Police
investigate apparent gun accident during firearms training in Holden
HOLDEN Mass. — An Assumption College campus police official
accidentally shot himself in the foot while at a shooting range in Holden.
Memphis
cop suspend officer over KKK tweets
The Memphis Police Department has suspended a cop Brian Hall
for social media statements deriding the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI was monitoring
social media during a March 30 rally by the white supremacist group in Memphis
and saw tweets from Hall's personal account. The agency reported what it found
to the city police department.
Cleveland
punishes 12 cops in chase
The city fired a police sergeant, Michael Donegan and demoted
two other supervisors and suspended nine more Tuesday for their roles in a
chase in which officers fired 137 shots and killed a fleeing driver and his
passenger. Donegan briefly participated in the chase last November but pulled
off, parked his patrol vehicle and failed to supervise his officers, police
officials said. “I made a determination
that his conduct was so egregious that it merited termination,” said Safety
Director Martin Flask, who oversees police and fire. Of the 276 cops on duty on
the evening of Nov. 29, 104 were involved in some way in the chase.
Report
details misconduct within Butler Police Department
The former Village of Butler Wisconsin police chief, along with several
members of his staff, regularly viewed pornography at work, with one officer
beginning his day calling it "porn in the morn," according to a
365-page report released Thursday by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department. Chief
Michael Cosgrove retired in March as the inquiry was being conducted. The
review confirmed several complaints leveled against Cosgrove, including that
Cosgrove accessed pornographic materials on his Police Department computer and
used racially derogatory language in emails to employees, including using the
N-word.Cosgrove admitted he used the racial slur and defined it as "people
who don't fulfill their societal obligations or someone who abuses the
system" and could be of any race, according to the report.
The report found:
■ Lt. Brian Pergande engaged in
"misconduct in office," though the details were redacted in the
report released to the public. He also was found to have improper pictures on
his work email, to have used racial comments and to have misused the TIME
system — a state-run crime information system — to check criminal histories of
individuals for personal use.
■ Officer Chad Rahn acted improperly while
on duty, having exposed his penis multiple times. He also used the TIME system
for personal use and created an uncomfortable work environment, according to
the report.
■ Officers Joel Fus and Rick Napierala had
improperly used department equipment.
■ Sheriff's Department investigators found a
wallet used as a piece of evidence in a case during the 1990s on Cosgrove's
desk, three loaded and unsecured guns in Cosgrove's office, and learned that
the department did not have a policy for returning firearms that it held for
safekeeping.
