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New York: Complaints VS. Cops
The number of complaints filed against cops last year with the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board dropped 1 percent - the first decrease in six years.
In 2007, 7,578 people filed complaints, 84 fewer than in 2006, according to preliminary numbers posted on the agency's Web site. It was the first yearly drop since 2001.
In 2006, there was a 14 percent surge in CCRB complaints filed over 2005.
The relationship between the NYPD and the CCRB, which investigates various types of police misconduct, has not always been smooth. But both agencies appear to agree that t... Read more
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31 October 2008
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Australian police force 'model
Australian police in an armed robbery squad modelled themselves on violent criminals in Quentin Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs, dressing in black suits and sunglasses, and assaulting suspects.
The Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) in Victoria acted as an unofficial force within the police, with members swearing allegiance to the squad and altering the police uniform to include a tie with two gold, intersecting revolvers, a report has found.
The Office of Police Integrity report on the AOS examined four decades of the squad's history and found a disproportionate number of complaints against its detectives for using excessive force in arresting suspects.
"Rather than upholding the law, these officers took the law into their own hands," it found.
In one case, a hidden camera in a police interview room filmed detectives hitting a suspect during an interview.
The suspect was repeatedly slapped and kicked, pinned to the ground and was hit with a telephone when he asked to call someone. The detectives also told him not to "bleed everywhere".
AOS members became renowned for wearing black suits, white shirts, dark sunglasses and a team-issue black tie, modelled on costumes from Reservoir Dogs.
Members of the AOS, which was disbanded in September 2006, felt so strongly about the squad that they penned a poem about it.
The ode pays tribute to "a squad of men all as one, ready to fight until the job's done".
"When banks get robbed and policemen are shot. The hierarchy cries, 'Who have we got'. Who can clean up this mess. Let's call on the men from the AOS," it reads.
Australian police forces have a history of struggling with internal corruption.
A report into Australia's largest force in New South Wales in 1997 found corruption was systematic and entrenched, with officers involved in the drugs trade and competing with criminals to commit crimes.
It said the force had "rarely been free of corruption" in its 135-year history.
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