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National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project

by Anne Laurie|  April 12, 20128:24 pm| 39 Comments

This post is in: Bleg, Shitty Cops, Rare Sincerity

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From commentor Joey Maloney, early this morning:

The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project is an invaluable resource for monitoring bad behavior among law enforcement officers nationwide. The site owner is having to give up the project due to real life, so he’s allowing his readership to vote on who should take over the site from a list of people and orgs that have expressed interest.
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Unfortunately, one of those orgs is the CATO institute – you know, the one currently in the midst of a Koch brothers hostile takeover? And they’re currently leading the poll.
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If this is an area of interest for you, please go to http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=5316 and VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE. Personally, I favor Jesse Strauss, a journalist currently working for Al Jazeera English. His proposal seems the best thought out. So I’d suggest voting for him, but really, ABC (Anyone But Cato). Voting closes 8am Pacific time Friday.

I do not follow this particular blog, but I’m sure some of you do, and I hope you can share your opinions about both NPMSRP and the candidates to take it over with the rest of us.

In any case, I’ve always found that “Anyone But CATO” is generally a good rule of thumb…

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  1. 1.

    BruceFromOhio

    April 12, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    I voted for Jesse Strauss.

  2. 2.

    Martin

    April 12, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Voted for Strauss. Don’t Nader a win for CATO, people.

  3. 3.

    Hawes

    April 12, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    I think Cato was pretty hard on the police.

    At least that bumbling Inspector Closeau.

  4. 4.

    murakami

    April 12, 2012 at 9:05 pm

    Cato was genuinely awesome in the past with its reporting of police misdeeds and overreach. But Balko is now longer there so I don’t know if they’re any good on the subject now.

  5. 5.

    joel hanes

    April 12, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    I would have voted for Radley Balko had he been an available choice.

  6. 6.

    slag

    April 12, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    I clicked the Strauss bubble. But the site is now Loading…indefinitely, so who knows?

  7. 7.

    john

    April 12, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    Voted for Strauss. He’s leading at the moment

  8. 8.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    April 12, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Completely OT but this is a sweet story

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4253935/Dead-hamster-digs-itself-out-of-grave.html

  9. 9.

    Phillip A

    April 12, 2012 at 9:19 pm

    Done… Strauss is at 51% but with only 450+ votes total

  10. 10.

    DLew On Roids

    April 12, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    Sorry, I don’t click on Sun links.

    http://dontbuythesun.co.uk/site/

  11. 11.

    JGabriel

    April 12, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    __
    __
    Anne Laurie @ Top:

    I’ve always found that “Anyone But CATO” is generally a good rule of thumb…

    The Green Hornet is crestfallen.

  12. 12.

    slag

    April 12, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    @DLew On Roids: Me too. I have Murdoch Block installed so I never have to worry about giving Murdoch publications another page view.

  13. 13.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    April 12, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Excuse me if a story of a “dead” hamster digging itself out of its grave offends your political sensitivities, jeebus on a roller coaster.

  14. 14.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    April 12, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    @slag: Yup, Murdoch Block FTW!

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    April 12, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I loved the story of the hamster resurrection.

  16. 16.

    dead existentialist

    April 12, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Jesus.

  17. 17.

    Joel

    April 12, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    Considering that two of the non-CATO candidates are libertarians/conservatives, and that the other one (ACLEPD) is completely unknown to me, it’s Strauss by default.

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 12, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    I voted for Strauss early this morning. Glad he’s leading the pack, although I don’t trust Cato not to engage in voter fraud.

    Litlebritdifrnt, I thought the story of the resurrected hamster was great. They should use him instead of Punxsutawney Phil every February 2nd from now on.

  19. 19.

    Scamp Dog

    April 12, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    @Joel: The ACLEPD site looks like it’s run by a guy who’s a bit off, more harmless crank than anything else. Still, I’m sure he’d be a damn sight better than CATO. My general take on the situation is that Jesse Strauss is the best choice, so that’s who I voted for.

  20. 20.

    DLew On Roids

    April 12, 2012 at 10:22 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: The Sun pissing on the graves of 96 innocent people offends me.

    But a hamster climbing out of his own grave is probably cute. So I guess they totally made up for it!

  21. 21.

    Steve in DC

    April 12, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    CATO has had some pretty good people on police issues in the past, but as said Balko is no longer there.

    CATO has always been great on some things an bug fuck crazy on others, which sums up most of the “good” libertarians. It’s rather sad that the Koch’s are going to ruin it, yet hilarious from another point of view, oh well.

