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[Optimus Prime]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Easter Leafa was sitting under a blanket on her balcony with a knife when Anchorage police arrived, responding to a call for help from her family. Instead of showing her hands as told, they said, the 16-year-old girl stood and approached them with the blade.

Two officers opened fire simultaneously, one with a less-lethal foam projectile and the other with real bullets, killing her two days before Leafa was to start her junior year of high school. She had recently moved from American Samoa to get a better education and was still learning English, her family said.

Leafa was among seven people shot by Anchorage police since May, the most recent a homicide suspect critically injured after officers said he opened fire on them Friday afternoon. That is more than twice as many as the department typically shoots in a year. Four of the subjects were killed.

The spate has made Anchorage the latest in a long list of American cities to wrestle with how police use force and prompted an apology to Leafa’s family along with promises of reform from the city’s new mayor.……

The shooting death of a 16-year-old girl by police is among a spate that's upset Anchorage residents

A spate of officer-involved shootings has made Anchorage, Alaska, the latest in a long list of American cities to wrestle with how police use force.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A U.S. border patrol agent in New York has been accused of ordering women to show him their breasts and claiming that it was part of his officials duties, authorities said.

Border agent Shane Millan, 53, was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four women of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said in a news release.

According to prosecutors, Millan told three women to expose their bare chests to him over a web camera while he was processing their applications to enter the country. A fourth woman was ordered to show him her breasts with her bra on, prosecutors said. The alleged incidents took place in August 2023.

Millan told the women that exposing their breasts was part of the process of being admitted into the United States, but it was actually for his own gratification, the prosecutors said.……

U.S. border agent accused of ordering women to show him their breasts

Shane Millan, 53, was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four women of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

From a years ago and judges not cops but just came across this article
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Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are "the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions."

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care.

Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families.

"Ciavarella and Conahan abandoned their oath and breached the public trust," Conner wrote Tuesday in his explanation of the judgment. "Their cruel and despicable actions victimized a vulnerable population of young people, many of whom were suffering from emotional issues and mental health concerns."

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out some 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 kids after the scheme was uncovered.

It's unlikely the now-adult victims will see even a fraction of the eye-popping damages award, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs said it's a recognition of the enormity of the disgraced judges' crimes……

Ciavarella, 72, is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky. His projected release date is 2035.

Conahan, 70, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison but was released to home confinementin 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic.…….

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash

 

[DaveXA]

From a years ago and judges not cops but just came across this article
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Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are "the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions."

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care.

Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families.

"Ciavarella and Conahan abandoned their oath and breached the public trust," Conner wrote Tuesday in his explanation of the judgment. "Their cruel and despicable actions victimized a vulnerable population of young people, many of whom were suffering from emotional issues and mental health concerns."

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out some 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 kids after the scheme was uncovered.

It's unlikely the now-adult victims will see even a fraction of the eye-popping damages award, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs said it's a recognition of the enormity of the disgraced judges' crimes……

Ciavarella, 72, is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky. His projected release date is 2035.

Conahan, 70, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison but was released to home confinementin 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic.…….

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash

There was actually a Law & Order: SVU show about this exact type of thing. That this sheet happens irl is absolutely disgusting.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

my nephew (16) was in juvie for threatning another kid online playing video games. (two other kids invloved, but the other two never did jail time because their parents could afford lawyers and they only got probation) he ended up serving 18 months. every six months he was "evaluated" by the judge. he was an exemplary inmate, a trustee, was moved to a special wing for kids who fit that. they kept extending him and enrolling him in programs. Finally, a different judge told the DA that they had 60 days to release him. I have ZERO doubt that they were making money by enrolling kids in these programs that they knew the good kids would complete... I am so pizzed about that. he has been out 1 month now, he just enrolled in Southeastern University. the only good thing that came from that he got a full grant. But i'm sure my sister would have rathered have him home and he get Tops and other aid...

