They shot him dead for stealing sunglasses while they were in a wooded
area, out of public sight AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT
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Two FCPD leaders dropped from wrongful death lawsuit over fatal police
shooting
August 11, 2025
Two Fairfax County Police Department commander...
...but yet the Fairfax County Police don't need oversight
Isle of Wight Co VA sheriff subject of sealed indictment, possibly involving felon he hired as sworn officer [1] http://bit.ly/kPsvk4
Bryan TX cop under investigation after firing several shots in foot chase, critically injuring suspect & bystander [1] http://bit.ly/jAGnxF
2 Redwood City CA cops subject of suit alleging they tasered teen w/o cause & joked about it, then refused to ID [3] http://bit.ly/jJS2Ji
Valdosta GA police officer arrested on aggravated child molestation charge on allegations spanning several years [0] http://bit.ly/kSbL5G
San Bernardino Co CA deputy in charge of explorers program arrested on allegations he had sex w/underage explorer [0] http://bit.ly/kxHGuR
US Border Patrol agent arrested for kidnapping & sexual battery, allegedly molested immigrant after interrogation [0] http://bit.ly/majm6Q
New York NY (Brooklyn) deputy police chief docked 30 days pay for role in steroid scandal involving 24 officers [0] http://nyp.st/m5WfaO
Denver CO sheriff’s capt suspended 70days for lying about failure to supervise staff, monitor recommended demotion [0] http://bit.ly/j3eLEQ
Brick NJ police officer arrested on allegations that he stole money from police union before resigning from dept [0] http://bit.ly/ivdDUy
3 Delaware State troopers under investigation on allegations of overtime fraud involving psych patient transports [1] http://bit.ly/kMnaV1
Pickens SC police chief suspended 15 days w/o pay over alleged racial & derogatory remarks, chief apologizes [0] http://bit.ly/kfN8KK
Montreal QC cop & a Sûreté du Québec police officer suspended as part of unspecified corruption investigation [2] http://bit.ly/lCEVoc
North Carolina state trooper and a lieutenant fired after investigation into unspecified misconduct [3] http://bit.ly/m5oY5i
Canton MO police chief indicted for making false statement on form to illegally buy firearm for another person [0] http://bit.ly/mkieM3
Bandara Co TX sheriff forced to resign & must pay $2,500 in plea for abuse of auth for using county boat for fun [0] http://bit.ly/kgZoY7
New Orleans LA cop who was key witness in Glover trial arrested on DUI & fleeing the scene of an accident charges [0] http://bit.ly/jCSASS
Basalt CO cop resigns after investigation into excessive force claim reported by deputy who witnessed it [0] http://bit.ly/jUok6t
Orlando FL police sued by 85yr-old man who’s neck was broken when cop slammed him to the ground [3] http://bit.ly/lZot1M
2 Cape Coral FL cops accused of excessive force, allegedly threw man out of car at traffic stop, never charged him [3] http://bit.ly/mRaugt
Boynton Beach FL cop fired & rehired for tasing cuffed man is arrested for tasering fellow cop to get back at her [0] http://bit.ly/j2ROWd
Denver CO cop facing firing for excessive force & lying gets deal for 40 day suspension w/o pay instead [2] http://bit.ly/ipeUaZ
Tucson AZ police shown shoving news photographer out of meeting where extensive police presence was questioned [3] http://bit.ly/j8f2Bw
Indian River Co FL deputy fired & arrested on battery charges for groping female inmate at jail [0] http://bit.ly/lrWe3f
Cincinnati OH cop sentenced to 7mo for using police database to look up info on woman, then pulled her over 12x [0] http://bit.ly/kDcJwN
Albuquerque NM cop disciplined w/desk duty for listing job on Facebook as “Human Waste Disposal” after shooting [0] http://bit.ly/iPvvkL
Peoria IL cop subject of no stalking order on allegations including that he taped female officers using restroom [3] http://bit.ly/l9dWpa
Onondaga County NY sheriff’s dept settles suit for $30k to jail deputy claiming supervisor sexually harassed her [0] http://bit.ly/kswCBq
Chesapeake VA cop gets suspended sentence, must register as sex offender for texting nude pics of self to teens [0] http://bit.ly/kua2TR
Wilmette IL cop charged w/theft & official misconduct for scamming man out of bond money he didn’t have to pay [0] http://cbsloc.al/lY2PWj
Hollister CA police sgt investigated for allegedly embezzling thousands as head of police union until he retired [0] http://bit.ly/mlLB9i
Gulfport MS cop arrested on felony child abuse charge over allegations involving girlfriend’s 2yr-old child [1] http://bit.ly/l4VXSQ
2 Hanging Rock OH cops indicted on allegations they demanded & pocketed cash from motorists caught in speed trap [0] http://bit.ly/lxvTSW
Windermere FL police dept down to 10 of 24 officers, background checks ordered due to scandal show past problems & extensive criminal histories for some [0] http://bit.ly/iYBeLZ
Fife WA police detective investigated for allegedly crashing patrol car while drunk then leaving scene, not tested [1] http://bit.ly/jO1aoE
Bryan TX cop under investigation after firing several shots in foot chase, critically injuring suspect & bystander [1] http://bit.ly/jAGnxF
2 Redwood City CA cops subject of suit alleging they tasered teen w/o cause & joked about it, then refused to ID [3] http://bit.ly/jJS2Ji
Valdosta GA police officer arrested on aggravated child molestation charge on allegations spanning several years [0] http://bit.ly/kSbL5G
San Bernardino Co CA deputy in charge of explorers program arrested on allegations he had sex w/underage explorer [0] http://bit.ly/kxHGuR
US Border Patrol agent arrested for kidnapping & sexual battery, allegedly molested immigrant after interrogation [0] http://bit.ly/majm6Q
New York NY (Brooklyn) deputy police chief docked 30 days pay for role in steroid scandal involving 24 officers [0] http://nyp.st/m5WfaO
Denver CO sheriff’s capt suspended 70days for lying about failure to supervise staff, monitor recommended demotion [0] http://bit.ly/j3eLEQ
Brick NJ police officer arrested on allegations that he stole money from police union before resigning from dept [0] http://bit.ly/ivdDUy
3 Delaware State troopers under investigation on allegations of overtime fraud involving psych patient transports [1] http://bit.ly/kMnaV1
Pickens SC police chief suspended 15 days w/o pay over alleged racial & derogatory remarks, chief apologizes [0] http://bit.ly/kfN8KK
Montreal QC cop & a Sûreté du Québec police officer suspended as part of unspecified corruption investigation [2] http://bit.ly/lCEVoc
North Carolina state trooper and a lieutenant fired after investigation into unspecified misconduct [3] http://bit.ly/m5oY5i
Canton MO police chief indicted for making false statement on form to illegally buy firearm for another person [0] http://bit.ly/mkieM3
Bandara Co TX sheriff forced to resign & must pay $2,500 in plea for abuse of auth for using county boat for fun [0] http://bit.ly/kgZoY7
New Orleans LA cop who was key witness in Glover trial arrested on DUI & fleeing the scene of an accident charges [0] http://bit.ly/jCSASS
Basalt CO cop resigns after investigation into excessive force claim reported by deputy who witnessed it [0] http://bit.ly/jUok6t
Orlando FL police sued by 85yr-old man who’s neck was broken when cop slammed him to the ground [3] http://bit.ly/lZot1M
2 Cape Coral FL cops accused of excessive force, allegedly threw man out of car at traffic stop, never charged him [3] http://bit.ly/mRaugt
Boynton Beach FL cop fired & rehired for tasing cuffed man is arrested for tasering fellow cop to get back at her [0] http://bit.ly/j2ROWd
Denver CO cop facing firing for excessive force & lying gets deal for 40 day suspension w/o pay instead [2] http://bit.ly/ipeUaZ
Tucson AZ police shown shoving news photographer out of meeting where extensive police presence was questioned [3] http://bit.ly/j8f2Bw
Indian River Co FL deputy fired & arrested on battery charges for groping female inmate at jail [0] http://bit.ly/lrWe3f
Cincinnati OH cop sentenced to 7mo for using police database to look up info on woman, then pulled her over 12x [0] http://bit.ly/kDcJwN
Albuquerque NM cop disciplined w/desk duty for listing job on Facebook as “Human Waste Disposal” after shooting [0] http://bit.ly/iPvvkL
Peoria IL cop subject of no stalking order on allegations including that he taped female officers using restroom [3] http://bit.ly/l9dWpa
Onondaga County NY sheriff’s dept settles suit for $30k to jail deputy claiming supervisor sexually harassed her [0] http://bit.ly/kswCBq
Chesapeake VA cop gets suspended sentence, must register as sex offender for texting nude pics of self to teens [0] http://bit.ly/kua2TR
Wilmette IL cop charged w/theft & official misconduct for scamming man out of bond money he didn’t have to pay [0] http://cbsloc.al/lY2PWj
Hollister CA police sgt investigated for allegedly embezzling thousands as head of police union until he retired [0] http://bit.ly/mlLB9i
Gulfport MS cop arrested on felony child abuse charge over allegations involving girlfriend’s 2yr-old child [1] http://bit.ly/l4VXSQ
2 Hanging Rock OH cops indicted on allegations they demanded & pocketed cash from motorists caught in speed trap [0] http://bit.ly/lxvTSW
Windermere FL police dept down to 10 of 24 officers, background checks ordered due to scandal show past problems & extensive criminal histories for some [0] http://bit.ly/iYBeLZ
Fife WA police detective investigated for allegedly crashing patrol car while drunk then leaving scene, not tested [1] http://bit.ly/jO1aoE
And yet the Fairfax County Police don't need oversight
Seattle visitors that the ACLU is asking people who have experienced misconduct at the hands of Seattle Washington police officers to call the DOJ and tell them their story while the DOJ is in town performing a pattern or practice investigation for excessive force and racial profiling.
Lebanon TN police are being sued by the family of a man who was fatally shot by a police officer when he mistakenly thought he fired at them when his partner’s gun discharged when he tripped & fell instead. [0] http://bit.ly/kBYo76
A Humboldt TN police officer has been sentenced to 2 years in prison after convicted of reckless homicide for fatally shooting a man in the back during a chase.[0] http://bit.ly/l3S45c
Lindenwold NJ police are being sued by a man who suffered a stroke when he claims he was assaulted by a police officer and that officer’s K9 partner. Several witnesses back his allegations that he was attacked when he question the officer about why he had detained his wife. [3] http://bit.ly/koT6nn
Phoenix AZ cop under investigation after video surfaces of him shoving woman to ground while responding to call [0] http://bit.ly/lrDBKj
Yonkers NY cop sentenced to 8 weekends in jail for assaulting 2 people then falsely arresting one to cover for it [0] http://bit.ly/mRRNin
Los Angeles Co CA sheriff’s dept accused of encouraging violent behavior in suit by 2 deputies assaulted at party [0] http://lat.ms/igctOj
2 Prince Albert SK cops suspended & charged w/assault over two seperate alleged excessive force incidents [1] http://bit.ly/kqUQwF
Sioux Falls SD police sued by man claiming a flash-bang grenade thrown during SWAT/ICE raid tore a 3 inch hole in his foot, wasn’t arrested [0] http://bit.ly/jjGraT
York Regional ON police officer faces sexual assault charges involving woman in police cruiser after arrest [0] http://bit.ly/kSclkv
Nassau Co NY cop suspended after caught on video pulling gun at bar & pointing it at employee while drunk [0] http://bit.ly/lvmfzm
Panama City FL police officer resigns after cited for battery, allegedly slapped man at bar then kicked him in head [0] http://bit.ly/kNhsq6
Galva IL police officer fired after charged w/5 misdemeanors & 3 felonies in alleged domestic violence incident [0] http://bit.ly/jQ3WkY
Norfolk VA police officer convicted of misd reckless driving for fatally hitting bicyclist w/patrol car [0] http://bit.ly/mdY7IV
Dallas TX police officer sentenced to probation after convicted for masterminding robbery of store he worked at [0] http://bit.ly/jmuOCx
Houston TX cop arrested on theft charges for allegedly using his status as a cop to steal money from someone [1] http://bit.ly/ifGEzy
Fife WA police lt suspended 3days w/o pay for failing to start investigation into sexual harassment complaints [0] http://bit.ly/j1KMbU
San Ramon CA cop arrested on several charges including grand theft in widening CA Narc team (CNET) scandal [0] http://bit.ly/itG2b9
Davenport IA police sgt investigated after stand-off sparked by suicidal behavior after demotion for unknown reason [1] http://bit.ly/kkP8mJ
Black Mountain NC cop fired after arrested for leading police on chase in attempt to elude after hit & run crash [0] http://bit.ly/l6nztg
Raleigh NC police officer charged w/DUI after stopped for speeding with a BAC 2x limit [0] http://bit.ly/mHEScB
Denver CO police say they’ve reopened an investigation into an excessive force case after the city settled a lawsuit over the incident involving three officers for $795,000. [1] http://bit.ly/kyOBs6
Oakland CA settled two lawsuits, the first for $550,000 to a 15-year-old who was shot in the back while being chased by officers and the second for $350,000 for an alleged unlawful raid on a home where marijuana was allegedly being grown. [0] http://bit.ly/lQasM9
A San Diego CA police officer is under investigation after cellphone video came out showing him repeatedly punch a man who was being restrained by two other cops. [1] http://bit.ly/l5yA0P
2 Hattiesburg MS police officers are under investigation, one over an alleged excessive force incident that was caught on video and the other on allegations that he fired a gun in the air to break up a dispute during a party at his home. [1] http://bit.ly/mGFKPP
A Long Beach CA detective in the youth services section has bee charged with lewd acts and for having sex with a 15-year-old family member. [0] http://bit.ly/k6UPpG
A Cashion OK reserve police officer was arrested on a charge of lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16. Apparently reserve officers are certified and have the same authority as a regular officer. [0] http://bit.ly/jPzCJJ
An Ada County ID sheriff’s sergeant resigned over sexual misconduct allegations but won’t face charges over those allegations. Meanwhile the alleged victim has filed a lawsuit over the incident. [0] http://bit.ly/l51LDe
A Houston TX police officer has been sentenced to 6 years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a prostitute twice. He may still face charges involving a second prostitute and for allegedly attempting to do the same to an undercover officer posing as a prostitute as well. [0] http://bit.ly/jD3OV4
A Cleveland OH police officer was suspended without pay after arrested on a menacing by stalking charge apparently involving an ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend. [0] http://bit.ly/imcqeI
A Dallas TX police officer was found guilty of masterminding an armed robbery of a Sam’s Club where he worked as a security guard while off duty. [0] http://bit.ly/mt9kUg
A New Orleans LA police lieutenant was fired for his role in the Henry Glover case where he allegedla, claims retaliation for cooperating w/federal investigation [3] http://bit.ly/lmsPwK
Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC cop sentenced to 30days for contempt after dashcam contradicted testimony in DUI case [0] http://bit.ly/kmKfSF
Tinley Park IL cop suspended after allegedly leaving scene of crash w/injuries after rear-ending vehicle off-duty [0]http://bit.ly/jNI9pF
Houston TX police refuse to pay vet bill for pet lab shot in face inside fenced-in lawn by cop looking for burglar [0] http://bit.ly/mEZkZp
Pine Lawn MO undercover cop arrested, but not charged, for driving a police car while under the influence [0] http://bit.ly/j419TK
Stanislaus Co CA detective charged w/murder for shooting woman during dispute, also faces other unrelated charges [0] http://bit.ly/jYpJhZ
San Diego CA 74yr-old homeless activist awarded $3,925 by jury that found cop used unreasonable force during arrest [3] http://bit.ly/mD0tFZ
2 New York NY (Bronx) cops convicted on official misconduct charges for pistol whipping & beating man over dispute [0] http://nydn.us/iZAZMs
San Bernardino CA police accused of using excessive force on mentally handicapped man in YouTube video [3] http://bit.ly/mAgZWc
Kansas City KS cop indicted on 3 felonies including 1st degree assault for shooting bouncer while drunk at bar [0] http://bit.ly/kNrwPl
2 Baltimore MD police officers found guilty of misconduct for interrogating teens in van then leaving them stranded [3] http://bit.ly/mp51UD
US Border Patrol officer pleads guilty to sexual assaulting a young girl repeatedly for several years [0] http://bit.ly/lNLmiO
St Tammany Parish LA deputy sentenced to 10yrs after found guilty of incest involving unspecified female relative [0] http://bit.ly/iKm6Iu
Macomb IL police accused of indiscriminately pepperspraying students watching block party melee from their porches [3] http://bit.ly/kGvJlx
Inkster MI cop sentenced to 90days for willful neglect of duty for lying during drug trial, 2nd cop sentenced [0] http://bit.ly/kWQSuv
Middlesex County MA deputy arrested on cocaine trafficking charges after undercover sting operation based on tip [0] http://bit.ly/mpdxzl
Marion County IN deputy charged w/3 counts theft on allegations of ghost employment & theft of donated equipment [0] http://bit.ly/mcjVgZ
New Orleans LA several police officers accused of possible payroll fraud & double dipping by official report [1] http://bit.ly/jNybkK
New Orleans LA police cmdr accused of downgrading crimes for stats & a conflict of interests in traffic cam company [0] http://bit.ly/isAZwL
Bremerton WA police narcotics officer indicted on federal charges for illegaly selling firearms before he retired [0] http://bit.ly/mss9XU
Franklin Co VA sheriff sued by 2 deputies claiming they were fired for reports that led to sheriff’s indictment [3] http://bit.ly/mAh2v2
New York NY (Bronx) police officer sues dept claiming she was fired for failing to meet illegal quotas [3] http://nydn.us/lmdEr2
New York NY police detective arrested on DUI charge after found passed out in running car parked in middle of road [0] http://nyp.st/jw2TL1
Philadelphia PA police officer arrested on drunk driving charges after minor off-duty accident [0] http://bit.ly/lDVwmA
San Bernardino CA Police Accused of Using Excessive Force Against Mentally Handicapped Man
Posted: 02 May 2011 06:58 PM PDT
In a video taken by two young and posted to YouTube claims to show San Bernardino California police officers using excessive force on a mentally handicapped man who the girls insist wasn’t doing anything wrong.
