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Miami FL police and prosecutors apparently did a 360 when they had indicated they were not going to charge a man who was shown in a video being beaten by cops on Halloween but then decided to charge him with resisting arrest without violence for trying to cover his head while an officer repeated punched him until he blacked out. [5]
A Wayne County MI deputy has been sentenced to 9-15 years in prison to be served after an additional to 2 year sentence for a firearm enhancement for beating, choking and raping a female relative at gunpoint. [0]
Chicago IL police are being sued by the family of a man who was shot to death by a man who threatened to kill him in front of a number of officers but was never detained. [3]
San Francisco CA has settled a lawsuit for $50,000 to a man who was seen on video being shoved by a cop who is now facing battery charges over the incident. [0]
A Fond du Lac WI police officer has been suspended for three days without pay for injuring a handcuffed detainee by slamming him into a table on video at jail.[0]
The Buffalo NY police department, along with the city of Buffalo and Erie County, have been named in a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent 14 years in prison after wrongfully convicted of murdering her own daughter until she was finally released and exonerated. [3]
New York NY police are being sued by a woman who was 7 months pregnant when she claims she was wrongfully arrested when she accidentally walked in on a drug bust operation at an apartment building and was strip searched and jailed for 3 days, though police claim she was only detained for about 25 hours. [3]
A Palm Beach Gardens FL police officer has been charged with sexual battery, official misconduct & evidence tampering on allegations that he improperly performed a vaginal search of a female suspect. [0]
Jackson MS narcotics officers who were recently accused of falsely arresting store owners while recorded on surveillance video are now being accused of harassing a family, including entering their home without a warrant, after the family claimed they recognized the officers from the video. [3]
A Lawrence County IN deputy has been arrested on battery of a minor and domestic battery in presence of a minor charges on allegations that he beat his wife and his 14-year-old son during a domestic dispute. [1]
A Las Vegas NV police lieutenant has been suspended while he’s under investigation on allegations that he misappropriated funds from the police union he served as chairman for. [0]
An Edinburg TX police officer is being accused of releasing a woman from jail in exchange for sex. Officials are saying that the officer is already on administrative leave but insist that it’s unrelated to those allegations. [4]
Four Okalossa County FL deputies have been disciplined with reprimands, one of which was suspended for 3 days, over the false arrest of a 66-year-old man on a drug possession charge after his heart medication was mistaken for cocaine. [0]
The police chief of Burden KS has been placed on paid leave after arrested on unspecified domestic battery allegations. [1]
New London CT police have been forced by an arbitrator to rehire a police officer who was fired for taking photos of a dead body with his cell phone and sharing the photos with his friends. [0]
A Maywood IL police officer has been charged with theft after stealing $240 from an FBI agent during a sting operation that was carried out after complaints were made that he was stealing money from suspects. [0]
A Maryland State trooper has been charged with misconduct in office on allegations he claimed $5,500 in overtime that he didn’t earn via timesheet fraud. [0]
The police chief of Farmington NM is under investigation after accused of showing up to a SWAT incident with alcohol on his breath. Officials don’t know if he was technically under the influence since officers at the scene didn’t give him a breathalyzer even though he drove there. [0]
High Point NC police say they will discipline one of their police officers internally instead of ticketing her for rear-ending a truck while on-duty. Though the department refuses to say exactly what kind of disciplinary action is planned. [3]
A Denver CO police officer has been arrested on a drunk driving charge while off-duty after a motorist reported him to police. [0]
A New York NY police officer has been arrested on DUI charges after he repeatedly hit a truck with his car while off-duty:. When police responded to the complaint the officer told them he was “on the job”. [0]
The Santa Fe County NM sheriff has issued a public apology, resigned and turned himself in after admitting to selling off old police equipment to pay off his own debt. [0]
A judge has ruled that a search warrant served by the Roosevelt County MT sheriff’s department had violated the rights of the Poplar Montana police chief who was arrested after marijuana plants were found on his property that were being grown for a medical marijuana patient. As a result I’m deleting an entry in our database for Poplar Montana, but I’m not sure if a new one should be entered for Roosevelt County as it seemed to be sparked by confusion over that state’s medical marijuana laws more than anything. [0]
Finally, a note, I don’t expect there to be many reports in the feed until Monday since it’s a holiday weekend and the news media generally doesn’t publish many investigative reports whenever there’s a holiday weekend. Additionally, since we’re moving after Thanksgiving, we’re only going to publish a summary report on Sunday night of the reports we track from Thursday through Sunday.
