At what point do you think we should have a police oversight board?
Hey Sharon:
At what point do you think we should have a police oversight board? When the cops pull off another bank robbery?
(One of them robbed a bank once, no kidding)
A mass murder? Wholesale looting? What’s the starting point to spark the
Board of Supervisors into stopping police misconduct in Fairfax County?
There is no need to be scared, the federal government will protect you,
and if it’s a matter of having to explain the 250 assigned union contributions
under different spouses names to various campaigns to get around those annoying
campaign laws (Yeah, we know about that, it’s an old trick) just say you didn’t
know who they were when you took the money and give it back, pretend outraged
when you do it, that helps.
Do something.
In the past 12 months…………………
October 24, 2011 Fairfax Cop arrested for drunk driving
November 14, 2011, two Fairfax cops accused of beating an unarmed man
walking home from work.
September 2011, Fairfax cop charged with domestic assault
Feb 2012, several Fairfax County cops accused of beating up teenager in a
McDonalds.
March 2012 Police Captain gets a five figure pay out due to interoffice
pissing match
March 2012, a cop who “Resigned from the force for reasons that can not
be released” two years ago, killed himself and teenage daughter with a pistol.
May 2012: Fairfax cop arrested for sexual assault.
And those only the incidents the cops HAD to explain to the public…
Here is an idea for Fairfax County
Spend $90,000 on cameras to rope in the cops and save the people of Fairfax County several million paid out in law suits caused by the punks within the police ranks....cameras cost is less than the Fairfax County Police Royal Entitlement Navy and AirForce...but unlike the Fairfax County Police Royal Entitlement Navy, the cameras actually do something.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Albuquerque
police are going to require officers to use cameras to record all encounters
with the public.
The Albuquerque Journal reports
(http://bit.ly/KO6kVn) that the department is slated to put the new
requirement, an expansion of a current policy, into effect Sunday.
Presently, officers are required to
use small, digital lapel-mounted cameras to record searches and disorderly
conduct arrests. But under the new requirement, the small cameras will be on
every time an officer interacts with a member of the public.
Police Chief Ray Schultz said the
change was recommended by the Police Oversight Commission. He said the
department has purchased about 200 of the newer pen cameras for about $60
apiece.
"Hopefully, this will help to
resolve some of the issues that have been ongoing," Schultz said,
referring to officers' versions of events, particularly in use of force cases,
being called into question by community groups.
The new cameras also come as the
department faces heat from civil rights groups for 24 officer-involved
shootings — 17 fatal — since 2010. They have been pressing for a U.S. Justice
Department investigation into the shootings, but federal officials have not said
if they would probe the department.
Meanwhile, the Albuquerque Police
Department has instituted a number of reforms, including raising the
requirements for incoming officers and having an independent
review panel look into all
officer-involved shootings.
By last summer, each of the more
than 650 uniformed officers had been issued a lapel camera, Schultz said. The
department has bought more than 1,200 of the easily breakable cameras for about
$100 each since the department began ordering them in 2010.
Schultz said the new pen cameras
will help with investigations. "We continue to see good results where the
officers are exonerated after having false complaints made against them,"
he said.
Schultz said the policy change is
likely to create a "logistical nightmare" for APD administrative
staff. The department's officers respond to more than 1,500 calls for service
per day on average.
"The technology still continues
to emerge, and it is not yet perfect," he said. "We're trying to work
through the bugs, and the biggest problem for us is going to be how to copy and
retain the video from the cameras."
Officers can be reprimanded for not
turning on their recorders, Schultz said. An officer could be fired if he or
she repeatedly fails to record encounters.
Lapel cameras hold about six hours
of video. The pen cameras hold less than two hours.
Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr.strikes again
August 21, 1989Fairfax County found no evidence implicating
Randall Lee Breer in the death of Rhiannon "Rosie" Gordon in a search
of his Dale City residence over the weekend, Fairfax County Commonwealth's
Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. said in a telephone interview last night.
Undercover investigators arrested Breer, a 28-year-old Dale City construction
worker, Thursday afternoon at a used car lot in Woodbridge."There's not
sufficient evidence to charge him," Mr. Horan reiterated last evening.
"I basically happen to be a believer that if you have proof, you charge
them. If you don't, you don't. In my business you realize you need
evidence."
Trivial Pursuits and Predatory Policing
August 15, 2004 Sunday
Trivial Pursuits and Predatory Policing
Falls Church Police
Chief Robert T. Murray imposes a quota on his officers: They must write an
average of three tickets or make three arrests per 12-hour shift. The most
obvious way to fulfill the requirement is to focus on trivial infractions.