The video is unclear as it appears to have been taken after dusk and the young woman who took the video wasn’t able to zoom in. Also, as you can hear on the video, the woman wasn’t sure whether videotaping police was legal. However, you can hear the young women describing the taser hits and the officers chasing the man. They also claim that, while not shown on video, the man’s face was bloody from being struck with batons when they passed by at the end of the video where they were ordered to leave after telling officers the man did nothing wrong.
Police reportedly told the pair that the man was being arrested on allegations that he tried to pull a woman from a car and break into a home. However, the girls counter that they also witnessed the entire incident and that the man was actually trying to get out of the way after a woman backing out of a driveway had almost hit him and that, from what they witnessed, he didn’t try to pull anyone from a car or break into anyone’s home.
Here’s the video that the 20-year-old woman took.
The video is poor quality so it’s very difficult to substantiate the claims being made, however the responses to what’s alleged to have occurred made by the two witnesses as recorded on the video seem to be genuine. Meanwhile, we’re waiting to find out what the official police response to the video and allegations will be.
Rahm’s Choice?
Posted: 02 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT
Chicago Illinois mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel picked Newark New Jersey police director Garry McCarthy to be Chicago’s new police chief. The soon to be chief declared that “I’ll have cops’ backs” in response to the announcement. But what exactly does that mean?
Mr McCarthy will be leaving behind a Newark Police Department that ranked the 13th worst in the US for police misconduct in 2010 per our NPMSRP statistical report for departments of it’s size. The array of allegations against that department which led up to this ranking were so numerous and, interestingly, so rarely sustained that the ACLU formally requested a federal investigation to determine if the department could be subjected to federal oversight to deal with an apparent pattern and practice of excessive force and lack of accountability.
Among the 21 individual reports against Newark NJ police that we tracked in 2010 were cases that alleged a lack of accountability including allegations that police were covering for a detective involved in a fatal DUI accident when that detective remained on the job and wasn’t criminally charged over the incident and a narcotics detective who was returned to duty despite being arrested by the FBI for obstruction on allegations he coached a man to lie about how he paid for sexual encounters with minors and robbing alleged drug dealers.
By declaring up front that he will have the “cops’ backs” is Mr. McCarthy letting the Chicago police union, which protested against the current chief when they blamed him for an officer being sentenced to prison over a video of that officer hitting a man cuffed to a wheelchair, that he’ll run the Chicago PD in the same fashion as the Newark NJ police department? Is this a thinly veiled statement that there will be less accountability and transparency in a Chicago police department which already has been plagued with misconduct and accountability scandals that continue to this day?
One thing is clear, the people of Chicago, with the second largest police force in the US, should watch their police department carefully under Rahm Emanuel and Garry McCarthy’s leadership. Lest that city face the same problems that McCarthy is leaving behind in Newark which has a tenth of the number of officers employed by Chicago. Especially considering that, since 2008, Newark NJ has spent $1,700,000 settling lawsuit filed by officers mostly on discrimination complaints and over $766,000 in 18 of the 23 settlements offered to citizens in false arrest and other misconduct complaints.
With 10 times the officers as what he managed in Newark soon to be under his command, it should be concerning what that might cost Chicago if he uses a similar management style there, not only in litigation, but in civil rights and reputation as well.
Lebanon TN police are being sued by the family of a man who was fatally shot by a police officer when he mistakenly thought he fired at them when his partner’s gun discharged when he tripped & fell instead. [0] http://bit.ly/kBYo76
A Humboldt TN police officer has been sentenced to 2 years in prison after convicted of reckless homicide for fatally shooting a man in the back during a chase.[0] http://bit.ly/l3S45c
Lindenwold NJ police are being sued by a man who suffered a stroke when he claims he was assaulted by a police officer and that officer’s K9 partner. Several witnesses back his allegations that he was attacked when he question the officer about why he had detained his wife. [3] http://bit.ly/koT6nn
Phoenix AZ cop under investigation after video surfaces of him shoving woman to ground while responding to call [0] http://bit.ly/lrDBKj
Yonkers NY cop sentenced to 8 weekends in jail for assaulting 2 people then falsely arresting one to cover for it [0] http://bit.ly/mRRNin
Los Angeles Co CA sheriff’s dept accused of encouraging violent behavior in suit by 2 deputies assaulted at party [0] http://lat.ms/igctOj
2 Prince Albert SK cops suspended & charged w/assault over two seperate alleged excessive force incidents [1] http://bit.ly/kqUQwF
Sioux Falls SD police sued by man claiming a flash-bang grenade thrown during SWAT/ICE raid tore a 3 inch hole in his foot, wasn’t arrested [0] http://bit.ly/jjGraT
York Regional ON police officer faces sexual assault charges involving woman in police cruiser after arrest [0] http://bit.ly/kSclkv
Nassau Co NY cop suspended after caught on video pulling gun at bar & pointing it at employee while drunk [0] http://bit.ly/lvmfzm
Panama City FL police officer resigns after cited for battery, allegedly slapped man at bar then kicked him in head [0] http://bit.ly/kNhsq6
Galva IL police officer fired after charged w/5 misdemeanors & 3 felonies in alleged domestic violence incident [0] http://bit.ly/jQ3WkY
Norfolk VA police officer convicted of misd reckless driving for fatally hitting bicyclist w/patrol car [0] http://bit.ly/mdY7IV
Dallas TX police officer sentenced to probation after convicted for masterminding robbery of store he worked at [0] http://bit.ly/jmuOCx
Houston TX cop arrested on theft charges for allegedly using his status as a cop to steal money from someone [1] http://bit.ly/ifGEzy
Fife WA police lt suspended 3days w/o pay for failing to start investigation into sexual harassment complaints [0] http://bit.ly/j1KMbU
San Ramon CA cop arrested on several charges including grand theft in widening CA Narc team (CNET) scandal [0] http://bit.ly/itG2b9
Davenport IA police sgt investigated after stand-off sparked by suicidal behavior after demotion for unknown reason [1] http://bit.ly/kkP8mJ
Black Mountain NC cop fired after arrested for leading police on chase in attempt to elude after hit & run crash [0] http://bit.ly/l6nztg
Raleigh NC police officer charged w/DUI after stopped for speeding with a BAC 2x limit [0] http://bit.ly/mHEScB
Denver CO police say they’ve reopened an investigation into an excessive force case after the city settled a lawsuit over the incident involving three officers for $795,000. [1] http://bit.ly/kyOBs6
Oakland CA settled two lawsuits, the first for $550,000 to a 15-year-old who was shot in the back while being chased by officers and the second for $350,000 for an alleged unlawful raid on a home where marijuana was allegedly being grown. [0] http://bit.ly/lQasM9
A San Diego CA police officer is under investigation after cellphone video came out showing him repeatedly punch a man who was being restrained by two other cops. [1] http://bit.ly/l5yA0P
2 Hattiesburg MS police officers are under investigation, one over an alleged excessive force incident that was caught on video and the other on allegations that he fired a gun in the air to break up a dispute during a party at his home. [1] http://bit.ly/mGFKPP
A Long Beach CA detective in the youth services section has bee charged with lewd acts and for having sex with a 15-year-old family member. [0] http://bit.ly/k6UPpG
A Cashion OK reserve police officer was arrested on a charge of lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16. Apparently reserve officers are certified and have the same authority as a regular officer. [0] http://bit.ly/jPzCJJ
An Ada County ID sheriff’s sergeant resigned over sexual misconduct allegations but won’t face charges over those allegations. Meanwhile the alleged victim has filed a lawsuit over the incident. [0] http://bit.ly/l51LDe
A Houston TX police officer has been sentenced to 6 years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a prostitute twice. He may still face charges involving a second prostitute and for allegedly attempting to do the same to an undercover officer posing as a prostitute as well. [0] http://bit.ly/jD3OV4
A Cleveland OH police officer was suspended without pay after arrested on a menacing by stalking charge apparently involving an ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend. [0] http://bit.ly/imcqeI
A Dallas TX police officer was found guilty of masterminding an armed robbery of a Sam’s Club where he worked as a security guard while off duty. [0] http://bit.ly/mt9kUg
A New Orleans LA police lieutenant was fired for his role in the Henry Glover case where he allegedla, claims retaliation for cooperating w/federal investigation [3] http://bit.ly/lmsPwK
Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC cop sentenced to 30days for contempt after dashcam contradicted testimony in DUI case [0] http://bit.ly/kmKfSF
Tinley Park IL cop suspended after allegedly leaving scene of crash w/injuries after rear-ending vehicle off-duty [0]http://bit.ly/jNI9pF
Houston TX police refuse to pay vet bill for pet lab shot in face inside fenced-in lawn by cop looking for burglar [0] http://bit.ly/mEZkZp
Pine Lawn MO undercover cop arrested, but not charged, for driving a police car while under the influence [0] http://bit.ly/j419TK
Stanislaus Co CA detective charged w/murder for shooting woman during dispute, also faces other unrelated charges [0] http://bit.ly/jYpJhZ
San Diego CA 74yr-old homeless activist awarded $3,925 by jury that found cop used unreasonable force during arrest [3] http://bit.ly/mD0tFZ
2 New York NY (Bronx) cops convicted on official misconduct charges for pistol whipping & beating man over dispute [0] http://nydn.us/iZAZMs
San Bernardino CA police accused of using excessive force on mentally handicapped man in YouTube video [3] http://bit.ly/mAgZWc
Kansas City KS cop indicted on 3 felonies including 1st degree assault for shooting bouncer while drunk at bar [0] http://bit.ly/kNrwPl
2 Baltimore MD police officers found guilty of misconduct for interrogating teens in van then leaving them stranded [3] http://bit.ly/mp51UD
US Border Patrol officer pleads guilty to sexual assaulting a young girl repeatedly for several years [0] http://bit.ly/lNLmiO
St Tammany Parish LA deputy sentenced to 10yrs after found guilty of incest involving unspecified female relative [0] http://bit.ly/iKm6Iu
Macomb IL police accused of indiscriminately pepperspraying students watching block party melee from their porches [3] http://bit.ly/kGvJlx
Inkster MI cop sentenced to 90days for willful neglect of duty for lying during drug trial, 2nd cop sentenced [0] http://bit.ly/kWQSuv
Middlesex County MA deputy arrested on cocaine trafficking charges after undercover sting operation based on tip [0] http://bit.ly/mpdxzl
Marion County IN deputy charged w/3 counts theft on allegations of ghost employment & theft of donated equipment [0] http://bit.ly/mcjVgZ
New Orleans LA several police officers accused of possible payroll fraud & double dipping by official report [1] http://bit.ly/jNybkK
New Orleans LA police cmdr accused of downgrading crimes for stats & a conflict of interests in traffic cam company [0] http://bit.ly/isAZwL
Bremerton WA police narcotics officer indicted on federal charges for illegaly selling firearms before he retired [0] http://bit.ly/mss9XU
Franklin Co VA sheriff sued by 2 deputies claiming they were fired for reports that led to sheriff’s indictment [3] http://bit.ly/mAh2v2
New York NY (Bronx) police officer sues dept claiming she was fired for failing to meet illegal quotas [3] http://nydn.us/lmdEr2
New York NY police detective arrested on DUI charge after found passed out in running car parked in middle of road [0] http://nyp.st/jw2TL1
Philadelphia PA police officer arrested on drunk driving charges after minor off-duty accident [0] http://bit.ly/lDVwmA
San Bernardino CA Police Accused of Using Excessive Force Against Mentally Handicapped Man
Posted: 02 May 2011 06:58 PM PDT
In a video taken by two young and posted to YouTube claims to show San Bernardino California police officers using excessive force on a mentally handicapped man who the girls insist wasn’t doing anything wrong.
The video is unclear as it appears to have been taken after dusk and the young woman who took the video wasn’t able to zoom in. Also, as you can hear on the video, the woman wasn’t sure whether videotaping police was legal. However, you can hear the young women describing the taser hits and the officers chasing the man. They also claim that, while not shown on video, the man’s face was bloody from being struck with batons when they passed by at the end of the video where they were ordered to leave after telling officers the man did nothing wrong.
Police reportedly told the pair that the man was being arrested on allegations that he tried to pull a woman from a car and break into a home. However, the girls counter that they also witnessed the entire incident and that the man was actually trying to get out of the way after a woman backing out of a driveway had almost hit him and that, from what they witnessed, he didn’t try to pull anyone from a car or break into anyone’s home.
Here’s the video that the 20-year-old woman took.
The video is poor quality so it’s very difficult to substantiate the claims being made, however the responses to what’s alleged to have occurred made by the two witnesses as recorded on the video seem to be genuine. Meanwhile, we’re waiting to find out what the official police response to the video and allegations will be.
Rahm’s Choice?
Posted: 02 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT
Chicago Illinois mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel picked Newark New Jersey police director Garry McCarthy to be Chicago’s new police chief. The soon to be chief declared that “I’ll have cops’ backs” in response to the announcement. But what exactly does that mean?
Mr McCarthy will be leaving behind a Newark Police Department that ranked the 13th worst in the US for police misconduct in 2010 per our NPMSRP statistical report for departments of it’s size. The array of allegations against that department which led up to this ranking were so numerous and, interestingly, so rarely sustained that the ACLU formally requested a federal investigation to determine if the department could be subjected to federal oversight to deal with an apparent pattern and practice of excessive force and lack of accountability.
Among the 21 individual reports against Newark NJ police that we tracked in 2010 were cases that alleged a lack of accountability including allegations that police were covering for a detective involved in a fatal DUI accident when that detective remained on the job and wasn’t criminally charged over the incident and a narcotics detective who was returned to duty despite being arrested by the FBI for obstruction on allegations he coached a man to lie about how he paid for sexual encounters with minors and robbing alleged drug dealers.
By declaring up front that he will have the “cops’ backs” is Mr. McCarthy letting the Chicago police union, which protested against the current chief when they blamed him for an officer being sentenced to prison over a video of that officer hitting a man cuffed to a wheelchair, that he’ll run the Chicago PD in the same fashion as the Newark NJ police department? Is this a thinly veiled statement that there will be less accountability and transparency in a Chicago police department which already has been plagued with misconduct and accountability scandals that continue to this day?
One thing is clear, the people of Chicago, with the second largest police force in the US, should watch their police department carefully under Rahm Emanuel and Garry McCarthy’s leadership. Lest that city face the same problems that McCarthy is leaving behind in Newark which has a tenth of the number of officers employed by Chicago. Especially considering that, since 2008, Newark NJ has spent $1,700,000 settling lawsuit filed by officers mostly on discrimination complaints and over $766,000 in 18 of the 23 settlements offered to citizens in false arrest and other misconduct complaints.
With 10 times the officers as what he managed in Newark soon to be under his command, it should be concerning what that might cost Chicago if he uses a similar management style there, not only in litigation, but in civil rights and reputation as well.