That’s it for today, stay safe out there this Thanksgiving holiday and all the best to everyone out there.
Kwethluk Alaska has lost a civil suit for over $23,000,000 in a jury award to a man who was left a quadriplegic when a Kwethluk police officer and a tribal officer arrested and dragged him to an ATV despite his suffering a head injury and broken neck. [0]
Two Rochester NY police officers are under investigation after a local pastor accused the officers of using excessive force when they broke his son’s nose. [3]
A Laurens County SC deputy has been arrested on an assault and battery charge for allegedly assaulting a detainee in jail last year. [1]
A North Las Vegas NV police officer has been accused of needlessly shooting a family’s pet dog to death while off-duty. The officer and her police officer husband claim that she shot the dog when it got loose and threatened him but the family and several neighbors say the dog was friendly and the woman walking the dog says that the dog was just being playful and came back when called the dog. she also claims she had hold of the leash when the officer shot it in the street. [1]
A NC State trooper has been ordered to be rehired by a judge who ruled that videos showing the officer pick his police dog up off the ground and kick it were not outrageous, but instead was an acceptable training method for police dogs. The judge claimed to have made the decision because he believes police dogs should be considered as weapons, not animals. [0]
The now-former sheriff of Park County MT has been sentenced to five years in prison after he accepted a plea deal that reduced several charges down to a singly intimidation charge in relation to allegations that he sexually assaulted a teen girl on multiple occasions and threatened to have her arrested if she didn’t keep quiet. [1]
The police chief of Zionsville IN is the subject of a state investigation over allegations that he stole a television and gun from evidence and that he drew a cocked and loaded firearm out on his officers during a meeting when he felt that officers weren’t paying attention to him. [1]
A Yakima County WA sheriff’s sergeant is under investigation on allegations that he refused to dispatch assistance to a police officer who took part in the arrest of a fellow Yakima deputy who has been charged with raping a woman at gunpoint. [2]
The police chief of Greenwood IN is also under investigation on allegations that he ordered officers to transport an officer to his home after he was detained on allegations that he pulled a gun on a man who confronted him about leaving his baby in his car. Responding officers said they smelled alcohol on the officer’s breath but refused a breathalyzer. The chief allegedly offered the officer a drink at his home after that, essentially making it impossible to discipline or charge the officer. [1]
The West Virginia State Police are being sued by a newspaper claiming that the agency has been refusing to comply with FOIA requests seeking internal affairs reports related to closed investigations. [5]
A Morehouse Parish LA deputy has resigned after an audit found discrepancies in accounts containing funds deposited by inmates for buying necessities from the jail commissary. [0]
And finally, a Bosque Farms NM police officer has resigned after an investigation into allegations that he had videotaped himself having sex with two different women, one while on-duty inside a city official’s office, and then uploaded the videos to a departmental computer where they were later discovered. [0]
A quick note, the news feed and daily report will likely not run this Friday and Saturday as we are preparing to move. I’ll try to update as possible but no guarantees.
Unfortunately today was a bad day for manning the news feed. Not only was I tied up at work but, thanks to Seattle’s intolerance to snow and a couple of inches of the stuff falling today, I ended up spending over 6 hours on a bus for my afternoon commute home from work and didn’t get home until about 11:00pm. So, the news feed is a little lighter than usual for a weekday today, hopefully I can get it caught up tomorrow.
