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* The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision that required two Jackson MS police officers to pay $150,000 to a man they beat while handcuffed in 1995.
The original suit was filed 15 years ago and nearly everyone admits that what happened was wrong… but the courts in Mississippi have just made it so that anyone can be brutalized by the police and neither the cops or cities will have to pay you a dime.
* A Saint Martin Parish Louisiana deputy is on leave while under investigation on allegations that he forced a woman to perform oral sex on him under threat of arrest. The woman had called police to help get the father of her son away from the home after an incident and while one officer took him away the other officer came back and allegedly told her to lock the door, then threatened to arrest her if she didn’t do what he said.
in fairness to the officer in question, these are just allegations at this point. hopefully union protectionism won't prevent the personnel record of this officer from being investigated to determine if there have been complaints of this action in the past.
* A Macon Georgia police sergeant has resigned after he allegedly showed up to work while under the influence of alcohol and got into a wreck in the police station parking lot. Police say he tested positive for alcohol in his system but won’t say what his BAC was at the time.
another resignation after a criminal act, which will most likely result in the officer retaining his certification so he can be hired by another agency in the future.
* An Albany Georgia police officer was found guilty of molesting his girlfriend’s 7-year-old daughter inside her apartment.
* The police chief of Darlington South Carolina is the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former female officer who claims that she was subjected to sexual abuse by the chief and when she rebuffed his advances she was punished for it. One of the allegations made in the suit goes so far to state that the chief forced her to give him oral sex in a hotel room at a police chief conference.
* The police chief of Fort Worth Texas was pushing hormone therapy treatments for his troops at a wellness presentation, claiming that higher testosterone levels will make them better cops. However, doctors interview by the paper say that artificially high testosterone levels due to the kind of treatment the chief is recommending can cause overly aggressive behavior similar to “roid rage”.
unbelievable
* The San Luis Obispo County California sheriff’s department has decided to pay $20,000 to settle a claim filed by a woman who lost 6 pounds of medical marijuana when deputies confiscated and destroyed it. This is the first known time in the US when a law enforcement agency compensated a medical marijuana patient.
Topspin should appreciate that one.
* The police chief of Winfield Missouri has been suspended without pay for unspecified reasons shortly after one of his officers was busted in a sting operation buying cocaine. The officer claims that he bought it to replace cocaine that was taken from evidence.
every citizen in Winfield should be at the next city council meeting demanding to know the reasons for the suspension
* A Carver County Minnesota deputy was arrested on allegations that he was stealing methamphetamine from the evidence room. Apparently he was caught carrying a glass pipe and several evidence packets containing meth in his pants after he came in on his day off… on mothers day.
* Two Framingham Massachusets narcotics officers are under investigation on allegations that one of the officers was urinating in public on a storage unit building when the wife of the owner confronted him, asking him to stop. The officer turned, with penis in hand, and told her he had to go somewhere. This is about when the husband apparently arrived in his golf cart to confront the officer and his partner when his partner pulled a gun, pointed it at the man, and told him to leave or be shot for interfering with police business. Apparently it was all captured on surviellance video.
if there is indeed actual video, there better be felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon or terroristic threats, and made to register as a sex offender. you know a civilian would be charged with those had the same circumstances been present.
* A Las Vegas Nevada police lieutenant is the subject of a joint federal and local investigation into drug possession allegations as well as possible allegations of trafficking in prescription medication.
* New York NY police apparently arrest the wrong woman on allegations that she assaulted a traffic cop and ran over her foot. The traffic cop even picked her out of a line up but prosecutors dropped the charges against her once they figured out she just had the same name as the woman accused of the alleged incident… showing just how problematic line ups can be.
problematic? the article itself states that even the cars and registrations were totally different, yet this officer just happened to pick the woman with the correct name? surely she wasn't told just which position this person would be in the lineup, right?
* Meanwhile, the NYPD police commissioner says he’s proud of the quota pressures being put on his officers that have allegedly caused them to falsely charge up to 193,000 people. He says the low crime rates, which mirror rates across the US, justify the abnormally high 51% rate of dismissed charges.
hey Ice Dancer, what was that about NY city and their major efforts at curtailing corruption and abuse?
* Middletown CT police are accused of using excessive force after a handcuffed man died in custody. The man’s family had called to help them get the man help after he suffered a panic attack. However, things apparently went downhill after police cuffed him. Stories diverge at that point with police saying they didn’t do anything but take him outside to calm him down after he attacked their dog while cuffed. But the family claims the beat him, threw him down the stairs, and turned a police dog loose on him. State police are currently investigating.
