Seven Oakland police officers caught lying on search warrant affidavits will return to the job. The police union apparently successfully argued that lying before a judge to obtain a warrant for a drug raid was merely a “training issue.”
Fort Worth police officer gets his job back after attempting to use his status as a cop for favorable treatment during a traffic stop. At the time, he was already suspended “over allegations that he used police resources to find the address of a romantic rival whose pickup was later struck by gunfire.” In both cases he was fired. And in both cases, he got his job back.
Woman called police to say she feared her husband, also a police officer, might kill her. The officer she spoke with then immediately told her husband about the call.
In Denver, a half dozen people are suing the city for false arrest and imprisonment after a bizarre series of cases in which police arrested and jailed the wrong person. In some cases, the wrong person was jailed for months. In one case, police insisted to a 5’7″, 38-year-old black woman that she was actually a 5’3″, 25-year-old white woman. A special prosecutor began investigating the incidents, but then had his investigation shut down when the city decided to grant immunity to the main officer involved. The city was apparently worried about civil lawsuits from the wrongfully jailed. See here, here, and here.
Chicago police officer who killed two people in a drunk driving accident last week was involved in two prior serious accidents. In one, he changed his story about what happened. In the other, he injured two fellow officers after striking a police car. He doesn’t appear to have been tested for alcohol in either accident, and remained on the force after both.
Yet another twist in the police shooting of a Hmong teenager in Minneapolis (first mentioned on this site here).
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He said he does not recall being told anything that would indicate Carmen Cerda was in danger.
“I’d remember something like, ‘His wife called and said he’s going to kill her,’ ” said Genovesi.
Wait… what? What part of “he’s going to kill me” says, “nope, no danger here”?
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No, the correct one is: http://www.twincities.com/ci_12094363
Can we ask Stossell to do a report on police brutality?
That Fort Worth officer “Getting his job back” just smacks of Thin Blue Line cronyism. Based only on what tiny info is there, it looks like this guy is being railroaded from the department for not being a ‘team player’.
With regards to the last story, (and Leatherwood has the real link :)) I hate it when reporters just go in and edit thier stories to add another paragraph. That story reads like it was written and then had some 4 yr old randomly re-arrange the paragraphs.
Scalia should be receiving feeds of the ‘new professionalism’ posts to help strengthen his arguments…
*facepalm*
Once again, the reading comprehension gremlin strikes.
I need to stop reading this stuff before lunch. I’d negative karmafy myself if I could.
I knew I shoulda been a cop. Because, you know, I’m a lazy assshole who likes to get promoted and shoot people that don’t do what I tell them. I also like the goofy buzz cut.
If you sent these links to Scalia, he’d have you arrested and then scream at you for daring to waste his valuable time.
Police escalate violence in Maine: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026315.html
Oh boy! A chance to rag on two of my favorite targets, crooked cops and public employee unions. Where to begin?
If most cops are honest, why would their union (paid for and with officers elected by cops) defend lying on affadavits? Because to a cop, laws are for people other than themselves, the little people. A training issue? For cryin’ out loud, an Army private knows that lying on official documents is verboten. any assertation that the LEOs didn’t know that it was against the law is a bald faced lie.
Isn’t falsifying a sworn affidavit a felony?
Two from Oregon in the news today:
Canby police chief resigns amid officer’s steroid investigation
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_041409_news_canby_police_steroid_chief.d6064cc3.html
Cottage Grove officer resigns amid child porn investigation
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_041409_news_cottage_grove_child_porn.d3f312eb.html
You’ve got me so jumpy that I read the instructions on the Leave a Reply from as:
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I notice that the Chicago cop had a taste for late-model, expensive vehicles: Lexuses and BMW’s. So much for underpaid, overworked, persecuted cops.