Have we been wrong about “qualified immunity” all this time? There’s a long-lost part of the federal statute that helps shield police officers and other government actors from liability for brutality, corruption and other misconduct, a professor asserts. The originally-enacted version of the federal statute, Section 1983, contained a provision specifically limiting future state efforts to thwart lawsuits against cops and other officials. That part of the statute was never copied to the federal register when the law was codified in 1874. A transcription error may be to blame....
Qualified Immunity's Flawed Foundation
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4179628
This Article takes aim at the roots of the doctrine – fundamental errors that have never before been excavated. First, this Article demonstrates that the Supreme Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence is premised on a flawed application of a dubious canon of statutory construction...As this Article shows, the Derogation Canon has no appropriate role to play in interpreting Section 1983....
For even if the Derogation Canon were valid, the Reconstruction Congress that passed Section 1983 meant to explicitly displace common-law protections. Most critically, scholars and courts have overlooked the originally-enacted version of Section 1983, which contained a provision that specifically disapproved of any state law limitations on the new cause of action. For unknown reasons, that provision was not included by the Reviser of the Federal Statutes in the first compilation of federal law in 1874. This Article is the first to unearth the lost text of Section 1983 and demonstrate its implications....
But this Article shows that qualified immunity is flawed from the ground up. In other words, the problem with current qualified immunity doctrine is not just that it departs from the common law immunity that existed in 1871. The problem is that the Court has failed to grapple with the strong arguments that no immunity doctrine at all should apply in Section 1983 actions.
“How they degraded my name, it just ain’t right,” AND THE MEDIA FURTHER PUBLICIZE THE SMEAR...
When police lie, the innocent pay. Some are fighting back.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/28/nation/when-police-lie-innocent-pay-some-are-fighting-back
There have long been instances in which police have provided false accounts of arrests, but disparities between officers’ descriptions and what people see have become more common with the expansion of body cameras and cellphone videos and as police departments’ public accounts draw more scrutiny.... Across the United States, people who have been the targets of false police statements are increasingly working to correct the record, sometimes investigating their own cases, interviewing witnesses and filing defamation lawsuits.... “People shouldn’t think that it’s easy to bring a defamation suit against the police, because it’s hard — really hard,” she said. Suing a city, government agency, police officer or member of Congress often comes with additional challenges for plaintiffs, such as the qualified immunity doctrine that shields government officials in some situations....
Court Rules Police Can’t Lie About Lie Detectors
https://theappeal.org/court-rules-police-cant-lie-about-lie-detectors/
All four were innocent, but all four confessed, and all four were convicted. ...
DNA recovered from the victim did not match any of the sailors, but it did match another man who confessed to the crime and said he acted alone, and who was already in prison for sexual assault. Nonetheless, it took more than 20 years for the Norfolk Four, as they came to be known, to receive full pardons, and their case, the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary, drew national attention to the widespread problem of false confessions....
Why would anyone, let alone trained military personnel, confess to a crime they did not commit? Their interrogations were models of police coercion. Marathon questioning throughout the night. Threats of the death penalty if they did not admit guilt. And a deception designed to convince them not only of certain conviction, but also that, regardless of their memory, they were guilty. Police gave each man a polygraph exam and then lied about the results, telling them they failed when they had passed. It was only after this lie, told separately to all four, that each man confessed to a crime that none of them committed.
Twenty-two years later, one state Supreme Court has now recognized “how falsified polygraph results can coerce a suspect into making a confession,” and ruled that such deception violates the right against self incrimination. In an Oct. 29 ruling, the Hawaii Supreme Court said that fake lie detector results are necessarily coercive and that, if they are used in interrogations, any resulting statements must be excluded from trial....
Video From Attempted Murder Case Contradicts Coral Gables Police
On December 2, 2017, Coral Gables police nearly shot Simon Sullenberger on his own property for holding his own gun.
That night, Sullenberger says, he was out on his porch by a table cleaning his legally licensed shotgun to prepare for a shooting excursion the next day. He owned the home but says his relatives had locked him out by accident. And when he jiggled the door to open it, he set off a security alarm. ...Sullenberger — who was initially charged with resisting arrest without violence, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, and two felony counts of attempted murder on a cop — has now sued the City of Coral Gables and the officers involved in arresting him. His lawyer, Roberto Pertierra, says it's a miracle he was not killed that day at his own home....
Additionally, the officers claim Sullenberger attempted to choke Nunez and pinned the officer against the retaining wall on his property. The video does not appear to show any of those events occurring. Multiple police reports involving at least three officers — Nunez, Flores, and Jorge Puga — claim Sullenberger pointed his shotgun at the officers that night.
Arrest affidavits are sworn documents; lying on them amounts to criminal perjury. Records show police took witness statements from two people near the scene that night, but neither mentioned seeing Sullenberger point his gun at anyone.
Amazingly, Sullenberger's home security camera recorded the vast majority of the incident. The footage, Sullenberger says, shows he never pointed a gun at any of the officers on his property that night. After his lawyer sent the footage to State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office, prosecutors declined to file attempted murder charges against him. But the other criminal charges against him remain pending despite the fact that Sullenberger says his video footage shows he did nothing wrong. His case is set to go to trial January 6.
A look back at Cleveland’s, Northeast Ohio’s major court cases of 2019
A former judge admitted to murder. A jail warden resigned as part of a plea deal to avoid a felony conviction in an inmate’s death. Cleveland’s mayor found himself ensnared by court cases involving his family members.
Those are just a few of the thousands of cases in 2019 that moved through the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, the busiest courthouse in the state of Ohio. The cases feature men of stature falling from grace, government agencies plagued by scandal and three men condemned to death row.
Here is a list that is nowhere near comprehensive, but a selection of some of the most captivating and heartbreaking of cases to move through the Common Pleas Court in 2019...
SLAVE AUCTIONEER GIVES A FELLOW SLAVE AUCTIONEER IMMUNITY FOR HER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. THE SLAVE AUCTIONEER WANTS TO BE A GUBMINT PIMP BUT FELLOW GUB PIMPS CALL HER A LIEYER.
THE REASON SLAVE AUCTIONEER GAVE IMMUNITY TO THE OTHER SLAVE AUCTIONEER WAS BECUZ ITS NOT "IL"LEGAL FOR SLAVE AUCTIONEERS TO COMMIT CRIMES....
Former Collin County judge drops out of 2020 race amid continuing legal battle
Suzanne Wooten, 51, was exonerated in 2017 of charges stemming from her successful 2008 campaign for district judge in Collin County. Late last year, the Collin County Republican Party refused to put her name on the 2020 primary ballot, claiming she was ineligible after her initial conviction on charges stemming from allegations of bribery, even though a judge later cleared her...
But Wooten was eventually indicted. In 2011, she was convicted on charges of bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and tampering with a government record. She was accused of accepting funds from a University Park couple, funneled through her campaign manager, to run against the incumbent judge.
A judge pointed out in her exoneration in 2017, even if that were true, it is not illegal.
In the order that vacated the convictions against Wooten, the judge also said, “Any legal disabilities rendered against ... [Wooten] as a result of the convictions in this cause are void.” Her license to practice law was reinstated a few weeks later in June 2017.
PROFESSIONAL LIEYERS LYING AND PROVIDING INADEQUATE COUNSIL TO CLIENTS. SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW. JUST BUSINESS AS USUAL IN USA SLAVE AUCTIONS...
Ohio Supreme Court suspends 2 lawyers for neglecting client matters
The Ohio Supreme Court issued partially stayed suspensions to two Ohio lawyers who neglected client matters and made false statements during their disciplinary proceedings...The professional conduct board found Cheselka violated several rules based on his handling of Martin’s case, including knowingly making a false statement to the court; making a false statement in connection with a disciplinary matter; and engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation. In addition to neglecting other client matters, Cheselka admitted he did not respond to multiple letters of inquiry based on grievances filed with the disciplinary counsel by three clients....The board found Cheselka acted with a dishonest and selfish motive, committed multiple offenses, engaged in a pattern of misconduct, failed to cooperate with the disciplinary process, submitted false statements, refused to acknowledge the wrongful nature of his conduct, harmed vulnerable clients, and refused to pay restitution....
USA SLAVE DENIED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW NOT ONCE BUT, TWICE. HIS OWN LIEYER FORCING HIS CLIENT TO PLEAD GUILTY TO A CRIME HE DID NOT DO...
Missouri man who served 28 months in prison sues federal public defender’s office
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article238942803.html
Aaron Winters has filed a lawsuit against the Office of the Public Defender, Western District of Missouri. Missouri man who spent more than two years in prison is suing the federal public defender’s office for malpractice. Aaron Winters, 30, said his public defender advised him to take a guilty plea when he was innocent. In October 2012, Winters was arrested by the Kansas City Police Department. Officers found a gun during the arrest and he was charged in federal court on a single count of felon in possession of a firearm.
Winters alleges his public defender told him he had no defense and he pleaded guilty.
However Winters later learned that he was not a convicted felon barred from possessing a gun. In a previous case, he had been convicted of possessing marijuana without a tax stamp in Kansas. But because he was sentenced to less than one year, Winters was not barred from having a gun, according to federal law....
Convictions linked to former Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts vacated
https://abc7chicago.com/12-convictions-linked-to-cpd-sergeant-scandal-vacated/5921414/
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A judge vacated the convictions of 12 people whom authorities say were framed by former Chicago police Sergeant Ronald Watts.
Since 2016, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office has moved to vacate a total of 94 tainted cases all involving the former sergeant.
The men who had tried to get attention for years allowed their attorney to speak for them on Tuesday.
"In all instances these people are entirely innocent of the crimes they were charged," said Josh Tepfer, attorney for the Exoneration Project. "They were forced through the system and forced to plead guilty in many cases because no one would believe this was going on. We all know now it's true. It's really a stain on the city that this was allowed to go on for as long as it has."...
GANG LEADER BANK ROBBER SAYS IT CAN BE TRUSTED TO POLICE THE BANK...
Detroit Police Chief says department can be trusted to investigate internal corruption
Detroit Police Chief James Craig tried to reassure the public Tuesday that the department is equipped and committed to rooting out corruption within its own ranks.
The move comes after a coalition of grassroots organizations publicly questioned the DPD’s willingness and ability to do that in the midst of an ongoing investigation into the department’s narcotics unit, also known as the Major Violators Section.
Craig launched that investigation in August 2019, after a former DPD officer was indicted for taking bribes from a drug dealer. That officer, Michael Mosley, faces a trial scheduled to start next month.
DPD investigators raided the Major Violators section, seizing records and computers. Preliminary results from the investigation turned up evidence that officers in the unit stole from drug dealers, planted drugs on suspects and lied to get search warrants, Craig announced in December....
New York Lawyer Disbarred For $10K Grand Theft in Florida
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/new-york-lawyer-disbarred-for-10k-grand-theft-in-florida
A New York lawyer who pleaded guilty to grand theft after stealing from his employer in Florida was disbarred by a New York appeals court. Hilton M. Wiener’s guilty plea qualifies as a “conviction” sufficient to trigger automatic disbarment under New York law, ...
IN JEWUSALEM ITS CORRUPT SLAVE AUCTION SAYS ITS GUBMINT PIMP SHOULD STILL BE THE LEADER OF ITS CORRUPT NATION BECUZ PIMP USES BRIBERY, FRAUD, BREACH OF TRUST, ETC... JUST THE SAME AS ITS USA WHORE DOES THE SAME...
He indicted Netanyahu but sees no reason to bar him from office
Israel’s attorney general said Thursday that neither the criminal charges that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing nor the unusual terms of the coalition deal he struck with a former rival should disqualify him from forming a new government....
Netanyahu, who is accused of trading lucrative favors for gifts and positive press coverage in dealings with Israeli media moguls, is set to stand trial beginning May 24 on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust....
MOST NIGGERS AINT 100% NIGGER. MOST NIGGERS ARE PART NIGGER AND PART NIGGER. SOME PART BLACK, PART WHITE, PART LATRINO, PART INJUN, AND/OR PART MONKEY. SO IT IS UNSURE HOW THE DATA FIGURES WHEN A NIGGER IS BLACK OR WHITE. WHEN IS A NIGGER REPORTED AS BLACK? WHEN HE IS 10% BLACK, 90% BLACK, OR ANYTHING OVER 0% BLACK? WHAT AMOUNT OF BASTARD BLOOD COUNTS AS BLACK? WHAT IF A NIGGER IS 50% BLACK AND 50% WHITE THEN HOW DOES THE DATA COUNT THE NIGGER, BLACK OR WHITE? WHEN IS A NIGGER REPORTED AS WHITE?
REGARDLESS, IF A NIGGER IS BLACK OR WHITE ITS A FACT THAT ALL LIEYERS DO A SHIT JOB, AND ARE LEGAL CRIMINALS STEALING MO MUNEE THAN THE STREET CRIMINAL MANY TIMES WRONGFULLY CONVICTED. HAVING SAID THAT THE PROSECUTOR IS A PIECE OF SHIT CRIMINAL NO BETTER THAN THE DEFENSE LIEYERS....
District Attorney Rollins calls public defenders too white and privileged, setting off a storm of protest
“Many of these individuals who are criminal defense lawyers receive their paycheck — if you’re a bar advocate, you get paid every time you show up at court, not based on how you do. . . — on the number of times your body walks into that courtroom,” Rollins said....
Statistics show a tiny percentage of lawyers nationwide are minorities. A CPCS spokesman said 15 percent of its staff attorneys are nonwhite. Rollins’ office refused to provide similar data....
Majority of Baltimore’s significant litigation stems from alleged police misconduct, new report shows
The vast majority of the expensive litigation facing Baltimore stems from alleged misconduct in the police department, a new city report shows....
But the overwhelming majority of the litigation — roughly 70% — involves allegations of wrongdoing by police. Several city officials said that was not surprising....
"we also have a historically and monumentally corrupt and ill-behaved police department,.”
Some of the police cases in the report are tied to the Gun Trace Task Force scandal, in which several officers were convicted of federal racketeering charges for robbing citizens, falsifying probable cause and lying on official documents.
In one case, for example, a man alleges that former GTTF officers arrested him after planting a gun in his friend’s car and stealing $1,000 from him in 2015. He is seeking millions in damages....
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway
You may have heard that the image-conscious Los Angeles Unified School District chose to return the grenade launchers it received from the Defense Department’s surplus equipment program. You probably have not heard about some of the more obscure beneficiaries of the Pentagon giveaway:
Police in Johnston, R.I., with a population less than 29,000, acquired two bomb disposal robots, 10 tactical trucks, 35 assault rifles, more than 100 infrared gun sights and two pairs of footwear designed to protect against explosive mines. The Johnson police department has 67 sworn officers.
The parks division of Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources was given 20 M-16 rifles, while the fish and wildlife enforcement division obtained another 20 M-16s, plus eight M-14 rifles and ten .45-caliber automatic pistols.
Campus police at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, received 12 M-16s to help protect the 8,811 students there (or perhaps to keep them in line).
The warden service of Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife received a small aircraft, 96 night vision goggles, 67 gun sights and seven M-14 rifles....
The data is a national gift list of high-caliber weapons, armored vehicles, aircraft and similar military equipment, all delivered for the price of shipping and often with little civilian oversight. The program has doled out $5 billion in equipment since 1990. ...tactical military equipment worth more than $1.4 billion, disseminated in 203,000 transfers to about 7,500 agencies. Even after Ferguson, the program continues to chug along, transferring $28 million in tactical equipment in the past three months....
Municipal police and county sheriffs’ departments comprise the majority of the agencies that receive equipment from the 1033 program, but they’re not the only ones. At least 17 school districts have been given hundreds of items.
In Los Angeles, for instance, the school district police department received a mine-resistant vehicle worth $730,000 in March, as well as three grenade launchers and more than 60 M-16s. ...ETC ETC ETC....
NYC lawsuit payouts drop by 11 percent — but still nearly $1B in 2019
https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/nyc-lawsuit-payouts-drop-11-percent-still-nearly-1b-in-2019/
Suits against the NYPD accounted for 36 percent of the overall costs for all tort claims last year. The number of cases against cops dropped from 6,484 in fiscal year 2019 to 5,848 in 2018 and payouts declined from $237.4 million to $220.1 million.
The city paid even more– $285.8 million– to settle special eduction claims against the Department of Education. That figure dipped from $304 million in 2018.
Stringer’s office settled five wrongful conviction claims for a total of $27 million....
Still taxpayers coughed up $975 million in 2019 to settle 13,712 claims and judgments in slip-and-fall, medical malpractice, police action, motor vehicle property damage, as well as city employee and contract claims against the city. The figure was $1.1 billion for 14,390 suits in 2018.
USA OLIGARCHY THE ROBED LIEYERS AT THE SUPREME SLAVE AUCTION SAYS SLAVE PATROL CAN CONTINUE TO MURDER NIGGERS AND SLAVES AND COMMIT AS MANY CRIMES AS THEY WANT AND GIT LEGAL IMMUNITY FOR DOING SO...
Supreme Court refuses to reconsider immunity that shields police accused of brutality
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a form of immunity that has shielded police officers from lawsuits alleging brutality and other civil rights violations...The justices declined to hear eight separate cases presenting reconsideration of the doctrine of qualified immunity that establishes protection from lawsuits for government officials, particularly police officers....In practice, the ‘‘clearly established’’ test often means that for their lawsuits to proceed, civil rights plaintiffs must identify a nearly identical violation that has been recognized by the Supreme Court or appellate courts in the same jurisdiction....‘‘The Supreme Court’s deeply disappointing decision today to punt on the critical issue of official immunity, in this time of national reckoning over police violence, places the ball squarely in Congress’s court,’’ David Cole, national legal director for the ACLU, said in a statement Monday....‘Such a one-sided approach to qualified immunity transforms the doctrine into an absolute shield for law enforcement officers.’’...
Section 1983 of the US Code, and it imposes liability on officials who use their positions to deprive anyone of ‘‘any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution.’’ There is no exception in the law for police. But beginning in the 1980s, the Supreme Court began providing some immunity for officials, saying that the rights violation must be ‘‘clearly established’’ for a lawsuit to proceed.
SLAVE AUCTIONEER WHO ENSLAVED THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN GITS OUT OF A LOW SECURITY FEDERAL RESORT EARLY...
Kids-for-cash judge released from prison over virus concerns
https://apnews.com/60189fddb66c89e18963299a3c3995c7
A former Pennsylvania judge involved in a scheme to send children to a for-profit jail in exchange for kickbacks was released from federal prison with six years left on his sentence because of coronavirus concerns...Michael Conahan, 68, was sent home from the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Miami last Friday on a 30-day furlough that could lead to permanent home confinement for the remainder of his sentence, the officials said. Prison officials had released Conahan in part because he has medical conditions that put him at a high risk for complications if he contracted the disease,...
Conahan, whose corruption behavior was dissected in a documentary film, books and national news coverage, joins the likes of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen in getting sprung from prison early....Conahan was sentenced in 2011 to 17½ years in prison for his role in what became known as the kids-for-cash scandal. The ex-Luzerne County judge pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge for accepting a share of $2.8 million from the builder and co-owner of the for-profit detention center.Conahan, who headed the county’s court system in Northeastern Pennsylvania from 2002 to 2006 and earned the nickname “The Boss,” closed down a county-owned juvenile detention center and signed a secret agreement to send children to the for-profit facility, prosecutors said.
Mark Ciavarella, the ex-juvenile court judge who sent thousands of children to the for-profit detention center,...
When media rely on what police say, they miss key truths about crime
The headline in the self-proclaimed People Paper — the Philadelphia Daily News — spelled it out in black and white on the morning of April 7, 1992: “Cops: Killer Confessed ... Police close books on 1988 sex murder of Northeast girl, 4.” ...
quote from Philadelphia Det. Sgt. Laurence Nodiff: “He (Ogrod) looked like he had something to tell us. I would characterize him as wanting to cleanse his soul.”
There was one error in that article, though.
As Philadelphia’s current District Attorney Larry Krasner and a judge agreed earlier this month, the evidence is actually overwhelming that Ogrod did not kill Barbara Jean Horn in 1988, and his release after 28 years behind bars backs up his claim that — rather than “wanting to cleanse his soul” — his confession was coerced by detectives who also used a since-discredited jailhouse snitch to finally convict him after two trials....
Spoiler alert: His confession was coerced and he was cleared after 28 years behind bars... The problem with ‘police said’ ...like so many others falsely imprisoned for decades — is only remarkable because it was so routine:... There’s a lot of problems with the “police said” journalism that has typically filled several pages of your hometown newspaper and led the first 10 minutes of local newscasts since the crime-obsessed 1970s,...The reality is that when police say something, they lie ... far too often....
SHERIFFS DEPARTMENTS ARE USUALLY MORE CORRUPT THAN PO'LICE DEPARTMENTS YET OFTEN YOU DO NOT HEAR ABOUT SHERIFF DEPT CORRUPTIONS. WHY? FOR A GLIMPSE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IS LESS ACCOUNTABLE WITH LESS OVERSIGHT BECUZ THEY ANSWER TO THE CORRUPT PEOPLE WHOM THEY ARE PARTNERS IN CRIME WITH. AND ALSO BEING IN A LESS DENSE COUNTY WIDE BASE DOES NOT CONCENTRATE ATTENTION (LESS EYES) THAN THE MORE DENSE URBAN CITIES DO (MORE EYES). READ ON...
Defund the Sheriffs, Too
https://newrepublic.com/article/158338/defund-la-county-sheriffs-department-corruption-abuse
The LASD’s actions that day only hinted at its 170-year history of brutality, racism, deception, and disrespect for those it has sworn to serve. The department—the largest sheriff’s department in the world, with 18,000 employees—is famously corrupt, but it is not an outlier in that respect. There are more than 3,000 sheriff’s departments in the United States, and though many have engaged in the same type of corruption and abuse of force practiced by cops, they receive less public attention. As cities like Minneapolis attempt to reform their police departments, activists are looking to do the same to sheriff’s departments. That may be a greater challenge, given their historic lack of oversight and media coverage of their misconduct and the fact they’re not accountable to mayors and city councils in the way that police departments are. But there’s also reason for hope: Most sheriffs ultimately answer to voters....
The differences between sheriff’s departments help to insulate them from reform. “Sheriff’s department funding structures, as well as their duties, change from county to county,” ...County sheriffs are typically elected to office, unlike appointed city police chiefs....Heading into November, many Americans don’t know much about their local sheriff’s responsibilities and how their department is organized—and they’re unlikely to happen upon that information in their local news coverage. Unless, that is, the sheriff’s abuses of power are so flagrant that they’re impossible to ignore....
While county governments tend to approve their sheriff’s departments’ annual budgets, which can easily surpass $1 billion in big cities, they have no concrete management authority over the sheriff or deputies. That means there are more than 350,000 sworn and civilian officers across the country who are, often by design of state law, barely supervised....The system is the villain....
We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos. Here’s What We Found.
https://projects.propublica.org/protest-police-tactics/
Clips showed officers launching tear gas canisters at protesters’ heads,...In 59 videos, pepper spray and tear gas were used improperly; in a dozen others, officers used batons to strike noncombative demonstrators; and in 87 videos, officers punched, pushed and kicked retreating protesters, including a few instances in which they used an arm or knee to exert pressure on a protester’s neck. While the weapons, tactics and circumstances varied from city to city, what we saw in one instance after another was a willingness by police to escalate confrontations....
THE LEGAL SYSTEM CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT PO'LICE LIES...
The Police Lie. All the Time. Can Anything Stop Them?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/police-testilying.html
Would the criminal justice system collapse if cops were forced to tell the truth?
This tendency to lie pervades all police work, not just high-profile violence, and it has the power to ruin lives. Law enforcement officers lie so frequently—in affidavits, on post-incident paperwork, on the witness stand—that officers have coined a word for it: testilying. Judges and juries generally trust police officers, especially in the absence of footage disproving their testimony....
Defense attorneys around the country believe the practice is ubiquitous; while that belief might seem self-serving, it is borne out by footage captured on smartphones and surveillance cameras. Yet those best positioned to crack down on testilying, police chiefs and prosecutors, have done little or nothing to stop it in most of the country. Prosecutors rely on officer testimony, true or not, to secure convictions, and merely acknowledging the problem would require the government to admit that there is almost never real punishment for police perjury.
Officers have a litany of incentives to lie, but there are two especially powerful motivators. First, most evidence obtained from an illegal search may not be used against the defendant at trial under the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule; thus, officers routinely provide false justifications for searching or arresting a civilian. Second, when police break the law, they can (in theory) suffer real consequences, including suspension, dismissal, and civil lawsuits. In many notorious testilying cases, including Parham’s, officers blame the victim for their own violent behavior in a bid to justify disproportionate use of force. And departments will reward officers whose arrests lead to convictions with promotions....
The Mollen Commission—a famous investigation of the NYPD—found that officers routinely engaged in perjury and falsification of records, “the most common form of police corruption.” When NYPD officers are accused of illegal behavior, the department itself usually investigates, then conceals its findings and imposes, at worst, a slap on the wrist, like brief paid leave. Prosecutors could separately investigate, but they have little incentive to question an officer’s story:...
What would happen if a city really tried to eliminate testilying? I posed this question to Bennett Capers, a former federal prosecutor and Fordham Law professor who studies police lies. “In all honesty, I think my initial reaction would be that the system cannot exist without it,” he told me. “It would grind to a halt.” Capers said that “run of the mill policing would have to change. We are doing about 13 million misdemeanor arrests a year. With a lot of those small crimes, there’s fudging. Nobody’s paying attention.”...
Prosecutors would be forced to make a more careful calculation about the risk of bringing a case to trial and drop cases that rested on a search of dubious legality....
State Police lost thousands of e-mails related to trooper overtime fraud case
Keefe, charged with fraud and larceny, retired in March 2018, one day before more than 20 state troopers were publicly accused of payroll fraud....Keefe was among 46 troopers implicated in 2018 — and under investigation for months before the e-mail switch — in a sprawling overtime pay fraud scandal that has resulted in nine convictions...
“Preserving and disclosing exculpatory evidence is a bedrock principle of the criminal justice system,” ...
The circumstances are particularly troubling, Amabile added, because it was carried out by a police department, and after the defendant already had been under investigation.
The State Police previously acknowledged it destroyed key documents, namely years-old traffic citation records, that could have shown more trooper misconduct. The records were destroyed a year into the department’s internal audit of overtime abuse. The agency claimed the destruction was part of a routine annual process. The agency also came under fire for trying to destroy other records, while still more documents went missing amid investigations.
It’s unclear how many other agencies have lost access to troves of public employee e-mails, which would appear to violate state rules requiring that correspondence be kept for at least three years, or in some cases longer....
he State Police fraud scheme was allegedly hatched more than two decades ago by top commanders who pushed troopers to write citations under an unlawful ticket quota system. As long as troopers handed in enough tickets to meet the quota, supervisors allegedly turned a blind eye and didn’t require them to actually work their shifts. A federal judge in January 2020 said the troopers’ conduct appeared to amount to a criminal conspiracy and he has pushed federal prosecutors to examine the case more deeply.