With that said, here are the 10 reports of police misconduct I was able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, November 22, 2010:
Columbus GA police are being accused of falsely arresting a news crew from Russia Today on video while the reporter and her cameraman were doing a report on a protest at Fort Benning. Apparently, a journalist with the Columbus Ledger was also threatened with arrest as well for covering the event. [3]
A now-retired Chicago IL police officer was arrested on a number of charges including kidnapping and drug-related charges for his alleged role in a criminal organization. While most of the alleged activities were after he retired, an obstruction charge related to allegations of false testimony during a trial while he was still an officer were part of those charges, which qualifies this report for the news feed. [0]
The Austin Peay University TN police chief has been suspended for one month for an unspecified policy violation. University officials say it’s also their policy not to divulge disciplinary issues. [2]
A Galesburg IL police officer has pled guilty to a felony theft charge for stealing money from his own department in a deal that dropped other charges related to the theft. [0]
A Columbus IN police officer has pled guilty to illegal possession of prescription pain killers in a plea deal that dropped five other charges. [0]
A Yellowstone County MT deputy received a deferred sentence and a fine in exchange for his plea to a reduced disorderly conduct charge for his role in a bar fight. [0]
A Felicity OH police captain received probation and he has been ordered to resign as part of his plea deal for confiscating drugs but failing to turn them over to evidence or file charges. [0]
A Monroe County TN deputy has been fired after police allegedly found him in street holding a club after an altercation while the police were responding to call about someone with a gun. The same deputy was recently cleared by an investigation into the mysterious death of a county election commissioner who was found shot to death hin the trunk of his burning car. [3]
Oak Grove KY police are being sued by a soldier who claims he was attacked by a police dog when he was getting out of his car as ordered by police who were responding to a call about him creating a disturbance at a truck stop. Video taken of the incident allegedly supports his version of events. [3]
A Taos County NM deputy is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he caused a man to suffer a brain injury by tasering him after an auto accident then allegedly beating with either his hands or a flashlight. (subscription site) [4]
A San Juan County CO deputy has been suspended while under investigation over allegations involving an altercation he had with a fireman for refusing to stay on scene and direct traffic for him that led to the deputy allegedly swerving towards him on the road while the firefighter was riding his motorcycle sometime after the incident. [3]
Santa Rosa County FL has settled a lawsuit for $55,000 and has expunged the record for a retired Air Force colonel who was wrongfully arrested by deputies in the wake of hurricane Ivan. Apparently he and a neighbor came out with guns when they saw the deputies walking around the neighbor’s home thinking they were looters. The deputies then attacked the neighbor, beating & tasering him then tackling his wife before arresting the victim on attempted murder charges because he fired his shotgun into the ground before he knew the officers were deputies, one of which was later convicted for excessive force. [0]
A Frederick County MD deputy is the subject of a lawsuit alleging that he unnecessarily shot a family’s pet Labrador impulsively and that a second deputy laughed about it in front of their daughter while the deputies visited the family’s home trying to find their son for unspecified reasons. [3]
A Pittsburgh PA police officer has been arrested over an alleged domestic violence incident inside his car that left his girlfriend with minor injuries. [0]
The Put-In-Bay OH police department is being accused of violating state public records laws by refusing to release police reports when requested by media. [4]
A Washington DC assistant police chief has been suspended while under investigation over allegations that she helped her command officers cheat on tests. [0]
An Erie County NY deputy has pled guilty to misprison of a felony in a plea deal for transporting about half a dozen prostitutes across the Canadian border for a fraternal organization’s meeting that apparently consisted of other law enforcement officers. [0]
Polk County FL deputy has resigned while under investigation over two sexual misconduct claims filed by women including one who claims that he began touching himself while driving her to jail after telling her she was sexy and asking to see her tattoos and the other who claimed he asked for a hug during a traffic stop then followed her home, asking to come inside. [1]
An Ohio state trooper has received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a drunk driving charge. The plea deal came after his first trial on the charge resulted in a hung jury. [0]
And finally, a Monroe County FL deputy has been fired after being arrested on a drunk driving charge involving property damage charges. [0]
A DeKalb County GA deputy has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for murdering his wife then murdering a day laborer in an attempt to pin the murder on him. [0]
A Plano TX narcotics officer claims that he was trying to use his gun-mounted light when he accidentally shot a suspect to death. [1]
