Rate Your North Texas Cops
Despite some pretty ugly intimidation tactics and phony baloney concerns about “officer safety” (I think they mean “job security”) the website Ratemycop is up and running, and it includes most of the North Texas police departments. The site lists the name of every officer for each PD, and the idea is for people to be able to give a sort of user feedback for their encounters with individual representatives of the gendarme. Basically like eBay feedback for cops — attaboys for the good officers and darts for the bad cops. It’s a great exercise in the public being able to put the watchers back under scrutiny, instead of scrutiny being a one-way street. And if it’s true that it’s just a few bad apples out there giving the bulk of officers a bad reputation, this should help that argument. That is, so long as police unions and pols don’t try to strong arm the site’s ISP for a third time or try to outlaw it.
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apparently the Gestapo Cops have already scuttled the site. They do not want to inhibit their revenue stream from tickets.
What? I’ve been navigating it just fine.
I can’t get to it either. GoDaddy.com says its unavailable.
Click the link in the post. It should work.
Entries like these are helpful, I’m sure:
Created On: 03/14/2008 09:32:55
oh, he pulled me over a couple years ago. no problems. BUT, OMG what a freakin cutie!
Yeah, the entries aren’t that helpful. There’s one guy that just keeps posting SHOULD BE FIRED.
Great. Why? If you’re going to go to the trouble of looking up the cop - and it’s not exactly the most user-friendly site in the universe - why wouldn’t you give details?
GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com — Update
By Kevin Poulsen EmailMarch 11, 2008 | 8:42:42 PMCategories: Censorship, Cover-Ups
Ratemycop_2 A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.
Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, “Oops!!!”, which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the company pulled the plug.
RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he’d been shut down for “suspicious activity.”
When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. “How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?”
still working fine for me… though it doesn’t have Richardson PD.
At lunch today, I think we were on Zang Blvd. There was a motocycle cop working a funeral. We needed to turn left, so we were in the left turn lane. The cop was in front of us, facing us. He wanted to travel in our lane. We tried to get over but couldn’t because of the traffic. When the cop headed towards us and passed us he said “motherf…..” at the driver of our car! Good grief…maybe he was made he had funeral duty.
Maybe they should rename it “Copepedia”. There is a good debate about this site and apparenlty its DA’s that are having a big problem. http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/
I tried the link and it now takes you to “Loving Doll Houses”. Nice. Too bad the popo can’t handle the scrutiny. It wouldn’t be prudent to actually investigate the corruption in DPD would it???
Great link, I bought three dollhouses, two of them foreclosures.