"Traffic is a big issue" in his community, says Murray, because
serious crime is not. That may surprise the two men who were assaulted and
robbed recently on Monticello Drive. One victim, who was riding his bicycle to
his Falls Church home, happened upon six suspected gang members as they
brutally assaulted another Falls Church man. After robbing the first victim, these
hoodlums assailed the cyclist and stole his bike. Fairfax County police logged
that incident about 2 a.m. July 30. About the same time, according to other
police reports, criminals were robbing an Arlington business and stealing a car
from Kirkwood Street; breaking into a warehouse and a school in Alexandria; and
stealing another car. Later that day, an Arlington man was robbed at gunpoint
by thieves who shot him -- out of annoyance because he was carrying so little
money -- and then stole his car. And what were Fairfax County police doing that
day? At least some were conducting a sobriety checkpoint in McLean. This
checkpoint produced predictably paltry results -- of the 591 cars that passed
through the blockade between 11 p.m. and 2:15 a.m., police found only three
drivers to cite for driving under the influence. Why, with vicious thugs on the
loose, do police waste time on trivial pursuits and ineffective tactics? It
isn't as though serious crime is hard to find in Northern Virginia. In a single
week earlier this month, Fairfax County police logged 159 cases of larceny and
21 auto thefts. Open-air drug markets -- well known to police -- operate with
impunity. Yet citizens who dislike seeing their taxes wasted have no one but
themselves to blame. We have created a climate that hinders -- even hamstrings
-- effective policing. For instance, the National Drug Intelligence Center
(NDIC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, provides stunningly
specific data about the distribution of illegal drugs in Northern Virginia.
"West African and Middle Eastern criminal groups are the primary
transporters of Southwest Asian heroin into Virginia," the NDIC reports.
"Mexican brown powdered heroin and Mexican black tar heroin available in
Virginia typically are transported into the state from southwestern states and
North Carolina by Mexican criminal groups. "Dominican and African American
criminal groups are the dominant wholesale and mid-level distributors of South
American heroin in Virginia." The average cop on the beat in Virginia
almost certainly is aware of these patterns, but an officer who targets the
likely suspects risks being excoriated for "profiling." Is it any
wonder cops turn to menial matters when they are criticized for intelligent
policing? Citizens also bear the blame for tolerating tactics that use law
enforcement to produce revenue. For example, sobriety checkpoints not only
yield negligible results, they may even be counterproductive. How many more
tragedies could be prevented by patrolling for impaired drivers? Nonetheless,
Virginia police set up roadblocks weekly because that allows them to collect
millions of dollars in grant money from the federal government -- and profits
from a windfall of tickets. Consider that Fairfax's 316 checkpoints last year
yielded only 770 arrests for DUI, but 7,209 citations for other infractions --
e.g., incorrectly installed child seats, expired property stickers, non-use of
safety belts, etc. Corralling citizens to sift for a few miscreants is
precisely what the Fourth Amendment prohibits, but officials promote it and
citizens acquiesce because dragnets are so lucrative. Most police officers are
courageous people whose talents are wasted in setting trivial traps. And,
surely, most Virginians would prefer being protected to being harassed. But
effective law enforcement needs a political climate in which facts can prevail
over political correctness -- and where local officials are willing to eschew
the revenue produced by predatory policing. Criminals in Northern Virginia,
sleep soundly.