An Abbeville LA police officer is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he tasered an elderly man who had called police to report a DV incident by his son-in-law that he was holding down when police arrived. [3]
A Fredricktown MO police captain has pled guilty to 22 charges including statutory sodomy and sexual exploitation of minor for molesting children after scout meetings. [0]
A Spencer IA police officer has pled no contest to a 4th degree sexual assault charge in an unspecified incident. He was sentenced to a fine and is cleared to return to duty. [3]
Five Jackson MS police officers are under investigation for after a store owner’s surveillance video appeared to support his claims that the officers harassed them then falsely arrested them for assaulting an officer after they had asked the officers why they were harassing and searching their customers. [3]
A Cape Coral FL police officer has resigned while his union was appealing his termination over a number of excessive force claims and two excessive force-related lawsuits. [0]
A Greenwood IN police officer is facing potential disciplinary action after he apparently pulled a gun on a man who confronted him about leaving his baby alone in a car while he was apparently drunk. [0]
A US Federal police officer has been given what equates to a suspended sentence and a $500 fine in a deal over animal cruelty and firearm charges relating to him fatally shooting a pet dog named Bear-Bear in a public park for playing with his dog. [0]
A Prince George’s County Maryland police officer is under investigation after he apparently chased a man and instigated an altercation inside a courthouse all because he apparently overheard the man tell a friend on the phone that he was happy an officer who is facing corruption charges was going to remain in jail until his next hearing. [1]
A Clovis NM police officer is under investigation after allegedly causing a fatal accident when he ran a stop sign in his cruiser. [0]
A Plattsburgh NY police officer has been arrested on assault and criminal mischief charges involving a domestic incident with his girlfriend. [1]
An East Orange NJ police officer has pled guilty to insurance fraud for setting fire to his own car in a bid to get insurance money because he was frustrated it was worth less than what he owed on it. [0]
A Jacksonville FL police officer is on unpaid leave after he was arrested and jailed for violating a domestic violence protection order. [0]
A Moss Point MS police officer has been fired for offering to rip up a woman’s traffic ticket in exchange for sex behind stadium. [0]
A Phoenix AZ police officer has accepted a plea deal that greatly reduced the number and severity of charges he faced for shaking down suspected drug dealers. [0]
Laguna Beach CA and Orange County CA settled a lawsuit for $380,000 to an innocent man who was tasered in his own bedroom shortly after he was awakened by deputies who entered his home in a case of mistaken ID, confusing him as a suspect then falsely arresting him when they figured out he wasn’t their man. [3]
A Grants NM police officer has been charged with battery on a household member after a domestic dispute involving a fellow officer following a night out at the bar. [0]
A Provo UT police officer has been charged with theft & possession of controlled substances on allegations that he attempted to fraudulently obtain prescription drugs using information he gained while responding to a call at someone’s home. The officer sparked suspicion by returning to the home for “follow-ups” and the victim caught the officer in the act by setting up a surveillance camera. [0]
A Henry County VA deputy has received a suspended sentence and a fine for a perjury charge after lying to grand jury that was investigating misconduct at the jail. [0]
A Dallas TX police officer has been suspended for 15 days for failing to show up at a DUI trial where he was set to testify and then lying about the reason why. [1]
An Eufaula OK police sergeant has resigned before a termination hearing that was scheduled in response to an unspecified state investigation. [3]
A Seattle WA police officer already under investigation over a video released by the press yesterday showing him kick a teen in the crotch, face, and chest is the subject of more scrutiny after reporters uncovered another video filmed right after that incident which shows the undercover cop punch a man who was trying to record what was happening on his cell phone. [5]
Meanwhile, Seattle WA police officials say they are investigating whether there was some sort of cover-up which prevented police commanders from being told about the video before the media told them about it, especially since the department had the video for nearly a month. If this kind of logic is difficult to grasp, think of it this way, the police want the police to investigate the police for failing to investigate the police. [4]
A Fort Worth TX narcotics officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in the middle of his trial for intoxicated manslaughter over a fatal DUI-related crash. [0]
A Windsor Locks CT police officer has been charged with manslaughter for fatally hitting teen with his car. The incident is still under investigation to determine why responding officers didn’t perform sobriety tests since a video shows the officer had been drinking prior to the crash. [0]
A Mentor OH police officer received a suspended sentence & probation for headbutting and beating a little league coach while at a game. [0]
A Fond du Lac WI police officer is under investigation for throwing a handcuffed mentally challenged man into a table, causing the man to suffer a gash on his head. [0]
