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hjablowme919 t1_ir21i0g wrote

Reply to comment by drpvn in NYPD is Illegally Sending People to Rikers Without Ever Seeing a Judge, Lawsuit Claims by psychothumbs

We all know what the NYPD will say. They will deny they are doing anything wrong. Or they will say it was just a few officers and this is not policy and they are sending the officers for additional training.

Then some PBA rep will scream about how things like this are why officers are quitting and they can't get enough new recruits, blah, blah, blah.

All bullshit.

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drpvn t1_ir220h9 wrote

So you think it’s clear that everything alleged in the complaint happened just like it’s alleged?

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haxlmal t1_ir28m0a wrote

Don't play this game. You are pretending to be objective and morally superior when so many cases exactly like this one have been proven to be police abuse. Sure, maybe in this one specific case, it's a frivolous lawsuit, but you're missing the forest for the trees. Police do this shit so often that it's statistically far more likely that it's all true. And in any case, public trust has been completely eroded by their own hand. They are wayyyyy beyond the "let's give them the benefit of the doubt" phase.

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drpvn t1_ir2aw9r wrote

I’ve seen too many complaints to take them at face value. And I do a lot of plaintiff-side work.

I have zero reason to think this lawsuit is frivolous, apart from the baseline of skepticism I have toward all complaints.

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