Keefe estimated he sent and received roughly 34,000 e-mails between 2012 and 2018, when he worked in the troop that patrolled the Massachusetts Turnpike, the epicenter of the payroll scandal,...
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway
Pentagon largesse included tactical military equipment worth more than $1.4 billion, disseminated in 203,000 transfers to about 7,500 agencies. Even after Ferguson, the program continues to chug along, transferring $28 million in tactical equipment in the past three months...
Municipal police and county sheriffs’ departments comprise the majority of the agencies that receive equipment from the 1033 program, but they’re not the only ones. At least 17 school districts have been given hundreds of items....In Los Angeles, for instance, the school district police department received a mine-resistant vehicle worth $730,000 in March, as well as three grenade launchers and more than 60 M-16s. ...
More than 130 college and university police departments, from the Colorado School of Mines to Alabama A&M University, have received weaponry and equipment valued at more than $12 million.
The campus police at Southwest Virginia Community College were given a Humvee last year. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received eight rifles and four shotguns. Florida International University got 50 M-16 rifles and a mine-resistant vehicle. Black River Technical College in Pocahontas, Ark. got a $5.3 million cargo plane and dozens of rifles and pistols....
By far, the biggest customer of the 1033 program has been the federal government itself....
Former FBI Attorney Pleads Guilty To Evidence Tampering & California's Illegal Informant Program
A former FBI attorney pleads guilty to altering emails when seeking FISA warrants against former Trump advisor Carter Page. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss. Then, an Orange County district attorney and police department are sued for facilitating a decades-long prison informant program, forcing inmates to snitch on defendants via threats of physical violence and bribes.
CRIMINAL PROSECUTORS COVER THEIR OWN CRIMES, AND CRIMES COMMITTED BY THEIR SLAVE PATROL BY COERCING INNOCENT DEFENDANTS TO PLEAD GUILTY TO FALSE BOGUS CHARGES WHICH MEANS DEFENDANTS WAIVE THEIR RIGHTS, AND PROSECUTORS GIT ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR THEIR CRIMES AND SLAVE PATROL ARE RARELY CHARGED FOR THEIR CRIMES...
A Black Teenager Was Imprisoned For Two Years After A Botched Drug Bust. His Arresting Officers Had Been Sued 35 Times
Unbeknownst to Fraser and his attorneys, those officers had been sued dozens of times in civil court for false arrests and other constitutional violations against New Yorkers. The Manhattan DA’s office failed to mention the lawsuits at trial. Eventually, a judge ordered Fraser to be released. Now, Fraser is suing the City of New York for millions of dollars. “At trial, the jury deserved to know that these cops have been repeatedly accused of fabricating evidence. That didn’t happen,” ...
By law, prosecutors are required to turn over any evidence to defendants that can help them at trial — including information about the officers testifying in the case that could raise questions about their credibility. This duty is colloquially referred to as the prosecutor’s “Brady obligation” — named for the 50 year old Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland....
Fraser’s new attorneys uncovered 35 lawsuits against the officers on this narcotics team. The prosecution admitted that a paralegal had conducted a search and found 13 lawsuits against the officers involved in Fraser’s arrest, Detective Regina and Undercover 84. However, the DA’s office argued that these lawsuits were not “material” to Fraser for his case.
State Supreme Court Judge Robert Stolz ordered Fraser’s conviction vacated, and a new trial was granted. The DA’s office could have retried the case but agreed not to do that if Fraser pleaded to some sort of charge. So in order to put this all behind him, Fraser agreed to plead to disorderly conduct, a non-criminal offense....
Here’s a closer look at the 9 Boston Police officers charged with overtime fraud
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/02/metro/heres-closer-look-9-boston-poli
Can you trust the police to tell the truth? Reliability under scrutiny as cases tossed
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-31/la-county-sheriff-deputies-lawsuit
Lyle Spruill was arrested that December night last year and charged with one of the most incendiary of felonies — attempted murder of a police officer — even though no gun was found. He spent the next six months in jail....Spruill claims in a lawsuit filed last week that the deputies from the Century Station fabricated the story and withheld evidence that contradicted their version of events. A gunshot residue report was completed 15 days after Spruill’s December arrest but wasn’t turned over to prosecutors for six months,...
“Every day I walk around, and I think about why,” Spruill, 45, said in an interview with The Times. “Why me? What have I done wrong to make not one cop, not two cops, but several cops to make a statement that I tried to hurt them?” A Gallup poll after Floyd’s May 25 death found that confidence in police was at a record low, falling to less than half the U.S. population, 48%, for the first time in 27 years. Experts say it appears people are more likely now to question what’s in police reports....
“They terrorize the community, and then they cover their tracks,” Compton Mayor Aja Brown said recently, recalling her own experience in which she said she was wrongfully stopped by deputies. The Sheriff’s Department said it determined that the stop was a lawful detention....“Over and over again they say, ‘He was reaching for a gun.’ ‘He had a gun.’ ‘A gun was later recovered at the scene.’ ‘He reached for the officer’s gun,’” Steppling said. “These are things that they say that are not true.”...
Report: 'Alarming' rates of police and prosecutor misconduct
https://apnews.com/82a0a00ad9b9876b465f99137d9376c6
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hiding evidence that could prove innocence. Planting drugs or guns at a crime scene. Forcing witnesses to falsely identify a defendant. A new, in-depth analysis on wrongful convictions put a spotlight Tuesday on “alarming” rates of police and prosecutor misconduct — one that is claiming lives. The National Registry of Exonerations spent more than six years examining the cases of 2,400 innocent people who were exonerated from 1989 to 2019, finding that 54% were sent to prison because of intentional or negligent mistakes by police, prosecutors and other law enforcement officials. In general, the more severe the crime, the higher the rate of wrongdoing, the report found. The most common form of misconduct involved concealing evidence that could have cleared the defendant — occurring in 44% of the cases that led to exonerations. Next was perjury and other forms of misconduct at trial by police and prosecutors, witness tampering, the use of manipulative interrogation techniques to secure false confessions, and faking crimes, with officers planting drugs or guns on suspects or falsely claiming they had assaulted an officer....
More than half of all wrongful criminal convictions are caused by government misconduct, study finds
the reasons people are wrongly convicted, and it has found that 54 percent of those defendants are victimized by official misconduct, with police involved in 34 percent of cases, prosecutors in 30 percent, and some cases involving both police and prosecutors.... police and prosecutors are rarely disciplined for actions that lead to a wrongful conviction.... “Misconduct by police, prosecutors and other law enforcement officials is a regular problem,”...
The study cites five types of misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions: witness tampering, misconduct in interrogations, fabricating evidence, concealing exculpatory evidence and misconduct at trial.... bad forensic science, as well as witnesses who overstated the findings of such evidence. Ineffective work by defense lawyers was another cause and “probably as much of a problem as misconduct of prosecutors, but we just don’t know,” because many such cases go unreported or un-exonerated,...
And then there are cases where people plead guilty simply to get out of jail rather than wait months for trial, although the evidence later clears them. “My guess is,” Gross said, “the most common cause of false convictions is pretrial detention,”...
THE REASON INNOCENT SLAVES ARE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED BAD GUYS IS BECUZ LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES DO NOT KNOW IT IS ILLEGAL TO FALSIFY (LIE) ON POLICE REPORTS...
OC sheriff’s deputies who lied on reports testify that they didn’t know it was illegal
Two fired Orange County sheriff’s deputies convicted of lying on their police reports testified recently before a grand jury that they didn’t know it was illegal to falsify the documents, transcripts show. Joseph Anthony Atkinson Jr., 39, and Bryce Richmond Simpson, 31, had neglected to book evidence but falsified their reports... Edwin Mora, who rejected the plea deal and was subsequently indicted on a felony charge of falsifying a police report....Special prosecutor Patrick K. O’Toole told grand jurors that he gave the plea deal to Atkinson and Simpson partially because they had not been informed of the Penal Code section for lying on a official report....
O’Toole, who has has served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California and as head of the San Diego County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Division, is reviewing at least 14 other cases of mishandling evidence to determine if criminal charges are warranted....“O’Toole attempted to convince the grand jury and those who would later report on the proceedings that neither Mora nor any member of law enforcement should be treated severely for writing false reports and failing to book evidence,”...
The controversy over qualified immunity
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-controversy-over-qualified-immunity/
The 911 audio recording of an eyewitness to an arrest, and the subsequent video of the suspect being pummeled, documented the takedown in Grand Rapids, Michigan back in 2014. "I don't know if these are undercover officers that are on top of this man, but this man is screaming, 'Call the police, call the police,'" said the caller to 911. "So, I don't know what's going on, but they're beating him up, they're literally assaulting him."
The guys on top are, in fact, undercover cops. The shirtless man is a criminal suspect, emphasize "suspect." James King just had the stuffing knocked out of him because he bit one of the cops. James King, who was approached by undercover cops, thought he was being mugged, and fought back. "I bit the officer on the arm because he put me in a chokehold, and I blacked out, and when I came to, that was the only thing I could do to save my life at the time," King said. Senior contributor Ted Koppel asked, "And then what happened?" "He let go, eventually, but then he proceeded to punch me in the head until I couldn't move anymore," said King. James King would be charged with assaulting a police officer. Which brings us to what may be the central argument for a legal doctrine known as "qualified immunity."...
"When I spoke with my criminal attorney, he told me this thing happens more that you would hope. And most of the people that try to fight these things don't win. Many people that have had happen to them what happened to me, they're in jail right now, or worse."
But what about the arrest that set all of this in motion? Couldn't King sue law enforcement for damages? Well, he could, and he did, and attorneys for the cops invoked qualified immunity.... "Union officials and other defenders of qualified immunity use two talking points repeatedly in defending the doctrine: that officers will be bankrupted if qualified immunity goes away, and that good officers who make reasonable mistakes will be found liable. And neither of these things are true, because officers virtually never pay as a consequence of indemnification agreements."...
BANKROBBERS POLICING THE BANK WILL GIVE THEIR REPORT ON HOW TO POLICE THE BANKS...
Federal Judge Halts Trump's Cop-Filled Law Enforcement Task Force
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-task-force_n_5f75fd84c5b6c35a64194768
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration not to release a report by the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, finding that the group ― comprised entirely of current and former members of law enforcement ― had been “far from transparent.”... had violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which requires that committees be “fairly balanced” in the viewpoints represented.... “providing cover” for a predetermined law-and-order agenda that “will only widen the divisions in our nation.” Bates wrote that the commission’s membership “consists entirely of current and former law enforcement officials” and that no commissioner “has a criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization background.”...
SLAVE AUCTIONEER SAYS SLAVE PATROL LIE TO OBTAIN WARRANTS.
SLAVE PATROL SAY THEY DIDNT KNOW IT IS ILLEGAL FOR SLAVE PATROL TO LIE....
Judge says she is 'concerned' detective may have lied to get Breonna Taylor search warrant
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville judge who signed a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home that ultimately led to her death said Thursday she is concerned that the detective may have lied to obtain the warrant. But Jefferson Circuit Judge Mary Shaw told The Courier Journal that she will defer to the FBI, which has been investigating the search warrant application for Taylor's apartment that led to the fatal raid....
NOT ONLY ARE SLAVE PATROL CORRUPT FUKN LIARS BUT SO IS THE SLAVE AUCTION LIEYERS AND SLAVE AUCTIONEERS...
Ex-prosecutor in Wilson case accused by lawyer of attempted coverup
A Cook County prosecutor who was fired after lying on the witness stand earlier this month is alleged to have destroyed evidence on his phone in a case that ultimately ended in the dismissal of charges against Jackie Wilson, who has long maintained that he was tortured by police into falsely confessing to playing a role in the 1982 shooting deaths of two Chicago cops....
CAN YOU IMIAGINE "IF" ALL THE WRONGFULLY CONVCITED WERE DECLARED THAT, HOW MUCH MUNEE THE MASTAS WOULD HAVE TO PAY THE SLAVES. NO WONDER THE MASTAS ARE IN NO HURRY TO HELP ALL THE SLAVES THEY FUKD...
Oppo dump! O’Brien blamed for millions in wrongful conviction settlements
* Regarding Cook County State’s Attorney candidate Pat O’Brien…
The City Of Chicago, The State Of Illinois & Cook County Paid Out A Total Of Over $64 Million In Settlements Due To Wrongful Convictions Under Pat O’Brien
From March 1989 through October 1993, O’Brien served as chief of criminal prosecutions for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office. In total, 20 men who were wrongfully convicted during O’Brien’s tenure later received monetary compensation from the City of Chicago, Cook County or the State of Illinois, or are currently suing for compensation. Due to these wrongful convictions under O’Brien, Illinois taxpayers were on the hook for over $64 million in settlement payouts (with several lawsuits pending), including $61.2 million from the City of Chicago, over $1.9 million from the State of Illinois, and $1.25 million from Cook County. The cases are as follows:...
Unqualified Impunity: When Government Officials Break the Law, They Often Get Away With It
FORENSIC TESTS ARE ONLY AS RELIABLE AS THE TESTER, THE TEST, THE HANDLER, AND THE INTERPRETTER...
More cases connected to Sonja Farak’s drug lab work expected to be
Farak, who was convicted of stealing drugs from the state lab in Amherst in 2014, had tested nearly 10,000 drug samples at the Hinton lab, including 650 involved in Norfolk County cases, according to state records. She and her Hinton colleague Annie Dookhan, who was accused in a similar case and convicted in 2013, served less than seven years in prison for stealing or tampering with drug case evidence at the Amherst and Jamaica Plain labs. Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said her office also has been working on dismissals of cases Farak was involved with “for some time” but declined to provide the number...
The story behind a Boston police detective who benefited from two police coverups
The Globe report last month on how Boston police officers accused of crimes are often shielded from criminal or professional consequences...“Why are police officers allowed to be above the law? Because it is other police officers that make the decision as to whether or not they get arrested,”...“To the community, it seems like there is a different code and a different law and a different status of citizenship for those who are police officers.”...
57 Denver sheriff’s deputies — and the sheriff — have potential credibility issues, review finds
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/06/denver-sheriff-department-credibility-review-brady-list/
Dozens of Denver sheriff’s deputies have histories of lying or criminal activity that may impact their credibility in court — including the sheriff himself. A review by city public safety officials launched last year found that 57 current and former uniformed Denver Sheriff Department personnel had problems with their credibility, according to documents obtained by The Denver Post through a public records request. Twenty-nine of those people are still employed by the department, including five sergeants and one captain.
Denver public safety officials announced last year that they would conduct a review of sheriff’s department discipline records to create a list of deputies whose backgrounds might affect their credibility if called to testify in court....
Two NYPD Officers Lied In Court About Their Arrest Of A Black Lives Matter Protester. The Manhattan D.A. Cleared Them.
A Black Lives Matter protester won a judgment this week against New York City in a lawsuit over two police officers who lied in official paperwork and on the witness stand after her arrest during a 2016 march in Manhattan.
Ironically, the judgement, which will cost the city more than $52,000, arises out of a now-discontinued NYPD scheme to reduce the amount of money the city pays out to protesters who sue over false arrests – not by reducing the number of false arrests, but by coercing protesters into signing away their rights to sue. ...
By putting the NYPD’s own lawyers in summons court acting as prosecutors, the police department would be able to tell protesters that their charges would only be resolved if they signed papers declaring that they were properly arrested, thus preventing them from suing over improper arrests.
Faced with the choice of taking this deal or committing to a potentially expensive and time-consuming trial over a minor violation, most protesters took the deal. Winsor did not.
“It just felt wrong,” Winsor told Gothamist. “I was being falsely accused of something I hadn’t done, and I was being prosecuted by the police, the same people who had falsely arrested me. It seemed like a conflict of interest, like we were going down the slope to a police state.” ...
Justice hurried is justice buried
the number of cases against public representatives stood at 4,859. The report submitted by him also recommended that the high courts be directed to prepare a blueprint for expeditious disposal of cases with the conclusion of trials by no later than one year....
For such special treatment of expedited trial to be given to all serving and former public representatives, it must first pass the requirement of constitutionality. When the Constitution speaks of the fundamental right to equality why is it a public representative’s case merits priority over a longer pending case?...
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins looking into third chemist at state drug lab
Reverberations of the decades-long drug lab scandal, which brought national embarrassment to the state, are still felt today. To date, it has resulted in the dismissal of more than 35,000 drug convictions, as well as the prosecution of two former state chemists, Dookhan and Sonja Farak. Their misconduct has cost the state more than $30 million, Rollins’s office noted in the filing, with state payouts to those wrongfully convicted expected to reach $10 million....“People have lost their jobs, their housing, their freedom” as a result of drug lab misconduct, Segal added.... Several state court judges have raised concerns about the state’s failure to fully investigate the Hinton lab....
Judge Dismisses DAPL Lawsuit That Claimed Excessive Force
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out the lawsuit of an Arizona man who claimed North Dakota law enforcement officers injured him and violated his civil rights during the Dakota Access pipeline protests....The Bismarck Tribune reports Mitchell claimed he was subjected to “excessive violence” by officers who fired beanbag rounds in January 2017 at unarmed protesters, including himself. One round struck him in the left eye, resulting in long-term vision, hearing and smell problems and chronic pain, he alleged. He sought unspecified money damages....
Six convictions tied to former Sgt. Ronald Watts thrown out
https://chicagocrusader.com/six-convictions-tied-to-former-sgt-ronald-watts-thrown-out/
Six men who were locked up under disgraced Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts had their convictions thrown out Tuesday, December 15, after Cook County Judge Leroy Martin Jr. agreed that they were victims of police misconduct. The move, which occurred during a hearing on Zoom, brings the number of vacated cases tied to Watts to 101. In February, 12 individuals who were framed by Watts had their convictions vacated....
These are the police misconduct lawsuits the public hears little about
Over the past five years, the D.C. government has spent millions of dollars settling dozens of police misconduct lawsuits — settlements that, even as officers acknowledge no wrongdoing, document a trail of nonfatal encounters that went painfully wrong.....
In response to a public records request, the D.C. Office of the Attorney General released records of more than 70 lawsuits alleging police misconduct and negligence that the city has settled since 2016....D.C. police officials say the settlements represent a fraction of the thousands of interactions between officers and the public...Despite a recommendation from the Police Complaints Board, which reviews citizen allegations of misconduct, the department has not released detailed reports about lawsuits and settlements. .... “When you start to see it over and over again, it speaks to the nature of the police,”...“It’s the public’s money that’s used to pay off these lawsuits,” he said. “The public deserves to know where their money is going.”...
Negotiated settlements are a common way to resolve litigation involving police. Since 2015, New York City has paid more than $1 billion to settle police misconduct cases, while Chicago and Los Angeles spent more than $200 million, a Wall Street Journal survey showed. Baltimore paid $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray,... the city agreed to pay $8 million to two men who served prison time after officers planted drugs on them. Since 2016, the District has spent more than $40 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits...Racine’s office, which the police department told the council cost taxpayers $805,000. About $33 million detailed in the records from Racine’s office... while $2.8 million was to settle the last of several lawsuits over botched arrests...The remaining $5 million was to resolve at least 65 other suits — alleging false arrest, excessive force, negligence and violations of constitutional rights — with amounts that often ranged from $25,000 to $200,000....
Florida gave thousands of tarnished officers a second chance. Hundreds blew it again.
Joseph Floyd turned Florida’s Crestview Police Department into a criminal enterprise, the judge said at his 2013 sentencing, but his willingness to break the rules didn’t start there.
Story after story from witnesses, including fellow officers, illustrated the “irreparable” harm the judge said the police major caused: accusations of excessive use of force, false arrests, sexual assault, bribery, planting drugs, falsifying police reports and intimidating other officers to force them to go along with his crimes....More than 500 officers who were allowed to continue their law enforcement careers went on to commit offenses that resulted in their decertification.... “He ruined lives,” special prosecutor Russ Edgar said. “He perverted justice, and he did everything a police officer should never do. He used his badge to break the law. He had no respect for it, no observance for it in these incidents.”...The vast majority of those officers committed some form of crime, ranging from drug offenses to sexual assault to murder, leaving a trail of victims and at least two dozen lawsuits...
DOMESTIC ENEMIES ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST THEIR ENEMY, THE USA CITIZEN. HYPOCRATS CREATE A LAW THAT GIBS SLAVE PATROL MILITARY WEAPONS. THEN HYPOCRATS STOP IT. THEN REPUBLICRATS START IT AGAIN BECUZ HYPOCRATS WANTED TO RENAME USA TERRORIST TRAINING FACILITIES...
Hidden in Bill Passed Over Trump’s Veto: Limits on Police Militarization
The 1033 program dates to the Clinton era, and allows any weapons and gear that the U.S. military is not using—including Humvees, scuba-diving equipment and even marching band instruments, according to reporting by The Marshall Project—to be passed along to local law enforcement, contributing to scenes of police equipped as if for war when confronting peaceful protests in Ferguson in 2014 and elsewhere. More than $6 billion in federal battlefield supplies has gone out to more than 8,000 police departments since the early 1990s. ... President Obama recalled many of these pieces of equipment in 2015. “This was effective and eliminated most from circulation,” ... Trump administration lifted Obama’s rule in 2017, and some bayonets and other gear started trickling back out to cops, according to the most recent numbers on the program. A Marshall Project analysis of that data shows that a few of the now-banned items are in active use. Five police departments have 21 total boxes of grenades; 66 bayonets are still in the possession of law enforcement agencies. Police also continue to hold more than 71,000 military-issued guns, like automatic rifles and pistols, including AR-15 style guns. ... In the Republican infighting over the new law, little mention was made of the clause keeping these weapons from getting into the hands of cops. Trump’s chief reason for trying to veto the law had been that it also requires the renaming of military bases named after Confederate generals. ...
Former DeKalb County Sergeant sentenced for possessing equipment to make fraudulent credit cards and ID’s
ATLANTA - Claude Goines has been sentenced to prison for running a fake credit card and ID lab. Goines operated a carding lab where he manufactured fraudulent credit cards and driver's licenses while he was on a work release program related to an earlier fraud conviction. “Identity theft and credit card fraud has become an all too common problem,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine. “The actions of thieves like Goines can severely damage citizens’ lives and credit. In some cases, it can take years to repair. We encourage all citizens to monitor their credit for any suspicious activity, and if they find any, to contact law enforcement immediately.” “It is clear that Goines was determined to continue to hurt citizens by stealing their identities to line his own pockets,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta. “Particularly disturbing is the fact that he is a former law enforcement officer sworn to protect citizens.”...
Small Punishment for Big Crime(s): Former Long Island Prosecutor Glenn Kurtzrock Can’t Practice Law for Two Years After Committing Misconduct in at Least Five Murder Cases
At first read, the recent prosecutor accountability headlines announcing the two-year-law suspension of former Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock for withholding key exculpatory evidence during a murder trial sound like good news. After years of waiting and even a lawsuit filed by the Innocence Project, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division’s Second Judicial District finally affirmed the Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District’s findings of misconduct and suspended Kurtzrock. As readers of the Open File know, it’s rare for prosecutors to lose their jobs, and being suspended from practicing law – even temporarily – for illegal and unethical behavior is virtually unheard of. While we commend disciplinary action taken against Kurtzrock, it’s worth exploring how it took so long to occur and why the two-year-suspension meted out by a New York State Appellate Division panel of judges isn’t sufficient....
Looking Back: Remembering Prison Guards
https://www.davisvanguard.org/2021/02/looking-back-remembering-prison-guards/
Many prison guards seemed to live to make prison a worse experience for inmates than it needed to be.....Some of them simply liked to engage in different forms of harassment; while others were so dangerous...Still others were professionals and did their jobs. Then there were those who were actually friendly...
Sometimes they would set prisoners up by writing a false misbehavior report which could send a prisoner to the Special Housing Unit, otherwise known as “the hole”. At other times they would stir up violence amongst the prisoners for their entertainment. As I have mentioned in a previous column, they might accomplish this by spreading a false or even a true story about a prisoner, or by paying a prisoner off with cigarettes....
UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA TWO TIER LEGAL SYSTEM:
MASTAS=IMMUNITY
SLAVES=WRONGFUL CONVICTION
INNOCENT SLAVES = PLEAD GUILTY NIGGAZ = BAD GUYS
GUILTY MASTAS = IMMUNITY = LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS
Attorney general clears Rachael Rollins in alleged road rage incident
Attorney General Maura Healey has concluded that Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins committed no civil rights violations or crimes in a Christmas Eve incident in which she allegedly threatened another driver....First Assistant Attorney General Mary Strother acknowledged, in her letter closing the investigation, that video footage that might have captured the incident was not available:...Rollins, who is a leading contender to become US Attorney for Massachusetts...In her complaint, Lawson alleged that Rollins threatened her, and inappropriately flashed her blue lights...“I had an encounter with the Suffolk County DA Rollins, one I would say was very disturbing,” wrote Lawson in her complaint. “During this encounter I asked DA Rollins to ‘just go’ several times and she did not. Apparently when she felt like she had done enough or said what she felt like, she then went right back to her (cellphone) call.”...According to Lawson, Rollins then left the parking lot, blowing through a red light. Rollins has denied threatening the woman, activating her lights, or running a red light. She said Lawson was driving the wrong way and she thought she would hit her...
Congress to consider bill requiring police to report their misconduct settlements
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/05/police-misconduct-reporting/
Last year, officials in Prince George’s County paid $20 million to the family of a handcuffed man who was killed by a police officer. In Washington, city officials paid out $40 million to victims of police abuse between 2016 and 2020. Chicago paid more than $709 million to police victims in a recent eight-year period. Taxpayers absorb the costs of those payouts annually. But the settlements and judgments are reported sporadically, hiding the effect on city and county services that are often raided to pay the costs of police misconduct, and the long-term debt it creates. So two members of Congress from Virginia, Sen. Tim Kaine (D) and Rep. Don Beyer (D), have introduced a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to report all police-related judgments and settlements, including financial costs and court fees, to a central database maintained by the Justice Department. ...
Beyer noted that while taxpayers and municipalities pay the costs of police abuse, the finance industry makes a profit from it. “State and local governments will literally go to Wall Street and borrow money,” Beyer said, “for ‘police misconduct bonds,’ to pay off the costs of police misconduct.” From 2010 to 2017, Chicago borrowed $709 million to pay off police misconduct actions, according to the Action Center on Race and the Economy, which estimated the city will pay an additional $860 million in interest over the life of those bonds, for a total cost to Chicagoans of more than $1.5 billion. ...
“Most citizens have no idea what police misconduct actually costs their cities,” ...
Lawyer who bilked disabled clients out of hundreds of thousands is suspended in NC
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article250202595.html
For years, a Florida lawyer who represented two wrongfully-convicted, intellectually-disabled half brothers in North Carolina argued that his clients lacked the competency to withstand the coercive interrogations that led to their convictions.... McCollum and Brown, accused of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Red Springs in 1983, spent more than 30 years in prison before they were exonerated in 2014 on the basis of DNA evidence. Megaro soon came to represent them. He led the brothers, both with IQs in the 50s, into predatory loans and kept hundreds of thousands of dollars of settlement money for himself before a federal judge ordered him off the case in 2018.
