From my little backwater neck of the woods:

quote Liberty County Sheriff’s Captain Harry L. Kelley is now facing a 23-count indictment, instead of the original one filed back in August 2010 that contained 107 counts, after the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Texas in Beaumont consolidated the charges. However, unlike the previous indictment, which was based on Kelley’s alleged actions while working for Cleveland Police Department (CPD), the new indictment now includes charges for crimes said to have been committed in the first quarter of 2009, not long after Kelley joined Liberty County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO). The new, superseding indictment, which was filed in federal court on September 8, 2010, details how Kelley allegedly stole hundreds of firearms from Cleveland Police Department (CPD), where he worked until December 2008 as an evidence technician, and how Kelley, during that time, allegedly misappropriated an estimated 100,000 rounds of ammunition that was intended for CPD. The allegations in the new charges state that Kelley, using his position as captain in the sheriff’s office, illegally obtained laser gun sights, restricted to law enforcement, government and military personnel, for the purpose of trading them to a friend, Gary Lee, the owner of Humble-based Sportsman’s Outlet. According to the indictment, Kelley had the six laser sights shipped to the sheriff’s office at the county annex in Cleveland. He also reportedly opened an account with the vendor who sells the laser sights and sent in a credit application form and credit references. He also reportedly executed a product disclosure agreement with the vendor on behalf of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office in his capacity as captain. The first of these alleged crimes mentioned in the new charge is said to have occurred on January 6, 2009, just days after newly-elected Sheriff Henry Patterson took over the department. Prior to being sworn into office on January 1, 2009, Patterson had worked as assistant chief at CPD, where he was Kelley’s immediate supervisor. The original indictment against Kelley, and on what most of the superseding indictment is based upon, stems an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) into the disappearance of 500 firearms from the CPD’s evidence room. It is alleged that Kelley bartered or traded a large number of the guns to Gary Lee, the Humble-based gun shop owner. Of the original 500 or so firearms, roughly 100 have been recovered. The rest are said to be still missing. The indictment also alleges that Lee was part of Kelley’s scheme to steal ammunition that was intended for CPD. At the time, CPD was operating a gun range that was being used by federal officers including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. “Beginning in 2003, the exact date remaining unknown, the ‘Detention and Removal’ uniformed division of ICE began to use CPD firing range for quarterly law enforcement weapons-qualifications purposes ... during this time it became customary for these supervising range officers to provide courtesy cases of .40 caliber, semi-automatic, law-enforcement issue, duty type of ammunition gratis to CPD range liaison Harry L. Kelley for use by the CPD’s officers during their own weapons qualifications,” reads the indictment. That arrangement reportedly continued until ICE stopped using the CPD firing range. “During this time, Harry L. Kelley received, on behalf of CPD, in excess of 100,000 rounds of .40 caliber, semi-automatic pistol, law-enforcement issue, duty type ammunition gratis from ICE detention and removal officers,” the document continues. It is alleged that Kelley then began bartering the ammunition with Lee in exchange for firearms that Kelley received without any further payment, and the guns were then used in Kelley’s firearms retail business called K Ventures. Court documents show that Kelley’s alleged co-conspirator Gary Lee has arranged a plea agreement with the US Attorney’s Office. There are no details on his plea agreement at this time. Following Kelley’s indictment, he was placed on administrative leave without pay from LCSO. Kelley’s case was originally set for a September 20 trial date, but the case has been reset to November 15, 2010.

Now, wat in the heck, with a little 5000 population of Cleveland Tx, would it's Barney Fife type PD need 100,000 rounds of ammo for??? If they had to kill every man woman and child in town, that's still 20 rounds in each one of us.

ZOMBIES!!!

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Add another "bad apple" to the list.

SJ cop makes fake arrest after stepdaughter has sex

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/...south_bay&id=7681824

SAN JOSE, CA (KGO) -- A San Jose police officer who staged a fake arrest is in very real trouble. He did it apparently to put a little parental fear into his step-daughter's boyfriend.


This is causing some embarrassment on both sides. For police, it's an internal issue that's now in the public eye and it questions the parenting skills applied when two minors are caught having sex.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, this all started when a San Jose motorcycle cop, who's the step-father of a 14-year-old girl, decided to scare the girl's 15-year-old boyfriend to keep him from having sex with her.


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link: Mercury News: Parents: San Jose cop pretends to arrest son for having sex with officer's stepdaughter
According to the boy's parents, the officer pulled up to their house in full uniform, told the boy he was going to arrest him for sexual assault and threw the cuffs on him.

He later took the cuffs off and left with a warning, but the boy's parents complained, claiming the officer abused his power.

ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson says while the officer actually had the authority to arrest the boy for statutory rape, this is a gray area.

"If it's not technically a crime, if it's not say assault under color of authority, at the very least it was an unwise move. Any time a police officer is personally involved in the case where a relative or close friend is a complaining witness or a party to the case in any way, the best practice would be for the police officer to refer it to another investigator," said Johnson.

After the parents complained, police arrested the boy for real and charged him with having unlawful sex with a minor.

The Mercury News also reports that the officer's step-daughter was also cited for having sex with a minor.

Tuesday night, the officer's lawyer Terry Bowman said, "The officer was essentially invited to use 'scare straight' tactics and there were no objections to the lecture or the handcuffing. Everything was done in the spirit of reaching a troubled young man who is heading down the wrong path."

The identities of the adults are being withheld to protect the identities of the minors.

Meanwhile, prosecutors are looking into the possibility of charging to officer with false imprisonment.

This is a very rare case and it will be interesting to see how the district attorney will handle it.

The news station has the video of the cop making the false arrest, hehe.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/...south_bay&id=7688179

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There's another one;

http://www.palmbeachpost.co...xntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss

Former BSO deputy convicted of raping handcuffed female prisoner

The female inmate knew it would be her word against a cop's when she accused a corrections deputy of raping her while he moved her from one jail to another.


But she also had DNA evidence to support her accusations.


On Tuesday, a jury convicted Charles Edward Floyd, now a former Broward Sheriff's Office corrections deputy, of raping the handcuffed prisoner.


When Floyd, 40, is sentenced Nov. 19, he faces a range of nearly 20 years in prison to life.


Before trial, he had turned down a plea offer of five years in prison to be followed by 20 years of probation.


"He was an officer and I was what they considered a criminal. It was very difficult to come forward," the Fort Lauderdale woman, now 32, said as she left the courthouse Tuesday. "I didn't think anybody was going to believe me. But I won, I stood up for myself."


She urged other victims to have the fortitude and strength to also come forward.


"For anyone else, I hope you have courage," she said tearfully. "No matter what authority they have or what position they hold, you should come forward. Justice is for everyone."


She told the jury the assault occurred on June 13, 2007, when she was one of three female inmates the deputy was transporting.


Floyd dropped off the other two women, she said, and then took her to a remote area behind a warehouse, where she said he told her: "I've been waiting for this all day."


He forced her to perform oral sex and raped her, she testified.


According to his arrest warrant, he told her: "This don't have to be a one-time thing."


The jury deliberated for two hours before finding Floyd guilty of kidnapping and two counts of sexual battery by a person in a position of control or authority.


During closing arguments, prosecutor Jodi Gress said other deputies, dispatch records and DNA evidence corroborated the victim's allegations.


"The most damning evidence of all is that his DNA was found in the victim's cervix," Gress said. "That should be all the evidence you need."


Floyd's defense attorney, Bob Nichols, argued his client was the "victim of a fraud" perpetuated by a lying, convicted felon looking to file "a million dollar" civil lawsuit against Broward County if the former deputy was convicted.


The Sheriff's Office hired Floyd in November 2002 and fired him on Oct. 29, 2007.


The DNA results, Nichols argued, were not exact enough to definitively say that the semen found in the victim's body belonged to his client.


"Deputy Floyd did nothing here," Nichols said. "He's the victim here."


Upon hearing the first guilty verdict, a courtroom deputy handcuffed Floyd's right wrist to a chair. With his left hand, Floyd removed his tie and began emptying his pockets.


Floyd's wife, who attended the trial including closing arguments Tuesday morning, did not return to court to hear the afternoon verdict.

