Copwatch Page #2

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of all the corrupt cops.

We're making it public to make sure

that people know what's going on

and this doesn't just

get swept under the rug.

Police officer shot in the shoulder.

Now they've got an investigation

of the three individuals.

Two of them have been apprehended.

The officer has got shot in the shoulder.

And one individual's still at large.

Anthony Miranda

has spent his life in the NYPD.

They're doing an infrared and heat

to try to locate people,

probably in the backyards.

A senior detective,

he's investigated homicides,

organized crime and police corruption.

They shot one cop, they wouldn't

hesitate to shoot another.

It's highly unusual

for a police officer

to speak out against his own.

But after 20 years of service,

Miranda can no longer keep quiet

about the behavior of the police.

The enforcement against

African-Americans and Hispanics

is ten times more than it is against

any other community out there.

When cops become abusive is when

the they start believing the mentality

that it's us against them.

And that starts from day one

in the police academy.

Any police indoctrination,

it trains officers

to disassociate with

the communities they grew up in,

not to identify with the people,

sometimes not even to identify

with their own family members.

They have no screening process

whatsoever for racism.

They don't do it.

Imagine if the police department

can hire somebody

who has a tattoo on his arm

of a hanging...

Of a black person hanging,

they still qualify to be

a New York City police officer.

- Have you seen that?

- Yes.

White people

don't get arrested as much.

The criminal justice system

doesn't prosecute them as much.

It doesn't charge them

the same way that they charge

African-Americans and Hispanics.

There's a total imbalance to the process

that nobody wants to pay attention to.

Miranda is aware that by making

allegations of systemic racism,

he's pitting himself against the NYPD.

People say, "Well, these guys

are in uniform

and they're talking about discrimination.

These guys are in uniform

and they're talking about the abuses

that are going on in our community."

These were things that were unheard of,

you would never do that.

You're taking your life in your own hands.

The Police Department is

the biggest gang in New York.

You mess with the Police Department,

and the retaliation

is direct and absolute.

The NYPD has 36,000 officers,

and a budget of five billion dollars.

It can control every corner of New York.

In multi-ethnic areas like the Bronx,

the department operates a fleet

of mobile observation towers.

These are deployed 24/7 in poor areas.

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