Megaro faced long-awaited justice this month. A North Carolina State Bar disciplinary panel suspended his law license in this state for five years, and ordered him to repay $250,000 — part of the settlement money Megaro took but that was intended for the brothers who’d trusted him. Megaro, who is still licensed to practice law in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Washington, can reapply for his North Carolina license after three years, if he’s repaid the money and completed 10 hours of ethics training.
Megaro had faced a long list of complaints and allegations from the State Bar. Among them: that he charged improper fees; that he attempted to argue that his right to a portion of the brothers’ settlement money “would survive termination” of his representation; that he failed to represent the brothers “with competence or diligence;” that he engaged in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation” in front of the court; that he orchestrated high-interest loans for the brothers when they “were not competent to understand those terms or enter into those agreements.”...
CRIME PAYS. THE MORE CRIMES SLAVE PATROL CREATE = MORE MUNEE FOR SLAVE PATROL ...
Cops for $1,000 a day: How Seattle spends millions hiring off-duty police officers but does little to monitor their moonlighting
Seattle officials vowed but failed to reform off-duty police work. In the system left in place, SPD can’t reliably enforce its rules. Employers pay wildly different rates for off-duty cops....
CRIME PAYS.
SLAVES PAY FOR THEIR SLAVERY TO BE WATCHED BY SLAVE PATROL IN BASE PAY BUT ALSO IN HIDDEN ACTUAL FEES. SLAVE PATROL EARNS MORE THAN THE MAYOR ENSURING NIGGERS AND SLAVES ARE SHOT AND ARRESTED FOR THE CRIMES OF EVERYTHING AND DENIED RIGHTS. THE MAYOR JUST ENSURES THAT THE CRIMES OF ALL THE MASTAS ARE WELL HIDDEN AND THE SLAVES RIGHTS ARE DENIED TO REFLECT THE WORDS OF THE LAW TO KEEP MASTAS HAPPY AND KEEP NIGGERS AND SLAVES IN SLAVERY....
With spending on police in the spotlight, more than 30 Boston officers made more than $300,000 in 2020
They aren’t the only ones in the department taking home hefty paychecks, either. Overall, 509 Boston officers made more than $200,000 last year. By contrast, the mayor makes $199,000.... Sean P. Smith, a lieutenant, was the top earner in the department, pulling in $124,000 in overtime on top of his $145,000 in base pay. He also collected roughly $45,000 in detail pay, which is accrued separately from overtime; $36,000 in educational benefits; and $13,000 in “other” pay, according to city records. All told, Smith made $365,000. (Taxpayers don’t directly pay for details, although developers and utilities do pass on those costs to consumers.) Smith was followed on the list by... Critics have said that Janey’s proposed $400 million Police Department budget... Janey’s spending plan represents a modest reduction of just $4 million from this fiscal year’s approved BPD budget and is $21 million below the actual amount of money the department will spend this year.... police are projected to spend $65 million on overtime, well beyond the budgeted amount of $48 million, but down from last year’s overtime costs of $75 million....
WOW. CRIMINAL SLAVE PATROL SAY THEY ARE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS DID NUTHIN WRONG FOR THEIR CRIMES INSTEAD SAYING IT WAS HIS CRIMINAL LIEYERS FAULT AKA JAILHOUSE SNITCH AND CONFIDENTIAL PO'LICE INFORMANT WHO IS THE CRIMINAL. WHICH CRIMINAL IS THE CRIMINAL? THE BAD GUY OR THE GOOD GUYS?...
Police block damages claim for Gobbo client who served 12 years’ jail
Victoria Police has moved to block any compensation for Faruk Orman, who served 12 years in jail before his murder conviction was quashed in 2019 because of the role played by barrister-turned-police-informer Nicola Gobbo....
Mr Orman, who was found to be the victim of a “substantial miscarriage of justice” by the Court of Appeal, is understood to be seeking more than $10 million from the force.
However, Victoria Police’s legal team has claimed its officers, including former chief commissioner Simon Overland and several Purana taskforce detectives, are not to blame for Mr Orman’s wrongful conviction over the 2002 murder of gangster Victor Peirce.
“The miscarriage of justice was due to Gobbo’s conduct,” says a defence statement by law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth, who are acting for Victoria Police.
Several failed mediations and the hardline approach by Victoria Police suggest the case is almost certain to proceed to trial, with several other former clients of Ms Gobbo poised to challenge their convictions and also expected to pursue compensation.
Lawyers for Mr Orman have accused police officers involved in his case of conducting a malicious prosecution of their client, false imprisonment, misconduct in public office and breach of duty of care.
“The misconduct of the Victoria Police members is demonstrative of a disgraceful, scandalous and contumelious disregard for the plaintiff [Mr Orman].”
“The conduct of the Victoria Police members was such that they knew that the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of the plaintiff [Mr Orman] for the murder of Peirce was a miscarriage of justice,” the statement of claim filed by Mr Orman’s lawyers says.
Victoria Police deny all accusations of misconduct in its defence statement.... the use of Ms Gobbo as a registered informer had been a “profound failure by our organisation”.
“It was an indefensible interference in the lawyer-client relationship that is a fundamental requirement for the proper functioning of our criminal justice system,” Mr Patton said last year.
In the case of Mr Orman, the commission found Ms Gobbo divulged Mr Orman’s defence tactics to police, while the Director of Public Prosecutions conceded a miscarriage of justice occurred because Ms Gobbo acted as Mr Orman’s lawyer while also encouraging a gangland turncoat to become a witness against him.
Gangland figure Zlate Cvetanovski, who spent close to a decade behind bars, became the second person to be acquitted over the Lawyer X scandal in October 2020, when the Court of Appeal was told his barrister Ms Gobbo had convinced a key witness to incriminate him.
Mr Cvetanovski’s trial on serious drug trafficking charges was also found to be irrevocably contaminated by a series of payments made by Victoria Police to the jailhouse witness who was crucial in securing the conviction.
Like Mr Orman, Mr Cvetanovski is also expected to launch a civil claim against Victoria Police to pursue damages.
Other prisoners appealing their convictions include drug lord Tony Mokbel and drug trafficker Rob Karam, who was jailed over one of Australia’s biggest Calabrian mafia drug busts – 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy pills stowed in tomato tins.
Francesco Madafferi, who was jailed alongside Karam, Pat Barbaro and Pasquale Sergi over the ecstasy in the tomato tins importation, is also appealing his drug trafficking conviction because of allegations Ms Gobbo assisted with the investigation before she represented Karam and others in court.
USA CONCENTRATION CAMPS STARVE, DENY MEDICAL, ABUSE INMATES, ETC. HALF THE INMATES HAVE NOT BEEN SENTENCED, AND SOME ARE WAITING SLAVE AUCTION TO PLEAD GUILTY TO THE CRIMES THEY DID NOT DO....
Pregnant Women Allege Abuse in Texas Jails
https://theappeal.org/pregnant-women-allege-abuse-in-texas-jails-pretrial-detention-legislation/
They took my food,” Jane wrote to her mother in a letter dated Oct. 12, 2020. “I’m going to starve. So is the baby.”... As of May 1, of the more than 63,000 people held in Texas jails, more than half are awaiting trial, according to state data. ... “Pretrial caging in Texas, as is true throughout the rest of the country, has always been cruel, inhumane, unhealthy, racist, and violent,” ...
One testimonial shared by Shedding Light is from a mother of two with bipolar disorder. While incarcerated at the Harris County Jail, she said she waited four months before receiving her medication. “And that’s because I tried to hang myself inside my cell,” she said in a recording. ... “They treat me like an animal,” she wrote.... Isolation, abuse, and medical neglect are rampant inside the state’s jails...
'Ordinary police work' keeps the innocent on death row
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2021/06/qualified-immunity/
Qualified immunity, based on the assumption that the officers were working in "good faith" and integrity throughout the investigation, protects law enforcement officers' rights above those whose lives they ruin. "Good faith" is what sustains wrongful convictions like Henry and Leon's—to the exclusion of facts, exculpatory evidence, or any other due diligence reasonable law enforcement officers are supposedly obligated to perform during the investigation of a crime.... Foundational to our criminal justice system is an obvious truth: State authority trumps civil rights.3 Law enforcement testimony is accepted against the word of the accused, no matter what takes place behind closed doors....
Official misconduct, which includes law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and other government officials who abuse their power, is the primary reason why wrongful convictions stand for as long as they do. According to the University of Michigan Law School's National Registry of Exonerations, between 1989 and 2015, nearly half (47 percent) of 1,740 noncapital exonerations were due to official misconduct. Of the 116 recorded death row exonerations, 76 percent were due to official misconduct.... This small sampling does not include those people who had a conviction or sentence overturned but were not exonerated, nor does it include the many people in prison who struggle to get their cases heard. There is no database that tracks official misconduct in the criminal legal system....
San Jose Police Try To Rein In Violent Encounters
In police reports, officers claimed that Paulino fought and resisted arrest; video from a security camera showed he did not. The city paid Paulino $700,000 after a jury found the beating violated his constitutional rights.... In the national conversation about policing over the past year, public attention has focused on those who die at the hands of officers.... Few know that tens of thousands of people like Paulino end up in the ER after run-ins with police. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that since 2015, more than 400,000 people have been treated in emergency rooms because of violent interactions with police or security guards. But there’s almost no nationwide data on the nature or circumstances of their injuries. Many of the country’s roughly 18,000 law enforcement agencies don’t tally or make public the number of people who need medical care after officers break their arms, bruise their faces or shock them with Tasers. ...
Want Better Policing? Make It Easier To Fire Bad Cops.
https://reason.com/2021/06/25/want-better-policing-make-it-easier-to-fire-bad-cops/
If you're a Realtor, contractor, or insurance agent who engages in serious misbehavior, the state can strip you of the license that allows you to practice your profession. Occupational licensing rules often are strict. They include "moral turpitude" clauses that deny licenses to those with convictions—even for crimes that have little to do with the specific work license.
These rules mostly apply to private-sector workers. But many government employees—especially police officers, who have the legal right to use deadly force—have no licensing system. Overly aggressive and corrupt officers might get fired, but there's nothing stopping them from getting another policing job thanks to the power of the state's public-employee unions....
The police investigate themselves and rarely find wrongdoing. Internal discipline is secret. District attorneys, who often are elected with the support of police unions, file charges only in the most egregious situations—and usually only after an incident has exploded in the media. The Peace Officers Bill of Rights and special local collective bargaining clauses give officers the kind of protections that most of us wish the Bill of Rights really offered....
Here’s What OC Sheriff Staff Violated in the Last Couple Years, According to Their Department
hundreds of sustained policy violations by Sheriff’s Department staff – ranging from excessive force to mishandling evidence, dishonesty and burglary....dishonesty – ranging from “untruthfulness” to inaccurate timekeeping and a false use of force report.... including domestic violence, falsifying an official document, DUI, burglary and sexual assault.... use of force, including 10 cases of “excessive force,” 8 cases of “poor tactics resulting in a use of force” and 3 cases of failing to report a use of force.
The most common punishments were a written reprimand and a suspension of less than 24 hours.... Among the sustained violations are one case each of failing to provide an inmate with meals, violating the Fourth Amendment, mishandling legal mail for an inmate who was representing themselves, and two cases of failing to conduct safety checks.... failing to book evidence on time and in some cases making false statements in their police reports.... filing a false police report about evidence....
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS ARE ARMED THIEVES...
Man says arrested East Cleveland cops stole cash from his wallet: ‘I’m standing up for everyone they’ve done this to before’
Two East Cleveland police officers knocked on his window. Within minutes, the two officers yanked him out of the driver’s seat, searched his car without telling him why and let him go. When the officers returned Seawright’s wallet, Seawright said more than $300 was missing. Three days later the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office arrested two officers— Alfonzo Cole, 33, and Willie Warner-Sims, 31— on felony theft charges. The two are accused of stealing about $5,000 from a different man, who was on his way to pay for his mother’s funeral... “It seemed like they’ve done this before,” Seawright said. “The way they did it, it looked like they knew what they were doing.”...
Seawright said he now understands why people run from police officers, particularly in East Cleveland. “I’m scared to go back to East Cleveland,” he said. “I didn’t ask for any of this. I’m glad I did this. I’m standing up for all the people they’ve done this happened to before. Most people are just happy to be going home and not getting arrested or shot or beat up and wouldn’t say anything.”
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS GET PAID FOR THEIR OWN FRAUD. AT LEAST 25% OF THE EXONERATIONS CLEAR EVIDENCE OF CORRUPT LIEYERS CONTRIBUTED TO WRONGFUL CONVCITIONS. REMEMBER THAT EXONERATIONS ARE FOR MOSTLY SERIOUS CRIMES WITH LITTLE HELP GOING TO LESS SERIOUS DEFENDANTS ALTHOUGH ACCOUNTING OVER 80%. THIS MEANS THAT NOT ONLY ARE SLAVE PATROL CRIMINALS BUT, LIEYERS ARE FAR WORSE IN RIPPING OFF THE PEOPLE. THEY FORM THEIR GOOD OL BOY NETWROK AKA CLIQUE OF CORRUPTION MAKING THEIR CRIMES A RACKET, A CRIMINAL GANG, CONSPIRACY, ETC. AS THEY GET PAID FOR LOADS OF CASES BUT DO NOTHING BUT RUBBER STAMP "GUILTY". THAT IS FRAUD AND GRAND THEFT TO SAY THE LEAST...
Elyria attorney suspended for overbilling county for court-appointed work
The Ohio Supreme Court recently suspended an Elyria lawyer for two years, with one year stayed, for conduct relating to her 2020 theft conviction for overbilling Lorain County for work she did as a court-appointed attorney....
At a board disciplinary hearing, Robinson admitted she submitted fraudulent billing statements to trial judges and made false statements to nonjudicial personnel in order for the county auditor to pay her inflated fees. She explained that at the time she was experiencing a series of severe medical problems and did not have sufficient health insurance to cover the cost of her treatment....
The LEWIS Registry
https://sci.usc.edu/lewis-registry/
SCI is creating the Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System (LEWIS) Registry. LEWIS will become a unified national database that documents all police officers who were terminated or resigned due to misconduct, including excessive use of force, corruption, violent extremism, domestic violence, sexual assault, physical assault and harassment, perjury, falsifying a police report, and planting or destroying evidence.
The registry is currently being populated and beta-tested with all instances of police misconduct anywhere in the United States and will be fully operational in 2021....
Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals
Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people—a failsafe they could use if they happened to shoot an unarmed suspect, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Once again, most highly paid Baltimore employees are police officers
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-ci-police-ot-pay-20180926-story.html#
Guilty until proven innocent: police perceptions affect investigations
When an investigator believes an innocent person is guilty, a wrongful conviction is a real possibility, researchers find.... 52 percent were due to misconduct by police, prosecutors or other government officials... “We found police officers’ evaluations of evidence were related to their initial beliefs in a suspect’s guilt,” Charman said. “The more likely they were to believe the suspect was guilty, the more incriminating they perceived subsequent ambiguous evidence to be, creating a bias snowball effect.”...
Death In Illinois Prisons: He Didn’t Have A Death Sentence, But That’s What He Got
About eight people die inside Illinois prisons every month. And in many of those cases, the Department of Corrections doesn’t keep basic records, like the cause of death....
After a string of inmate deaths inside the Spokane County Jail, an outside expert calls for reforms
eight in total have died over the past 14 months, including three who hanged themselves with bedsheets...
Glocks, Ammo, Night Vision Gear: How a City Agency Stockpiled Arms to Fight White-Collar Crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/nyregion/doi-mark-peters-nyc-militarization.html
Mark Peters, the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation, used federal forfeiture money to outfit his workers with things like guns and body armor. From its Lower Manhattan headquarters three blocks north of Wall Street, an unlikely city agency seemed to be ramping up for battle.
It bought 140 Glock 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistols. It spent $155,000 on ammunition, $140,000 on body armor, more than $800,000 on two-way radios and $54,000 for night-vision goggles. There were discussions about buying assault rifles and even acquiring a decommissioned police boat. Such an approach might be standard procedure for a front-line law enforcement agency like the Police Department, but it wasn’t exactly typical for the city’s Department of Investigation. The agency is charged with investigating waste, corruption and mismanagement in city government, where it has traditionally focused, in large measure, on white-collar crime. None of its employees have been shot at or assaulted in the line of duty, according to the agency, and officials could not recall a single instance in which an employee had fired a gun at a crime suspect. But with little public discussion or oversight, Mark G. Peters, who was fired last month from his post as investigation commissioner, transformed the character of the agency, turning it into an armed force under his command....
Mr. Peters was able to act largely under the radar to arm and outfit his agency because the funds came from federal forfeiture money from the CityTime corruption scandal, a massive white-collar crime spree involving the modernization of the city’s payroll system. About six months before Mr. Peters became commissioner, the Investigation Department received $27 million in federal forfeiture funds related to CityTime, and the agency has been drawing down on that amount ever since....
PO'LICE = JUDGE JURY EXECUTIONER AND LEGISLATOR.
PO'LICE = EXECUTIVE, JUDICIARY, AND LEGISLATIVE...
When the Police Become Prosecutors
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/opinion/police-prosecutors-misdemeanors.html
Prosecutors are central to solving these problems because they control two of the most important decisions in the criminal process: who will be charged with a crime and what that criminal charge will be.
But in practice they do not decide alone. In the enormous world of misdemeanor processing, the police quietly wield a lot of prosecutorial authority. So for voters seeking change, switching prosecutors is only a partial solution. In hundreds of misdemeanor courts in at least 14 states, police officers can file criminal charges and handle court cases, acting as prosecutor as well as witness and negotiator. People must defend themselves against, or work out plea deals with, the same police officers who arrested them for low-level offenses like shoplifting or trespassing.... The police prosecuted their own misdemeanor arrests, while 90 percent of defendants had no lawyers and so faced the arresting officer-prosecutor on their own. South Carolina also does not require its lower-court judges to be lawyers, so thousands of convictions occur without input from a single attorney.... People accused of misdemeanors are under heavy pressure to plead guilty, especially if they are incarcerated and cannot afford bail.... If cases are not dismissed, well over 90 percent of defendants will plead guilty.... That enormous misdemeanor process constitutes the bulk of the American criminal system. Thirteen million misdemeanor cases are filed annually — that’s 80 percent of all state criminal dockets. This is how our criminal system works most of the time, for the most people....
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY DID NOTHING WRONG. JUST CHECK HIS CRIMINAL RECORD. NOTICE THERE ISNT ONE...
An Asbury Park cop was charged with domestic violence in July. The records are gone.
Months after an Asbury Park police officer was arrested on a domestic violence charge at a country club wedding, his case has vanished... Asbury Park Press found no trace of the arrest charge or the outcome of the case. Secrecy involving the review of incidents involving police officers is common in New Jersey, the Asbury Park Press's "Protecting the Shield" series on police accountability found last year. The outcome — even the charge — in the officer's case disappeared from public court records....
Disbarred lawyer Garve Ivey Jr. convicted of theft, ordered to pay $381,515
A disbarred attorney from Walker County has been convicted on two counts of felony theft of property. Garve Ivey Jr., 67, pleaded guilty in a Walker County courtroom Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Thursday. Ivey admitted to unlawfully taking client funds from his trust account over a period of several years to fund his extravagant lifestyle,...
Sheriff's Department Responsible for Nearly Half of L.A. County Litigation Costs
The Sheriff’s Department continues to be a key driver of expensive judgments and settlements paid by Los Angeles County, according to an annual report presented to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
Nearly half of the $135.7 million in total litigation costs booked during the 2017-18 fiscal year — including judgments, settlements and attorneys’ fees and costs — were related to claims filed against the Sheriff’s Department. And the LASD total of $62 million is more than four times the cost incurred by the next closest department, which runs the county’s hospital system....
Here Are NYC's Most Sued Cops Who Are Still On The Job, According To New Public Database
http://gothamist.com/2019/03/07/most_sued_cops_database.php
Each year, New York City taxpayers are on the hook for millions of dollars in settlements paid out to the victims of alleged police misconduct. While the number of lawsuits has trended down in recent years, the annual bill of NYPD-related suits and claims has ballooned — reaching a record-breaking $308.2 million in 2017 — thanks in part to big-ticket settlements for wrongful convictions and high-profile false arrest suits.
Judge's Report Lays Out Extensive Evidence Of Abuse In Man's Death In For-Profit Jail
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jail-death-cant-breathe-michael-sabbie_n_5c829bece4b08d5b78613f82
A federal magistrate judge issued a report this week that lays out disturbing evidence of neglect and abuse in the 2015 death of Michael Sabbie, an inmate at a privately run jail who begged for help and repeatedly told guards “I can’t breathe” as they assaulted him and placed him in the cell where he died.
A FEW OF USA DEATH CAMPS...
Booked And Buried: Northwest Jails' Mounting Death Toll
https://www.opb.org/news/article/jail-deaths-oregon-washington-data-tracking
Incomplete data tracking hides a crisis of rising death rates in overburdened Northwest jails that have been set up to fail the inmates they are tasked with keeping safe.
At least 306 people have died in county jails in Washington and Oregon since 2008, a figure revealed for the first time as a result of media investigations since neither state tracks such statistics.
SF to pay millions for lies, misconduct by SFPD officers
https://missionlocal.org/2019/04/sf-to-pay-millions-for-lies-excessive-force-by-sfpd-officers/
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to finalize $13.15 million in settlement money for two separate civil cases that cover a range of SFPD officer misconduct, including lying on the job, fabricating evidence and using excessive force.
Illinois Leads Nation in Exonerations After Police Corruption Scandal
https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/09/illinois-leads-nation-exonerations-after-police-corruption-scandal
Watts, Chicago police Officer Kallatt Mohammed and other officers would allegedly demand bribes from people they found around the Bronzeville neighborhood housing project. If they didn’t pay up, the cops would plant felony-level drug amounts on them and lie about it under oath....
Auxiliary Officers Pose Risks in Illinois Towns
https://www.bettergov.org/news/auxiliary-officers-pose-risks-in-illinois-towns
There are at least 900 certified “auxiliary” police officers in Illinois. Most of them are undertrained, and many of them have engaged in misconduct in a system with very little transparency or accountability....numerous cases of misconduct among the 900 certified auxiliary officers in Illinois. That includes an accidental shooting, a drunken on-duty car cash, an unauthorized high-speed chase, excessive force allegations...a string of lawsuits over police misconduct that have cost the village of 14,000 more than $1.7 million in the last decade alone...
ONE OF USA DEATH CAMPS IS DEATH CAMP TEXAS...
Texas Deaths in Pretrial Custody Soared Over Past Decade: Study
https://thecrimereport.org/2019/04/24/texas-deaths-in-pretrial-custody-soared-in-2018-study/
Overall, 9,370 individuals have died in Texas prisons, jails, police custody or private detention facilities since 2005, with 2018 recording the highest toll over the decade, at 774 deaths. The deaths of individuals awaiting trial accounted for 13 per cent of all Texas deaths in custody since 2005, reported TJI....
We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records.
Among the findings:
Most misconduct involves routine infractions, but the records reveal tens of thousands of cases of serious misconduct and abuse. They include 22,924 investigations of officers using excessive force, 3,145 allegations of rape, child molestation and other sexual misconduct and 2,307 cases of domestic violence by officers.
Dishonesty is a frequent problem. The records document at least 2,227 instances of perjury, tampering with evidence or witnesses or falsifying reports. There were 418 reports of officers obstructing investigations, most often when they or someone they knew were targets.
Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct. Yet some officers are consistently under investigation. Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges. Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years....
When Cops Get Sued, Can Insurers Force Reforms?
https://www.law360.com/articles/1160463/when-cops-get-sued-can-insurers-force-reforms-
CJPIA executive Norm Lefmann told Law360 the authority’s initial concern was the police costing the insurance authority “significant dollars on claims and settlements.” ...
“If this keeps up for a few more years, it’s possible then we would see more cities being dropped if insurers feel costs are getting out of control,” ...“We let them know a condition of ongoing coverage would be for them to follow the work plan,” Lefmann said. “Even though the city council made promises to address our concerns, they did not do that. We decided to pull coverage when we saw that the exposure continued.”... “Police behavior is not getting any worse, but people are becoming increasingly intolerant of bad police behavior,” Rappaport said. “They’re more likely to find the police have done something wrong, and they’re more likely to award high damages.”...
Insurers As Regulators...“All we can control is who we extend coverage to,”...Perhaps the biggest regulator of police behavior will be public opinion, which has become more critical of police misconduct,...
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR $3.4 MILLION DULLAS OF THEIR EQUIPMENT...
How'd Illinois Prisons Lose $3.4m Of Stuff?
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/howd-illinois-prisons-lose-34m-stuff
The Illinois Department of Corrections did not fare well in a recent state audit. Among the findings was that the agency could not account for 3,568 pieces of equipment....are not declared “missing.” Rather, they’re “unlocated.”... This problem, he added, is not unique to the Department of Corrections — unlocated property is pretty common across state government.... Getting back to the Department of Corrections’s audit — here we have a state agency that lost (or at least cannot account for) more than 3,500 pieces of equipment worth nearly $3.4 million. That sounds pretty bad....
IGNORANCE IS AN EXCUSE OF LAW IF YOU ARE A PROSECUTOR. PENALTIES AGAINST PROSECUTORS ARE ABSOLUTE POWER AND IMMUNITY...
Prosecutors must maintain ethical conduct during misdemeanor plea deals, ABA ethics opinion says
When entering into a plea bargain for a misdemeanor offense, prosecutors have an ethical duty to ensure the legal and evidentiary basis of the charges are sound, according to a new formal ethics opinion from the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.... The failure to take the precautions described by the opinion especially harms the poor and minorities, ...
Under Rule 3.8(a), for example, prosecutors may not bring “a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause.” This means that a DA can’t begin a plea bargain without assessing each charge. However, the opinion notes that because of limited resources and the perception that a misdemeanor is “lower stakes,” prosecutors often rely “uncritically” on a police officer’s report. “Unless the prosecutor has reasonable confidence in the thoroughness of the fact finding and the evenhandedness of the judgment of other law enforcement officers who prepare the supporting documents and investigation, reliance on them is likely to be misplaced and the very discretion the Rule is designed to protect may be abused,” the opinion states. Additionally, the opinion warns that a prosecutor’s failure to vet each charge independently, could violate the duty of competence under Rule 1.1....
About 80 percent of America’s criminal dockets are taken up by misdemeanor offenses, a number that has doubled since 1972,...
For example, if a prosecutor does not mention the impact of the plea deal on a separate case or the broader social or economic impacts of a criminal record, called collateral consequences, it could be considered misrepresentation or deceptive conduct under Rules 4.1 and 8.3(c), respectively....
