tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546950008014232634.post4763958093600480147..comments2009-11-06T18:17:09.088-08:00Comments on Injustice In Seattle: A Month of Police Misconduct in the NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546950008014232634.post-66310404762400005522009-04-06T18:10:00.000-07:002009-04-06T18:10:00.000-07:00Thanks for the comment anon, and I agree. Reporter...Thanks for the comment anon, and I agree. Reporters and their employers actually run risks reporting on incidents of police misconduct.<BR/><BR/>Police unions don't just threaten reporters with spurious lawsuits, but also threaten to withhold stories and information from those reporters so that other reporters will beat them to stories. So, they definitely need encouragement to keep reporting on these issues, especially when so many papers are fighting for survival and dying off.<BR/><BR/>As for tracking this further, I've been doing so and hope to get some time to do some retroactively as well so that I'll have a full year's worth of figures when I'm done.<BR/><BR/>So many people come here in a search for statistics on police misconduct and no such statistics exist despite the US government recording stats on anything else imaginable... so it's about time someone tried to do this... guess I might as well try instead of complaining about it.<BR/><BR/>The problem, of course, is that for every story that makes it to the paper, that makes it into civil court, there are hundreds that we never hear about. So whatever number I come up with is bound to be a severe undercount of the actual incidents of misconduct that occur all over the US.<BR/><BR/>Thank you again for the comment and the support, I appreciate it!NPMSRPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18052178969107494589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546950008014232634.post-73037666676722986192009-04-06T17:48:00.000-07:002009-04-06T17:48:00.000-07:00"I'll be recording what I find in a database in or..."I'll be recording what I find in a database in order to generate some useful statistics on police misconduct in America"<BR/><BR/>What a great idea. Thank you for doing this. It needs to be done.<BR/><BR/>"Yes, 79 incidents reported in the news in one month's worth of time."<BR/><BR/>The mainstream media needs to be reporting more of these incidents. Imo every time a local newspaper reporter gives their e-mail for a police misconduct story, people should write and thank them for covering the subject.<BR/><BR/>"the point is that all of these stories that I tracked for a month involved serious allegations"<BR/><BR/>If you have the time or energy, it might be worth it to keep tracking it for another month because I'm sure those statistics will only get worse. One major obstacle in improving police conduct is the general publics misperception that there are only a few bad apples, as there are in any group, and that the police try to get rid of them. As you know this is false. It makes me angry that the majority of Americans are uninformed on this subject.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546950008014232634.post-9642869291007501162009-04-04T13:48:00.000-07:002009-04-04T13:48:00.000-07:00Just a note...I'm restarting the Twitter Newsfeed ...Just a note...<BR/><BR/>I'm restarting the Twitter Newsfeed because it's just too darn time consuming to track all these stories via spreadsheet. <BR/><BR/>Doing it through Twitter is just much easier, who cares if nobody reads them.NPMSRPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18052178969107494589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546950008014232634.post-82605328104515597272009-04-04T10:25:00.000-07:002009-04-04T10:25:00.000-07:00Thanks Karl, though I have to admit that I think t...Thanks Karl, though I have to admit that I think that you and one other person are the only ones who actually read this stuff lately.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, you're much better at finding stats like these than I am, you've put up some very interesting info yourself you know.<BR/><BR/>Thanks!NPMSRPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18052178969107494589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546950008014232634.post-46038393594807756092009-04-04T10:09:00.000-07:002009-04-04T10:09:00.000-07:00I think you are becoming a veritable depository of...I think you are becoming a veritable depository of vital information. The DOJ should give you a grant for this study.Karl Mansoorhttp://bluemustbetrue.comnoreply@blogger.com