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Postby AliquippaPen » Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:08 am

I'm against the death penalty but that cop should be drawn and quartered

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Postby Shyster » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:49 am

Former Boston police union president Patrick Rose pleads guilty to child rape charges
https://www.wcvb.com/article/former-bos ... 0/39814484
BOSTON — A former Boston Police Department officer who later went on to become head of the police union had plead guilty to several charges of child rape.

Patrick Rose Sr., 67, was originally charged with 33 counts in connection with the rape and abuse of at least six children in the 1990s. Some of the charges included statutory rape and indecent assault and battery on a child.

Rose appeared in court Monday in shackles, where he pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including rape of a child.

"Some of these victims describe being sexually assaulted upwards of 200 times," said Assistant District Attorney Audrey Mark.

Rose's victims were sometimes 6, 7 or 8 years old, prosecutors said, and he raped the six victims in his West Roxbury home over the course of 30 years until 2020.

"By virtue of his position, he had their trust, and he violated it over and over. He violated their bodies. And these children, and these adult survivors will live with that trauma for the rest of their lives," Mark said after the court listened to victim impact statements.

Rose addressed the courtroom Monday.

"I am so sorry to each and every one of you. Please try to accept that I am solely responsible, and not let your hatred destroy who you are or each other," he said.

Rose was sentenced to 10 to 13 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation. Upon release, Rose cannot be unsupervised with children, must stay away from victims and must register as a sex offender.

"While there is no punishment or condemnation too severe for a man guilty of the atrocious crimes committed by Pat Rose, we hope today’s decision will bring with it some small level of comfort, closure and vindication for the victims and their families," Boston Police Patrolmen's Association President Larry Calderone said in a statement.

So the Boston police union hopes that the conviction of its former president will bring "closure and vindication" for the victims. But note this line from the news report:
The city confirmed that Rose faced a child abuse allegation in 1995 but remained on the force and was reinstated to full duty in 1997.
And note this as well:
Along with releasing 14 redacted pages of documents related to the mid-90s internal affairs investigations, then-Mayor Kim Janey issued a statement that called the department's handling of the situation "deeply unsettling."

"Based on a review of former Officer Rose’s internal affairs file conducted by the City’s Law Department, it is clear that previous leaders of the police department neglected their duty to protect and serve," she wrote.

In fact, the 1990s internal-affairs investigation sustained allegations of "Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child Under 14." That's a felony worth 10 years in prison. Instead of going to jail, or even being charged, Rose was given two years of desk duty, at which point the Boston police union threatened to file a grievance if he was not returned to full duty. So what we actually have is the Blue Code of Silence covering up for a child-rapist cop, that cop getting two years of desk duty instead of no criminal charges or prosecution, the Boston police union demanding that rapist cop be returned to full duty, and that child-raping cop eventually becoming the union president. And that cop kept raping children for more than 20 years. How many hundreds of rapes could have been prevented if the cops and police union had not covered for one of their own? And who wants to bet that a police union headed by a now-convicted child rapist might have covered up other crimes committed by other cops?

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Postby Ad@m » Wed May 04, 2022 6:27 pm

A Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) have arrested Trooper Joseph W. Czachorowski on illegal controlled substance charges.


The 44-year-old, who was stationed with Troop K in Philadelphia, was arrested Wednesday, May, 4 after a U.S. postal inspector intercepted a package addressed to Czachorowski that contained steroids. Thirty oxymetholone pills and two vials of trenbolone acetate were found inside the package. A search warrant was also issued and police found additional controlled substances at his residence.

Czachorowski has been charged with misdemeanor counts of possessing a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, marijuana possession and instruments of crime.

While the investigation is ongoing, Czachorowski has been suspended without pay pending the resolution of the criminal charges brought against him. He’s been with PSP since Nov. 2014.

Czachorowski is out on bail and has his preliminary hearing scheduled for May 17.

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Postby Shyster » Fri May 06, 2022 2:34 am

I've posted on this story before. The (now former) Colorado cop who broke the arm of 73-year-old Karen Garner, who suffers from dementia, and then laughed about it while rewatching his body-cam video is now headed to jail for five years. He could have received 10 to 30, but the DA offered a plea against the wishes of Garner's family. Garner has already received a $3 million civil-rights settlement from the city of Loveland, Colorado.