Fairfax County Police Hire new cop so they can laugh at him
County Executive Anthony Griffin changes style to look more like the chiefs bitch
Fairfax County Police recruits broken hearted over new rule of not shooting people with cell phones
"What's the point of joining the Fairfax County Police" slurred one recruit "if you can't murder people and blame it on a cell phone....you know they look like pistols those cell phones, especially when you owe the guy holding it ten large"
"If Walmart was hiring" said another "I'd go to work for them"
Chief calls for shorter podiums
.......and in conclusion, that's why I say we need shorter podiums in Fairfax County
Police Oversight Won’t Work in Fairfax County
Fire David Rohrer as chief of the Fairfax County Police and bring in an outsider to run the department. That’s the only way to change the culture of contempt that rules the department now.
Police oversight won’t work. Ya ’all’s in the south and the good old boys who run this county may allow the creation of a Citizens Oversight Committee but they’ll have it stacked with “Reliable’s” by the end of the year, Good Ole Boys who will make damn sure the Committee does nothing to change anything.
No, police oversight, although well intended, won’t work here. The culture of contempt and arrogance is far too pervasive within the Fairfax County Police Department to be changed by a group of well-meaning citizens.
What will work is to fire the police who run the Fairfax County Police Department. Rohrer is a lifelong Fairfax County government employee and lacks perspective on the group of organized thugs that the police have become under his command.
Secrecy. Rohrer has created a Secret Police force which tells the citizens, the people who pay him that he will not release police incident reports to the public. Their business is none of their business. Instead the incident reports are marked secret and eventually destroyed.
These types of documents are routinely available in most jurisdictions in the US. But of course in those places, the elected officials probably aren’t afraid of the cops. But again, the problem goes beyond even the secretive nature of the force that Rohrer and his assistants have created. It is their lack of understanding as to why a secret police is dangerous and unacceptable in a free society.
In 2009, when a cop gunned down yet another unarmed citizen, the police refused to identify the cop who murdered the man.
"What,” demanded the combative and surly police spokeswoman Mary Ann Jennings, “What does the name of an officer give the public in terms of information and disclosure? I’d be curious to know why they want the name of an officer."
If Rohrer wants to redeem what’s left of his integrity, he can start by moving that high strung woman to a less stressful position.
Secrecy and contempt. The Fairfax County Police are out of control. They murder us on a fairly regular basis and they prey on us and they get away with it.
It comes down to respect. The cops constantly plead, in fact they demand that the citizenry have respect for them but the cops have absolutely no respect for the citizens and that attitude is endemic throughout the department.
This type of distain for the citizens comes from the top down. It doesn’t come from the bottom up. Generally speaking, people who go into police work are followers, not leaders. A leader wouldn’t consider police as a line of work and if they did, they’d quit within a few months. That’s not a crack at the police, it’s simply the truth. The very reason we hire the people who serve on our police force is largely due to their lack of individuality, originality and their willingness to follow the pack and for good reason. Police departments run along paramilitary lines where following orders is crucial to the organization’s efficiency.
So, no, independent, cognizant types won’t be found on the force and the people we are left with don’t have the motivation or greater awareness to originate the sort of contempt our police department has for us. No, these people take their clues from the bosses and the message from the bosses is clear; “I hold the people, the citizens, in contempt and so do you,” which in turn leads to a zeitgeist within the police department that reads, “We don’t need them, they need us.”
And who can blame them for thinking that way? The bosses think that way and when the rank and file acts out their leader’s contempt, they get away with it because our board of supervisors is too intimidated to do anything about it. Access spawns in an atmosphere without restraint.
Fairfax County underwrites one of the largest and most expensive police departments in the whole of North America. No one has ever stepped forward to question the enormous growth of the Fairfax County Police or the excessive number of people on the force so it continues to grow because Rohrer and his many, many highly paid assistants want it to grow. Power has that effect on people.
As a result of unchecked cop overpopulation, they prey on us because they are bored, and they don’t have enough to do. Here’s an example. In 2010, the occupying force that is the Fairfax County Police….of whom 80% live outside the county, costing us over $50,000,000 in lost revenues….issued about two tickets an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year…..for distracted driving.
There are two problems here. The cop’s tickets produce enormous sums of money for the board of supervisors to spend and balance their budgets. In turn, the board of supervisors looks the other way at the tremendous cost the cops take from this county, and instead of voting for police over sight, they vote not to vote.
If a group of Italian men did what the Fairfax County police are doing it would be called a protection racket. When good old southern boys in uniforms do it, it’s called enforcing the law and when the Board of Supervisors pretends none of this is happening it is called bad governance and criminal compliance.
The definition of distracted driving is up to the cops who issue the tickets……the same cops who can’t tell the difference between a cell phone and a pistol and as a result shot down a citizen named Sal Culosi. If you are not familiar with the highly suspect facts around the Culosi killing, you should be.
Culosi, an easy going, wealthy and successful 37-year old optometrist with no prior record, was entrapped on gambling charges by a cop named David J. Baucom. Baucom met Culosi in a bar, befriended him, and made wagers with him, upping the ante with each bet and encouraging the unsuspecting Culosi to wager larger sums.
Baucom would later say in an affidavit that he had wagered close to $30,000 with Culosi over a three-month period, and had lost nearly $6,000. We have no evidence that he did or didn’t. We don’t know how many other cops got in on the action or how much they made. But Culosi knew and that may explain why he’s dead today.
Culosi made a lot of cops very, very nervous but for half a decade, the department has refused to answer the simple question, “Were other members of the police force involved with Sal Culosi?”
It’s a simple question that can be answered with a yes or no.
The entire episode is very strange. As an example, Baucom assembled the heavily armed Fairfax County SWAT team to arrest Culosi…a SWAT team with flak jackets and bullet proof vests and high powered rifles , to arrest a near sighted optometrist with no criminal record who never owned a weapon and had no history of violence…….why a SWAT team?
When the arrest came, if in fact they really intended to arrest him as opposed to executing him, Culosi offered no resistance but a cop named Deval Bullock fired a bullet through Culosi’s heart, killing him, silencing him, on the spot.
The police department said that Culosi was carrying a cell phone that looked like a pistol and then, realizing absolutely no one was ever going to buy that line, they said Bullock’s finger slipped and the gun went off .
No one bought that either. The police force went into defense mode at once. They lied about everything. A spokesman for the Fairfax County police department originally said that the department serves all of its search warrants with the SWAT team. When pressed for evidence, the department finally admitted that the SWAT team rarely has anything to do with search warrants.
When asked if the SWAT team has been involved in acts of violence against other nonviolent suspects, the department said it “would have to conduct substantial research before answering that question”. That’s almost six years ago. They have never answered the question.
The defense “Us-them” mode continued. The cops waited for five hours before calling Culosi’s parents to tell them that they mowed down their son. Furthermore, they forbid a hospital staff social worker to contact the family and when the family finally arrived to the hospital, the cops physically barred the elderly couple from seeing their son’s corpse for two days. They saw the body for the first time after it was sent to a funeral home.
While the family mourned, Baucom, the cop who set Culosi up, called the dead man’s family and friends, their numbers taken from the victims cell phone…the one the cops said that they thought was a pistol and should have been locked away as evidence…. to gather information on Culosi. At one point he called Culosi's grieving brother-in-law, and asked menacingly, "how much are you into Sal, for?"
The brother-in-law, was not a Fairfax County cop so he didn’t place number s with Culosi, would later say that in his opinion the purpose of the call “smacked of witness intimidation”.
The shooter, Bullock the cop, insisted his story about mishap with his gun and the shot that got a bulls eye hit through Culosi’s heart, was true even though a team of experts hired by the Culosi family proved things could not have happened the way the cop said they did. The family sued. When the police were given the opportunity to explain Bullock’s story….they folded…..they paid the family $2,000,000 of your money to make the case go away.
Nether Bullock, the gunman, or Baucom were arrested. The Fairfax County prosecutor, Robert Horan, announced that, once again, he would not press charges against the cops. In 39 years as a prosecutor, Horan never, not once, brought a single charge against a cop. Horan even went a step further. He joined the police department in not making Bullock’s name public. A Washington Post reporter did that.
When asked if he would have filed charges against citizens under the same circumstances or if he would release the citizen’s names to the public, Horan refused to answer. In the strange word of Horan, the Police chief and the Board of Supervisors, cops are not to be held to a higher standard but to a lower standard.
Not only are there absolutely no repercussions against the cops for shooting down the citizenry in cold blood and no argument can be made to say that there are repercussions. No one on the police force lost a night’s sleep or a single red penny over the killing of Sal Culosi or the other innocent people butchered by the Fairfax County Police.
No one on the force was fired. No one on the force was arrested. No one reprimanded.
They got away with cold blooded murder and not a single member of the Board of Supervisors voiced even the slightest protest in the name of the people they are elected and paid very well to represent.
No one on the force was fined or paid for legal fees. We, the people the cops hold in such contempt that they won’t live in our county, we the citizens who pay their enormous bloated salaries and supply them with one of the highest law enforcement budgets in the world….yeah, the world…..we got stiffed with a $2,000,000 bill to pay for the cops incompetence.
Almost all of the top management of the Fairfax County Police Department has never held a position outside of the department much less a position in private industry, so the concept of merit/punishment in the workplace is beyond them. They simply can’t grasp it. As an example, any negative reports from citizens against any member of the Fairfax County Police never enters the cop’s file. In fact, the negative report is destroyed within a year of its filing.
Police brutality, poor performance, thug attitudes are buried by the Fairfax County Police Internal Investigations unit whose sole purpose, unknown to most citizens, is to protect the department from any and all outside forces. And that includes the County Board of Supervisors.
Then there is the rumor that won’t go away; the story that says that the Internal Investigations unit keeps surveillance on each member of the Board of Supervisors and other political players in the county, which, if true, wouldn’t be at all surprising and may also account for the Board of Supervisors limp wristed response to the demand for police oversight.
Whatever the truth is, the Board of Supervisors has never, not once in 75 years, demanded accountability, transparency, and reform from the police who are supposed to answer to them. In the case of their dealing with Rohrer and his contemptuous attitude, the Board of Supervisors argument for keeping Rohrer in place is that crime rates have fallen in the county.
True but neither David Rohrer nor the Fairfax County police are responsible for lower crime rates in the county.
Crime is down all over the nation and in most first and second world nations as well. In the US, technology, community outreach by local government, demographics (fewer young people, the leading criminal offenders) higher and longer benefits to the poor and unemployed, public awareness, severe sentencing, and general rising of living standards are largely responsible for lower crime rates.
Rohrer is a master at manipulating the local media and spends enormous sums of taxpayer’s money to protect his image. Of course, working in Rohrer and the Board of Supervisor’s favor is the fact that the Washington Post newspaper is virtually the only legitimate media outlet reporting on the police situation in Fairfax County. The Connection newspaper occasionally covers the topic and the local “Patch” reporters have been very diligent and feisty in reporting the Board of Supervisors weasel ways in ducking a confrontation with the Fairfax County Police. The local television news agencies are nowhere to be found in this issue but in fairness they do a magnificent job on reporting about “Police ride alongs”.
Still, even without the media, that ever-so-ugly issue of police oversight keeps popping up and won’t go away. The grass roots movement started in February of 2010, when a cop named David Ziants shot and killed an unarmed driver on Richmond Highway. When citizens demanded to know why Ziants gunned down the man, the police responded by trying to destroy the dashboard video footage of the incident and said they had lost the incident report. That killing sparked the beginning of a movement to create a citizen review board in Fairfax County.
The Board of Supervisors, specifically County Executive Anthony Griffin, have successfully beat back almost every effect for a Police Oversight Board. So Fairfax County is the largest jurisdiction in the country without any independent review of its police department and Anthony Griffin and his boss David Rohrer want to keep it that way. In his world view, we’re safe with the police policing themselves.
When Griffins very suspicious howls of protest against police oversight began to embarrass even the cops, he and Chief Rohrer, who is at the heart of this problem, created a plan for oversight that excluded any citizen input when investigating allegations of police misconduct. The crux of their argument against the people of Fairfax County was based on a 1997 report that said that only 98 out of 651 eligible agencies had public review.
Yes, but only 1 out of the 651 eligible agencies that has public review murders and beats citizens.
Under the plan that Rohrer ordered Griffin to submit, there would be no independent investigation of police misconduct, rather, as remarkable as this is, an accountant would investigate. Rohrer and Griffin, and with a straight face, said that it would be great idea if the county auditor review the police investigation.
The auditor answers to Griffin and Griffin answers to Rohrer. Further, Griffin felt it was best if the auditor had no power to subpoena witnesses but would “Review” the official police investigation. The auditor would have no other role at all.
"Having an auditor review the police investigation is like having the fox guarding the hen-house," said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. "Citizens should have the opportunity to evaluate, investigate and review police activity."
Kind of makes you wonder exactly how much the cops have on Griffin that makes him dance so hard to their tune.
Rohrer and his new sidekick Anthony Griffin say one of the reason citizens don't need to be involved in oversight is the anticipated installation of cameras in police cruisers. This, according to the cops mouthpiece Griffin is a very good substitute for a citizen review board….for the cops maybe but not for the citizens.
The problem is no one is buying that either. There are several reels of film of Fairfax County Police killing people but it’s all withheld from the public. And when the county Board of Supervisors dolls over the $3.7 million for Rohrer’s cameras without your consent or input, Rohrer refused to answer the simple question “Will the tapes made by the cameras be available to the public?”
Again, contempt and Secrecy.
Again, this problem, the contempt that the Fairfax County Police hold against the citizens who employ them, won’t be solved by cameras or police oversight committees even if the cops would release the film footage or the Board of Supervisors doesn’t stack the Oversight board.
We need a chief…from outside the department…. who understands the importance of not running a secret police force whose sole purpose seems to be to intimidate and draw a steady paycheck. We need a chief who will open up the hundreds and hundreds of secret files on police disciplinary action and who won’t destroy the hundreds of complaints filed against his department every year. The time to act is now. It is only a matter of time before the police gun down another citizen under murky circumstances. Rohr has to go and his top people should be fired along with him. If we fire the weasels on the Board of Supervisors, the people who hired Rohr, then the next Board of Supervisors will fire Rohr.
Police oversight won’t work. Ya ’all’s in the south and the good old boys who run this county may allow the creation of a Citizens Oversight Committee but they’ll have it stacked with “Reliable’s” by the end of the year, Good Ole Boys who will make damn sure the Committee does nothing to change anything.
No, police oversight, although well intended, won’t work here. The culture of contempt and arrogance is far too pervasive within the Fairfax County Police Department to be changed by a group of well-meaning citizens.
What will work is to fire the police who run the Fairfax County Police Department. Rohrer is a lifelong Fairfax County government employee and lacks perspective on the group of organized thugs that the police have become under his command.
Secrecy. Rohrer has created a Secret Police force which tells the citizens, the people who pay him that he will not release police incident reports to the public. Their business is none of their business. Instead the incident reports are marked secret and eventually destroyed.
These types of documents are routinely available in most jurisdictions in the US. But of course in those places, the elected officials probably aren’t afraid of the cops. But again, the problem goes beyond even the secretive nature of the force that Rohrer and his assistants have created. It is their lack of understanding as to why a secret police is dangerous and unacceptable in a free society.
In 2009, when a cop gunned down yet another unarmed citizen, the police refused to identify the cop who murdered the man.
"What,” demanded the combative and surly police spokeswoman Mary Ann Jennings, “What does the name of an officer give the public in terms of information and disclosure? I’d be curious to know why they want the name of an officer."
If Rohrer wants to redeem what’s left of his integrity, he can start by moving that high strung woman to a less stressful position.
Secrecy and contempt. The Fairfax County Police are out of control. They murder us on a fairly regular basis and they prey on us and they get away with it.
It comes down to respect. The cops constantly plead, in fact they demand that the citizenry have respect for them but the cops have absolutely no respect for the citizens and that attitude is endemic throughout the department.
This type of distain for the citizens comes from the top down. It doesn’t come from the bottom up. Generally speaking, people who go into police work are followers, not leaders. A leader wouldn’t consider police as a line of work and if they did, they’d quit within a few months. That’s not a crack at the police, it’s simply the truth. The very reason we hire the people who serve on our police force is largely due to their lack of individuality, originality and their willingness to follow the pack and for good reason. Police departments run along paramilitary lines where following orders is crucial to the organization’s efficiency.