  22. 22.

    markus o'farkus

    April 12, 2012 at 10:37 pm

    @DLew On Roids: Oh my god, when did DLew on Roids start posting here??? Oh this is fantastic news.

    Sincerely,
    RS Union Local 282 on sosh

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    April 12, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    @Steve in DC: Cato’s not an acronym.

  24. 24.

    Steve in DC

    April 12, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    I never said it was.

  25. 25.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    April 12, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Does this ring a bell with you?

  26. 26.

    calliope jane

    April 12, 2012 at 11:21 pm

    @slag: NationalGeographic.com is a Murdoch site?!

    IS NOTHING SAFE?

    As this evening has been nothing but non-stop good news, I just have to ask– Cuteoverload is still okay, right?

  27. 27.

    Joey Maloney

    April 13, 2012 at 12:20 am

    Anne Laurie, thank you for front-paging this.

  28. 28.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    April 13, 2012 at 12:45 am

    @Joey Maloney: It’s looking like Mr. Strauss is going to win, too.

  29. 29.

    Silver

    April 13, 2012 at 2:36 am

    @Steve in DC:

    You read any Radley Balko on the health care mandate?

    Needless to say, he sounded as stupid as I would have expected Megan McFucktard to sound.

    You’ve got a dead dog that the cops shot, Radley’s your man. Anything else, he’s a real fucking moron.

  30. 30.

    WhoopTDu

    April 13, 2012 at 2:50 am

    I was reading through the comments at the NPMSRP this morning. Apparently the owner of the project is dismayed at the “vote rigging”.

    Others chimed in that it was due to a bunch of “leftists” who couldn’t possibly care about the issues enough to vote in an honest way.

    Seriously, “leftists” who don’t believe that is a good practice to have objective reporting on this matter?!

    Reading through all the choices, I voted for the person who had the most comprehensive proposal.

  31. 31.

    Efroh

    April 13, 2012 at 7:12 am

    Doesn’t matter – looks like the owner really wants to give it to a “conservative”, so even though Strauss has the most detailed and comprehensive proposal (which is why I voted for him), he will lose because the the owner is interpreting his large margin as vote-rigging.

  32. 32.

    BruceH

    April 13, 2012 at 10:44 am

    An internet poll is a terrible way to decide any issue. The fact that nearly any poll can be swayed by just a few partisans means that the results cannot be trusted and should never be used to inform an important decision.

    The guy should have emailed his members, or something. Anything other than an open poll, really.

  33. 33.

    Miracle Max

    April 13, 2012 at 11:45 am

    I’m no libertarian. This was a stupid post based on an even stupider comment. CATO is great on a few issues and horrible on others. On the cops they are pretty good, and Mr. Balko supports their possible role on this, so there is no meaningful distinction between liking what Balko does and what CATO might do.

    Love, MaxSpeak

  34. 34.

    dollared

    April 13, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    Cato is a cancer on our society. I look forward to the Koch takeover, so the perfect alignment between Cato, ALEC and Americans for Prosperity can be completely visible.

    Nice that they have that little cops thing. Reinforces the Koch view that all government actors are illegitimate, you know.

  35. 35.

    LJM

    April 13, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    When it comes to civil rights in general, gay rights in particular, foreign policy, criminal justice, and the war on drugs, CATO is more liberal than Obama.

    I disagree with CATO on lots of issues, but it’s interesting how so many here passionately support the President who opposes gay marriage, who runs secret prisons, who supports indefinite detention without due process, who prosecutes whistle blowers (after promising to protect them), who shuts down medical marijuana dispensaries (after promising to ignore them), who supports the continued war on minorities in the form of the drug war, and who regularly, violently kills innocent men, women, and children overseas.

    It reasonable to disagree with CATO’s opinions on the proper role of government in society. But the “anyone but CATO” attitude coming from people who support Obama is no less intellectually empty than the birther movement.

  36. 36.

    John Schultz

    April 13, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    I posit the idea that anyone who thinks Cato should be in all-caps is unfamiliar enough with the work of that organization to have a valid opinion on it. It’s not an acronym; they are named after a Roman Senator.

  37. 37.

    Richard Evans

    April 13, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    Wow, if this level of competency is what’s keeping Obama in the White House, Romney will be a shoe-in.

  38. 38.

    Roberta X

    April 14, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Way to cheat, Anne. Gives a real clear impression of the “morality” you and Joey bring to bear.

    Give me a straight-up robber baron over a do-gooder any day — there’s a chance the robber baron will eventually leave you alone, but the do-gooder, never.

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