Is Police Misconduct really "common?"?

Some are unaware of how common this behavior is, others simply will not admit to it.

Stated non-verbatim upon afore mentioned website: "the use of media reports acts as a filter that limits the number of outwardly questionable allegations of misconduct; therefore the statistics published should be considered as a low-end estimate of the current rate of police misconduct."

Just how low is low-end?

Should any agency that keeps detailed stats of this type data exist, it is not for public consumption.

You have to figure that less than 10% of misconduct that occurs will ever be reported. Of the amount that is reported, less than 10% will ever make it into the public realm. Concerning the amount of misconduct that makes it into the public realm, less than 10% will ever be picked up by the news feed on said website.

Because there is no hard data, the math here is going to involve probability & get fuzzy like Schrodinger's cop, who is always involved in misconduct & not involved in misconduct @ the same time.

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I would make the claim that the term "misconduct" is overused. A court may hold some action an officer takes as unconstitutional, and the papers report the action as misconduct, when the action was perfectly acceptable for years.

For instance, your Miranda Rights. Police questioned suspects from the day police existed without reading anyone their constitutional rights. Then, in the "60s, the Supreme Court declares these rights must be read to suspects. Does that mean that every cop who ever questioned a suspect before the Miranda Decision was somehow guilty of misconduct?

Police misconduct is NOT common at all. It just SEEMS that way because of the media. 800,000 law enforcement officers in the USA, and anyone who has ever arrested anyone else will be reported for misconduct (eventually) because people do not like getting caught and always blame everyone else for their problems, especially the officer who caught them in the act, and will lie to try to get that officer in trouble!

"93% of police misconduct cases result in exoneration when video evidence is available" - this statistic alone tells me that at least 90% of reported misconduct cases are bogus.

Less than 1/2 of 1% of all police officers EVER misfit their uniform.

It's even better than that. Based on my own experience, cops in big cities like Los Angeles (and pretty much most of California) account for a much higher rate of misconduct than cops in most of the rest of USA who actually act like they are real people and not Police-State thugs. After decades in Southern California, dealing with cops out here in America is a true pleasure. It gives one hope.

Be sure and add to that all the cases were there are reports of miss conduct and your desk clerk refuses to take them. Were they send the cop out to threaten you after you make the report. Were they publicly bad mouth you because they can, And the false arrest were they can hold you for nothing overnight, FINE BUNCH WE HAVE THERE! As normal you don't know how to do nothing but brag. Hot air Boys,& Girls.