Unarmed man tazed 13 times! Yeah, he died the next day.

http://www.kentucky.com/201...eo-in-australia.html

Australia police say 13 Taser shocks were too much
The Associated Press SYDNEY -- Police say a graphic video of an unarmed man who was zapped with a Taser 13 times shows an unacceptable misuse of stun guns, as questions are raised about how much the devices are used in Australia.

Western Australia state police said the 2008 case was not typical of Taser use by the force, and state Premier Colin Barnett demanded a review of Taser guidelines.

A day after the video was released, a man died in Sydney after police stunned him in the chest with a Taser.


Closed-circuit video footage of the Western Australia case was released publicly Monday when the state's crime commission introduced a report to state parliament that cited it as an example of police officers wrongfully using a stun gun.

In the video, an unarmed, dark-skinned man who refused to undergo a strip search in a Perth detention facility is shown screaming in apparent agony after being zapped with a stun gun eight times while surrounded by nine police officers. He was stunned another five times off-camera.

The commission's report said the previous actions of the man, who was not identified, indicated he was likely suffering from a mental illness and/or was affected by drugs. It did not say why the man was in police custody.

After an internal police inquiry, two senior constables were fined 1,200 Australian dollars ($1,148) and AU$750 for using excessive force.

The crime commission's report says Tasers are increasingly being used to force alleged offenders to comply with orders. The report recommends that stun guns only be used when there is an imminent threat of serious injury.

The report also said Aboriginal people were more likely to have a Taser used against them in Western Australia than non-Aboriginal people. It said interaction between Aborigines and police in the state was disproportionate compared to other groups, adding that there were complex reasons for this. It did not go into the reasons.

Barnett said he watched the video on Monday and thought the nine officers could have restrained the man in a less extreme way.

"It was excessive use of a Taser that could not be justified," he said. "I think anyone seeing that footage would find it totally unacceptable."

Western Australia Acting Police Commissioner Chris Dawson agreed the actions were uncalled for.

"It was wrong, it's unacceptable, it was alarming when I looked at it and it'll be alarming when the public view it," Dawson said.

In New South Wales, meanwhile, officials were under fire following the death of a suspect who had been stunned with a Taser late Monday night.

Police said the man was armed with two knives and attempting to break into a Sydney house when officers arrived. The man lost consciousness shortly after being stunned and died Tuesday at a hospital. A coroner will determine the cause of death.

New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione defended the officers' actions.

"In a split second, the officers made a decision, which I believe, may have saved their lives," he said Tuesday. "Had (the officer) not been successful, I certainly believe the consequences could have been tragic for one or both of the officers involved."
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/201...a.html#ixzz11bTnVHc5

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quote Originally posted by madcurl: Unarmed man tazed 13 times! Yeah, he died the next day.

Video?

Oh snap!

snip-it: cop breaks 80 yr old mans neck. Now he suing and want to test the officer's urine for steriods.

http://www.wftv.com/news/25290353/detail.html

Lawyer: Test Cop In Broken Neck Case For Steroids


ORLANDO, Fla. -- WFTV obtained an email Tuesday suggesting an Orlando police officer, who hurled an 84-year-old man to the ground and broke his neck, should be tested for steroids.
The email (read it) was written by the lawyer representing Dan Daley, Mark NeJame. NeJame is asking the officer who was involved in the incident to take a drug test. Daley remains in serious condition and is slowly starting to recover after Officer Travis Lamont broke his neck.

Last month, Officer Lamont responded to a call in the Lake Ivanhoe area. Daly and a tow truck driver got into an argument about his car being towed. Lamont said Daley was drunk and belligerent. He said he had to use force.

Now, NeJame is demanding a drug test.

"You just don't go from being calm to breaking someone's neck," NeJame said.

NeJame sent an email to the department stating Daley's injuries were caused by unjustifiable force and violence and brought up steroid use.

He wrote: "Officer Lamont's erratic, sporadic and aggressive behavior strongly suggests that he may have been under the influence or affected by the use of steroids."

Orlando Police Chief Val Demings responded to NeJame's letter (read her response), stating that demanding a blood or urine test from Officer Lamont would violate his rights and these were unsubstantiated claims.

"Other than your bare assertion of erratic behavior, there is no record, fact or evidence to support your claim that the officer was under the influence of steroids," Demings wrote in response to NeJame.

NeJame insists he is not accusing the officer of taking steroids; he just wants the testing done.

The Orlando Police Department said it did not want to comment on the case because of pending litigation.

Sept 29th-all charges were were later dropped

http://www.wftv.com/news/25206879/detail.html

ORLANDO, Fla. -- All criminal charges have been dropped against an 84-year-old man whose neck was broken when he was thrown down by an Orlando police officer.

Daniel Daley's lawyer wants the grand jury to investigate the officer and he's going to sue police for as much as he can.

"We will be seeking the absolute maximum damages under the law and for every claim of action the law permits," Attorney Mark NeJame said during Wednesday's press conference (watch full presser).

NeJame told WFTV on Wednesday that, in addition to the neck brace supporting Daley's broken neck, a steel plate has been implanted to hold his head in place; Daley still might not make it.

With Daley's son at his side, NeJame came out swinging, saying Orlando Officer Travis Lamont is the only one who says Daley got physically aggressive with him, because all other eyewitnesses who came to the news conference said Daley did not.

"Mr. Daley was tossed high in the air and came crashing down on his neck and head with such violence and force that his neck was snapped and broken," NeJame said Wednesday.

NeJame wants the state attorney to take Officer Lamont's actions to a grand jury for criminal investigation.

"The actions taken by Officer Lamont were illegal, unjustified, constituted police brutality," he said.

The Orlando officer said the 84-year-old drew back his fist and that's when he took Daley down and arrested him.

"To be cuffed the way that he was, arms snapped behind him with the knee in the back, and then sat up Indian-style with his head hanging down, I will never lose that image," eyewitness Sean Hill said.

Police say Daley was drunk, with a blood-alcohol-level of .18, more than twice the legal driving limit. But Daley's attorney says police had no right to that medical information, because Daley wasn't driving, so he's also planning to sue Orlando police for invasion of privacy and slander.

Daley's family is devastated.

"To see him like that. Are you kidding me? I had to leave early the other night, because he's gagging for breath," Daley's son, Greg, said.

The state attorney said it has no plans to take the case to a grand jury and there will be no consideration of criminal charges against Officer Lamont for what happened unless a law enforcement agency investigates and sends a case to prosecutors.

The maximum Daley can sue for might be just $100,000 if the suit is taken to state court. There is a $100,000 cap on lawsuits against government agencies, unless the state legislature approves an exception.

But if the lawsuit is filed in federal court, the caps don't apply. A federal lawsuit against the Orange County jail, involving an inmate who died because the jail did not provide her methadone, brought a $3 million settlement from the jail.


Prior to all of this; the actions of the officer were cleared;

http://www.wftv.com/news/25120136/detail.html

Chief: Approved Take-Down Method Used On Elderly Man
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The attorney defending an 84-year-old man, whose neck was broken when he was thrown down by an Orlando police officer, told WFTV Wednesday it's a miracle Daniel Daley is alive and not paralyzed.

Police Chief Val Demings also talked to WFTV about the incident for the first time Wednesday. She said Officer Travis Lamont used an approved take-down method on Daniel Daley, but the department is looking into whether it was appropriate to use on an 84-year-old man, who remains in a medically-induced coma at Florida Hospital.

Doctors have determined Daley will not be paralyzed as a result of his broken neck. His attorney, Mark NeJame, said that is nothing short of a miracle.

"For him to be alive and not paralyzed, there was only about a 10 percent chance. Seven doctors have said this is miraculous," NeJame said.

NeJame said, if Officer Lamont used an approved technique to get Daley onto the ground outside the Caboose bar on Orange Avenue Saturday night something went wrong.

"Whether you're 84, 48, or 14, if you're dong it properly, your neck doesn't snap," he said.

Even Chief Demings recognized the outcome may have been different if the use of force had not been used on an elderly man.

"If the same technique had been administered on a 40-year-old, I don't think we would be standing here having this conversation," Chief Demings said.

