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Soooooooooo...I'm guessing he will be arrested and charged with SrA Forston's murder any minute now.
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they still lie even when the camera is on and usually still no real accountability..
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Yeah, I know. Not sure what we can do about it tho.
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A former Mississippi “Goon Squad” officer convicted in the brutal racist attack of two Black men has been named in a lawsuit for allegedly beating an inmate at the Rankin County jail.
Christopher Mack filed a federal civil lawsuit Tuesday accusing the former Rankin County deputy, Brett Morris McAlpin, and eight others of beating him for 45 minutes following a May 27, 2021, arrest.
Mack suffered broken ribs, a broken nose and bruises, the suit says. He continues to deal with psychological issues stemming from the beating, his attorney said Saturday.
“You can recover from a broken nose and broken ribs,” attorney Trent Walker said. “There’s obviously ongoing psychological injury and we’re certainly trying to make sure that he gets the help that he needs there, because as with many people that have been subjected to this sort of violence, it’s a traumatic incident.”
Mack was arrested by officers in the city of Pearl and transported to the Rankin County jail, according to the lawsuit. It alleges that McAlpin and another deputy, Ricky Davis, called and had Mack brought to the front area, where they questioned him about “possible information he had about drugs and gangs.”
When Mack exercised his right to remain silent, another deputy “hit Mack in the back of the head with a set of heavy steel jail keys,” the lawsuit says. McAlpin and Davis allegedly joined the deputy in beating Mack, according to the suit. NBC News was unable to reach Davis for comment and he has no attorney of record listed.…….
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Christopher Mack filed a federal civil lawsuit Tuesday accusing the former Rankin County deputy, Brett Morris McAlpin, and eight others of beating him for 45 minutes following a May 27, 2021, arrest.
Mack suffered broken ribs, a broken nose and bruises, the suit says. He continues to deal with psychological issues stemming from the beating, his attorney said Saturday.
“You can recover from a broken nose and broken ribs,” attorney Trent Walker said. “There’s obviously ongoing psychological injury and we’re certainly trying to make sure that he gets the help that he needs there, because as with many people that have been subjected to this sort of violence, it’s a traumatic incident.”
Mack was arrested by officers in the city of Pearl and transported to the Rankin County jail, according to the lawsuit. It alleges that McAlpin and another deputy, Ricky Davis, called and had Mack brought to the front area, where they questioned him about “possible information he had about drugs and gangs.”
When Mack exercised his right to remain silent, another deputy “hit Mack in the back of the head with a set of heavy steel jail keys,” the lawsuit says. McAlpin and Davis allegedly joined the deputy in beating Mack, according to the suit. NBC News was unable to reach Davis for comment and he has no attorney of record listed.…….
Former Mississippi 'Goon Squad' officer accused in lawsuit of another beating prior to conviction for racist attack
Christopher Mack filed a lawsuit accusing former Rankin County deputy Brett McAlpin and eight others of beating him for 45 minutes following a 2021 arrest.
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Article goes on to say that the cop retired one day before the arraignment. Wonder if there was financial benefit to that (protect pension or something)
Oh, and fork the cop association president from the video
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A Former Michigan State Trooper appeared in court on murder charges for allegedly hitting and killing a fleeing suspect with his vehicle during a pursuit.
The fatal incident was all captured on shocking bodyworn camera footage that has been released by Michigan State Police officials.
Former State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keely pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in Samuel Sterling’s death.
Investigators say that Sterling had been approached by several agencies in Kentwood, Michigan, on 17 April for outstanding felonywarrants.
Police said that the suspect ran from them, causing a chase that ended when the vehicle Keely was driving struck him. The man was transported to a nearby hospital but died from his injuries later that day.….
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Oh, and fork the cop association president from the video
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A Former Michigan State Trooper appeared in court on murder charges for allegedly hitting and killing a fleeing suspect with his vehicle during a pursuit.
The fatal incident was all captured on shocking bodyworn camera footage that has been released by Michigan State Police officials.
Former State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keely pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in Samuel Sterling’s death.
Investigators say that Sterling had been approached by several agencies in Kentwood, Michigan, on 17 April for outstanding felonywarrants.
Police said that the suspect ran from them, causing a chase that ended when the vehicle Keely was driving struck him. The man was transported to a nearby hospital but died from his injuries later that day.….
