Police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for Monday, December 20, 2010:

                                                                         
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THE USUAL WHITE TRASH BEHAVIOR
An Evansville Indiana police officer is under investigation over a fight he got into with a former Vanderburgh County Indiana deputy while they were drinking at their police union lodge.


FRAUD IS JUST A NICER SOUNDING WORD FOR WEASEL
A Fruitland Park Florida police chief has accepted a plea deal of sorts that will give him diversionary sentencing along with his promise to never work in law enforcement again in order to avoid formal charges of his use of fake diploma mill college degrees to earn an extra $80 in incentive pay per month.


A Kileen TX police officer has been indicted for social security fraud after he was fired last week after an internal investigation into unspecified allegations that officials say weren’t related to allegations that he exposed himself to a woman inside her home.


The town marshal of Brooklyn Indiana who has been has been fired and rehired for that job three times has been arrested on felony forgery, intimidation and official misconduct charges on allegations that he wrongfully arrested a man he had a dispute with and then forged an arrest report by attributing it to another officer. When confronted by that officer he allegedly intimidated him into signing it.


A Louisville Kentucky police officer has been fired for dishonesty and interfering with an officer after a six year-long investigation into allegations she misappropriated funds from a now-defunct police group.


A Proctor Minnesota deputy police chief who is also a city councilor has pled guilty to felony possession of a controlled substance and possession of an illegal sawed-off shotgun charges related to the theft of evidence taken from a pharmacy robbery in exchange for dropping the felony theft charge against him.


A now-former Nashville Tennessee police officer has been convicted of making false statements while buying guns that were intended to be smuggled to Guatemala while he was still an officer.

                                                                       
COPS & WOMEN: THE REPORTS PRETTY MUCH SAY IT ALL
A Barrow County Georgia police officer has been fired after arrested on domestic violence related charges over an alleged physical dispute with is wife.


A US Customs & Border Protection officer who worked at the Atlanta Georgia airport has been arrested for allegedly firing nearly 30 shots when he fatally shot his estranged wife’s boyfriend then chased her through a neighborhood before shooting her to death as well.


YET MORE DRUNK COPS
A Modesto California police officer has been charged with drunk driving after he crashed his jeep down an embankment in November. He allegedly had a .20 BAC and open alcohol containers in the car.


GIVE AN IDIOT WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM A WEAPON AND THEY’LL USE IT ON OTHERS
Waveland Mississippi police have stopped using tasers pending a review into their use and training after a 4th taser-related lawsuit within the last couple of years was filed against that department.


THE USUAL PUNK BEHAVIOR WE HAVE ALL COME TO EXPECT
A Pinal County Arizona deputy who was hired by his former police chief after he was fired from the Chandler AZ PD over varied misconduct allegations is now under investigation for allegedly abusing detainee who didn’t speak English.


CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION
A Red Bank Tennessee police officer has been fired and two others have been suspended over an unauthorized search of a house along with a bounty hunter who was looking for a suspect, all without a warrant.

COPS & ANIMALS, A STRANGE, STRANGE RELATIONSHIP

A Clayton County Georgia deputy is under investigation after fatally shooting a family’s golden retriever that was barking at him from its yard where its owners say it had an electric fence.

We really need a national conversation about the national police problem

While Florida Gov. Charlie Crist continues to toss and turn over the thought of pardoning the hell out of Jim Morrison, NJ Gov. Christ Christie has been worried about somebody more low key: Brian Aitken. Aitken was sentenced to seven years in prison this past August because he had two unloaded firearms in the trunk of his car. "Police found unloaded guns that had been purchased legally in Colorado. New Jersey law requires residents who want to transport firearms legally to request a permit from a local law enforcement office and produce a letter stating why it is necessary for them to carry a gun." Aitken was switching residences and had yet to get the paperwork, ergo he deserved to lose seven years of his life. According to The Daily Caller's Amanda Carey, Christie "commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken Monday, reducing his sentence from seven years in prison to time already served. According to Christie’s order, he will be released as soon as it’s 'administratively possible The Daily Caller

Here are the reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend, December 18-19, 2010:

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...YOU JUST DON’T FIND THIS KIND OF STUPID JUST ANYWHERE
At least two New York NY cops are the subject of a lawsuit filed by a lawyer claiming that officers broke into his home, tackled him, then forcefully took him to a hospital to have him committed when they mistook his smoke break that he takes while sitting on his 12-foot high window ledge for a suicide attempt


Oklahoma City OK settled a lawsuit for $30,000 to a woman arrested in front of her grandchildren due to a typo on an arrest report that, in part, relied on a fake name a suspect gave to police.


FRAUD, THEFT
A New York NY cop has been found guilty by a jury on multiple charges including armed robbery for his role in a million dollar perfume warehouse heist that involved several other officers.


A Miami FL cop who worked in a gang unit was arrested by the FBI on allegations that he was fencing stolen goods. Apparently he was trying to sell a large number of stolen Bluetooth headsets.


A Cameron County TX deputy has pled guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for using his position to help smuggle weapons into Mexico


A Monterey TN police chief has been sentenced to 4 years jail in a plea deal that also requires that he repay nearly $29,000 that he stole from the department.