August 11, 1994,4 Female Workers Sue Fairfax Police;
3 Officers, Civilian Accuse Lieutenant of Repeated Sexual
Harassment Three female police officers and a civilian employee sued the
Fairfax County Police Department yesterday for $ 1 million, claiming a male
supervisor sexually harassed them at times during the last 12 years. The women
alleged that Lt. Larry Jackson repeatedly made unwanted suggestive remarks and
overtures. Two of them said he retaliated after they complained about his
behavior to his superiors by filing petty or phony disciplinary charges against
them."This has been a recurring pattern," said Carla Markim Siegel,
an attorney for the women. "These women didn't know each other. They complained
independently, and the department didn't take adequate measures to prevent it
from happening again... . It creates a hostile work environment." The
suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, rekindles a controversy
surrounding the treatment of women in the 1,036-member department. Two years
ago, 10 female officers complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission about a "locker room attitude" in the department and said
they had been denied promotions and key assignments because of their
sex.Although the county drafted a policy against sexual harassment last year,
the suit contends that women continue to be subjected to abuse. Police Chief
Michael W. Young and Jackson also were named as defendants.Maj. Richard
Rappoport, a police spokesman, said the department has acted swiftly in cases
involving workplace harassment. All supervisors underwent training last year in
ways to detect and address sexual harassment, he said. He declined comment on
the allegations against Jackson, saying he had not seen the lawsuit.Jackson
referred questions to his attorney when reached at his office in the
department's West Springfield station. The lawyer, Kristin R. Blair, said the
allegations are false and stem from a "racially hostile" work environment
that "encourages unfounded claims and promotes exaggerations against
minorities."Jackson filed an EEOC complaint alleging racial discrimination
seven months ago, and that case is pending, Blair said. "I feel that Larry
is just being made out as some fiend and he's really a straight arrow,"
she said.The suit was filed by Officers Susan Long, Cynthia McAlister and
Elizabeth Dohm and Andrea Moss, a civilian communication aide, all of whom
worked under Jackson's supervision at various times during his 17-year police
career.Their lawyer, Siegel, said race had nothing to do with the lawsuit.Among
other things, Long said Jackson once ordered her back to the office while she
was on the way to a burglary call to ask her out to lunch. He also suggested
she use her "sex appeal" to get him new uniforms, the suit
said.McAlister said that Jackson made advances while the two took a private
airplane ride in 1982 and that her colleagues later ridiculed her about the
incident. Moss said Jackson made up a list of phony disciplinary charges
against her last year after he learned she complained about him to the
department's internal affairs unit. On another occasion, she said she found
computer records that falsely showed Jackson had disciplined her.Dohm also said
she was disciplined by Jackson after talking about him to internal affairs
investigators three years ago.
Fairfax County's first black cop sued the police
August 7, 1989
Christopher Stokes,
48, a youth counselor and Realtor who in 1967 became Fairfax County's first
black police officer, died Aug. 4 at Fair Oaks Hospital. He had sickle cell
anemia. He left the Fairfax police in 1973. Since 1974, he had been a youth
counselor with the Fairfax County courts and a part-time Realtor with Mount
Vernon Realty in Fairfax. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he had testified
for federal attorneys against Fairfax County. It was charged that the county
discriminated against blacks and women in its hiring and promotion policies. In
1982, the Justice Department accepted a settlement offer by Fairfax County that
involved the distribution of $ 2.75 million to 685 discrimination victims. Mr.
Stokes was among those who received awards.
Labor union? When was the lst time you saw one of these weasels outside a cop car? You have to labor to have a union
August 4, 1990 Fairfax Cops form labor union
Fairfax County Police Officer David Ziants award for kill somebody and the worst thing that happens to you is you get fired.
North Chicago fires one officer,
suspends another in death of man in custody
North Chicago fired one police officer and suspended another
today for their roles in the violent arrest of a man who died a week after he
was taken into custody.
Officials immediately dismissed Officer Brandon Yost and
suspended Officer Arthur Strong for 30 days without pay. Four other officers
and one sergeant involved in the arrest who had been temporarily placed on desk
duty were returned to regular duties without penalty.
The action comes in the case of Darrin "Dagwood"
Hanna, 45, who was arrested Nov. 6 in his North Chicago apartment, where police
said he slapped and tried to drown his pregnant girlfriend. He died in a
hospital of multiple factors, according to the Lake County Coroner, including
physical restraint and Taser shocks, as well as chronic cocaine abuse,
hypertension, kidney disease and sickle cell disease.
His death prompted a public uproar, which led to an
investigation by Illinois State Police. The Lake County State's Attorney's
office concluded officers committed no crime, saying they acted
"reasonably and appropriately" to subdue a large man police said
rushed them with clenched fists yelling, "Shoot me."
Yost was fired for repeatedly punching Hanna in the face,
which was unnecessary force, and for an unspecified falsification of reports on
the incident, interim Chief James Jackson said. Strong's reported use of force,
kneeling on the back of Hanna's legs, was considered acceptable, but he was
disciplined for falsifying a report by indicating Hanna was swinging a
flashlight.
Mayor Leon Rockingham Jr. and Jackson made the announcement
at a news conference at North Chicago City Hall, where a crowd of protesters
led by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greeted the news angrily. People in
the crowd yelled "cover up" and chanted, "murderers."
"These six officers should be fired and charged with
murder," Jackson said.
TheU.S. Department of Justiceis conducting a preliminary
inquiry into the case, which is a step short of a full investigation.
85-year-old woman dies in police custody
There is nothing even REMOTELY suspicious about this………….
No, really, there isn’t.
Really.
Okay, maybe just a little suspicious.