Former cop charged with murder for hitting fleeing suspect with car
Samuel Sterling died after vehicle driven by former State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keely struck him during April incident which was captured on bodycam video
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Colorado authorities have agreed to pay $8.5m to a woman who was left handcuffed in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train.A Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train was found guilty of reckless endangerment and assault but was acquitted of a third charge of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter during a trial Friday.
Jordan Steinke was the first of two officers to go to trial over the 16 September 2022 crash that left Yareni Rios-Gonzalez seriously injured.
There was no jury in Steinke’s trial, which started Monday. Instead, judge Timothy Kerns listened to the evidence and issued the verdict.
“There’s no reasonable doubt that placing a handcuffed person in the back of a patrol car, parked on railroad tracks, creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm by the train,” Kerns said.
But the evidence did not convince Kerns that Steinke “knowingly intended to harm Ms Rios-Gonzalez,” and he added that Stienke had shown “shock and remorse”.
Steinke testified that she did not know that the patrol car of another officer she was helping was parked on the tracks even though they can be seen on her body camera footage along with two railroad crossing signs. Steinke said she was focused on the threat that could come from Rios-Gonzalez and her pickup truck, not the ground.
Steinke said she put Rios-Gonzalez in the other officer’s vehicle because it was the nearest spot to temporarily hold her. She said she didn’t know the train was coming until just before it hit.
The judge found that Steinke observed the tracks, but failed to “appreciate the risk”…….
US officer who put handcuffed woman in car hit by freight train found guilty
Jordan Steinke convicted on misdemeanour charges but found not guilty of more serious charges over 2022 crash in Coloradowww.theguardian.com
The incident took place on 16 September 2022, near Platteville, Colorado, after Pablo Vazquez, then a Platteville police sergeant, had stopped Yareni Rios-Gonzalez following a reported road-rage incident involving a gun.….
Colorado woman left inside police car that was hit by train to receive $8.5m
Authorities agree on payout to Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, who suffered serious injuries while handcuffed inside vehicle
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In Riverside, California, the families of several people who have died in the county’s jails are mounting an uphill battle: to force the creation of an independent coroner’s office.
Their fight comes amid a headline-making spike in jail deaths in this sprawling county east of Los Angeles. In 2022, at least 19 people died while held in Riverside county detention facilities, according to California department of justice data. That’s a higher rate of jail deaths than in LA county that year, which had three times as many inmates. Last year, at least 14 people died in the Riverside county detention centers.
But the high number of deaths isn’t the only reason behind the families’ quest. In Riverside county, as in 48 of California’s 58 counties, the coroner’s office is run by the sheriff’s department – the same agency that runs the jails.
That structure, legal experts say, presents at least the perception of a conflict of interest when someone dies in jail, in police custody, or following police use of force.……
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Their fight comes amid a headline-making spike in jail deaths in this sprawling county east of Los Angeles. In 2022, at least 19 people died while held in Riverside county detention facilities, according to California department of justice data. That’s a higher rate of jail deaths than in LA county that year, which had three times as many inmates. Last year, at least 14 people died in the Riverside county detention centers.
But the high number of deaths isn’t the only reason behind the families’ quest. In Riverside county, as in 48 of California’s 58 counties, the coroner’s office is run by the sheriff’s department – the same agency that runs the jails.
That structure, legal experts say, presents at least the perception of a conflict of interest when someone dies in jail, in police custody, or following police use of force.……
In a California county where the sheriff is also the coroner, families seek change
Families of people who died in one of Riverside county’s jails say they lack confidence in the system investigating their loved ones deaths
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How were these cops not fired???
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A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive.
During the 2018 interrogation of Thomas Perez Jr by police in Fontana, a city east of Los Angeles, officers suggested they would have Perez’s dog euthanized as a result of his actions, according to a complaint and footage of the encounter. A
judge said the questioning appeared to be “unconstitutional psychological torture”, and the city agreed to settle Perez’s lawsuit for $898,000, his lawyer announced this week.
The extraordinary case of a coerced false confession has sparked widespread outrage, with footage showing Perez in extreme emotional and physical distress, including as officers brought his dog in and said the animal would need to be put down due to “depression” from witnessing a murder that had not actually occurred.