Demings said a thorough review is underway.

"It is always the actions of the suspect that determines the level of force that is used," she said.

Demings is not rushing to judgment on whether her officer used excessive force, although some already have.

"What will happen? It will happen again. Who will be the next victim?" community activist Ray Vazquez questioned.

Vazquez is planning a protest for next week. He has a message for local law enforcement.

"We want to let the community know that the police department in general said, 'OK, we're gonna work seriously and take responsibility against whoever is responsible,'" he said.

The results of an MRI done Wednesday will determine the extent of Daley's injuries.

Lets not over look additional corruption by the city's finest. This practice is common in many counties even in CA. When you hear officers screaming their heads off don't forget they "padded" their pension prior to exiting after 20 years of service.

http://polhudson.lohudblogs...ice-pension-padding/

Yonkers council members on police pension padding

snip-it;
The Yonkers City Council’s four Democrats called on Mayor Phil Amicone to give them a detailed breakdown of police overtime work for entities like Con Edison in light of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that he will launch a pension-padding probe focusing on Yonkers and other municipalities.

The City Council will obtain clarification from the city’s Corporation Counsel and the New York State Comptroller’s office regarding Matter of Cannavo v. Regan, 122 A.D. 2d 523, 505 NYS 2d 268 (1986) that confirmed a state law that mandated that all reimbursable overtime not be reported as pension eligible be applied to a Yonkers Police Officer, and the method by which municipalities were so ordered and mandated to exclude reimbursable overtime from pension eligibility.

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Whoops! Wrong house, hehe.

http://www.chicagobreakingn....html?obref=obinsite

Drug cops smash into wrong house, terrorize elderly couple


Cook County sheriff's police on a drug raid smashed into a Southwest Side house late Thursday night, terrorizing the elderly couple who lives there before admitting they had the wrong house.

Sheriff's police this morning said they targeted the home and obtained a search warrant based on information from an informant who had provided credible information in the past.

"As soon as we entered the home, we knew this couple was not involved in the activity alleged," sheriff's police spokesman Steve Patterson said in an e-mail. "Our officers immediately requested the assistance of an interpreter and, as a precautionary measure, a medic, while also asking the couple to contact a relative who could assist in the situation."

Paterson said the department has reached out to the family.


The search warrant for the home in the 5600 block of South Kilbourn Avenue cited suspected crystal meth, cocaine, guns and money. It also named a 23-year-old suspect whom the Jakymecs say they have never heard of.

With her husband already asleep, 84-year-old Anna Jakymec was just turning out the lights when she heard loud noises at the back and front doors about 11:30 p.m.

Her initial thought was that her 89-year old husband had fallen out of bed, but she realized something else was happening when she looked into the front room.


"I see maybe 20 guys come in and see the door knocked open," she said.

"They show me a sheet with a woman and man who complained we have that. We don't," Anna Jakymec said. "They broke two doors and a garage window. Then they say, 'C'mon, c'mon--go, go, go, stay by your husband. He said someone complained we had all these drugs."

Son Andrew said the most potent drug in the home is aspirin.

"They don't smoke, drink or even watch TV. They believe in America," he said.

He added that his father, Andrij, suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has terminal cancer.

"He won't even take pain medicine," he said.

The former Ukrainian residents have lived in the house since 1967, according to their son. He said his father is a retired tailor and his mother worked as an elevator operator into her late 70s for Peoples Gas Co.

His mother, he said, called him after the raid at the request of the supervising sergeant on the scene. When he got there, he said he was told the officers had raided the wrong home.

"When I arrived the officer explained they had misinformation, but said his job was over, and he was leaving. They left a copy of the warrant, but he absolved himself of any responsibility for the raid or the damage," Andrew Jakymec said.

He estimated the damage to broken doors, locks and windows at up to $3,000.

"Everything was violently opened. Cabinets were ripped open, clothes and sheets were everywhere, and pieces of wood where the doors were rammed were all over the place," he said.

"My parents are refugees from the Soviet Union. They are naturalized citizens. They have relatives there who were abused for political reasons. You might expect it there, but not here," Jakymec said.

The warrant said police were looking for a 23-year-old man, described as Hispanic who lived in the ranch home. Records show a judge last month ruled the man forfeited bond in a drug-possession case. The address listed for the man in court records did not match that of the Jakymecs.

Anna added: "I didn't believe it was the police. They broke everything. I told them they should have rung the bell."

Patterson said the gangs and narcotics unit has served more than 500 search warrants over the last four years "and it is incredibly rare that those searches have resulted in this sort of outcome."

He said the incident itself is under review and the sheriff's office is evaluating the original information given to them about the home. He added that the sheriff's office is looking into the property damage that took place during the incident.

My semi-annual pull over by the Bay Area's finest.

Like clock-work, you can always count on a rookie cop performing a shake down here in the Bar Area. The location? Cabrillo hwy (better known as Pacific Coast Highway-PCH). The time? 03:20hr. the speed? 55MPH. The posted speed? 55MPH. Okay, due to the nature of my job I'm in route driving with the cruise control @55MPH. Setting the cruise control at the posted speed assures me that I can’t break the law. I’ve been using cruise control for the last 35+ years.

On the right side of the hwy there sit an officer hiding in the cabbage patch in hopes of catching somebody doing something illegal. I look in my rear view mirror and notice the officer pulls out and on the pedal to catch-up with me. At the cross street I hook a right towards my job and the officer flips on the cherry tree. The officer approaches the driver’s side door.

Officer: Do you know how fast you’re going and why are using the cell phone?

Me: Yes. The posted speed. I'm calling my boss to inform them of "you" holding me up (I'm pointing to my place of employment with the big freaking sign).

Officer: No Sir, you were going way faster than that.

Me: Oh yeah, how's that when my cruise control is set at 55MPH?

Officer: License, registration, and "proff" of insurance (proof mis-spelled for mayjane girl on the forum).

Me: I'm on the cell informing my supervisor of the situation (due to the nature of my job-anything that takes place after I make my call will clear me of what ever takes place). A few minutes pass bye and the officer comes back to my car.

Officer: Sorry Sir, you can go.

Due to time restriction I couldn't scold the officer for lying to my face, but I will call her superiors later today. Normally, I’d ask what her radar posted, but anyway, as expected it was a rookie cop for I haven't seen her in and around town. She no doubt was on the dog shift with the lowest seniority and performing the usual "shake down" of people in the area (albeit in some cases illegally). Why the need for law enforcement to fabricate a lie leading to another lie in order to make a bust?

So, are (all) cops bad? Tonight there was one who didn't mind twisting the truth by lying.

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Didn't you know that cops are allowed to lie but you aren't?

Here is a local story. I still can't figure out why the chose him to be chief after hearing about his past service record.
http://www.wesh.com/news/26465580/detail.html
Windermere Police Chief Arrested

quote Authorities with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Daniel Saylor will face charges of giving unlawful compensation for official behavior, which is a second-degree felony, and official misconduct, a third-degree felony. "Chief Saylor offered incentives to members of his department to encourage them to provide untruthful testimony and to destroy material evidence," Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Joyce Dawley said. That's the allegation by the FDLE in its case against Saylor. Agents claim that going back as far as 2000, and after the time he was appointed chief in 2002, Saylor helped to cover up a case of rape on a girl who was less than 12 years old. Agents said the crime was committed by Scott Bush, who is a friend of Saylor's. "What's even more troubling to the law enforcement professionals here today is that reports of those incidents were derailed by the chief of police," Lamar said. Investigators said Saylor offered Officer Irving Murr, who was the officer investigating the rape, time off with pay, a promotion and a reassignment from the night shift to the day shift in exchange for covering up the case. Saylor and Bush will remain behind bars without bond until a first appearance in court Thursday morning. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings will appoint a captain to serve as a temporary police chief in Windermere at the request of the mayor and town manager. Records show the town of Windermere hired Daniel Saylor, even though he had a law enforcement history with negative reviews and a variety of suspensions and reprimands. "It's irresponsible to have guys like that in charge of enforcing the law," says Andrew McCarthy, who's running for Windermere Town Council. McCarthy says town leaders hired Daniel Saylor knowing he came with baggage, and blames the town's leaders for hiring Saylor any way, "As the board responsible for overseeing the town managers hiring decisions I think they're partially to blame." McCarthy obtained Chief Saylor's disciplinary history through a public records request and shared them with WESH 2. Records show reprimands from the Melbourne Police Department dating back to 1991. He was suspended for lying to Melbourne police supervisors in 1994. The next year, he was given an unsatisfactory review for professional behavior. Then, three months later, he was suspended for 160 hours without pay and put on probation for a year for not being truthful during an internal investigation. Higher-ups noted that they considered firing him but gave him "one last chance." During that one year suspension, Orlando police accused Sayor of soliciting a prostitute. Police pulled him over on Parramore Avenue. According to the incident report: Saylor first claimed to be giving the woman a ride, then admitted he had been at a strip club and employees told him where he could go to pay for sex. Windermere's town manager, Cecilia Bernier, says the town knew about the investigation but decided Saylor was "good material for our chief." No charges were ever filed in the prostitution case. Saylor will go before a judge Thursday morning. Saylor's attorney, Mark NeJame, says he'll push to get the 25 year law enforcement veteran released from jail.