Gosh jeepers….maybe we should have the Fairfax County Police
investigate the Fairfax County Police in this matter, you know, just to be sure
nobody did anything wrong.
By
An 85-year-old Oakton woman died during a police transport early Tuesday morning, Fairfax County police said.
Mary Jean Martin, of the 11100 block of Stuart Mill Road, suffered medical distress while in a police cruiser on the way to Woodburn Mental Hospital in Annandale for a mental evaluation, police said.
Martin’s family members had called police to Inova Fairfax Hospital around 3:30 a.m. after family members became concerned for her safety because she was acting irrationally and was confused, said Officer Bud Walker, a Fairfax County police spokesman.
Officers placed Martin in the cruiser without incident and began driving her to the mental hospital, which is only a short distance from Inova, Walker said. Martin was not handcuffed during the trip, Walker said.
After Martin went into distress, officers immediately summoned rescue personnel and began performing CPR on the woman, Walker said. She was then transported back to Fairfax Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The Virginia medical examiner will determine the cause of the woman’s death and the investigation remains ongoing.
Mary Jean Martin, of the 11100 block of Stuart Mill Road, suffered medical distress while in a police cruiser on the way to Woodburn Mental Hospital in Annandale for a mental evaluation, police said.
Martin’s family members had called police to Inova Fairfax Hospital around 3:30 a.m. after family members became concerned for her safety because she was acting irrationally and was confused, said Officer Bud Walker, a Fairfax County police spokesman.
Officers placed Martin in the cruiser without incident and began driving her to the mental hospital, which is only a short distance from Inova, Walker said. Martin was not handcuffed during the trip, Walker said.
After Martin went into distress, officers immediately summoned rescue personnel and began performing CPR on the woman, Walker said. She was then transported back to Fairfax Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The Virginia medical examiner will determine the cause of the woman’s death and the investigation remains ongoing.
airfax County Police Officer Larry A. Jackson award for false arrest. Fairfax County Police. Police brutality
3 APD officers face discipline in woman's
wrongful jailing
Three Atlanta police officers face
disciplinary action in the case of a woman wrongly jailed for nearly two
months, Channel 2 Action News
reported.
Teresa Culpepper spent
53 days wrongfully incarcerated in Fulton County Jail because she had the same
name, Teresa, as a woman wanted by authorities in an aggravated assault case.
Culpepper was taken into
custody Aug. 21. She was released Oct. 12 after her public defender got the
crime victim to come to court and say the woman in custody was not the
attacker.
Atlanta police
investigated the incident and acknowledge in documents obtained by Channel 2
that Culpepper was wrongly arrested. The department also issued “notices of
final adverse action” against three officers.
Officer Nicole
Aguinaga faces 30 days’ suspension. Records list her as being the arresting
officer, but she did not personally interview Culpepper, request a lineup or
have fingerprints taken "to dispel any questions regarding her
identity," APD documents state.
Though Aguinaga expressed her concerns about
discrepancies in Culpepper’s identity to someone in the Fulton County District
Attorney’s Office, “you did not contact a supervisor to seek guidance,”
documents addressed to her say.
Officer Jaidon
Codrington faces 14 days’ suspension for having “transported Ms. Culpepper to
Fulton County Jail without attempting to dispel questions regarding her
identity,” documents say.
Another document says
Officer Justin Strom could be suspended for 10 days because “by directing
Officer Codrington to transport Ms. Culpepper to Fulton County Jail
immediately, the process of Officer/Prisoner verification was eliminated.”
Kliff Grimes, with the
International Brotherhood of Police Officers, told Channel 2, “All three are
appealing to the civil service, so we really can’t speak on the specifics.”
Ken Allen, president
of the union’s APD local, said the incident sheds light on problems with the
existing system for handling suspects in custody.
“What we’re trying to do is get
round-the-clock, 24-hours system in which the officers can take the suspect, go
before a judge,” Allen told Channel 2. Such a system, he said, could help
prevent incidents of mistaken identity.
The Fairfax County Police Officer Jeffrey Hand Award for Creative Income Production. Fairfax County Police. Police Brutality
A Honolulu idiot cop is in federal custody
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A Honolulu police officer is in federal
custody on federal drug possession, distribution, and conspiracy charges.
Officer Michael Chu, 41, is accused of being involved in a marijuana growing
operation. The 13-year HPD veteran patrols Wahiawa, Mililani and the North Shore.
Now he has been placed on leave without pay. He is due in court on Wednesday
for a detention hearing along with another defendant in the case.
