Anarcho-tyranny in actaion

[thibodeaux]

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-07/news/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed/

For more than two years, Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded every roll call at the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn and captured his superiors urging police officers to do two things in order to manipulate the "stats" that the department is under pressure to produce: Officers were told to arrest people who were doing little more than standing on the street, but they were also encouraged to disregard actual victims of serious crimes who wanted to file reports.

[TheCatt]

So... that helps explain the drop in crime no one can explain.

[thibodeaux]

I imagine that this is not at all a new thing.

[TPRJones]

I imagine that it's something done at nearly every police station around the globe. It's just the way police business is done these days, isn't it?

[TheCatt]

I don't think it's exclusive to police. You get what you measure, etc, etc.

[thibodeaux]

Perfect example:

Owners of cars destroyed in the riots fined for parking illegally while police adopt non-intervention policy...
”We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. ”If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”
Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.

[Malcolm]

But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.

Wow.

I'm now firmly of the opinion that cops are criminals that just decided to go to the academy.

[thibodeaux]

Police rounding up "vigilantes" in Sweden:

In the Stockholm suburb of Tumba the police decided to abandon their earlier non-intervention policy as a large group of police officers rounded up and dispersed a group of vigilantes trying to fend off rioters.

The decision to round up vigilantes while, according to Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving, ”doing as little as possible” to stop rioters, met with a wave of protests in various social media and on the Internet. Representatives of some vigilante groups contacted Fria Tider to give their view of last night’s events.

[TPRJones]

"If we aren't going to be doing our job, we certainly aren't going to let anyone else do it!"

[Malcolm]

Annotated history of the amount of energy one NYPD precinct will put into not doing its daily job.