The RateMyCop Saga

[madmusic]

Radley Balko | March 14, 2008, 8:05am

So even as police departments across the country are setting up sex offender registries, drug offender registries, and posting the mugs and names of suspected johns online, they also took a great deal umbrage early this month when Gino Sesto set up a site called RateMyCop.com. The premise is simple: Sesto wrote to police departments across the country, and obtained a list of the names and badge numbers of their officers. He then posted the names online in a format broken down by state and city, and encouraged users to rate their experiences with individual officers. All of the information he posted was already open to the public. He didn't post the identities of any undercover officers.

http://reason.com/blog/show/125503.html

[Dinger]

1. Interesting (nt)

[PoiBoy]

2. Here's the grand daddy of these kinds of sites

http://copwatch.net/forums/index.php?s=f6511d5d78191ca7dd59043c6986ec7c


GREAT site..!!!

[Wickerman]

4. Damn, thanks for the link

I had no idea something so comprehensive was out there. Don't imagine I'll register but it looks pretty huge.

[madmusic]

6. There's also

BadCopNews.com

[mikelgb]

3. great idea

I hope it takes off...

I have no problem with a full surveilance society as long as it is FULL

[madmusic]

5. Do you mean....

Big Brother isn't bad so long as we can watch Big Brother too?

Mm, dunno, http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/">1984 still creeps me out.

[mikelgb]

7. pretty much

I honestly think if everybody knew how weird and "unnormal" everybody was there would be a great liberalization of society

total info awareness

total

[madmusic]

8. True, true, true

It's as if the entire world population is standing in a huge circle and every single one of them are saying, "I'm not weird, the person standing next to me is."

[slampoet]

9. Me i prefer to call it by Jefferson's term, "Checks and Balances"

But seriously I wish that they had this site running during the Buddy Cianci administration in Providence.

It might have saved a few lives and i know for a fact it would have saved the life of the cop who was gunned down while trying to assist his fellow officers.


Nowadays there is a better civil rights Mayor in power.