to a higher standard.
Same for myself and my occupation. I took an oath over 15 years ago and I take that very seriously.
The first ones got drunk and watched Training Day.
We Own This City is the HBO series on the Wayne’s Jenkins and team case.
Jenkins is only remorseful because he got caught.
Police SHOULD be held to a higher degree in the law and penalties should be automatically doubled.
Police SHOULD be requires to attend university level courses of at LEAST 8 years, if it takes 8 years for someone to save a life as a doctor, it should be the same for someone entrusted with the law to take a life.
Police SHOULD be required to have an IQ test with stringent standards to have that position.
Police SHOULD be required to take many, and random, psychological tests by 3rd parties ( and results posted front page within every community, with mandatory dismissal of anyone that shows ANY sort of Narcissistic behaviors).
Police SHOULD be subjected to national laws and standards so all laws enforceable against the people are standard and known.
Police SHOULD be outlawed to utilize things like "qualified immunity" and "civil forfeiture" 100%.
Average salary for a 1st year police officer is approximately $50,000. 10 year police officer salary is approximately $85,000, in the USA .
If they don’t know Constitutional Law (which they’ve sworn to uphold) or if they’re dirty, they’re not worth $50k
All corruption should be double the sentence
I don't understand how people can do such terrible things either. You're a good man, Kabir! Loved your reaction.
Yeah. The Wire was a classic. I wish there were more shows of that calibre.
Me too,but,don't forget the-SHIELD.Very good show.
@@powerbadpowerbad Yeah very good
I went to prison once for b&e. A new inmate came in. He had molested a kid and he was proud of it.
That night, 198 men ran a train on him. I was the only one that didn't participate
All 198 of them should have gotten extra desserts for a couple of years since they couldn't receive medals for their good deed! I hope he's still getting 'abused '
@@bestofsmall I was transferred to a different prison the next day so I have no idea what happened to that disgusting waste of skin and bones
In my dad’s police department at least, college educated cops commit almost no crimes and have almost no complaints. Just requiring a college degree would make things dramatically better.
When I was 17yrs old I was driving home from a friend's house at 3am. I was not speeding, so I called my dad who was a police officer. He told me to drive to the local police station as to not be pulled over alone so late at night.
I have several family members that are in-law enforcement. Summer detectives summer actually in sex crime units. I have a Uncle that is a sheriff in Virginia. trust me when I tell you. They have told me some stories about scene corruption abuse of power. At the end of the day like my Uncle said, it's a bad ones that make it harder for the good ones like myself. To get trust amongst the people. He always tells me got too many cops out here. That use that so-called shield the badge as a means of doing whatever they want because they're addicted to power.
I honestly think they did believe they would get away with it. Its a lot easier to convince yourself of that when you are the authority, and it seems like everyone you know is in on it... I mean, as long as you don't get on the radar of the Feds, who is going to catch you?
One of the rare instances where they're held accountable, like you said right in the beginning if anyone should be held to a higher standard its cops. Where we're at now disgraceful and i would feel secondary embarrassment from being in the same line of work.
You ask why and it reminded me of one of my favorite Dune quotes
> Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
This is insanely good thanks for another great reaction Kabir!
Psychopaths and sociopaths are skilled at mimicry. Most do not advertise why they want to be police. A lot of the characteristics needed to be police (or fire, for that matter) can also be seen in the anti-social personalities. Police also are heavily male dominated and are hardly sympathetic to gender-based crime (SA or domestic violence). Plus, it appears there is a very big blue line between police and civilians. Not an easy job--tendency is to protect brothers in arms, many times blindly. There have been changes, but changes is very slow.
Re, your comment about police pay. No, police generally are not well paid--depends on the municipality since it is a tax-based issue here in the States. One of the depts in my county prior to Covid starting pay was 18K. Some departments are part-time forces, or simply have only the Chief. The Floyd video is like a live snuff film. Ever see the movie, 'Training Day'--very scary view of corruption of an individual. There is an Oklahoma City Deputy was convicted of serial rape--picking vulnerable women. He was on staff for 3 years--so likely he honed his skills before joining the police--and used his power and badge to rape with impunity.
All police corruption--individual or systemic-- puts good police who are the majority at-risk, tears apart at the relationship between police and community, and in general makes all less safe. Serve and protect is a mindset among 'good' police.
People like this are receiving mercy by living in prison.
Lol they really ain't, I don't think you understand what happens to a fed in prison especially one that's sexually assaulted kids, the officers in the jail won't care or protect them and the inmates hate that stuff to, not to mention he probably put some of them dudes in prison,
Trust me being a criminal fed is the worst case if you go jail
"You don't get life for stealing a packet of crisps." Tell that to the man in Louisiana doing life for stealing hedge clippers, or the men in California doing life for stealing pizza and for stealing a handful of VHS tapes. Welcome to the "three strikes you're out" law.