“A prosecutor will rarely know all of the potentially relevant collateral consequences of accepting a plea or the exact nature of any subsequent sentence enhancement,” reads the opinion. “However, if the prosecutor knows the consequences of a plea—either generic consequences or consequences that are particular to the accused—the prosecutor must disclose them during the plea negotiation.”...
How a Criminal Justice Reform Became an Enrichment Scheme
The district attorney’s office, led by the elected DA, Phillip Terrell, was requesting more than $2.5 million in parish funds. This was more than it had ever asked...Terrell’s office was bringing in plenty of money but keeping it for itself.
Under Terrell, the DA’s office, as shown by public documents, had ramped up its “pretrial diversion” program, also sometimes called “pretrial intervention,” or PTI. As the website for the Rapides Parish DA’s office explains, the program provides “nonviolent offenders an opportunity to avoid conviction and incarceration” through “tailored” agreements in which the offenders pay money in exchange for their charges being dropped and their cases dismissed. In the program’s simplest form, instead of receiving and paying speeding tickets, offenders were paying fees not to get tickets. And those fees were going directly to the DA’s office—whose website features a prominent MAKE A PAYMENT button....
Terrell’s office had brought in $2.2 million through PTI fees—more than 10 times what the previous DA had captured from diversion fees annually—by charging dismissal fees that ran from about $250 for traffic tickets, $500 for misdemeanors and $1,200 to $1,500 for felonies. Those rates were substantially higher than those of the previous district attorney...
A former local judge and city prosecutor who was placed on probation... Terrell argued to the police jury that he could make as much as he wanted through PTI because the law didn’t say otherwise. ... Nationwide, pretrial diversion has come under fire for hurting the poor,...
Chicago Police Executed More Than 11,000 Search Warrants in Mostly Poor Neighborhoods Over 5-Year Period
and nearly half of them did not result in an arrest.... "It looks very much looks like the stop-and-frisk data sets that we've released, very much like the asset forfeiture data we released," Lucy Parsons Labs director Freddy Martinez says. "It seems to match all of the enforcement patterns that we've seen over time by CPD, and follows the historical trend of where police are generating their activities, which is mostly poor neighborhoods."...
Sloppy, unverified search warrants led heavily armed Chicago police and SWAT officers to ransack houses; hold families, including children, at gunpoint; and handcuff an eight-year-old child in one case, CBS 2 found. In another case, 17 Chicago police officers burst into a family's house with their guns drawn during a 4-year-old's birthday party....
Last June, Chicago settled a civil lawsuit by one family who claimed CPD officers stormed their house and pointed a gun at a three-year-old girl for $2.5 million. This June, two Chicago police officers were indicted on federal criminal charges alleging they paid off informants, lied to judges to secure search warrants, and stole cash and drugs from locations they raided....
Reason has been reporting on the scourge of wrong-door SWAT raids for more than a decade. Radley Balko wrote in 2006 about the frequency and tragic outcomes of botched raids. They are often the result of poor information and a failure to do basic vetting, like checking to see if the subject of a search warrant still lives at the address. But they're also a consequence of the militarization of police. The use of SWAT teams rose from around 3,000 deployments per year in 1980 to as high as 80,000 a year currently.
Chicago is not alone. In 2016, New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board reviewed hundreds of cases and found scores of illegal or botched home searches by NYPD officers....
White supremacist's death sentence overturned because of prosecution's focus on beliefs
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-25/white-supremacist-death-sentence-overturned
the state high court said the prosecutor made inflammatory arguments about the defendant’s racist tattoos and white supremacist beliefs “for the very sake of highlighting their offensiveness” rather than for a legitimate purpose connected to the crime. The 1st Amendment does not permit the prosecution to ask a jury to return a particular verdict because the defendant holds offensive beliefs, the court said. Instead, there must be a nexus to the crime or the defendant’s propensity for violence....
During closing arguments at the penalty phase of the trial, the San Diego prosecutor focused on the fact that Young wore racist tattoos and displayed Nazi symbols. She said he also conveyed his racist beliefs to his children. Kruger said a defendant’s beliefs, however obnoxious, may not be taken into account by a sentencing jury. “Evidence of a defendant’s racist beliefs is not relevant if offered merely to show the moral reprehensibility of the beliefs themselves,” Kruger wrote. She said the trial judge should have not have allowed the arguments....
Instead, the prosecutor put seven different witnesses on the stand to testify about Young’s racism and focused on it in her closing arguments even though the crimes weren’t race-related. “The prosecutor openly and repeatedly invited the jury to do precisely what the law does not allow: to weigh the offensive and reprehensible nature of defendant’s abstract beliefs in determining whether to impose the death penalty,”...
PROSECUTOR WONT BE INVESTIGATED FOR HIS OWN CRIMES BECUZ HIS ACCOMPLICES IN CRIMES WONT ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE INVESTIGATED...
Suit stalls panel set up to probe prosecutorial misconduct
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/bush-prosecutorial-misconduct-1.38113487
The newly created state Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct won’t be examining alleged misconduct in the “innocent man” case of Keith Bush anytime soon because of legal opposition to the watchdog agency by a statewide group of prosecutors.
Bush says the new state commission should investigate possible wrongdoing by several past and present Suffolk prosecutors who had access to Bush’s case but never disclosed evidence of another potential suspect, John W. Jones Jr. On May 22, a Suffolk judge cleared Bush of the 1975 murder of North Bellport teenager Sherese Watson, after Bush had served 33 years in state prison.
“It is the perfect case” for the new state commission to investigate, said Bush’s attorney, Adele Bernard, who runs the New York Law School Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic.
In May, a report by Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini’s Conviction Integrity Bureau concluded that Bush’s trial prosecutor had deliberately hid evidence about Jones.
However, Bush’s call for an independent probe of alleged prosecutorial misconduct in his case is being effectively thwarted by the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, of which Sini is a member. ...
State paid $100K in confidential settlement over civil rights claim against Livingston Parish judge
https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_8007496e-f1f2-11e9-b10a-9ff686b14faf.html
Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jefferson Hughes III is not the only sitting judge in the state to have landed in legal hot water and then delivered the bill to taxpayers under a veil of secrecy. He’s not even the only judge to do it from the Division F seat in the 21st Judicial District Court. Judge Elizabeth Wolfe, who succeeded Hughes on the bench in Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes in 2005 and still holds the Division F seat, was the defendant in a malicious-prosecution lawsuit that the state agreed to settle in 2016 on the eve of a trial. The payout to the plaintiffs was $100,000, a figure contained in a settlement agreement deemed “Confidential.”... In the document, Wolfe admitted no fault over allegations that she orchestrated the arrest and jailing of Scott Lemoine to stop him from posting comments online suggesting she had abused her judicial position in a domestic matter involving her daughter-in-law. Attorneys with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office defended Wolfe in the civil rights case against her, and the state paid the settlement.
Wolfe made use of a Louisiana law that requires the state to “defend and indemnify” its officers and employees when they're accused of misdeeds that “took place while the individual was engaged in the performance of the duties of the individual's office or employment with the state.”. But Wolfe didn’t preside over the case that landed her on the receiving end of a federal lawsuit and generated at least two complaints to the Louisiana Judiciary Commission, neither of which resulted in discipline....
Las Vegas cop still patrolling streets amid questions about his political committees – Center for Public Integrity
https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/las-vegas-police-pacs-william-pollock
A Las Vegas police officer who’s raising money in the name of children with leukemia — but spending most of the cash on himself, his wife and professional fundraisers — is still employed by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Seven weeks after the Center for Public Integrity published an investigation about Officer William Christopher Pollock, he remains a patrol officer in the northwest section of the city, according to the police department’s human resources office....The four Pollock PACs together spent about $4 million from 2017 to mid-2019, almost all of what they raised. About $3.7 million of that went to a network of companies owned by Las Vegas telemarketer Richard Zeitlin,...
[IN ADDITION] Pollock earned $118,000 in 2018 from the Las Vegas police department, plus $53,000 in benefits for a combined $170,600 in compensation...
Officer draws gun, breaks man’s leg during traffic stop. Driver not charged with crime
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article236229843.html
A police body camera video showing a Doral officer pulling his weapon and breaking a man’s leg while forcefully arresting him during a traffic enforcement detail appears to contradict the chain of events described in the arrest report. The video was damning enough that state prosecutors decided not to move forward with charges against motorist Craig Nembhard. ...Nembhard, who was working at a Doral warehouse when he was arrested, is now homeless and living at the Camillus House in downtown Miami.
“This took away his ability to work,” said the attorney. “He’s walking with a walker. This was a traffic stop, a simple traffic stop.” ...
Suit: Cops Raid Wrong Home, Point Guns at Kids
The person police were looking for was already serving a 20-year prison sentence for a murder conviction 200 miles away...According to the complaint, 11-year-old Jaden Field, 6-year-old Jeremy Harris and 4-year-old Justin Harris were doing homework and playing video games while their mother Jolanda Blassingame cooked dinner on Jan. 29, 2015. That’s when “plainclothes officers broke into the front and back doors of the apartment, threw flashbang grenades inside, hurled profanities and pointed assault rifles” at them, attorney Al Hofeld Jr. said. “I really thought they was going to shoot one of the kids by mistake,”...
Brooklyn District Attorney releases names of ‘bad cops’
https://pix11.com/2019/11/07/brooklyn-district-attorney-releases-names-of-bad-cops/
BROOKLYN — The names of cops prosecutors in Brooklyn don't trust have been confidential until now, but the list of "bad cops" has come to light. The names are broken down into two categories: officers the Brooklyn District Attorney's office will no longer be relying on when they prosecute cases and officers who've testified and then had state and federal judges raise doubts about the testimony. "They have no credibility," Maryanne Kaishian with Brooklyn Defender Services said. "We did not necessarily realize that their behavior rose to this level." The list was released after a Freedom of Information law request from Gothamist and WNYC. The release was slammed by Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch....
“Every political system has a source of corruption growing within it, from which it is inseparable. For kingship it is . . . tyranny, for aristocracy it is oligarchy, and for democracy it is government by brute force.” Polybius
Justice Dept. to review enforcement of civil rights protections in grants
Approximately $4.5 billion in federal funding flows through the department to police departments, courts, and correctional facilities, as well as victim services groups, research organizations, and nonprofit groups. All of these organizations, not just police departments, will be affected by this review. The department sought to increase that amount in its latest budget request to $7 billion for the next fiscal year..
Workers at federal prisons are committing some of the crimes
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/14/nation/workers-federal-prisons-are-committing-some-crimes
Two-thirds of the criminal cases against Justice Department personnel in recent years have involved federal prison workers, who account for less than one-third of the department’s workforce. Of the 41 arrests this year, 28 were of prison employees or contractors. The FBI had just five. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives each had two.... In one case, the agency allowed an official at a federal prison in Mississippi, whose job it was to investigate misconduct of other staff members, to remain in his position after he was arrested on charges of stalking and harassing fellow employees. That official was also allowed to continue investigating a staff member who had accused him of a crime....
Georgia Mayor, Bookkeeper Appear in Court on charges relating to theft of COVID-19 relief funds
Jason Lary, the Mayor of Stonecrest, Georgia, has been arraigned on federal charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, and federal program theft. The charges relate to a scheme to allegedly steal federal relief funds granted to Stonecrest ...Jason Lary, 59, of Stonecrest, Georgia, and Lania Boone, 60, of Decatur, Georgia, were each arraigned... From about November 2020, until in or about February 2021, Lania Boone signed dozens of checks on behalf of MRPC, directing millions of dollars of relief funds to individuals, businesses, churches, and non-profit organizations. Lary allegedly helped decide where the relief funds were directed. Lary allegedly abused his position to devise and execute a scheme to steal relief funds after they were distributed by MRPC. First, Lary allegedly told churches that received relief funds under the Stonecrest Cares Program that they were required to contribute a portion of those funds for purposes identified by Lary.... In total, businesses were allegedly defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of relief funds. The relief funds deposited into the Visit Us and Battleground Media accounts were allegedly used by Lary to benefit himself and others....
DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST CRIMES COMMITTED BY CRIMINALS IN LAW WILL NOT BE KNOWN BECUZ THE CRIMINALS DONT HAB TO COMPLY WITH LAWS. THIS WILL PROVE THAT CRIMINALS IN LAW ARE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS...
FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police participation
WASHINGTON — In an attempt to create a definitive database on how often police officers use force on citizens, the FBI launched the National Use-of-Force Data Collection program in 2019, imploring police departments to submit details on every incident, not just fatal shootings. But the failure of police and federal agencies to send their data to the FBI puts the program in jeopardy of being shut down next year without ever releasing a single statistic, a new report by the Government Accountability Office says.... ’Due to insufficient participation from law enforcement agencies,’’ the GAO wrote, ‘’the FBI faces risks that it may not meet the participation thresholds’' established by OMB, ‘’and therefore may never publish use of force incident data.’’...
MAYBE LESS WRONGFUL CONVCITIONS IF ATTORNEYS DO THEIR JOB. THIS ATTORNEY ACTUALLY DID HIS JOB REQUESTED A COPY OF A DOC THAT DID NOT EXIST BUT SLAVE AUCTION USED TO CONVCIT INNOCENT SLAVES....
Virginia Police Used Fake DNA Documents to Coerce Confessions
https://gizmodo.com/virginia-cops-used-fake-dna-docs-to-coerce-confessions-1848356049
DNA forensics, at their best, are intended to bring an air of scientific confidence to the criminal justice system to hopefully prevent the worst kinds of wrongful convictions. Those good intentions are made meaningless though when bad cops decide to fight dirty.
Officers serving in the Virginia Beach Police Department reportedly did just that by showing suspects forged documents with fake DNA evidence supposedly linking them to a crime in order to coerce them into a confession or secure a conviction, according to state Attorney General Mark Herring.
Police reportedly used the forged DNA documents at least five times between March 2016 and February 2020. The fake lab certificates, which purported to come from the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, appear to have seemed pretty convincing. The documents were adorned with an official seal and letterhead from the agency and in two cases, they featured a signature from a fake employee. In at least one case, DNA documents were even presented as evidence in court. (It’s unclear if the documents were presented as legitimate DNA evidence.)
The practice was only discovered in April of 2021 after an assistant commonwealth’s attorney requested a copy of one of the forged documents from the state’s Department of Forensic Science. Of course, that request came up empty because the requested document never existed in the first place. ...
HOW TO GIT RICH QUICK SCAM. COMMIT AN OBVIOUS OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT TO YOUR PARTNER IN CRIME. YOUR PARTNER SUES THE CITY, COUNTY OR STATE. THE TWO SPLIT THE MILLIONS. AS A SLAVE PATROL OFFICER YOU GIT IMMUNITY, AND NO RECORD OF YOUR CRIMES....
The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeated police misconduct
Moore is among the more than 7,600 officers — from Portland, Ore., to Milwaukee to Baltimore — whose alleged misconduct has more than once led to payouts to resolve lawsuits and claims of wrongdoing, according to a Washington Post investigation. The Post collected data on nearly 40,000 payments at 25 of the nation’s largest police and sheriff’s departments within the past decade, documenting more than $3.2 billion spent to settle claims....
The Post found that more than 1,200 officers in the departments surveyed had been the subject of at least five payments. More than 200 had 10 or more. The repetition is the hidden cost of alleged misconduct: Officers whose conduct was at issue in more than one payment accounted for more than $1.5 billion, or nearly half of the money spent by the departments to resolve allegations...
City officials and attorneys representing the police departments said settling claims is often more cost-efficient than fighting them in court. And settlements rarely involve an admission or finding of wrongdoing. Because of this there is no reason to hold officers accountable for them...
CONSTITUTION PROHIBITS GUBMINT PIMPS FROM OFFICE WHO ARE CONVICTED OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS...
Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown says she's confident voters will give her another chance
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown served 12 terms in as United States Representative, but she's not done with politics. She said there are 'several problems in Florida'. ...Back in 2017, Brown was convicted of fraud, and she was sentenced to five years in federal prison. However, the politician was released early due to health concerns and COVID-19. The conviction was overturned on appeal. In May, Brown pleaded guilty to just one count of fraud for obstructing tax laws. Brown was sentenced to time served, so she did not have to go back to prison....
DOUBLE MASTA HO GUBMINT PIMP LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY SAYS SHE WILL COMMIT CRIMES TO ACCOMPLICE AND AID AND ABEDDING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY...
Senator Elizabeth Warren calls on Biden to use federal lands to protect abortion access
Warren said the Biden administration should examine whether abortions could be offered on federal land even within states that have banned the procedure.
SOME LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY PROSECUTORS SAY THEY WILL VIOLATE THE LAW BY NOT PROSECUTING ACTUAL CRIMINALS. PROSECUTORS ARE ONLY GOOD FOR WRONGFULLY CONVICTING THE INNOCENT...
District attorneys say they won’t enforce abortion bans
More than 80 elected prosecutors have already committed to not enforcing abortion bans.
DV HOLOCAUST DENIERS DO NOT BELIEVE MASTA HO...
Missouri lawmaker resigns from House after fraud conviction
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri legislator has resigned her seat after being convicted of falsely claiming she was giving patients stem cell treatments for COVID-19.... Republican state Rep. Tricia Derges sent her resignation letter...
She was convicted in June on 22 counts including wire fraud, illegal distribution of controlled substances and making false statements to investigators. Federal prosecutors have argued she claimed nearly $900,000 in federal funding for COVID-19 treatments that weren't performed or had already been performed. They also allege she promoted amniotic fluid as a COVID-19 treatment and other diseases by falsely claiming it contained stem cells.
SLAVE AUCTIONEER ADMITS USA CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE TORTURE CHAMBERS USED BY GUBMINT AS VENGEANCE, AND POLITICAL AGENDAS. KNOWINGLY AIDS AND ABEDS CRIMNAL ACTIVITIES....
Judge admonished for implying man would be raped in prison
The Seattle Times reports Judge Virginia Amato, who was elected in November 2018, presided over the arraignment of a man charged with misdemeanor domestic-violence assault and resisting arrest last August, according to the stipulation, agreement and order of admonishment signed June 24 by the commission’s executive director, J. Reiko Callner. Before imposing conditions of release, Amato noted the man’s alleged crimes happened while he was on probation, the order says. The man had no felony convictions, and could not be sent to prison for misdemeanors, yet Amato is quoted in the order as telling him he was setting himself up “to be Bubba’s new best girlfriend at the state penitentiary.” “That may hopefully give you a graphic image to think about … And if you think I’m kidding, I’m not,” she reportedly said....
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS ARE LIARS...
Some dishonest Detroit cops elude Worthy's liars list
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30947/some_dishonest_detroit_cops_elude_worthy_s_liars_list
Detroit Police Officer Stephen Geelhood’s... Geelhood and his colleagues had since come under investigation for falsifying search warrants and falsely accusing people...
An unknown number of Detroit police officers with histories of lying are able to take the stand in criminal prosecutions with no guarantee their past transgressions will be disclosed... Under federal law, prosecutors are required to identify and reveal when an officer’s honesty has been called into question to ensure criminal defendants get a fair trial, in what’s known as the Brady-Giglio standard. But defense attorneys say that often doesn’t happen... more than a dozen Detroit officers with credibility issues who are not on the list. Some were found to have lied in internal investigations...
GUBMINT PIMP IS NOT A LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY. HE IS A FELON BY HIS OWN LAW. HE MUST NOW BE BANNED FRUM ALL HIS BILL OF PRIVILEGES...
Citizen Trump may have broken a law that President Trump made a felony
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/10/trump-fbi-search-surveillance-law/
If Trump is found to have violated federal law in removing and retaining classified documents without authorization, he could be convicted of a felony punishable by five years in prison. And that conviction would be a felony carrying that punishment because of a law signed by President Donald Trump.... What became law was S. 139. It had been introduced by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) as the Rapid DNA Act of 2017. But sometimes Congress hollows out existing legislation and replaces it entirely with other legislation to move the process forward more quickly. So S. 139 was replaced with H.R. 4478, which extended Section 702 for another five years.
It also had a stipulation editing 18 U.S. Code §1924. It originally read:
Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
With Trump’s signing S. 139 into law, that became: “ … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.” And with that, it became a felony....
WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST AMERICAN SLAVE AUCTIONEER HATES WETBACKS AND SAID THEY HAB PHONES AND CLOTHES AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER THINGS...
Judge in Texas border crackdown accused of using racist slur against migrants
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/22/texas-migrant-judge-racist-slur/
A prominent judge in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security operation to arrest and jail migrants on trespassing charges has been accused of using a racist slur against Latino defendants. A defense attorney told the State Commission on Judicial Conduct last week that Judge Allen Amos told her the trespassing defendants weren’t “your regular wetbacks,” according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Texas Tribune.
“They have phones and clothes and all kinds of other things,”...
USA SLAVES ARE PUT IN TORTURE CHAMBERS IN THE USA CONCENTRATION CAMPS A VIOLATION OF UN STANDARDS...
Nearly 50,000 people held in solitary confinement in US, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/24/us-solitary-confinement-prisons
Almost 50,000 men and women are being held in prolonged solitary confinement in US prisons, in breach of minimum standards laid down by the United Nations which considers such isolation a form of torture....
When the researchers began the series of annual snapshots in 2014 the number of prisoners trapped in isolation was almost twice today’s level, at between 80,000 to 100,000....
CHECKS AND BALANCES IS WHERE THE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS COMMIT CRIMES AND USE THE LAW AS DECEIT AND FRAUD TO ENRICH THEMSELVES AND COMMIT ALL KINDS OF AVARICE WHILE KEEPING THEIR SLAVES IN TYRANNY...
Former State Police union boss Dana Pullman and former lobbyist Anne Lynch face trial for alleged kickback schemes
As the leader of the powerful Massachusetts State Police union, Dana Pullman was a fierce advocate for troopers and a harsh critic of management, often demanding “accountability at the top.” Now, Pullman will be defending himself as his long-awaited trial gets underway in US District Court on charges that he took kickbacks totaling $41,250 from a union lobbyist and diverted thousands of dollars from the union for personal expenses, including flowers, gifts, a Florida vacation, and meals at upscale restaurants with a girlfriend.... They are charged with conspiring between 2012 and 2018...with people employed by or associated with the union “to conduct an enterprise engaged in a pattern of racketeering” to enrich themselves through fraud and deceit.
They also face charges of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and filing false tax returns.... running the union “like an old-school mob boss” and tapping the union’s account as if it was “his own personal piggy bank.”...
this wasn’t the occasional small bribe or kickback, but it really was central to the core of how the defendant ran the State Police association,... “It contributes to the sense the law is being undermined even by those who are supposed to enforce it.”
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS ARE VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION AND BREAKING THE LAWS, AGIN...
DOJ FINDS ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF, DA VIOLATED CIVIL RIGHTS USING ILLEGAL JAILHOUSE INFORMANTS
https://theappeal.org/orange-county-jailhouse-informants-doj-investigation/
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) in California routinely violated civil rights and tainted numerous criminal cases by operating a jailhouse informant program that flouted multiple amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The agency said the department routinely violated the 1963 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Massiah v. United States, which held that it is illegal to use a jailhouse informant to elicit incriminating information from someone without their attorney present once the defendant has been charged with a crime.
During the six-year investigation, the Justice Department found that sheriff’s deputies rewarded informants with “benefits that made their jail time easier” and “reduced charges or sentencing requests.” But this information, which prosecutors had a constitutional duty to disclose to the defense, was not shared with defendants and their attorneys....
Prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence—evidence that can undermine the state’s case—in the overwhelming majority of known wrongful convictions since 1989.... law-enforcement had been illegally listening to and recording confidential phone calls with a client. Garson told The Appeal in 2019 that he “found out there were thousands of phone calls to attorneys that were also recorded,” despite the fact that it is a felony in California to covertly record conversations between attorneys and their clients. In 2019, Orange County released a grand jury report that admitted the DA’s office had accessed the illegal recordings but exonerated all of the parties involved....
LAW = POLITICAL PLUNDER, VENGEANCE, SLAVERY,...
L.A. sheriff targeted lieutenant for donating to opponent, lawsuit says
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-17/sheriff-retaliation-lawsuit
In the lawsuit filed Monday in L.A. County Superior Court against the county, Villanueva, and other sheriff’s officials, Lt. Joseph Garrido claims his $1,500 donation to retired Cmdr. Eli Vera’s campaign led to him being the subject of a bogus criminal probe into whether he misused his department-issued vehicle....“He’s forcing out somebody, ending someone’s career, destroying their reputation because they’re exercising their free speech rights,”...The lawsuit also alleges the retaliation Garrido faced was due in part to his attempts to report misconduct by others in the department....
THE STATE ETHICS BOARD COMPRISED OF STATE APPOINTED PUPPETS SAY NO PROOF THAT STATE SLAVE AUCTIONEER, STATE DISTRICT LIEYER, AND STATE SLAVE PATROL DID NOT HAVE ANY CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO GIB IMMUNITY TO THE STATES SLAVE INDUSTRY CRIMINALS...
State Ethics Commission dismisses conflict of interest case against Worcester district attorney and former State police officials
The State Ethics Commission on Wednesday dismissed its cases against Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., an assistant district attorney, and two former State Police officials over allegations they violated the state conflict of interest law by revising a 2017 arrest report involving a judge’s daughter.
The commission found there was no proof that the revisions presented any “substantial value” to the judge or his daughter, and that Early, Senior First Assistant Worcester District Attorney Jeffrey Travers, former State Police Colonel Richard McKeon, and former State Police Major Susan Anderson did not violate the ethics law....
ACTUAL CRIMINALS HAB NO PROBLEM GETTING EMPLOYMENT WITH GUBMINT ESPECIALLY IN THE LEGAL SECTORS...
Massachusetts police who’ve been fired or resigned in scandal just move on to another town
“We call it the ‘officer shuffle.’”... There’s no national system for licensing officers, so police barred from working in one state can sometimes find work over the border. Background checks don’t catch everything. And some departments are willing to give officers another shot.... public database of officers disciplined for wrongdoing doesn’t exist yet. That makes it harder for departments to research an officer’s past....
SLAVE AUCTION CRIMINALS ARE WHITE SUPREMACIST RACISTS SEND INNOCENT SLAVES OR NIGGERS TO DEATH....
How overzealous prosecution and racial bias result in unjust death sentences in Missouri
DNA analysis reveals that many people in prison are not guilty.... According to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, since 1973 at least 190 people who were sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated. The center states, “Given the fallibility of human judgment, there has always been the danger that an execution could result in the killing of an innocent person.”...
Eight percent of all exonerees in the registry were convicted in part by testimony from jailhouse informants, the agency states. Additionally, it added this: “Among murders, the more extreme the punishment, the more likely we are to see a jailhouse informant, ranging from 23 percent of exonerations with death sentences to 10 percent of murder cases in which the defendant received a sentence less than life in prison.”...
A total of 551 people sent to prison have now been proven innocent thanks to DNA analysis, she wrote. Even so, she said, in many cases DNA isn’t available — and the legal hoops to get to exoneration entail a costly, complicated process. Since that first DNA-based exoneration in 1989, nine people have been executed for every exoneration.
