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Latest Articles: Watching The Cops
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says it's hard to hire black cops because too many have criminal histories
Post Date: 2015-06-10 09:18:09 by cranky
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The NYPD has a hard time hiring black men to become police officers because too many have criminal records, the city’s top cop said in an interview. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it’s a challenge to find hirable blacks because so many African-American men have been arrested. “We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton said in an interview published Tuesday by The Guardian, a British newspaper with a New York bureau. Bratton put at least part of the blame on the NYPD’s use of the controversial tactic stop-and-frisk, according to The ...
McKinney officer resigns due to actions in pool party video
Post Date: 2015-06-09 18:48:44 by GeorgiaConservative
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McKinney Police Corporal Eric Casebolt has resigned after video showed him pushing a 15-year-old girl in a swimsuit to the ground and pointing his firearm at other teens. Casebolt's lawyer informed FOX4 of Casebolt's decision. The video of the Friday incident involving Casebolt at a McKinney neighborhood pool went viral and had initially landed Casebolt on administrative leave while police officials conduct an investigation. Casebolt was seen pulling Dajerria Becton to the ground and pinning her with his knees while she cried out. He also pulled out his gun and pointed it at other teens and briefly ran after them before being stopped by two fellow McKinney police officers. ...
Bikini-clad girl thrown to ground by McKinney officer speaks out
Post Date: 2015-06-08 21:44:01 by GrandIsland
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'I was telling him to get off me because my back was hurting bad' The bikini-clad teenage girl who was forcibly restrained by a police officer responding to a disturbance at a pool party in a Dallas suburb over the weekend says she was an invited guest and was obeying his orders to leave when he grabbed her. "He told me to keep walking," Dajerria Becton, 15, told Fox 4. "And I kept walking and then I'm guessing he thought we were saying rude stuff to him." Becton was then thrown to the ground by Eric Casebolt, one of 12 McKinney Police Department officers who responded to the disturbance call at a private community pool Friday night. He grabbed ...
Guy beats up two cops and knocks one out for touching his weed
Post Date: 2015-06-08 01:06:36 by GeorgiaConservative
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Bystanders only watch, shouting "f*** the police" and not helping because of recent events involving police in America. Civilians not intervening to help cops in public struggles will only get more common as police make less friends. Click for Full Text!
Jury convicts female LA officer of assault in deadly arrest
Post Date: 2015-06-06 22:07:25 by Tooconservative
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors on Friday convicted a female Los Angeles police officer of felony assault for repeatedly kicking a handcuffed woman who later died. The jury of 11 women and one man reached its verdict after about two days of deliberations in the trial of Officer Mary O'Callaghan, 50. She pleaded not guilty to assaulting a civilian in the 2012 arrest of Alesia Thomas, 35. Dressed in a black pantsuit, O'Callaghan wiped her face, appearing to cry after the verdict was read. Robert Rico, O'Callaghan's attorney, said he plans to appeal and ask for a new trial. "I firmly believe the evidence presented by the prosecution did not show her force was ...
Texas Judge Refuses to be a Part of Traffic Ticket Scheme, Blows the Whistle on Policing for Profit
Post Date: 2015-06-05 08:40:13 by Deckard
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Calvert, Texas – Retired municipal court judge David Viscarde has recently come forward to expose the use of quotas on speeding tickets. In an exclusive interview this week, Viscarde told WFAA that the police department and the local courts were involved in a revenue collection scheme where officers had quotas for speeding tickets, and judges were pressured to rush the cases through the courts. Viscarde was a volunteer municipal court judge for over 15 years. “When I first became a judge, we had one reserve officer. That’s all he did on Friday and Saturday every other weekend. He’d write 100 citations,” Viscarde said. “Their municipal court is their cash ...
Baltimore Homicides Approach Record High
Post Date: 2015-06-03 09:52:22 by GrandIsland
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The month of May approached an all-time high for homicides in the city of Baltimore. With 43 reported homicides last month, May 2015 counts the most in more than 40 years, according to the Baltimore Sun recordkeeping. City records online only date back to 2011, show the most homicides committed in a one-month span of time peak at 27. The five deadliest months since 1970, according to the Sun, include: Homicides by Month December 1971: 44 August 1972: 45 August 1990: 42 August 1996: 39 May 2015: 43 U.S. Census Bureau estimates put Baltimore’s population around 622,000, down 31 percent from about 906,000 in 1970. Homicides rose in May as arrests plummeted, which some attribute to ...
