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"Alien Boy" is a Chilling Documentary on One Case of Police Brutality

Movies post by Emilly Prado on April 11, 2013 - 9:08am; tagged mental health, police, police brutality.

police gather around the body of James Chasse

A medic—who was sent away—checks out James Chasse's injuries as police sip coffee. 

Cases of police brutality are reported time and time again across the country.  And yet, despite the passing of years and supposed reforms, we are always taken aback when new cases arise. 

Seven years after one particularly awful case in Portland, Oregon, the new independent documentary Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse captures the horror once more. The film is a chilling, intimate look at one case of police brutality and the flawed justice system that allows officers to act with impunity.

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The Gals in Blue: Where Are the Real-Life Olivia Bensons?

Women's Work post by Grace Bello on March 12, 2013 - 10:11am; tagged Castle, Kima Greggs, Law & Order: SVU, Penny Harrington, police, The Wire.

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

On TV, successful female cops populate some of our favorite shows. From Law and Order: Special Victims Unit's Olivia Benson(Mariska Hargitay) to The Wire's Kima Greggs (Sonja Sohn) toThe Closer's Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) to Castle's Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), we see women in law enforcement apprehending sex offenders, performing stellar detective work, nailing interrogations, and closing cases. But in real life, women make up a surprisingly small percentage of police forces. 

The U.S. Department of Justice cited the following statistics in the 2010 report Women in Law Enforcement:

In 2007, women accounted for about 15% of the total sworn law enforcement officers in large local police departments. In large sheriffs’ offices, female officers comprised about 13% of the total sworn officers. In contrast, local police departments with between 1 and 10 full-time sworn officers employed fewer than 2,000 female law enforcement officers nationwide (6%). Small sheriffs’ offices across the county employed just over 200 total sworn officers who were women (4%) in 2007.

 

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Douchebag Decree: James Carnell and the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association's Racist, Sexist, Terrible Newsletter

Douchebag Decree post by Kelsey Wallace on July 5, 2012 - 1:46pm; tagged Boston, Douchebag Decree, police.

Douchebag Decree logo in red and blue letters it says Ye Olde Douchebag Decree. Bitch hereby declares the following person a total douchebag



The Boston Police Department has been in the news lately, and not for entertaining buddy cop shenanigans. Well, unless you count publishing a racist, homophobic, sexist, bigoted, rage-inducing union newsletter and then deleting the archives instead of taking responsibility for them to be entertaining (it isn't).
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Murder, She Blogged: Prime Suspect

TV post by jessmccabe on July 8, 2011 - 1:11pm; tagged British police, detectives, feminist television characters, police, sex workers.

helen mirren in prime suspectAre there any explicitly feminist crime TV shows? Prime Suspect, which ran on UK television channel ITV from 1991 to 2006, is surely a contender, starring Helen Mirren as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, a female detective breaking into a male-dominated world. It dealt explicitly with issues such as institutional sexism and racism in London's Metropolitan Police force.

It's being remade for US television, with Maria Bello taking on the role of Tennison.

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Douchebag Decree: The NYPD Rape Acquittal

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace on May 26, 2011 - 3:14pm; tagged Douchebag Decree, NYPD, police, protest, rape.
Douchebag Decree logo: blue text reads Ye Olde Douchebag Decree, Bitch declares the following person a total douchebag, with an illustration of a douchebag behind it

Sometimes a situation is so horrible that a Douchebag Decree just doesn't cut it. However, I can think of nothing douchier today than the NYPD trial verdict, which found the two accused officers not guilty of rape.
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Have you seen this?

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 13, 2008 - 10:51am; tagged cops, Critical Mass, police, police brutality, violence against bicyclists.
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