Six Fort Worth Texas cops have been fired for altering traffic tickets in an effort to fraudulently get overtime they didn’t earn but was paid for through a federal grant program.


A Macomb County Michigan sheriff’s detective has accepted a plea deal to an official misconduct charge which dismisses fraud and forgery charges he incurred while stealing from the department, allegations he still denies despite the plea.


The now-former police chief of the Sault Tribe Michigan police department has been sentenced to 1 year in a plea deal to conspiracy to defraud the US Government charges via his misuse of federal grants for personal gain.


Seven Honolulu Hawaii cops who are charged with falsifying time sheets in order to fraudulently get overtime are now demanding that the city they allegedly defrauded pay their criminal defense fees as well… and because of bargaining agreements with the police union, they’ll probably get what they want.


A Detroit MI cop has been indicted on federal wire fraud and bank fraud charges for role in a mortgage fraud scheme.


A St Martinville LA cop has been sentenced to 3 years in jail for stealing guns, cash and drugs from evidence in order to support her gambling habit.


AND OF COURSE THE STANDARD WHITE TRASH BEHAVIOR WE’VE ALL COME TO EXPECT FROM OUR LOCAL POLICE
Broward County Florida sheriff’s commander has been suspended for 15 days without pay after an investigation into allegations that he gave an NFL player preferential treatment after he was arrested on domestic violence charges, including driving him from jail to training camp and then to his home.


A Glendale Arizona cop has resigned and has been stripped of his police certification for 6 months over his role in a bar fight while he was away for training in Oregon, during which he allegedly tried to use his badge and FBI credentials he had due to his work as a police/FBI liason in the department to try and get out of being arrested and in an attempt to commandeer a car.


Ashland Illinois has settled a lawsuit accusing that town’s police chief & public works director of verbally abusing and mocking a severely disabled employee and even pantsing him at work.


A Phoenix Arizona police sergeant was fired for regularly using racial slurs on civilians and even his fellow officers who described him as a full-on racist, now that officer’s police certification has been revoked for one year as well. Meanwhile, another officer’s certification has been revoked for a year after she quit over an investigation into how she misused police databases to look up the criminal history of a country club manager where she worked an off-duty job and then told people there about what she found.


Three Broward County FL deputies have been arrested on felony charges. One officer was charged for having sex with a jail inmate and the two others were apparently involved in some sort of jail contraband scheme.


A Jacksonville FL sheriff’s officer has been arrested on a felony criminal mischief charge for vandalizing a fellow officer’s personal car in the police garage. Apparently the other officer married her ex-husband and there’s some rivalry because of it.


A Gary IN cop has been suspended for 2 years and fined by the police board in a rare move over allegations that he took another officer’s firearm and then lied about it.


Two Glendale California cops are being sued by a lawyer claiming that one of the officers was having an affair with his wife when he conspired with the other officer to have him arrested on false charges. The lawyer was eventually cleared of the charges after he was prosecuted


THE USUAL PUNK BEHAVIOR THAT DROVE THESE IDIOTS TO JOIN THE POLICE IN THE FIRST PLACE
A Duxbury Massachusetts cop has been sentenced to probation and time served in a plea to assault and battery for threatening his girlfriend with his gun that was allegedly just one of several other alleged domestic violence incidents.


A Texas State trooper has been sentenced to probation on a misdemeanor assault conviction for slamming a woman’s face into a concrete retaining wall, as seen on the above dashcam footage, after she had called police for help when she was in an accident. The officer was arresting her on suspicion of DUI but no charges were filed.


Eastern Pike Regional cops in Pennsylvania are the subject of a lawsuit claiming they refused to call paramedics or even examine a man when his parents told officers that he had stopped breathing after the officers had allegedly beat then handcuffed him. He was dead when paramedics finally arrived.


Minneapolis MN settled a lawsuit for $80,000 to a cop claiming he was removed from the Metro Gang Task Force for reporting abuses by officers in that group which was later disbanded due to those abuses.


An Arcade GA cop is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he issued false citations to a motorist for questioning the officer’s reason for pulling him over. Apparently, Arcade has long been the subject of complaints and at least 2 investigations over allegations of being a speed trap.


A Marco Island FL cop with a history of being the subject of complaints has been fired for filing an inaccurate report about an incident involving an excessive force complaint


A Chicago IL cop is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he beat and kicked a man and his friend then falsely arrested him while he was working an off-duty security guard job at McDonalds, all over allegations that the man dropped condiments.


A Derby CT cop is being sued by that city’s Parking Authority director alleging the officer, who is also the Parking Authority chairman, assaulted him in a hallway after a meeting where the two had a dispute.


MURDER
Six New Orleans Louisiana cops, many of them high-ranking officers, have been reassigned while under investigation over testimony that was heard during the Henry Glover trial which resulted in 3 officers being convicted and several others admitting that they lied during a federal investigation into that incident where an unarmed man was shot in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina then his body was burned in a car to cover up what happened.