For sure one of the most manifestly unjust laws in US law
Pizza dude got resentenced to 3 years max
90% of the police in CA make 100k or more and then add the benefits and all the perks and your basically at 150k. The highest cop makes 300k in CA plus benefits
Well just because you expose yourself doesn't mean you're a murderer and rap**t. There's a lot more that gets off exposing themselves and nothing more, then there's killers.
@kabirconsiders, there was an excellent TV series from the early '00s called The Shield, about a fictional corrupt police unit, They were an elite task force for breaking up gangs and drug rings but but prove to be dirtier than the criminals. Great performances, ran for 7 seasons, give it a go.
I agree 💯percent with you Kabir!🇺🇸
Those animals do this every day
23:00 he didnt exactly complete cut off oxygen, he cut off oxygenated blood to the brain. Which is an awful way to die and he knew exactly what he was doing. Its something id never do for more than 15 or so seconds in the ring.
Wherever you have people, there’s a potential for corruption.
Ashamed he got caught.
In order for a cop to go to prison the union has to abandon them. If the union stands behind the cop they cannot get anything worse than a paid suspension. The union won't stand behind the cop if the cop hasn't cut them in or wasn't acting on behalf of whichever criminal organization that run the union... or if they need a scapegoat.
Look at our politicians
I also get physically sick by the crimes against children. Two years! A gun! SHUT UP with the details! OMG Kabir.
Most cops in America are good! But yes, there are corrupt ones, not the majority. I’m glad I can call the police to help me when in need. ❤
Bruh, of course you can trust the police 99% of the time. There are 167,000 police in the UK and about 600,000 in the USA. These stories are horrific, but are only a drop in the bucket compared to all of the diligent officers in both countries. The problem with today’s world, subjects like this one concentrate all the bad stories into a short TH-cam video.
You confused . Those are criminals who slipped through the cracks. The lack of hiring and monitoring of those cops , were the problem.
It's Cops like this that give the Police Dept. A bad name. This stains the good Cops that really try hard to Protect and Serve . This is Shameful to his Family and the Dept.
The Miami cop reminded me of a guy I went to high school with, in the late 00s, who became a cop and ended up being arrested for the same evil stuff about 5-6 years ago. He was finding kids (boys and girls, all like 12-16) who did very minor things wrong and threaten them with being arrested, telling their parents, etc unless they…yeah.
He got caught because one of his victims was a city commissioner’s son who told their dad what happened
Re Couzens and he must have said something to other officers…. Maybe, but maybe not. My father was a narcissist and emotionally and mentally abusive. But if u asked anyone outside our immediate family they would have said he was the best person they knew. People can be VERY GOOD at disguising their behaviour.
So. Much. This. Nobody believed that my parents were abusive. It wasn't until 9th grade that I had a friend over who just happened to overhear my mother berating me that I had confirmation I wasn't crazy and definitive proof that I wasn't a liar. My parents were terrible but, to the outside world, they were great. Nobody knew that I was such a good child because I was afraid of what would happen if I messed up.
Instead of defunding police as they have done in many states in the US, they need to require more training and education of anyone who is attempting to become an officer. There should also be ongoing evaluations throughout their careers in order to keep track of their mental and emotional states. I understand some people saying that they should behave themselves (not take bribes) no matter what they get paid, but, since they are doing a fairly dangerous job, it would seem that there should be a federally placed minimum salary for police that is at 70 grand. These changes might go a long way in assuring that we have better people serving as our peace keepers. Unfortunately, our society is not peaceful enough at this time to do without them.
My ex-fiance was a horrible racist. I am still embarrassed to have known him.
My mom raised my sister and me to respect police officers . . . as she worked for our local P.D. of dedectives, and my aunt.
I needed to let him go after hearing some horrific stories.
I believe there are good people, who take their positions seriously.
Life Spent in Solidarity Confinement 😢😢😢😢 is Truly Torture .. & could easily be a sentence to INSANITY ! ......
What officers make varies greatly. A lot depends on what department you work for. In small towns many have second jobs doing security work. Law enforcement can be local, state or federal. My cousin is a full time sheriff’s deputy, a part time police officer and part time security guard.
Born and raised in Maryland, I can attest that Baltimore has been hopelessly lost for many years. My family move to the rural south to get away from Sodom and Gomorrah 43 years ago and I never looked back. I cannot imagine how bad it is there now. Anyone voluntarily living in Baltimore is a part of the problem. The city needs to be abandoned and burned down.
I really hate to see rogue cops! We've even had some in our small town, here in Ohio! It sucks!
I THINK THE NUMBER OF CORRUPT COPS IS MUCH HIGHER THAN YOU INDICATED
That Miami cop won't last long in prison. The inmates "take care" of guys that abuse kids. Plus, being a cop on top of that isn't going to help him.
Nothing would surprise me coming out of Baltimore. That place is a lost cause. How the residents haven't voted out all the leadership there by now is beyond belief. Good luck to anyone that is still living in Balti-morgue.
To answer the question of why they do what they do it's because it's so hard to hold them accountable.