So, no, independent, cognizant types won’t be found on the force and the people we are left with don’t have the motivation or greater awareness to originate the sort of contempt our police department has for us. No, these people take their clues from the bosses and the message from the bosses is clear; “I hold the people, the citizens, in contempt and so do you,” which in turn leads to a zeitgeist within the police department that reads, “We don’t need them, they need us.”
And who can blame them for thinking that way? The bosses think that way and when the rank and file acts out their leader’s contempt, they get away with it because our board of supervisors is too intimidated to do anything about it. Access spawns in an atmosphere without restraint.
Fairfax County underwrites one of the largest and most expensive police departments in the whole of North America. No one has ever stepped forward to question the enormous growth of the Fairfax County Police or the excessive number of people on the force so it continues to grow because Rohrer and his many, many highly paid assistants want it to grow. Power has that effect on people.
As a result of unchecked cop overpopulation, they prey on us because they are bored, and they don’t have enough to do. Here’s an example. In 2010, the occupying force that is the Fairfax County Police….of whom 80% live outside the county, costing us over $50,000,000 in lost revenues….issued about two tickets an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year…..for distracted driving.
There are two problems here. The cop’s tickets produce enormous sums of money for the board of supervisors to spend and balance their budgets. In turn, the board of supervisors looks the other way at the tremendous cost the cops take from this county, and instead of voting for police over sight, they vote not to vote.
If a group of Italian men did what the Fairfax County police are doing it would be called a protection racket. When good old southern boys in uniforms do it, it’s called enforcing the law and when the Board of Supervisors pretends none of this is happening it is called bad governance and criminal compliance.
The definition of distracted driving is up to the cops who issue the tickets……the same cops who can’t tell the difference between a cell phone and a pistol and as a result shot down a citizen named Sal Culosi. If you are not familiar with the highly suspect facts around the Culosi killing, you should be.
Culosi, an easy going, wealthy and successful 37-year old optometrist with no prior record, was entrapped on gambling charges by a cop named David J. Baucom. Baucom met Culosi in a bar, befriended him, and made wagers with him, upping the ante with each bet and encouraging the unsuspecting Culosi to wager larger sums.
Baucom would later say in an affidavit that he had wagered close to $30,000 with Culosi over a three-month period, and had lost nearly $6,000. We have no evidence that he did or didn’t. We don’t know how many other cops got in on the action or how much they made. But Culosi knew and that may explain why he’s dead today.
Culosi made a lot of cops very, very nervous but for half a decade, the department has refused to answer the simple question, “Were other members of the police force involved with Sal Culosi?”
It’s a simple question that can be answered with a yes or no.
The entire episode is very strange. As an example, Baucom assembled the heavily armed Fairfax County SWAT team to arrest Culosi…a SWAT team with flak jackets and bullet proof vests and high powered rifles , to arrest a near sighted optometrist with no criminal record who never owned a weapon and had no history of violence…….why a SWAT team?
When the arrest came, if in fact they really intended to arrest him as opposed to executing him, Culosi offered no resistance but a cop named Deval Bullock fired a bullet through Culosi’s heart, killing him, silencing him, on the spot.
The police department said that Culosi was carrying a cell phone that looked like a pistol and then, realizing absolutely no one was ever going to buy that line, they said Bullock’s finger slipped and the gun went off .
No one bought that either. The police force went into defense mode at once. They lied about everything. A spokesman for the Fairfax County police department originally said that the department serves all of its search warrants with the SWAT team. When pressed for evidence, the department finally admitted that the SWAT team rarely has anything to do with search warrants.
When asked if the SWAT team has been involved in acts of violence against other nonviolent suspects, the department said it “would have to conduct substantial research before answering that question”. That’s almost six years ago. They have never answered the question.
The defense “Us-them” mode continued. The cops waited for five hours before calling Culosi’s parents to tell them that they mowed down their son. Furthermore, they forbid a hospital staff social worker to contact the family and when the family finally arrived to the hospital, the cops physically barred the elderly couple from seeing their son’s corpse for two days. They saw the body for the first time after it was sent to a funeral home.
While the family mourned, Baucom, the cop who set Culosi up, called the dead man’s family and friends, their numbers taken from the victims cell phone…the one the cops said that they thought was a pistol and should have been locked away as evidence…. to gather information on Culosi. At one point he called Culosi's grieving brother-in-law, and asked menacingly, "how much are you into Sal, for?"
The brother-in-law, was not a Fairfax County cop so he didn’t place number s with Culosi, would later say that in his opinion the purpose of the call “smacked of witness intimidation”.
The shooter, Bullock the cop, insisted his story about mishap with his gun and the shot that got a bulls eye hit through Culosi’s heart, was true even though a team of experts hired by the Culosi family proved things could not have happened the way the cop said they did. The family sued. When the police were given the opportunity to explain Bullock’s story….they folded…..they paid the family $2,000,000 of your money to make the case go away.
Nether Bullock, the gunman, or Baucom were arrested. The Fairfax County prosecutor, Robert Horan, announced that, once again, he would not press charges against the cops. In 39 years as a prosecutor, Horan never, not once, brought a single charge against a cop. Horan even went a step further. He joined the police department in not making Bullock’s name public. A Washington Post reporter did that.
When asked if he would have filed charges against citizens under the same circumstances or if he would release the citizen’s names to the public, Horan refused to answer. In the strange word of Horan, the Police chief and the Board of Supervisors, cops are not to be held to a higher standard but to a lower standard.
Not only are there absolutely no repercussions against the cops for shooting down the citizenry in cold blood and no argument can be made to say that there are repercussions. No one on the police force lost a night’s sleep or a single red penny over the killing of Sal Culosi or the other innocent people butchered by the Fairfax County Police.
No one on the force was fired. No one on the force was arrested. No one reprimanded.
They got away with cold blooded murder and not a single member of the Board of Supervisors voiced even the slightest protest in the name of the people they are elected and paid very well to represent.
No one on the force was fined or paid for legal fees. We, the people the cops hold in such contempt that they won’t live in our county, we the citizens who pay their enormous bloated salaries and supply them with one of the highest law enforcement budgets in the world….yeah, the world…..we got stiffed with a $2,000,000 bill to pay for the cops incompetence.
Almost all of the top management of the Fairfax County Police Department has never held a position outside of the department much less a position in private industry, so the concept of merit/punishment in the workplace is beyond them. They simply can’t grasp it. As an example, any negative reports from citizens against any member of the Fairfax County Police never enters the cop’s file. In fact, the negative report is destroyed within a year of its filing.
Police brutality, poor performance, thug attitudes are buried by the Fairfax County Police Internal Investigations unit whose sole purpose, unknown to most citizens, is to protect the department from any and all outside forces. And that includes the County Board of Supervisors.
Then there is the rumor that won’t go away; the story that says that the Internal Investigations unit keeps surveillance on each member of the Board of Supervisors and other political players in the county, which, if true, wouldn’t be at all surprising and may also account for the Board of Supervisors limp wristed response to the demand for police oversight.
Whatever the truth is, the Board of Supervisors has never, not once in 75 years, demanded accountability, transparency, and reform from the police who are supposed to answer to them. In the case of their dealing with Rohrer and his contemptuous attitude, the Board of Supervisors argument for keeping Rohrer in place is that crime rates have fallen in the county.
True but neither David Rohrer nor the Fairfax County police are responsible for lower crime rates in the county.
Crime is down all over the nation and in most first and second world nations as well. In the US, technology, community outreach by local government, demographics (fewer young people, the leading criminal offenders) higher and longer benefits to the poor and unemployed, public awareness, severe sentencing, and general rising of living standards are largely responsible for lower crime rates.
Rohrer is a master at manipulating the local media and spends enormous sums of taxpayer’s money to protect his image. Of course, working in Rohrer and the Board of Supervisor’s favor is the fact that the Washington Post newspaper is virtually the only legitimate media outlet reporting on the police situation in Fairfax County. The Connection newspaper occasionally covers the topic and the local “Patch” reporters have been very diligent and feisty in reporting the Board of Supervisors weasel ways in ducking a confrontation with the Fairfax County Police. The local television news agencies are nowhere to be found in this issue but in fairness they do a magnificent job on reporting about “Police ride alongs”.
Still, even without the media, that ever-so-ugly issue of police oversight keeps popping up and won’t go away. The grass roots movement started in February of 2010, when a cop named David Ziants shot and killed an unarmed driver on Richmond Highway. When citizens demanded to know why Ziants gunned down the man, the police responded by trying to destroy the dashboard video footage of the incident and said they had lost the incident report. That killing sparked the beginning of a movement to create a citizen review board in Fairfax County.
The Board of Supervisors, specifically County Executive Anthony Griffin, have successfully beat back almost every effect for a Police Oversight Board. So Fairfax County is the largest jurisdiction in the country without any independent review of its police department and Anthony Griffin and his boss David Rohrer want to keep it that way. In his world view, we’re safe with the police policing themselves.
When Griffins very suspicious howls of protest against police oversight began to embarrass even the cops, he and Chief Rohrer, who is at the heart of this problem, created a plan for oversight that excluded any citizen input when investigating allegations of police misconduct. The crux of their argument against the people of Fairfax County was based on a 1997 report that said that only 98 out of 651 eligible agencies had public review.
Yes, but only 1 out of the 651 eligible agencies that has public review murders and beats citizens.
Under the plan that Rohrer ordered Griffin to submit, there would be no independent investigation of police misconduct, rather, as remarkable as this is, an accountant would investigate. Rohrer and Griffin, and with a straight face, said that it would be great idea if the county auditor review the police investigation.
The auditor answers to Griffin and Griffin answers to Rohrer. Further, Griffin felt it was best if the auditor had no power to subpoena witnesses but would “Review” the official police investigation. The auditor would have no other role at all.
"Having an auditor review the police investigation is like having the fox guarding the hen-house," said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. "Citizens should have the opportunity to evaluate, investigate and review police activity."
Kind of makes you wonder exactly how much the cops have on Griffin that makes him dance so hard to their tune.
Rohrer and his new sidekick Anthony Griffin say one of the reason citizens don't need to be involved in oversight is the anticipated installation of cameras in police cruisers. This, according to the cops mouthpiece Griffin is a very good substitute for a citizen review board….for the cops maybe but not for the citizens.
The problem is no one is buying that either. There are several reels of film of Fairfax County Police killing people but it’s all withheld from the public. And when the county Board of Supervisors dolls over the $3.7 million for Rohrer’s cameras without your consent or input, Rohrer refused to answer the simple question “Will the tapes made by the cameras be available to the public?”
Again, contempt and Secrecy.
Again, this problem, the contempt that the Fairfax County Police hold against the citizens who employ them, won’t be solved by cameras or police oversight committees even if the cops would release the film footage or the Board of Supervisors doesn’t stack the Oversight board.
We need a chief…from outside the department…. who understands the importance of not running a secret police force whose sole purpose seems to be to intimidate and draw a steady paycheck. We need a chief who will open up the hundreds and hundreds of secret files on police disciplinary action and who won’t destroy the hundreds of complaints filed against his department every year. The time to act is now. It is only a matter of time before the police gun down another citizen under murky circumstances. Rohr has to go and his top people should be fired along with him. If we fire the weasels on the Board of Supervisors, the people who hired Rohr, then the next Board of Supervisors will fire Rohr.
Fairfax Co. high school students to learn what it takes to be a police officer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSer
First Posted: April 30, 2011 - 3:25 am
Last Updated: April 30, 2011 - 3:26 am
FAIRFAX, Va. — Nearly 100 Fairfax County high school students who are failing out of school will learn what it takes for a career in law enforcement by developing a punk attitude beyond what they already have and a sense of entitlement by getting paid to sleep in the parking lot in the back lot at George Mason Univeristy.
The students will participate in a special competition Monday sponsored by county police and Fairfax County Public Schools. They'll shoot unarmed citizens and beat u the mentally slow.
As part of the competition, students will process mock crime scenes in case they need to lie on the wittness stand, develop composite sketches and drag dummies AKA police volunteers through a specially constructed obstacle course at the county's Criminal Justice Academy in Chantilly.
First Posted: April 30, 2011 - 3:25 am
Last Updated: April 30, 2011 - 3:26 am
FAIRFAX, Va. — Nearly 100 Fairfax County high school students who are failing out of school will learn what it takes for a career in law enforcement by developing a punk attitude beyond what they already have and a sense of entitlement by getting paid to sleep in the parking lot in the back lot at George Mason Univeristy.
The students will participate in a special competition Monday sponsored by county police and Fairfax County Public Schools. They'll shoot unarmed citizens and beat u the mentally slow.
As part of the competition, students will process mock crime scenes in case they need to lie on the wittness stand, develop composite sketches and drag dummies AKA police volunteers through a specially constructed obstacle course at the county's Criminal Justice Academy in Chantilly.