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Cops wouldn't be so bad if:
They'd encourage burnouts then not ticket them.
They'd allow true performance cars to do 5 over the posted limit, but no other vehicles. These days there's NO legit excuse for speedometer error. For the last 40 years, all new cars came with optimistic speedo cals anyway, partly for the cheapskates who buy taller narrower replacement tires, like replacing a 195/70R14 with a 185/75R14, because it's $10 cheaper per tire.
They'd only pull enthusiasts for dramatically dangerous or dramatically stupid driving maneuvers, nothing less.
They'd ticket the ricers for racing, but let the American muscle go, since only the ricer had his right foot buried in the carpet.
They'd notice the illegally high 4x4s and impound them until repaired. We have federal headlight height laws AND federal bumper height laws. Every lifted 2500HD or 3500 is violating the bumper height laws.
They'd notice the tall, heavy 4x4s riding cars bumpers and ticket that. F'ers want to go fast, but can't stop or swerve.
They'd notice all the diesels re-tuned to illegally make more black smoke, and impound those until repaired. EPA has made federal laws that they're violating for NO legit reason, AND NO benefit AT ALL.
They'd notice all the vehicles that illegally have the tires out past the bodywork, and impound those until repaired. Too lazy to get the right offset, too cheap to add flares, or both.
Those are the people who endanger me every day, and the crooked cops let them. Hell, some cops are guilty of them.

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..I am a former LEO and also rode with an outlaw motorcycle club & I,m a convicted smuggler,,I have been on both sides ,,most cops are legit, With 25% being far more honest than the average citizen,the majority of street cops want to do the right thing..The very nature of the job puts the policeman at odds with the average citizen,90% of people recent a traffic ticket even if they are wrong. 20% of cops are azz holes the job brings it out,they are bureacrats with guns and arrest power ,most time the 20%,they hold it in,but someday you will be the recipient of there bad day
..When you deal with the public they lie to you ,they scheme,all have sined and fall short of the glory of Uhlanstan,,
..I have been beaten while hog tied by Police officers during a Biker raid in 1984, they saw me as Biker scum,But i know the frustration of the job.95% of the time most cops are doing the proper job,, they are people ,yes they must be held to a higher standard,,There mission in life is not to please you,they have a job to do ,and most do it to the best of thier ability.
..My favorite 2 cops were robbing banks, while one of them was on duty ""to protect & serve ""gimme dat cash
..My favorite Florida sheriff ??name was McCall,beat a prisoner to death,the prisoner was in jail for no inspection stcker,this sheriff ,he was the guard wearing sunglasses in the Movie "Cool Hand Luke" effective law enforcement ?? This county had a tough jail,Ive been in it!! how about a rutabaga sandwich for lunch,,hmmm good..

COPS ARE people & will do the same kind of stuped stuff we all do,you have to give them the benefit of doubt,and respect them ALL.. they ain't awaitin to please you & mistakes will be made .

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Its sad to see that so many people see the officer of the law as a bad thing or judge them all based on the bad deeds some of them do.
My dad was a cop and a good one at that. I work with the police for my internship and then in the summer I will go into the academy.

Not all cops are bad and I hate to see those I call friends, call my brothers all bad just because some do stupid things like most people do.
Sorry we are all human and cannot be perfect for anyone.

I wish people would see the good things officers do. Like my friend Morana who was killed in a hit and run while she was trying to see if someone on the side of the road needed help. Thanks guys

The problem with bad cops isn't so much that they're bad, and that is a real problem, but that their fellow officers won't rat them out or otherwise strive to make the police culture one of honor and public service. Most cops won't see a bad cop as all that much of a problem, and in fact many (from what I've read) tend to think that a bad cop is still better than any citizen.

Fact of the matter is that the job of being a police officer is still a job. Ordinary people doing a job. They're not superheroes, not gods, not superior people. They tend to think they are, and get real irritated when we fellow citizens won't put them on the pedestal they so think they're upon.

The people doing the job of the police are just as subject to all the failings and foibles of anyone else. Until they realize that, this working at cross-purposes will continue to happen.

This case is now happening in FL were the chief of Police was trying to holt the rape investigation of a friend. The victim is a 12 yr old girl.

Snip-it: http://policelink.monster.c...rged-with-corruption

South Florida Sun-Sentinel
January 15, 2011
By Henry Pierson Curtis and Walter Pacheco Staff Writers

While investigating allegations of sexual abuse against a child, FDLE agents last fall asked Windermere police Chief Daniel Saylor to turn over his records in the case. But Saylor told them most of the records had been “lost or misplaced,” according to court documents.

In fact, agents said Wednesday, Saylor, who has been chief of Central Florida’s wealthiest city since 2002, had shut down the investigation because the child-rape suspect was his friend.

On Wednesday, Saylor was arrested on corruption charges, and his friend Scott Frederick Bush, of Windermere, was jailed on child-sex charges that carry the potential of life in prison.

“None of us wanted to be here today, but it is what it is, and the facts are very ugly,” Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar, flanked by Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Windermere officials, said at a news conference.

Lamar said Saylor offered bribes to several officers to get them to lie to FDLE investigators and destroy records. In one case, he offered to take an officer off night duty. In another, he falsified a time card to benefit one of the officers.

After Saylor, 44, was charged with one count of giving unlawful compensation for official behavior and one count of official misconduct, he was suspended without pay, Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn said.

Bush, 50, was charged with capital sexual battery of a person under 12 and sexual touching of a person under 12 years of age. Saylor and Bush both remain held without bail in the Orange County Jail until they appear in court Thursday.

The case against Saylor stems from a report filed by a Windermere teenager who accused Bush of sexually molesting her for years, according to a copy of the Feb. 6, 2009, report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

The teen told her account to an Orange County sheriff’s school-resource officer, who immediately contacted officials at the state Department of Children and Families as well as the Windermere Police Department.

The 2009 complaint was the second time a young woman claimed she had been molested by Bush, according to records obtained by the Sentinel. That accusation was also made by a different girl in 2003, according to interviews.

long haul;
http://epaper.orlandosentin...1_2011_001_016.shtml

While investigating allegations of sexual abuse against a child, FDLE agents last fall asked Windermere police Chief Daniel Saylor to turn over his records in the case. But Saylor told them most of the records had been "lost or misplaced," according to court documents.
In fact, agents said Wednesday , Saylor, who has been chief since 2002, had shut down the investigation because the child-rape suspect was his friend.

On Wednesday , Saylor was arrested on corruption charges, and his friend Scott Frederick Bush of Windermere was jailed on child-sex charges that carry the potential of life in prison.

"None of us wanted to be here today , but it is what it is, and the facts are very ugly ," Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar, flanked by Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Windermere officials, said at an afternoon news conference.

Lamar said Saylor offered bribes to several officers to get them to lie to FDLE investigators and destroy records. In one case, he offered to take an officer off night duty . In another, he falsified a time card to benefit one of the officers, Lamar said.