Dial 911 and die. This story is outrageous on its face. How does a man, with hands in cuffs behind him, choke a police dog to unconciousness, then attack and injure 4 of 5 police officers? anyone? and from the article When asked about the family's claims that Carrion was beaten by the officers, McMahon said everything the officers did was proper. We don't go out to be abused. We go out to do a job."[/COLOR]excuse me? your job is to brutalize civilians in need of medical attention to death?
* A Corpus Christi Texas ISD police officer who was arrested the other day for threatening to shoot an entire family was also accused of beating a student at the school he worked at a week ago for mouthing off. The officer is also the subject of two lawsuits from his previous job as a Nueces County deputy including one case where he allegedly hospitalized a detainee after beating him.how was he hired by another agency? did he RESIGN from the other one?
* A Missouri State trooper was charged with felony forgery and possession of a vehicle with an altered VIN charges.
* A New Melle Missouri police officer has been charged with misdemeanor assault & property damage in an alleged road rage incident when he apparently pulled in front of another car and spiked his brakes, causing that car to rear-end his vehicle. He’s then accused of breaking the driver’s side window and attacking the driver. After he ran the officer threw a passenger to the ground and then allegedly dented his car with a female passenger’s head.
and had the opposite happened, where the officer would have been assaulted, i'm sure it would still be just a misdemeanor charge, right?
* A Mansfield Louisiana police officer was arrested on possession of cocaine with intent to distribute charges after caught in sting buying cocaine from an undercover cop.
* A Miami Beach Florida police officer who resigned in November after testing positive for pot use was arrested for running a grow op out of his home. Before the failed drug test he was under scrutiny for two questionable fatal shooting incidents within days of each other.I couldn't care less about the MJ, but I'd like to know more about the shootings.
* A Traverse City Michigan police officer has taken a plea deal over a DUI charge where his truck caught fire as he tried to get unstuck. He received probation & community service as well as entering an employee assistance program at work.
can anyone point out a story where a civilian was allowed to plea bargain out of a DUI charge and just get probation?
* The Murfreesboro Tennessee police have settled a lawsuit for $15,000 to a father and son who were arrested by cops sent to their address by mistake.
The officers sent to this address appear to have done nothing wrong, save for one. good for them, however, the dispatcher fucked up. They were each suspended for 5 days without pay. The officer who was suspended resigned and is now employed as a police officer for Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.
* A Pasadena California police officer may face disciplinary action after firing his gun through his patrol car windshield while he was getting out to make an arrest.
for all the trigger discipline that is stressed to civilians who carry, why aren't LEOs doing the same? Too many times where a citizen has been shot and killed by these 'accidents'.
The original suit was filed 15 years ago and nearly everyone admits that what happened was wrong… but the courts in Mississippi have just made it so that anyone can be brutalized by the police and neither the cops or cities will have to pay you a dime.
* A Saint Martin Parish Louisiana deputy is on leave while under investigation on allegations that he forced a woman to perform oral sex on him under threat of arrest. The woman had called police to help get the father of her son away from the home after an incident and while one officer took him away the other officer came back and allegedly told her to lock the door, then threatened to arrest her if she didn’t do what he said.
in fairness to the officer in question, these are just allegations at this point. hopefully union protectionism won't prevent the personnel record of this officer from being investigated to determine if there have been complaints of this action in the past.
* A Macon Georgia police sergeant has resigned after he allegedly showed up to work while under the influence of alcohol and got into a wreck in the police station parking lot. Police say he tested positive for alcohol in his system but won’t say what his BAC was at the time.
another resignation after a criminal act, which will most likely result in the officer retaining his certification so he can be hired by another agency in the future.
* An Albany Georgia police officer was found guilty of molesting his girlfriend’s 7-year-old daughter inside her apartment.
* The police chief of Darlington South Carolina is the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former female officer who claims that she was subjected to sexual abuse by the chief and when she rebuffed his advances she was punished for it. One of the allegations made in the suit goes so far to state that the chief forced her to give him oral sex in a hotel room at a police chief conference.
* The police chief of Fort Worth Texas was pushing hormone therapy treatments for his troops at a wellness presentation, claiming that higher testosterone levels will make them better cops. However, doctors interview by the paper say that artificially high testosterone levels due to the kind of treatment the chief is recommending can cause overly aggressive behavior similar to “roid rage”.
unbelievable
* The San Luis Obispo County California sheriff’s department has decided to pay $20,000 to settle a claim filed by a woman who lost 6 pounds of medical marijuana when deputies confiscated and destroyed it. This is the first known time in the US when a law enforcement agency compensated a medical marijuana patient.
Topspin should appreciate that one.
* The police chief of Winfield Missouri has been suspended without pay for unspecified reasons shortly after one of his officers was busted in a sting operation buying cocaine. The officer claims that he bought it to replace cocaine that was taken from evidence.
every citizen in Winfield should be at the next city council meeting demanding to know the reasons for the suspension
* A Carver County Minnesota deputy was arrested on allegations that he was stealing methamphetamine from the evidence room. Apparently he was caught carrying a glass pipe and several evidence packets containing meth in his pants after he came in on his day off… on mothers day.