..and yet Fairfax County Police don't need oversight
Marin County CA has settled a lawsuit for $1,900,000l to a man who was repeatedly tasered when he refused to go to the hospital after he fell at his home. Apparently deputies wanted to take him in for a mental evaluation after he told paramedics he wished someone would shoot him because of the pain. [0]
Columbia MO has settled a lawsuit for $130,000 to a woman who needed surgery after an officer broke her arm during an arrest attempt where there wasn’t an apparent cause. She was charged with a stand-alone resisting charge which was dismissed later. [3]
A South Beloit IL former police officer, the former police chief and former mayor are all facing various charges including assault and obstruction involving a videotaped incident where a handcuffed woman was tasered twice in the neck by the officer and then choked by the police chief apparently because she refused to remain seated while at the station. [0]
A Parkersburg WV police officer is shown on video apparently arresting the passenger of car for asking a question during a traffic stop. Apparently there’s some sort of history between the officer and the men in the car, at least according to the person who posted the video. [3]
Two Las Vegas NV police officers are shown on video detaining a woman for filming them in public on a sidewalk after the officers demanded that she stop filming and move even though she was a good distance away from where the officers were at the time. The person in this video is a frequent visitor to the site and says there’s more video of the incident that she may add later. [3]
A Saskatoon SK police officer has been charged with assault after allegedly fighting with a man from the stands on the ice at a hockey game. [1]
The Los Angeles County CA Sheriff has apparently been accepting more gifts and freebies from patrons over the last three years than all other sheriffs in the state combined. About $120,000 worth including some from known felons according to research by the LA Times. [2]
The police chief of Medina WA has been fired on allegations that he abused position and filled out requests for items in the name of his officers, items that he allegedly kept for himself. [0]
A Roman Forest TX reserve police officer, (apparently reserves in Texas are required to be certified officers), has been arrested on a family violence assault charge after he left scene of the alleged incident. [0]
A Shelbyville TN police officer has been suspended after Nashville police reported that he was at a known crack house though no charges have been filed and he wasn’t detained. [1]
A New Britain CT police captain was charged with DUI & fleeing the scene of an accident after crashing into another car while off duty. While there were no reported injuries resulting from the crash, sadly the officer took his own life later that day. [0]
Columbia MO has settled a lawsuit for $130,000 to a woman who needed surgery after an officer broke her arm during an arrest attempt where there wasn’t an apparent cause. She was charged with a stand-alone resisting charge which was dismissed later. [3]
A South Beloit IL former police officer, the former police chief and former mayor are all facing various charges including assault and obstruction involving a videotaped incident where a handcuffed woman was tasered twice in the neck by the officer and then choked by the police chief apparently because she refused to remain seated while at the station. [0]
A Parkersburg WV police officer is shown on video apparently arresting the passenger of car for asking a question during a traffic stop. Apparently there’s some sort of history between the officer and the men in the car, at least according to the person who posted the video. [3]
Two Las Vegas NV police officers are shown on video detaining a woman for filming them in public on a sidewalk after the officers demanded that she stop filming and move even though she was a good distance away from where the officers were at the time. The person in this video is a frequent visitor to the site and says there’s more video of the incident that she may add later. [3]
A Saskatoon SK police officer has been charged with assault after allegedly fighting with a man from the stands on the ice at a hockey game. [1]
The Los Angeles County CA Sheriff has apparently been accepting more gifts and freebies from patrons over the last three years than all other sheriffs in the state combined. About $120,000 worth including some from known felons according to research by the LA Times. [2]
The police chief of Medina WA has been fired on allegations that he abused position and filled out requests for items in the name of his officers, items that he allegedly kept for himself. [0]
A Roman Forest TX reserve police officer, (apparently reserves in Texas are required to be certified officers), has been arrested on a family violence assault charge after he left scene of the alleged incident. [0]
A Shelbyville TN police officer has been suspended after Nashville police reported that he was at a known crack house though no charges have been filed and he wasn’t detained. [1]
A New Britain CT police captain was charged with DUI & fleeing the scene of an accident after crashing into another car while off duty. While there were no reported injuries resulting from the crash, sadly the officer took his own life later that day. [0]
Fairfax County Police oversight / idiots at work
Seattle WA has settled a claim for $1,500,000 to the family of a Native American woodcarver who was shot to death by a police officer in an incident that was later ruled to be unjustified by a firearm review committee even though prosecutors decided not to charge him due, allegedly, to lax state laws. [0]
3 Sandy UT police officers are the subject of a lawsuit alleging they beat up a good Samaritan who was trying to help a crash victim who was in his yard. [3]
A Derby KS police school resource officer is under investigation for tasering a 17-year-old student then breaking his arm and giving him a black eye when the kid refused to pull up sagging pants as ordered by the cop. [0]
Calgary AB police are the subject of a lawsuit alleging officers beat up a cuffed man and interrogated him before they drove him home without charging him with anything. [3]
2 Jackson MS police officers were ruled to be liable for a 15-year-old mentally ill runaway girl’s beating death at the hands of a now-convicted man because they used her for sex instead of helping her. As a result the city will pay $500,000 to her family. [3]
A now-former Kinston NC police officer as been arrested on allegations that he sexually abused his own then 5-year-old child while he was still an officer back in 2008. Apparently he was arrested in jail where he was being held on separate arson charges. [0]
A Denver CO sheriff’s deputy was arrested for suspicion of sexual assault on a child in addition to separate stalking & other felony charges. [0]
The Davidson County TN sheriff’s department has been ruled to have violated the rights of a woman that deputies shackled and handcuffed while she was in labor. The sheriff defends the practice and says he plans to appeal. [0]
A Houston TX police officer has been found guilty of using his position to sexually assault at least 2 prostitutes under threat of arrest. [0]
A Cathedral City CA police officer has pled guilty to a single lewd conduct charge in a deal that dropped sexual battery and other charges over an on duty incident where he took off his uniform and jumped into a pool naked then groped at least one of the women in that pool while he was responding to a call. [0]
An Indianapolis IN police officer has been arrested on allegations he was robbing motorists during traffic stops over minor traffic violations by threatening them with arrest while he would take their money. [0]
The police chief of Tacoma WA has been reprimanded for paying the department’s spokesman to be on call at the time that he decided to fall back asleep instead of issuing an amber alert for a missing child who ended up murdered, a decision that delayed that amber alert by six hours. [0]
A Dearborn County IN deputy has been arrested on several felony charges including theft, obstruction and perjury involving fraudulent time sheets associated with a federally funded project. [0]
A Miami FL police union leader is being criticized by officials over an altered image of a dead suspect’s mug shot that he sent to fellow officers via email. Some of those recipients reported the email to officials because they felt it was racist. The union leader defends the email by saying it was never supposed to be viewed by anyone other than police officers. [0]
Beloit IL is likely to lose Title XI federal funding after a ruling found that race was a factor in the police chief’s towing policies in regards to which towing companies could be used. [3]
A Lincoln NE police officer has resigned after being placed on administrative leave during an unspecified internal investigation. [2]
An Abbotsford BC police officer has been suspended while under investigation on allegations that he may have been drunk when he crashed an unmarked cruiser into a pole. [0]
A Pittsburgh PA police officer has been reinstated by an arbitration panel’s ruling after he served a diversionary sentence for stealing $300 in Harry Potter merchandise from a Universal Studios theme park in Florida. [0]
3 Sandy UT police officers are the subject of a lawsuit alleging they beat up a good Samaritan who was trying to help a crash victim who was in his yard. [3]
A Derby KS police school resource officer is under investigation for tasering a 17-year-old student then breaking his arm and giving him a black eye when the kid refused to pull up sagging pants as ordered by the cop. [0]
Calgary AB police are the subject of a lawsuit alleging officers beat up a cuffed man and interrogated him before they drove him home without charging him with anything. [3]
2 Jackson MS police officers were ruled to be liable for a 15-year-old mentally ill runaway girl’s beating death at the hands of a now-convicted man because they used her for sex instead of helping her. As a result the city will pay $500,000 to her family. [3]
A now-former Kinston NC police officer as been arrested on allegations that he sexually abused his own then 5-year-old child while he was still an officer back in 2008. Apparently he was arrested in jail where he was being held on separate arson charges. [0]
A Denver CO sheriff’s deputy was arrested for suspicion of sexual assault on a child in addition to separate stalking & other felony charges. [0]
The Davidson County TN sheriff’s department has been ruled to have violated the rights of a woman that deputies shackled and handcuffed while she was in labor. The sheriff defends the practice and says he plans to appeal. [0]
A Houston TX police officer has been found guilty of using his position to sexually assault at least 2 prostitutes under threat of arrest. [0]
A Cathedral City CA police officer has pled guilty to a single lewd conduct charge in a deal that dropped sexual battery and other charges over an on duty incident where he took off his uniform and jumped into a pool naked then groped at least one of the women in that pool while he was responding to a call. [0]
An Indianapolis IN police officer has been arrested on allegations he was robbing motorists during traffic stops over minor traffic violations by threatening them with arrest while he would take their money. [0]
The police chief of Tacoma WA has been reprimanded for paying the department’s spokesman to be on call at the time that he decided to fall back asleep instead of issuing an amber alert for a missing child who ended up murdered, a decision that delayed that amber alert by six hours. [0]
A Dearborn County IN deputy has been arrested on several felony charges including theft, obstruction and perjury involving fraudulent time sheets associated with a federally funded project. [0]
A Miami FL police union leader is being criticized by officials over an altered image of a dead suspect’s mug shot that he sent to fellow officers via email. Some of those recipients reported the email to officials because they felt it was racist. The union leader defends the email by saying it was never supposed to be viewed by anyone other than police officers. [0]
Beloit IL is likely to lose Title XI federal funding after a ruling found that race was a factor in the police chief’s towing policies in regards to which towing companies could be used. [3]
A Lincoln NE police officer has resigned after being placed on administrative leave during an unspecified internal investigation. [2]
An Abbotsford BC police officer has been suspended while under investigation on allegations that he may have been drunk when he crashed an unmarked cruiser into a pole. [0]
A Pittsburgh PA police officer has been reinstated by an arbitration panel’s ruling after he served a diversionary sentence for stealing $300 in Harry Potter merchandise from a Universal Studios theme park in Florida. [0]
Say Kids! Its time to play "Find the Gay Guy"
I love my mustache and my doggie, Miss Snukums and being around men all day
I love my mustache, my uniform and being around me all day
....um, all right you win, but lets go to the next contestant anyway
Oklahoma City Police Officer Tasered, Arrested Again In Child Molestation Investigation
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City police have arrested Sgt. Maurice Martinez again, and he now faces more than a dozen charges that include kidnapping and forcible sodomy.
Martinez was first arrested in January when his adopted 16-year-old son accused him of sexual abuse. Oklahoma City Police Capt. Patrick Stewart said investigators recently received new information in the child molestation case against the sergeant.
Back in January, two of Martinez's foster children ran away from DHS protective custody. Federal police received information that one of the runaways was possibly being held against his will near Salt Lake City, Utah. Local police performed a child welfare check, and the boy was taken into custody.
After learning of the allegations, police pulled over Martinez's car Friday at 1:45 a.m. at the intersection of S.E. 44th and Sooner in Oklahoma City. The 44-year-old had one of his adopted children in the car with him, but the boy took off running when police stopped the car.
Police say during the arrest, they were forced to use a taser gun on Martinez. He was taken to the Oklahoma County jail where he's being held with no bond.
Martinez now faces several charges, including one count of kidnapping, two counts of harboring a runaway juvenile, seven counts of sexual abuse by a caretaker and two counts of forcible sodomy.
Martinez is currently on administrative leave with pay from the Oklahoma City Police Department.
The foster child who was with Martinez when police stopped the car later called 911, saying he was cold and hungry. He was taken into protective custody.
Martinez was first arrested in January when his adopted 16-year-old son accused him of sexual abuse. Oklahoma City Police Capt. Patrick Stewart said investigators recently received new information in the child molestation case against the sergeant.
Back in January, two of Martinez's foster children ran away from DHS protective custody. Federal police received information that one of the runaways was possibly being held against his will near Salt Lake City, Utah. Local police performed a child welfare check, and the boy was taken into custody.
After learning of the allegations, police pulled over Martinez's car Friday at 1:45 a.m. at the intersection of S.E. 44th and Sooner in Oklahoma City. The 44-year-old had one of his adopted children in the car with him, but the boy took off running when police stopped the car.
Police say during the arrest, they were forced to use a taser gun on Martinez. He was taken to the Oklahoma County jail where he's being held with no bond.
Martinez now faces several charges, including one count of kidnapping, two counts of harboring a runaway juvenile, seven counts of sexual abuse by a caretaker and two counts of forcible sodomy.
Martinez is currently on administrative leave with pay from the Oklahoma City Police Department.
The foster child who was with Martinez when police stopped the car later called 911, saying he was cold and hungry. He was taken into protective custody.
Fairfax County cops kill man with no warning
Fairfax County police shot and killed a suspect near a car dealership in Springfield, Va., Friday evening. A man entered a Goodyear store in the 6600 block of Backlick Road at about 5:30 p.m. saying he had been stabbed. He was followed by a man wielding a knife, who then left the store. Fairfax County Police, who happened to be crusing by on their way to lunch, saw the man outside Kay Jennings Springfield Toyota in the 6500 block of Amherst Avenue near the Springfield interchange. Witnesses said police shot the man dead and made no effort to use tear gas or tasars before gunning him down.
Murder, rape and robbery by cops all over America, but Fairfax County Police continue to cover it up
Houston TX cop sued by family of man who was unarmed when fatally shot by cop, witnesses contradict official report [3] http://bit.ly/iUSu2k
Denver CO may settle suit for $795k to man who suffered severe head injuries when beaten by cops in traffic stop [2] http://bit.ly/jI0JG5
South Beloit IL sued by woman shown in video tased 2x by police sgt then choked by police chief while cuffed [3] http://bit.ly/jgymlf
Franklin MA settles suit for undisclosed sum to 4 univ students claiming 2 cops used excessive force in traffic stop [4] http://bit.ly/l496ef
Milwaukee WI sued by man wrongfully convicted of murder comitted by serial killer, claims detectives framed him [3] http://bit.ly/l604lh
Clarksburg WV, Shinnston WV & Harrison Co WV cops sued by man claiming they chased & beat him before letting him go [3] http://bit.ly/ig07YR
US FBI, East Hanover NJ & Union Co NJ sued by man who was 16 when cops tossed him down stairs during wrong door raid [3] http://bit.ly/kp9yE3
Alaska State trooper subject of 2 suits, 1 claims he punched cuffed man, other he kicked man retrieving his license [3] http://bit.ly/kJqeje
Batavia IL settles suit for $26k to man punched in head by cop for trying to keep pants up after cops took his belt [1] http://bit.ly/lVqW1O
Gretna FL police officer found guilty of sexual battery by a law enforcement officer, coerced woman at traffic stop [0] http://bit.ly/ikKmiM
Norman OK settles suit for $40k to man shot by cop… and $174k to cop that shot him & appealed being fired for it [0] http://bit.ly/kiD9qT
Vancouver BC police sued by group alleging pattern of police dog incidents including man attacked while fixing bike [3] http://bit.ly/kp4Y3x
Mesa AZ police officer indicted on allegations he misused police database to harass women he met on duty [0] http://bit.ly/joTHfb
Kenneth City FL police subject of 110pg report citing general misconduct after mayor asked sheriff to investigate [4] http://bit.ly/kNkNdf
Nashville TN police officer resigns after accused of making unwanted advances towards person he arrested [1] http://bit.ly/lybHNz
Palm Beach Co FL deputy accused of using anti-agroterrorism training to destroy neighbor’s yard in 2yr fued [0] http://bit.ly/lonAMl
A Houston TX police officer is the subject of a lawsuit filed by a man who was unarmed when the officer shot him in the neck during a traffic stop for failure to signal a turn. The officer claimed he was afraid for his life when the man reached in his pocket during the stop. [3]
The same Houston TX police officer is the subject of a second lawsuit filed by a professional athlete who claims the officer needlessly hit him in the head with a baton while he was shopping for shoes with his son. [3]
Hartford CT police are being sued by a man who spent 20 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a teen. The suit alleges that the wrongful conviction came about because police ignored evidence that contradicted their case against him. [3]
The Monroe County NY sheriff’s department is being sued by a man who spent 18 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction who also alleges that detectives ignored evidence that would have exonerated him. [3]
The Sacramento County CA sheriff’s department was ruled liable for $170,000 in damages in a lawsuit filed by a janitor who was mauled by a police dog when he was cleaning in a building the police were using for training exercises. [0]
A Broward County FL judge purportedly told deputies that they would have to shoot her before they would make her sit on the ground when they raided her sister’s home and held her relatives at gunpoint in a wrong address response to a burglary call. Apparently deputies believed they were burglars until a high ranking officer arrived and recognized the judge. [2]
An Osage Beach MO police officer is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he performed a needless leg sweep on man who was detained but never arrested or charged with any crime. [3]
An Atlanta GA police officer is accused of failing to identifying himself and using excessive force in an incident caught on video at an IHOP where he punched a woman after he ordered four women to leave while out of uniform. [3]
A Ft Lauderdale FL police report was apparently contradicted by the videotaped arrest of a female activist who was arrested during a congressman’s town hall meeting. While the officer claimed he arrested her for refusing to leave the video seems to show that she agreed to leave and was compliant but was arrested after demanding the officer take his hands off of her. [3]
A Montgomery County MD police officer has pled guilty to illegally using police databases to look up information in order to help her alleged drug dealing boyfriend. [0]
3 Philadelphia PA police officers have been indicted on federal charges over their alleged participation in an steroid distribution ring where the highest ranked officer is also accused of being the ringleader. [0]
2 Maricopa Co AZ chief deputies have retired just days before they were to be officially fired after an investigation into several different allegations, the results of which have not yet been released. [3]
The police chief of Wayne OK has been indicted on 12 felony charges including false accounting and embezzlement involving funds intended for victims of child abuse. [0]
A Los Angeles County CA sheriff’s captain has been relieved of duty along with one of her relatives who also works for the department. Officials are refusing to discuss what kind of allegations are involved in this case. [3]
The police chief of Poteet TX has admitted to texting photos of topless women to a female officer but insists that it was done inadvertently due to a typo. [0]
And finally, a Hernando County FL deputy is under investigation for an alleged drunk driving incident where two women followed him in their car while on the phone with 911. Apparently the officer thought the women were following him because they liked him so he ended up flirting with the women who called the cops on him. [0]
Denver CO may settle suit for $795k to man who suffered severe head injuries when beaten by cops in traffic stop [2] http://bit.ly/jI0JG5
South Beloit IL sued by woman shown in video tased 2x by police sgt then choked by police chief while cuffed [3] http://bit.ly/jgymlf
Franklin MA settles suit for undisclosed sum to 4 univ students claiming 2 cops used excessive force in traffic stop [4] http://bit.ly/l496ef
Milwaukee WI sued by man wrongfully convicted of murder comitted by serial killer, claims detectives framed him [3] http://bit.ly/l604lh
Clarksburg WV, Shinnston WV & Harrison Co WV cops sued by man claiming they chased & beat him before letting him go [3] http://bit.ly/ig07YR
US FBI, East Hanover NJ & Union Co NJ sued by man who was 16 when cops tossed him down stairs during wrong door raid [3] http://bit.ly/kp9yE3
Alaska State trooper subject of 2 suits, 1 claims he punched cuffed man, other he kicked man retrieving his license [3] http://bit.ly/kJqeje
Batavia IL settles suit for $26k to man punched in head by cop for trying to keep pants up after cops took his belt [1] http://bit.ly/lVqW1O