Experts believe many more innocent people are serving time....
UNITED SLAVES GUBMINT & LAW IS A CRIMINAL GANG AND A TERRORIST REGIME. GUBMINT AND LAW IS A PROTECTION RACKET FOR THE MASTAS. THEY CREATE, FABRICATE, PROVOKE, INSTIGATE, ATTACK, etc., ... DANGERS WHICH THEY THEN EXTORT JOHN SLAVES TO PAY THEM FOR PROTECTION. FROM POLICE RACKETS, ATTORNEY RACKET, TO COURTROOM RACKET THE ENTIRE LEGAL PROFESSIONS PROFITS FROM EVERY CASE STEALING MONEY FROM JOHN SLAVE. NO WONDER USA IS #1 LEADING JAILER. GUBMINT MASTAS ALSO RUN A PROTECTION RACKET TO FOREIGN NATIONS PROVOKING WARS WITH SOME NATIONS SO THEY CAN SELL PROTECTION TO OTHER NATIONS...
Protection racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
A protection racket is a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law—in other words, a racket that sells security, traditionally physical security but now also computer security. Through the credible threat of violence, the racketeers deter people from swindling, robbing, injuring, sabotaging or otherwise harming their clients. Protection rackets tend to appear in markets where the police and judiciary cannot be counted on to provide legal protection, either because of incompetence (as in weak or failed states) or illegality (black markets).
Protection rackets are indistinguishable in practice from extortion rackets, and distinguishable from private security, by some degree of implied threat that the racketeers themselves may attack the business if it fails to pay for their protection. A distinction is possible between a "pure" extortion racket, in which the racketeers might only agree not to attack a business, and a broader protection racket offering some real private security along with some extortion on the side, in which the criminals might agree to defend a business from any attack by either themselves or third parties (other criminal gangs). However, this distinction is moot in reality because extortion racketeers may have to defend their clients against rival gangs if only to avoid losing their cash cows. By corollary, criminal gangs may have to maintain control of territories (turfs), because local businesses don't have enough revenue to feed countless parasites without financially collapsing and thus the parasites must compete for hosts....
Government protection rackets: Government officials may demand bribes to look the other way or extort something of value from citizens or corporations in the form of a kickback. It need not always be money. A lucrative job after leaving office may have been in exchange for protection offered when in office. Payment may also show up indirectly in the form of a campaign contribution. Stopping governments agencies as a whole, and buying protection in the government is called regulatory capture.
Cop scored $20Gs a month running protection racket for drug dealers
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/cop-ran-20gs-a-month-protection-racket-for-drug-dealers-crown
23 NYPD Officers Suspected in Karaoke Bar Protection Racket Scandal
Police Protection Racket?
https://www.freedomreconnection.com/2018/07/23/police-protection-racket/
“tour organisers (sic) will be charged $68,000 for police presence at her events.”...“Victoria Police . . . say that the quoted cost of security for the event is actually $230,000 but will only charge Miss Southern and event organisers (sic) $68,000.” Also important to note before getting into the discussion, “police . . . said Victoria Police have a right to charge for a police presence at events however Ms Southern and event organisers (sic) have said they did not request the security.”...
Police officer suspected in connection with protection racket on the run
One of two policemen who were recently accused by the force’s anti-blackmail unit of being part of a protection racket has gone missing...The gangs allegedly offered protection to 60 gambling clubs and bars in Attica, and would carry out beatings, arson attacks and other offenses in return for payment. One of the two policeman, a 36-year-old, was arrested on the spot but the 33-year-old was not caught within the deadline and could not be arrested when he visited the prosecutor. The latter is accused of being a member of both gangs and being involved in violent attacks.
Man ‘lost behind bars’ for 7 years
https://newsday.co.tt/2018/09/27/man-lost-behind-bars-for-7-years/
A BELMONT labourer who spent a total of seven years, eight months and 20 days unlawfully incarcerated at Remand Yard in Golden Grove Prison — after prison authorities failed to release him when his case was dismissed by a magistrate... “This is a case without precedent. The circumstances which gave rise to it are deeply disturbing. The claimant needlessly spent just short of eight years of his life at the Remand Yard, deprived of his liberty without justification.
“This was not a case of wrongful conviction, or of incarceration following a judicial order that was subsequently overturned for some reason. It was an unlawful incarceration that began through the failure on somebody's part to communicate the order of a magistrate which would have led to his release. It was allowed to continue because it appears the claimant was literally, as we say, 'lost in jail.'
“It seems no one in charge asked the obvious question: when is Beckles going back before a magistrate or a judge, or simply, why is he still here?” Beckles was charged with arson in 1999 and committed to stand trial in February 2000. Unable to secure bail, he remained on remand, awaiting trial....
IF YOU ARE A LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, RIGHT?
AND SINCE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE WHY DO LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS NEED A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR? ...
Outsourcing Police Investigations to Google Risks Privacy and Justice
https://truthout.org/articles/outsourcing-police-investigations-to-google-risks-privacy-and-justice/
police were led to their suspect only after asking Google to send Global Positioning System (GPS) data on all the mobile phones... In receiving data from Google on all the devices that passed through it, the Avondale Police Department not only provided another example of what’s becoming an increasingly common practice in law enforcement, it also set a new precedent for other police departments elsewhere in the US. Even though it’s now a common and familiar practice for police to exhaustively trace the digital footprints of already identified suspects, it’s a relatively new development for them to actually gather the digital footprints of numerous people in order to home in on a suspect in the first place.
That the Avondale Police Department was able to identify Molina using aggregated, area-based Google data is certainly an impressive feat. However, it required the filing of a “reverse search warrant,” which involves applying for information on a group of people in order to narrow down the search to specific persons of interest. And because this entailed the handing over of data belonging to individuals with no connection to Knight’s death, it raises some alarming questions about privacy. It also raises questions about the reliability of the arrests and convictions police secure, given that there is at least one case on record of an individual being wrongly imprisoned as a result of phone-sourced location data....
More specifically, such “information” comprises anything that could be attached to a Google account, such as internet protocol addresses, email addresses, payment info and names. It’s usually more than enough to identify someone, which is why the authorities haven’t been asking for it only in North Carolina, but also in other states....
In the second half of 2012, Google received 1,896 search warrants from US police forces, while in the first half of 2018, the company received 6,900. This is a 264 percent increase, and despite Google not offering a breakdown of warrants into those that focus on already identified suspects and those that simply cast a geographical net, it at least shows that police forces are becoming more reliant on Google data....
the biggest issue here isn’t the possibility of wrongful arrests, but the wider implications of Google sharing the data of innocent and unaware individuals, as well as the ramifications of having our every move tracked....
Even if Google has the best of intentions, it has built technologies and erected a system that, if misappropriated, could arguably become one of history’s greatest instruments of repression.... “And to the question of does it put innocent people coincidentally nearby at risk for becoming suspects: Well yes, but that is always the case in a crime investigation.”
Returning to the matter of legal process, there’s also the question of whether the use of reverse search warrants in criminal cases is constitutional... Katz v. United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment – which protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures, also applies to electronic searches....In other words, is it legal for the police to use location data to put you inside your home, even though the law forbids them from actually entering and searching your home without a warrant?...
'They don't even know I'm here': Audio released of calls made by inmate lost in system
Audio recordings from an inmate lost in the Oklahoma County Jail for nearly eight months were released to FOX 25 from a source Monday. ...Lemons was arrested on July 21, 2018, on a probation violation. He was released 228 days later on March 6. ...
"If anyone is listening to me, 'Hello, everybody. I haven't been to court," said Lemons. ...
In the calls, Lemons mentions that jail officials didn't know he was there and that he didn't have a court date. "They don't even know I'm here," said Lemons. "I looked on the kiosk machines where you look up your court date, charges and all that other stuff. I don't even have a court date." ...
"It's surprising to hear these other phone clips because they tell a different story than conveyed by the Sheriffs Office. According to the Sheriff's Office, Mr. Lemons wanted to stay in jail, but clearly those calls convey something different. They convey also that he was trying to tell them that he was in jail, hadn't gotten his court date and needed to be addressed," said Calvey. Calvey said it was shocking to hear the calls. "You wonder if the Sheriff’s Office heard the one phone call they gave out to the media. You wonder if they heard the other calls. Why did they pick that one phone call to release to the media and not the others?" said Calvey. ...
We also asked why only one phone call transcript was released instead of all 16. ...
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS JAIL HOUSE SNITCH / POLICE INFORMANT / SPY IN EXCHANGE FOR PAYMENT AND LEGAL USA RESIDENCY. JAILHOUSE SNITCHES ARE PROVEN SOURCES OF WRONGFUL CONVCITIONS...
Fewer Undocumented Immigrant Crime Victims Are Stepping Forward
https://www.wnyc.org/story/fewer-undocumented-immigrant-crime-victims-are-stepping-forward
For the past two decades, the U.S. has encouraged undocumented immigrants who are victims of crime, or witnesses to a crime, to step forward. In exchange for cooperating with law enforcement, they can apply for what's called a U visa, which allows them to stay in the country legally and work. In 2017, 2,664 people applied for U visa certification from New York City agencies and authorities, including the family courts and district attorneys...
LIE TO ME IF YOU WANT TO GET PAID....
Dirty pool in Utah. When prosecutors hide payments to informants at trial and pretend they are doing it for witness protection.
UT: Death Row Inmate Wins New Hearing Because State Suppressed Benefits It Gave to Key Witnesses
Mr. Carter faces the death penalty for the February 1985 murder of Eva Olesen in Provo, Utah. No physical evidence linked the defendant to the offense. The key evidence against him is (1) a questionably-acquired confession—a challenge to which the Utah Supreme Court previously denied in part because of corroborating testimony from the two key witnesses—and, (2) the testimony of those very witnesses, Epifanio and Lucia Tovar. The Tovars testified that Carter admitted his guilt to them and actually showed them how he had committed the murder with a physical reenactment. When asked at trial if they had been given any benefits for their cooperation with the State, the Tovars said they only had received $14 witness fees. Then, shortly, after the trial, they could not be located.
Over two decades later, in 2011, defense lawyers for Mr. Carter tracked down the Tovars and obtained damning information about their testimony.
In the[ir] declarations the Tovars assert under “penalty of perjury” that (1) they were threatened by police with deportation, the removal of their son, and prison if they did not cooperate in the case against Carter, (2) they felt pressured to make untrue statements, and (3) they were explicitly instructed to lie under oath about substantial financial benefits provided to them by the police and previously undisclosed to defense counsel....
WELCOME TO AMERICA. A PIECE OF SHIT...
Is This America's Shittiest Cop?
http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/25/is-this-americas-shittiest-cop
The San Antonio Police Department tried to fire this officer for giving a crap sandwich to a homeless man. It was overruled.... Luckhurst was initially fired in October 2016 for allegedly giving a literal dogshit sandwich to a homeless man while clearing out an encampment...
Mother Says 3 Of Her Kids Were Shot By Police As Officers Fired At Robbery Suspect
A mother says two of her kids suffered head wounds and a third was shot in the face as Oklahoma police fired at a man in a pickup truck who was suspected of robbing a restaurant. “My 4-year-old daughter was shot in the head, and she has a bullet in her brain, and my 5-year-old has a skull fracture,” Olivia Hill told Sherman, Texas news station KXII-TV . “My 1-year-old baby has gunshot wounds on her face.”...
SLAVE PATROL ARE CANCER...
Study Finds Misconduct Spreads Among Police Officers Like Contagion
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/police-misconduct-peer-effects/
Now, new research published today in the journal Nature Human Behavior suggests that retaining misbehaving officers in police organizations might have far worse consequences than leaving accusations unaddressed: It could actually propagate misconduct itself.
Even the well-intended shuffle of reassignment, often doled out in attempt to stem the transgressions of offending officers, could be having the exact opposite effect, spreading misdeeds from individuals to their peers like a behavioral contagion....
USA TERRORISTS USING TORTURE IN THE USA DEATH CAMPS...
Lawsuit Over Dehydration Death In David Clarke's Jail Settles For $6.75M
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-clarke-jail-death-lawsuit_n_5ced7a48e4b0e32947a3baf6
The family of a man who died of “profound dehydration” inside a jail run by prominent Trump supporter and former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has settled with the county and a health care company $6.75 million, one of the largest settlements in connection with a jail death in the United States. Terrill Thomas died in April 2016, about six days after guards at a Milwaukee jail cut off his water supply. Other inmates reported hearing him beg for water before his death....The lawsuit specifically named Clarke, claiming he “knowingly sanctioned” the decision to cut off inmates’ water supplies....“The amount of pain and suffering that Terrill Thomas went through is really hard to comprehend, and a ton of this is captured on video,” ...“What happened to Terrill Thomas was a form of torture,” ...
USA TERRORISTS USE HEAT AS TORTURE IN USA DEATH CAMPS...
“Cooking Them to Death”: The Lethal Toll of Hot Prisons
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/10/11/cooking-them-to-death-the-lethal-toll-of-hot-prisons
the cans would explode, because it was so hot in his cell. The heat was so severe, in fact, that Allen hinted he might not make it out of prison alive. ...A few months later, the news came in a call from a prison chaplain. “I’m sorry to inform you that your brother has passed away,” he told Sidney. Then the chaplain said something unexpected: When Allen’s body was found, it was hot to the touch. The chaplain was sure the heat had killed him and suggested that Sidney investigate.... “They murdered my brother,” ...
While some state prison systems — plus federal prisons and military detention facilities, including Guantanamo Bay — keep temperatures within a liveable range, many do not, according to a 2015 Columbia Law School report. Prisoners often live without air-conditioning in areas where temperatures exceed 100 degrees for days at a time and the heat index, which records how hot it feels with humidity, has hit 150 degrees....
Although there are no national figures on how many prisoners die of heat illness, horror stories emerge every summer: inmates screaming “Help us!” out of the windows of a St. Louis jail; New Hampshire men flooding their scorching cells to cool them down; Arizona prisoners whose shoes melt in the sun....
USA TERRORISTS USE MEDICAL NEGLECT TO TORTURE SLAVES IN USA DEATH CAMPS....
Family of Orlando Prisoner Who Died After Police Dog Bites Gets Legal Breakthrough
https://theappeal.org/family-of-max-gracia-who-died-after-police-dog-bites-gets-legal-breakthrough/
A new court order allows the family’s lawsuit to proceed, and may lead to holding jail staff accountable....Over the course of his imprisonment, Gracia’s health rapidly deteriorated. On the night of Aug. 9, he writhed in bed, moaning, and fell to the floor of his cell, according to legal filings. A member of the jail’s medical staff allegedly accused him of “faking or exaggerating” an illness, and recorded in their notes that he refused treatment.
Hours later, at 5:15 a.m., Gracia was found in his cell not breathing. At 6:09 a.m., he was pronounced dead at the Orlando Regional Medical Center. His autopsy showed that the bites on his left leg led to an E. coli infection and ultimately a blood infection that turned fatal....
a “culture of neglect” permeated the facility and that medical staff ignored Gracia’s worsening condition. ...
COURTS RULE POLICE SHOULD WIN IMMUNITY FOR POLICE MISCONDUCTS BECAUSE THEIR POLICE REPORTS ARE THE FACTS, AND SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY LAWS THAT EVERY SLAVE IS IN VIOLATION OF SOME LAW DAILY...
John Roberts Strikes a Blow Against Free Speech
“Police officers conduct approximately 29,000 arrests every day,” Chief Justice John Roberts noted in his opinion in Nieves v. Bartlett, an important First Amendment case decided last Monday. That’s roughly the population of Georgia cuffed and stuffed on an annual basis.... Arresting that many folks is “a dangerous task that requires making quick decisions,” he wrote—so many people, so little time. It is thus the job of the Court “to ensure that officers may go about their work without undue apprehension of being sued.”
If that’s the appropriate aim for an Article III court, Nieves will help achieve it; the decision will make it harder to hold officers to account...
Over the years, the Supreme Court has made clear that police can arrest citizens for virtually any offense, down to driving without fastening a seat belt. Most people can’t go through a day without committing one—or more than one—crime, including crimes they haven’t heard of.... As Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out in her solo dissent, arrests are usually documented in police reports... That evidence seems to me worth considering—unless the real purpose of the Roberts rule is to provide all but complete immunity to police, a result made more palatable by the kind of pseudo-plausible car-salesman patter of which Roberts is the Court’s unchallenged master.... This case is easy because as the Court reviewed the facts alleged, the police officer should win....
Every cop in this Alaskan police department has a domestic violence record: report
Every cop in one Alaska city has a domestic violence record — including the chief...Understaffed, low-paying departments across the state are so desperate for new recruits that dozens of convicted criminals are now serving as cops...Often, ex-cons are the only applicants...“Am I a cop now?” a sex offender and convicted car thief and drunk driver named Nimeron Mike recalls thinking after the Stebbins police department hired him a day after he filled out his application. “It’s like, that easy?” he remembers wondering.... The “foxes-guarding-the-henhouse” ...
COPS AREN'T THE ONLY CRIMINALS DISGUISED AS DEFENDERS OF THE CONSTITUTION. "LIE"YERS ARE ALSO SOME OF THE BIGGEST DOMESTIC ENEMIES...
Philly-area lawyer disbarred for ‘lack of professional ethics,’ ‘outright theft’
Scott L. Kramer, 40, was cited for failing to provide competent representation, “a lack of professional ethics,” and “outright theft,” by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel in a report to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....Kramer allegedly withdrew $747,000 in “excessive fees” from the client’s Vanguard and bank accounts “that he was obviously not entitled to,”...
PINAC NEWS - POLICE MISCONDUCTS
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/
How Mandatory Minimums Enable Police Misconduct
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/mandatory-minimum-sentencing.html
Yet everyday across the country, police officers willfully violate people’s rights, in large part because of their certainty of never having to take the stand to answer for their actions....But the near impossibility of getting fired is only part of the crisis of impunity. An overlooked but significant culprit is mandatory minimum sentencing.
In criminal courts throughout this country, victims of police abuse — illegal stops and frisks, car stops and searches, home raids, manufactured charges and excessive force — routinely forgo their constitutional right to challenge police abuse in a pretrial hearing in exchange for plea deals. They do so because the alternative is to risk the steep mandatory minimum sentence they would face if they went to trial and lost. Prosecutors use the fear of these mandatory minimums to their advantage by offering comparatively less harsh plea deals before pretrial hearings and trials begin.
The result is not only the virtual loss of the jury trial — today, 95 percent of convictions come from guilty pleas instead of jury verdicts — but also the loss of the only opportunity to confront police misconduct in criminal proceedings. In New York City, for example, less than 5 percent of all felony arrests that are prosecuted have hearings to contest police misconduct. For misdemeanor arrests that are prosecuted — a third of which are initiated by the police — less than .5 percent of cases go to a hearing. A guilty plea also has the effect of insulating police from any civil rights lawsuit asserting false arrest because a plea of guilty serves as an admission that the officers’ arrest was justified....
Rhode Island Police Don’t Just Make Arrests. Some Also Act As Prosecutors.
https://theappeal.org/rhode-island-police-prosecutors
The state is one of eight that allow cops to arraign people on misdemeanor charges. Advocates and academics say the practice is unjust....In New Hampshire, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Virginia, police officers can act as prosecutors throughout the entire misdemeanor process—from a defendant’s first appearance through a plea or trial. In four states—Alaska, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania—police can only arraign cases....
police officers are not bound to the code of ethics that holds lawyers accountable. “A prosecutor is ethically bound to exercise discretion. A police officer has no such duty,...
Prosecuting each arrest without exercising discretion violates the American Bar Association’s prosecutorial standards, which lists 16 reasons a prosecutor should decline to press charges. These reasons range from the weakness of a case to more serious issues, including improper conduct by law enforcement, the influence of any improper biases, or the effect of prosecution on public welfare.
Prosecutors are supposed to serve as bulwarks against charges that are frivolous, unsubstantiated or unjust, said Friedlander, the attorney at the Rhode Island Center for Justice. In Rhode Island District Court, Friedlander explained, no such bulwark exists. This lack of independent review, she said, creates a clear conflict of interest between the goals of local police departments and the role of a prosecutor...
A Philadelphia man couldn’t come up with $1,941, so he was sentenced to state prison
He earned only $150 a week as a part-time janitor.... an additional 1½-to-3-year sentence in state prison.... “he was essentially jailed for his poverty.”... $350 in monthly child support owed to his older daughter.... Hudson spent about six months in Delaware County jail for falling behind...
Court fees — even for indigent defendants — average more than $1,000 per case across Pennsylvania. The median court costs imposed on indigent defendants in the region range from $537 in Philadelphia County to $1,652 in Delaware County, an ACLU of Pennsylvania analysis found. That’s in addition to fines and restitution the court may impose. For those who spend years on probation or parole, as Hudson did, costs can pile much higher. In addition to assorted fees — $250 for a DNA detection fund, $50 toward the cost of prosecution, $8 for a judicial computer project, $5 for a firearm training fund — he was assessed almost $800 in supervision fees....
But costs and fines across Philadelphia and its four suburban counties brought in $273 million over the last 10 years,... In Delaware County, dockets show some people have been sentenced 10 times or more on a single case, with sentence conditions emphasizing paying fines, court fees, or restitution. ...
Why the Trump campaign won’t pay police bills
https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies
Ten city governments from Arizona to Pennsylvania say the president’s political committee has stiffed them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars....
Hundreds of police officers have been labeled liars. Some still help send people to prison.
Across the USA, prosecutors aren't tracking officer misconduct, skirting Supreme Court "Brady" rules and sometimes leading to wrongful convictions.
Thousands of Americans have been prosecuted and convicted on the basis of testimony from more than a thousand cops whose credibility had been questioned by police officials or prosecutors, a national investigation confirms. The problem is made worse by the fact that hundreds of prosecutors around the nation are failing to comply with the Brady rule, the constitutional requirement to share exculpatory evidence with defendants before trial.
After decades of maintaining innocence, Elvis Brooks to be freed under deal; 'I wanted my freedom'
https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_328a129c-ef78-11e9-9c6d-3b03f4ad71cc.html
A 62-year-old man who left New Orleans as a teenager for a life in prison on a murder conviction will be released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola under a deal offered last week by Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office.
Elvis Brooks has always insisted on his innocence, but he formally accepted the offer of freedom while sitting shackled Tuesday morning in an Orleans Parish courtroom. He agreed to a guilty plea and a limited prison term tailored to achieve his immediate release.
The magic number was 42 years — two-thirds of his life. Brooks' attorney said it's likely he will be released Wednesday...
For My Incarcerated Clients, There Is No Winning
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/10/17/for-my-incarcerated-clients-there-is-no-winning
My practice focuses on helping them recover assets stolen from them as a result of their long-term prison stints—a huge problem among inmates who prepare to come home only to find that the money or the house they thought would be waiting for them has disappeared.
22 Months In Solitary Violated Maine Inmate's Rights, But He's Not Entitled To Damages, Judge Rules
A Maine prisoner was unlawfully kept in solitary confinement for 22 months to try to force him to admit to trafficking in prison contraband, a state judge concluded last week. But she granted him no damage award or injunctive relief.
‘Second-chance’ P.D.: McFarland hired police with troubled records, from DUIs to fraud
They hired a cop investigated in an FBI child porn probe, and another caught up in an LAPD burglary ring. They gave a job to an officer who filed a bogus insurance claim for a car his friends dumped in Mexico. And they brought in a cop with a conviction for pulling a gun on his stepdaughter’s friends. The McFarland Police Department knew that many of its officers had dubious backgrounds—but it hired them anyway. And they weren't the only ones who got a second chance. One cop was accused in a lawsuit of having sex with a teenage police explorer scout; another of threatening to jail women if they didn’t have sex with him. At least three more had DUIs. ...
3 Indiana Judges Suspended After White Castle Brawl That Left 2 Of Them Wounded
The court found that the three — Andrew Adams, Bradley Jacobs and Sabrina Bell — had "engaged in judicial misconduct by appearing in public in an intoxicated state and behaving in an injudicious manner and by becoming involved in a verbal altercation." Adams and Jacobs engaged in further judicial misconduct "by becoming involved in a physical altercation for which Judge Adams was criminally charged and convicted."...
Kaiser, who allegedly shot Adams and Jacobs, has been charged with 14 counts related to the brawl, including four charges of felony aggravated battery, according to the Indianapolis Star. The court suspended both Jacobs and Bell for 30 days without pay. Adams, who pleaded guilty in September to one count of misdemeanor battery, is suspended for 60 days without pay. He was sentenced to 365 days in jail but was required to serve only two...
SLAVE PATROL WAS IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE WHEN A BAD GUY WAS REACHING FOR HIS WAIST. NAAH THE BAD GUY WAS RESISTING, YEAH THATS WHAT IT WAS. NAAH THE BAD GUY WAS RUNNING AWAY...
A 15-year-old with no arms or legs was tackled and pinned by a sheriff’s deputy in a ‘horrific’ video
The shirtless 15-year-old screams as he lies facedown on the kitchen floor of his Tucson group home. He has no arms or legs, so he can’t flee or fight back. But a sheriff’s deputy at least twice his size is crouching over him and pinning him to the ground, using his body weight to restrain the quadruple amputee.... But Pima County Public Defender Joel Feinman told The Washington Post that the disturbing incident likely wouldn’t have come to light if it weren’t for another teenager at the group home, who recorded the confrontation and then had his head pushed into the wall by deputies....
Series: The Untouchables
This Judge Is Married to the Sheriff. Ethics Complaints Have Piled Up.
Magistrate Angel Underwood was suspended after conflicts involving her husband, the sheriff. But she wasn’t required to disclose that before her reappointment this year. She’s still on the bench, and complaints say her conflicts have continued.
SCAN= SNAKE OIL. MIRACLE CUREALL CAN EVEN SHOW SLAVE PATROL THE GUILTY. BY MAKING THE GUILTY ANSWER SOME WRITTEN QUESTIONS THE SLAVE PATROL THEN INTERPRETS THE ANSWERS OF THE GUILTY TO PROVE THE GUILTY IS GUILTY IF THE GUILTY HAS NOT ANSWERED IN CORRECT GRAMATIC FORM AS INTERPRETTED BY SLAVE PATROL. YOU ARE GUILTY IF YOU WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN A WAY THAT SLAVE PATROL SAYS IS DECEPTIVE BECAUSE YOU USED WRONG CHOICE OF WORDS...
Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?
Elkhart police turned to a tool — well known to many police departments, little known to the public — called Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN for short....A detective, trained in SCAN, reviewed written answers.... an investigative tool that exists out of public view. Such tools rarely, if ever, make it into the courtroom because they’re too unreliable to clear even the low threshold for evidence allowed at trial.
SCAN, a product sold by a company called the Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation (LSI), has, in the words of four scholars in a 2016 study, “no empirical support” — meaning, there’s no dependable research showing that it works....
SCAN has escaped the scrutiny that comes with being offered in court as proof....