Asked whether there was some reason -such as money -that Saylor would have helped keep the allegations against Bush quiet, Lamar responded: "The risk he took is Get photos, video, latest updates See the law-enforcement news conference and follow the case at OrlandoSentinel.com so giant that we're looking for some other reason."

After Saylor, 44, was charged with one count of giving unlawful compensation for official behavior and one count of official misconduct, he was suspended without pay , Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn said.

Bush, 50, was charged with capital sexual battery of a person under 12 and sexual touching of a person under 12 years of age. Saylor and Bush both remain held without bail in the Orange County Jail until they appear in court this morning.
Accused by 2 girls The case against Saylor stems from a report filed by a Windermere teenager who accused Bush of sexually molesting her for years, according to a copy of the Feb. 6, 2009, report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

The teen told her account to an Orange County sheriff's school-resource officer, who immediately contacted officials at the state Department of Children and Families as well as the Windermere Police Department.

The 2009 complaint was the second time a young woman claimed she had been molested by Bush, according to records obtained by the Sentinel. That accusation was also made by a different girl in 2003, according to interviews.

Windermere police officers told the Sentinel last year that Saylor stopped the earlier investigation as well.
The detective on that case later resigned to work for another Orange County agency but kept a copy of all the paperwork in the event FDLE someday looked into the matter, said the officers, who asked not to be identified out of fear for their jobs.

DCF knew Windermere police declined to investigate both complaints, according to interviews last year. The statewide child-protection agency does not have authority to order police to investigate complaints of child abuse, DCF spokeswoman Carrie Hoeppner said.

The 2009 investigation was reopened last summer when Carl Head, a former Windermere police officer, asked FDLE to investigate Saylor's handling of the rape complaints, according to court records released Wednesday .

"Chief Saylor used his position to hinder our investigation," FDLE Special Agent in Charge Joyce Dawley said of the case that resulted in the arrests.

At Wednesday's news conference, officials would not say whether FDLE is investigating the 2003 molestation allegation but stressed that the investigations of Saylor and Bush are continuing.
However, Lamar said: "As time passes, certain of these allegations become unprosecutable."

In the wake of Saylor's arrest, the Windermere Police Department will be run on an interim basis by Orange County sheriff's Capt.
Ralph Groover, 51. Groover has more than 31 years of experience and commands the traffic unit.

"Be assured, they have the full support of the Orange County Sheriff's Office and all that we can do to assist them to continue to provide law-enforcement services to the citizens and residents of the town of Windermere," Sheriff Jerry Demings said Wednesday . "This is a sad day for Orange County ."

Tod Burke, a criminaljustice professor at Radford University in Virginia, said this type of high-level corruption can be incredibly detrimental to a department because it affects the entire community -from the residents and elected officials to the officers left behind to rebuild the trust.

"Someone had to hire the police chief -are those people doing their job from an investigation standpoint?" Burke said. "Sometimes it takes an incident like this to shake up a police department, and once it's exposed, it has the possibility to change."

Previous inquiries At the news conference Wednesday , Windermere Town Manager Cecilia Bernier acknowledged she hired Saylor as police chief in 2002 despite a background investigation that showed he had resigned in 1996 from the Melbourne Police Department after being accused of picking up a prostitute in Orlando.

Records show Saylor's 25year law-enforcement career has been tarnished by multiple investigations. Windermere hired him in 1997, but his trouble started when he worked for the Melbourne Police Department. He resigned from that agency in 1996 after years of repeated discipline, police reports show .

Orlando police records show that three weeks before Saylor resigned in Melbourne in May 1996, an officer stopped him on suspicion of picking up a prostitute on North Parramore Avenue.
Saylor, then 29, was not arrested in that incident.

After passing a sobriety test, Saylor first claimed he thought the woman was a hitchhiker. He then admitted he picked her up to have sex, the incident report states.
Orlando police did not investigate and turned the case over to Melbourne police, who concluded their investigation by ruling there was not enough evidence to find that he solicited a prostitute.

Contrary to the records, Saylor maintained last year in an interview with the Sentinel that he never resigned under investigation and that the Orlando police report was "full of lies."

Orange County Jail records show Saylor and Bush are both scheduled to appear before a judge for their initial appearances today at 9 a.m.
Orlando attorney Mark NeJame is representing Saylor.
Staff writers Bianca Prieto, Anthony Colarossi and Susan Jacobson contributed to this report. Henry Pierson Curtis can be reached at hcurtis @orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5257. Walter Pacheco can be reached at 407-420-6262 or wpacheco@orlandosentinel.com. What do these charges mean?
Windermere police Chief Daniel Saylor is charged with "giving unlawful compensation for official behavior" and "official misconduct."

Unlawful compensation or reward for official behavior is a second-degree felony, which carries a potential maximum 15-year prison sentence. It falls under the chapter of Florida's criminal statutes involving bribery and misuse of public office.
Official misconduct is a third-degree felony, carrying a maximum five-year prison term with a conviction. This makes it illegal for a public servant "with corrupt intent to obtain a benefit for any person or to cause harm to another" to falsify official records or documents; conceal, cover up, destroy or alter official records or documents; or make someone else do those things.
Scott Frederick Bush is charged with "sexual battery of a child younger than 12" and "lewd and lascivious molestation of a child younger than 12."

The sexual battery -or rape -charge is a "capital felony," and can result in a death sentence or life in prison with a conviction. Generally, rape cases alone do not result in death sentences.
The charge of lewd and lascivious molestation is for someone who "intentionally touches in a lewd or lascivious manner the breasts, genitals, genital area, or buttocks, or the clothing covering them." Bush faces a potential sentence of 25 years to life, if convicted.

quote Originally posted by 88GTV-8: Its sad to see that so many people see the officer of the law as a bad thing or judge them all based on the bad deeds some of them do. My dad was a cop and a good one at that. I work with the police for my internship and then in the summer I will go into the academy. Not all cops are bad and I hate to see those I call friends, call my brothers all bad just because some do stupid things like most people do. Sorry we are all human and cannot be perfect for anyone. I wish people would see the good things officers do. Like my friend Morana who was killed in a hit and run while she was trying to see if someone on the side of the road needed help. Thanks guys

I really don't get forums like this. If we singled out a group, and pointed out every time someone of this group did something wrong and used this as a basis for stereotyping, we could paint any group of people as "bad". Hmm...seems alot like bigotry or racism.
Guess what, if we started a thread pointing out every time a cop did a good thing, it would be 10 times the size of this discussion thread. Too bad the media doesn't report on those stories.

I'll start,
http://www.happynews.com/ne...teen-sliding-car.htm

I remember this case last year, but the lawsuit has since been settled late 2010 or early 2011. The young man on the phone is the son of a police officer. The video demonstrates that the young man didn't provoke nor did he "spun to his left-hitting the officer."



The sad part is; the officer lied, covered it up, and others went along with the lie.

quote Originally posted by NickD3.4: I really don't get forums like this. If we singled out a group, and pointed out every time someone of this group did something wrong and used this as a basis for stereotyping, we could paint any group of people as "bad". Hmm...seems alot like bigotry or racism. Guess what, if we started a thread pointing out every time a cop did a good thing, it would be 10 times the size of this discussion thread. Too bad the media doesn't report on those stories.

The difference is, that when someone in some other profession is bad the consequences aren't usually that bad and there is generally a good path to restitution and the bad person gets prosecuted. When a police officer is bad innocent people get their lives ruined, or worse, and there is generally no path to restitution and the officer rarely gets prosecuted. As the Florida case demonstrates, bad officers can continue hurting citizens for years if not decades. Because of their power and general immunity police officers should be held to a higher level of accountability, but in the real world the reverse is usually the case.

That's why it's appropriate for bad officers to be reported. That reporting creates a record in the free press that hopefully will make it easier to get them off the force. I'd rather have reporting of people not doing their job than I would of reporting of people doing their job. Honestly.

This happened in my neck of the woods. A homeless wheel chair bound man with a knife was shot twice in the groin by San Francisco Police.
[YOUTUBE[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUQamT33vk[/YOUTUBE]

WARNING: NWS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUQamT33vk

You can't make this type of stuff up. After the first shot-wheel chair man was trying to escape, so Bay Area's finest felt the need to fire off two more rounds. Oh yeah, the wheel chair guy was outside a mental health building.