Mount Pleasant police officer pulls man from burning car
Post Date: 2015-06-03 09:17:59 by GrandIsland
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Cpl. Adam Willis’ dash-cam video shows him pulling a man from a burning car outside Vickery’s in Mount Pleasant early Saturday morning. Mount Pleasant Police Department via YouTube A Mount Pleasant police officer pulled a man from a burning car over the weekend, possibly saving his life. Cpl. Adam Willis came upon a car engulfed in flames in the Vickery’s parking lot about 4:35 a.m. Saturday, according to the incident report. Willis ran toward the car with a fire extinguisher and started putting out the fire before realizing there was a man sitting in the driver’s seat. Willis pulled the man from the car and helped him run clear. “Corporal Willis’ quick ...
Teen got arrested after cop tried to pick her up, failed
Post Date: 2015-06-02 16:50:15 by cranky
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Natalie ErlichA Bronx teen landed a $45,000 payout after an NYPD cop flirted with her — and then busted the 17-year-old on bogus charges because she brushed him off, according to court documents. Natalie Erlich says she was grabbing an after-school snack with two female friends on Nov. 4, 2013, when Officer José Peinan and another cop struck up a conversation with them in Kingsbridge. “I had on a camouflage hat and [Peinan] had on camouflage pants,” Erlich, now 19, told The Post. “He said, ‘We match.’ I brushed him off and I laughed.” Erlich went around the corner to buy a cup of hot cocoa, and the plainclothes cop followed her, she alleged. ...
LAPD officer suspected in murder is arrested in Mexico, officials say
Post Date: 2015-05-31 14:46:25 by GeorgiaConservative
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A two-month manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer accused of murder ended Tuesday when the 27-year-old was arrested in Mexico, authorities said. Chihuahua state authorities said Henry Solis resisted arrest, but no shots were fired when he was apprehended in Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Solis told authorities he knew his capture was coming “sooner or later,” Mexican officials said at a news conference. One state police official said Solis was “hidden among relatives” in the El Mezquital neighborhood where he was arrested. The official, Pablo Ernesto Rocha Acosta, didn’t give specifics about what led investigators to the neighborhood, saying only ...
Santa Clara Police "Deeply Saddened” By Arrest of Officer Accused of Stealing $250 Smart Watch
Post Date: 2015-05-31 14:01:20 by GeorgiaConservative
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Santa Clara police on Wednesday said they were "deeply saddened" that one of their officers was arrested after allegedly stealing a $250 watch from a Target store in San Jose. The Mercury News first reported that Officer Kiet Nguyen, a 24-year department veteran, took the unspecified smart watch at the Westgate Center shopping mall, San Jose police said. Click for Full Text!
Florida police officer arrested on child abuse charges
Post Date: 2015-05-31 12:38:46 by GeorgiaConservative
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A Kissimmee police officer was arrested Friday and charged with child abuse. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Officer Mario Badia with child abuse. On May 8, a 13-year-old boy said he had an altercation with School Resource Officer Mario Badia in the front office of Kissimmee Middle School. School administrators contacted the Kissimmee Police Department about the incident, and the Criminal Investigation Division conducted an investigation into the case. Investigators said the incident was caught on surveillance cameras. Click for Full Text!
Chicago Police Delete 86 Minutes From Security Video Showing Cops Shoot Unarmed Teen
Post Date: 2015-05-30 16:50:32 by Deckard
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By all eye-witness accounts 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was unarmed when Chicago police officers shot and killed him. But since the shooting occurred, police apologists have asserted that the surveillance video of the incident would clear everything up. But instead of clarifying what happened, the footage actually appears to have been tampered with. Once released, it was quickly noticed that the footage had 86 minutes deleted from the security camera video. The camera was from a Burger King restaurant which is located less than 100 yards from where the shooting occurred. That placed it in a prime location to catch the fatal shooting of 17-year old Laquan McDonald. McDonald was shot a ...
