Four Corners is telling this story as part of the Brutal Force series, which reveals a worrying rise in complaints and civil suits targeting the NSW Police Force in recent years.

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[–] 49 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The fact that two supervisor types watched a video, claimed that nothing was done wrong, and then the highest supervisor watched the same damn video and flat out said there needed to be an investigation... and then nothing was done to those supervisors? That's some bullshit. Charges being brought against an officer should mean that everyone who tried to cover for said officer should be shitcanned as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    And this will keep happening because people join the police force in order to be able to hurt people, and are protected by people who also enjoy hurting people who don't want the good times to end

    Good on Four Corners for bringing these events to light

    Nice that this one resulted in the offending officers being charged, the last one the bad cops got away with it, they had the foresight to turn off their cameras and hospitalise a man who no one cared about

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I kept thinking she's obviously having a tbing, and did no-one just try and sit down next to her, ask her how she's going, and try to de-escalate and talk her into calmly going with the ambos?

    We probably only saw the worst of the footage. Maybe they did try. But it seemed to be all escalation....

    I've spoken to some coppers who reckon 80% of their job is dealing with mental health and DV. That is not gonna work.

    Not excusing the police actions, but maybe we should resource those areas properly too. There was no need for the police to be there AT ALL.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    That’s cops for you.

    Nothing will be done, this behaviour is as intended and the whole system needs to be scrapped.

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