Here's the step-by-step from the police department spokeman

http://www.youtube.com/watc...ture=player_embedded

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I saw this one on the news. Jan 11the 2011

http://www.seattlepi.com/lo...33175_inquest11.html


Detective: No witnesses said police shooting victim a threat


The lead detective investigating the fatal police shooting of a homeless man acknowledged Tuesday that none of the witnesses to the Seattle shooting saw the man as a threat.

Questioned by an attorney for John T. Williams' family during the second day of a shooting inquest, Seattle Detective Jeffrey Mudd said no witnesses to the shooting recalled feeling threatened by Williams, a street alcoholic and woodcarver frequently seen in downtown Seattle.

Williams was shot to death during the daylight hours of Aug. 30 after a 4-second interaction with Seattle Officer Ian Birk. Birk has since contended he felt threatened by Williams, who he claimed was brandishing his carving knife; Birk was recorded shouting for Williams to drop the knife moments before he opened fire.

Dozens of people packed the courtroom Monday, including three of Williams' siblings. One of his brothers looked down during part of the patrol car video capturing the moments before the shooting, while Birk looked ahead without noticeable reaction.

Outside the downtown courthouse, a handful of protesters held a rally demanding that Birk be charged with murder.

Birk's attorney said Monday afternoon that it hasn't been decided if Birk will testify. He could evoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination in the case that he's later charged with a crime.

The inquest itself is not a criminal proceeding -- jurors will be asked to find whether the shooting was justified, but their finding has no immediate impact. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg will make a charging decision after the inquest is complete.

Jury sees evidence

On the stand Tuesday morning, Mudd fielded questions from the attorney for Williams' family, Tim Ford.

Mudd told the six-member jury that Birk acted the way he was trained.

Asked by Ford whether Birk was trained to shoot someone within four seconds of making contact, Mudd said officers are trained to address people who are a threat. Mudd later acknowledged that none of the witnesses interviewed following the shooting said Williams appeared to be a threat.

The day before, Mudd told jurors the lock on Williams' knife wasn't working properly. That goes to Birk's disputed contention that the knife was open when he approached Williams on the street.

Other than Birk's statement, Mudd said he could not verify that knife was open.

Mudd told jurors Williams' knife was found in a closed position, as was another knife that fell from Williams jacket pocket when Mudd was looking for his identification.

Mudd also said the locking position on the knife -- a cheap foreign copy of a model made in London -- "didn't seem to be working properly." Seattle police investigators e-mailed the London company for details about the specific knife, but were told the knife was a knock-off.

In a tense face-off, Ford hammered at Mudd, poked holes in his statements, and emphasized that Birk had not used less-lethal weapons - a baton and pepper spray - that had been at his disposal.

The attorney also tried a few "gotcha" moments. At one point, he asked Mudd to hold Williams' carving board and knife and to try and get the knife to close on its own.

Mudd was unable to do so, and admitted that the lock sometimes did work. The detective also said under questioning that no scratches were found on the knife, after it was dropped.

Ford also went after Birk's choice of words when he commanded Williams to drop the knife. He asked Mudd to hold the victim's carving board and knife, and then said, "Put down the knife."

When the detective failed to do so, Ford said it was because the command had been unclear. If he had said "Drop the knife," the command would have been clearer, Ford said.

Mudd disagreed. The command had nothing to do with his actions, he said. Rather, he didn't want to drop critical evidence. And on it went between the men.

Questions on patrol video, rounds fired

There were other questions regarding a patrol car video and the number of rounds fired.

Seattle police also sent a patrol car video to Victory Studios, a Seattle media production company. But because of the resolution on the video -- the highest available for patrol car cameras, but lower in resolution to capture large volumes -- it was unclear to see exactly what was in Williams' hand, Mudd said.

There also were questions about the number of rounds fired. Birk's patrol car video appears to have audio for five shots being fired. But only four casings were found.

Mudd said sometimes casings, ejected in this case when Birk's standard police-issue 40 caliber Glock Model 22 fired, can be hard to find after hitting the concrete, though detectives made a diligent search.

In the magazine in Birk's gun, investigators found 11 bullets remaining. Officers are trained to load 14 in magazines and also have additional bullet loaded, Mudd told the court.

He also told jurors what they would see in Birk's in-car video footage. He explained the audio was missing on the first part of the video because the camera starts recording when patrol car lights come on or when activated by an officer. About a minute of previous footage is saved, but not with audio.

Last month, King County District Court Judge Arthur Chapman, who is leading the inquest, ordered that the video from Birk's patrol car be released. The footage showed it was roughly 16 seconds from the time Birk turned on his lights to the point when Williams was shot multiple times, after Birk yelled multiple times to get his attention. Police initially said the confrontation lasted about a minute.

The video picked up audio from two channels: one microphone attached to Birk and the radio in his patrol car. The version shown to jurors had only the channel from Birk's microphone.

Jurors also saw footage from a patrol car that arrived about a minute and a half after shots were fired.

The city's firearms review board concluded its hearing Oct. 4 and presented preliminary findings to Police Chief John Diaz that week. The firearms review board found the shooting not justified.

Questions about case

Williams' two brothers said they didn't know if their late brother had headphones on at the time of the shooting, but believe he had difficulty understanding the officer's command. Police Officers Guild President Rich O'Neill has said an officer with a gun yelling to drop a weapon is a universal command.

The day after the shooting, Diaz said any blade that can cause a lethal injury would be considered a deadly weapon, and that the 3-inch knife Williams had was definitely capable of causing a lethal injury.

Birk, who fired four rounds, was not armed with a Taser. Seattle Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer, who is heading the firearms review board for the Williams shooting, said 422 officers -- primarily those on patrol -- would be armed with Tasers by the end of 2010.

Police say during the Aug. 30 confrontation at Boren Avenue and Howell Street, Williams refused multiple commands to drop a knife from 9 feet away -- a distance that police say can present a lethal threat.

Williams, who was charged in Seattle Municipal Court with drinking in public three days before the shooting, was known for a "decades-long history of misdemeanors and gross misdemeanor violations," King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carol Spoor wrote in court documents. "In the past 20 years he has 30 such convictions, including public indecency (5 convictions); lewd conduct, disorderly conduct and indecent exposure."

Several veteran officers knew Williams, but it's not clear if Birk had any previous interactions with Williams.

Williams' shooting is one of five officer-involved shooting in Seattle last year and one of three that was fatal. In 2009, Seattle had the same number of officer-involved shootings, ending with the fatal confrontation involving Maurice Clemmons

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...dded&v=D1VKo6-m27c#!

Here's a crappy camera phone pictures of the 55mph sign.



Here's the area where the cop was hiding.



It's along hwy 1 just 22 miles south of San Francisco. It's a twisted and perverted way of stopping motorist for nothing more than fishing (catch and release). Make up a bogus lie for pulling you over and then if the officer can't find anything dirty on you-they let you go. Normally, I've seen them pull over motorist between the hours of 10:00pm to 5:00am. A few of the illegals in this area drive cars (in another person's name whose legal). In the numerous times I've been pulled over-the stop is a bogus lie and after 5 or 40 minutes later they let me go.

