Ethics

America's Creepiest Police Videos

By Ed Brayton

Another gem that Balko found, an obviously drunk cop named James Cousins in a bar mocking a homicide victim and his mother when she arrived at the crime scene. That in and of itself is not such a big deal; as Balko notes, cops have a stressful job and if they blow off a little steam with gallows humor, I can forgive that.

The more disturbing part is when he brags about tasering and beating up a suspect in a different case. And the most disturbing part is what happened when someone posted this video on Youtube. The internal affairs department started investigating the incident and took Cousins with them to confront the person who posted the video. And the chief of police sees nothing wrong with that:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).