Wayne and Ellen Autele have lived on Puneki Street in Mililani for
18 years. News of their neighbors being arrested came as quite a shock,
especially since Wayne is a retired Honolulu police officer.
“Everything was closed. You couldn’t tell if anyone was home,
really. Once in awhile when I get up at two in the morning you could see a
light on. That was it. No noise, nothing, and no smell,” said Wayne Autele.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents found roughly 10 to 20
marijuana plants growing in the master bedroom, according to a criminal
complaint. They also recovered documents showing that Chu and Athena Lee lived
there. Chu used the address when he registered for a medical marijuana card.
According to the Autele’s, the Mililani house is owned by another HPD officer.
The suspects moved in just a few months ago, and the home has been rented to
different tenants in the past.
“Totally surprised. In fact, I’m embarrassed as a policeman for 32
years and I cannot even pick up a criminal right next door to me,” said Wayne
Autele.
“I just couldn’t like even imagine it. I was thinking, wow, right
next door!” said Ellen Autele.
Authorities moved in after a security manager at FedEx seized a
suspicious package on Thursday that was flown to Honolulu from California. The
parcel, containing eight young marijuana plants, was being sent to an apartment
at the Moana Pacific on Kapiolani Boulevard. A day later, DEA agents executed a
federal search warrant of the apartment. A manager told agents that a woman by
the name of Athena Lee lived in the unit and may be living with Chu. While
searching the apartment, DEA agents said they recovered more than 20 marijuana
plants and large amounts of US currency. Lee showed up with Chu during the
raid. She was carrying $12,000 and he was holding a bag with material used to
grow plants indoors, according to court documents. Chu’s subsidized police
vehicle in the parking garage contained a pound of marijuana and several money
orders, authorities said.
According to the criminal complaint, Chu waived his constitutional
rights and answered questions from authorities by stating that he just works for
Lee and helps her carry things for the grow operation.
“It’s scary. I didn’t event think or imagine about that.
Surprised,” said Moana Pacific resident Keiko Ishino.
Chu also told authorities that he lives in an apartment in a
building on Young Street. Last July, DEA agents intercepted a package
containing 14 pounds of marijuana addressed to the same unit.
Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha released the following
statement:
“This is a very serious allegation, and we are cooperating with
the DEA in its investigation. The HPD has also initiated its own internal
administrative investigation into the alleged activity. In the meantime, the
officer’s police powers have been removed, and he will be placed on leave
without pay. Any officer or civilian employee who violates the public trust by
engaging in this type of activity should not be a part of the Honolulu Police
Department.”
“I’m sad it had to be a policeman, but it’s one of those things.
But I’m glad anytime you have criminals caught,” said Wayne Autele.
As for Chu having a medical marijuana card, HPD said a permit does
not exempt an employee from drug testing, and that using marijuana is a
violation of policy.
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Misconduct.
Fairfax County Police Sgt. Weiss Rasool award for Terrorism Against the People…yeah, the Fairfax cops actually hired a terrorist
Just thought we would remind you
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Court Records in Corruption Arrests Raise
Questions About Cops
Court records in Miami Beach corruption arrests raise questions
about cops
The Miami Herald by David Smiley - April 12, 2012
Miami Beach police are concerned that one or more of their own may have provided “protection” for cocaine drops staged by undercover federal agents. Recorded statements and details laid out by the FBI in a criminal complaint against Miami Beach fire inspector Henry Bryant allude to illicit relationships between Bryant and Miami Beach officers, and raise questions about whether department officers escorted Bryant through city limits while he carried kilograms of “sham” cocaine. “I’m concerned of any allegation or impression that a Miami Beach police officer would do that,” Police Chief Raymond Martinez said Thursday. “We’re certainly going to be working with the FBI to follow up on any information they may have.” Martinez and federal agents have talked about meeting early next week. The FBI and local authorities arrested Bryant, a second Miami Beach fire inspector and five city code compliance officers Wednesday. The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office accused the Beach employees of extorting an unnamed South Beach nightclub owner out of $25,000 over several months. In return, agents said the employees allowed the club to avoid inspections and stay open despite hefty tax debts. Authorities also arrested Miami-Dade Police Officer Daniel Mack and said he and Bryant were paid $25,000 to transport duffel bags of fake cocaine for undercover agents posing in the club as drug dealers. No Miami Beach officers have been arrested.