Ex-officer sentenced to 5 years in prison for violent arrest of 73-year-old woman
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/austin-hop ... rs-prison/
Nearly two years after violently arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia, former Colorado police officer Austin Hopp was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday as part of a plea agreement to lessen his jail time. The June 2020 arrest left Karen Garner with a broken arm, sprained wrist and separated shoulder, CBS Denver reported.

In Larimer County Court in early March, Hopp pleaded guilty to an assault charge that was punishable by 2 to 8 years in prison. That avoided the minimum 10 to 30 or more years in prison he would have faced with a trial and conviction.

Hopp first encountered Garner after being dispatched to a report of an attempted theft at a Loveland Walmart, according to CBS Denver. Garner, who has dementia, allegedly tried to steal less than $15 worth of goods from the store. When confronted by Walmart staff, she returned the items and walked out of the store.

Body camera footage from Hopp showed the officer approaching Garner as she walked home. Carrying a wildflower in her hand, she failed to comply with multiple orders to stop. Hopp is then seen grabbing Garner by the arm and forcefully taking her to the ground, CBS Denver reported.

As fellow officer Daria Jalali responded to the scene, Hopp allegedly separated Garner's shoulder by forcing her arm behind her back and up near her shoulder blades, CBS Denver said. An audible pop is heard on the camera, something Hopp acknowledged hearing in footage later released by Loveland police.

Garner was taken to a holding facility at the Loveland Police Department, where she complained multiple times about having injuries, CBS Denver reported. She was allegedly forced to sit in a holding cell without medical attention for hours, even after Hopp, Jalali and another employees were heard on security footage acknowledging that she may have injuries.

After a brief investigation, Hopp resigned from the Loveland Police Department, as did Jalali. Both were arrested and charged with crimes related to Garner's arrest.

As first reported by CBS Denver, the Larimer County District Attorney's Office elected to move forward with a plea agreement against the will of the Garner family. The family felt the video in the case proved Hopp was guilty on all counts beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Postby Shyster » Mon May 09, 2022 8:14 pm

No surprise that ex-cop Eric Adams is defending a woman being arrested and strip-searched for the heinous crime of selling mangoes:



Note that Maria Falcon does have a food-vendor license. But she doesn't have a vending permit, which are capped in NYC at 5,000 permits for the entire city. The wait list for a permit is about as long as the wait list for Green Bay Packers season tickets. The waitlist has been closed to new entries for more than 10 years because there are already over 6,000 people on it. So Ms. Falcon was arrested for not having a permit that NYC artificially caps and refuses to expand.

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Postby Shyster » Tue May 10, 2022 4:35 am

A new Reuters special report:

U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/sp ... extremism/
On social media, Richard Whitehead is a warrior for the American right. He has praised extremist groups. He has called for public executions of government officials he sees as disloyal to former President Donald Trump. In a post in 2020, he urged law enforcement officers to disobey COVID-19 public-health orders from “tyrannical governors,” adding: “We are on the brink of civil war.”

Whitehead also has a day job. He trains police officers around the United States.

The Idaho-based law enforcement consultant has taught at least 560 police officers and other public safety workers in 85 sessions in 12 states over the past four years, according to a Reuters analysis of public records from the departments that hired him. A Washington state training commission in 2015 temporarily banned Whitehead from advertising courses on its website because of instructional materials that referred to a turban-wearing police officer as a “towel head” and contained cartoons of women in bikinis, according to emails from the commission to Whitehead that were reviewed by Reuters. Other marketing literature touted Whitehead’s “deception detection” technique that, among other things, teaches officers not to trust sexual-assault claimants if they use the word “we” in referring to themselves and their assailant.

The commission was responding to a student complaint citing “offensive slurs” and “blatant misogyny.” Whitehead said in an interview that the commission had given too much credence to one student’s opinion and caused him to lose business. Since then, he said, he has expanded the section of his course that caused that controversy, adding more “pot-stirring” material, including a slide that ridicules transgender people: “Suspect is a gender-fluid assigned-male-at-birth wearing non-gender-specific clothing born Caucasian but identifies as a mountain panda.” Whitehead said such barbs are intended to push back against pressures on law enforcement to espouse left-wing views on gender or race.

