Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

All you really need to do is look at the Arkinstall incident and fallout to see how totally ####ty of an organization the CPS is and the majority of police officers in it.

More or less, Arkinstall, a member of the Hells Angels, was pulled over for an illegal uturn. The cop, Derrick, sees he's Hells Angels and takes the opportunity to arrest him without cause. He calls over his buddy Kaminski and they rough the guy up. This happened in 2008.

The cops don't submit a use-of-force report. But they charge him with a uttering threats, assault of a police officer and the like.

Arkinstall trial happens in 2011. Derrick and Kaminski give evidence, contradicted by video evidence, to the point that the judge actually says the cops aren't credible. Which should be a massive huge flag to anyone who cares about any sort of justice of any resemblance. Arkinstall is acquitted.

Arkinstall's lawyer submits a compliant to CPS. CPS review the complaint and (surprise) they find no reason for an investigation. Blue Shield is glowing.

ASIRT gets involved in 2015 with the complaints against police officers but this thing has dragged on for years. And other issues, like obtaining the video, further delay the process.

ASIRT finally recommends that charges be placed against Kaminski and Derrick years after the incident. Perjury and assault charges. By the end they are dismissed in 2018.

In 2018, the LERB does an inquiry into the mess. More or less finds that there was no effort by the CPS to do any type of real review and that, as a result, there's no way to really tell if disciplinary action should have occurred. CPS spokespeople twist the story, instead of cops get off because CPS didn't investigate and gather evidence, they say that cops were innocence because there was no evidence.








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But a couple bad apples right? Nope while all of this was going on and Kaminski still had charges against him the police union vote him in as president. That's right, a cop who a judge called not credible, who was facing perjury and assault charges, was voted in as president by a large margin.