If you aren’t already disgusted by the unchecked violence, control and aggression exhibited by local police forces across America, it is unlikely that viewing images of their havoc will offend you. If stories of babies having flash grenades thrown in their cribs while cops are conducting SWAT raids don’t stir you, it is doubtful more instances like this will. If disturbing slayings of the mentally disabled and the elderly are excusable to you, daily stories of the same offenses likely won’t change your mind.
This video was originally released in 2015, based on the article I have included here, originally posted on the Anti-Media
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If You Thought Police Brutality Didn’t Affect You Personally, You Were Wrong
If you aren’t outraged by these injustices already, chances are there isn’t much else that’s going to set you over the edge, short of a massacre of children or an accidental no-knock raid on your home that kills your own dog or maims your own child.
If you cannot be bothered to care about the physical, emotional, and inhumane trauma inflicted upon your fellow citizens, maybe you will find motivation to care in the cold, calculable numbers. Not of lost life, but that police departments inflict upon the taxpayer—not in human dignity, abuse or surrender of freedom—but in dollars.
The city of Los Angeles spent $1.5 million on a single case of a California Highway Patrol officer beating a woman senseless at a traffic stop. San Diego paid $5.9 million to compensate for sexual assault against multiple women by one officer. A city southwest of Tucson spent $3.4 million to cover a deadly 2011 SWAT raid. Boston settled a single case of brutality for $1.4 million that left a man with permanent brain injury and Scottsdale, Arizona paid $4.25 million for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.
Viewed as city totals, the numbers are even more staggering. The city of Baltimore has paid $5.7 million dollars in settlements and an additional $5.8 million in legal fees for police brutality. This is trivial compared to other cities. Minneapolis has paid $21 million since 2003. Oakland paid $74 million from 1990 to 2013 and Los Angeles shelled out $54 million in 2011 alone. Chicago paid $521 million from 2004-2014, with $84.6 million in 2013 (including court and legal fees).
As costly to tax payers around the country as these vicious city police forces can be, nothing compares to the most notorious brutalizer of all: the New York Police Department. New York City spent nearly a billion dollars–$964 million—from 2000 to 2010 (to be fair, including instances like cop car wrecks) and in 2012 alone spent $765 million dollars. The figure does include hospital negligence and property damage in addition to police abuse, but all around demonstrates the inability of government to adequately serve its people. The New York figure is expected to reach $815 million by 2016.
These individual and city-wide figures do not always take into account the legal costs of cases that are shuffled through the “justice” system, where violent police officers are excused and victims are left with nothing. It doesn’t count the money individuals who are not compensated must spend to take care of medical expenses (such as the parents of the baby hit by a flash grenade).
It doesn’t count the cost of paid vacations issued to officers who aren’t fired, nor the amount of money the government spends equipping cops with the military weapons that often give them a false sense of power and leads to their flagrant abuse. Between Department of Homeland Security grants of $34 billion in the decade after 9/11 and Pentagon donations of $4.3 billion in equipment, taxpayers pay for their own nationwide abuse.
If you are afraid of the police, it is time to remember that your submission enables them, empowers them, and keeps them well-armed and stocked. If you trust the police to use force, it’s time to realize that it’s costing you more than the false sense of security is worth.
Most importantly, it is time to accept that the fear, obedience, and loss of freedom that comes with acceptance to these practices costs more than any brutality settlement ever could.
More cops die in accidents: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2013-statistics-on-law-enforcement-officers-killed-and-assaulted
Majority of American approve of local police: [http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/01/15/one-third-of-americans-believe-police-lie-routinely/](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/01/15/one-third-of-americans-believe-police-lie-routinely/
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Thank you for sharing the info! I'd like to see more about this topic. Nice article! Best wishes!
Thank you! This is a vintage video from a few years ago, but sadly I think it still applies. :/
Carey, you are awesome. If only I could get some of my much more "conservative" friends to watch your videos like this. Oh, the insanity and hypocricy of the world :( :/ Thanks for sharing this on here, it is appreciated!
why would they watch this? By definition their own views are in conflict with everything Carey is talking about. They view all the things she describes as 'negative' to be 'positives' that are Necessary Evils; to keep them and their privileges in tact. Just saying - it's not in their nature to entertain differing Opinions from the ones they hold dear - conservatives 'conserve'; they fight 'change', 'new', 'different' - sadly, your friends are all for Police brutality towards 'poor' - black & brown - anything to Maintain Order; it's sad that Conservatives are so small minded; so unconcerned with truly building a better world; so bent on destruction; ongoing destruction; all to say they have 'dominion' over others on 'earth' --- such, small, minds.