With SCAN, Sapir encourages the asking of a simple, open question: What happened? After the person writes a statement, the SCAN investigator looks for signs of deception, analyzing, among other things, pronouns used, changes in vocabulary, what’s left out and how much of a statement is devoted to what happened before, during and after an event. Indications of truthfulness include use of the past tense, first-person singular (“I went to the store”); pronouns, such as “my,” which signal commitment; and direct denials, the best being: “I did not do it.” Signs of deception include lack of memory, spontaneous corrections and swapping one word in for another — for example, writing “kids” in one place and “children” in another.
The SCAN analyst need not know anything about the person or the case. In fact, that’s preferable, Sapir writes. Outside knowledge might contaminate the analysis, and all that matters is the written statement. Sapir likens SCAN to Sudoku, only with words, not numbers, sentences, not squares: “Everything must fit — left to right, and top to bottom.”...
“Please note,” Sapir writes: “The report says, ‘whether…’ and not ‘whether or not.’”
“By the omission of ‘or not’ it seems that the FBI was already concentrating on only one option,” Sapir writes.
To grammarians, the use of “or not” in that sentence would be redundant and therefore poor writing. To Sapir, the words’ absence reveals intent....
$10,000 in a Coffee Cup: 8 Swept Up in N.J. Political Corruption Cases
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/nyregion/new-jersey-corruption-charges.html
One aspiring politician is accused of getting her bribe in a coffee cup chock-full of $100 bills. Another, a mayoral hopeful, of receiving his at his campaign headquarters in a bag stuffed with $10,000. There was also a councilman who accepted a cash-stuffed envelope from a man who explicitly asked for a “quid pro quo,” according to a court document, and an official who funneled thousands of dollars into a charity he ran, then diverted the money for personal use....All but one of those charged were current or former elected officials or political candidates, and the accused included both Republicans and Democrats. They included a small-town mayor, a school board president and a man trying to hold on to his position as county freeholder.... ‘I’ll give you this position if you make this donation,’ and nobody questions that stuff.” All five politicians caught in the stings were charged with second-degree bribery and face up to 10 years in prison....
MOONLIGHTING HITMAN FOR HIRE. BEST ASSASSIN IS SLAVE PATROL.
WILL MURDER FOR HIRE. SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER...
Miami police audit: One officer worked 3,714 hours at off-duty jobs in one year
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article238996398.html
In 2018 alone, Miami cops working side jobs made $18.9 million atop their city salaries. And dozens of police officers, over a four-year period, worked what amounted to full-time jobs while off the clock....extra-duty pay system rife with abuse from lack of oversight, with some officers even collecting extra-duty pay during regular working hours. It also found that the current system shorted city coffers tens of thousands of dollars in uncollected fees because of rules that permit private employers to pay officers in cash or by check — creating a virtual honor system with inadequate records for the city to check. ... “There is a risk that a conflict of interest may arise if MPD personnel work excessive hours for an outside employer, creating perceived or actual loyalty to the employer ahead of loyalty to MPD. Additionally, working excessive extra-duty hours may lead to diminished on-duty performance due to fatigue.” ...Under city rules, a police officer is not permitted to work an outside job during regular working hours, can’t work more than 16 hours a day of regular and off-duty work combined and can’t work more than 36 hours a week at an off-duty job....
Top Queens Prosecutors Broke The Rules, Then Got Promoted. Will The New DA Keep Them In Charge?
https://gothamist.com/news/top-queens-prosecutors-broke-rules-got-promoted
But the conviction was built on a lie. In fact, Clark had been arrested six times in Queens, and had been convicted of possession of stolen property -- indicating he may not have been just an innocent bystander. Queens prosecutors had Clarke’s criminal records in their files, but they never said a word about them.
In 2004, seven years after Turner was paroled, a federal judge threw out the conviction, citing Brady v. Maryland, a Supreme Court ruling that requires the DA share evidence that is favorable to the accused and may change a trial outcome.
Federal judge Nina Gershon said Clarke’s criminal history “was readily available to the prosecution had it made the most modest effort.” She said the verdict relied on evidence that Sligh “should have known was false.”...Sligh’s career trajectory illustrates a broader pattern in the Queens DA’s Office: prosecutors breaking the rules and earning promotions instead of discipline. In fact, thirteen other Queens prosecutors held top leadership positions despite misconduct flagged in court decisions that sparked mistrials, set aside verdicts or nullified convictions...
SHERIFFS DEPT IS A LIABILTY DRAIN OF A GANG OF LEGAL CRIMINALS PREYING ON TAX PAYERS....
LA County Spent $81.5 Million on LASD Litigation Costs and Payouts Last Year
https://witnessla.com/la-county-pays-81-5-million-for-lasd-litigation-costs-and-payouts/
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department cost county taxpayers $81.5 million in litigation expenses during the last fiscal year, 2018-2019 — a considerable increase over the previous year’s $62.1 million tab, data from County Counsel show....
Overall, LA County’s litigation costs jumped 9 percent in fiscal year 2018-2019, to $148.5 million, over the previous year’s $135.7 million,...In total, the county paid $91.5 million in judgments and settlements and $57 million in attorneys’ fees and costs.
The county paid $31.1 million in judgments, specifically, in FY 2018-19, a jump of 147 percent from the $12.6 million spent in FY 2017-18. Nine of the 16 judgments were against the sheriff’s department, totaling $16.4 million last year, compared with $10.2 million in 2017-2018. During the last fiscal year, the county settled 240 lawsuits to the tune of $60.4 million, a slight decrease from the previous year’s figure. Additionally, legal fees and costs hit $57 million last year, down from $62 million paid during the previous year.
This OC sheriff’s deputy mishandled evidence 92% of the time — and got a promotion
One of the worst offenders among Orange County sheriff’s deputies who mishandled evidence was promoted to sergeant last year, 10 months after the agency sent his case to prosecutors for criminal consideration, court papers show. The District Attorney’s Office initially declined to charge Sgt. Philip Avalos, a veteran of 16 years assigned to the Intake-Release Center in Santa Ana. But Avalos landed back in the hot seat after District Attorney Todd Spitzer recently reopened criminal investigations into him and 16 other deputies referred by the Sheriff’s Department....
JUST BUSINESS AS USUAL. NORTH DAKOTA OFFICIALS HAVE DONE THIS FOR DECADES. LAW FRAUDULENTLY USED BY LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS FABRICATING CRIMES AGAINST THE SLAVES FOR THEIR OWN PROFITS...
Feds sue Utah criminal justice officials, alleging multimillion dollar grant fraud
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/13/feds-sue-utah-criminal
Federal authorities are suing some of Utah’s top public safety officials, alleging they committed fraud by misusing millions of dollars in grants that were part of stimulus programs during the Great Recession. ...noticed documents indicating that federal funds were being used to pay the salaries of guards with the Utah Department of Corrections (UDC). “Becoming suspicious UDC officials were misusing federal funds, [Williams] spent several thousand hours reviewing documents, questioning UDC administrative staff and prisoners and observing prison guards paid with [federal] funds,” his lawsuit reads, “Williams determined UDC officials obtained federal funds under false pretenses.”...
GET THAT. A SLAVE AUCTIONEER “... is not someone who should be particularly trusted by the court,” stating her alleged crimes involved “lies, deception, concealment, de-struction of evidence.”
WHY WOULD A LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY PARTNER WITH A BAD GUY? DID THE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY SHARE IN THE STOLEN LOOT?...
New York Judge Sylvia Ash Charged With Ob-structing Federal Investi-gation Of Credit Union Fraud
http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_77/jd_issue_77.pdf
New York Supreme Court Judge Sylvi aAsh has been indicted by a federalgrand jury for obstruction of justice andconspiracy to obstruct justice. Judge Ash’scharges are based on evidence she repeated-ly attempted to influence and impede a fed-eral investigation of New York State’sMunicipal Credit Union (“MCU”)....
“The defendant is notsomeone who should be particularly trustedby the court,” stating her alleged crimes involved “lies, deception, concealment, de-struction of evidence.”MCU is New York’s oldest and largest credit union, and one of the oldest and larg-est in the United States. It has more than $2.9 billion in deposits by more than 500,000 members, and each account is fed-erally insured for at least $250,000. From May 2008 until August 2016 Ash wason MCU’s Board of Directors, and served for a time as chairman of the board. In January 2018 Ash was questioned by federal agents during a federal investigation into financial corruption at MCU. One of the investigation’s targets was her friend Kam Wong, who was MCU’s CEO and president from 2007 until June 2018. Wong was federally indicted in May 2018 on corruption charges. He pled guilty on December 2, 2018 to embezzling $10 mil-lion from MCU. ... The investigation also found evidence that Ash and Wong came to an understanding for her “to sign a false and misleading memorandum purporting to explain and jus-tify millions of dollars in payments that Wong had received from MCU, which was then provided by Wong to law enforcement officers.”...
Protests in Minnesota Renew Scrutiny of Klobuchar’s Record as Prosecutor
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/klobuchar-minneapolis-george-floyd.html
Amy Klobuchar, now being considered as a potential vice-presidential candidate, oversaw several cases involving police shootings in Minneapolis during her years as a prosecutor....With a police force in Minneapolis that has long faced accusations of racism and complaints of abuse, Ms. Klobuchar declined to bring charges against multiple police officers who were involved in shootings during her seven-year tenure. Instead she often opted to send cases to a grand jury, a common practice at the time but one that some law enforcement experts say favors police officers. On Friday, Ms. Klobuchar said that grand juries were used “in every jurisdiction across our state,” and that she now regretted those decisions. ...Ms. Klobuchar’s tenure as prosecutor could become a significant liability for Ms. Klobuchar in the vice-presidential selection process. ...On Friday, Ms. Klobuchar brushed off questions about whether she should withdraw her name from consideration, saying it was “Joe Biden’s decision,” while vigorously defending her record as a prosecutor...
THIN BLUE LINE FLAG REPRESENTS SLAVE PATROL AS MASTA OVER THEIR BLACK SLAVES AND THEIR WHITE SLAVES. ITS A MILITARY WAR FLAG IDEA FROM BRITISH SLAVE MASTAS. MILITARIZED SLAVE PATROL TYRANTS OVER THEIR SLAVES...
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
As protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe. Recently, the flag was flown from the back of a car alongside protests in South Dakota, and burned outside the Utah State Capitol....flown by white supremacists, appearing next to Confederate flags...“It fosters this ‘us versus them’ mentality,” ...the community as a potential enemy, or a threat...Before the flag came the phrase. The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to a 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War...militarism in police departments, which came to buy military gear directly from the Department of Defense....“the assumed differences between officers and citizens and further progresses an ‘us versus them’ mentality among officers.” ..."It feels akin to a Confederate flag." ...
MR FLETCHER IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. LAW IS A CRIMINAL GANG OPERATING A PROTECTION RACKET AMONGST MANY MANY OTHER CRIMES LAW OFFICIALS COMMIT FROM SLAVE PATROL TO THE SLAVE AUCTIONS ALL THE WAY UP TO THE USA TERRORIST REGIME...
How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html
When Steve Fletcher, a Minneapolis city councilman and frequent Police Department critic, sought to divert money away from hiring officers and toward a newly created office of violence prevention, he said, the police stopped responding as quickly to 911 calls placed by his constituents. “It operates a little bit like a protection racket,” Mr. Fletcher said of the union....
A lawyer is tweeting videos of police using force at protests. There are more than 400
On May 30, T. Greg Doucette, a criminal defense lawyer from Durham, N.C., tweeted out a compilation of 10 videos he’d seen of police using force against protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd. He had no idea the degree to which things would snowball from there....As of Monday, Doucette’s thread has surpassed 400 clips and he finds himself struggling to keep up. In one week, Doucette’s original tweet starting his thread has now been retweeted nearly 80,000 times...
Activists Create Public Online Spreadsheet of Police Violence Videos
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/george-floyd-public-spreadsheet-police-violence-videos.html
Lawyer T. Greg Doucette and mathematician Jason Miller have been working to compile the videos in the Google Sheet titled “GeorgeFloyd Protest - police brutality videos on Twitter.” The database currently has 428 videos.
USA DEATH CAMPS INFESTED WITH TYPHUS DISEASE IS INCREASING AND THE SLAVES AND POW"s ARE BETALIATED AGAINST FOR SPEAKING UP WHILE THE SLAVE PATROL COMMIT CRIMES OF TAMPERING, OBSTRUCTION, FALSIFYING RECORDS, AND MANY OTHER WAR CRIMES...
Inmates at Portland Prison Accuse Staff of Retaliation for COVID-19 Lawsuit
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, the situation inside Oregon's state prisons—and the consequences inmates face for speaking out—is only getting worse
On May 29, Steven Stroud testified in a federal court case against Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), alleging that Oregon’s prison system neglected to prevent inmates like him from contracting COVID-19. Two days later, Stroud and another inmate at Portland’s Columbia River Correctional Institute (CRCI) named in the lawsuit were placed in solitary confinement with no explanation why.
When they were released three days later, all of their legal documents and personal notes related to the federal lawsuit were missing from their bunks. Stroud doesn’t believe these frustrating incidents are merely coincidental....
NIGGER PATROL FALSELY CALLED NIGGERS THE K WORD BUT, DV HOLOCAUST DENIERS DONT BELIEVE...
SAPS officers who made false racism claims to be sentenced
https://www.algoafm.co.za/domestic/saps-officers-who-made-false-racism-claims-to-be-sentenced
Two police officers who falsely accused a colleague of using the k-word will finally be sentenced on Friday and may face prison sentences, trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. Warrant officers Sedisa Tikoe and Chris Mphana were convicted by the North West Regional Court in Stilfontein on charges that include crimen injuria, obstructing the course of justice, perjury and assault. The case has gone on for three years.
The officers were found to have falsely accused lieutenant colonel Annemarie Oosthuizen of using the K-word and threatened her with violence....“False accusations of using the k-word are increasingly being used as a weapon to avoid disciplinary action...
THE REASON SLAVE PATROL COMMITS THE MOST ACTUAL DV IS BECUZ MOST SLAVE PATROL ARE NIGGERS....
Now, shine a light on policing and domestic violence
We know that, nationwide, violence is an estimated two to four times more prevalent in police families than in the general population.... Although the NYPD has the second-most employees of any city agency, the public has not known how many reports it receives of officer-involved domestic violence, the nature of these cases or how they are handled. Some reports make their way into the criminal justice system, but not all do: A report may not rise to the level of an arrest or criminal charge, or a victim may choose not to cooperate with a prosecution, especially if a conviction would result in the family losing the officer’s pension. About 40% of New York City police officers live outside the five boroughs, in which case reports of family violence against them might be known to prosecutors where they live, but not prosecutors in the communities in which they work.
In instances like these, we depend on the police to respond appropriately. Yet, a 2019 report, by a special panel invited to review the department’s disciplinary practices, found the NYPD was too lenient when it came to punishing cops accused of domestic violence.... Although the NYPD has made progress in racial integration — most officers today are people of color — it is still 83% male. ...
FBI launched database on police use of force last year, but only police participated in low numbers
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order calling for, among other things, the establishment of a database on police use of force. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans included a similar provision in their own reform bill. But the FBI already has such a database — and so far a majority of police are not participating in it....many police agencies have not responded to the voluntary call for information about their officers — only 40 percent submitted their data for 2019, the FBI said. And the database has yet to be published. The first report is planned for this summer....
Abolishing Qualified Immunity Is Unlikely to Alter Police Behavior
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/opinion/police-qualified-immunity.html
Qualified immunity shields government officials from personal liability in federal lawsuits unless they violate “clearly established” federal law. That means that even if a police officer violates someone’s constitutional rights, the victim can’t obtain damages from the officer unless he or she can show that the officer violated a right explicitly recognized by a prior court ruling.
In theory, this requirement protects government defendants from unexpected liability when law changes. In practice, courts apply the doctrine aggressively to shield officers from lawsuits unless plaintiffs can point to other cases declaring essentially identical conduct unconstitutional — a difficult hurdle, even when police conduct appears clearly wrong.
Indeed, even if the former police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of murdering Mr. Floyd, it’s quite plausible that a court could refuse to hold him liable for violating Mr. Floyd’s constitutional rights if his lawyers were unable to point to an earlier case making clear that the specific action Mr. Chauvin took — kneeling on a restrained person’s neck for more than eight minutes — was unconstitutional....
A FEW THOUSAND JUDGES ARE CRIMINALS. MANY MORE THOUSANDS OF JUDGES ARE ALSO CRIMINALS BUT, ARE NOT REPORTED BECUZ THE RULES ALLOW JUDGES SPECIAL PROTECTIONS TO GET AWAY WITH THEIR CRIMES...
Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-judges-misconduct/
“Judge Hayes took away my life and didn’t care how my children suffered,” said Johnson, now 36. ...There were people who had committed real crimes who got out before me.”...
Hayes, a judge since 2000, admitted in court documents to violating 10 different parts of the state’s judicial conduct code. One of the counts was a breach of a judge’s most essential duty: failing to “respect and comply with the law.” Despite the severity of the ruling, Hayes wasn’t barred from serving as a judge....
Hayes is among thousands of state and local judges across America who were allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and prestige after violating judicial ethics rules or breaking laws they pledged to uphold, a Reuters investigation found....
In the first comprehensive accounting of judicial misconduct nationally, Reuters reviewed 1,509 cases from the last dozen years – 2008 through 2019 – in which judges resigned, retired or were publicly disciplined following accusations of misconduct. In addition, reporters identified another 3,613 cases from 2008 through 2018 in which states disciplined wayward judges but kept hidden from the public key details of their offenses – including the identities of the judges themselves....
These rules can leave lawyers and litigants fearing retaliation, commission director Jenny Garrett noted in response to written questions. “It’s a ridiculous system that protects judges and makes it easy for them to intimidate anyone with a legitimate complaint,” ...“It’s a ridiculous system that protects judges and makes it easy for them to intimidate anyone with a legitimate complaint.”...
A SWAT Team Blew Up This Family's House While Chasing a Shoplifter. The Supreme Court Won't Hear the Case.
https://reason.com/2020/06/29/swat-team-police-leo-lech-supreme-court-5th-amendment
And no, it wasn't the shoplifter's home. Five years ago, police officers in Greenwood Village, Colorado, destroyed a private residence while pursuing a suspected shoplifter who had broken in and barricaded himself inside. Last year a federal court denied the homeowners any compensation for those damages, even though they had no connection to the theft and did not willingly allow the fugitive into their house. This morning the Supreme Court announced that it will not hear the case.
Over the course of June 3 and 4, 2015, a SWAT team deployed a series of flash bang grenades, tear gas, 40 mm rounds, two Bearcat armored vehicles, and breaching rams against the home of Leo, Alfonsina, and John Lech. The Lechs had to demolish the house, which was worth $580,000. The city gave them $5,000.
This despite the fact that the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment is supposed to protect citizens from having their property taken or destroyed by the government without being justly compensated for that loss....
USA LAW SAYS USA CONSTITUTION SAYS:
SLAVE PATROL CANNOT ARREST A SLAVE WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE UNLESS SLAVE PATROL SAYS HE WAS ENGAGED IN CONSENSUAL INTERACTION WITH THE SLAVE. THEN HE CAN ARREST SLAVE.
SLAVE PATROL CANNOT RAPE A HO UNLESS SLAVE PATROL SAYS HE WAS ENGAGED IN CONSENSUAL SEX. THEN HE CAN RAPE HO....
The federal police in Portland don’t even understand what ‘arrests’ are
In our legal system, the definition of the word “arrest” is critical because it marks an important dividing line under the Fourth Amendment. For an arrest to be legal, it must be supported by probable cause. That means the arresting officer must be able to point to specific facts that would make a reasonable person think that the person being arrested committed a specific criminal offense. By contrast, if the police have a noncoercive, consensual interaction with a civilian (sometimes called a “contact” or an “engagement” in law enforcement lingo), then the person has not been “seized” for Fourth Amendment purposes, and the police do not need to explain or justify why they approached the suspect in the first place. In other words, you can think of the word “arrest” as an on-off switch for the Fourth Amendment’s essential protections. When the police arrest someone, they are constrained by the Constitution. Before then, the Constitution’s protections are substantially weaker — if they exist at all....
USA SLAVES WHO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS WILL BE ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF RIGHTS. TO GET OUT OF JAIL THE SLAVES MUST RELINGUISH HIS RIGHTS OR GO BACK TO JAIL, AND CHARGED WITH MORE CRIMES....
“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights
Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest them on offenses as minor as “failing to obey” an order to get off a sidewalk on federal property — and then tell them they can’t protest anymore as a condition for release from jail....
LAW IS A CRIMINAL GANG OF THIEVES AND MURDERERS...
New Report Says LA County’s Deputy Gangs Promote a “secretive, violent, us-against-them” police culture
About those deputy gangs: Now, a new rigorously researched report takes an in-depth look at the corrosive effects that deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have had — and are still having — on constitutional policing across LA County....“We have at least a 50-year history of unchecked deputy gangs in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department,” Kennedy told WitnessLA. “The East LA Station is something of an incubator of deputy gangs,” he said, referring to the historic deputy clique known as the “Little Devils” or “Red Devils,” which was based in the East Los Angeles Station as far back as 1970, according to the report, “making it one of the earliest known deputy gangs.”...A deputy gang, as the report defines it, is a subculture within the station “that has decided to meet together secretly, get a numbered tattoos, usually on the ankle or calf (but sometimes in other locations)....In the cases of certain gangs, “when you commit a police shooting or an act of violence, you may have your tattoo enhanced or embellished,” write the report’s authors. And the embellishments are a sign of status.
“The gangs have an us-against-them culture in the station, in which the deputy gang members view themselves as the best, most aggressive, gung-ho law enforcement officers. And they advance a heavy-handed, violent approach to policing.”...
Alec Baldwin Shares Shocking Video Of Judge Who Abuses A Black Victim Of Domestic Violence
Alec Baldwin shared a video of a judge abusing his authority over a Black woman, who was seeking assistance for her domestic violence matter....This is how the judge and the court staff treated the victims of domestic abuse. He put his hands on this Black woman who came to him for safety to escape abuse she was already facing at home, and the judge's response was to abuse her again. The judge in this case was forced to resign...
Salt Lake City police dog ordered to attack a Black man on his knees with his hands in the air
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/08/11/salt-lake-city-police-dog
Put your hands up when you’re told. Get on the ground if they say so.
That’s what he was trying to do on April 24 when Salt Lake City police were called to his house after someone heard him arguing with his wife. Body camera footage from the officers show Ryans was in his backyard smoking a cigarette — he says he was about to leave for his job as a train engineer — when the officers shined their lights on him and started yelling. “Get on the ground!” one officer yelled, as his police dog barked. “Get on the ground or you’re going to get bit!” Ryans dropped what was in his hands and put them in the air. He recalled in an interview that he was confused. He didn’t know where to go or what to do: One officer was yelling for him to come to him, while another screamed to get on the ground.... Bodycam shows that though Ryans was kneeling on the ground with his hands in the air, the K9 officer still ordered his dog to attack.
The dog, Tuco, latched on to Ryans’ left leg, the footage shows. Even as another officer sat on top of Ryans and puts the man in handcuffs, the K9 officer continued to instruct his dog to “hit” — and Tuco responds by biting and tearing at Ryans’ leg....The attorney, who is white, said he’s been in similar situations where he’s had an argument with his wife or been in his backyard in the middle of the night letting his dog out. But the police never come, especially not with a K9 dog....Police sought to arrest Ryans because his wife had filed a protective order last December and he wasn’t supposed to be in their home. Court records show Ryans is facing domestic violence charges ...
3 Ways Lack of Police Accountability Contributes to Wrongful Convictions
https://www.innocenceproject.org/lack-of-police-accountability-contributes-to-wrongful-conviction/
The system, as it currently stands, has built more protections for guilty police officers than it has for its innocent citizens — and in many instances, the criminal justice system has actually produced incentives and tools that make innocent people more vulnerable to wrongful conviction....
In addition to technologies and databases that develop suspects using unscientific and questionable inputs, policing policies encourage volume-based policing — like the use of quotas — which encourage more arrests and convictions, regardless of guilt or innocence.... Nearly half of state public crime labs in the country are funded, at least partially, based on the number of convictions they produce rather than the number of forensic tests performed.
Meanwhile, prosecutors are incentivized to load up charges and employ the threat of the “trial penalty” — the possibility of being given a harsher sentence at trial than the sentence offered for a guilty plea — to secure a conviction. This tactic can lead to the coercion of guilty pleas from defendants, guilty and innocent.
Because of this, innocent people plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit more often than one might expect. More than 10% of the nation’s convictions proven to be wrongful by DNA evidence involved a guilty plea. DNA-based exonerations only tend to reveal the innocence of people convicted of the most serious, violent crimes like rape and murder, where DNA is most likely to be left behind. But the rate of guilty pleas of the innocent is likely much higher for lower level crimes, including misdemeanors, because the consequences of pleading guilty to a crime, even if you didn’t commit it are less severe. Faced with the choice of remaining in detention while fighting to clear your name or striking a deal and going home, why wouldn’t an innocent person plead guilty to a misdemeanor?...
Several states are incentivized to fill prison beds because of contractual agreements with private prison companies that require them to pay a set price regardless of whether beds are filled or not....Due process should apply to all, but it has been modified to favor those who have sworn to serve and protect the public, even when that vow is broken. ...
Law enforcement officers’ “Bill of Rights” laws add several layers of privilege on top of the normal presumption of innocence that a normal citizen accused of a crime might enjoy.....And if an accused officer is threatened with punishment, anything he says following that threat cannot be used against him. Conversely, law enforcement is legally permitted to use deception during the interrogations of citizens, which can lead to coerced confessions....
This imbalance diminishes the average citizen’s ability to enjoy a presumption of innocence. To correct this, we must not only reform systems of accountability for law enforcement misconduct, but we must also dismantle the vast systems that entrap the innocent.
NOT ALL SLAVE AUCTIONEERS ARE CRIMINAL INTENT. SOME ARE JUST MENTALLY OFF...
NY Judge's Alzheimer's Diagnosis Forces Retirement, Leads to Judgment Questions
Legal questions are being raised after a New York state criminal court justice was forced to retire early because of her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The state is asking if Judge ShawnDya Simpson's declining mental state impaired her judgment in court decisions, including a wrongful conviction case. Last August, a packed Brooklyn courtroom watched in shock as Judge Simpson abruptly left the bench after announcing she would not overturn the murder conviction of Nelson Cruz. "Every time she issues a decision, she gets the facts wrong," said Cruz's attorney Justin Bonus. "For the past four years, she's consistently issued decisions where the facts are patently wrong. Not a little bit wrong, patently wrong."...
USA TERRORIST REGIME SPENDS BILLIONS OF THEIR SLAVE'S MUNEE TO LIE TO YOU...
