Cop watch

A Utah State Trooper repeatedly punched a 53-year-old woman in a car after a police chase has received a lot of play in the news. The trooper is now on paid leave while under investigation over the incident which occurred almost five months ago and the trooper claims he was using “distraction blows” because the woman refused to get out and was still trying to drive away after her car was blocked in and he was too close to use a taser.



A New York NY cop claims he accidentally shot an apparently unarmed 76-year-old man who was the father of the subject of a search warrant during a drug raid at a Queens apartment building, though there haven’t been any details released describing exactly how it was an accidental shooting.


A US Border Patrol agent is the subject of a lawsuit over the fatal cross-border shooting of a 15-year-old boy who was on the Mexican side of the border when he was shot. Border Patrol officials have claimed that the boy was among a group of teens who were throwing rocks at agents as justification for the deadly shooting but at least one alleged 3rd-party witness has contradicted that claim.


Four Lake Station IN cops are the subject of a lawsuit by a man claiming they used excessive force when they broke both of his arms during an arrest… To be honest I’m a bit on the fence about adding this one due to the absence of any details here and may remove it if more information comes out contradicting his claim. If anyone hears more about this one let me know.


An unknown number of Uniontown PA cops are accused of needlessly shooting a family’s dog seven times, six of which with handguns and once with a shotgun, after the owner of the dog called police to report a prowler that the dog apparently chased off.


At least two West Virginia State cops are being sued by a 63-year-old man and his wife who claim that the officers used excessive force on both of them while serving a warrant for the man’s arrest. They claim officers beat the husband on multiple occasions before and after arrest while they also dragged his wheelchair-bound wife across the ground, injuring her too. However, he also claims officers used anti-Semitic slurs against him during the beatings and some of the claims seem a bit questionable even for the problematic WV police. Police claim he was armed with a screwdriver or knife and had barricaded himself in the home and that his wife attacked and clawed at them, which also seems a stretch… It seems likely the truth is somewhere in between the two claims, but seemingly excessive anyway given the pair’s ages and condition.


A North Carolina trooper is still the subject of a criminal investigation eight months after he allegedly detained a woman without explanation in his cruiser during a traffic stop and exposed himself to her before releasing her without charge. The officer resigned after he was notified about the investigation about a month after the incident but details of the incident have only now gone public.


Details about how Chicago IL police arrested a woman for recording internal affairs officers she claims refused to take her complaint about an officer who allegedly raped her because she had violated that state’s wiretap laws by doing so came out this weekend in a report about that state’s laws that make it a felony to record the police. We recorded the passage of that law last year along with another case that will hopefully test that law. Both of the people we’ve tracked so far arrested over that law face up to 15 years in prison for it. While some may not think this is misconduct since it’s perfectly legal for the officers to arrest the woman based on that state’s laws, we do feel that the law in that state is a very serious threat to police accountability and transparency and how police apply that law in cases where it appears they are avoiding accountability by doing so should be tracked.


A Detroit MI cop is accused of refusing to help two women who struggled to detain a car burglar that they detained and tried to take back to the police station after the Detroit police never sent a unit out when they called. Apparently the officer, that the woman spotted while dragging the man in, refused to even get out of his car then took off after a college campus cop stopped to assist. The chief of police insists he’s looking into it.


Cleveland OH police detectives are accused of violating departmental rules and federal laws by improperly clearing 52 rape cases as closed without ever even identifying any suspects in those cases, just to make their case closure statistics look better than they were.


The now-former sheriff of Ramsey County MN is accused of lying when he claimed there were 33 active terrorist organizations in that county. The current sheriff is making the allegations after he tried to locate the studies and reports those claims were allegedly based on and, found nothing at all. It’s being claimed that the sheriff made up the information to secure funding for his anti-terrorism task force which was allegedly nothing more than some highly-paid officers sitting around searching the net and spying on groups such as PETA and the CUAPB (Communities United Against Police Brutality).


A Des Moines IA police lieutenant is on paid leave while he’s the subject of an unspecified investigation being conducted by a regional drug task force.


A Palatka FL cop has resigned after he was arrested on drunk driving charges with a .15BAC when he blew out the tires on his police cruiser after hitting several curbs.


A Washington County WV sheriff’s captain has resigned and filed for retirement benefits after he was placed on leave when medication was found to be missing from the jail where he was assigned as administrator and he was allegedly the only one with access to that medication.


Independence MO police supervisors were ruled to have misled the police chief and manufactured a case against a police sergeant in order to retaliate against him for voicing his concerns about staffing levels.


The sheriff of Osceola County IA is being sued by a former deputy who claims he was wrongfully fired in violation of his First Amendment rights for offering to testify in a civil case against the sheriff’s office in a case where a man was denied a gun permit because of his political views, which was also ruled a fist amendment violation.


The Seattle WA police union is in the news over articles in their newsletter, especially one that criticizes the city’s anti-profiling and anti-discrimination efforts in which city officials are called “the enemy”.

2. Reenactiment of the SWAT killing of Sal Culosi

Reenactment of the SWAT killing of Sal Culosi.

SWAT Team Kills Man Accused of Betting on Football Games

Utah State Trooper Punches 59-Year-Old Lady in the Face 5 Times Taser

Local Residents Hold Dialogue with FCPD’s

                                                                         Ima Goniff 

Residents from Reston and Herndon had the opportunity to talk to and ask questions of Fairfax County Police Department spokesman, Ima Goniff, Thursday evening.



Goniff was the guest speaker at the January meeting of the Reston district station's Citizens Advisory Committee, which is another huge waste of money because the police control the Committees; otherwise, a whole lot of people would be out of job right now.


