Police brutality in response to the protests. National guard seems to be as bad.

here's a list of what looks to be more than 250 (and growing) videos capturing bad police behavior.

yahooyahoo said:

According to the Force Report, Maplewood policeman James DeFazio used force a total of 29 times from 2012 to 2016.  This is 11 more incidents than the next policeman on the list from Maplewood's department.

You'd think that maybe this might hurt his career?  To the contrary, he was promoted to Sergeant in the summer of 2018.

 This presents problems.

I believe that "use of force" involves minor, as well as significant events. Were DeFazio's incidents categorized? The Milllville cop who was charged with abuse of force had significant charges of excessive force. He was removed from employment and charged.

If such incidents are gathered and then ranked according to number of incidents, does this maybe lead to a cop seeing something and then saying, W.T.F., and then driving away so as not to add to his record?

The Force Report provides very detailed information on the type of force used (they have 7 categories).

There were 34 total uses of force in 29 incidents (some incidents have more than one type of force used).

17 of the 34 were "compliance holds", 8 were "tackle/wrestle", 4 were "hands/fists", and 1 was "pulled gun." The other 4 were "leg strikes", "pulled subject", "used leg to hold subject down", and "not listed."

Edited to add the link:
https://force.nj.com/database/officers/JamesHDeFazioMaplewood

yahooyahoo said:

The Force Report provides very detailed information on the type of force used (they have 7 categories).

There were 34 total uses of force in 29 incidents (some incidents have more than one type of force used).

17 of the 34 were "compliance holds", 8 were "tackle/wrestle", 4 were "hands/fists", and 1 was "pulled gun." The other 4 were "leg strikes", "pulled subject", "used leg to hold subject down", and "not listed."

Edited to add the link:
https://force.nj.com/database/officers/JamesHDeFazioMaplewood

 What were the ethnicities of those he used force on? Is it everyone or is there a pattern? Sometimes force may be needed but precipitating factor should be the situation not the persons race. 

the_18th_letter said:

yahooyahoo said:

The Force Report provides very detailed information on the type of force used (they have 7 categories).

There were 34 total uses of force in 29 incidents (some incidents have more than one type of force used).

17 of the 34 were "compliance holds", 8 were "tackle/wrestle", 4 were "hands/fists", and 1 was "pulled gun." The other 4 were "leg strikes", "pulled subject", "used leg to hold subject down", and "not listed."

Edited to add the link:
https://force.nj.com/database/officers/JamesHDeFazioMaplewood

 What were the ethnicities of those he used force on? Is it everyone or is there a pattern?

29 total subjects:

17 Black

9 White

2 Hispanic

1 Not listed

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4 female (2 White, 2 Black)

25 male  (15 Black, 7 White, 2 Hispanic, 1 Not Listed)

I don’t know about current use of force reporting, but I know in the past the reporting was problematic.  An officer I personally know was listed and it the public report stated the officer did not sustain any injuries, when in reality he had teeth knocked out by the suspect. Maybe it was just one error in reporting, but when the first report I open has such a glaring error it gives me pause 

spontaneous said:

I don’t know about current use of force reporting, but I know in the past the reporting was problematic.  An officer I personally know was listed and it the public report stated the officer did not sustain any injuries, when in reality he had teeth knocked out by the suspect. Maybe it was just one error in reporting, but when the first report I open has such a glaring error it gives me pause 

Until our police department decides to publicly report their own data, this is the best we have. I didn't see any promise to publish the data in Chief DeVaul's statement.  Maybe the data is shared with the Community Board on Police?

But it’s faulty data.  I believe it came from the state, and how the **** could they ignore teeth being knocked out and putting down no injuries to the officer.

I agree there should be tracking so that any outliers can be looked into.  Some may be legitimate, such as someone who does certain types of patrol that are more likely to end up in foot chases and street arrests.  But some won’t be legit and having data on this can help find problem officers.  But to do this we need to be able to trust the data.