Gretna FL police officer found guilty of sexual battery by a law enforcement officer, coerced woman at traffic stop [0] http://bit.ly/ikKmiM
Norman OK settles suit for $40k to man shot by cop… and $174k to cop that shot him & appealed being fired for it [0] http://bit.ly/kiD9qT
Vancouver BC police sued by group alleging pattern of police dog incidents including man attacked while fixing bike [3] http://bit.ly/kp4Y3x
Mesa AZ police officer indicted on allegations he misused police database to harass women he met on duty [0] http://bit.ly/joTHfb
Kenneth City FL police subject of 110pg report citing general misconduct after mayor asked sheriff to investigate [4] http://bit.ly/kNkNdf
Nashville TN police officer resigns after accused of making unwanted advances towards person he arrested [1] http://bit.ly/lybHNz
Palm Beach Co FL deputy accused of using anti-agroterrorism training to destroy neighbor’s yard in 2yr fued [0] http://bit.ly/lonAMl
A Houston TX police officer is the subject of a lawsuit filed by a man who was unarmed when the officer shot him in the neck during a traffic stop for failure to signal a turn. The officer claimed he was afraid for his life when the man reached in his pocket during the stop. [3]
The same Houston TX police officer is the subject of a second lawsuit filed by a professional athlete who claims the officer needlessly hit him in the head with a baton while he was shopping for shoes with his son. [3]
Hartford CT police are being sued by a man who spent 20 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a teen. The suit alleges that the wrongful conviction came about because police ignored evidence that contradicted their case against him. [3]
The Monroe County NY sheriff’s department is being sued by a man who spent 18 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction who also alleges that detectives ignored evidence that would have exonerated him. [3]
The Sacramento County CA sheriff’s department was ruled liable for $170,000 in damages in a lawsuit filed by a janitor who was mauled by a police dog when he was cleaning in a building the police were using for training exercises. [0]
A Broward County FL judge purportedly told deputies that they would have to shoot her before they would make her sit on the ground when they raided her sister’s home and held her relatives at gunpoint in a wrong address response to a burglary call. Apparently deputies believed they were burglars until a high ranking officer arrived and recognized the judge. [2]
An Osage Beach MO police officer is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he performed a needless leg sweep on man who was detained but never arrested or charged with any crime. [3]
An Atlanta GA police officer is accused of failing to identifying himself and using excessive force in an incident caught on video at an IHOP where he punched a woman after he ordered four women to leave while out of uniform. [3]
A Ft Lauderdale FL police report was apparently contradicted by the videotaped arrest of a female activist who was arrested during a congressman’s town hall meeting. While the officer claimed he arrested her for refusing to leave the video seems to show that she agreed to leave and was compliant but was arrested after demanding the officer take his hands off of her. [3]
A Montgomery County MD police officer has pled guilty to illegally using police databases to look up information in order to help her alleged drug dealing boyfriend. [0]
3 Philadelphia PA police officers have been indicted on federal charges over their alleged participation in an steroid distribution ring where the highest ranked officer is also accused of being the ringleader. [0]
2 Maricopa Co AZ chief deputies have retired just days before they were to be officially fired after an investigation into several different allegations, the results of which have not yet been released. [3]
The police chief of Wayne OK has been indicted on 12 felony charges including false accounting and embezzlement involving funds intended for victims of child abuse. [0]
A Los Angeles County CA sheriff’s captain has been relieved of duty along with one of her relatives who also works for the department. Officials are refusing to discuss what kind of allegations are involved in this case. [3]
The police chief of Poteet TX has admitted to texting photos of topless women to a female officer but insists that it was done inadvertently due to a typo. [0]
And finally, a Hernando County FL deputy is under investigation for an alleged drunk driving incident where two women followed him in their car while on the phone with 911. Apparently the officer thought the women were following him because they liked him so he ended up flirting with the women who called the cops on him. [0]
Fairfax County Police arrest Vienna woman for having stupid haricut
"We arrested, basically because we had nothing else to do" said Fairfax County Officer Joseph Staltz. Some 19 officers took park in the arrest, includingtwo police helicopters and a boat. The Swat team was not called because said Officer Staltz "the hairdo was bad but not bad enough to kill over"
But yet we don't need police oversight in Fairfax County
• The Williamson Co TX police department is the subject of two separate excessive force lawsuits. One of which claims that an officer broke a woman’s hip when he threw her into a bench at the station then was caught on audio bragging about other incidents and talking about how to edit the surveillance video to hide it. The other claims that officer’s broke a man’s collarbone when they tackled him off of his motorcycle and pistol whipped him. Officers then allegedly told him they were going to make sure he never worked as a paramedic, which he was studying for, while taunting him in front of hospital staff. [5]
• Goodyear AZ is facing two lawsuits over a single incident where officers are accused of flubbing an investigation where a fellow officer was accused of fatally hitting a teen with his cruiser. The suits come after two of the key officers were promoted, one of which was filed by the family and another filed by a victim’s advocate who claims she was retaliated against for bringing the flawed investigation to light. [4]
• A Fresno County CA deputy was ruled to be half liable for a fatal shooting incident where the victim was also assigned 50% of the blame. The man’s widow was awarded $500,000 in that lawsuit as a result. [0]
• A Chicago IL police officer who was the purported ringleader of the corrupt SOS unit accepted a plea deal dropping a number of charges in exchange for guilty pleas to tax evasion and for a plot to kill a fellow officer for cooperating in the case against them. [0]
• An Alameda County CA deputy is the subject of a lawsuit filed by a public defender claiming the deputy pulled him over without cause, saying he thought he heard a loud voice from his car, then handcuffed him when the attorney tried to record what was happening. [4]
• Seattle WA police received a stinging rebuke by a judge who dismissed a case against a man accused of assaulting a gang cop he claims choked him while he was cuffed instead. The judge told the police that this was the poorest investigated case she’d seen in 22 years on the bench and criticized officers over missing segments of dashcam video where it appeared officers intentionally turned off their cameras then turned them back on later. The officer who claimed he was assaulted who was accused of choking that man was the same officer in a high-profile video showing him stomp on a man’s head after telling him he was going to “beat the Mexican piss” out of him. [5]
• A San Juan County NM deputy was fired after a lawsuit was filed over a videotaped incident where he was shown beating a man in the head with his flashlight. [0]
• Harlingen TX police are being sued by two men who both claim that the police department jail conditions are so deplorable that both had to be hospitalized while they were detained for unpaid traffic tickets. One claims he was only allowed to shower once every three days and he became violently ill when he ate a rotten sandwich. The other claims that police ignored his need for a reduced salt diet and denied him access to his high blood pressure medication which caused him to be ill. [3]
• Maricopa County AZ deputies were ruled to have violated the civil rights of two men they detained and transported to the cite of an immigration raid for no other reason than that they both worked at the workplace being raided. Both were later released after being found to be in the country legally. [4]
• A Houston TX ISD police officer has been charged with 2 felony counts of sexual assault on a child involving a 15-year-old female student at the school he worked at. [0]
• A second Richmond CA cop accused of hiring teen explorers and arming them with firearms forbidden to the general public for security gigs has resigned. It should be noted, however, that both officers involved in the scandal filed a lawsuit against the department prior to the allegations claiming racial discrimination and harassment. [0]
• Chicago IL has settled a 1st Amendment lawsuit filed by the ACLU for $12,500 for spying on a Quaker-based activist group. The group received $5,000 of the settlement and the ACLU received the rest. [0]
• A Prince Georges County MD deputy was fined $35,000 and received probation in a plea deal reducing assault and sexual misconduct charges to a single disorderly conduct charge over an incident where he assaulted a man and a woman at a bar which left the woman with significant injuries. [0]
• A Santa Fe County NM sheriff’s lieutenant has been placed on paid leave after being cited for shoplifting a $20 item at a local K-Mart. [0]
• A Conyers GA police officer received a fine and probation after taking a plea deal to a window tint & reckless operation charge after he was originally charged with drunk driving. [0]
• A Philadelphia PA police officer is under investigation after shooting a man in the chest during an alleged dispute over a parking space while off duty. While the officer claims the man he shot pointed a gun at him neighbors and the man’s girlfriend dispute that account claiming instead that the officer chased the man inside his own home and shot him in the chest before fleeing to his relative’s home next door. Doctors say the man’s chances of survival are slim. [3]
• Indianapolis IN police officers are accused of using excessive force in a cellphone video apparently showing the officers dragging an unconscious handcuffed man and dropping him on his face a number of times when they responded to a medical call about the 19-year-old who was passed out in an apartment building. Witnesses say the officers picked the boy up by his throat when they cuffed his unresponsive body. The video can be seen here. [4]
• A New York NY police officer has pled guilty to using badge and supplying police equipment in order to help a gang pull off over 100 robberies of about 250 kilos of cocaine and $1,000,000 in cash. [0]
• A Brunswick County NC sheriff’s detective was fired before being arrested on indecent liberties with a child charges but no other details about the case have been released yet. [0]
• A Richmond VA deputy has been arrested on an indecent liberties charge after he allegedly threatened to rape two 14-year-old girls. [0]
• Middletown PA settles suit for $100k to woman claiming drug cops rifled through photographs of her in the nude and even displayed them to others through a window in her home while they were raiding her home in a drug investigation against her husband who later admitted the drugs belonged to him, not her. [3]
• A Shreveport LA police officer has been sentenced to 4 years in prison on a perjury conviction for lying about how he ran away from a shootout. [0]
• A Cleveland OH police officer is expected to turn himself in after a warrant was issued for for his arrest on allegations that he misused police databases. [1]
• A Chattanooga TN police officer is under investigation on allegations he showed up for training class while drunk. This wasn’t the officer’s first problem with alcohol though. [0]
• Another Chattanooga TN police officer was arrested over an alleged domestic incident where she allegedly attacked her boyfriend, also a cop, then vandalized his apartment before stealing his phone and some cash when she found out he was cheating on her. [0]
• And finally, in a follow up to a story last week, a Houston TX police sergeant has been charged with drunken driving after crashing into school bus on his way into work while in uniform. Blood tests at the hospital showed he had a BAC of .20 at the time. Witnesses alleged at the time of the accident that there appeared to be an effort to cover up the case when they claimed officers threatened them and tried to hide open containers found in the officer’s vehicle. [0]
• In Las Vegas NV there’s been an update to a report we covered last month where a police officer is now suspended while under investigation for beating & arresting a man for videotaping police from his own yard. The video of the incident, shown above, was briefly released on the Las Vegas Review-Journal news site but then mysteriously retracted and has been being systematically removed from YouTube. We took this one from a site called Disclose.tv so we’ll see how long that lasts.
• A Houston TX police officer is the subject of a lawsuit after an autopsy that was kept secret for over a year showed he fatally shot an unarmed man 4 times in the back. [4]
• San Jose CA is being sued by a man claiming police officers broke his eye socket when they beat him three times, at least one of those times while he was already handcuffed. His sister was also arrested for complaining that he wasn’t resisting while being beaten. [4]
• Again in San Jose CA, police are the subject of another lawsuit alleging they threw a baton at a fleeing man then ran him over when he fell. sued by man claiming cops threw baton at him then ran him over. The suit also alleges that officers then jumped on the man even after he was hit by the police cruiser, all over an alleged bar fight. [3]
• A Honolulu HI police officer is accused of stopping a motorist without cause while that officer was off-duty then beating that man before charging him with assaulting an officer. Apparently there’s some history between the two and the alleged victim claims the officer has been out to get him. [3]
• Denver CO is preparing to settle a lawsuit for $50,000 to a man claiming two officers illegally entered his home then used excessive force before falsely arresting him when he refused to let them enter his home without a warrant. Officers apparently wrongly told him they could enter without a warrant because a woman claimed to be his ex-girlfriend and wanted her things. [3]
• A San Diego CA police officer may face felony assault charges for allegedly beating a teenager he caught smoking pot in a car parked on the street in front of his home while he was off-duty. [0]
• Oak Creek CO settled a lawsuit for $25,000 to that town’s ex-mayor who claims a police officer illegally entered her home and tased her over an alleged traffic violation. [3]
• A San Bernardino County CA deputy was arrested on allegations that he had sex with a 16-year-old girl who was in that department’s explorers program. [0]
• An Alma GA police officer has been fired after being arrested on sexual assault of a person in custody charges. The officer admitted it but claims it was consentual. [0]
• New Britain CT police are being sued by a female officer alleging she was subjected to sexual harassment by the captain of the internal affairs division and then suffered retaliation for refusing his advances. [3]
• Chattanooga TN is being sued by a man claiming he was falsely arrested for honking his horn at a police officer who refused to go when she was ahead of him at a green light. [3]
• The police chief of Yukon OK has apparently resigned with an end-date in 13 months but will remain on paid leave until then. The chief was already on paid leave when he announced his decision but there’s been no word on why he was suspended. [3]
• A Cherokee County NC chief deputy has been fired and 2 deputies suspended while the sheriff’s office is the subject of an unspecified state investigation. There’s been no word on whether the two events are related or what either might involve. [3]
• A McAlester OK police officer is on paid leave after arrested on a felony distribution of controlled substance charge. [1]
• A Los Angeles CA police officer has been arrested on a drunk driving charge after being stopped near LAX for driving his motorcycle the wrong way through a tunnel. [0]
• A Honolulu HI police officer was arrested on drunk driving and failure to remain at the scene of an accident charges. [0]
• Goodyear AZ is facing two lawsuits over a single incident where officers are accused of flubbing an investigation where a fellow officer was accused of fatally hitting a teen with his cruiser. The suits come after two of the key officers were promoted, one of which was filed by the family and another filed by a victim’s advocate who claims she was retaliated against for bringing the flawed investigation to light. [4]
• A Fresno County CA deputy was ruled to be half liable for a fatal shooting incident where the victim was also assigned 50% of the blame. The man’s widow was awarded $500,000 in that lawsuit as a result. [0]
• A Chicago IL police officer who was the purported ringleader of the corrupt SOS unit accepted a plea deal dropping a number of charges in exchange for guilty pleas to tax evasion and for a plot to kill a fellow officer for cooperating in the case against them. [0]
• An Alameda County CA deputy is the subject of a lawsuit filed by a public defender claiming the deputy pulled him over without cause, saying he thought he heard a loud voice from his car, then handcuffed him when the attorney tried to record what was happening. [4]
• Seattle WA police received a stinging rebuke by a judge who dismissed a case against a man accused of assaulting a gang cop he claims choked him while he was cuffed instead. The judge told the police that this was the poorest investigated case she’d seen in 22 years on the bench and criticized officers over missing segments of dashcam video where it appeared officers intentionally turned off their cameras then turned them back on later. The officer who claimed he was assaulted who was accused of choking that man was the same officer in a high-profile video showing him stomp on a man’s head after telling him he was going to “beat the Mexican piss” out of him. [5]
• A San Juan County NM deputy was fired after a lawsuit was filed over a videotaped incident where he was shown beating a man in the head with his flashlight. [0]
• Harlingen TX police are being sued by two men who both claim that the police department jail conditions are so deplorable that both had to be hospitalized while they were detained for unpaid traffic tickets. One claims he was only allowed to shower once every three days and he became violently ill when he ate a rotten sandwich. The other claims that police ignored his need for a reduced salt diet and denied him access to his high blood pressure medication which caused him to be ill. [3]
• Maricopa County AZ deputies were ruled to have violated the civil rights of two men they detained and transported to the cite of an immigration raid for no other reason than that they both worked at the workplace being raided. Both were later released after being found to be in the country legally. [4]
• A Houston TX ISD police officer has been charged with 2 felony counts of sexual assault on a child involving a 15-year-old female student at the school he worked at. [0]
• A second Richmond CA cop accused of hiring teen explorers and arming them with firearms forbidden to the general public for security gigs has resigned. It should be noted, however, that both officers involved in the scandal filed a lawsuit against the department prior to the allegations claiming racial discrimination and harassment. [0]
• Chicago IL has settled a 1st Amendment lawsuit filed by the ACLU for $12,500 for spying on a Quaker-based activist group. The group received $5,000 of the settlement and the ACLU received the rest. [0]
• A Prince Georges County MD deputy was fined $35,000 and received probation in a plea deal reducing assault and sexual misconduct charges to a single disorderly conduct charge over an incident where he assaulted a man and a woman at a bar which left the woman with significant injuries. [0]
• A Santa Fe County NM sheriff’s lieutenant has been placed on paid leave after being cited for shoplifting a $20 item at a local K-Mart. [0]
• A Conyers GA police officer received a fine and probation after taking a plea deal to a window tint & reckless operation charge after he was originally charged with drunk driving. [0]
• A Philadelphia PA police officer is under investigation after shooting a man in the chest during an alleged dispute over a parking space while off duty. While the officer claims the man he shot pointed a gun at him neighbors and the man’s girlfriend dispute that account claiming instead that the officer chased the man inside his own home and shot him in the chest before fleeing to his relative’s home next door. Doctors say the man’s chances of survival are slim. [3]
• Indianapolis IN police officers are accused of using excessive force in a cellphone video apparently showing the officers dragging an unconscious handcuffed man and dropping him on his face a number of times when they responded to a medical call about the 19-year-old who was passed out in an apartment building. Witnesses say the officers picked the boy up by his throat when they cuffed his unresponsive body. The video can be seen here. [4]
• A New York NY police officer has pled guilty to using badge and supplying police equipment in order to help a gang pull off over 100 robberies of about 250 kilos of cocaine and $1,000,000 in cash. [0]
• A Brunswick County NC sheriff’s detective was fired before being arrested on indecent liberties with a child charges but no other details about the case have been released yet. [0]
• A Richmond VA deputy has been arrested on an indecent liberties charge after he allegedly threatened to rape two 14-year-old girls. [0]
• Middletown PA settles suit for $100k to woman claiming drug cops rifled through photographs of her in the nude and even displayed them to others through a window in her home while they were raiding her home in a drug investigation against her husband who later admitted the drugs belonged to him, not her. [3]
• A Shreveport LA police officer has been sentenced to 4 years in prison on a perjury conviction for lying about how he ran away from a shootout. [0]
• A Cleveland OH police officer is expected to turn himself in after a warrant was issued for for his arrest on allegations that he misused police databases. [1]
• A Chattanooga TN police officer is under investigation on allegations he showed up for training class while drunk. This wasn’t the officer’s first problem with alcohol though. [0]
• Another Chattanooga TN police officer was arrested over an alleged domestic incident where she allegedly attacked her boyfriend, also a cop, then vandalized his apartment before stealing his phone and some cash when she found out he was cheating on her. [0]
• And finally, in a follow up to a story last week, a Houston TX police sergeant has been charged with drunken driving after crashing into school bus on his way into work while in uniform. Blood tests at the hospital showed he had a BAC of .20 at the time. Witnesses alleged at the time of the accident that there appeared to be an effort to cover up the case when they claimed officers threatened them and tried to hide open containers found in the officer’s vehicle. [0]
• In Las Vegas NV there’s been an update to a report we covered last month where a police officer is now suspended while under investigation for beating & arresting a man for videotaping police from his own yard. The video of the incident, shown above, was briefly released on the Las Vegas Review-Journal news site but then mysteriously retracted and has been being systematically removed from YouTube. We took this one from a site called Disclose.tv so we’ll see how long that lasts.