“The diversity is an exceptional thing in Fairfax,” he said, adding that having such a diverse population brings unique challenges to the police department. “The coloreds run pretty fast, so gunshots work best with them, but then you got your Vietnamese’s-is, they’re so skinny Annie Oakly would miss a shot at them, so your baton works best in that case....like I say, its unique challenges, but really, we like killing unarmed white people the best”


He said about 120 or more languages are spoken in Fairfax County “And we don’t listen to a single one of em...its all fuck’n Greek to me” he said but added “But I think those Indians guys, not the real ones, the one’s eat rice, they speak kinda like English”


Diversity among the county’s police department is far lower than it should be, said the spokesman meaning that mostly white people work for the police. He said the department has a difficult time recruiting diverse candidates for many reasons, but mostly because they aren’t wanted on the force, which, at this point, resembles a republican central committee meeting in Alabama.


When the serial burglar case was going on in the late summer and early fall, Fairfax County police made its war on texting a top priority and spent a lot of time and resources on it, he said. The cops surrendered to text messages a few weeks after they declared war.


He said having a true cat burglar who goes into people’s homes while they sleep is very scary. “Like you known, a boogie man who takes things” Eventually one McLean resident called about a suspicious person in their neighborhood, and the dastardly Fairfax County serial burglar was arrested...by the Montgomery County Police. He said the case shows the importance in people calling the Montgomery County police when they notice suspicious happenings in their neighborhoods. “They get shit done over there,” he added.


During the case, he said they continued to remind area residents to lock their doors and secure their homes and garages. “We also reminded them that the Discovery Channel was running an excellent series on guys who can nail stuff into their feet, because, like, a lot of times, they don’t rerun those shows.”


The Fairfax County Police Department will have to start rethinking how it grows in the future, with Metro and related development coming “That Metro is going to bring a lot more diversity challenging types in here” and added that Tyson’s Corner will likely eventually have an urban police station model, where a station may be located in a high-rise building with shared parking. “Because that’s our answer to everything” he said, “Spend more, spend more, spend more and give us more stuff “


He said though he is concerned with increased crime that Metro may bring to the communities it is extended to with Dulles Rail, often that crime is small and occurs in the parking lots rather than the surrounding communities. “So I’m just gonna avoid parking lots” he said


He said that doesn’t mean crime doesn’t happen in communities where Metro stations are located, but that it usually happens in close proximity to the station which is saying the same thing but it makes sense if you aren’t listening to him or not paying attention “We get away with shit like that all the time”, he said.


Though many residents and area media are often concerned with violent crimes, he said the cop’s plans to continue to shoot people anyway especially those holding a cell phone because “We can’t help it....our car doors open by themselves and hit our arms and the guns just go off..and I got ten guys who willl swear to that”


He said his biggest concern in policing the county is domestic violence and alcohol-related offenses and is advising his officers to stop beating their wives when their drunk “That way, the whole crime stats things go down like 9 million percent” he said.


He added that driving under the influence is not always seen as a big deal and that he was happy about that becuase “Most of my guys are loaded half the time”

Idiot cop report

• The top story today is that the infamous Chicago Illinois “torture cop”, Jon Burge, has been sentenced to a light four and a half years in prison after he was convicted on perjury charges for lying about torturing several people into false confessions in his testimony for a civil suit. [0]



• 12 Philadelphia PA cops are accused of using excessive force in addition to uttering racist and homophobic slurs against a gay couple and then conspiring to cover it up when neighbors started videotaping it. [4]


• Minneapolis MN police are accused of using excessive force and causing extensive damage to an apartment during a questionable raid that only resulted in minor charges. [4]


• 2 Atlanta GA police officers are under investigation for allegedly intimidating a woman who videotaped excessive force incident by pulling her over for no apparent reason after they spotted her recording an arrest. [4]


• A St Louis MO police officer was sentenced to probation for perjury and obstruction over false statements he made that would have sent an innocent man to prison for 10 years if not for contradictory video. [0]


• Garden Grove CA police are the subject of a claim, generally a precursor to a lawsuit, alleging that masked officers clad in black raided a home without showing a warrant just to make a misdemeanor drug arrest. [3]


• A Minneapolis MN police officer has been charged with felony assault on allegations that he beat his wife then pistol whipped her in front of their 3-year-old son then threatened to kill her after she sought medical treatment. [0]


• A Clovis NM police officer has been indicted on a vehicular homicide charge on allegations he caused a fatal accident when he ran a stop sign while speeding in cruiser and crashed into a woman’s car, killing the passenger and severely wounding her passenger. [0]


• Tarpon Springs FL police are accused of arresting a college student for refusing to turn over a video he took of officers while they were making an arrest and then confiscating another person’s cell phone for recording that arrest. [5]


• A New Bedford MA police sergeant was arrested on a gross lewdness charge on allegations that he exposed himself to a woman at a bar owned by his parents. [0]


• A Long Branch NJ police officer was sentenced to probation in a plea deal to a simple assault charge for his role in a bar brawl that left a man with a broken jaw in a situation the judge called nothing less than bullying. [0]


• A Los Angeles CA police officer is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he threatened to kill a 14-year-old student that his wife, a teacher, had sex with. [3]


• Two Washington DC police officers have been indicted on illegal suplementation of pay charges for taking protection money from liquor store, another officer was convicted of the same last year. [0]


• A Jacksonville FL police officer was detained after an outburst against an instructor at a training center while the officer was on administrative leave while under investigation over other misconduct allegations. While police claim it was for his own safety, they also warned a judge and attorney he had issues with, as a precaution. [0]


• A Michigan State trooper was sentenced to 1 week in jail in a plea to an assault & battery charge for groping a female trooper’s breasts during training. [0]


