Thursday, December 08, 2005

Twenty cops cavorting

Official SF is agog over a website, now taken down, complete with video clips of cops blowing off steam by mocking city residents of various stripes. Video clips archived at SF Gate include:

... an officer ogling a woman he has stopped for a traffic violation. One shows two officers attempting tai chi to vaguely Asian music. The two later go into a massage parlor and radio dispatchers try unsuccessfully to reach them -- the suggestion being the two are having sex with masseuses. One video, with the theme to the old TV show "Charlie's Angels" as the soundtrack, shows various officers saying, "Oh, captain," and flicking their tongues suggestively.

You get the idea. The mayor said this was the "tipping point that will lead to changing the culture of the Police Department." Ironic, isn't it, that of all the the depredations of the last 25 years -- police riots in the Castro, an abysmally low murder conviction rate, the indictments two years ago of the (then) police chief and several high-ranking officers -- what will (supposedly) finally lead the city to do something about out-of-control cops is a bunch of p.i. video clips.

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