By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press – 8 mins ago
LOS ANGELES – A school police officer will be fired for an alleged shooting hoax that touched off one of the largest local manhunts in recent memory and forced thousands of students to remain in their classrooms for hours, the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District announced Friday.
Superintendent Ramon Cortines said he has directed the school police chief and the district's lawyer to immediately relieve Jeff Stenroos of duty and begin the process of dismissing him.
"I would like to apologize to the public for the hoax that was perpetrated by a rogue officer," Cortines said in a statement.
"Thousands of people were inconvenienced by the actions of this one man," Stenroos said. "I want to again apologize to everyone who was alarmed, who worked long hours and who were adversely affected by his actions."
Cortines said the alleged actions of the eight-year veteran do not reflect the integrity of all school police.
Law enforcement officials say Stenroos was lying when he said a gunman shot him in the chest as he patrolled near a San Fernando Valley high school Jan. 19. He was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of filing a false police report and was released on $20,000 bail shortly before midnight. The allegation is a felony.
"The current state of the investigation refutes Stenroos' initial account of the incident and we are now certain that there is no outstanding suspect in this shooting," city Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference Thursday night.
A law enforcement official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak about the case, said Stenroos was mishandling a firearm when he was shot.
The gunshot hit Stenroos in his bulletproof vest and authorities said that protection saved his life. He was treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital later that night.
Stenroos, 30, has not spoken publicly since the shooting. A call left for a Jeff Stenroos in Santa Clarita was not returned.
Steven K. Zipperman, chief of the 340-officer Los Angeles School Police Department, has said Stenroos is an eight-year veteran of the department.
Paul Weber, president of the union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers, said he was "disgusted" to hear that Stenroos filed a false report.
Beck defended the aggressive police response to the shooting, which occurred one day after a gun accidentally fired in a student's backpack at another Los Angeles high school, wounding two students.
"We go where these investigations take us," he said. "Finding the truth and obtaining some form of justice is what we're about."
The day of the shooting, an ambulance carrying Stenroos sped to a hospital with a motorcycle escort, nine schools with about 9,000 students were locked down as more than 350 police officers, sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers scoured 7 square miles of the affluent Woodland Hills neighborhood around El Camino Real High School for a gunman described as in his 40s with long brown hair.
Students were kept in their classrooms for hours without access to food or bathrooms, prompting anger and frustration from parents.
Later, a citizen was hailed as a good Samaritan for using the officer's radio to call for help and authorities mustered $100,000 in reward money for information leading to the shooter's arrest.
"His lies set into motion the largest search for a suspect in recent history and inconvenienced thousands of people for hours," the police union president said. "If these allegations are proven true, Mr. Stenroos is now where he belongs, behind bars."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/..._school_officer_shot

http://www.sfexaminer.com/l...ing-car-registration

San Francisco police officer arrested for allegedly stealing car registration


A 10-year-veteran officer of the San Francisco Police Department is facing jail time and termination on suspicion of taking a car registration sticker from someone he pulled over and putting it on his own personal car.

Officer Gregory Hui was working at Richmond Station in early 2010 when he pulled over someone for a broken brake light, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the case. During the traffic stop, Hui told the driver he was taking a registration sticker into his possession as evidence.

The Internal Affairs unit at the Police Department learned of the alleged theft later in the year, and on Dec. 17, Hui was suspended from duty without pay.

He surrendered Wednesday and is expected to be arraigned Thursday or Friday on two felony charges for fraudulent use of vehicle registration and on a misdemeanor charge of embezzlement. His bail was set at $18,000.

Police would not comment further on the open investigation. Union President Gary Delagnes said Hui had hired an attorney without the union’s help.

“It was an off-duty incident involving vehicle registration,” Delagnes said. “Unfortunately, it’s gotten to the criminal stage. That’s all I can comment on for now.”
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/l...ration#ixzz1D6nQrfTA

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/l...ration#ixzz1D6nJz1M4

You find all of these stories amusing....

quote Originally posted by madcurl: SJ cop makes fake arrest after stepdaughter has sex Unarmed man tazed 13 times! Yeah, he died the next day. cop breaks 80 yr old mans neck. Drug cops smash into wrong house, terrorize elderly couple

But this one makes you mad?

quote Originally posted by madcurl: My semi-annual pull over by the Bay Area's finest.

The Chief of Police, Mayor, nor the District Attorney didn't want the video to be seen by the public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlKmiPCVStc

Notice that the suspect is laying flat on the ground with his hands out and then puts his hands/arms in the position to be cuffed.

EDIT: VIDEO IS NWS.

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What's NWS about the video? Language is fine here, just not nudity. Before I click on it I'd like to know...

quote Originally posted by JazzMan: What's NWS about the video? Language is fine here, just not nudity. Before I click on it I'd like to know...

Violence. The suspect is being kicked in the head several times.

quote Originally posted by madcurl: The Chief of Police, Mayor, nor the District Attorney didn't want the video to be seen by the public. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlKmiPCVStc Notice that the suspect is laying flat on the ground with his hands out and then puts his hands/arms in the position to be cuffed. EDIT: VIDEO IS NWS.

Mayor and city council were raked over the coals last night at a "open-to-public" city council meeting. She was singing a diferent tune today--something to the effect "If I had it to do over again, I would not have opposed...", and even went on to explain, that she was unaware of the public's outrage over the beatdown. Talk about someone living under a rock--it's been on the news every night for the past week, so I would have thought she would understand a beating like that would NOT have gone over well, nor the officer's threats toward those doing the filming. These officers btw, have been together as some sort of team for some time, and a previous HPD Chief is calling for their past arrest and complaint records to be reviewed. All this, according to tonight's 5pm KHOU TV news.
The mayor, Annise Parker is realtively new at the job, replacing long time Houston Mayor Bill White. She's been in office but 1 year, and I can say--so far-- she doesn't hold a candle to Bill White. White had no problems explaining to the HPD that they worked for the citizens and at the whim of he and the city council.

The new Mayor?

quote In 1997, Parker prevailed in the runoff election for At-Large position (City Council) to become Houston's first openly gay elected official. She was re-elected twice to the same seat in 1999 and 2001 without being forced to a run-off. As a councilmember, she was recognized as "Councilmember of the Year" by the Houston Police Officers Union.

That might help explain her cozy relationship in this case.

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Now this guy was having a ball!
Police: Officer Busted With Prostitute While On Duty
Officer Arrested On 7 Counts Of Engaging In An Act Of Prostitution
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A Bakersfield Police Officer was arrested Friday after police learned that he was engaging in sex acts with prostitutes while on duty.

"I am disappointed. The entire membership of the police department is disappointed and this is a very disturbing incident," said Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Williamson.

Williamson said an investigation revealed that since August, Smith allegedly engaged in sex acts with at least three prostitutes while on and off duty.

"When the acts occurred he was working solo. He was assigned to Union Avenue. He became interested in prostitution enforcement and has a record of conducting enforcement on prostitutes," said Williamson.

Smith allegedly participated in sex acts with prostitutes throughout the city and county, at the homes of the prostitutes and in his patrol car.

Last Sunday, one of the women Smith solicited came forward and reported the prostitution, the BPD reported.

Smith resigned from his job Tuesday.

Smith had been an officer for the department since July of 2007.

He is scheduled to be in court February 15.

The criminal investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is encouraged to call Detective Keli Reed at 661-326-3544.

California Penal Code 647(b) states the following:

Every person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor: (b) Who solicits or who agrees to engage in or who engages in any act of prostitution. A person agrees to engage in an act of prostitution when, with specific intent to so engage, he or she manifests an acceptance of an offer or solicitation to so engage, regardless of whether the offer or solicitation was made by a person who also possessed the specific intent to engage in prostitution. No agreement to engage in an act of prostitution shall constitute a violation of this subdivision unless some act, in addition to the agreement, is done within this state in furtherance of the commission of an act of prostitution by the person agreeing to engage in that act. As used in this subdivision, "prostitution" includes any lewd act between persons for money or other consideration.
http://www.turnto23.com/news/26833841/detail.html

quote Originally posted by madcurl: The Chief of Police, Mayor, nor the District Attorney didn't want the video to be seen by the public. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlKmiPCVStc Notice that the suspect is laying flat on the ground with his hands out and then puts his hands/arms in the position to be cuffed. EDIT: VIDEO IS NWS.

But cops have a hard job, you know. They were just having a bad day.

Nothing less than jail time and a lifetime ban on working in law enforcement in any capacity for any department would be appropriate for this kind of abuse, IMO.

Okay, here we go again. Don't ya just love it when they are being paid on "administration leave." Oh yeah, how many are allegedly involved 1-2-3-4? Those are the ones that were caught. CNET is still on going.


Third arrest in Contra Costa Co. narc team scandal

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- New allegations are surfacing after the arrest of yet another officer linked to the Contra Costa County narcotics team scandal.


