Lockean David House
Overheard from a blueshirt: "bosses want to knock them down, let them. This thing is going to explode" #ows #policerelations
7 hours ago
rudepundit The Rude Pundit
Call on all supporters to be here at 6 am tomorrow to organize to defend the occupation. #ows
8 hours ago
rudepundit The Rude Pundit
Direct action being planned, with expectation of multiple arrests. They are saying this in front of the cops. #ows
8 hours ago
LukeRudkowski Luke Rudkowski
There going to kick everyone out of #ows tomorrow 7am everyone come out with cameras
8 hours ago
JeffreyFeldman JeffreyFeldman
FYI: Steinbeck described how authorities use hygiene as basis for breaking up strike camps in In Dubious Battle (1936). #ows
8 hours ago
Re: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:38 pm
by Laodicean
NYPD Narcotics Detective Admits Cops Regularly Plant Drugs On Perps
A former NYPD Detective testified last week that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest quotas. Ex-Detective Stephen Anderson, who worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics divisions, was called to testify in the trial of Brooklyn South narcotics Detective Jason Arbeeny, who has been charged with falsifying public documents and business records. Mister Anderson's testimony was intended to reveal that, as the Daily News puts it, cop corruption wasn't limited to a single squad. In fact, it's pretty widespread!
Anderson was busted for helping plant cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008. He testified yesterday that he did it to help out fellow officer Henry Tavarez, whose "buy-and-bust" arrests had been low. "I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy," Anderson testified in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Anderson avoided jail time by pleading guilty and agreeing to testify against other officers swept up in the corruption bust. (The two men that got flaked received a $300,000 settlement from the city.)
The corruption I observed... was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," Anderson testified, according to the Post. Asked by Justice Gustin Reichbach how he felt about setting up innocent men, Anderson replied, "It's almost like you have no emotion with it, that they attach the bodies to it, they're going to be out of jail tomorrow anyway; nothing is going to happen to them anyway." And don't worry about Mister Anderson; because of his plea deal, he'll be out of prison in a couple of years anyway.
Reacting to Anderson's testimony, Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance says, "One of the consequences of the war on drugs is that police officers are pressured to make large numbers of arrests, and it’s easy for some of the less honest cops to plant evidence on innocent people. The drug war inevitably leads to crooked policing - and quotas further incentivize such practices."
Seriously? Wow. I hope this is the case. With ALL the Unions so far expressing support. To read about this eviction really turns my stomach. I guess it's my own naivete that I may expect any different. Still, I lament this turn of events.
From afar, what may we do?
Re: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:57 pm
by seemslikeadream
Re: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:59 pm
by MacCruiskeen
In the long run, OWS will not be tolerated - the media will do their job. The moment a cop gets even slightly injured while just doing his job, those protesters are going to have to endure very serious unpopularity (in the media). It's inevitable. The big question is: how will they then respond to it?
Seriously? Wow. I hope this is the case. With ALL the Unions so far expressing support. To read about this eviction really turns my stomach. I guess it's my own naivete that I may expect any different. Still, I lament this turn of events.
From afar, what may we do?
Yea..should have said I heard it on Mike Malloy...maybe they'll just keep coming and they'll have to keep arresting them
Re: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:07 pm
by Nordic
Ultimately it's a numbers game. There are only so many cops.
"We need a massive Canadian outcry right now. Send a message directly to Brookfield’s executives demanding that they respect democratic rights."
These assholes. A number of board members should be familiar to alienated Canadians: Jim Pattison, Trevor Eyton, Chairman Frank McKenna. Their HQ is on Bay Street, the focus of the Toronto Occupy action on Saturday.
Re: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:48 pm
by MacCruiskeen
How can a company in Canada possibly own a park in New York City?
What does that even mean: own? Really, this is the root of it.
Such ownership is normal, and it's obscene, which is to say invisible ("behind the scenes"). Normality is obscene.
Re: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:15 pm
by Jeff
MacCruiskeen wrote:
What does that even mean: own? Really, this is the root of it.
Such ownership is normal, and it's obscene, which is to say invisible ("behind the scenes"). Normality is obscene.
Good reading. Could have done without the commentary.