K-9 saves Hancock County deputy from ambush attack
Post Date: 2015-05-26 21:31:10 by cranky
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A multi-agency manhunt is under way after a deputy was ambushed, beaten, and cut with a box cutter in Pearlington on Monday evening. A manhunt is under way after a Hancock County Sheriff's Department deputy was saved by his dog from an ambush attack by three men. The deputy, Todd Frazier, was beaten and cut with a box cutter in Pearlington on Monday, Sheriff Ricky Adam said. If it wasn't for his K9 partner, a black Belgian Malinois named Lucas, they might have succeeded. "They told him they were going to slit his throat, and they were dragging him toward the woods," Chief Deputy Don Bass said, adding that authorities believe the attackers meant to drag Frazier into the ...
Cops Turn into Bullies After they’re Filmed Breaking the Very Laws they are Supposed to Enforce
Post Date: 2015-05-26 20:46:41 by Deckard
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On May 18, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office conducted a large-scale revenue collection operation masked as concern for public safety. A post on their Facebook page explains how the revenue collection initiative will be heavily enforced during the last two weeks in May. They describe how in a single four-hour event, 27 officers were able to conduct 227 traffic stops. In four hours this event resulted in: 227 traffic stops, 159 seatbelt citations issued, 7 child restraint citations, 6 people arrested and brought to jail, 29 drivers cited for Driving After Revocation or Suspension, 49 “other” citations, and 1 DWI arrest. In the ‘will they ever learn’ group – one ...
Mom arrested, shackled over son's unexcused school absences
Post Date: 2015-05-26 07:27:12 by cranky
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A Georgia mother and substitute teacher says she was arrested and placed in shackles because of her son's unexcused absences. Julie Giles reportedly wrote on Facebook that a warrant had been issued for her arrest after her son tallied 12 unexcused absences from school. The total is six more than the Screven County school district allows. Giles argued that her son's doctor re-issued a note for three of the absences, meaning she would be arrested over a total of three absences. Giles said she was briefly placed in ankle shackles, with police saying it was normal procedure. "Actually I was not fingerprinted, but I was shackled and they took my mug shot, which will be in our ...
Florida Crowd Assaults Police Officer Trying to Make Arrest
Post Date: 2015-05-26 07:00:00 by cranky
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Authorities say a hostile crowd assaulted a Florida police officer while he was trying to arrest a combative man. Melbourne Police say the officer was arresting 22-year-old Phoenix Low of Melbourne early Saturday on a city ordinance violation of carrying an open container of alcohol. Phoenix Lowe / Melbourne Police Dept. A police statement says Low became combative and attempted to run before the officer wrestled him to the ground. Cmdr. Vince Pryce says a crowd gathered and began striking and pulling at the officer, who took out his Taser and told “the aggressive advancing crowd” to get back. Pryce says the officer suffered cuts and bruises. Along with the ordinance ...
Sorry......Not All Lives Matter [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-25 19:52:53 by Gatlin
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This insightful and impassioned public commentary was written and posted to Facebook by William James Manifold. It is a powerful commentary that we felt needed to be repeated. Here it is in its entirety with a minor edit: So last night I noticed on my newsfeed, one of my Facebook friends made a statement that really pissed me off. Something along the lines of "Why do people have to hashtag when in mourning that certain lives matter…all lives matter". This comment was obviously in response to the community outpouring of support for Ofc. Kerrie Orozco who ended her watch yesterday afternoon. I wanted to take a moment to respond.First I beg to differ with you. All ...
FOP Publishes Essay Saying #AllLivesMatter is “BullS**t” - Insists that Only “Blue Lives” Matter
Post Date: 2015-05-25 19:34:56 by Deckard
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William Norman Grigg “All lives don’t matter,” insists former police officer William James Manifold in an essay that was republished by the Colorado Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). Although “all lives have the potential to matter,” Manifold explains, “most certainly all lives don’t matter.” For him, and other active and retired members of the Sanctified Fraternity of State-Licensed Violence, it is an unassailable truth that “Blue Lives Matter,” and that mere Mundanes should literally prostrate themselves in worship before their costumed overseers: “[B]y whatever God you worship or don’t, by all things holy, ...