• A Lorain OH police officer with a history of disciplinary problems was suspended twice in the last 2 months for misuse of his position and for making false claims against one of his supervisors. [0]


• An Oregon County MO deputy has been fired after arrested on 8 felony burglary & theft charges when he tried to sell stolen goods to an undercover officer. [0]


• A Grand Traverse County MI deputy accepted a plea deal to an attempted assault on an officer charge even though he was originally charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, possession of a firearm while intoxicated and two domestic violence charges. [0]


• A Kingston NY police lieutenant was charged with grand larceny involving $9,000 that was stolen, however, how he stole it depends on whom you ask since officials aren’t being clear about whether it was due to double-dipping or that he directly stole it from the department. [2]


• The police chief of Howey-in-the-hills FL is under investigation after accused of voter fraud and he may face felony charges. [0]


• A Marathon County WI deputy was suspended for 4 days without pay after he was cited for drunk driving back in December. [0]


• An Arlington TX police officer is accused of threatening members of a SWAT team… who arrested him on an aggravated sexual assault charge where he is accused of choking and sexually assaulting a woman… which occurred while he was on unpaid leave on allegations he arrested an innocent man… which happened while he was under investigation for allegedly making sexual advances on a woman he pulled over in October… in fact, all in all, the officer in question has a history of 21 complaints filed against him. [2]


• Warwick RI has settled an excessive force and false arrest lawsuit for $40,000 on allegations that police detained a 71-year-old grandmother and telling her to shut up when she asked why, ordered her grandson to put his 7-year-old son down at gunpoint, punched him in the head while he was cuffed in front of the young boy, then illegally searched their apartment before realizing… they had the wrong address. [3]


• Los Angeles CA was ordered to pay a $1,200,000 jury award to a bounty hunter who was shot by a police officer who thought he was robbing the fugitive that he was apprehending. [0]


• A Chouteau County MT reserve deputy has been sentenced to 4 years in prison in a plea deal for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. [0]


• The now-former police chief of Inman KS has been found guilty of 15 felony charges for molesting and solicting 3 young girls for sex and a misdemeanor charge for abusing a young boy he was also accused of molesting as well, though he was found not guilty of those charges. [0]


• An Oklahoma City OK police sergeant has been suspended after he was arrested on allegations of committing lewd acts on a child under 16 and forcible sodomy. [0]


• A Houston TX police officer has been indicted on aggravated sexual assault charges involving two different on-duty incidents. [1]


• The police chief of Norfolk VA is claiming that he failed to reveal that a police recruit police claim died because he accidentally ran into another recruit during training more likely had died after he was repeatedly punched by a police trainer because the city attorney advised him not to reveal that information… but a reporter found out anyway. [2]


• A Hardeman County TX deputy was fired and charged with sexual assault of a child and possession of a controlled substance. He was actually fired in September due, in part, to those allegations but he was then rehired by the Bayou Vista PD while under investigation. [0]


• The RCMP police officer out of Kelowna BC who may be facing charges over the videotaped incident where he kicked a compliant suspect in the face is also under investigation on a complaint filed before that alleging he repeatedly punched a man he detained when he mistook him for a thief when he caught the man repossessing a boat due to unpaid repair bills. [3]


• A Baltimore MD police officer who claimed that someone shot him in the leg at a parking garage next door to the police station may have been lying after investigators apparently determined that there was no sign of an assailant in that incident. [3]


• Prince George’s County MD lost a civil suit judgment for almost $3.1 million to a woman who was severely injured after an unmarked cruiser drifted into her lane and struck her car head-on. [0]


• Sturgis SD has settled a lawsuit for an undisclosed sum to a woman claiming she was subjected to illegal body searches by police during an annual Sturgis motorcycle rally. [3]


• An Austin TX police officer has been suspended after he chose to take a lunch break instead of responding to a call requesting that someone check on a woman’s husband after she claimed he had a gun and she was worried about him. The man was later found dead of a self-inflicted gun wound. [0]


• Two Denver CO police officers are accused of mistreating and issuing a false citation to a byciclist who is an intern at the Westword weekly in Denver. The intern alleges an officer shoulder-tackled him when he road away after confronting a cop who had almost caused a car to hit him while directing traffic. Instead, the bicyclist got a $50 ticked for failing to obey traffic laws. [3]


• A York Regional ON cop is under investigation after being videotaped telling a G20 protester that he wasn’t in Canada anymore and had no rights when the man refused to allow his backpack to be searched. [3]


• A Tucson AZ police officer has been sentenced to probation in a plea deal on computer tampering charges stemming from the misuse of a police database. [0]


• A Kern County CA deputy was sentenced to 1 year in jail but will be allowed to transfer out into a drug treatment program in 30 days as part of his plea deal for being under the influence of meth while armed. [0]


• A Harvey IL police officer was suspended without pay after his son stole his unmarked police SUV and seriously injured someone in a multi-car crash. [0]


• An Elkhart IN cop faces termination after he was convicted on a felony forgery charge for forging his wife’s signature on a check he cashed. [0]


• A Stuttgart AR cop was sentenced to probation, a fine and community service in a plea deal to abuse of public trust and abuse of office charges. [1]


• A Modesto CA police officer was charged with driving under the influence after he was stopped last month by a CHP trooper. [2]


• A Sandwich MA cop was suspended after he was caught on a gas station surveillance camera hitting a light pole with his car and then fleeing the scene of that accident.
• A Dougherty County GA school police officer has resigned after being arrested on multiple charges including theft on allegations he tried to pass off a used cell phone as being new while trying to return it for a refund.

