All of the state sentences are to run concurrently with their federal sentences.
Brett McAlpin: State court sentenced him to 20 years after federal court gave him 27 1/4 years in prison.
Jeffrey Middleton: State court sentenced him to 20 years after federal court gave him 17 1/2 years.
Daniel Opdyke: State court sentenced him to 20 years after federal court gave him 17 1/2 years.
Christian Dedmon: State court sentenced him to 25 years after federal court gave him 40 years.
Hunter Elward: State court sentenced him to 45 years after federal court gave him 20 years.
Joshua Hartfield: State court sentenced him to 15 years after federal court gave him 10 years
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:22 pm
by raison de arizona
Well, at least complicit. I dislike the pejorative, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Molly Ploofkins™ @Mollyploofkins wrote:
Cops become pigs when they do photo ops with criminal defendants...
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote:
Law enforcement posing with someone starting their criminal trial Monday
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:27 pm
by AndyinPA
Clueless.
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:08 pm
by zekeb
There's a reason why a lot of Lima Echos wouldn't mind working in a fascist state.
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:01 pm
by Ben-Prime
That's a question to ask the local LE union, right?
"What's the union's stance on police officers posing with folks as smiling well-wishers to indicted white collar criminals?"
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:18 am
by RTH10260
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days
WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
5 Apr 2024
Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote:
Law enforcement posing with someone starting their criminal trial Monday
Law enforcement posing with someone who barely walked 20 feet from the plane, whether due to inability to walk that for or just hating the place. And is probably desperate to get back on and get the fuck out of the dump.
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:37 am
by RTH10260
The High Price of Unregulated Private Police Training to New Jersey
The Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) is authorized to conduct audits, investigations, and reviews of Executive branch entities, including state and local police departments, to identify and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in the expenditure of public funds. OSC initiated this investigation into Street Cop Training (Street Cop or the Company) after receiving information that public funds were spent to send New Jersey police officers to a six-day conference in October 2021 in Atlantic City that trained officers on questionable policing tactics and contained offensive and discriminatory content (the Conference). Street Cop is a New Jersey-based company.
Around 990 law enforcement officers nationwide attended the Conference, with about 240 from New Jersey. The 240 New Jersey officers came from agencies across the state, working at all levels of government—interstate, state, county, and municipal. The majority of these officers had their attendance paid for by their public employers. OSC’s investigation confirmed that at least $75,000 in public funds were directly spent by New Jersey entities on attendance at the Conference. This number does not include paid time off and/or paid training days relating to officers’ attendance.
To conduct this investigation, OSC’s Police Accountability Project reviewed documents, videos, and other materials received from the Company, training centers, and various law enforcement agencies and departments with officers in attendance at the Conference, among other sources. OSC also consulted directives, regulations, policies, and case law, and conducted interviews of relevant witnesses. OSC also conducted a sworn interview with Street Cop’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dennis Benigno.
OSC’s investigation uncovered alarming deficiencies in the police training provided at the Conference and a dangerous and potentially costly gap in the oversight of private post-academy police training. Currently, private post-academy police training in New Jersey is not regulated by the Attorney General, Police Training Commission (PTC), or any other designated entity.
Among other things, OSC found:
Instructors at the Conference promoted the use of unconstitutional policing tactics for motor vehicle stops;
Some instructors glorified violence and an excessively militaristic or “warrior” approach to policing. Other presenters spoke disparagingly of the internal affairs process; promoted an “us vs. them” approach; and espoused views and tactics that would undermine almost a decade of police reform efforts in New Jersey, including those aimed at de-escalating civilian-police encounters, building trust with vulnerable populations, and increasing officers’ ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with New Jersey’s diverse population; and
The Conference included over 100 discriminatory and harassing remarks by speakers and instructors, with repeated references to speakers’ genitalia, lewd gestures, and demeaning quips about women and minorities.
I said almost 20 years ago when I first started seeing regular cops glorify Marvel's The Punisher character that we were way too late for most forms of police reform. It's generationally seeded and self-perpetuating now. I hate being even a little bit right about this.
DISCLAIMER: This is a #notallcops post. I do know many good cops. I don't mean to imply otherwise.
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:51 pm
by raison de arizona
Amiri King @AmiriKing wrote:
CATSKILL NY—A drunk Jason Jones doused himself with hand sanitizer in the Catskill police station lobby and subsequently burst into flames after being tased by an officer.
Officers spent almost 30 minutes trying to calm him down before the incident happened.
Jones did not survive the incident and none of the officers are being charged with his death.
Amiri King @AmiriKing wrote:
CATSKILL NY—A drunk Jason Jones doused himself with hand sanitizer in the Catskill police station lobby and subsequently burst into flames after being tased by an officer.
Officers spent almost 30 minutes trying to calm him down before the incident happened.
Jones did not survive the incident and none of the officers are being charged with his death.
from the investigation report:
Mr. Jones died on December 15, 2021, from heart and lung complications related to his inhalation of hot gases.
what happened before
On the evening of October 29-30, 2021, Mr. Jones became intoxicated at the Avalon
Lounge, a local bar in the village of Catskill, Greene County, one block from the Catskill
Police Department (CPD) stationhouse. At 1:29 a.m. on October 30, when Mr. Jones refused
to leave the Avalon, staff called CPD. Mr. Jones left the bar when the officers arrived but
inexplicably ran to the CPD stationhouse. Video surveillance (with no audio) inside the
stationhouse lobby shows Mr. Jones interacting with Sergeant Mark Nazi,1 Officer Daniel
Goldpaugh, and Officer Nicholas Craig for the next twenty-five minutes.