A Bay Area Rapid Transit cop in California that was fired for lying about her partner’s, Tony Pirone, actions in the shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Years 2009 was rehired by order of an arbitrator who overruled that department’s decision on recommendations by an outside review of the incident. Pirone, who used a racial epithet when he punched Grant and who’s aggressive behavior has been blamed for unnecessarily escalating the situation before Grant was shot, is also in the process of appealing his firing to an arbitrator… and as our studies indicated previously, it’s rare for an arbitrator not to rule in favor of the appealing officer.


CREEPY COP BEHAVIOR IN DEALING WITH WOMEN.....DO YOU SEE A PATTERN HERE?
A Bensalem PA police sergeant who was the head of the Special Victim’s Unit has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a female EMT that he worked with inside the facilities they worked together while both were off-duty.


A Broward County FL deputy has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping a handcuffed detainee while she was being transported between jails. He apparently rejected a plea deal that would have resulted in a 5-year sentence and still insists he didn’t do anything despite there being DNA evidence suggesting otherwise.


A Fulton County GA deputy has been charged with misdemeanor sexual battery over alleged but unspecified “inappropriate touching” involving a woman that he allegedly knew.


A Lebanon IN cop has been arrested on allegations that he was groping women at a bar in front of his wife and then pulled a gun and pointed it into the chest of a man who confronted him over his behavior. Apparently, an off-duty officer was there and witnessed the whole thing as well, confirming the allegations.


A Kern County CA deputy has been arrested for violating a restraining order filed by a woman he’s accused of hitting with a remote control and then threatening to kill her with a gun.


A Memphis TN cop has been arrested on a domestic assault with bodily harm charge over unspecified allegations.


An Anaheim California cop has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for sexually assaulting two illegal immigrants under color of law and repeatedly pulling over and harassing a third woman.


SCREW IT, THE CITIZENS CAN PAY FOR IT, I’M ON SALARY
The San Diego California police union is apologizing for filing frivolous lawsuits against the city that cost taxpayers $8.3 million in legal fees and cost the union itself $2.8 million. The union is blaming their former lawyer for the suits, none of which resulted in any favorable outcome for officers.


CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION
Memphis TN police officials apparently admitted to forgetting about consent order filed in 1978 that restricts police practices regarding information gathering on people for political reasons, which may affect how they’ve been working with the feds in regards post 9/11 spying.

COPS AND DOPE, SOMEHOW ITS APPROPREATE ISN’T IT?

An Atlanta Georgia cop has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting payments in exchange for protecting drug dealers.


An Albuquerque New Mexico cop has been found guilty of obstruction for leaking information about an undercover investigation into a drug/burglary ring.


A US Customs agent has been arrested in part of a large drug trafficking ring bust on charges alleging he smuggled and laundered drug money and that he smuggled weapons on a plane.

COPS & KIDS: RUN CHILDREN! RUN!

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A Washington County Ohio sheriff’s captain has been suspended while under investigation for unspecified “improprieties”.


A Newnan GA cop has been sentenced to 60 years in prison on 13 counts of molestation, enticement & violation of oath involving an underage girl he met at martial arts classes.


Norfolk VA police are reviewing their policies after a high school student who is also the star quarterback was brought to school in handcuffs because a cop mistakenly though he was truant, but didn’t check before embarrassing him in front of the entire school.


A Berkeley MO cop has been charged with sodomy, statutory rape and child endangerment of a 15-year-old girl that he met at church where he volunteered as a youth group leader.


An Aurora CO police sergeant is on paid leave after being arrested on child pornography and sexual exploitation of children charges on allegations that he was sharing child pornography. Police also say that a search of a laptop he took to work had child porn and the laptop case he used had sex toys in it.


A Granby Colorado cop has been fired and arrested on multiple exploitation of a child charges involving a female high school student.


An Indianapolis Indiana civilian complaint board has ruled that an officer used excessive force on a 15-year-old child in an incident that even the chief of police called the worst case of brutality he had seen. However, even though an internal investigation and the review board both found the incident a case of excessive force, a police review board did not so the officer won’t face any disciplinary action. The boy suffered a broken nose, chipped teeth, and severe facial bruising/swelling.


A Seguin Texas cop is pleading guilty to an evidence tampering charge in a deal dismissing solicitation of a minor charges.

DRUNK COPS....NOW THERE’S A SURPRISE

A Hickory North Carolina cop has been placed on desk duty after being arrested on a drunk driving charges for running over a mailbox and hitting a tree while off-duty.


A Frankfort KY cop has resigned after being arrested on a drunk driving charge when he was stopped by police who reported that he was swerving and had almost hit another motorist.


A Durham NC cop has been arrested on a drunk driving charge and this is actually his second DUI arrest since November 2009. Oddly, the reports first indicated that the person was still employed as an officer but now police are saying he’s a former officer, though they won’t say when he stopped being an officer and why.

COPS & ANIMALS: A STRANGE, STRANGE RELATIONSHIP

A Cottonwood Arizona cop is facing disciplinary action after his K9 partner had to be euthanize due to heat distress when the dog was left in the officer’s cruiser while he did paperwork. The cruiser was equipped with a device that monitors the internal temperature of the car and sounds alarms if it gets too hot but the device wasn’t switched on.