A St Louis MO police lieutenant and one of her officers are both under investigation and the subject of a lawsuit filed by a teen girl who alleges that the lieutenant had her arrested on false charges because she didn’t like her seeing her son. Furthermore, once the complaint was made to police, the lieutenant’s son is accused of badly beating the girl, hospitalizing her for several days, when he attempted to coerce her into changing her story so his mom would lose her job. [2]
At least three Eugene OR police officers are the subject of a lawsuit alleging that dashcam video proves a man was falsely arrested for threatening to file a civil suit against police who had made him sit in the wet mud for nearly an hour while detained. Allegedly, a police supervisor showed up and told the officers that, since he was going to file a complaint, they would be screwed if they didn’t arrest him. [4]
4 Rialto CA police officers have been disciplined, but the department refuses to say how, after an investigation into allegations of on-duty group sex sessions with strippers that was sparked by a lawsuit by one of the women involved and caused two other cops to resign. [3]
A Bridgeport CT police lieutenant has been fired & 4 other officers suspended for up to 1 year for their roles in a “sordid” cover-up of a fellow officer’s DUI-related hit&run accident. [0]
A Newburgh NY police officer has been indicted on felony charges over his own hit & run accident that he attempted to cover up by himself and even collected insurance money from. [0]
A Berkeley County WV deputy has resigned after admitting to stealing oxycodone from evidence. However, this information only made it out to the public because the police had to tell a judge about it when asking him to exclude that information from another man’s trial since it may affect that case. [3]
A Hartford CT police officer has resigned as part of his sentence which includes 4 months of house arrest for his unlawful restraint & trespass conviction in a DV-related case. [0]
A Monroe County NY sheriff’s captain has been indicted on 1 computer tampering, 3 rape and 13 official misconduct charges revolving around allegations she had sex with inmates. [0]
Four Phoenix AZ police officers have been indicted on fraud & theft charges as part of fraud probe involving 25 other officers who are currently under investigation. [0]
A Minneapolis MN police chief is being criticized in a report by that city’s review board for only disciplining 6 of 11 cops who had sustained findings of misconduct after investigations. The chief claims he decided not to discipline them because the cases were too old. [1]
A Vidalia LA police chief has pled guilty to making false statements to federal agents who were investigating illegal gun sales. [0]
A Cincinnati OH police officer has resigned as part of his plea deal which reduced charges for intentionally torching his car to get insurance money. [0]
An Oceanside CA police officer is the subject of a lawsuit alleging he sexually harassed a nurse who was hired to do DUI blood draws for the department. The officer was fired after an investigation into the complaint. [1]
And finally, a Forsyth County NC deputy has been placed on leave after he was arrested on domestic assault charges for allegedly throwing a pumpkin at his wife during an argument. [0]
Once again, in Seattle Washington, the Seattle Police Department is scrambling after video was released through the media showing a police officer in a very questionable act. Not only was the release a problem for the department, so say police commanders, but it was that the video came to their attention via the media instead of their own department, which allegedly had the video all along.
This time it’s a video showing an undercover officer repeatedly kicking a 17-year-old boy who was obviously trying to comply with the officer’s orders and who appears to be completely innocent of what he’s being charged with, again, thanks to video which appears to contradict what the police had claimed.
Following on the heals of that video was another released just today showing the very same undercover officer punching a man who was trying to film what was happening outside the same convenience store right after the beating. The department again claimed ignorance and officials refused to even watch it, telling the media to forward a copy to their “Office of Professional Accountability” which had apparently botched the chance to investigate the first video…
Of course, this follows another videotape debacle in June involving a gang task force officer who was shown on video taken from a freelance “stringer” who caught the officer kicking an innocent man in the face shortly after telling him he would “kick the Mexican piss” out of him while several other officers stood around and did nothing. The problem with that video was that the TV station for whom the stringer worked for refused to air it due to, as the stringer claimed, it’s close working relationship with the Seattle Police Department which it relied on for story scoops and it’s top-rated Most Wanted show. Those allegations are also still under investigation to determine if officers have been applying pressure to keep such videos out of the media.
But, the Seattle Police Department’s problems with videos didn’t start there, unfortunately. Even before that case there was the story of a local computer security expert, Eric Rachner, who was told that video of his arrest, which he claimed was a false arrest which happened when he legally refused to show ID, didn’t exist because it had been deleted when he tried to get it to help his case. The police claims were later proven false thanks to the man’s computer expertise when he found that the video in question couldn’t have been erased.