* Two Framingham Massachusets narcotics officers are under investigation on allegations that one of the officers was urinating in public on a storage unit building when the wife of the owner confronted him, asking him to stop. The officer turned, with penis in hand, and told her he had to go somewhere. This is about when the husband apparently arrived in his golf cart to confront the officer and his partner when his partner pulled a gun, pointed it at the man, and told him to leave or be shot for interfering with police business. Apparently it was all captured on surviellance video.
if there is indeed actual video, there better be felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon or terroristic threats, and made to register as a sex offender. you know a civilian would be charged with those had the same circumstances been present.
* A Las Vegas Nevada police lieutenant is the subject of a joint federal and local investigation into drug possession allegations as well as possible allegations of trafficking in prescription medication.
* New York NY police apparently arrest the wrong woman on allegations that she assaulted a traffic cop and ran over her foot. The traffic cop even picked her out of a line up but prosecutors dropped the charges against her once they figured out she just had the same name as the woman accused of the alleged incident… showing just how problematic line ups can be.
problematic? the article itself states that even the cars and registrations were totally different, yet this officer just happened to pick the woman with the correct name? surely she wasn't told just which position this person would be in the lineup, right?
* Meanwhile, the NYPD police commissioner says he’s proud of the quota pressures being put on his officers that have allegedly caused them to falsely charge up to 193,000 people. He says the low crime rates, which mirror rates across the US, justify the abnormally high 51% rate of dismissed charges.
hey Ice Dancer, what was that about NY city and their major efforts at curtailing corruption and abuse?
* Middletown CT police are accused of using excessive force after a handcuffed man died in custody. The man’s family had called to help them get the man help after he suffered a panic attack. However, things apparently went downhill after police cuffed him. Stories diverge at that point with police saying they didn’t do anything but take him outside to calm him down after he attacked their dog while cuffed. But the family claims the beat him, threw him down the stairs, and turned a police dog loose on him. State police are currently investigating.
Dial 911 and die. This story is outrageous on its face. How does a man, with hands in cuffs behind him, choke a police dog to unconciousness, then attack and injure 4 of 5 police officers? anyone? and from the article When asked about the family's claims that Carrion was beaten by the officers, McMahon said everything the officers did was proper. We don't go out to be abused. We go out to do a job."[/COLOR]excuse me? your job is to brutalize civilians in need of medical attention to death?
* A Corpus Christi Texas ISD police officer who was arrested the other day for threatening to shoot an entire family was also accused of beating a student at the school he worked at a week ago for mouthing off. The officer is also the subject of two lawsuits from his previous job as a Nueces County deputy including one case where he allegedly hospitalized a detainee after beating him.how was he hired by another agency? did he RESIGN from the other one?
* A Missouri State trooper was charged with felony forgery and possession of a vehicle with an altered VIN charges.
* A New Melle Missouri police officer has been charged with misdemeanor assault & property damage in an alleged road rage incident when he apparently pulled in front of another car and spiked his brakes, causing that car to rear-end his vehicle. He’s then accused of breaking the driver’s side window and attacking the driver. After he ran the officer threw a passenger to the ground and then allegedly dented his car with a female passenger’s head.
and had the opposite happened, where the officer would have been assaulted, i'm sure it would still be just a misdemeanor charge, right?
* A Mansfield Louisiana police officer was arrested on possession of cocaine with intent to distribute charges after caught in sting buying cocaine from an undercover cop.
* A Miami Beach Florida police officer who resigned in November after testing positive for pot use was arrested for running a grow op out of his home. Before the failed drug test he was under scrutiny for two questionable fatal shooting incidents within days of each other.I couldn't care less about the MJ, but I'd like to know more about the shootings.
* A Traverse City Michigan police officer has taken a plea deal over a DUI charge where his truck caught fire as he tried to get unstuck. He received probation & community service as well as entering an employee assistance program at work.
can anyone point out a story where a civilian was allowed to plea bargain out of a DUI charge and just get probation?
* The Murfreesboro Tennessee police have settled a lawsuit for $15,000 to a father and son who were arrested by cops sent to their address by mistake.
The officers sent to this address appear to have done nothing wrong, save for one. good for them, however, the dispatcher fucked up. They were each suspended for 5 days without pay. The officer who was suspended resigned and is now employed as a police officer for Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.
* A Pasadena California police officer may face disciplinary action after firing his gun through his patrol car windshield while he was getting out to make an arrest.
for all the trigger discipline that is stressed to civilians who carry, why aren't LEOs doing the same? Too many times where a citizen has been shot and killed by these 'accidents'.