The Miami Herald by David Smiley - April 12, 2012
Miami Beach police are concerned that one or more of their own may have provided “protection” for cocaine drops staged by undercover federal agents. Recorded statements and details laid out by the FBI in a criminal complaint against Miami Beach fire inspector Henry Bryant allude to illicit relationships between Bryant and Miami Beach officers, and raise questions about whether department officers escorted Bryant through city limits while he carried kilograms of “sham” cocaine. “I’m concerned of any allegation or impression that a Miami Beach police officer would do that,” Police Chief Raymond Martinez said Thursday. “We’re certainly going to be working with the FBI to follow up on any information they may have.” Martinez and federal agents have talked about meeting early next week. The FBI and local authorities arrested Bryant, a second Miami Beach fire inspector and five city code compliance officers Wednesday. The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office accused the Beach employees of extorting an unnamed South Beach nightclub owner out of $25,000 over several months. In return, agents said the employees allowed the club to avoid inspections and stay open despite hefty tax debts. Authorities also arrested Miami-Dade Police Officer Daniel Mack and said he and Bryant were paid $25,000 to transport duffel bags of fake cocaine for undercover agents posing in the club as drug dealers. No Miami Beach officers have been arrested.
Bryant
allegedly boasted about his contacts with as many as four Miami Beach officers
and four Miami-Dade County officers, court records show. He also told agents he
would transport cocaine with unmarked Miami Beach police escorts within city
limits — he said department cruisers were marked with GPS — and Miami-Dade
County police escorts through the rest of the county, according to court
records. Sgt. Alejandro Bello, president of the city’s police union, said the
details in Bryant’s criminal complaint raise a number of questions. “Was he
being truthful?” Bello said. “Should we be concerned? Are they looking at other
police officers? Or were they just friends who didn’t know what was going on?”
An FBI spokesman said he could not elaborate on details in the criminal
complaint. According to court records, Bryant transported a duffel bag stuffed
with kilograms of fake cocaine from South Beach to North Dade on Dec. 21 and on
Jan 14. During the first run, court records say an unmarked, gold four-door
sedan “appeared to be following Bryant” in Miami Beach before Mack picked up
the escort outside city limits. During the second run, agents say Bryant met
them at the club and introduced them to an “identified police officer” after
they asked about the whereabouts of his “other associate.” Court records don’t
name the officer or his department, but say he escorted Bryant in his personal
black Chevrolet Impala from South Beach to the 62nd Street exit of Interstate
95, where Mack began tailing the fire inspector. “That’s part of what we’ll be
meeting with the FBI and working on follow-up information about,” Martinez
said. “I don’t know if from that complaint that police officer is a Miami Beach
police officer or from another department.” The investigation remains open.
Said Martinez: “We have a lot of questions.”
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Misconduct.
Another cop shoots himself dead
NYPD Cop
Shoots Self In Head; Four NYC Cops Have Committed Suicide in 2012
An off-duty NYPD cop reportedly shot himself in the head
inside his Bronx home Wednesday, The Daily News reports. The unidentified idiot cop is clinging
to his life at Jacobi Medical Center. Cops responded to his Holland Ave.
address in Van Nest after a 911 call at 9:45PM Wednesday.
“He was always smiling and happy,” Nathan Vellon 20,
whose family owns the home the cop was living in, told The News. “He
seemed like a nice guy.”
Four NYPD cops have committed suicide with a gun in 2012.
On January 15th, rookie cop Patrick Werner, only 23,
killed himself inside his parents' Westchester County home after getting into a
car crash and fleeing the scene. Sources say he'd been arguing with his
girlfriend on the phone when he crashed.
On January 19th, Terrence Dean, 28, of the 111th Precinct
in Queens, shot and killed himself
while on duty after his fiancee warned the precinct of his worsening
depression.
On Super Bowl Sunday, idiot cop Brian Saar died in his Long Island home
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after having a fight with his wife at a
party.
And on February 13th, a 14 year veteran of the NYPD,
39-year-old Matthew Schindler pulled over on the side of the Long Island
Expressway near Jericho and shot himself in the head. Minutes before he texted
his sergeant to say his goodbyes.
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hearings into the police problem in America.
Demand mandatory body cameras for cops, one strike rule on abuse, and a
permanent DOJ office on Police
Misconduct.
Fairfax County Police Officer Amanda Perry award for Safe Driving. Fairfax County Police. Police brutality
Maryland
police idiot cop refuses breath test
A
Frederick police idiot cop charged last month with drunken driving refused to
take a breath test after his arrest, Frederick County Sheriff's Office Cpl.
Jennifer Bailey said Wednesday.
Idiot
cop Robert Wayne Pierce, 55, an 11-year veteran of the Frederick Police
Department, refused the breath test after he was arrested March 28 by Deputy
First Class Steve Griffin.
