I’m surprised anything was done about this. Rampantly corrupt police departments are the norm, judging by the videos made of people trying to file a complaint againt a policeman at mutiple departments, among other things. Cops have had no oversight or accountability for a long time.
the videos made of people trying to file a complaint againt a policeman at mutiple departments
One of the most famous examples of that was done by an investigative journalist in Florida, which lead to their state’s police union putting out a BOLO (be on the lookout) announcement for him (which are usually only used for wanted criminals), where they “accidentally” leaked his personal information
(I would link to the original, but it seems like every single news story about this got scrubbed from CBS’s website at some point, I was only able to find this page through a dead link on a blog page I was able to find an archived version of)
Yup this is the problem with digital news. It isn’t naturally archivable. You can’t go to a library and check old issues of stuff that was removed from digital storage.
I’m surprised anything was done about this. Rampantly corrupt police departments are the norm, judging by the videos made of people trying to file a complaint againt a policeman at mutiple departments, among other things. Cops have had no oversight or accountability for a long time.
One of the most famous examples of that was done by an investigative journalist in Florida, which lead to their state’s police union putting out a BOLO (be on the lookout) announcement for him (which are usually only used for wanted criminals), where they “accidentally” leaked his personal information
https://web.archive.org/web/20060408064603/http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_086232143.html
(I would link to the original, but it seems like every single news story about this got scrubbed from CBS’s website at some point, I was only able to find this page through a dead link on a blog page I was able to find an archived version of)
Yup this is the problem with digital news. It isn’t naturally archivable. You can’t go to a library and check old issues of stuff that was removed from digital storage.
This is what we call selection bias, I think. Cunningham, check that, if you could?
It’s fun to see how the media we surround ourselves with can then be leveraged to make a really bad conclusion.
It’s weird, when I read this comment, it just sounds like static. Doesn’t happen with any other comment in the thread. Wonder what it says.