In fact, going back even further we come to other instances where the department demonstrated it’s dislike for being filmed in the Bogdan Mohora case, in the department’s persistent resistance to the idea of surveillance cameras installed inside precincts in areas where officers interact with detainees, and for the union’s resistance to personnel-mounted cameras which are now being deployed in agencies across the nation. That resistance forced the department to box up their cameras and send them back instead of deploying them.
Even further back still there was the Post Alley case where video from several surveillance cameras which should have captured an incident where an officer shot an unarmed defense attorney mysteriously went missing and the Funhouse case where police allegedly sat on video that would have exonerated an innocent man who was arrested and wrongly jailed for over a month after being beaten outside of a club.
Given this long sordid history the Seattle PD has with videotapes it seems strange that the department’s command staff, or anyone else for that matter, was surprised that they hadn’t heard about the latest videos for nearly a month since they came into the department’s possession. Hardly surprising given the history here. But strangely it’s still being viewed as a one-time anomaly instead of just one more in a long string of events.
While a large debate has been raging in a number of states in which police departments have been pushing to make it a crime to record the police… but what we should not forget is that, in some places, that fight against public accountability via video takes on a more subtle tone as it does in Seattle where police don’t make it a crime… they just make it go away.
Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for Wednesday, November 17, 2010:
At least one Miami Florida police officer is under investigation after a YouTube video came to everyone’s attention that shows an officer repeatedly punch a man who was being held down by several other officers. No word on what sparked the incident. [4]
A Seattle Washington undercover police officer has been suspended reassigned while under investigation after he was shown on surveillance video in a convenience store kicking a 17-year-old boy in the leg, groin and head while he appeared to be complying with commands. The boy was arrested on suspicion of being involved in a drug-buy bust that went bad when the targets of the sting allegedly attempted to rob the undercover cop who was attempting to buy drugs. [1]
Barberton Ohio has settled a lawsuit for $5,250,000 to a man who claimed police withheld exculpatory evidence that would have prevented him from being wrongfully imprisoned for for 7 years when he was convicted for murdering and raping his mother-in-law and raping his 6-year-old niece. He was freed after DNA evidence showed it was the neighbor’s boyfriend who did it instead. [0]
An Orange Texas police captain has been indefinitely suspended after an investigation into the shooting death of a man outside an auto parts store when he had a dispute with employees about a return. [1]
A Huron County Ohio deputy has resigned after an investigation into allegations that he “field-goal kicked” a detainee in the face while he was on the ground, causing the man to be hospitalized when he began suffering seizures in the back of the officer’s cruiser. [0]
Two Anne Arundel County Maryland police officers are the subject of a lawsuit filed by a deaf man who claims they used excessive force and falsely arrested him for assaulting an officer after he had called police to report a robbery at his home. The man could only communicate with officers via written notes and he, as well as an EMT at the scene, claim that the officer tackled him and arrested him when he claims he was assaulted when the man tried to give the officer a note by pressing it against his chest. [3]
The police chief of Bel Nor Missouri is the subject of a lawsuit filed by three former police officers who claim that they were fired after they blew the whistle on alleged misconduct by the chief who they say was using an officer’s locker to store his pornography and that he used racial slurs against a female officer and when describing residents of that town. [4]
A Montgomery County Maryland police officer was fined $185 for speeding when he hit a 12-year-old kid with his cruiser and left him with severe brain damage and paralyzed from his neck down. That case was also in our recap yesterday as it cost the county $400,000 in a civil suit settlement. [4]
A deputy US marshal has been sentenced to 8 years in prison on a conviction for false imprisonment and bondage in a case where police found photographs he took of a woman he allegedly drugged then handcuffed after stripping her naked. The pictures were discovered while he was under investigation for similar claims made by another woman who worked with the officer. [0]
A New Castle Indiana police detective has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography by taking explicit photographs of a 16-year-old girl. [0]
Two Milwaukee Wisconsin police officers have been suspended for 15 days without pay for failing to investigate and report a sexual assault claim made by a woman who was found naked and had led police to the knife used by her attacker. They allegedly told her to get dressed and go to the hospital instead. [0]