Police PR machine under scrutiny for inaccurate reporting, alleged pro-cop bias
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-30/police-public-relations
law enforcement public relations units have come to play in shaping the public’s understanding of confrontations with police. The units are an influential yet little-examined arm of law enforcement, with staffers sometimes applying the principles of crisis communications when their officers’ actions spark controversy....their reports protect the image of officers and taint people targeted by police....these units are serving the public with unbiased facts or are getting in the way of the truth. “We’re spending good money to be lied to,”...police press operations nearly always put forth a story line that makes officers’ actions appear justified. And when police spokespeople publicize the prior criminal history of people killed by law enforcement or call them “gang members,” it amounts to an insidious form of police abuse...
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had 42 people in its information bureau as of last month, at an annual cost of about $4.8 million. The strategic communications director at the time of Robertson’s killing earned $200,000 a year; the bureau’s captain last year made $218,000. The Los Angeles Police Department spends about $3.29 million a year for 25 people in similar units, as of last month....
A Seattle police officer’s extraordinary pay raises questions SPD can’t answer
Seattle Police Officer Ron Willis was exceptionally busy in 2019 — so much so that he crammed the work of two years into just one. Willis, a 58-year-old patrol officer, made $414,543.06 last year — more than the mayor, the police chief or any other city employee. How? He was paid for 4,149 hours of work, not including vacation or sick leave.... Willis was paid for working between 90 and 123 hours a week for seven weeks straight last summer... On six occasions, Willis was compensated for more than 24 hours in a single day, according to the data. Under their contract, Seattle officers can be paid for more hours than they physically work. SPD, however, couldn’t say whether Willis physically worked all of these hours because it can’t effectively track overtime that is still filed on paper forms. This inability to monitor the workload of its employees illustrates a lingering weakness, four years after an audit found widespread potential for inappropriate overtime pay... SPD has struggled for years to monitor its overtime costs, which initially were budgeted at about $30 million this year. The city auditor’s office in 2016 cited numerous lapses in SPD’s policies and procedures governing extra pay, including identifying 400 potential duplicate overtime payments totaling more than $160,000 in 2014. The auditor suggested, and SPD endorsed, an automated system that would flag errors or inappropriate use of overtime. Four years later, that system is still not in place...
LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE LIARS, CORRUPT, CRIMINALS...
Suffolk DA Rollins releases watch list of 136 area officers accused of misconduct
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins released a list of 136 police officers on Friday night that her office said have been accused of lying, corruption, or misconduct, and whose credibility may be undermined in court.... Under the 1963 Supreme Court decision in Brady v. Maryland, prosecutors must turn over evidence favorable to a defendant, including material that may undermine the credibility of a prosecution witness, such as a police officer....The database contains 70 State Police troopers, 54 Boston police officers, 5 Transit police officers, 3 Revere police officers, and 2 Chelsea police officers....
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS FABRICATE CRIMES TO MAKE BAD GUYS...
Judge rejects plea agreement for former LMPD detective accused of framing innocent men for murder
A former Louisville police detective accused of framing innocent men for murder is headed to trial after a judge rejected a plea agreement because it was too lenient.
Mark Handy pleaded guilty to perjury related to a 1995 murder, but Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens found the deal was not fair because it allowed Handy to avoid prison. Prosecutors and the defense could not reach new terms, and the court set a trial for May. The state alleges that Handy forced Edwin Chandler into a false confession for murder, taped over video evidence and lied on the stand. Louisville paid Chandler $8.5 million for the wrongful conviction. Other cases involving Handy also have been reversed.
2 lawyers charged in alleged scheme to steal nearly $750K in surplus foreclosure cash
Two Florida lawyers have been charged in an alleged foreclosure fraud scheme that cost victims nearly $750,000. Rashida Overby and Ria Sankar-Balram were arrested Oct. 5,...Overby is charged with 29 counts that include fraud, money laundering and grand theft. Sankar-Balram faces nine counts on the same charges, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Overby, 46, is a 1999 graduate of the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. Her law firm is Overby Law. Sankar-Balram, 40, is a 2008 graduate of the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. Her law firm is the Ria Balram Law Group.
MASSACHUSSETS TOP COP IS ALARMED THAT FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WOULD ACTUALLY INFORM THE SLAVES THAT SLAVE PATROL IS CORRUPT. THE AG SAID IF NIGGERS AND SLAVES FIND OUT THEIR MASTAS IS CRIMINALS THEY WILL LOSE TRUST IN SLAVE PATROL AND THE ILLEGAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM...
Dozens of State Police troopers remain on the force despite past illegal conduct
All of these troopers are on patrol today, having escaped termination from the state’s largest law enforcement agency despite crimes or serious misconduct.
A Globe review of the department’s internal affairs files shows the agency rarely fires troopers almost no matter what they have done. The Globe found only a handful of examples of firings in the last decade.
Meanwhile, dozens of troopers found by internal investigators to have broken the law remain on the force today. They collectively have 29 sustained charges for assault and battery; 19 alcohol and drug violations, including four OUIs; 17 charges for harassment, including three for sexual harassment; another 17 for improperly using the state’s criminal background check system.
The department levied nine violations for lying, including to internal investigators or judges; eight cases of excessive force; seven for illegal searches; and four sustained false arrest charges. A sustained charge is one the department has investigated and confirmed.
A reminder: These are troopers still on active duty, charged with enforcing the law on the rest of us.
And these cases represent just a fraction of the problem. When it comes to policing its own, the agency rarely sustains complaints against troopers. Its recordkeeping on internal investigations is sloppy and incomplete, and the records themselves closely guarded from public view....
A spokeswoman for Attorney General Maura Healey, whose office has received just a handful of cases from the State Police outside of the 2018 overtime pay fraud scandal, expressed dismay at the Globe’s findings, as well as the highlighted misconduct cases. The spokeswoman, Emalie Gainey, said the State Police had shared none of those details with the office. “This information is highly concerning and erodes public trust in law enforcement," Gainey said...
He’d Waited Decades to Argue His Innocence. She Was a Judge Who Believed in Second Chances. Nobody Knew She Suffered from Alzheimer’s.
https://features.propublica.org/judge_alzheimers/brooklyn-federal-judge-mental-illness/
For Simpson, 54, the decision to retire was not entirely voluntary. She had been found to be suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Acting on complaints of erratic behavior, delays in issuing decisions and the failure to reliably show up in her courtroom, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct had worked to negotiate an end to Simpson’s career once her medical condition had been officially determined....
The judge’s husband, Jacob Walthour, said of his wife’s condition, “No two days are the same.” For a while, there were moments of familiar brilliance and vitality to go with moments of profound distress. But, he said, the illness was a miserable one: progressive and fatal....He said he and the family had for a long time mistaken her behavior and struggles for extreme exhaustion....
Yet over the next two years, Cruz and his lawyers became baffled by Simpson’s handling of his case. Simpson rendered decisions only to agree to reconsider them; the lawyers said she sometimes admitted she hadn’t adequately read the case filings....Finally, in August 2019, Simpson had Cruz before her. She’d made her decision. She read a brief statement denying Cruz’s motion before, without explanation or warning, she simply walked off the bench....
The specter of mental decline among the nation’s judges has been a real and thorny issue for decades. Federal judges are appointed for life, and they often serve well past 70. Some states have sought to address the threat by instituting mandatory retirement ages, though such measures don’t typically contemplate that a younger judge could be stricken with dementia. To date, there are few if any formal mechanisms for evaluating the health of judges or for reporting health-related concerns about them or their decisions....
Database: Search 10 years' worth of Boston Police Department disciplinary action
The City of Boston does not provide a comprehensive, transparent system that allows residents to keep tabs on its police. So, the Globe decided to amass public records, cross reference the data, and create its own.... The “cases” tab will show you all cases filed since 2010....Use the “details” tab to learn more about each officer,...
Based in part on the records used in this database, we have learned that the department almost never believes citizens who report misconduct or violence by officers, and even when officers are found to have acted inappropriately, they often are not punished with anything harsher than an oral reprimand....
BRIBERY/ UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE. YES WE TAKE BRIBES USING SLAVE MUNEE...
Methuen police chief doled out favors to councilors after they made him one of the nation’s highest-paid law enforcement officers
Relatives of three other councilors who already worked for Solomon received promotions — one became a captain, another a sergeant, the third a detective.
Now, an auditor hired by Mayor Neil Perry is putting Solomon’s management style under the microscope, raising hopes among current city councilors and many officers that Solomon could finally face a day of reckoning after 18 years of maintaining power through what they see as favoritism and micromanaging....“I was shocked,” said Jajuga. “I was surprised that he was being paid as much as he was for a department that size.”...Far from apologetic, Solomon argues that he is underpaid and that the city is not fully honoring his contract....
FRANCE IS CORRUPT JUST LIKE ITS ALLY USA...
Nicolas Sarkozy in court in Paris to face 'bugging affair' charges
Nicolas Sarkozy has become France’s first former president to appear in the dock as he went on trial accused of corruption and influence peddling for allegedly trying to bribe a judge for information....
Are GOP Senators Victims of Coercion?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mind-games/202011/are-gop-senators-victims-coercion
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation, a tactic that uses distorted or outright false statements to coerce and persuade the targeted person or persons, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment. Gaslighting is often buttressed by strong feelings of conviction in the orator. In the realm of intimate partner abuse, it’s commonly used by the one seeking power over the partner to render into submission....
“People in power use humiliation as a form of social control; it is a common tool of oppression. The fear of humiliation is also a powerful motivating force." Humiliation occurs in a situation that illustrates unequal power in a relationship where one is perceived as inferior and unjustly degraded. Many types of humiliation exist such as ridicule, rejection, decline in rank, betrayal, manipulation, unfair treatment, dominating control, threats, abuse such as verbal name-calling, psychological, physical, sexual, mockery, portrayed as stupid, false accusations, publicly shamed and disrespected....
It’s not hard to comprehend how GOP Senators may have developed a serious self-consciousness–about what to do and say–to avoid public degradation and humiliation at all cost.
Blistering government report blasts poor training, oversight of Texas law enforcement
Last year, more than 600 Texas law enforcement officers received a dishonorable discharge from their agencies for misconduct. Yet more than a quarter of them were rehired to work as sworn officers. To qualify for a peace officer license, Texas cops need fewer hours of basic training than licensed cosmetologists and less than half the education required of air-conditioning and refrigeration contractors. While the basic training requires officers to spend 48 hours on the firing range, it demands only two hours of “civilian interaction” instruction....
Although it is charged with licensing police and correctional officers and 911 dispatchers, the law enforcement commission differs from state agencies that regulate other professions in that it has almost no authority to act against an officer’s license. Instead, most oversight of police conduct is left up to each of the state’s 2,700 law enforcement agencies, which set their own policies and standards. Without a shared definition of professional conduct, many have widely differing rules...
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY WORKS AS PROFESSIONAL LIEYER AT SLAVE AUCTION AND THE OTHER IS SLAVE PATROL...
'Stranger than fiction': Ex-Hawaii prosecutor, police chief sentenced to prison for corruption
HONOLULU — A U.S. judge sentenced a former high-ranking Honolulu prosecutor to 13 years in prison Monday and her retired police chief husband to seven years, saying she stole money from her own grandmother and then used his law enforcement power to frame her uncle for a crime he didn’t commit — all to maintain the couple’s lavish lifestyle.
Katherine and Louis Kealoha, now estranged, were once a respected power couple. Louis Kealoha agreed to retire amid a wide-ranging federal investigation. Katherine Kealoha later gave up her law license....
He described how Katherine Kealoha orchestrated a reverse mortgage scheme that forced her grandmother to sell her home, framed her uncle for stealing the Kealohas' home mailbox, stole money from children whose trusts she controlled as a lawyer, cheated her uncle out of his life savings, convinced her firefighter lover to lie about their affair and used her position as a prosecutor to turn a drug investigation away from her doctor brother. “Truth can be stranger than fiction,” the judge said at Katherine Kealoha's sentencing....
Who is the biggest thief of all time in world history?
Some very good examples here, but very few people realize that the US government is the biggest thief of all time. The theft took over 30 years to complete, which is why so few are aware of this. Let me explain. Prior to 1933, United States citizens personally possessed approximately 200 million gold coins, equivalent to about $200 BILLION today.
Then, in 1933 the US government passed a law forbidding the ownership of gold coins and made every American turn in their gold coins in exchange for gold certificates.
As these certificates were backed by the gold that is now in the possession of the US government, these certificates are still “real money” and still worth the amount of the turned in gold coin. But then in 1963, thirty years later, the US government came off the gold standard, which means that the gold certificates given to the American people, were no longer backed by the gold that they had turned in. And, these gold certificates (Real Money) were replaced with Federal Reserve NOTES (Fiat or Fake Money).
In summary, between the years 1933 and 1963 the US government stole $200,000,000,000 of gold from the American population.
Report says injured LSP cadets looked like ‘domestic abuse’ victims
https://www.wafb.com/2020/12/17/report-says-injured-lsp-cadets-looked-like-domestic-abuse-victims/
Investigators said the yellow training pads used to carry out the violence were later found stained with blood. The state police trooper accused of ordering much of the cadet violence, or personally carrying it out, Sergeant Len Marie, remains on the force. That’s despite some cadets describing Marie as appearing to be “mentally deranged” and “crazy” and Marie taking part in the academy with a training certification that was expired.
Marie was ultimately demoted from the rank of Lieutenant because of his actions at the academy. And, his pay was reduced from $99,795 per year to $90,312 annually. He is no longer assigned to the academy....
Methuen police chief placed on leave after inspector general finds he violated his duty by orchestrating exorbitant police contracts
Solomon is one of the highest-paid law enforcement officials in the United States, receiving $326,707 in 2019. The contract for Gallant and the other superior officers, which never took effect, would have paid some lieutenants and captains, as well as Solomon, even more....Solomon and Gallant violated their duty to the public by creating contracts that paid police leadership excessive salaries... The inspector general’s “blistering report unpacks the breathtaking corruption that has tormented the taxpayers of Methuen for years,”...Solomon remained silent as Gallant slipped language into the contract that would have increased Solomon’s own salary, which was already one of the highest in the country. It also would have increased superior officers’ pay by between 35 and 183 percent. That contract would have paid the most senior captains $432,000 a year and would have had disastrous financial consequences for the city,...
Boston police sergeant who bragged about hitting George Floyd protesters with car was previously accused of sexual assault
The video thrust the agency into further controversy, raising questions about the department’s actions during demonstrations that gripped the city, part of a nationwide protest movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Following the release of the video, the police department opened an investigation and placed a sergeant on administrative leave ...Bodycam footage was released by The Appeal, showing a Boston police officer talking about intentionally striking protesters with his vehicle. McHale, a former Boston College hockey player, had been investigated 15 years ago for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman. McHale was a 32-year-old uniformed officer working a paid detail at The Purple Shamrock near Faneuil Hall on July 17, 2005, when he offered a woman he’d met a ride to her hotel in his unmarked police cruiser, according to past media reports. But rather than driving the woman directly to the hotel, McHale stopped in an alleyway, according to an internal police investigation.
The woman later told police that she’d passed out, and when she came to, McHale was assaulting her....A year later, McHale agreed with the department to accept a one-year, unpaid suspension after an internal investigation concluded that he had engaged in “inappropriate sexual relations with the highly intoxicated woman,” the Globe reported at the time. Additionally, McHale acknowledged violating rules on take-home police vehicles and failing to properly secure his weapon. Following the suspension, McHale — whose father is a former Boston police deputy superintendent — returned to the department and was later promoted to sergeant....Last year, according to city records, he earned $210,954, including $61,375 in overtime and detail pay....
COULD YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY MORE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED SLAVES IN THE USA THERE ARE IF ALL OTHER OFFICIALS ARE EVER FOUND OUT OF THEIR MISCONDUCTS?
Almost a decade after Annie Dookhan and the state drug lab scandal, the fallout is growing
The women admitted they had compromised drug tests in criminal cases by falsifying results, or in Farak’s case, stealing drugs for her own use. They have both served their time and been released. In a filing last month, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’s office said it is also examining the work of Della Saunders, another state chemist who worked alongside Dookhan, to ensure that she, too, did not falsify drug test results. Prosecutors were reviewing more than 4,000 pages of recently released files from a 2014 inspector general report ...Lawyers watching the largest crime lab scandal in US history unfold say that cleaning up the legal mess has taken so long in large measure because the injustice was so vast. “These scandals produced two of the largest mass exonerations in the history of our criminal legal system because they were two of the gravest injustices in the history of our criminal legal system,” ...“Anyone who blames these injustices entirely on two chemists, instead of the system that fostered and protected their misconduct, is selling something. "...obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence, and perjury. ...In 2018, the state’s high court threw out tens of thousands of convictions based on evidence tested at the Amherst lab while Farak worked there — and the alleged misconduct of former state prosecutors Anne Kaczmarek, Kris Foster. and John Verner...the three prosecutors in Coakley’s office....“a fraud upon the court.”...
“If you wrongfully convict tens of thousands of people, punish them severely, continue to punish them through severe collateral consequences, and then fight their attempts to clear their names, then any attempt to remedy all that injustice is bound to take time,”
Magistrate Judges Took Bribes, Stole Money and Mishandled Cases. South Carolina Officials Now Want Reform.
Hand-picked by politicians, some magistrates were found to have accepted bribes, stolen money, flubbed trials, trampled over constitutional protections and mishandled even the most basic elements of criminal cases. And though they handle hundreds of thousands of misdemeanor and civil cases every year, roughly three-quarters of the state’s magistrates have never practiced law in their life, the investigation found....
“A law degree is not a prerequisite to being a good judge,”...
Just the (fake) facts, ma'am: Police unions promote alternative reality on new anti-reform site
https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2021/01/just-fake-facts-maam-police-unions.html
"the F-5 process has only resulted in nine license revocations in the last five fiscal years, despite TCOLE receiving notice of over 2,800 dishonorable discharges during the same time." The other 2,791+ officers could all get law enforcement jobs elsewhere in the state, and many did. ...
In Texas, law enforcement agencies CAN get rid of bad cops." Somebody tell that to the San Antonio Police Department, where 70% of cops fired get reinstated through arbitration, including a guy who fed a sandwich made of feces to a homeless man as a "joke."...
"Police use force or threat of force in less than 2% of all interactions with civilians." But given that police have MILLIONS of interactions with the public per year, that's a lot of force being used!...
much more widespread use of arrests for Class C misdemeanors than police have admitted in the past. Unions for years claimed such arrests were extremely rare and only used on dangerous people. But we now know police arrested 64,100 people for Class Cs at traffic stops in 2019, meaning more folks are arrested for fine-only offenses in Texas than for marijuana possession!...
THE REASON SLAVE PATROL IS NOT DISCIPLINED FOR LYING IS BECUZ THERE WOULD BE NO OFFICERS REMAINING. AND IF THE ENTIRE LEGAL SYSTEM WERE ALSO ACCOUNTABLE TO THEIR LIES THE SYSTEM WOULD BE NON EXISTANT....
Honea case shows L.A. Sheriff's Department dishonesty issue
In his testimony against two men facing weapons charges, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Honea was clear: While searching a car the men were in, he had found a gun in a box in the front seat area. But prosecutors who later watched video footage of the May 2019 stop saw that account was wrong: It was another deputy who had discovered the weapon — in a bag that had been shut away in the trunk. Honea’s false testimony forced prosecutors to drop the charges, and an attorney for one of the men pressed the Sheriff’s Department to investigate Honea for perjury and filing a report with false information. Both would be crimes and grounds for him to be fired.
Sheriff’s officials, however, chose not to open a criminal investigation, and an internal department inquiry cleared Honea of lying. Investigators concluded he had not meant to mislead anyone, and chalked his misstatements up to sloppiness....
“dangerous incentive to police agencies to water down charges as a means of maintaining secrecy, which could result in more dishonest police officers being retained rather than fewer.” ...
GUBMINT PIMP SAYS CONSTITUTION IS UNENFORCEABLE WITHOUT A LAW THAT SAYS SO... LOL
For better policing, put an end to qualified immunity in New Mexico
When someone acting in an official government capacity, such as a police officer, violates a citizen’s constitutional rights, certain laws and immunities protect them from liability, regardless of the damage they’ve caused to regular New Mexicans. This undermines individual rights, allows wrongdoers to escape accountability, and leaves victims with no way to address the injustice in court. More than 70 percent of officers themselves say that poorly performing cops are not held accountable. So it’s no wonder that trust has cratered between law enforcement and the communities they are sworn to protect and serve. At the federal level, these protections are known as qualified immunity, a judge-created protection for state and local officials based on case law, not statute. Qualified immunity allows bad actors to get away with outrageous misconduct, even when their actions directly lead to the worst forms of government overreach, like a wrongful conviction. While changing this perversion of federal law is beyond the reach of the state, the New Mexico Legislature can take steps now to limit its unjust use as a defense. ... House Speaker Brian Egolf, a cosponsor of the bill with state Rep. Georgene Louis, noted that the rights guaranteed to every New Mexican by the state Constitution are “largely unenforceable” without enactment of this bill. ...
“I need $75,000 and everything goes away and you pay the money,” the indictment quotes O’Steen telling an unnamed client"...
North Florida ex-State Attorney Siegmeister indicted in federal extortion, bribery case
Lake City’s former state attorney has been indicted for conspiracy, extortion, bribery, fraud and tax crimes involving deals to settle court cases in Florida’s 3rd Judicial Circuit.
Jeff Siegmeister, 52, was arrested Friday in Arizona on charges mostly rooted in his conduct as the elected prosecutor from 2013 to 2019 for the sprawling rural district covering Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor counties.
M. Michael O’Steen, 41, a Dixie County attorney, was also indicted on conspiracy and extortion charges and pleaded not guilty Friday in Jacksonville’s federal court....
GUBMINT PIMPS WILL PAY LIARS TO LIE....
Amid massive security presence, Minneapolis is turning to grassroots to keep the peace
Social media influencers to help dispel disinformation
The city plan includes paid partnerships with “trusted messengers” with a large social media presence to share “city-generated and approved messages” and dispel misinformation. The budget for the social media influencers is $12,000, with each paid $2,000 to share information during the upcoming trials, according to city spokeswoman Sarah McKenzie. The city is finalizing contracts with six social media influencers to share messages with the African American, American Indian, East African, Hmong and Latino/a/x communities, she said....The total budget for this work is $69,500..... The city also plans to invite community organizations to apply for contracts of up to $175,000 through the city’s Office... More than $1 million is budgeted for this....
THE GUBMINT PIMPS DECIDE AGAINST PAYING LIARS TO LIE. INSTEAD THEY WILL INITIATE A NEW STRATEGY TO DECEIVE THE SLAVES....
Minneapolis Abandons Plan to Pay Influencers During Officers’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/minneapolis-chauvin-trial-influencers.html
The City of Minneapolis has abandoned a contentious plan to pay social media influencers $2,000 each to help it combat misinformation during the upcoming trials of four police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd, officials said on Monday. The plan, which the Minneapolis City Council approved on Friday, would have enlisted six social media influencers to share “city-generated and approved messages” with the African-American, Native American, East African, Hmong and Latino communities. But it quickly met with criticism from police accountability groups and civil rights watchdogs, who accused the city of trying to spin its own narrative over Mr. Floyd’s death. ...
Seattle police welfare check turns into ordeal as man, 74, is held at gunpoint in his own home
A lawsuit filed by a 74-year-old Seattle man who was held at gunpoint and painfully handcuffed by police in his own home claims the department has a “policy, practice and custom” of using “welfare checks” to enter people’s homes without warrants.....
Three-quarters of police officers have seen evidence lost or destroyed
Over three quarters of police officers (77%) say they have seen evidence lost or destroyed, according to a report by Inside Justice. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, two-thirds had seen ‘evidence stored incorrectly, often directly impacting the outcome of their investigations’. The Telegraph reported: ‘Officers across cases such as murder and sexual offences told researchers that forces did not understand the consequences of mistreating evidence, adding: “if people found out how bad it is, and what we did.”’ It was also reported that ‘almost three quarters’ of criminal justice practitioners including lawyers said that they had worked on cases ‘where evidence had been lost, contaminated or even destroyed’. ‘A third said that they were unable to launch an appeal against someone’s conviction because of missing evidence,’ the article continued....
Why police officers are rarely prosecuted
https://www.vox.com/21497089/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-trial-police-prosecutions-black-lives-matter
Police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings....
Many social and legal factors contribute to the low rates of charges and convictions. Cops, under cultural pressure, actively protect each other, making it more difficult at virtually every step to investigate a fatal police shooting as an illegal act. Prosecutors face conflicts of interest, as they risk aggravating police departments they work closely with by pursuing charges. The public is skeptical of second-guessing police in tense situations. And the law gives police wide latitude to use force....
For one, cops might resist treating a police killing as a crime and refuse to gather evidence. They could follow what’s known as the “blue wall of silence,” essentially a code between officers that they won’t snitch on each other or otherwise try to get each other in trouble....Meanwhile, prosecutors have incentives not to push too hard. They work very closely with police departments on a day-to-day basis — it’s, again, how they get a lot of evidence for charges, trials, and convictions. If prosecutors go after the police, they risk damaging that relationship and, subsequently, making their day-to-day work a lot harder.... Then there’s the actual law, which gives police wide latitude to use force. Under the legal standards set by the Supreme Court, police officers can be legally justified in using force if they merely perceive a threat, even if a threat isn’t there. ....
Former Fall River mayor received $75,000 bribe in city car, witness testifies
told Saliby he would supply a non-opposition letter in exchange for a $250,000 bribe, Saliby testified....“How much are you willing to pay?” and ultimately settled for $125,000....“What did you think would happen if you did not pay the $125,000?” Assistant US Attorney David Tobin asked. “I feared that the mayor would retaliate against my family and my business,” said Saliby,...Saliby testified that he had taken $75,000 cash, most of it in $100 bills, from the family business’s safe, wrapped it in stacks of $10,000...
Former Louisville detective who helped incarcerate innocent men released weeks into 1-year prison sentence
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – His victims, who wrongfully served years in prison because of his illegal conduct, were outraged earlier this month when former Louisville Police Det. Mark Handy was sentenced to only one year in prison.
In fact, however, his stay behind bars was much shorter than that.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections moved Handy to its electronic monitoring program this week after serving behind bars as a state prisoner since May 11, meaning he will serve the rest of his time on home incarceration.
"The likelihood of Handy being released from custody after serving less than two weeks is an affront to all of his victims and the criminal justice system as a whole," said attorney Eliot Slosar, who represents two men who have filed pending wrongful incarceration lawsuits against Handy....
Disgraced officer redeemed after decade of court proceedings ends in conviction
https://www.2gb.com/disgraced-officer-redeemed-after-decade-of-court-proceedings-ends-in-conviction/
Bernard Nash has been found guilty of two cases of perjury, having previously sued police and the state for unlawful arrest, assault and malicious prosecution. ... Mr Nash was initially awarded $70,000 for malicious prosecution, $25,000 for wrongful arrest, $25,000 for assault and battery, and $4958 for special damages....“This Bernard Nash and his legal team have sought to adjourn, to protest, to take legal argument, to delay every trial.