Mr. Jones appeared intoxicated, pounded on windows, overturned a table, and removed his
clothes. Eventually Mr. Jones picked up a gallon-jug of isopropyl alcohol-based hand
sanitizer and, using the pump dispenser, doused himself.
Judge awards $23.5 million to undercover St. Louis officer beaten by colleagues during protest
A St. Louis judge on Monday awarded nearly $23.5 million to a former police officer who was beaten by colleagues while working undercover during a protest.
Luther Hall was badly injured in the 2017 attack during one of several protests that followed the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis officer, on a murder charge that stemmed from the shooting death of a Black man.
Hall previously settled a separate lawsuit with the city for $5 million. In 2022, he sued three former colleagues — Randy Hays, Dustin Boone and Christopher Myers — for their roles in the attack.
Hays never responded to the lawsuit despite being served while he was in prison on a civil rights violation, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. A judge issued a default judgment in favor of Hall in February and heard testimony Monday about why Hall should receive damages.
Hall’s claims against Boone and Myers are still pending.
Hall, in court on Monday, talked about the severe physical and emotional damages that followed the beating. He suffered several herniated discs and a jaw injury that left him unable to eat. He developed gallstones with complications, requiring surgeries.
“Mr. Hall had to endure this severe beating and while that was happening, he knew it was being administered by his colleagues who were sworn to serve and protect,” Circuit Judge Joseph Whyte said.
Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:30 am
I said almost 20 years ago when I first started seeing regular cops glorify Marvel's The Punisher character that we were way too late for most forms of police reform. It's generationally seeded and self-perpetuating now. I hate being even a little bit right about this.
DISCLAIMER: This is a #notallcops post. I do know many good cops. I don't mean to imply otherwise.
At least the fictional Punisher character had a reason for his grievance built into his backstory (wife and kids killed by criminals). Why ordinary joes sworn to serve and protect would idolize an anti-hero is beyond me.
Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:30 am
I said almost 20 years ago when I first started seeing regular cops glorify Marvel's The Punisher character that we were way too late for most forms of police reform. It's generationally seeded and self-perpetuating now. I hate being even a little bit right about this.
DISCLAIMER: This is a #notallcops post. I do know many good cops. I don't mean to imply otherwise.
At least the fictional Punisher character had a reason for his grievance built into his backstory (wife and kids killed by criminals). Why ordinary joes sworn to serve and protect would idolize an anti-hero is beyond me.
It's wish fulfulliment. He is unrestrained in his responses to criminals. It's the same reason that in the universe of Star Wars fandom outside of the movie version of the universe, it's the anti-heroes like the Bounty Hunters and the Sith and the fallen or imperfect Jedi that get all the love -- because they have the power to take action and do not restrain themselves from doing so, so ordinary people (and even sub-ordinary people) can see themselves reflected in ways they cannot with more morally pure characters. It's the reason I will always argue that Superman is a great hero not because of what he can do but because of what he COULD do but REFUSES to do for moral reasons.
I'll spare y'all the longer version of this rant. Let's just say it's been a topic of mine for 30+ years.
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:17 pm
by RTH10260
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:12 am
by RTH10260
At least 15 people died in Texas after medics injected sedatives during encounters with police
KXAN
27 Apr 2024
At least 15 people died in Texas over a decade following a physical encounter with police during which medical personnel also injected them with a powerful sedative, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
An Air Force airman who was fatally shot at his Okaloosa County, Florida, apartment Friday was killed by a deputy after law enforcement burst into the wrong home, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Wednesday.
Can the federal government sue the county for destruction of government property (in the sense that they deprived the government of the investment in value of the training involved)?
An Air Force airman who was fatally shot at his Okaloosa County, Florida, apartment Friday was killed by a deputy after law enforcement burst into the wrong home, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Wednesday.
Can the federal government sue the county for destruction of government property (in the sense that they deprived the government of the investment in value of the training involved)?
Nope. People aren’t property. Whether the VA has a subrogation claim for the $400K in life insurance they’ll have to pay out is another matter. I don’t know the answer to that.
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 5:33 pm
by RTH10260
Sober drivers arrested for DUI
WSMV 4 Nashville
27 Apr 2024
Chief Investigator Jeremy Finley found a lengthy delay in blood tests left sober drivers finding their lives ruined while they wait to be proven innocent.
Chilidog wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 11:04 am
Can the federal government sue the county for destruction of government property (in the sense that they deprived the government of the investment in value of the training involved)?
Nope. People aren’t property. Whether the VA has a subrogation claim for the $400K in life insurance they’ll have to pay out is another matter. I don’t know the answer to that.
What about tortuous interference with his enlistment contract?
Let's grasp at the straws, dammit!
COPS behaving badly
Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 7:20 pm
by RTH10260
CPD officer indicted, accused of turning off body cameras during encounters with 2 women
by WSYX StaffFri, April 19th 2024 at 8:36 AM
Updated Sat, April 20th 2024 at 9:58 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Columbus police officer, charging him with two counts of destroying or altering records related to a criminal investigation.
Nicholas P. Duty, of Commercial Point, Ohio, was arrested early Friday morning.
According to the indictment that was returned Thursday and unsealed early Friday, on two occasions, Duty destroyed, altered or falsified records by purposefully deactivating or removing his police body-worn camera. Duty’s actions were intended to "impede, obstruct or influence a federal investigation," a statement from the Department of Justice read.
The statement continued: "Specifically, it is alleged that on Oct. 31, 2023, and March 22, 2024, Duty deactivated or removed his body-worn camera during interactions with two women, including during a sexual encounter."
Duty's lawyer, Mark Collins, explained the allegation as, "We are here in federal court because they have indicted him for an alleged obstruction of official business with a civil rights violation, meaning that he altered, or changed or tried to tamper with something involved in a potential investigation."