Thug report

A Maricopa County AZ deputy’s version of events in a fatal shooting incident are disputed by a witness alleging that the shooting was unnecessary.



Monterey CA & Monterey County CA are being sued by the family of man who died in a fire caused by flash-bang grenade during a questionable raid where he wasn’t even the real suspect.


2 Columbia MS police officers are accused of using excessive force and falsely arresting a man in court after a cop on the witness stand became enraged when that man’s friend called him a liar, the judge did nothing to stop it.


A Denver CO cop is sued alleging she used excessive force and falsely arrested a business owner who asked her to move her cruiser that was blocking his entrance. She happens to be the 2nd female Denver cop in trouble for excessive force who was also on the American Gladiator TV show


A Simi Valley CA cop who was the subject of a previous excessive force settlement involving his police dog is being sued again on allegations he intentionally and needlessly ordered his dog to attack a man he detained. The suit also alleges that officers took pictures of the attack and taunted the man with it in repeated attempts to intimidate him.


A Saguenay QC cop was arrested for violating bail conditions set after he was charged with several sexual assault and drug trafficking charges


A now-former Gallatin County IL sheriff was sentenced to 2 life terms in prison for dealing drugs on-duty and for plotting to kill the witnesses.


3 Chicago IL cops are being sued by an alderman alleging she was falsely arrested on DUI charges because she demanded a cop’s badge number when he blocked the road with his cruiser.


A San Bernardino County CA deputy was charged with DUI after a 2-car accident. Oddly, he was immediately released but the woman he hit was jailed even though she passed a breathalyzer 3 times. No explanation was given for that.


A Winter Haven FL police officer was suspended & arrested after caught stealing marijuana from evidence by a fellow cop


A Worcester MA police officer was convicted on federal conspiracy to distribute marijuana charges. Can’t give more details because the only site carrying the report was pay-per-view subscriber-based.


A Dakota County NE sheriff’s sergeant resigned while subject of federal investigation over unspecified computer crimes


3 Oak Hill FL cops are under investigation for cheating on tests while the police chief is also accused of covering it up


A Trenton NJ cop & 2 aides were charged with record tampering & falsified documentation for failing to check on a man who was later found dead in his cell from liver failure.


A now-former Santa Fe NM sheriff was arrested on 251 counts of embezzlement & 1 fraud charge for allegedly selling county equipment on E-Bay to pay gambling debts and other personal expenses.


An Ozaukee County WI sheriff’s lieutenant was sentenced to 6 months in jail & probation for stealing over $8k before he retired


An RCMP cop was charged with theft on allegations that he stole $40-$70 in change from a desk at a community policing office


A Salisbury MA police chief resigned while the subject of an ongoing investigation into unspecified misconduct allegations


And finally, a South Bend IN cop faces a 30 day suspension for interfering with the investigation into allegations he stole his ex-wife’s license plate

Cops and Kids, run children, run

A Lubbock TX police officer has resigned before he was arrested on 2 counts of sexual assault of a child and indecency w/child involving his 16 and 12-year-old adoptive daughters.



Liberty PA cop charged w/involuntary manslaughter after his 5yr-old son fatally shot self with the officer’s service weapon.


A Michigan State trooper is charged with 2 counts of 2nd degree criminal sexual misconduct with a girl under the age of 13


An Illinois State trooper has been sentenced to probation in a plea deal for reckless homicide for a 126mph on-duty crash that killed 2 teen girls. In the same case, an Illinois court awarded $8,000,000 to the parents of those teens


A Louisville KY cop was suspended 15 days for charging a 7-year-old boy with criminal mischief for hitting his truck with a ball even though there was no damage.


A La Crosse Co WI deputy charged with negligent homicide after crashing into a teen’s car with his cruiser at about 96mph.

Weekly idiot-cop report

A Beaumont TX police officer has been sentenced to a brief stint of probation for official oppression over a videotaped incident where he needlessly tasered the passenger of a car after a fellow officer had beat him repeatedly with a baton during a traffic stop even though he was being compliant.



Two Seattle WA police officers are accused of using excessive force by a reporter who claims she witnessed the officers chase down a man who appeared to be in his 50′s for jaywalking and tackled him from behind, causing his head to bounce off the pavement. She then claims that one of the officers repeatedly punched him in the face. This would be the latest in a long string of excessive force complaints associated with jaywalking arrests in Seattle.


A Baltimore MD police officer currently charged with murder is the subject of a lawsuit alleging that he shouldn’t have even been a police officer at the time he fatally shot an unarmed man during a dispute while he was drunk because he had been in a similar shooting incident previously.

ttsburgh PA has settled a lawsuit for $40,000 to a man who was shot in the hand by an off-duty officer who was under the influence when he mistook that man for being one of a group of people he alleges punched him in the face while he was driving. Apparently the officer pistol whipped him in the head and when the man put his hand up to block the blows the officer shot his hand, all this despite bystanders telling him he had the wrong guy.


An Altoona PA police officer has resigned while waiting for his disciplinary hearing for a bar brawl where he and a fellow off-duty officer were accused of assaulting two men. He’s the fourth officer to lose his job over the incident, two other on-duty cops who responded to the incident were also caught up in it.


Maricopa County AZ sheriff Arpaio is the subject of yet another lawsuit related to his alleged efforts to use his office for political retaliation against county officials, six of which have already filed suits against him. This suit was filed by a family of real-estate developers claiming they were wrongfully caught up in those political reprisals when the sheriff served a search warrant on them in an effort to find dirt on a county official, even though that warrant was later revoked as being, well, unwarranted.


The police chief of Beloit WI has retired amid controversy over lawsuits and allegations of racism that include a videotaped admission that he used a racial slur when addressing his own officers.