The investigation now claims that female decoys were used to trap men, a private investigator plotted it all, and a police officer was on the take. 47-year-old Stephen Tanabe of Alamo was contracted by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department to work patrol in Danville. He is now in a Martinez jail on $260,000 bail.

A popular Danville wine bar was one of the locations where decoys, usually attractive women, plied unsuspecting men with liquor. Almost as soon as they left the parking lot, they were reportedly stopped and arrested for driving drunk by Contra Costa Sheriff's Deputy Stephen Tanabe.

It was part of a scheme to tarnish of the images of the men who were going through messy divorce proceedings. Anonymous law enforcement sources told the San Francisco Chronicle that Tanabe was hired by private investigator Christopher Butler to make the DUI arrests. Butler was hired by the ex-wives. It is all tied to the same Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET) scandal that landed Butler and the former commander of the team, Norman Wielsch, in jail.

"The silver lining is that it has a huge deterrent value and that cops are just not going to do this if they think they can be arrested and thrown in jail," says UC Hastings criminal law professor Rory Little. "It's no fun by the way to be a cop in jail."

Tanabe, Butler and Wielsch all worked as Antioch police officers in the late 90s. Tanabe was arrested Friday. He faces charges of weapons possession and conspiracy to possess and sell drugs. Butler and Wielsch pleaded not guilty in the CNET case in which they are accused of stealing drugs from evidence and selling them.

"Whatever the far-reaching effects of the private investigation company had, my client's not involved with all of that. There are certain things he was involved with, but not everything," says defense attorney Michael Cardoza who represents Wielsch.

Private investigator Mike Spencer occasionally referred cases to Butler because of his ability to work with video technology. The allegations shocked Spencer. He says the use of decoys in the P.I. industry is frowned upon.

"It's rare in the business because it's that whole thing, if it makes you feel weird in your gut, or if it would wind up in court, it's sort of a questionable method," he says.

Little says if the allegations against Tanabe and Butler prove true, the DUI cases against the men involved could be dismissed.

"You've got a bribery. You've got a conspiracy. You've got a fraud. It sounds fraudulent to me that they set up these decoys," he says.

Tanabe has been put on paid leave and a Contra Costa County's sheriff called Tanabe's arrest a "sad day" for the department. There are, reportedly, as many as four other officers from various Bay Area police agencies who are now being investigated for their ties to Butler.


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More cases dropped to to misconduct from officer(s)- yeah, plenty of cases and plenty of cops! Click on the link to view how officers performed illegal searches without warrents.

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DA drops 57 cases in San Francisco cops scandal

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The latest police scandal to hit the San Francisco Police Department has resulted in even more fallout. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced Wednesday that he is dropping 57 cases which involved officers under investigation for possible police misconduct.


Public defender Jeff Adachi says the district attorney did the right thing.

"There's no way that a case can be proved in court when you have these kinds of questions about the officers' credibility," said Adachi.

At the request of prosecutors, Judge Ann Bouliane approved the mass dismissal of 42 cases, most of them involving drug arrests. Fifteen cases had already been dropped since these security videos of drug raids surfaced last week.

The dismissals followed a morning news briefing by Gascon who said his office has reviewed pending cases which involved the eight officers now under investigation for possible police misconduct.

"If we believe that we do not have the evidence to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt, given the circumstances in what is going on with the officers at this point, then we're dismissing the case," said Gascon.

The growing scandal began last week when the public defender said the videos revealed illegal searches and arrests made in South of Market hotels. Eight plainclothes officers involved in those cases were all from Southern Station. They have been reassigned to desk duty while the FBI and district attorney investigate.

In an attempt to prevent future legal problems, Gascon announced that from now on, his office will provide prosecutors on standby for officers who may need help during police operations.

"There will be someone from the district attorney's office available around the clock for the police department to call and get advice concerning the need for a search warrant and if there is a need, how to structure the search warrant," said Gascon.

Gascon says that each of those cases that were dropped can be re-filed if the circumstances change. Adachi says his office is reviewing cases in which other officers were involved to see if they may have conducted illegal searches and arrests.

Total of 8-officers. Click on the video and you'll see one of the officers blocking the camera at the Henry Hotel. In summary we had lab technician smoking cocaine, officer involved DUI arresting people leaving bars, and now 8 or more involved with possible perjury. That's one large group wouldn't you say.

FBI to investigate SFPD officers in hotel drug bust

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In the investigation of six San Francisco police officers accused in a possible cover-up, ABC7 learned late Thursday night that the FBI is getting involved. They will investigate possible civil rights violations and other potential crimes by the officers. The officers are on paid leave.


San Francisco's public defender says surveillance video from Henry Hotel shows an undercover officer entering a room without consent. In fact, the defender says officers may have committed perjury by lying in court.

The police department has launched an internal investigation and the district attorney is also looking into it.
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Court documents: Sergeant may have compromised case through relationship with suspect's daughter

snip-it: Messing around with the suspects daughter. I guess in Bakersfield, CA there isn't enough women to go around. Oh well, at least he's on paid adminstration leave.
A Kern County Sheriff's sergeant is being investigated on allegations he may have compromised a possible elder financial abuse case after becoming involved in a relationship with the suspect's daughter, according to documents filed in Kern County Superior Court.

Sgt. Vince Martinez is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into possible obstruction of justice and falsification of reports, Sheriff Donny Youngblood has said.

Martinez confirmed Thursday that he has been in a relationship with the suspect's daughter, but he denied conspiring to cover up a crime. He said he's been ordered by Internal Affairs not to discuss specifics of the case.

"I'm completely innocent," Martinez said.

He said he trusts the sheriff's department investigation will clear him, and he looks forward to returning to work.

"It's important to conduct an investigation no matter how wild the allegations," Martinez said.

Martinez worked on an investigation from October 2009 to March 2010 regarding the alleged embezzlement of property and $30,000 from Bakersfield resident Gloria Moody by her daughter, Donna Martinez, according to a probable cause statement filed with search warrants by the sheriff's department at Superior Court. When Martinez served a search warrant at the residence of Donna Martinez, he apparently fell for the suspect's daughter, Samantha Martinez.

Vince Martinez is not related to the women, the statement says.

A senior deputy who was present when the search warrant was served on Oct. 8, 2009 wrote that several officers described the sergeant's interaction with Samantha Martinez as "flirty."

"It was evident that (Martinez) appeared infatuated with Donna Martinez's 23-year-old daughter Samantha Martinez," the senior deputy wrote in the probable cause statement.

That infatuation apparently evolved into a dating relationship, and the sergeant posted pictures of Samantha on his Facebook page, took her to a sheriff's department promotion ceremony and even attended a civil hearing between Moody and her daughter, the statement says. During the hearing, he sat with the Martinez family and was seen with his hand on Samantha Martinez's leg.

Vince Martinez never told his supervisors at the sheriff's department about the relationship, the statement says.

It's also alleged he tried to dissuade Moody from pursuing her case against her daughter, according to the statement.

Moody said at her home Thursday that the sergeant pressured her into saying there was something mentally wrong with her after his relationship with her granddaughter began. She said he quit taking her case seriously at that point.

"After that, his demeanor just changed," Moody said.

Moody had moved in with her daughter after becoming ill, and had given her access to her bank account to pay Moody's bills. But instead, her daughter embezzled the money and tried to take Moody's house and car too, Moody said Thursday, and alleges in the probable cause statement.

Moody said she hired an attorney and got the house and car back, but she isn't sure she'll ever see the allegedly embezzled money again. She said she would also like to get jewelry and the rifles of her husband, who died a few years ago, returned.

No one answered the door at the Martinez home Thursday afternoon.

The senior deputy who was assigned to reopen the embezzlement investigation in January of this year wrote in the probable cause statement that it was clear that the supplemental report filed by Vince Martinez "did not accurately reflect the facts or the content of the case." The allegations of financial elder abuse were not fully investigated, and Martinez tried to shift the focus from a criminal to a civil matter, the statement says.

Search warrants were served last month at the homes of Vince Martinez and Donna Martinez. Among the items seized were cell phones and computers.

Youngblood has said the department is conducting forensic analysis on computer hard drives and phones, and investigators will likely know within 30 days whether there is enough substance to file charges against Martinez.

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