Charges Dropped Against Cop Caught Having Sex With Cows
Post Date: 2015-05-25 15:55:58 by Hondo68
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When a citizen journalist recently sent us a tip about an officer who was caught having sex with cows, we were admittedly skeptical. But it turns out that the case of former Moorestown police officer Robert Melia Jr. is just as bad as it sounds. In Mount Holly, New Jersey, Officer Melia was indeed caught sexually assaulting a cow, but his sexual crimes did not end with non-humans. Melia was also charged, several years ago, with sexually assaulting three girls. It was during the course of that investigation that police found a video in Melia’s home that recorded him… abusing multiple cows. Apparently he was so proud of this abuse that he filmed it and saved it for posterity. The ...
Batts: Police having trouble policing West Baltimore
Post Date: 2015-05-23 09:44:37 by CZ82
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Batts: Police having trouble policing West Baltimore By Justin George and Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun, Police are struggling to stop violence in West Baltimore, where officers have been routinely surrounded by dozens of people, video cameras and hostility while doing basic police work since the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Wednesday.. The Western District, the site of Gray's arrest and the epicenter of the protests and rioting that followed his death, has seen the majority of the city's recent shootings and homicides, which are coming faster than they have in eight years. In response, Batts said, police are taking measures to ...
'Kerrie on': Omaha rallies around fallen police officer's newborn
Post Date: 2015-05-23 07:03:54 by Gatlin
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Omaha lost a dedicated police officer and community leader this week, but Olivia Ruth lost even more - the mother she will never know. As the family of Kerrie Orozco grieved for the 29-year-old, seven-year veteran following her death Wednesday in a shootout with a fugitive, the city's flags flew at half-staff, the police department rallied behing the simple phrase "Kerrie On," and donations poured in for Olivia Ruth, the baby Orozco had just given birth to prematurely. Orozco was working her last shift before going on maternity leave to be with her baby when a criminal's bullet struck her just above the bulletproof vest that might have saved her life. “She was so ...
Video Shows Deputy Smash Autistic Man’s Skull into the Ground, Killing Him for Joking Around
Post Date: 2015-05-12 20:49:23 by Deckard
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A Knox County deputy is now being investigated after he fatally assaulted 33-year old David Dehmann on April 21. Dehmann was autistic and had Tourette’s Syndrome, and this was well-known by the local law enforcement. Mount Vernon police picked up Dehmann on the 21st for being intoxicated but was released within a couple hours after being cleared by a hospital for release. At 7:43pm that same day, he was arrested near a public school for disorderly conduct – harm to self, at which point he was taken to Knox County Jail by MVPD Cpl. Travis Tharp when things took a turn for the worse. During the booking process, Dehmann would not make it 15 feet into the station before his life would ...
DEA to traveler: Thanks, I’ll take that cash
Post Date: 2015-05-12 10:32:27 by cranky
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Maybe he should have taken traveler’s checks. But it’s too late for that now. All the money – $16,000 in cash – that Joseph Rivers said he had saved and relatives had given him to launch his dream in Hollywood is gone, seized during his trip out West not by thieves but by Drug Enforcement Administration agents during a stop at the Amtrak train station in Albuquerque. An incident some might argue is still theft, just with the government’s blessing. Rivers, 22, wasn’t detained and has not been charged with any crime since his money was taken last month. That doesn’t matter. Under a federal law enforcement tool called civil asset forfeiture, he need never ...
Tacoma police shoot, kill armed man after loud music complaint
Post Date: 2015-05-11 17:19:34 by Hondo68
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TACOMA, Wash. - Officers responding to a loud music complaint shot and killed an armed man on Sunday night in south Tacoma.The incident unfolded just after 10 p.m. when 911 dispatchers received a call from someone in the neighborhood complaining about loud music coming from a home in the 3400 block of South Proctor Street.Responding officers saw a man inside the home grab a gun and move toward the door to the residence. One of the officers shot the man just outside the home. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.Police say a SWAT team then surrounded the residence and cleared everyone else out of the home, which is a duplex. The man's parents live in the other unit.The man's ...
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