Freddie Gray among many who do not get medical care from Baltimore police

[kwassa]

Source: Baltimore Sun




Records obtained by The Baltimore Sun show that city police often disregard or are oblivious to injuries and illnesses among people they apprehend — in fact, such cases occur by the thousands.

From June 2012 through April 2015, correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center have refused to admit nearly 2,600 detainees who were in police custody, according to state records obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act request.

In those records, intake officers in Central Booking noted a wide variety of injuries, including fractured bones, facial trauma and hypertension. Of the detainees denied entry, 123 had visible head injuries, the third most common medical problem cited by jail officials, records show.

The jail records redacted the names of detainees, but a Sun investigation found similar problems among Baltimore residents and others who have made allegations of police brutality.




Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/sun-investigates/bs-md-gray-jail-rejections-20150509-story.html#page=1

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This is clearly a culture of police abuse.

[Sunlei]

1. you can see the police brutality on the beaten faces in the booking photos

[csziggy]

2. This paragraph jumps out at me

From the article linked in the OP: "After arriving at Central Booking, detainees are examined by intake nurses to determine whether they are stable enough for the four- to five-hour booking process, said Gerard Shields, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. If someone is rejected, the responsibility falls on police to get medical care, he added." (Emphasis added.)

How many of that 2,600 people rejected by Central Booking ever got treatment? Did any or did the cops just keep them in custody until their injuries were no longer obvious? What happened to those injured people - are some of them the people who eventually got settlements from the Baltimore PD?

[libdem4life]

3. Time for the Feds. This is going to be a Long Process and a seachange in what is mistakenly

still considered "Law Enforcement", in many places. Also, the Line of Silence is going to have to be breached significantly...that's the only way we'll know which are the "good cops" and which are not.

Other thoughts and ideas...

Individual Professional Insurance (it's available) should be required to be paid by each LEO...cameras, of course...any death goes to the Feds or at least a Panel outside the jurisdiction. Within the department, a Point System...kind of like traffic tickets/accidents. They will have to pay first, then watch their jobs go away as they continue to disobey the law.

These idiots are just begging for a national presence and is why State's Rights are being lost.

[mopinko]

4. and drug testing.

any excessive force incident should require that the officer should be tested for drugs, especially steroids. especially if that officer is very buff/known body builder.

[libdem4life]

7. Oh yea, Here's a cup...pee in it, Dude. I shouldn't be chuckling, but I am.

[mopinko]

8. i admit enjoying

the shadenfraude(sp?) of it.

[libdem4life]

9. Naughty Pleasures. Jackasses.

[mopinko]

10. it's all i have these days.

ya gotta take it where you can get it.

[valerief]

5. People who don't "respect theiah authoritah" don't deserve humane treatment, in their minds.

If they did think they deserved humane treatment, they wouldn't arrest them for no reason and beat them to a pulp.

[d_legendary1]

6. This is shoot first, ask question later all over again

Except the pain and scars of their treatment towards those they arrest stays with them for a life time.