 

[Optimus Prime]

I do wonder how widespread this is

In the Pennsylvania case I wonder in the difference in the sentences 17 years and out vs 28 years and not released until 2035

and this article doesn't say but I would hope that the wardens or owners of the jails who paid these judges also got long prison sentences and fines

 

[Optimus Prime]

Police in the US use force on at least 300,000 people each year, injuring an estimated 100,000 of them, according to a groundbreaking data analysis on law enforcement encounters.

Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group that tracks killings by US police, launched a new database, policedata.org, on Wednesday cataloging non-fatal incidents of police use of force, including stun guns, chemical sprays, K9 dog attacks, neck restraints, beanbags and baton strikes.

The database features incidents from 2017 through 2022, compiled from public records requests in every state. The findings, the group says, suggest that despite widespread protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, overall use of force has remained steady since then – and in many jurisdictions, has increased.


The data builds on past reports that found US police kill roughly 1,200 people each year, or three people a day, a death toll that has crept up every year and dramatically exceeds rates in comparable nations.

The nonfatal force statistics and accompanying report illustrate how the killings are just a small fraction of broader police violence and injuries caused by law enforcement.

In the absence of a national tracking system for use of force, Mapping Police Violence said it obtained data on use-of-force incidents from more than 2,800 agencies, covering nearly 60% of the population, and got six full years of data from 634 of those departments.

The organization calculated average rates of force by population to get its national estimates.

The data is considered an undercount as it only covers incidents disclosed by officers and agencies, and many states have laws restricting access to police files.

Here are some key findings:

Thousands of people are hit with stun guns and chemical sprays​

Of the agencies that disclosed data for 2022, representing roughly half of the country, Mapping Police Violence found there were 1.2 uses of force reported for every 1,000 residents.

The most common use of force was stun guns, which are considered “less-lethal” but can also have deadly consequences; the organization tracked more than 20,000 stun gun deployments.…..

Many people subject to police force are unarmed​

Thirty-one agencies disclosed whether people were armed when they faced police force. On average, 83% of people subjected to force across those jurisdictions were unarmed, the agencies reported.…….

The racial disparities are stark​

Black people were subject to overall police use of force at a rate 3.2 times greater than white people in 2022, according to the report. That disparity is more severe than lethal force trends; Black people were killed by police at 2.6 times the rate of white people in 2022.….

Half of the agencies reported increases in force since 2020​

Half of the agencies reported increases in overall force in the two-year period following Floyd’s murder, the report said. Fewer than one in six agencies reported significant reductions in use of force.

Those estimates come from 727 agencies that disclosed at least five years of data, comparing 2018-2019 rates to 2021-2022 rates.……

US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’

Exclusive: groundbreaking Mapping Police Violence data estimates scale of physical force and civilian injuries

www.theguardian.com

 

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[Eeyore]

Officer Pleads Guilty To Stealing, Selling Cocaine

Joel M. Mefford pled guilty in federal court to crimes involving more than 10 kilograms of cocaine and money laundering.

www.watchaeor.com

 

[Brennan77]

There was actually a Law & Order: SVU show about this exact type of thing. That this sheet happens irl is absolutely disgusting.

This is the norm anywhere there are private jails, including Louisiana.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The comments are all over the place

 

[DaveXA]

This is the norm anywhere there are private jails, including Louisiana.

Oh no doubt.

 

[DaveXA]

The comments are all over the place

Yeah, definitely idiot cop, but I certainly can see some people saying they should control their dog, which is also true.

No winners in this situation.

 

[Eeyore]

Former Aurora cop charged with raping daughter remains free as mom is sent to jail

A retired Aurora police sergeant is facing criminal charges for raping his daughter and sexually assaulting his two adopted daughters, but remains free from custody while his ex-wife is the

denvergazette.com

Ex-wife jailed for objecting to their sons being ordered Christian based family reunification with their accused rapist father.