A Davidson County NC deputy who worked as a resource officer has been charged with a misdemeanor larceny count on allegations he stole diesel fuel from the school he worked at.


A Brownsville TX police sergeant is on administrative leave while he’s the subject of an unspecified investigation.


A Nez Perce County ID sheriff’s sergeant has been arrested on a drunk driving charge while off-duty.


A Grant County WA deputy is the subject of a lawsuit alleging that he needlessly shot man’s dog to death for sniffing his police dog’s butt while officers were searching a car for drugs. However, the officer says the two dogs fought and, even though the dog fled after the officer kicked it, he though it was coming back to attack again.


Albany NY has settled a wrongful arrest lawsuit for $40,000 to a man who was confronted by two police officers in a case of mistaken identity based on an extremely vague description of “a tall black man in a brown T-shirt and with Afro-style haircut” then peppersprayed and reportedly struck him with a baton when he questioned why he was being detained. He was then arrested for obstruction, resisting and disorderly conduct but the charges were dismissed outright.


Two Abbotsford BC police constables are to be the subject of a public hearing over an excessive force complaint based on a YouTube video that was recorded during a 2009 arrest. Apparently the department itself ruled the use of force as justified but the BC Complaint Commission has ordered another review.


An Albany NY police sergeant who is also the police supervisor’s union president has been suspended without pay for at least 30 days while he’s the subject of an unspecified investigation.


The police chief of Bay Head NJ has been suspended while under investigation on allegations that he took over $500 from the police union.


The police chief of Geary OK has resigned after he was arrested on DUI charges. Apparently, according to the deputy who arrested him, the chief flashed his badge and asked for a bit of professional courtesy, but apparently the deputy didn’t fall for it and did his duty.


Kalamazoo MI cop resigns after driving drunk to Obama event, crashing into trooper’s cruiser, & using badge to get in


Los Angeles County CA sheriff accused of personally ordering questionable investigation as favor to powerful donor


Polk County FL deputy suspended after arrested on drunk driving charges with a .144 BAC while off-duty


Annville Twp PA police chief placed on leave while facing possible disciplinary action over unspecified issues


Ball LA police chief pleads guilty to fraudulently over-reporting expenses in order to recieve FEMA funds


Winkler Co TX sheriff indicted along w/others for retaliating against nurses reporting popular doctor’s malpractice


Horry County SC police officer arrested on drunk driving charges by state trooper


Farmington NM cop suspended after cited for possession of weapon while intoxicated during altercation w/friend


5 West Haven CT police officers named in suit alleging excessive force & bias in raid on house party w/o warrant

Cops and women, we’re not saying anything, we’re just saying, that’s all

A Rancho Cordova CA police officer is accused of tasering a woman who they mistook for a shoplifter even when she begged to let her show them her receipts. Even though they finally figured out she didn’t steal anything they still arrested her for obstruction.



An Eastlake OH police sergeant has resigned after an investigation into allegations that he put his hands down the pants of a female city employee who was in his police cruiser while participating in a police ride-along program.


A Moss Point MS police officer has been arrested on an assault charge for allegedly choking woman then damaging a wall and a table when he threw her.


Crescent City CA settles suit for $250k to police sgt claiming 3yrs of sexual harassment & physical abuse by chief


A Phoenix AZ cop who happens to be the mayor’s son is on leave while under investigation for an unspecified allegation of “inappropriate contact”.


Bernalillo Co NM deputy investigated for making lewd comments to store workers & visiting felon girlfriend in cruiser

COPS & KIDS: Run, Children, Run!

A Terre Haute IN police officer has been sentenced to 2 years of home detention after pleading down to a reduced charge of sexual assault when he was originally charged for molesting a 13-year-old girl.



A Windsor County VT deputy has been charged with lewd & lascivious conduct with a child after a lengthy investigation by state police, though details haven’t been released about the allegations.


Milwaukee WI cop fired, but never charged, on allegations he raped 19yr-old who called 911 now investigated by FBI


An Ottawa ON police officer has pled guilty to 2 counts of assault for beating his young children with a belt buckle for over a period of 8 months. He’ll continue to earn his normal pay until he’s sentenced.


Three Conyers GA cops, a Rockadale County GA deputy and a Johns Creek GA cop are all under investigation over an alleged bar brawl started by an officer hitting a doorman who refused to allow a 19-year-old with the officers to enter a bar. The officers were also accused of trying to intimidate witnesses and trying to convince responding officers to cover up the incident.

UUUmmmmmm.......

A San Antonio TX police officer has been sentenced to a year in jail in a plea deal to official oppression charges for sexually assaulting a tansgendered person he detained while on-duty.

Deval! Duck! Its a cell phone!

Naw, we're just fuck'n with you Deval, we figure with a name like that, you got enough problem including parent with a wicked ass sense of humor..and we really believe you, yeah the door hit your arm and the gun thing went off and all that shit...yeah, like, that could happen. We believe you. ......No really, we do.

Really. You didn't murder that guy.

Teamwork: Fairfax County cop David Baucum and "Blast'n"Deval Bullock

Fairfax County police release photo of Fairfax County Cop David Baucum, who was invovled in the police killing of Sal Pulosi

Oh gosh, you know what? We were unable to get that photo but over the next ten years, several times a month, we're gonna work on bringing you a photo of  Mr. Baucum



From Reason magazine

http://reason.com/


Last week The Washington Post reported that Sal Culosi's parents have reached a $2 million settlement with Fairfax County, Virginia, police Detective Deval Bullock, who shot and killed the 38-year-old optometrist during a January 2006 SWAT raid on his home. The unusual settlement reflects the outrageous facts of this case, in which an unarmed man suspected of nothing more than betting on sports was recklessly gunned down during an unnecessarily violent operation.