The incident began on the evening of 7 August 2018 when Perez Jr’s father, Thomas Perez Sr, whom he lived with, left the house with their dog to get the mail, according to a summary of the case written by Dolly Gee, a federal judge. The dog returned a few minutes later, but Perez Sr did not; the next day, his son called the police and reported him missing.
Officer Joanna Piña, who took the call, reported Perez Jr’s demeanor as “suspicious”, claiming he seemed “distracted and unconcerned with his father’s disappearance”.
She and her supervisor, Cpl Sheila Foley, went to Perez’s house, and then brought him back to the police station for questioning. Police then searched his house, where they claimed they found “visible bloodstains” and that a police dog smelled the presence of a corpse.
Jerry Steering, Perez Jr’s lawyer, said there had been no blood in the home. He provided a photo that police had submitted as evidence, which showed a small, indecipherable stain on a carpeted staircase……
Video of the interrogation revealed hours of two officers accusing him of murder while Perez was distraught and crying, said the judge, who noted Perez was “sleep deprived, mentally ill, and, significantly, undergoing symptoms of withdrawal from his psychiatric medications”.
The officers at one point brought in his dog, with one of them saying: “It did happen … you killed [your father], and he’s dead … You know you killed him … You’re not being honest with yourself … How can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad? Look at your dog. She knows, because she was walking through all the blood.”
During the interrogation, Perez Jr started pulling out his hair, hitting himself and tearing off his shirt, nearly falling to the floor, at which point the officers laughed at him and told him he was stressing his dog, the judge summarized.
The footage showed him at one point lying on the floor holding on to his dog. Officers also said he would be “charged” $1m in restitution if he did not lead them to his father’s body.
Eventually, detectives falsely told Perez his father’s body had been located, that he was in the morgue with stab marks, Perez’s complaint says. Perez then falsely confessed and was left alone in the room, where video captured him trying to hang himself.
“[Perez] was berated, worn down, and pressured into a false confession after 17 hours of questioning. [The officers] did this with full awareness of his compromised mental and physical state and need for his medications,” the judge wrote. “[The officers’] conduct impacted Perez so greatly that he falsely confessed to murdering his father and attempted to commit suicide in the station.”
Perez was then transported to a hospital on an involuntary psychiatric hold and, for the first time, read his Miranda rights indicating he had a right to remain silent, the judge said. That night, one of the detectives received a call from Perez Sr’s daughter, who confirmed that her father had been located and was alive.……
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A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive.
During the 2018 interrogation of Thomas Perez Jr by police in Fontana, a city east of Los Angeles, officers suggested they would have Perez’s dog euthanized as a result of his actions, according to a complaint and footage of the encounter. A
judge said the questioning appeared to be “unconstitutional psychological torture”, and the city agreed to settle Perez’s lawsuit for $898,000, his lawyer announced this week.
The extraordinary case of a coerced false confession has sparked widespread outrage, with footage showing Perez in extreme emotional and physical distress, including as officers brought his dog in and said the animal would need to be put down due to “depression” from witnessing a murder that had not actually occurred.
The incident began on the evening of 7 August 2018 when Perez Jr’s father, Thomas Perez Sr, whom he lived with, left the house with their dog to get the mail, according to a summary of the case written by Dolly Gee, a federal judge. The dog returned a few minutes later, but Perez Sr did not; the next day, his son called the police and reported him missing.
Officer Joanna Piña, who took the call, reported Perez Jr’s demeanor as “suspicious”, claiming he seemed “distracted and unconcerned with his father’s disappearance”.
She and her supervisor, Cpl Sheila Foley, went to Perez’s house, and then brought him back to the police station for questioning. Police then searched his house, where they claimed they found “visible bloodstains” and that a police dog smelled the presence of a corpse.
Jerry Steering, Perez Jr’s lawyer, said there had been no blood in the home. He provided a photo that police had submitted as evidence, which showed a small, indecipherable stain on a carpeted staircase……
Video of the interrogation revealed hours of two officers accusing him of murder while Perez was distraught and crying, said the judge, who noted Perez was “sleep deprived, mentally ill, and, significantly, undergoing symptoms of withdrawal from his psychiatric medications”.
The officers at one point brought in his dog, with one of them saying: “It did happen … you killed [your father], and he’s dead … You know you killed him … You’re not being honest with yourself … How can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad? Look at your dog. She knows, because she was walking through all the blood.”