Whitehead is part of a trend in pushing a radical-right political agenda to American police forces. He’s one of five police trainers identified by Reuters whose political commentary on social media has echoed extremist opinions or who have public ties to far-right figures. They work for one or more of 35 training firms that advertised at least 10 police or public-safety training sessions in 2021, according to a Reuters analysis of scheduling data from policetraining.net, the main site where local departments connect with trainers. The news organization also reviewed materials describing classes by specific training companies.

The five trainers have aired views including the belief in a vote-rigging conspiracy to unseat Trump in the 2020 election. One trainer attended Trump’s January 6, 2021, rally at the U.S. Capitol that devolved into a riot, injuring more than 100 police officers. Two of the trainers have falsely asserted that prominent Democrats including President Joe Biden are pedophiles, a core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Four have endorsed or posted records of their past interactions with far-right extremist figures, including prominent “constitutional sheriff” leader David Clarke Jr. and Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs, who is being prosecuted for his involvement in the Capitol riots.
The tl:dr version: Prominent police-training consultants who teach hundreds of cops every year: (1) have ties to groups like the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and boogaloo movement; (2) have expressed elements of QAnon conspiracy theory; and (3) and have claimed that the 2020 election was a "socialist plot to seize the U.S. government." These are the same people who teach "warrior" training to police that teaches them to mistrust the public and view everyone as a threat.

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Postby Shyster » Fri May 13, 2022 12:17 am

Given the widespread adoption of police-worn body cameras and the modern ubiquity of cameras, one would think that the police would have learned by now that it's much harder now to get away with such blatant lies. Yet they clearly don't care. That they keep lying tells me that they know--thanks to factors like qualified immunity, pro-cop union contracts, and "internal affairs" offices manned by cops who wouldn't dream of breaking the Blue Code--that there will be no consequences for getting caught. In that context, lying about something like not searching the luggage makes perfect sense. If no one ever checks the body cams, then the matter is closed. And even if someone does catch the lies, what does it matter if there is no punishment? Lying is win/win so long as there's no repercussions for lying.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:28 pm

:lol:


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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:53 pm

https://www.facebook.com/uvaldepd

Just, you know, generally.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:37 pm

Officers arrested, searched residents for no reason — then stole their cash, feds say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/officers-arr ... 07875.html
A squad of officers conducted illegal searches and arrests in New Jersey as a pretext to rob residents out of cash, federal prosecutors say.

Now, a sergeant is facing decades in prison.

On May 26, a federal jury convicted Michael Cheff on one count of conspiracy to deprive persons of civil rights and one count of falsification of a police report, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.

The 51 year-old was a sergeant with the Paterson Police Department in Paterson, New Jersey, a city about 20 miles northwest of New York City at the time of the case, court documents show.

Cheff’s defense attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from McClatchy News.

Cheff supervised a squad of officers that worked together on a shift that began at 4:30 a.m. and ended at 3:45 p.m., court documents show.

Prosecutors said between 2016 and 2018, Cheff and his officers conducted illegal stops and searches of individuals in their vehicles, on the streets or in their homes and stole money from them.

As a sergeant, one of Cheff’s responsibilities was to approve officers’ reports and other paperwork related to “arrests and seizures of money, narcotics, and firearms, among other things,” according to the indictment.

Prosecutors said when making illegal stops, the officers would steal cash from the vehicle’s occupants, split it among themselves and pass a cut of the stolen money to their sergeant, Cheff.

Officers used the same tactics while searching individuals in buildings or on the streets, court documents show.

Prosecutors said Cheff was able to conceal the scheme by approving false reports submitted by officers “that omitted, or lied about, their illegal activities.”

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"To serve and protect"

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Postby dodint » Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:07 pm

Saw that. I chuckled.

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Postby Ad@m » Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:22 am

Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the arrest of nine people, including a Hanover Township police officer, who were allegedly trafficking drugs in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties.

According to the release, the investigation began in December 2021 into the alleged ringleaders of the organization, Gerinardo Rivera and Ramon Severino Fernandez.

Police say investigators learned Rivera and Fernandez were getting drug resupplies from a Mexican source and using an apartment in Wilkes-Barre as the “stash house”.

Officials stated the owner of the stash house, Kevin Davis, is related to Rivera by marriage and is an active police officer for Hanover Township.

