Raman's Tips

Investigating Law Enforcement

There tips are on tracking excessive force for the bulletin. I suggest keeping an especially close watch on the midnight to 8A.M. Shift, where problem officers are often assigned. Though they are the officers most in need of supervision, that is exactly what they fail to get, because the most talented administrators are home sleeping. The cover of darkness is an added temptation. Furthermore, a city is relatively quiet on the midnight shift, allowing officers from all over to converge on a trouble call; as they congregate, they may play off each others' fears and aggressiveness, creating what is in effact a police mob.
I warns journalist to be skeptical, but not dismissive, of excessive force complaints registered by career criminals, who are eager to deflect charges against them by accusing those who made the arrest. Another warning sign is an alleged victim who contacts lawyers and journalists before filing a complaint with the police department's internal affairs division. For such questionable victims, i suggest asking if they will submit to a lie detector test or examination by a neutral physician.
Use of forces does not always mean brutality, i alway say that "Good cops doing their jobs and stepping on toes will generate complaints; many lousy cops putting in time until the pension never do a thing and have clean records." The proficient officers who use force to subdue suspects manage to keep from crossing the line, Over all my main line is "the difference between the force necessary to subdue and force that maims, breaks bones and sometimes kills is easily discernible."