A Pawtucket Rhode Island police officer has been arrested on indecent exposure and disorderly conduct charges after a couple of women claim that they saw him masturbating in his truck while he was driving alongside them on the road. The officer claimed that he wasn’t masturbating, he was just peeing in a jar. [0]
The Thomasville Alabama police department is the subject of a lawsuit alleging that the department violated state laws and a juvenile suspect’s rights when they released his name for publication in the local paper’s police blotter, causing him to be expelled from school. As a side note, we published the report on our site as we do on occasion when we are notified of a credible misconduct claim that hasn’t been published elsewhere. [3]
A Raleigh North Carolina police officer has been arrested for attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud after he allegedly used information he uncovered while responding to a call to try and get a fraudulent prescription filled. [0]
A New York NY narcotics officer has been arrested after he was allegedly caught trying to buy $40,000 worth of rave drugs so that he could sell them himself. [0]
A Blackshear Georgia police officer has been suspended without pay after he was arrested on charges related to the illegal sale of firearms along with two pawn shop employees. [0]
An Orlando Florida police officer has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for embezzling $200,000 of FEMA and city funds. The judge explained that he gave the officer a light sentence just because she was a police officer. [0]
The sheriff of San Saba County Texas is facing a possible criminal investigation after several tourists and residents of San Saba city filed complaints against him alleging mistreatment and unfounded traffic stops. [2]
The police chief of Natalia Texas has been fired while he was the subject of an unspecified investigation being performed by the Medina County sheriff’s department. [3]
A Polk County Georgia deputy has been fired for what the sheriff there described as “slandering the department” via comments the deputy made on an internet discussion site. Officials are refusing to say what the discussion was about but it appeared to be related to allegations of infidelity by certain sheriff’s department staff members. [3]
A Lafayette Louisiana police corporal has been placed on paid leave while under investigation over an unspecified complaint. While officials refuse to release any details the officer was the subject of two previous excessive force lawsuits, one of which is still pending. [2]
And finally, two Jackson Wisconsin police officers are shown on video arresting copblock founder Adam Mueller on a bench warrant for an unpaid traffic ticket while threatening to confiscate the filmer’s (Pete Eyre of Copblock as well) camera. After a plain clothes officer finally relents with the threats the video then shows the officers cuff and drag Adam to an unmarked car but doesn’t show any active resistance on the part of Adam… yet that didn’t stop the officers from charging him with resisting arrest and obstruction. Watch the video at their site (can’t embed it here since it autoplays) and let us know if you agree with the charges and if you think the actions by the officers were legitimate. [5]
Were the actions of the officers and the charges they filed legitimate?
Both the charges and other actions were acts of misconduct. (90%, 103 Votes)
The resisting charges were deserved, but not the threats for filming it. (6%, 7 Votes)
Both trying to stop the video and the resisting charges were right. (3%, 3 Votes)
Attempting to stop filming was right, but there was no resistance. (1%, 1 Votes)
The city of Thomasville Alabama and the Thomasville Alabama police department are the subject of a lawsuit filed on behalf of a juvenile alleging that the minor’s rights were violated by the police department when they released his name in their police blotter in apparent violation of state law.
However, the suit claims, this was done in violation of state law which requires juvenile records to remain confidential unless the child in question is charged as an adult, which Jared was not. The law goes on to make it a class A misdemeanor for anyone who knowingly permits the release of information identifying a child by name who is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
The suit is requesting an unspecified sum to compensate for the violation of Jared’s rights and damages caused due to the apparently illegal release of his information to the media and his school and claims that this isn’t the first time the department has violated the law in this way.
Information on Jared’s arrest listed online indicates that he was charged with the manufacture of an unspecified controlled substance but does not include information on the ultimate disposition of his case. Requests for comments from the police chief of Thomasville Alabama and the town’s attorney were not answered.
The NPMSRP, while primarily a research project, will occasionally publish reports of police misconduct when they meet credibility criteria, are accompanied by backing information, and have not been published elsewhere. This is done in order to meet our report tracking requirements which state all reports tracked for statistical analysis must be available for public review. For any questions, comments, or concerns please contact us via our contact page.