During the interrogation, Perez Jr started pulling out his hair, hitting himself and tearing off his shirt, nearly falling to the floor, at which point the officers laughed at him and told him he was stressing his dog, the judge summarized.
The footage showed him at one point lying on the floor holding on to his dog. Officers also said he would be “charged” $1m in restitution if he did not lead them to his father’s body.
Eventually, detectives falsely told Perez his father’s body had been located, that he was in the morgue with stab marks, Perez’s complaint says. Perez then falsely confessed and was left alone in the room, where video captured him trying to hang himself.
“[Perez] was berated, worn down, and pressured into a false confession after 17 hours of questioning. [The officers] did this with full awareness of his compromised mental and physical state and need for his medications,” the judge wrote. “[The officers’] conduct impacted Perez so greatly that he falsely confessed to murdering his father and attempted to commit suicide in the station.”
Perez was then transported to a hospital on an involuntary psychiatric hold and, for the first time, read his Miranda rights indicating he had a right to remain silent, the judge said. That night, one of the detectives received a call from Perez Sr’s daughter, who confirmed that her father had been located and was alive.……
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation
Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive
About a decade ago I heard an NPR report from a police training officer. She said much of the problem is that police training has evolved to teaching officers exactly how to skirt constitutional rights.How were these cops not fired???
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A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive.
During the 2018 interrogation of Thomas Perez Jr by police in Fontana, a city east of Los Angeles, officers suggested they would have Perez’s dog euthanized as a result of his actions, according to a complaint and footage of the encounter. A
judge said the questioning appeared to be “unconstitutional psychological torture”, and the city agreed to settle Perez’s lawsuit for $898,000, his lawyer announced this week.
The extraordinary case of a coerced false confession has sparked widespread outrage, with footage showing Perez in extreme emotional and physical distress, including as officers brought his dog in and said the animal would need to be put down due to “depression” from witnessing a murder that had not actually occurred.
The incident began on the evening of 7 August 2018 when Perez Jr’s father, Thomas Perez Sr, whom he lived with, left the house with their dog to get the mail, according to a summary of the case written by Dolly Gee, a federal judge. The dog returned a few minutes later, but Perez Sr did not; the next day, his son called the police and reported him missing.
Officer Joanna Piña, who took the call, reported Perez Jr’s demeanor as “suspicious”, claiming he seemed “distracted and unconcerned with his father’s disappearance”.
She and her supervisor, Cpl Sheila Foley, went to Perez’s house, and then brought him back to the police station for questioning. Police then searched his house, where they claimed they found “visible bloodstains” and that a police dog smelled the presence of a corpse.
Jerry Steering, Perez Jr’s lawyer, said there had been no blood in the home. He provided a photo that police had submitted as evidence, which showed a small, indecipherable stain on a carpeted staircase……
Video of the interrogation revealed hours of two officers accusing him of murder while Perez was distraught and crying, said the judge, who noted Perez was “sleep deprived, mentally ill, and, significantly, undergoing symptoms of withdrawal from his psychiatric medications”.
The officers at one point brought in his dog, with one of them saying: “It did happen … you killed [your father], and he’s dead … You know you killed him … You’re not being honest with yourself … How can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad? Look at your dog. She knows, because she was walking through all the blood.”
During the interrogation, Perez Jr started pulling out his hair, hitting himself and tearing off his shirt, nearly falling to the floor, at which point the officers laughed at him and told him he was stressing his dog, the judge summarized.
The footage showed him at one point lying on the floor holding on to his dog. Officers also said he would be “charged” $1m in restitution if he did not lead them to his father’s body.
Eventually, detectives falsely told Perez his father’s body had been located, that he was in the morgue with stab marks, Perez’s complaint says. Perez then falsely confessed and was left alone in the room, where video captured him trying to hang himself.
“[Perez] was berated, worn down, and pressured into a false confession after 17 hours of questioning. [The officers] did this with full awareness of his compromised mental and physical state and need for his medications,” the judge wrote. “[The officers’] conduct impacted Perez so greatly that he falsely confessed to murdering his father and attempted to commit suicide in the station.”
Perez was then transported to a hospital on an involuntary psychiatric hold and, for the first time, read his Miranda rights indicating he had a right to remain silent, the judge said. That night, one of the detectives received a call from Perez Sr’s daughter, who confirmed that her father had been located and was alive.……
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation
Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive
In other words, our government in places actively trains police forces to evade citizens constitutional rights.
