Its time to have a national conversation about the national police problem
Today's report on idiot behavior is brought to you by Police Chief Roarerereeer who wants everyone to know he not a paranoid nut case
no, really, he isn't. No, really. We mean it.
Sexual assault and the usual atttacks on women.....ever notice there’s an awful lot of this where cops are concerned?
A Milwaukee WI cop has been fired for his behavior on a night that he was accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman then lying about the incident. Prosecutors didn’t file charges against him citing insufficient evidence to convict.
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC cop has been sentenced to 2-3 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting 6 women while on duty, mostly during traffic stops.
A Woodstock GA cop is on administrative leave after he was arrested on domestic battery & obstruction of a 911 call charges.
Two New York NY cops are accused of beating then arresting a woman for disputing whether dog poop they ordered her to pick up really belonged to her dog.
A Nashville TN cop has been charged with aggravated assault for shoving a female detainee on video in a booking area, causing her to hit her head and fall.
A Fort Worth TX cop has been arrested on a sexual assault charge a day after he resigned while under investigation into those allegations.
A Denver Colorado cop is under investigation after being accused of roughing up a disabled woman who can barely see by slamming her into an elevator door then detaining her in cuffs before asking her if she learned her lesson… all because she didn’t let him into her apartment building fast enough. Part of the encounter was caught on video and appears to back the woman’s claims. No word on whether the officer’s partner is also being investigated for not doing anything to stop the alleged incident.
I’m a cop because Walmart isn’t hiring behavior
Two Jersey City NJ cops are facing suspension after they were caught on video stealing car keys from a valet kiosk and throwing them in the bushes during a fundraiser hosted by that city’s mayor while 300 officers were protesting outside over plans to lay off cops to balance that city’s budget.
The now-former police chief of Patagonia AZ and one of his officers has been sentenced to a fine for contempt of court after they charged a man with assaulting an officer, even though that officer wasn’t certified to be on duty.
Shiprock AZ police are being accused of wrongfully raiding an innocent family’s home using a vaguely-worded warrant that alleged the family was manufacturing and selling methamphetamine. Police found no evidence and no charges were filed, but the family says their reputations were ruined and the suffered trauma when they were held on the ground in front of their home with guns trained on their heads as neighbors looked on. They just want a public apology to clear their names but none have been made, in fact the police still insist they are making drugs despite finding no evidence to back that claim.
“La Buddy Fuckour”
A Bannock County ID deputy has been suspended while under investigation on allegations of embezzlement from that county’s Sheriff’s Deputy Association. According to the article, it’s not a union.
Fraud/theft
A Louisville KY cop has been indicted by a federal grand jury on bankruptcy fraud charges for altering a court order.
The police chief of Whitwell TN has resigned after an audit found discrepancies in his use of the city credit card.
A Selma AL cop has been arrested on a receiving stolen property charge after a gun that was reported stolen was found in his car.
An Ozaukee County WI sheriff’s lieutenant has been found guilty of felony theft charges for unauthorized use of a county credit card and for taking cash from a safe.
Fuck’n nut job
A Cresskill NJ cop is facing a disciplinary hearing over allegations that he wrote a racial slur on an EMT’s car then taped pictures of men kissing to his car and other similar allegations including that he cut the insignia from a firefighter’s shirt with a knife… while he was wearing it.
A US Federal Protective Service / Homeland Security officer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating the rights of several people during illegal traffic stops that he didn’t have jurisdiction to make then filing false reports about them.
A Philadelphia PA narcotics strike force officer has been suspended while he’s under investigation for the 3rd on-duty theft allegation against him in the last 2 years. Apparently he has quite the reputation for it in the community and the latest claim is backed by witnesses who say they followed the officer when he arrested a relative and watched as he pulled into an abandoned area, took the cuffed man’s cash, then let him go before driving away.
An Oakland TN cop received probation after pleading guilty to falsely reporting that his badge stopped a bullet during a shooting incident he made up which resulted in two people being falsely arrested.
A Good Man
Joel Rosenberg, a well-known gun rights advocate and fellow blogger, was charged and arrested on a warrant over an incident a month ago where a Minneapolis Minnesota cop confronted him about him having a firearm while he was outside of the police chief’s office for an appointment. It’s being alleged that the charges are in retaliation for his filing a complaint over the incident because he claims he was following the letter of the law and had informed authorities he would be carrying before he entered the building as required by law.
A now-former Hunterdon County NJ prosecutor has filed a tort claim alleging that the state AG had him fired as part of a conspiracy to dismiss a slew of allegedly valid official misconduct charges against the sheriff and two of his deputies.
Assault
A Washington DC cop has been sentenced to spend 2 weekends in jail and probation for beating man in the head and hands with a baton in addition to striking a fellow officer in the back of the knee. Witnesses say the strikes were unnecessary as the man wasn’t being aggressive when he was hit from behind.
A Washington DC cop is accused of hurling slurs at a transgender woman then assaulting her while he was off-duty, which apparently prompted her to pepperspray the officer in self-defense. However, despite several witnesses confirming the victim’s story and saying it was the officer who initiated the incident, she was arrested for assaulting the officer.
A Clackamas County OR deputy has been arrested on assault & official misconduct charges for allegedly assaulting an inmate. No other details were available at the time
Whatever it was we all know it was stupid
An Altoona PA cop has been fired for unspecified reasons that officials insist don’t involve a grand jury investigation into 2 other officers over assault allegations.
This is what happens when government workers get together
Aurora IL police are accused of seizing $190,000 from an immigrant family without charging anyone with a crime in a highly questionable use of that state’s forfeiture laws. When ordered by a judge to return the money the police claim they handed it over to the state and they subsequently handed it off to… Homeland Security? Officials there are claiming to hold the cash over drug violations, again without any charges being filed whatsoever.
A Portland OR cop with an extensive history of misconduct allegations, many of which have ended with large settlement offers from the city, is now the subject of yet another tort claim alleging he falsely arrested man for questioning him. That officer was recently promoted to sergeant despite his history and over the objections of several groups and his alleged victims.
The police chief of Uplands Park MO has been charged with knowingly employing officers who lacked certification while two of those officers have been charged with serving has cops without certification. The case originated due to a fatal high-speed chase one of the officers undertook, that officer apparently had quite the criminal record prior to joining the department too.
Criminal recklessness
A Clark County IN deputy has been indicted on a criminal recklessness charge over an on-duty accident that left another motorist with a broken neck.
Pig .....
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC police detective has been suspended without pay with the intent to fire him after he admitted to disposing of notes he took during a murder investigation and for replacing those notes with ones he plagiarized from another officer during that murder trial.