A Portland Oregon police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in the back while he was attempting to surrender has been fired and three other officers each received 80 hour suspensions for their roles in the incident, one of which had repeatedly shot the man with beanbag rounds before he was fatally shot. [0]
A shooting incident involving a mounted US Border Patrol officer in Arizona is the subject of an FBI investigation. Details have been sketchy about this incident but some reports are indicating that the officer shot an illegal immigrant in the stomach who was already on the ground after he fell down while 11 others scattered. None of the people arrested had any firearms or drugs but investigators are not sure whether the shooting was intentional or accidental. [3]
A Volusia County Florida deputy received a sentence of community service in a plea deal for beating a 16yr-old police explorer after the boy egged a car belonging to a party guest at the deputy’s home. [0]
Cook County Illinois has settled a class action lawsuit for a stunning $55,300,000 sum for which the bulk will go to anywhere from 250,000 up to about 400,000 people who were improperly strip searched at jail, many of which were stripped and then verbally degraded by guards and deputies in groups as large as 100 at a time. The current sheriff blames the former for the practice and says he solved it by using the same scanners the TSA uses to see through the clothes of airline passengers… welcome to prison-air. [0]
Montgomery County Maryland has settled a lawsuit for $400,000 to the family of a 12-year-old child who was left with severe brain damage and quadriplegic after he was hit by an off-duty officer in a police cruiser who was speeding on his way to his second job. The family says that it doesn’t even put a dent in the millions they’ll have to spend taking care of their child’s medical bills. [0]
Denver Colorado has settled a lawsuit for $140,000 to a mother and her three children who were injured when a police officer hit their car with a police cruiser he was speeding in without his lights or siren activated. [0]
A North Miami Florida police officer is on leave while he’s the subject of investigation on allegations that he had sex with multiple high school students. Officials are trying to downplay it by saying that the case is just based on rumors about one girl, but it’s unclear why investigators are suspecting that he might have had sex with multiple students. [1]
The Phoenix Arizona police union and a number of officers are the subject of an investigation on allegations of witness intimidation and obstruction involving their support of a police officer charged with murder for the on-duty shooting death of an unarmed man which was exposed by another officer at the scene. It’s unclear if the investigation will last long since the prosecutor investigating the allegations lost an election to an opponent who was heavily supported by that police union. [3]
Two Portland Oregon police officers are on desk duty after their separate drunk driving arrests, one of which involved a two-car accident. [0]
An Indianapolis Indiana police officer who was recently in the news for crashing his police cruiser while allegedly under the influence has now been charged with possession, forgery, and prescription drug fraud. [0]
A Cañon City Colorado police officer has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to a firearm-involved road rage incident where he was accused of pointing a firearm at a motorist while off-duty. [0]
A Mukwonago Wisconsin police officer has been charged with felony misconduct in office on allegations that he forged his girlfriend’s court-ordered breathalyzer tests. [0]
A Portland Oregon police captain has been suspended for 80 hours and ordered to participate in “tolerance training” after an investigation into how he erected a tribute to Naz war criminals in a park then hiding it, with the help of city officials, when he was being sued for using excessive force on anti-war protesters. [0]
An Allen County Ohio deputy is facing possible disciplinary action after being arrested on domestic violence charge in a dispute with his wife. [1]
An Indianapolis Indiana police officer who fired his gun inside his police cruiser during a fight with his girlfriend has taken a plea deal that resulted in his being sentenced to 90 days of home detention. [0]
A McCall Idaho police detective who recently resigned for unspecified reasons is now the subject of a tort claim, the precursor to a lawsuit in some states, alleging that he intentionally outed an informant to drug dealers and bragged about it while she was receiving death threats because of it. [2]
A McKeesport Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with official oppression and trespassing after he allegedly broke into a woman’s home after she left by using a key hidden under the welcome mat and then making a copy of that key. When he was confronted about it he denied it at first but then excused it by saying he was “just being stupid.” [0]
A Mora County New Mexico deputy resigns after crashing his patrol car on duty then refusing to take a breathalyzer. He blamed his dashboard computer for distracting him. [0]
A Rochester Minnesota police officer has resigned after pleading guilty to tipping off drug dealers about pending investigations and moving money for dealers. [0]
A Baltimore Maryland police officer has been fired for looking up a license plate number as a favor to a suspected drug dealer… that license plate happened to belong to an undercover officer. [0]
And finally, a Freehold Twp New Jersey police officer who made over $98,000 last year has been arrested on allegations that he stole $498 worth of flooring materials from a home improvement store. [0]
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