The SWAT team came to Culosi's house because another Fairfax County detective, David Baucum, overheard him and some friends wagering on a college football game at a bar. "To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends," a friend of Culosi's told me shortly after his death. "None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting 50 bucks or so on the Virginia/Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation." Baucum apparently did. After overhearing the wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi. During the next several months he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were friendly wagers. Eventually Culosi and Baucum bet more than $2,000 in a single day, enough under Virginia law for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling operation. That's when they brought in the SWAT team.


On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged a time to drop by to collect his winnings. When Culosi, barefoot and clad in a T-shirt and jeans, stepped out of his house to meet the man he thought was a friend, the SWAT team moved in. Moments later, Bullock, who had had been on duty since 4 a.m. and hadn't slept in 17 hours, killed him. Culosi's last words: "Dude, what are you doing?"


Culosi's parents, Sal and Anita Culosi, later learned that police stopped a nurse at Fairfax Hospital, where Culosi's body was taken after the raid, from notifying them that their son, one of three children, had been shot. (The optometrist's father is also named Salvatore, shortened to Sal, although the son was named after an uncle on his mother's side—ironically, a police officer who was killed in the line of duty.) The Culosis did not hear about the raid until five hours after their son had been shot and killed, preventing the devout Catholic family from administering last rites.


In the months that followed, Baucum continued his investigation, badgering Culosi's grieving friends and relatives after pulling their names and numbers from the cell phone he was carrying and a computer taken from his home the night he was killed. Steve Gulley, Culosi's brother-in-law, told The Washington Post the following April that Baucum called him and menacingly asked, "How much are you into Sal for?" Scott Lunceford, a lifelong friend of Culosi's, told the Post Baucum called him and accused him of being a gambler. The calls, Gulley told the paper, smacked of intimidation aimed at discouraging a lawsuit.


Police departments in Northern Virginia are notoriously stingy with information, and the Culosis grew increasingly frustrated with Fairfax County Police Chief David Rohrer. The public did not even learn Bullock's name until The Washington Post's Tom Jackman reported it based on a tip from a confidential source. (The Fairfax County Police Department still has not released the name of the police officer who shot unarmed motorist David Masters in November 2009.) It took more than a year for the police department to issue its report (PDF) on Culosi's death. The report, prepared by Chief Rohrer's staff, claimed Bullock accidentally fired his gun—resulting in a direct hit that pierced Culosi's heart—after the door to Bullock's SUV recoiled and struck him in the arm as he was getting out of the vehicle. The report did at least acknowledge that Bullock inappropriately had his finger on the trigger of his weapon. It also conceded that in hindsight sending a SWAT team after an unarmed man accused of a nonviolent crime probably was a mistake, although it did not fault the department for doing so.


The Culosis were dubious. They believed Bullock mistook the cell phone their son was holding the night he was shot for a gun. They hired their own investigators, who determined, based on the department's own measurements of the crime scene, that when Bullock pulled the trigger he was away from his vehicle and much closer to Culosi than he had claimed. Using the recorded locations of shell casings, police vehicles, and Culosi's body, they produced computer animations (see below) showing that the incident could not have happened in the manner described by Chief Rohrer's report.


Bullock was suspended for three weeks without pay, a paltry punishment given that he killed an unarmed man. Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Horan announced in March 2006 that he would not be filing criminal charges against Bullock. That was not surprising. Horan, who retired in 2008, had never brought criminal charges against a police officer in his 40 years on the job. Horan described the shooting as an accident. Yet the same month that Bullock killed Culosi, a 19-year-old man in neighboring Prince William County was charged with involuntary manslaughter after a gun he was showing to a friend accidentally discharged and killed the friend. And just a week before Horan cleared Bullock, a youth in Chesapeake, Virginia, was convicted on the same charge for accidentally firing a gun from the backseat of a car, killing the driver.


Bullock's colleagues on the police force nevertheless criticized what they called an excessively harsh punishment. Officer Marshall Thielen, president of the Fairfax County police officers union, told The Washington Post the punishment "may be politically motivated because of all the media attention." Union attorney Edward J. Nuttall told the paper that the suspension was "way off the charts" and that an oral or written reprimand would have been more appropriate.


Shortly after the release of Rohrer's report, Sal and Anita Culosi filed a federal lawsuit against Bullock, Rohrer, and Fairfax County, charging that Bullock had violated Culosi's civil rights and that Rohrer and Fairfax County were negligent in training and had implemented bad policies that resulted in Culosi's death. The courts eventually removed Rohrer and Fairfax County from the lawsuit—a tough blow because the Culosis told me one of their main goals was to change the way Fairfax County uses its SWAT team. They could not comprehend why an optometrist with no criminal record who was accused of gambling on football games would merit a SWAT team. According to Rohrer's report, 46 percent of all search warrants in the county are served with SWAT teams. (A department spokesperson said shortly after the shooting that SWAT teams were used to serve all of the county’s warrants.) The removal of Rohrer and Fairfax County from the suit left only Bullock, although all of his legal fees and any judgment against him would be paid by Fairfax County and therefore by taxpayers.


The same year Fairfax County taxpayers paid for the five-month-long investigation into Sal Culosi’s casual wagering, Virginia's government spent $20 million promoting the state lottery. In March 2006, two months after its ridiculous gambling investigation resulted in the death of an unarmed man, the Fairfax County Police Department issued a press release (no longer available on the department's website) warning residents not to participate in office betting pools tied to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The title: "Illegal Gambling Not Worth the Risk."


