Haggis
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Maybe the MP capbadge should trade the Thunderbird for this cute little fella?
Don't kid yourself these things are killers.
Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly
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Reason Magazine has a rundown on the case:
Uvalde cop's acquittal shows why it's hard to criminalize failing to stop a mass shooting
A Texas jury’s acquittal illustrates the difficulty of using child endangerment laws to prosecute police in mass shootings.
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Aaaaaaaawwwwwwww
Don't kid yourself these things are killers.
He's freaking cute!! I just wanna squish him!!
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daftandbarmy
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Holy F, indeed...
Disgraced Winnipeg police officer sentenced to 7 years in prison
"Holy f--k," Bostock said in response from his seat in the prisoner’s box, covering his face with his hands and shaking his head.
"I accept that there was a plea bargain, but the parties have not made a joint submission on sentence. I hesitate to go along with it," Champagne said, adding trial judges are required to give lawyers notice if they are considering giving a harsher sentence than what prosecutors ask for, allowing them to make more submissions if they want to.
"Failure to do so risks having the harsher sentence overturned on appeal," Champagne said.
When lawyers returned from a brief recess to consider those comments, defence lawyer Richard Wolson told court Bostock had accepted the seven-year joint recommendation.
The seven years prosecutors asked for came as part of a plea deal that saw the Crown cap their request at six years for Bostock’s provincial offences and a year for his federal drug charge, on the condition that Bostock’s defence ask for a sentence of no less than two years for the provincial charges and a consecutive sentence of any length for the drug offence.
Bostock, 49, pleaded guilty last November to a long list of crimes, including getting traffic tickets voided in exchange for liquor and gift cards, stealing cannabis from a police scene, sharing confidential police information, and sending lewd texts alongside a photo he took of a topless woman who had fatally overdosed.
Disgraced Winnipeg police officer sentenced to 7 years in prison
"Holy f--k," Bostock said in response from his seat in the prisoner’s box, covering his face with his hands and shaking his head.
"I accept that there was a plea bargain, but the parties have not made a joint submission on sentence. I hesitate to go along with it," Champagne said, adding trial judges are required to give lawyers notice if they are considering giving a harsher sentence than what prosecutors ask for, allowing them to make more submissions if they want to.
"Failure to do so risks having the harsher sentence overturned on appeal," Champagne said.
When lawyers returned from a brief recess to consider those comments, defence lawyer Richard Wolson told court Bostock had accepted the seven-year joint recommendation.
The seven years prosecutors asked for came as part of a plea deal that saw the Crown cap their request at six years for Bostock’s provincial offences and a year for his federal drug charge, on the condition that Bostock’s defence ask for a sentence of no less than two years for the provincial charges and a consecutive sentence of any length for the drug offence.
Bostock, 49, pleaded guilty last November to a long list of crimes, including getting traffic tickets voided in exchange for liquor and gift cards, stealing cannabis from a police scene, sharing confidential police information, and sending lewd texts alongside a photo he took of a topless woman who had fatally overdosed.
GK .Dundas
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Good!
Good. Corrupt cops are scum.
daftandbarmy
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I recall when they used to liken WPS to New Orleans PD - lowest paid cops in the country at one point, working in high stress/violence areas, with some of the highest corruption rates as a result...
Pensionable overtime, though. Absolutely wild.
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When my parents were living near Portage and Main in the early 90's, neighbourhoods were renting security companies to patrol there because there weren't enough cops. When my kid brother used to work for the Mayor's office in late 2000's, he told me one day as we were walking along Portage Ave that there MIGHT be only 2 coppers assigned to the area near Portage Place, which had just seen someone have their throat slashed in front of a few hundred people at the bus stops at 12pm, near where a person in an electric wheel chair had been mugged and hurled down a stairway into an alley, etc ad nauseam - that was fall 2007.
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Mostly people don’t care when we do good stuff and mostly it’s not noticed or remarked upon.
Haggis
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I see a couple every day on other platforms but mostly from the US. I don't post them here because this is Army.
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Exactly......the day a LEO doing a bad thing isn't newsworthy is the day you start worrying.
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But just in the UK, right? Right? 
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
‘They just don't believe they’re going to get caught.’
Police officers and police staff are 100 times more likely to be found guilty of a cybercrime than the average person, Novara Media can reveal.
In 2024, officers and staff who had misused police databases made up 42% of all cybercrime convictions, despite being only 0.4% of the UK population.
A spate of police offences were prosecuted in the first half of the year; between January and June, police officers and staff made up an astounding 53% of all cybercrime convictions.
This is according to an analysis by Novara Media of the Cambridge Computer Crime Database (CCCD), which has been tracking cybercrimes where the offender or alleged offender has been arrested, charged and/or prosecuted in the UK since January 2010.
Most police cases involve officers and staff illegally obtaining sensitive information stored on official computer systems.
Entries into the CCCD, detailed by Cambridge Cybercrime Centre director Alice Hutchings, include a corrupt police intelligence analyst who tipped off a drug dealer that an encrypted messaging network used by criminals had been infiltrated by law enforcement, disrupting countless active international police investigations.
In another case, the girlfriend of a gang member got a job with the police and started a relationship with a colleague, who she then enlisted to help steal data that identified witnesses who had testified against her imprisoned partner.
novaramedia.com
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
‘They just don't believe they’re going to get caught.’
Police officers and police staff are 100 times more likely to be found guilty of a cybercrime than the average person, Novara Media can reveal.
In 2024, officers and staff who had misused police databases made up 42% of all cybercrime convictions, despite being only 0.4% of the UK population.
A spate of police offences were prosecuted in the first half of the year; between January and June, police officers and staff made up an astounding 53% of all cybercrime convictions.
This is according to an analysis by Novara Media of the Cambridge Computer Crime Database (CCCD), which has been tracking cybercrimes where the offender or alleged offender has been arrested, charged and/or prosecuted in the UK since January 2010.
Most police cases involve officers and staff illegally obtaining sensitive information stored on official computer systems.
Entries into the CCCD, detailed by Cambridge Cybercrime Centre director Alice Hutchings, include a corrupt police intelligence analyst who tipped off a drug dealer that an encrypted messaging network used by criminals had been infiltrated by law enforcement, disrupting countless active international police investigations.
In another case, the girlfriend of a gang member got a job with the police and started a relationship with a colleague, who she then enlisted to help steal data that identified witnesses who had testified against her imprisoned partner.
Police 100 Times More Likely Than Average Person to Be Convicted of Cybercrime
Exclusive: 42% of all cybercriminals convicted in 2024 were police officers or police staff, Novara Media can reveal.
novaramedia.com
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Or perhaps government data systems have better access control logs, making it easier to prosecute misconduct.
Yup. The comparison in the original article is absurd. A cop abusing their CPIC access and someone launching ransomware attacks through a botnet or a zero-day exploit are two very different things. The vast majority of cyber crime is not investigated or solved; there aren’t resources to do it with. But a cop or other government official who misuses databases is easily traced in their access and use of various systems. I’ve got personal experience in this sort of investigation a few times over… There’s often pretty comprehensive user access logging.
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