When I see things like this, I wonder how good an idea that is.
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Guess this can go here
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An off-duty security guard in Seattle has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage boy who was returning a defective airsoft gun to a sporting goods shop
Hazrat Ali Rohani, 17, was visiting a Big 5 branch in Renton, Washington with his friends last Wednesday evening when 51-year-old Aaron Brown Myers approached the group with a gun in his hand, the friends said.
Myers later told investigators that he believed the three teenagers were about to commit a robbery and felt “a duty to act”, claiming that the teenagers repeatedly ignored his commands to surrender.
However, surveillance footage contradicts Myers’ account of events, according to a police statement seen by The Independent.
Myers was not on duty protecting the shop and told police that he was staking the parking lot out on his own initiative while his 13-year-old son took a jujitsu class next door.
“He saw these kids walking inside with their airsoft guns, and he took it upon himself to confront them,” a spokesperson for the Renton Police Department told Seattle broadcaster KOMO.…..
www.independent.co.uk
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An off-duty security guard in Seattle has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage boy who was returning a defective airsoft gun to a sporting goods shop
Hazrat Ali Rohani, 17, was visiting a Big 5 branch in Renton, Washington with his friends last Wednesday evening when 51-year-old Aaron Brown Myers approached the group with a gun in his hand, the friends said.
Myers later told investigators that he believed the three teenagers were about to commit a robbery and felt “a duty to act”, claiming that the teenagers repeatedly ignored his commands to surrender.
However, surveillance footage contradicts Myers’ account of events, according to a police statement seen by The Independent.
Myers was not on duty protecting the shop and told police that he was staking the parking lot out on his own initiative while his 13-year-old son took a jujitsu class next door.
“He saw these kids walking inside with their airsoft guns, and he took it upon himself to confront them,” a spokesperson for the Renton Police Department told Seattle broadcaster KOMO.…..
Off-duty guard faces murder charge for gunning down teen returning ‘BB gun’ to store
Aaron Brown Myers, 51, told police that he had not been hired to protect the area but was voluntarily conducting ‘overwatch’
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Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock.Soooooooooo...I'm guessing he will be arrested and charged with SrA Forston's murder any minute now.
Fired for an unjustified homicide on May 31st and has yet to be charged or arrested for that homicide.
Florida bruh.
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The death of a Latino and indigenous man in police custody in circumstances similar to George Floyd was kept secret by California authorities for nearly a decade, an investigation has revealed.
Darryl Dean Mefferd, 49, died in 2016 after being detained by the Vallejo Police Department (VPD) for unclear reasons and allegedly restrained face down on the ground, according to local news outlet Open Vallejo.
But because his death was ruled accidental by the county coroner – who is also a serving police sergeant – officials never publicly announced it and allegedly fought in court to keep it secret.
The alleged use of 'prone restraint' echoes the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer kneeling on his back for nearly ten minutes while attempting to arrest him on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill.
An inside source told Open Vallejo that body camera footage from the night of the incident showed a Vallejo police officer sitting "with his whole body weight" on Mefferd's back for about the same duration.
It comes after repeated law enforcement scandals in the San Francisco Bay Area city, which had one of the highest rates of police shootings of any American city between 2010 and 2020, paying out so much money in legal settlements and damages that it was forced to withdraw from a statewide municipal insurance scheme.
VPD officers have been accused of routinely slow-rolling internal investigations, botching a major investigation into a woman's kidnapping, and adopting secret honor symbols to glorify officers who killed citizens. Last year a judge ruled that senior officials had illegally destroyed evidence relating to multiple police shootings.……
www.independent.co.uk
Darryl Dean Mefferd, 49, died in 2016 after being detained by the Vallejo Police Department (VPD) for unclear reasons and allegedly restrained face down on the ground, according to local news outlet Open Vallejo.
But because his death was ruled accidental by the county coroner – who is also a serving police sergeant – officials never publicly announced it and allegedly fought in court to keep it secret.
The alleged use of 'prone restraint' echoes the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer kneeling on his back for nearly ten minutes while attempting to arrest him on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill.
An inside source told Open Vallejo that body camera footage from the night of the incident showed a Vallejo police officer sitting "with his whole body weight" on Mefferd's back for about the same duration.