• A Houston TX police officer is the subject of a lawsuit after an autopsy that was kept secret for over a year showed he fatally shot an unarmed man 4 times in the back. [4]
• San Jose CA is being sued by a man claiming police officers broke his eye socket when they beat him three times, at least one of those times while he was already handcuffed. His sister was also arrested for complaining that he wasn’t resisting while being beaten. [4]
• Again in San Jose CA, police are the subject of another lawsuit alleging they threw a baton at a fleeing man then ran him over when he fell. sued by man claiming cops threw baton at him then ran him over. The suit also alleges that officers then jumped on the man even after he was hit by the police cruiser, all over an alleged bar fight. [3]
• A Honolulu HI police officer is accused of stopping a motorist without cause while that officer was off-duty then beating that man before charging him with assaulting an officer. Apparently there’s some history between the two and the alleged victim claims the officer has been out to get him. [3]
• Denver CO is preparing to settle a lawsuit for $50,000 to a man claiming two officers illegally entered his home then used excessive force before falsely arresting him when he refused to let them enter his home without a warrant. Officers apparently wrongly told him they could enter without a warrant because a woman claimed to be his ex-girlfriend and wanted her things. [3]
• A San Diego CA police officer may face felony assault charges for allegedly beating a teenager he caught smoking pot in a car parked on the street in front of his home while he was off-duty. [0]
• Oak Creek CO settled a lawsuit for $25,000 to that town’s ex-mayor who claims a police officer illegally entered her home and tased her over an alleged traffic violation. [3]
• A San Bernardino County CA deputy was arrested on allegations that he had sex with a 16-year-old girl who was in that department’s explorers program. [0]
• An Alma GA police officer has been fired after being arrested on sexual assault of a person in custody charges. The officer admitted it but claims it was consentual. [0]
• New Britain CT police are being sued by a female officer alleging she was subjected to sexual harassment by the captain of the internal affairs division and then suffered retaliation for refusing his advances. [3]
• Chattanooga TN is being sued by a man claiming he was falsely arrested for honking his horn at a police officer who refused to go when she was ahead of him at a green light. [3]
• The police chief of Yukon OK has apparently resigned with an end-date in 13 months but will remain on paid leave until then. The chief was already on paid leave when he announced his decision but there’s been no word on why he was suspended. [3]
• A Cherokee County NC chief deputy has been fired and 2 deputies suspended while the sheriff’s office is the subject of an unspecified state investigation. There’s been no word on whether the two events are related or what either might involve. [3]
• A McAlester OK police officer is on paid leave after arrested on a felony distribution of controlled substance charge. [1]
• A Los Angeles CA police officer has been arrested on a drunk driving charge after being stopped near LAX for driving his motorcycle the wrong way through a tunnel. [0]
• A Honolulu HI police officer was arrested on drunk driving and failure to remain at the scene of an accident charges. [0]
idiots at work
Providence RI police detective was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon over a videotaped excessive force incident that caught him kicking and beating a restrained man with a flashlight, as seen in the video above, which resulted in the man suffering a concussion and requiring 8 staples on his head. [0] http://bit.ly/fPKEfa
A Seattle WA police officer is the subject of a lawsuit that has been allowed to move forward to a jury trial. The suit alleges the officer used excessive force on a complaint man by slamming his head into the hood of his police cruiser for being too slow when the officer demanded to see his hands while they were on the hood of the cruiser, as seen in the dashcam video above.[3] http://bit.ly/eJzXTd
An Oklahoma City OK police officer who was arrested last week on kidnapping allegations has now been charged with 35 felonies and 2 misdemeanors on sexual abuse of a child allegations. [0] http://bit.ly/gfAUBv
The Youngstown OH police department is being forced by an arbitrator to rehire a police officer they fired on allegations that he failed to act while a fellow officer dragged a paralyzed man from a car and allegedly hit him. That officer is also appealing being fired as well. [0] http://bit.ly/dOVmfW
A Windemere FL police officer was arrested on allegations he forged a motorist’s name on a ticket as part of an organized scheme to defraud. [0] http://bit.ly/h16crU
Two Dallas TX police officers have been fired. The first was fired when tested positive for marijuana use after a suspected DUI crash while the other officer was fired for allegedly showing up for work while intoxicated, apparently it wasn’t the first time either. [0] http://bit.ly/huLtfH
An Anchorage AK police officer has been arrested on allegations that he’s actually an illegal immigrant from Mexico who used a stolen ID to become a police officer back in 2005. [0] http://bit.ly/dFgbxz
A Waterloo Regional ON police officer has been charged with voyeurism and breach of trust involving an alleged incident where he recorded an unspecified adult victim. [1] http://bit.ly/ff0bmn
A Gainesville FL police sergeant was apparently allowed to work while armed for weeks despite a sexual violence injunction against him which forbid him from possessing a firearm. [0] http://bit.ly/fsDB5f
An Irondequoit NY cop who happens to be the son of a now-former Greece police chief who is in prison has also been sentenced to 1-4yrs prison for computer trespass. [0] http://bit.ly/h21IjP
In Chicago IL, up to 1,000 police officers could face disciplinary action after an investigation into allegedly improper access to arrest records involving officers who are facing sexual assault charges. [0] http://bit.ly/eSedB2
A Leetsdale PA police officer was arrested on obstruction charges on allegations that he lied to police in order to cover for a DUI accident a friend was involved in. [0] http://bit.ly/eIBXwI
Washington DC police are investigating an alleged improper use of police resources after actor Charlie Sheen’s promotor paid for a high-speed police motorcade to take him to one of his stage shows when such escorts are reserved for heads of state. [0] http://wapo.st/hJ65w7
The police chief of Burden KS has resigned as part of a diversionary sentence agreement over a misdemeanor domestic battery charge against him. [0] http://bit.ly/he0uP3
A Mesa AZ police officer is on leave after being charged with residential mortgage fraud along with his wife. [0] http://bit.ly/dYHKAg
And finally, Memphis TN police mistakenly arrested a fellow officer on burglary charges after lifting his fingerprints at a burglary scene… that he had investigated earlier. [0] http://bit.ly/hIYlaQ
A Seattle WA police officer is the subject of a lawsuit that has been allowed to move forward to a jury trial. The suit alleges the officer used excessive force on a complaint man by slamming his head into the hood of his police cruiser for being too slow when the officer demanded to see his hands while they were on the hood of the cruiser, as seen in the dashcam video above.[3] http://bit.ly/eJzXTd
An Oklahoma City OK police officer who was arrested last week on kidnapping allegations has now been charged with 35 felonies and 2 misdemeanors on sexual abuse of a child allegations. [0] http://bit.ly/gfAUBv
The Youngstown OH police department is being forced by an arbitrator to rehire a police officer they fired on allegations that he failed to act while a fellow officer dragged a paralyzed man from a car and allegedly hit him. That officer is also appealing being fired as well. [0] http://bit.ly/dOVmfW
A Windemere FL police officer was arrested on allegations he forged a motorist’s name on a ticket as part of an organized scheme to defraud. [0] http://bit.ly/h16crU
Two Dallas TX police officers have been fired. The first was fired when tested positive for marijuana use after a suspected DUI crash while the other officer was fired for allegedly showing up for work while intoxicated, apparently it wasn’t the first time either. [0] http://bit.ly/huLtfH
An Anchorage AK police officer has been arrested on allegations that he’s actually an illegal immigrant from Mexico who used a stolen ID to become a police officer back in 2005. [0] http://bit.ly/dFgbxz
A Waterloo Regional ON police officer has been charged with voyeurism and breach of trust involving an alleged incident where he recorded an unspecified adult victim. [1] http://bit.ly/ff0bmn
A Gainesville FL police sergeant was apparently allowed to work while armed for weeks despite a sexual violence injunction against him which forbid him from possessing a firearm. [0] http://bit.ly/fsDB5f
An Irondequoit NY cop who happens to be the son of a now-former Greece police chief who is in prison has also been sentenced to 1-4yrs prison for computer trespass. [0] http://bit.ly/h21IjP
In Chicago IL, up to 1,000 police officers could face disciplinary action after an investigation into allegedly improper access to arrest records involving officers who are facing sexual assault charges. [0] http://bit.ly/eSedB2
A Leetsdale PA police officer was arrested on obstruction charges on allegations that he lied to police in order to cover for a DUI accident a friend was involved in. [0] http://bit.ly/eIBXwI
Washington DC police are investigating an alleged improper use of police resources after actor Charlie Sheen’s promotor paid for a high-speed police motorcade to take him to one of his stage shows when such escorts are reserved for heads of state. [0] http://wapo.st/hJ65w7
The police chief of Burden KS has resigned as part of a diversionary sentence agreement over a misdemeanor domestic battery charge against him. [0] http://bit.ly/he0uP3
A Mesa AZ police officer is on leave after being charged with residential mortgage fraud along with his wife. [0] http://bit.ly/dYHKAg
And finally, Memphis TN police mistakenly arrested a fellow officer on burglary charges after lifting his fingerprints at a burglary scene… that he had investigated earlier. [0] http://bit.ly/hIYlaQ
The cops don't have enough to do, there are too many of them and here's proof
The Fairfax County Police stopped and questioned 720 citizen at sobriety checkpoint in the wee hours of the morning....720 people....without due cause...they made one arrest and that arrest has been called into question by the arrested persons attorney who intends to fight it out in court.
new visitors
Welcome to our new viewers from China, nice to see the English here…okay that was a lie…..but its great the Chinese are ready the blog spot. Hello to the Canadians. Australia! Hi, Denmark, hello, Solvenia….not sure where that is but welcome, Hungary welcome Russia, hello
Yet in Fairfax County, we have no police oversight
Winnfield LA police chief convicted on obstruction charge for interfering w/arrest of woman by federal agents [0] http://bit.ly/huby1D
Tallassee AL asst police chief arrested on 40 felony counts for misuse of police data & ethics violations [1] http://bit.ly/eB5OOn
Euclid OH idiot cop fatally shoots self before questioned about failure to cooperate w/missing evidence probe [0] http://bit.ly/ibY2uF
Temple GA cop arrested for sexual battery & child cruelty after allegedly sexually battering woman in front of child [0] http://bit.ly/gwiS9R
Alexandria VA idiot cop arrested on fraud charges over allegations he sold salvaged vehicle to unwitting buyer [0] http://bit.ly/g7InsL
Macomb County MI sheriff’s sgt charged w/improper use of state police database after unspecified investigation [1] http://bit.ly/gkcFID
2 Birmingham AL cops subject of suit by man shown on video being kicked & beaten while trying to comply w/commands [3] http://bit.ly/fI7C3B
2 Huntington Beach CA cops sued by man who called cops about stray dogs & was choked out by responding officers [3] http://bit.ly/eQnfCb
Lynchburg VA settles suit for $250k to family of man who died while lawfully resisting arrest during home search [0] http://bit.ly/i2WXNm
Smithfield NC police patrol cmdr found guilty of passing stopped school bus & suspended 5 days w/o pay [0] http://bit.ly/ej7xjg
Chicago IL idiot cop convicted of attempting to bilk 90yr-old of his $500k home & $400k in investments [0] http://bit.ly/dTs3fU
San Diego CA cop on desk duty while under investigation on unspecified allegations of criminal misconduct [2] http://bit.ly/hb8ZvZ
Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police found to have misused $5mil in federal anti-terrorism grant funds [0] http://bit.ly/efJiRf
3 Glendale CA cops no longer work for dept after probe into joyride to Vegas, dept won’t say if fired or quit [1] http://tinyurl.com/3w4bvk5
Sullivan City TX police chief sentenced to 10yrs after pleading to helping traffickers move 2 tons of pot thru town [0] http://bit.ly/i1yhso
6 Bridgeton MO cops subject of suit & a possible FBI probe over allegations that one of them needlessly beat & tasered a man in holding area in an incident caught on video which appears to contradict the police reports. The others appear to be accused of either covering up the incident and/or failing to assist the victim. [3] http://ow.ly/1sBNT5
A Pleasantville NY cop is being sued by the family of a Pace college football player who was shot to death by the officer as he was driving away as allegedly directed to do by another officer. The suit comes just one week after the officer was awarded as idiot cop of the year by his police union over the incident. [0] http://ow.ly/1sB7xT
A US DOD idiot cop pleads guilty to crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct & child enticement. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBQm0
A Broward County FL deputy was charged w/vehicular homicide over high-speed on duty crash that killed a 14yr-old girl [0] http://ow.ly/1sBI0L
An Ontario Provincial swat team raided a wrong apartment, dragged an innocent man from his bed while naked and at gunpoint, then declared the mission a success after realizing they had the wrong door and arrested a man in an apartment on the floor below for possession of an illegal weapon and marijuana. [3] http://ow.ly/1sBIEl
A Philadelphia PA cop was arrested along w/several others over an alleged insurance fraud scheme that allegedly netted the accused parties millions. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBQ5S
A 3rd of 4 Chicago IL cops who were part of the now-disbanded SOS unit pled guilty to a civil rights charge for a false arrest in 2004. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBmkp
Santa Clara CA & Campbell CA sued by 54yr-old woman claiming cops falsely arrested her & searched home w/o warrant or permission while the cops claimed they were looking for the woman’s daughter who didn’t live there. [3] http://ow.ly/1sBM1t
Orange County FL deputy arrested for battery, robbery w/a firearm & aggravated assault w/a firearm for allegedly entering a man’s home with another person then stealing his gun and then allegedly threatening him with his own gun. The second suspect in this case is still at large. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBIXI
A Memphis TN cop is accused of overreacting in a video showing him dragging female motorist from moving car which then continued moving as the officer carried the woman away by her pants. A bystander was eventually able to stop the vehicle and witnesses apparently contradicted the officer’s version of events. [2] http://ow.ly/1sBIpP
Rio Grande TX police chief & city manager suspended after sued by female employee for sexual harassment & retaliation [3] http://ow.ly/1sBMdb
A Los Angeles County CA deputy won a $900k settlement on allegations that his supervisor sexually harassed him then threatened him to keep him from reporting it. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBIbh
Harvard Univ MA police are being sued by an officer claiming racial discrimination & racial bias among superior officers. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBK9W
2 Indiana State cops resigned on allegations of sleeping on job & rummaging through belongings at the governor’s residence, the other officer apparently was his supervisor. [0] http://ow.ly/1sB8JZ
Richmond CA cop resigns while investigated for hiring teen explorers for his unauth private security company [0] http://ow.ly/1sB7q4
Albuquerque NM police sgt investigated for allowing wife to pick up Bernalillo cop instead of booking him for DUI [0] http://ow.ly/1sBRti
Merced County CA deputy arrested on drunk driving charges after allegedly hitting own cruiser w/SUV while off duty [0] http://ow.ly/1sBOhb
Lee County AL deputy accused of shooting family’s dog after told it doesn’t bite then wouldn’t let them help it [3] http://ow.ly/1sANNC
2nd of 4 Chicago IL cops w/disbanded SOS unit pleads guilty to civil rights & tax charges for robbing people of $40k [0] http://ow.ly/1sABvI
Niles MI cop pleads guilty to criminal sexual miscodnuct for molesting 19yr-old male detainee at police dept [0] http://ow.ly/1sAcj3
Methuen MA settles suit for $120k to cop claiming retaliation for cooperating w/fed probe of mayor & police capt [3] http://ow.ly/1sAMUM
2 Washington County KY deputies plead guilty to federal possession of marijuana with intent to distribute charges [0] http://ow.ly/1sANYf
Wilson County TN deputy arrested for obstruction on allegations he sold info about fed probe to drug dealers [0] http://ow.ly/1sAH1m
Portland OR sued by woman who wasn’t allowed to cover up when arrested w/o pants by cop convicted of sex misconduct [3] http://ow.ly/1sAHb5
Hawaii DPS Sheriff’s deputy arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse over allegations he choked his wife [0] http://ow.ly/1sANqq
Americus GA idiot cop resigns before turning himself in on DV and cruelty to children charges [0] http://ow.ly/1sABIL
South Burlington VT cop suspended indefinitely w/pay after found liable for $100k in damages over raid on clergyman [3] http://ow.ly/1sAA1C
RCMP organized crime unit officer in BC arrested on allegations he stole $400 from a casino [0] http://ow.ly/1sAzeP
Rosebud TX cop who confronted residents about speed trap warning signs is fired for working outside city limits [1] http://ow.ly/1sAbuY
Conyers GA cop resigns after suspended 5 days for trying to show nude cellphone pics of woman to teen explorer [0] http://ow.ly/1sAJJN
Park County CO sheriff’s sgt demoted for allowing minor to consume alcohol at a party he hosted [0] http://ow.ly/1sAzDu
DeSoto County MS deputy resigns after arrested on drunk driving charges for refusing DUI test during traffic stop [0] http://ow.ly/1sAAZZ
Atlanta GA cop to face disciplinary action after caught by reporter parked in handicap spot while buying milkshake [0] http://ow.ly/1sAJtG
2 Nassau County NY cops subject of lawsuit alleging they used excessive force on a 90yr-old man in nursing home during a medical assistance call. [3] http://ow.ly/1szAPr
A Paw Paw MI idiot cop was sentenced to probation in a plea deal for steroid possession. He was fired while he was under investigation for it. [0] http://ow.ly/1szvdd
An Atlanta GA idiot cop was exonerated by internal affairs while the review board found that he falsely arrested a man who startled him in a stairwell. [4] http://ow.ly/1sztBM
A New Haven CT idiot cop pled no contest to assault & evading charges for breaking a 14-year-old girl’s legs in a hit & run accident. [0] http://ow.ly/1szlOR
A San Antonio Park TX idiot cop was arrested on drunk driving charge after stopped for allegedly running a stop sign. [0] http://ow.ly/1sziWA
A Halifax NS idiot cop was charged with breach of trust, threats & witness intimidation involving a drunk driving case. [1] http://ow.ly/1sziv3
At least three Camden NJ idiot cops are accused of overreacting when they fired 33 rounds at an 8-month-old bull terrier that got off it’s leash, damaging cars and homes in the process. [3] http://ow.ly/1szhln
A Chicago IL idiot cop who was part of the infamous disbanded SOS unit pled guilty to a misdemeanor civil rights violation charge involving his false testimony in a drug case. [0] http://ow.ly/1szhcK
A Seattle WA police sergeant was arrested on his second DUI charge in the last 6 years. He was also recently acquitted in a DV case where he was accused of cutting his wife. [0] http://ow.ly/1szgU4
A Memphis TN idiot cop was caught on video pulling a female motorist from a moving car then carrying her away before slamming her to the ground to arrest her after she allegedly hit him with her car. That car can be seen in the background continuing to move after she was removed, but a bystander was able to eventually stop it.