The investigation said that Davis was aware of Rivera and Fernandez’s work and assisted them in the operation.

According to the affidavit, the six-month investigation, conducted by the Office of AG’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation, resulted in the arrests of nine individuals, including Rivera, Fernandez, and Davis.

Agents say they also seized 10 pounds of meth worth over $600,000, 2.7 pounds or 63,000 doses of fentanyl, 10 pounds of marijuana, and $15,063 in cash.

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Postby dodint » Sun Jul 10, 2022 11:22 pm

Sure hope there is a case on point in that circuit.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:03 pm

Coralville man to receive $390,000 settlement after wrongly accused of impaired driving
https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts ... d-driving/
The cities of Iowa City and Coralville have reached a $390,000 civil settlement with a Coralville man who was wrongly accused of drunken driving even without any evidence of alcohol or drugs in his system — which caused him to lose his apartment and job and delayed treatment for a brain injury.

Anthony Watson sued the two cities and two police officers — Iowa City Officer Travis Graves and Coralville Officer Jeff Reinhard — for negligence resulting in personal injury, false arrest, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and malicious prosecution, according to the petition.

The settlement is on the agenda for the Iowa City Council to approve Tuesday. Iowa City will pay half — $195,000 — and Coralville will pay the other half, according to the resolution approving the settlement.
Watson’s lawyer, Marty Diaz, declined to comment last week.

On Dec. 16, 2017, Watson stopped at the Casey’s store on the corner of Dubuque and Market streets to get gas and was approached by Graves, who was investigating a reckless driving incident. The officer hadn’t witnessed it but was sent to that location by a dispatcher who had a report of a reckless driver.

Graves interviewed Watson and asked him to perform field sobriety tests, which he passed. Graves then asked him to take a preliminary breath test, which Watson did and it showed no alcohol use.

The officer was suspicious that Watson might be under the influence of a drug and requested assistance from Reinhard to perform a drug use evaluation at the Iowa City Police Department. Watson agreed to go there for the evaluation, according to the suit.

The evaluation, which is an unscientific and subjective assessment, the lawsuit noted, determined Watson was under the influence of marijuana despite the lack of drug testing.

Watson then agreed to provide a urine specimen, which also came back negative for marijuana or any other drug. But Reinhard and Graves still arrested him for OWI, first offense, a serious misdemeanor. However, Reinhard failed to disclose the results of the urine specimen test in his arrest report.

At the time of arrest, the officers knew they didn’t have probable cause to make the arrest, and also knew Watson was on parole so he would face an additional charge for violating his parole and would likely remain in jail pending his trial, the lawsuit contends.

On Dec. 17, Graves filed his criminal complaint against Watson, which also failed to disclose the lack of breath and urine testing, according to the suit. One of the officers also contacted a parole officer about Watson’s arrest and the parole officer filed a report against Watson for violating his parole.

A criminal charge against Watson was filed Jan. 9, 2018 by the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.

The Coralville Police Department sent Watson’s urine specimen taken on Dec. 16, 2017, for further testing, which came back Feb. 1, 2018. But there was no evidence of drug use, according to the suit.

Watson was finally released from the Johnson County Jail March 6, 2018, after being there since Dec. 16, 2017.

The Johnson County Attorney’s office dismissed the charge against Watson April 9, 2018 for “anticipated problems of proof fatal to the prosecution — breath and toxicology came back negative for alcohol and/or controlled substances.”

As a result of Watson being held in jail for months, he lost his apartment and job and he didn’t get the medical care he needed for a brain injury, the suit contends. He had a seizure and wasn’t immediately taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where he was eventually admitted and treated for encephalopathy — damage or disease that affects the brain.

The tl:dr version: Police in Iowa arrest a man for impaired driving who passed field-sobriety tests, passed a breath test for alcohol, and passed a urine test for other drugs. And the cops who arrested him specifically omitted the clean urine test from their arrest report. Because he was on parole at the time, the arrest resulted in the revocation of his parole, and he spent months in jail, during which he not only lost his job and apartment, but he had a seizure that wasn't properly treated and resulted in a brain injury.

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Postby MR25 » Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:29 pm



Among other acts of cowardice, but this one sticks out.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:37 pm

"officers responded"

That's a rather inaccurate way of describing now.

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