It comes after repeated law enforcement scandals in the San Francisco Bay Area city, which had one of the highest rates of police shootings of any American city between 2010 and 2020, paying out so much money in legal settlements and damages that it was forced to withdraw from a statewide municipal insurance scheme.
VPD officers have been accused of routinely slow-rolling internal investigations, botching a major investigation into a woman's kidnapping, and adopting secret honor symbols to glorify officers who killed citizens. Last year a judge ruled that senior officials had illegally destroyed evidence relating to multiple police shootings.……
How California cops kept this man’s in-custody death a secret for years
Darryl Dean Mefferd, 49 died in 2016 in circumstances similar to George Floyd – but authorities in Vallejo never publicly announced it
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Jefferson Parish deputy convicted of killing Marrero man will not serve jail time
Issac Hughes was found guilty of negligent homicide, and another deputy, Johnathan Louis, was found not guilty.
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Kill a man and face no consequences...go figure.Jefferson Parish deputy convicted of killing Marrero man will not serve jail time
Issac Hughes was found guilty of negligent homicide, and another deputy, Johnathan Louis, was found not guilty.
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They served in police departments big and small. They were new recruits and seasoned veterans, patrol officers and chiefs of police. They understood the power of their guns and badges. In many cases, they used that very power to find and silence their victims.
A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes.
Police and sheriff’s departments have enabled predators by botching background checks, ignoring red flags and mishandling investigations. Accused cops have used their knowledge of the legal system to stall cases, get charges lowered or evade convictions.
Prosecutors have given generous plea deals to officers who admitted to raping and groping minors. Judges have allowed many convicted officers to avoid prison time.
All the while, children in every state and the District of Columbia have continued to be targeted, groomed and violated by officers sworn to keep them safe.
Cases like these are not unique. The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.
Reporters spent more than a year unearthing thousands of court filings, police records and other documents to understand who these officers are, how they gain access to children and what is — and isn’t — being done to stop them.
The Post also conducted an exclusive analysis of the nation’s most comprehensive database of police arrests.
This database, managed by Bowling Green State University, tracks news reports of arrests of law enforcement. Of the hundreds of thousands of sworn officers in the United States, only a small fraction are ever charged with crimes.
And not all arrests are reported in the news media. But from 2005 through 2022, Bowling Green identified about 17,700 state and local officers who were charged with crimes, including physical assault, drunken driving and drug offenses.
The Post found that 1 in 10 of those officers were charged with a crime involving child sexual abuse.
This type of police misconduct has gone largely unrecognized by the public and unaddressed within the criminal justice system. When pressed by The Post, some police officials, prosecutors and judges admitted that they could have done more to hold officers accountable in the cases they handled.
But nationwide, there has been little reckoning over child abusers within the ranks of law enforcement.............
A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes.
Police and sheriff’s departments have enabled predators by botching background checks, ignoring red flags and mishandling investigations. Accused cops have used their knowledge of the legal system to stall cases, get charges lowered or evade convictions.
Prosecutors have given generous plea deals to officers who admitted to raping and groping minors. Judges have allowed many convicted officers to avoid prison time.
All the while, children in every state and the District of Columbia have continued to be targeted, groomed and violated by officers sworn to keep them safe.
Cases like these are not unique. The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.
Reporters spent more than a year unearthing thousands of court filings, police records and other documents to understand who these officers are, how they gain access to children and what is — and isn’t — being done to stop them.
The Post also conducted an exclusive analysis of the nation’s most comprehensive database of police arrests.
This database, managed by Bowling Green State University, tracks news reports of arrests of law enforcement. Of the hundreds of thousands of sworn officers in the United States, only a small fraction are ever charged with crimes.
And not all arrests are reported in the news media. But from 2005 through 2022, Bowling Green identified about 17,700 state and local officers who were charged with crimes, including physical assault, drunken driving and drug offenses.
The Post found that 1 in 10 of those officers were charged with a crime involving child sexual abuse.
This type of police misconduct has gone largely unrecognized by the public and unaddressed within the criminal justice system. When pressed by The Post, some police officials, prosecutors and judges admitted that they could have done more to hold officers accountable in the cases they handled.
But nationwide, there has been little reckoning over child abusers within the ranks of law enforcement.............
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