In an update to a story we first tracked on the 12th, information apparently leaked to the press indicate that the ticket fixing scandal in New York NY may include up to 400 idiot cops and that 40 additional officers are the subject of a grand jury investigation into bribery allegations as well. For those who are curious, 440 officers would be about 1.25% of the over 35,000 sworn law enforcement officers employed by the NYPD. [3] http://ow.ly/1sytTl
Latimore Twp PA police are being sued by a family claiming that police illegally raided their home without a warrant based on a phone call alleging marijuana and guns were in their home and, in the process, that police used excessive force when they broke a man’s neck during the raid. [3] http://ow.ly/1sxvJr
Two San Carlos CA idiot cops are the subject of a settled lawsuit for $150,000 to a man who was falsely arrested when the officers illegally broke into his home over a minor suspected DUI accident. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxvVi
A Eureka CA idiot cop has resigned after being arrested for theft and drug possession. Moreover, the officer was already the subject of a warrant for his arrest in a domestic violence case when he was hired five months ago. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxwAW
A Houston TX idiot cop was arrested on drunk driving charges stemming from an off-duty traffic stop. [0] http://ow.ly/1syD46
A Greenwood SC idiot cop was placed on leave after being arrested on drunk driving charges stemming from a traffic stop. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxU3k
A Bernalillo NM police detective was arrested on drunk driving charges after refusing to take an alcohol test when stopped at a DUI checkpoint. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxTPB
Tallassee AL asst police chief arrested on 40 felony counts for misuse of police data & ethics violations [1] http://bit.ly/eB5OOn
Euclid OH idiot cop fatally shoots self before questioned about failure to cooperate w/missing evidence probe [0] http://bit.ly/ibY2uF
Temple GA cop arrested for sexual battery & child cruelty after allegedly sexually battering woman in front of child [0] http://bit.ly/gwiS9R
Alexandria VA idiot cop arrested on fraud charges over allegations he sold salvaged vehicle to unwitting buyer [0] http://bit.ly/g7InsL
Macomb County MI sheriff’s sgt charged w/improper use of state police database after unspecified investigation [1] http://bit.ly/gkcFID
2 Birmingham AL cops subject of suit by man shown on video being kicked & beaten while trying to comply w/commands [3] http://bit.ly/fI7C3B
2 Huntington Beach CA cops sued by man who called cops about stray dogs & was choked out by responding officers [3] http://bit.ly/eQnfCb
Lynchburg VA settles suit for $250k to family of man who died while lawfully resisting arrest during home search [0] http://bit.ly/i2WXNm
Smithfield NC police patrol cmdr found guilty of passing stopped school bus & suspended 5 days w/o pay [0] http://bit.ly/ej7xjg
Chicago IL idiot cop convicted of attempting to bilk 90yr-old of his $500k home & $400k in investments [0] http://bit.ly/dTs3fU
San Diego CA cop on desk duty while under investigation on unspecified allegations of criminal misconduct [2] http://bit.ly/hb8ZvZ
Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police found to have misused $5mil in federal anti-terrorism grant funds [0] http://bit.ly/efJiRf
3 Glendale CA cops no longer work for dept after probe into joyride to Vegas, dept won’t say if fired or quit [1] http://tinyurl.com/3w4bvk5
Sullivan City TX police chief sentenced to 10yrs after pleading to helping traffickers move 2 tons of pot thru town [0] http://bit.ly/i1yhso
6 Bridgeton MO cops subject of suit & a possible FBI probe over allegations that one of them needlessly beat & tasered a man in holding area in an incident caught on video which appears to contradict the police reports. The others appear to be accused of either covering up the incident and/or failing to assist the victim. [3] http://ow.ly/1sBNT5
A Pleasantville NY cop is being sued by the family of a Pace college football player who was shot to death by the officer as he was driving away as allegedly directed to do by another officer. The suit comes just one week after the officer was awarded as idiot cop of the year by his police union over the incident. [0] http://ow.ly/1sB7xT
A US DOD idiot cop pleads guilty to crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct & child enticement. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBQm0
A Broward County FL deputy was charged w/vehicular homicide over high-speed on duty crash that killed a 14yr-old girl [0] http://ow.ly/1sBI0L
An Ontario Provincial swat team raided a wrong apartment, dragged an innocent man from his bed while naked and at gunpoint, then declared the mission a success after realizing they had the wrong door and arrested a man in an apartment on the floor below for possession of an illegal weapon and marijuana. [3] http://ow.ly/1sBIEl
A Philadelphia PA cop was arrested along w/several others over an alleged insurance fraud scheme that allegedly netted the accused parties millions. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBQ5S
A 3rd of 4 Chicago IL cops who were part of the now-disbanded SOS unit pled guilty to a civil rights charge for a false arrest in 2004. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBmkp
Santa Clara CA & Campbell CA sued by 54yr-old woman claiming cops falsely arrested her & searched home w/o warrant or permission while the cops claimed they were looking for the woman’s daughter who didn’t live there. [3] http://ow.ly/1sBM1t
Orange County FL deputy arrested for battery, robbery w/a firearm & aggravated assault w/a firearm for allegedly entering a man’s home with another person then stealing his gun and then allegedly threatening him with his own gun. The second suspect in this case is still at large. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBIXI
A Memphis TN cop is accused of overreacting in a video showing him dragging female motorist from moving car which then continued moving as the officer carried the woman away by her pants. A bystander was eventually able to stop the vehicle and witnesses apparently contradicted the officer’s version of events. [2] http://ow.ly/1sBIpP
Rio Grande TX police chief & city manager suspended after sued by female employee for sexual harassment & retaliation [3] http://ow.ly/1sBMdb
A Los Angeles County CA deputy won a $900k settlement on allegations that his supervisor sexually harassed him then threatened him to keep him from reporting it. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBIbh
Harvard Univ MA police are being sued by an officer claiming racial discrimination & racial bias among superior officers. [0] http://ow.ly/1sBK9W
2 Indiana State cops resigned on allegations of sleeping on job & rummaging through belongings at the governor’s residence, the other officer apparently was his supervisor. [0] http://ow.ly/1sB8JZ
Richmond CA cop resigns while investigated for hiring teen explorers for his unauth private security company [0] http://ow.ly/1sB7q4
Albuquerque NM police sgt investigated for allowing wife to pick up Bernalillo cop instead of booking him for DUI [0] http://ow.ly/1sBRti
Merced County CA deputy arrested on drunk driving charges after allegedly hitting own cruiser w/SUV while off duty [0] http://ow.ly/1sBOhb
Lee County AL deputy accused of shooting family’s dog after told it doesn’t bite then wouldn’t let them help it [3] http://ow.ly/1sANNC
2nd of 4 Chicago IL cops w/disbanded SOS unit pleads guilty to civil rights & tax charges for robbing people of $40k [0] http://ow.ly/1sABvI
Niles MI cop pleads guilty to criminal sexual miscodnuct for molesting 19yr-old male detainee at police dept [0] http://ow.ly/1sAcj3
Methuen MA settles suit for $120k to cop claiming retaliation for cooperating w/fed probe of mayor & police capt [3] http://ow.ly/1sAMUM
2 Washington County KY deputies plead guilty to federal possession of marijuana with intent to distribute charges [0] http://ow.ly/1sANYf
Wilson County TN deputy arrested for obstruction on allegations he sold info about fed probe to drug dealers [0] http://ow.ly/1sAH1m
Portland OR sued by woman who wasn’t allowed to cover up when arrested w/o pants by cop convicted of sex misconduct [3] http://ow.ly/1sAHb5
Hawaii DPS Sheriff’s deputy arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse over allegations he choked his wife [0] http://ow.ly/1sANqq
Americus GA idiot cop resigns before turning himself in on DV and cruelty to children charges [0] http://ow.ly/1sABIL
South Burlington VT cop suspended indefinitely w/pay after found liable for $100k in damages over raid on clergyman [3] http://ow.ly/1sAA1C
RCMP organized crime unit officer in BC arrested on allegations he stole $400 from a casino [0] http://ow.ly/1sAzeP
Rosebud TX cop who confronted residents about speed trap warning signs is fired for working outside city limits [1] http://ow.ly/1sAbuY
Conyers GA cop resigns after suspended 5 days for trying to show nude cellphone pics of woman to teen explorer [0] http://ow.ly/1sAJJN
Park County CO sheriff’s sgt demoted for allowing minor to consume alcohol at a party he hosted [0] http://ow.ly/1sAzDu
DeSoto County MS deputy resigns after arrested on drunk driving charges for refusing DUI test during traffic stop [0] http://ow.ly/1sAAZZ
Atlanta GA cop to face disciplinary action after caught by reporter parked in handicap spot while buying milkshake [0] http://ow.ly/1sAJtG
2 Nassau County NY cops subject of lawsuit alleging they used excessive force on a 90yr-old man in nursing home during a medical assistance call. [3] http://ow.ly/1szAPr
A Paw Paw MI idiot cop was sentenced to probation in a plea deal for steroid possession. He was fired while he was under investigation for it. [0] http://ow.ly/1szvdd
An Atlanta GA idiot cop was exonerated by internal affairs while the review board found that he falsely arrested a man who startled him in a stairwell. [4] http://ow.ly/1sztBM
A New Haven CT idiot cop pled no contest to assault & evading charges for breaking a 14-year-old girl’s legs in a hit & run accident. [0] http://ow.ly/1szlOR
A San Antonio Park TX idiot cop was arrested on drunk driving charge after stopped for allegedly running a stop sign. [0] http://ow.ly/1sziWA
A Halifax NS idiot cop was charged with breach of trust, threats & witness intimidation involving a drunk driving case. [1] http://ow.ly/1sziv3
At least three Camden NJ idiot cops are accused of overreacting when they fired 33 rounds at an 8-month-old bull terrier that got off it’s leash, damaging cars and homes in the process. [3] http://ow.ly/1szhln
A Chicago IL idiot cop who was part of the infamous disbanded SOS unit pled guilty to a misdemeanor civil rights violation charge involving his false testimony in a drug case. [0] http://ow.ly/1szhcK
A Seattle WA police sergeant was arrested on his second DUI charge in the last 6 years. He was also recently acquitted in a DV case where he was accused of cutting his wife. [0] http://ow.ly/1szgU4
A Memphis TN idiot cop was caught on video pulling a female motorist from a moving car then carrying her away before slamming her to the ground to arrest her after she allegedly hit him with her car. That car can be seen in the background continuing to move after she was removed, but a bystander was able to eventually stop it.
In an update to a story we first tracked on the 12th, information apparently leaked to the press indicate that the ticket fixing scandal in New York NY may include up to 400 idiot cops and that 40 additional officers are the subject of a grand jury investigation into bribery allegations as well. For those who are curious, 440 officers would be about 1.25% of the over 35,000 sworn law enforcement officers employed by the NYPD. [3] http://ow.ly/1sytTl
Latimore Twp PA police are being sued by a family claiming that police illegally raided their home without a warrant based on a phone call alleging marijuana and guns were in their home and, in the process, that police used excessive force when they broke a man’s neck during the raid. [3] http://ow.ly/1sxvJr
Two San Carlos CA idiot cops are the subject of a settled lawsuit for $150,000 to a man who was falsely arrested when the officers illegally broke into his home over a minor suspected DUI accident. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxvVi
A Eureka CA idiot cop has resigned after being arrested for theft and drug possession. Moreover, the officer was already the subject of a warrant for his arrest in a domestic violence case when he was hired five months ago. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxwAW
A Houston TX idiot cop was arrested on drunk driving charges stemming from an off-duty traffic stop. [0] http://ow.ly/1syD46
A Greenwood SC idiot cop was placed on leave after being arrested on drunk driving charges stemming from a traffic stop. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxU3k
A Bernalillo NM police detective was arrested on drunk driving charges after refusing to take an alcohol test when stopped at a DUI checkpoint. [0] http://ow.ly/1sxTPB
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