I tested for the police department when I was 21 (38 years ago). They gave intellectual, psychological and physical tests in Vegas at that time. I think they still do because this State depends on visitors being treated well, so we can't afford to have unhinged police officers. The pay is good and they can retire after 20 years of service. I was 15 pounds overweight, so I didn't qualify.
The problem is that potential recruits can take the psychological test more than once until they figure out the right answers or just apply for a different nearby dept. and keep going until they eventually get in. I know someone who failed their psychological 3x and the Chief just gave him an exception. He’s been a cop for close to a decade now. He’s a good cop, but he never should’ve been a cop at all and it made me realize that the psychological exams are just a formality that can be waived and not a barrier to entry for a lot of departments, especially smaller ones.
I am shocked shocked I tell you, next thing you're going to tell me is politicians can be corrupt too.😅😂😂
It used to be that government employees were thought of as underpaid, that is not the case anymore. 30 and out with great pensions and benefits.
It depends. Most cops start around $40K or so. It's hard enough to support a family, or even 2 ppl with $90K/yr.
Anything against children…I don’t think I need to say more.
Yeah…never mind the fact that Floyd was already dying of Fentanyl anyway.
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Well, Kabir, it's like that old adage goes:
It Takes One Bad Apple To Spoil The Whole Bunch😊
The whole barrel is rotten.
day-1 of a police officer, quota-quota-quota ... day-2, ticket-ticket-ticket ... day-3, arrest-arrest-arrest ... day-4, lie-lie-lie ...promotions are based on THESE items !! ... this is truth & reality !!
I just read a study on sexual misconduct by cops which went from officer's having sex in the department or cars on duty to rape and coercion using t he badge and uniform and victims are mostly victims already and the author of the study was a cop for 25yrs and said that there are thousands upon thousands and thousands of the sex offenders what i don't know is was that just in his area or allover
dont think there wernt some higher ups turning a blind eye or slacking on the job to the extreme
There is a tv show called 'The Shield' that is about a elite group of cops who are corrupt.
Greed and a power trip. They think just bc they're cops, that they're above the law.
That's why I'm glad I live in a state that has the death penalty and we use it
Gotta be Texas. Am I right?
@@junesgemini8586 I don't remember not one cop sentenced to death in TX. For even the most despicable acts, they are given deference.
@@vickismith4180 The person I was responding to was speaking about the DS in general. He (at least the way I inferred it) wasn’t speaking about any specific case involving the DS and a police officer, he’s merely saying that in his state if anyone earned the DS they can expect for it to be carried out … no stays and no changing the penalty from death to life without parole. For me, Texas most certainly fits that description.
The police department has nothing to do with this. The police department wasn’t dealing the drugs criminals who happened to be cops were responsible.
If cops are on patrol who’s he revealing that shit to? A week prior is no time.
Kabir, top pay for police in in some Texas cities is about 60K a year.
dont feel sorry for the wife... she knew how much his job paid so where did the extra come from...
Criminals don't want change in the last year and a half I've seen about 1000 videos of the criminal acts from minor incidents to major issues not including articles i have read and a couple of studies
If i were the first family i would move out of state. God bless that family. 🙏
Even with examinations and tests, many psychopaths and sociopaths can beat them
You should watch "We Own This City" with Jon Bernthal who plays Wayne Jenkins about the Baltimore corruption
Cops and teachers make around the same amount.
As a cop they make decent money. As a drug criminal you make great money bud. It is the USA bud!
I was with you till the end look at police brutality matters and dr. Rashad Richey
Lust and greed are forms of obsession. With the object of obsession placed before them, they literally can't resist it, no matter the price they may pay. I guess it's a form of psychological slavery. But they had ready access to help to break their habit, and failed to take advantage of it. They deserve no sympathy.
Child abusers in american prison get something of street justice in prison from the other inmates.
Cops do not make that much money. No where near 90 grand. I know many cops that are very good people. They do it to serve and protect.
He could be genuinely remorseful but he committed the crime so he must do the time.
It’s nice that he shows remorse… but 25 years ain’t enough… we trust police inherently. 25 years for the crime + X years for the betrayal.
Politicians are also paid very well, so they won’t sell-out. 🤷🏻♂️ they still do though.
270 months =22 1/2 years
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W. Couzens did display those behaviours before.
03:35 some make "revange" to cartell / mafia. But not leagel ...... + easy money ....
Another great video.
Many police officers make absolute crap pay. In some areas, cops make less than McDonalds workers. To get to those high levels of pay that you're thinking of, they have to take on side gigs like traffic patrol or working at events. Many work as bouncers or security guards, as well. In order to make $90k in most departments, you've basically got to be working 80 hour weeks. It's a big part of the problem. We're not paying them enough to attract the best and brightest - and most departments want a bachelor's degree, too! Now, some areas pay much better, don't get me wrong. That's not the norm, though.
Not true.
Your over estimating an officers income. At the Michigan State Police, I was hired in at $19 an hour to start as an inspector in the specialized enforcement division in 2016
22.5 years for Minneapolis ex-police