“Bernard Nash is where he belongs; a lying, deceiving low-life in jail.”
NIGGER AND WHITE SLAVE PATROL ARE WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST NAZIS WHO PO'LICE THE PO'LICE IN CHARGE OF FINDING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS...
Racist, hateful recordings show the Wyandotte County DA’s ‘integrity’ unit had none -
What’s been going on inside the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office is vile.
DA Mark Dupree’s “Community Integrity Unit,” tasked with policing the police and reviewing wrongful convictions, just blew up. Two members of the three-person unit, one white and one Black, had to be fired after being secretly recorded disparaging Black people as well as those who are gay, disabled, Chinese, transgender and unemployed.
The two also disparaged people who make claims of a wrongful conviction — in other words, the very people the unit was in theory set up to help.
According to recordings obtained by KCTV5 News, the white official says of Black people: “And now you have a generation of complete sh–bags, who are sh–bags to the core, who are out doing sh–bag things and are like, ‘I’m Black, you can’t do nothing to me.’”
The Black official agrees.
“All our criminals, all the sh–heads and unemployed, ship them on a plane, give them a rifle and drop them in China,” the white official says....
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS DIDNT KNOW THAT FRAUD AND THEFT IS A CRIME IF LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS DO IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY PO'LICE THEMSELVES...
Another Boston police scandal is quietly unfolding
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/05/metro/another-boston-police-scandal-is-quietly-unfolding
The emerging Boston police scandal represents the latest.... A majority of the alleged fraud occurred at the Boston police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park, an 18-employee facility tasked with guarding sensitive material and where security cameras and alarms track officers’ comings and goings.... The burgeoning scandal stems in part from a department culture in which overtime abuses have been allowed to go unchecked,...
“The police officers know at some level that it’s dishonest, but it’s not something that’s ordinarily sanctioned,” said Nolan, who now teaches at Emmanuel College. “And the evidence guys were almost certainly caught by surprise that this was a problem, let alone something that could be prosecuted.”...
Wrongful arrests, unlawful searches among misconduct found by police complaints body
After his first year in office as Chairman of Police Complaints Authority (PCA) Justice William Ramlal reported open abuse of the constitution by “a substantial number” of police officers under investigation, including the wrongful arrests of members of the public and unlawful searches. “The [PCA’s] investigations have revealed that arrest of citizens, including minors, for summary conviction offences were quite frequently unlawful and where lawful, have been unnecessary. The Police should be made aware that such arrest amounts to misconduct contrary to Section 4(1) of the Police (Discipline) Act…,” ...
A Philly man was cleared of murder after 34 years by evidence that was in the police file all along
https://www.inquirer.com/news/curtis-crosland-exonerated-philadelphia-da-ciu-20210625.html
“To me, it’s a case that has all the telltale signs of a wrongful conviction,” CIU supervisor Patricia Cummings said. “You have a case that was cold. Then you have snitches involved wanting something in their case, and then the historical lack of understanding and appreciation of [disclosure requirements].” According to legal filings, the case was built on lies by informants police knew were tainted long before Crosland’s arrest.
One man, Rodney Everett, was facing a parole violation when he agreed to provide information in multiple murder cases — even testifying in two preliminary hearings on the same day. The DA’s search of the police file yielded extensive undisclosed documents, including a failed polygraph test, a statement from Everett’s wife that he had identified a different perpetrator, and an undated letter from Everett to a homicide detective, seeking help in exchange for information. The other informant, Delores Tilghman, had previously given a false statement in a different murder case, prosecutors say. In interviews Thursday, both witnesses said they felt coerced into giving false statements.
“It was just very brutal. They threaten you. They will use your family and they will tell you what they will do to your family, taking your kids,” said Everett, who testified at Crosland’s preliminary hearing but said he repeatedly tried to recant. “When you tell the truth, they don’t care. They’ll accept the lies, but they won’t accept the truth.” ...
As for Tilghman, she said detectives came to her home and woke her up, threatening to arrest her if she didn’t testify. “It was him or me,” she said. “They were threatening me with putting me in jail. ... They can make that happen. I seen them make his life disappear with one witness.” She said she’d long regretted her role in the case and was glad to learn of Crosland’s release. ...
“The exculpatory information was technically in the hands of prosecutors,” she said, and should have been provided. Crosland represented himself for decades as lawyers botched his case, abandoned his claims, or filed letters with court saying his case had no merit. After the Federal Community Defender Office was appointed, they gained support from the CIU. When he saw the evidence that had been hidden in the case last year, he said, “it made me very emotional. It was mind-blowing that all that could be hidden, to convict an innocent man. It was painful. It was difficult to even share with my family some of the things I learned that happened to me.” ...
Records: Former Moraine officer who lied in triple fatal crash also lied in separate case
An officer who a judge said lied to get a warrant...Officer Steven Harrison...
Newly obtained personnel records from Moraine Police showed Harrison allegedly lied more than once while working for the department.... shredded the document and then lied to the records clerk. Then he took it a step further and lied to a sergeant,...
“The balance of Ofc. Harrison’s statements in the affidavit are patently false, utterly misleading, and this Court finds, as a matter of fact, that they were made with a complete disregard for the truth and for the purpose of misleading Judge Long into signing the warrant,”...
ALL NIGGERS OR SLAVES ARE PROBABLE CAUSE BECUZ THEY SMELL LIKE DRUGS, GUNS, PUSSY, ALCOHOL, MUNEE, STOLEN ITEMS, GAS, ETC....
A whiff of pot alone no longer airtight probable cause for police to search cars in several states
Do you mind if I search your car?” When Dickson would not authorize the search, he recalled, the officer said he could smell marijuana in the vehicle. Dickson was instructed to exit his car, and the officer conducted a search but found no contraband, Dickson said, and certainly not marijuana because he doesn’t smoke it. For decades, police officers have used motor vehicle stops and searches, which relied on officers saying they could smell marijuana, as part of their drug interdiction efforts. Because marijuana was illegal, the smell of it gave officers the probable cause they needed to justify the search. But now that marijuana is legal in 16 states and Washington, D.C., and medical marijuana is legal in 36 states plus D.C., the odor of marijuana no longer provides ironclad probable cause, because smoking it in those states is not necessarily criminal....
Looking Back: Former Chicago Cop John Burge Was Sentenced to 4 1/2 Years for Torture
Hobley had been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death based upon a coerced, false confession that Burge had tortured out of him... Melvin Jones, who served years for a murder he didn’t commit, said, “he put a gun to my head, and said a lot of things that I couldn’t mention here. He just did things I didn’t think a police officer was capable of doing.” Anthony Holmes also testified, saying that ‘prison robbed me family and my family of my life, and left him me with a nightmare I forever relive.’ He further said, “I don’t hate him. I hate what he did to me, and I hate the fact that nobody would listen to me when I tried to tell people about it, it fell on deaf ears.”...
Andrew Wilson, who passed away while in prison pursuant to a confession Burge tortured out of him, had given testimony previously which was read on his behalf: “he [Burge] said you’re gonna [sic] give me a statement because my reputation is at stake.” Wilson described being beaten, suffocated, shocked and burned over a hot radiator. He stated that he was told to sign a confession and waive his constitutional rights. “I would have signed anything to keep from being tortured again.”...
Eric Caine, who had served 25 years out of a life sentence for a double murder based upon a confession beaten out of him, and incriminating statements that the police beat out of his co-defendant Aaron Patterson. Prosecutors conceded that without the coerced confession, they did not have enough evidence to re-convict him. Patterson, not only wrongfully convicted but sentenced to death,... There are about 20 men who are still behind bars who allege that Burge and his crew tortured confessions out of them, but whose appeals are exhausted...
But Burge did not commit his crimes by himself, and each and every police office who either participated, looked the other way, or otherwise somehow came to know of it and remained silent, should be prosecuted and sent to prison. Additionally, both they and the municipalities in which they worked should be made to pay financial compensation to the victims, not that any amount of compensation could ever make up for the years of wrongful incarceration and suffering that doubtlessly took place in connection thereto, or for the torture.
Shame on the court system for not taking the allegations of police torture seriously and launching an inquiry and suppressing the tortured statements wherever the allegations could be substantiated. Instead, in typical fashion, suppression was denied, the statements were admitted into evidence, the defendants were convicted, and state and federal appeals were denied. shame too on the Chicago Mayor, local prosecutors, attorney General’s, and us attorney’s whose tenure overlapped Burge’s, who took no action against Burge and his men thus allowing them to continue to torture. So far as I am concerned, it was also a betrayal of the constitution when the prosecutors knowingly used the tortured confessions as evidence....
3 Former Cops Charged In Wrongful Conviction That Sent A Man To Prison For 25 Years
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-cops-charged-wrongful-conviction_n_6116a25fe4b0f7bc26a545d0?xw
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced charges on Friday against three former homicide detectives who made false statements that contributed to the wrongful conviction of a man who spent 25 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. The former detectives — Manuel Santiago, Martin Devlin and Frank Jastrzembski — played significant roles in the 1993 conviction of Anthony Wright, who has since been exonerated by DNA evidence. They repeated their false claims decades later during a retrial that could have kept the innocent man in prison. The former detectives were charged with perjury and false swearing in official matters after a grand jury presentment recommending the charges was unsealed on Friday. “After hearing testimony from key witnesses and reviewing evidence, the Grand Jury recommended that Santiago, Devlin, and Jastrzembski be held accountable for lying under oath to condemn an innocent man and cover up their wrongdoing, and for perverting the integrity of law,” Krasner said Friday....
The D.C. jail is the city’s responsibility. You wouldn’t know it from the city’s response.
The U.S. Marshals Service conducted an unannounced inspection and found evidence of “systemic” mistreatment of detainees, including unsanitary living conditions and the punitive denial of food and water. Inspectors found “large amounts of standing human sewage” in toilets in multiple cells, and cells that had been lacking water for days. Staff members “were observed antagonizing detainees” and “directing detainees not to cooperate.” One inmate was warned by a staffer to “stop snitching.”...
The marshals who took the time to actually enter the facility discovered: “Detainees had observable injuries with no corresponding medical or incident reports.” “The smell of urine and feces was overpowering.” “Hot meals were observed served cold and congealed.” And so on....
PART OF THE PROBLEM...
Why prosecutors get away with misconduct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/18/why-prosecutors-get-away-with-misconduct/
In 2010, former San Francisco assistant district attorney Linda Allen won a murder conviction against Jamal Trulove on the basis of a single eyewitness. In her closing argument, Allen praised the witness for coming forward despite explicit threats to her and her family by Trulove and his associates. Allen told the jury the threats both demonstrated Trulove’s consciousness of guilt and attested to the credibility of the witness, who risked her life to come forward.
Except none of it was true. The witness herself later admitted as much. In 2014, a California appellate court overturned Trulove’s conviction. The court found Allen had committed “highly prejudicial misconduct,”... The federal courts have virtually eliminated all civil liability for prosecutors, even for egregious misconduct that puts innocent people in prison. That includes even illegal conduct, such as locking up alibi witnesses on fake charges so they can’t testify at trial. In the 2011 case Connick v. Thompson, the Supreme Court ruled that an innocent man convicted because of misconduct couldn’t sue Orleans Parish, despite the long, ignominious record of misconduct by then-District Attorney Harry Connick and his subordinates....
The first hurdle is reporting the misconduct. The people most likely to be aware of bad prosecutors are defense lawyers, and they have zero incentive to report it. A public defender typically faces off with the same prosecutors every day. Reporting one to the bar could turn an entire district attorney’s office against you, jeopardizing your ability to effectively represent your other clients....Thus, the misconduct goes unpunished....
Death Row Defense Team Charges Prosecutors Illegally Hid Evidence from 1998 Jury, 23 Years Ago
AUSTIN, TX – An appeal filed here Friday in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals charged the prosecution in a trial more than 20 years ago “illegally concealed statements” that led to a man’s conviction and death sentence, and “suppressed statements” that benefitted a police officer, who was a prime suspect. The all-white jury convicted Rodney Reed, who is Black, of the murder of Stacy Stites, a white woman, in 1998 after police ignored Stites’ fiancé, a police officer named Jimmy Fennell, asserted Reed’s lawyers. “Mr. Fennell, Ms. Stites’s fiancé, was the prime suspect, but police turned their attention to Mr. Reed when DNA recovered from Ms. Stites matched Mr. Reed, with whom Ms. Stites was having a relationship,” said defense lawyers Friday. ...
Baltimore City State's Attorney Mosby Enters 'Not Guilty' Plea in Federal Court, Asks for Speedy Trial
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby (D) appeared for the first time in U.S. District Court on Friday, entering pleas of not guilty to perjury and charges of making false statements on mortgage applications....
Appeals Court Rules Ohio Cops Didn't Have Cause To Arrest Man Wearing 'Fuck the Police' Shirt
Sheriff's deputies in Ohio didn't have probable cause to arrest a man for hurling vulgarities at them and wearing a t-shirt that said "fuck the police," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday. The Sixth Circuit found Michael Wood had a First Amendment right to cuss out a gaggle of deputies who removed him from a county fair in 2016 after someone called 911 to complain about his shirt. The deputies also are not entitled to qualified immunity from Wood's suit, the Sixth Circuit ruled, because Wood's right to be free from arrest was clearly established by a long line of court opinions protecting obscene language directed at authorities...
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS...
CT troopers accused of wrongdoing — including crimes — almost 900 times in 6 years, records show
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/CT-state-police-accused-of-wrongdoing-17220971.php
state police officers accused of falsifying investigative reports, mishandling evidence and using excessive force.... Troopers were also disciplined following accusations they failed to investigate alleged crimes, conducted improper searches, drove cruisers and personal vehicles while intoxicated, violated protective orders, threatened and fought with colleagues and more,... Altogether, the department fielded nearly 900 complaints alleging misconduct by officers and civilian employees, between 2015 and 2020,... Troopers were accused of lying, filing false reports, theft, throwing away evidence, injuring suspects, failing to prevent a prisoner from escaping, finding a fugitive but not arresting him, failing to turn on body cameras, sleeping on duty or violating payroll policies...
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS...
‘The worst of small-town governments’: In Stoughton, latest police scandal adds to long history of trouble
A police chief accused of trying to run down a lieutenant in the Town Hall parking lot. Illicit photos of a deputy chief and his mistress passed among officers and their spouses. A local official so unnerved at the state of his town that he felt compelled to carry a gun — not out of fear of any would-be criminal, but of the local police force itself... the department finds itself once again mired in scandal...officer Matthew Farwell began having sex with Birchmore when she was 15 and part of a police youth explorers program.... chief, David Young, was fired after allegations that he used department resources for non-police business and illegally issued a firearms permit to a prominent businessman.... Home Depot sought charges against a Stoughton officer for stealing merchandise; a state-sponsored report named the Stoughton department among the state’s worst offenders in targeting minority drivers; and a Norfolk grand jury examined allegations that a sergeant tried to extort a local business owner out of nearly $10,000.... “We have police officers here who may not be stable and are carrying guns,” ...attempted extortion. He...attempted to bill the town for his $549,000 in legal fees.... officers, Kevin Lima, was charged with operating under the influence after he crashed his department-issued vehicle into a car stopped at a red light....
Sergeant Paul Williams stood trial for vehicular homicide after a 2018 incident in which he drove off the road and ran over a 74-year-old Canton resident, reportedly dragging the man 40 feet beneath his truck....
WHEN SLAVE AUCTION LIEYER COMMITS CRIMES THE INNOCENT DIE...
DPIC Analysis Finds Prosecutorial Misconduct Implicated in More than 550 Death Penalty ...
An analysis by the Death Penalty Information Center has discovered rampant prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty prosecutions.... has identified more than 550 prosecutorial misconduct reversals and exonerations in capital cases. That amounts to more than 5.6% of all death sentences imposed in the United States in the past half-century. “The data on wrongful convictions has long shown that prosecutorial misconduct is a significant source of injustice in the criminal legal system,”...
The list does not include the even more numerous cases in which courts found that prosecutors had committed misconduct but excused it on grounds of supposed immateriality or harmless error. It also does not include misconduct reversals in cases in which capital charges had been pursued but defendants were convicted of lesser charges or sentenced to life or less....
based on withholding favorable evidence; jury discrimination; improper argument; improper questioning; false evidence; improper evidence; and violations of the right to counsel... DPIC found the most common types of misconduct were withholding favorable evidence (implicated in 35% of the reversed convictions or sentences) and improper argument (present in 33% of reversed sentences). 16% of the misconduct reversals or exonerations involved more than one category of misconduct. Prosecutorial misconduct was present in 121 cases that led to a death-row exoneration....
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY WITH A GUN COMMITS TERRORIZING CLASS C FELONY, AND USING A FIREARM IN THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, PERJURY, ALL IN HIS SLAVE AUCTION...
Attorney says circuit judge pointed gun at her from bench during hearing
NEW MARTINSVILLE – A circuit court judge allegedly brandished a handgun during a hearing earlier this year, leaving it pointed at an attorney from Texas during the proceedings. Second Judicial Circuit Judge David Hummel was overseeing a trial in a case styled Huey et al. v. EQT regarding royalty payments to landowners. Houston-based attorney Lauren Varnado was leading the legal team representing EQT. The incident in question occurred March 12 during a rare Saturday hearing involving only trial counsel.... I was worried that the gun would go off and it was pointed directly at me....“I was also scared...“we were – and still are – afraid.”...Varnado’s affidavit also says Hummel was “extremely abusive.”...“Judge Hummel used profanity and ridiculed counsel from the bench. At least once, he yelled at me in front of the jury, saying I am ‘despicable’ and that the court ‘deserved better than this bullshit.’”...
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY WITH A GUN SHOOTS A BAD GUY WHO DONT HAB A GUN JUST TO TO SAY HE DOES HAB A GUN BUT, THE TRUTH REVEALS IT WAS MURDER...
LAPD killed a man it says aimed gun at officer. Body camera video tells different story
Los Angeles police say that 23-year-old Marvin Cua pointed a gun at officers before he was fatally shot in Koreatown last month, but newly-released body camera footage doesn’t capture him doing so and shows an officer shooting Cua as he flees....
CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS IN FEDERAL AND NORTH DAKOTA GUBMINT MUST HAVE BEEN IN CONSPIRACY WITH EACH OTHER, BOTH ARE GUILTY OF TAMPERING, OBSTRUCTION, DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS, JUST TO SAY THE LEAST. GUBMINT PIMPS OBVIOUSLY HAVE A LOT TO HIDE...
First on CNN: Jan. 6 text messages wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/defense-department-missing-january-6-texts/index.html
The Defense Department wiped the phones of top departing DOD and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration, deleting any texts from key witnesses to events surrounding the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to court filings.... the Pentagon has ignored in failing to preserve the records, Sawyer also pointed to a separate federal records law also require that the government preserve records that have "informational value of the data in them."... A former Defense Department official from a previous administration told CNN that it is ingrained into new hires during their onboarding that their work devices were subject to the Presidential Records Act and indicated their communications would be archived. ...
Staffer deleted email account of late North Dakota attorney general days after his death
BISMARCK — North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said an undisclosed employee of his office deleted the email accounts belonging to former Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and former Deputy Attorney General Troy Seibel.
GUBMINT PIMP IS NOT A LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY BECUZ 77% OF THE TIME HE VIOLATES THE LAW...
Under Maura Healey, the attorney general’s office sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times. Most of the time, she prevailed
A Globe analysis shows that the lawsuits led or joined by Healey succeeded about 77 percent of the time, either with a clear-cut court ruling or an order suspending the Trump initiatives, buying time until the Biden administration rescinded or reconsidered the policies...
WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST AMERICAN SLAVE PATROL BEATUP NIGGERS AND GET AWAY WITH IT BECUZ GUBMINT PIMPS DO NOT REQUIRE REPORTING...
US must take a closer look at nonfatal police violence
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/29/opinion/us-must-take-closer-look-nonfatal-police-violence
until recently the federal government did not collect comprehensive data on use of force. In fact, the best databases on police violence that Americans have access to come from watchdogs and the press and, even then, there’s a catch: they’re focused on deadly use of force and do not include incidents of nonfatal police violence....
13 NYPD cops were convicted of abusing their power. Now a Brooklyn prosecutor wants to throw out nearly 400 convictions that were based on their work.
https://www.insider.com/prosecutor-wipe-nearly-400-convictions-corruption-abuse-nypd-cops-2022-9
A Brooklyn prosecutor wants to throw out nearly 400 convictions tied to crooked cops.
The convictions relied upon work from 13 NYPD officers, who have since been convicted themselves. The cops were all convicted of abusing their power....
Man Whose Conviction Was Tossed Over Cop Abuse Says System Is Corrupt
https://www.insider.com/man-conviction-tossed-corrupt-new-york-cop-interview-2022-9
Man whose conviction was tossed because of crooked New York cop says there's still a 'sea of problems' and the system is 'corrupt'
"This system is extremely, extremely corrupt," Gregory Barnes told Insider. The NYPD cop that put him away was later convicted of planting evidence.
LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS WITH IMMUNITY COMMIT MORE CRIMES AGAIN. THEY CONTINUE TORTURES ON THE SLAVES CALLING IT ANOTHER NAME SOLITARY CONFINEMENT WHICH IS NOW LIMITED BY LAW BUT CHANGED ITS NAME TO THERAPEUTIC UNITS WHICH ALLOWS LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS TO TORTURE IF THE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS CALL THE SLAVES A SIGNIFICANT AND UNREASONABLE SAFETY RISK. THIS NEW LIMITATION HAS INCREASED THE TORTURES...
SOLITARY BY ANOTHER NAME: HOW NEW YORK PRISONS ARE USING ‘THERAPEUTIC’ UNITS TO EVADE REFORM
https://theappeal.org/new-york-prisons-halt-solitary-confinement/
the “therapeutic” classroom time offered to his unit at Upstate Correctional Facility, a state prison at the northern tip of New York, he puts his hands through a slot in the door to his cell. An officer on the other side cuffs his wrists, then opens the door so a second officer can pat Burton down, connect the handcuffs to a chain, wrap the chain around his waist, and use it as a leash to walk him down the hall. When they get to the room where the therapeutic programming is held, the officers order Burton to kneel on a box so they can place another pair of cuffs around his ankles. They guide him to his seat and shackle him to a table, where he stays for the duration of the classroom time — usually over two hours...
The units, known as residential rehabilitation units (RRUs), are a creation of a recent prison reform law, the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act, which limits the use of solitary confinement in prisons and jails.
The HALT Act invented RRUs — and set strict standards for them — so facilities, in theory, could have a relatively humane and rehabilitative place away from the general population to send those whom they are no longer allowed to keep in solitary. But in practice, state prisons are neglecting to follow the rules HALT imposed on RRUs — in some cases making them little better than the solitary confinement cells they’re supposed to replace.
RRUs and solitary confinement units together hold close to 2,000 people each day, more than the roughly 1,750 that were held in solitary before HALT went into effect.
Among HALT’s rules is a ban on placing restraints on RRU residents when they’re participating in out-of-cell activities; the only exception is if officials make an “individual assessment” that not cuffing someone would pose a “significant and unreasonable” safety risk....
For out-of-cell time, HALT mandates that facilities offer RRU residents at least seven hours a day, and that it must take place in a congregate setting with other incarcerated people. But men incarcerated in four different prisons told New York Focus and The Appeal that they rarely get anywhere near that much time out of their cell, and a vast majority of their out-of-cell hours consist of either time alone in a small outdoor cage or indoor activities during which they’re shackled to a table.
“[The prisons] don’t want an RRU unit where they can help people,” said Anisah Sabur, an organizer with the HALT Solitary campaign who recently visited an RRU. “They want to be in a space where you keep people locked in 23 hours a day.”...
Whereas HALT bars facilities from keeping people in solitary confinement for more than 15 consecutive days, prisons have kept hundreds of people in solitary for longer than that since the law went into effect. HALT also prohibits putting people with disabilities in solitary confinement, but prisons have sent hundreds of people with mental or physical ailments to solitary, including dozens with the highest levels of health care needs....
LAW IS A CRIMINALGANG OF THIEVES AND MURDERERS...
A Tradition of Violence
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-tradition-of-violence/id1649355317
A Tradition of Violence is a podcast about deputy gangs that operate within the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Host Cerise Castle wrote the history of deputy gangs in LA for Knock LA, exposing their 50-year reign of terror and murder.
PROFESSIONAL LIEYERS IS ALSO PROFESSIONAL THIEVES AND DISHONEST...
Court of Appeals backs suspension for lawyer who swindled wrongfully convicted Black men
The Disciplinary Hearing Commission of the North Carolina State Bar suspended Patrick Michael Megaro’s law license for five years in 2018 after concluding that he violated the Rules of Professional Conduct. The State Bar found that he was dishonest, charged excessive fees and engaged in “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.” ....
SLAVE PATROL SAY REASON THEY FABRICATE FALSE REPORTS IS TO EASE THEIR OVERBEARING CASE LOADS. WITH SO MANY LAWS IN THE UNITED SLAVES THEY DONT HAB TIME TO INVESTIGATE SO THEY MAKE UP WITNESS STATEMENTS AND LOOK FOR THE EASIEST SCAPEGOAT KNOWING THE SCAPEGOAT WILL PLEAD GUIULTY 95% TO 99% OF EVERY CASE REGARDLESS OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE. THIS OFTEN RESULTS IN THE ACTUAL GUILTY BEING REPORTED AS "THE VICTIM"...
Queens, Brooklyn NYPD cops forced from jobs for failing to probe cases, faking investigations
Officer Eric Cabrera was assigned to the 113th Precinct in Jamaica when he improperly closed 25 investigations in 2019 — including numerous domestic violence cases — by making false entries in the department’s case monitoring system, which tracks investigative steps. The NYPD says Cabrera closed without due diligence harassment cases where a suspect texted the victim, “I’m going to kill you;” and where another suspect sent threatening messages saying she would “come for the victim and burn her house and car.”...
Cabrera testified at his department trial he was overworked and going though a divorce when he closed the cases. At a hearing, Cabrera said he “was being assigned 300 cases a year and I was being harassed by the lieutenant to get the cases closed on time.” He went on to say the long hours he was working led to the end of his marriage, the decision said. Depressed and anxious, Cabrera said he decided to prioritize more serious cases over minor cases. Cabrera “made false and misleading statements” in marking cases closed when he had not done the actual investigation, the decision said.
“Officers who intentionally make false representations betray an essential function of police work and risk the reputations of fellow officers,”...
A second cop, Detective Thomas Mannion, was caught falsifying entries 11 times in NYPD records in 2020.... District attorneys in Queens and Brooklyn declined to pursue charges against Cabrera and Mannion, police said. The Cabrera and Mannion cases are reminiscent of former NYPD Detective Thomas Rice... Rice, while working in the 106th detective squad in Ozone Park, Queens, was caught making up more than 100 fake witnesses and bogus addresses to close at least 22 grand larceny cases. ....