Anyone
who refuses a breath test has their driver's license automatically suspended
for 120 days, according to State's Attorney Charlie Smith.
Smith
said this law is imposed by the Motor Vehicle Administration.
Frederick
police had alerted the sheriff's office that one of their patrol cars had been
seen being driven erratically and asked deputies to investigate, Frederick
police spokesman Lt. Clark Pennington said.
An
investigation revealed that Pierce, who was off duty, had earlier left the
scene of a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 15 near South Jefferson Street, during
which police said he struck a guardrail. Pierce and the vehicle were later
located in Middletown.
Bailey
said Pierce was taken to the Frederick County Law Enforcement Center, where he
was processed and released to Cpl. Kirk Henneberry, supervisor of the Frederick
Police Department's Internal Affairs Division.
Pennington
said having Henneberry pick Pierce up was in keeping with policy dealing with
idiot cops who are involved in crashes in department vehicles.
Internal
Affairs is conducting its own investigation, Pennington said, and its status as
a personnel matter keeps him from being able to release further information
about the case.
Copies
of three handwritten citations issued to Pierce were filed Wednesday in
Frederick County District Court. The citations state the violations occurred at
9:42 a.m. and involved a 2008 white Chevrolet Impala.
Pierce
is charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving while impaired
by alcohol and failure of a driver to stop after an unattended property damage
accident, according to the citations.
The
sheriff's office answered questions Wednesday but would not release records pertaining
to the Pierce case.
Law
enforcement records fall under three categories:
Incident
reports, which include names and addresses of victims and witnesses, as well as
police idiot cops' accounts of what occurred.
Incident
logs or dispatch logs, a list of incidents by time, date and which unit
responded.
Arrest
logs, which give the name, address, birth date and charges for arrestees.
Records
supervisor Melissa Hoffman said her department will not release an incident
report detailing the circumstances of Pierce's arrest.
"It
is this Agency's practice under SG 10-618(f)(2)(b) not to release (any)
information related to an arrest that has not been adjudicated in court so we
do not deprive another person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication,"
Hoffman wrote in a letter in response to a Public Information Act request by
The Frederick News-Post.
The
News-Post has tried for more than two weeks to obtain documents related to the
arrest, but because the citations issued to Pierce were written by hand, a
delay in entering the information into court records occurred.
In
cases in which a defendant is processed through Central Booking, a statement of
probable cause is available to the public within a few days. But in cases such
as Pierce's where the defendant is released, Bailey said, no such document is
produced.
Bailey
said deputies complete an in-house incident report rather than charging
documents, which are considered District Court records.
Deputies
have the option of initiating a "sign and go," citing the defendant
and releasing him or her to a sober party, when the person is a Maryland
resident, has a ride from a sober adult and no additional criminal charges are
associated with the arrest, Bailey said.
Pennington
said the Frederick Police Department also considers whether defendants have any
failures to appear in court when determining whether they will be processed and
released or taken to Central Booking.
Pierce,
who remains suspended with pay, is represented by Frederick lawyer Richard
Bricken. His trial is scheduled for June 13, according to court records.
Last
year, Pierce's salary was $66,502.80.
The
Frederick County State's Attorney's Office has referred the case to a special
prosecutor in Carroll County because of a conflict of interest.
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Rookie cop busted, charged
with assaulting fiancee
A rookie NYPD cop was arrested
in Queens Saturday for assaulting his fiancée, officials said.Off-duty Idiot
cop Alexandru Baiasu, 27, was arrested about 10:50 p.m. at his Rego Park home
after attacking his 31-year-old fiancée during an argument, cops said.
Baiasu, who was newly assigned
to the Police Academy, was charged with assault and harassment, officials said.
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Lebanon
cop arrested for beating wife
A Lebanon police idiot cop was arrested for domestic
assault late Wednesday night and has been placed on administrative leave
pending an internal investigation. Mitchell McDannald, 24, was accused of a
physically assaulting his wife
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Hanover Twp. Police Chief & Idiot cop Suspended,
Force Reinstated
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Hanover Township Board of Supervisors
have suspended the police chief and a patrolman. At the same time, they are
bringing back the rest of the force.
Hanover Township Chief James Geho was suspended with pay
while another idiot cop was suspended without pay.
No one in authority said why the suspensions occurred.
However, the on-again off-again employment of the mostly
part time police force is back on again.
The force had been laid off last fall because of budget
concerns.
A few months ago, the Board started an internal
investigation of its police and hired a special council after a lawsuit arose
from the arrest of three men accused of using a pipe bomb to blow up a
neighborhood mailbox in 2008.