In a heartbreaking entry on a website she set up for her son, Anita Culosi addressed him directly last week:


I'll beg your forgiveness Son…because I am not able…to go the distance. They call it…settlement. I call it something else…and because of that…my heart…is not settled…and my hope for justice…and my promise to you…have both been compromised...I believe in my heart that we would have won in court but I was told to consider the risk of that not happening...Our family has already been through almost 5 years of pain, frustration, disappointments, and stress...and there was the opinion that even if we won the county would appeal and that would mean a few more years and resources fighting what could still be a losing battle.


Anita Culosi's grief and disappointment are certainly understandable, but governments don't offer $2 million settlements every day. The offer came just as the trial was set to begin and just days after U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ruled that the Culosis could show the computer animations produced by their investigators to the jury. While a jury verdict against Bullock might have given the Culosis the satisfaction of having fellow Fairfax County residents acknowledge the outrage done to their son, a $2 million settlement amounts to an admission of guilt, no matter how county officials try to spin it, because winning a lawsuit against a police officer is extremely difficult.


Shortly after Sal Culosi's death, his family started a blog in his memory called "Justice for Sal." After five years of battling stubborn public officials, an obfuscatory police bureaucracy, and a legal system designed to make it as difficult as possible to hold the government accountable, Sal and Anita Culosi should finally allow themselves to exhale. As much as anyone can in a case like this, they have found the justice they've been seeking.


Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason magazine.

.......several cops on the force were in hock to Culosi in big way.

We want to go on record as saying that not for one second do we believe the rumor that Sal Culosi was gunned down by the Fairfax County Police because several cops on the force were in hock to Culosi in big way. That would be murder and no one in this case was convicted of murder.

"Illegal Gambling Not Worth the Risk."

"Illegal Gambling Not Worth the Risk."

Fairfax County Police Department issued a press release (no longer available on the department's website)

Fairfax County police release photo of Deval Bullock, cop who gunned down unarmed citizen

We were unable to get the photo to you, however we did this find this picture of Fairfax County Police Officer Lesly Carr who is suing the department on the grounds that his fellow officers constantly refer to him as "Dick face"

The world according the chief Roarer-er

When you go into court, you put your fate in the hands of twelve people who aren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

The world according the chief Roarer-er

I have the heart of a child.

I keep it in a jar on my desk.

The world according the chief Roarer-er

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, pee in it, and serve it to the people that piss you off.   

The world according the chief Roarer-er

What happened to the first 6 "ups"?

The world according the chief Roarer-er

Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.

The world according the chief Roarer-er

I stepped on a tetanus needle today ... now what?

The world according the chief Roarer-er

Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

The world according the chief Roarer-er

If you don't know where you're going, chances are you will end up somewhere else.

The world according the chief Roarer-er

                                               Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

The world according the chief Roarer-er

Never, under ANY circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

The world according to chief Roarerer-er

No matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get arrested and end up in the local paper.

Fairfax County Police Officer Promoted

It was announced this afternoon that Officer Susan Dore, who was hired onto the force this morning, has been promoted this afternoon to Assistant Chief of Police

Police misconduct December 2010

A Providence RI cop has been sentenced to 3 years behind bars after pleading guilty to three conspiracy charges that were the result of a large drug sting operation that also led to indictments against 3 othercops, two of which have also pled guilty and await sentencing.


A Stockton CA cop has been arrested on a possession of steroids with intent to distribute charges as part of an ongoing investigation.


A Manhattan Beach CA cop has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident after year-long investigation into a hit-and-run accident that involved othercops as well.


Six Plainville CT cops have been disciplined for purchasing alcohol for and allowing an underage woman drink at their party, some of which also lied about it to investigators despite incriminating photos being posted to Facebook.


A Dickinson ND cop’s use of his taser is being questioned after he used it on an innocent man that he detained in a case of mistaken identification.

Cops and Women...we’re not say’n anything, we’re just pointing things out

Three Houston TX cops are under investigation on allegations that they rammed a woman’s head into the door frame of a police cruiser then beat her in a holding cell while she was cuffed after arrested on drunk driving charges.

cops & kids, it just gets creepier by the moment

A Portland OR cop who resigned last year after he was arrested for making nearly 100 sexually harassing phone calls to several girls and women, including a 14-year-old relative, is now being sued by one of his victims. The woman, who was 16 at the time, claims thecop made a series of calls to her after he transported her to a juvenile jail when she was drunk, including one where he told her he raped her while she was drunk, a claim she still doesn’t know is true or not.

cops in court where they belong

An Unspecified number of Los Angeles CA cops are the subject of a lawsuit filed over a high-profile video that came out in May last year. The man who filmed filed the suit alleging that after he filmed a cop trying to stop a cyclist by kicking his wheel thatcops tackled and beat him, then stomped on his camera in an attempt to destroy the video. He then claims they filed several false charges against him to further the cover-up.



Des Moines County IA and Burlington IA have settled a lawsuit for $75,000 to a man claiming he was assaulted by the deputy then wrongfully arrested by thecop at the request of the deputy to cover up for the assault.


Five West Haven CT cops have been named in a lawsuit alleging they wrongfully entered a home without permission or a warrant then used excessive force while making racist comments to Hispanics at a house party. This is the second suit filed against that department claiming racial discrimination against Hispanics within the last year.


Petersburg VA has settled two lawsuits for $779,999 to the families of two teens, one who died and another who was badly injured as the result of a high-speed chase spurred by a shoplifting complaint. The settlement overturns a $2,000,000 judgment against the city that was being contested due to allegations of jury misconduct.