One can still hope though, right? It drives me nuts though, how much hypocricy there is in these insane leaders of both the so-called Democrats and Conservatives. I know otherwise very intelligent people on both sides of the aisle, I can usually find at least one or a few things we agree on in common, but in the end I still see a LOT of close-minded pig-headish blindness from both. Hence... Why I generally refuse to identify myself with the "DNC," even though I otherwise don't disagree with everything they supposedly stand for and why I always end up somewhere in the middle between progressive ideals and more libertarian ideals, because they don't always intersect. I know a lot of people who call themselves Libertarian who are much more "conservative" in the way that you describe -- thinking they have dominion over the earth... supporting the destroyers and refusing to ever consider change or a better way while simultaneously sincerely believing that they are somehow SAVING the world........ yeah. Sigh. Too much insanity in the world. But I can always hope that I might reach them someday.
I am glad you are still active in getting the liberty message out.
Keep it up. 👍
Just a friendly tip: You might want to refrain from posting old articles. @cheetah will start flagging you and all of your future posts will also be flagged.
Especially considering you have been published on the internet previously and received a decent number of views on those publishings, @cheetah will find those and begin to automatically consider you a "spammer", or "plagiarist".
Also, while this article is interesting. It's from 2015. Today is 2018. Some of the estimates of "the future" are from 2016. Does it maybe make sense to update the article with more recent statistics? The issue is still relevant, and there must be more updated statistics that you can use?
Thanks for sharing!
that bot needs to get its' act together lol; great example of a 'well intended good' - ending up going entirely wrong; meanwhile how sad is it, that so many of the things discussed in 2015, are still relevant in 2018 .... smh
I've been letting cheetah know that it's my article it is linking to. It's kind of funny since I include the link in the steemit post, so obviously that's where it originally was.
This post was just to upload the video to Dtube, and I decided to include the article it was originally based on (stating right at the beginning that's what I was doing and that it was from 2015).
Thanks for your feedback, and warning about the bot
It's just a little bot.. some people like it, others despise it. You'll get more direct replies from @anyx, the creator of the bot. (If it becomes an issue for you)
Nice to see you on Steemit, Carey! Lurked your YouTube videos for a long time. I'm a libertarian, but I've gotten sick of the atmosphere among libertarian circles for a large part. You're one of the level headed ones that I still like.
You might want to fix that, though. :)
Word. I am somewhere between Libertarian and progressive or liberal (in the TRUE sense of the word liberal -- not the current two-faced backwards stupidity of the current faces running the DNC, who in most ways IMO are indistinguishable from their equally corrupt counterparts currently running the GOP). I am often alone in the world of political views I guess, ha ha. But it seems to me that I am going to like being here on Steemit, and I agree-- I also appreciate Carey and her real talk, a lot.
Annnnnd if you hadn't fixed that typo, I would have. I can't help it. Must proofread, all the time, everywhere.. It's my nature... x-D
I proofread everybody else's texts but mine. :D
I usually proofread my own as well. And then...... I often try to purposefully ignore my natural instinct to ensure all sentences conform to perfect sentence structure... cuz.... yeah. I figure I need to let up, ha ;D
Well done as always Carey :) Hope to see you at Anarchapulco!
Thanks! See you there
Very good post @careywedler.Im in the UK but we are not far behind you.They are animals
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Thanks for the upvote @cheetah. As you can see at the link you included, this is one of my articles..
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if you are sayin this, what would you nsay if you are nin my country nigeria? police are like lions here
You're right. It's 2018, we're sick of hearing this shit.
Yeah police don't have a responsibility to protect citizens. They only exist to PROTECT and SERVE the STATE!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html
Very true
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Tyranny, brought to you by people just following orders...the most evil people of all.
So i hear what youre saying, but what is the solution? How do we peacefully resolve the issue?
Add civil asset forfeiture to the list......
Your video on Dtube is Not playing