That case was thrown out in criminal court.
Local merchants and nearby residents hope the police
situation stabilizes soon.
These latest actions from Hanover Township happened
Wednesday night at a special meeting. The regularly scheduled meeting is set
for Thursday night.
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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
Chicago Police
Idiot cop Cited After Pit Bull Kills Little Dog
Chicago - A
Chicago police idiot cop has been relieved of his powers after an off-duty
incident where his unleashed pit bull attacked an eight-pound Pomeranian, which
later died.
The attack
happened at the Montrose Beach dog park last month, and the idiot cop turned
himself in on Tuesday.
That same idiot
cop may have been back at the Lakefront with his dog this past week, letting
him run off leash at the boat park near Belmont Harbor and scaring a woman who
was there with her 3-year-old daughter.
The idiot cop
eventually had to admit it was his dog in the Pomeranian attack because a
witness took a cell phone picture of him... and that picture was put on posters
all over the neighborhood.
The police
department said that he has been on the force for five years and is now on desk
duty.
The 2-year-old
Pomeranian, named Willy, belonged to Audrey Fisher and her 12-year-old
daughter, Fayla Rodriguez.
"It was
horrific," Fisher said. "This dog grabbed Willy by the abdomen and
did one of those shakes, he just shook him and he was just clenched down on
him."
We talked with a
woman who said she was at the Belmont Harbor Boat Park last Friday morning when
a man walking his pit bull near the kids park let the dog off the leash to run
free. She said she is "100 percent sure" it was the police idiot cop.
"It's total
intimidation," she said. "When I looked at him, it was like, 'Really?
You're gonna let your dog off the leash! A pit bull! And I gave him that look,
like 'What are you thinking?'"
Fisher finds
that incredible. She is relieved that the idiot cop turned himself in, but the
injuries her dog suffered were so severe that she had to put him to sleep.
Fisher also wants the idiot cop to pay her $5,700 vet bill. Her daughter is
still traumatized.
"A lot of
tears, lets just say that, a lot of pain," Rodriguez said.
Fisher says they
are both just glad this is now over. But she believes the cop deserves more
punishment than just desk duty.
"I think
the dog should be destroyed for sure," Fisher said.
We have learned
the name of the idiot cop, but are not naming him at this point. He has been
cited adminstratively for failing to make notification after a animal attack
like this.
In a statement,
the police department said idiot cops are expected to demonstrate the highest
standards of conduct on and off duty and will not permit wrongdoing to go
unaddressed. Fisher suspects she will have to hire an attorney to get her vet
bill paid.
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Police
Idiot cop Suspended Over Off Duty Dog Attack On Montrose Beach
Willy,
a 2-Year-old Pomeranian-Papillon mix, had to be put down after being attacked
by a police idiot cop's pit bull at Montrose Avenue dog beach on St. Patrick's
Day. (Photo via the Fisher family.)
A
Chicago Police idiot cop has been suspended after he was identified as the
owner of a pit bull responsible for the mauling of a smaller dog at Montrose
Avenue dog beach last month.
Audrey
Fisher and her daughter, 12-year-old Fayla Rodriguez, brought their dog Willy—a
2-year-old Pomeranian Papillon mix—to the dog beach to play with his favorite
pink ball when the pit bull decided he wanted it and attacked Willy to get to
it. Fisher incurred $5,700 in veterinary bills; Willy died three days later.
The owner of the pit bull simply walked away from the scene. Park District
rules state the owner of a dog who attack other animals at dog parks are
responsible for the veterinary bills.
He
never did. Cell phone camera photos captured the image of the dog and his
owner, which was distributed on flyers near the beach. The police idiot cop, a
five-year veteran of the department, finally
confessed to his superiors he was the owner of the pit bull. He was
relieved of his duties pending an Internal Affairs investigation, while the
department's Animal Crimes unit cited him for not reporting the incident within
24 hours. The Police Department said in a statement they "(expect) its
members to demonstrate the highest standards of conduct on and off duty and
will not permit wrongdoing to go unaddressed."
When
Fisher found out the owner of the pit bull was a cop, she was stunned.
“I
can’t tell you how this has been weighing on me, and on Fayla, who witnessed
her dog practically being eaten,” said Fisher. “This is a man protecting our
streets. Instead of acting like a cop and taking charge, he cowered out like a
sissy girl and ran away. I expect justice to be served by the Chicago Police
Department. I expect them to make one of their own follow the law and pay this
bill he incurred when his pit killed my puppy, and I expect them to make him
give my daughter and I an apology.”
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