A St Louis MO cop has settled a lawsuit for an undisclosed sum to a boy who was 15 when thecop allegedly beat and choked him inside a charter school in front of a security guard. Thecop was off-duty but in uniform at the time while he was visiting a teacher he had a relationship with. The school settled suit with the boy for $145,000 in May of last year.

JUST REGULAR, GOOD OLD WHITE TRASH COP BEHAVIOR

The police chief of Gregory TX was arrested on criminal mischief and trespass charges on allegations that he, his wife, and a third person vandalized a car, though specifics weren’t available at this time.



The now-former police chief of Princeton NJ was able to receive pretrial diversion in a deal on charges related to his trading a city-owned M-16 rifle for a number of M-1 rifles, some which he kept for himself.


A Clay County FL sheriff’s sergeant has been fired after charged with grand theft on allegations that he received over $2,000 in payment for off-duty security work he never even showed up for.


The police chief of Simmesport LA and two of his part-time cops have been arrested along with five other people on a number of charges that include malfeasance in office, arson, and theft on allegations that the chief had one of his police cruisers torched so the department wouldn’t have to pay to replace it and that all of them participated in the theft of property from a former church.

GOOD OLD FASHIONED LYING

A Cobb County GA deputy has pled guilty to 2nd degree homicide by vessel, tampering with evidence, violating the oath of a cop, and 3 counts of making false statements for his role in the drowning death of a fellow deputy who went overboard after the boat he was driving while under the influence hit a pylon. The additional charges related to his attempts to cover up the incident.

Assault

A New Orleans LA cop is under investigation on allegations that he repeatedly tasered a in front of his two young children during a traffic stop then intentionally burned him with the taser wire by wrapping it around his wrists. Not only did his children witness the incident, but so did a third-party witness who lived nearby.



Naperville IL has settled a lawsuit for $21,000 to a man claiming cops hurled racial epithets at him before needlessly unleashing a police dog on him that shredded his clothes and bit him used racial epithets before needlessly unleashing K9 on him while he was handcuffed, all over a verbal dispute he had with a man he claimed had accosted his wife though police claim he assaulted a bouncer, even though the bouncer never persued charges.


Salisbury NC has settled a lawsuit for an unspecified sum that was filed against a cop who was allegedly caught on his own dashcam lifting a man over his head and body slamming him on the pavement, breaking his collarbone.

WE’RE NOT SAYING COPS ARE STUPID. WE LET THE COPS DO THAT

The San Diego CA police dept and the San Diego County sheriff’s office are the subject of a lawsuit filed by a woman claiming that both departments invited 3 different news crews to come with them as they raided her home and arrested her on allegations that she had been taking advantage of the elderly and disabled… all while the actual suspect was already in jail and despite the fact she didn’t match the description of the suspect who was captured on video. Meanwhile her name, face and images of the raid was on the television for a week even though she did nothing wrong.



Spring Valley NY police and US DEA agents are accused of conducting a wrong door raid on a family’s home, threatening them and their teen daughter at gunpoint during a massive drug raid operation targeting several homes for marijuana dealing. They claimcops never told them why they were there and the stress caused their daughter to suffer an asthma attack that required hospital treatment. After the mistaken raid, the father said he sawcops amass at a house nearby and raid that home, but still wouldn’t answer why they raided his home, telling him he would hear about it on the news tomorrow.

COPS AND WOMEN...WE’RE NOT SAYING ANYTHING HERE, WE’RE JUST SAYING THAT’S ALL

A Orlando FL cop has been found liable in a civil suit filed by a woman who claims the cop shoved her down a set of stairs at a club on video. The cop claims she tripped and fell because she was drunk but the jury apparently disagreed, even though they only awarded her $4,600 in damages and did not find in her favor on allegations of false arrest.

COPS AND KIDS.........RUN CHILDREN! RUN!

A Bunn NC cop has been indicted on taking indecent liberties with a minor charges after he was fired as the result of an internal investigation into those allegations, though police are refusing to specify what those allegations are.



A Richmond VA deputy has been fired after his home was searched and he was arrested on possession of child pornography charges.


A Columbus OH cop has been suspended while he’s the subject of a criminal investigation into allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl which became apparent when police were investigating a burglary at thecop’s home.


A Troy NY cop has been arrested on charges including forcible touching and sexual abuse involving a 19-year-old girl that occurred at a store where thecop worked an off-duty security job.


An unspecified number of Denver CO cops are the subject of a lawsuit alleging that they forced their way into a family’s home then used excessive force on a man and two of his teen sons before arresting them on false charges of resisting arrest and assaulting ancop… even though the raid didn’t turn up any evidence of criminal activity. The charges were dismissed but the department is insisting theircops didn’t do anything wrong.


A Gainesville FL cop has been disciplined with a reprimand for unleashing his police dog on a 10-year-old boy on a bicycle, who’s legs were bitten, before thecop confirmed that an actual crime had occurred and that the boy matched the description of a suspect in the robbery call that he was responding to… it ended up that the boy wasn’t involved in any criminal activity.


A Seattle WA cop is the subject of renewed calls for federal intervention into the department over an alleged off-duty road rage incident where the cop pulled his gun on a 19-year-old man. Part of the complaint made by two former US Attorneys are that at least one detective attempted to cover up for that cop by shopping for charges against his victim. Apparently the detective tried to convince county prosecutors to charge the man with assaulting ancop and, when they refused, he tried to convince the city attorney to file misdemeanor charges against the man, all while ignoring and hiding testimony from witnesses claiming that thecop was the aggressor. The department’s Office of Professional Accountability is also being implicated for not properly investigating the allegations during an internal review and the chief for using the resultant flawed investigation to keep records sealed.