Monthly Archives: September 2011

Two brothers allege in a lawsuit that they were falsely investigated as bank robbers because a Seattle police officer was upset about the way he had been treated at a popular longshoremen’s bar that all three men frequented.

Basically this whole incident boils down to your standard guy gets dumped and seeks vendetta against the replacement.  Don’t believe me?

The suit alleges Waters developed a "malice and animus" toward Alan Jeffries shortly before the 2009 incident after Waters broke up with a bartender at the Chelan and saw Jeffries flirt with her. Waters became more jealous after he was excluded from a George Clinton concert attended by Jeffries, the bartender and others.

The officer [Waters] then arrests the two brothers on suspicion of bank robbery despite not matching the actual description.  All charges including the obstruction charge was dropped after the officer didn’t bother to show up at the court hearing.

Basically what’s going on is the PD that is oh so great at letting officers shoot peaceful people, also lets officers arrest people on trumped up charges.  Because why punish an officer for making false or fraudulent arrests?

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 58

Because when you’re a cop, no one flirts with your girl and gets away with it.  That’s why they run the jails right?

Drama free, in the case of this party that meant gun free.  Yet, 11 people were shot, one of which was paralyzed from a bullet severing her spinal cord.  This has made it to the “It Can’t Happen Here” series by being a gun free, drama free zone.  All persons were searched before entering the party, yet a shooting still occurred. 

Even more than that, how’s this for icing:

“IDs were being checked and everybody was being searched through the front,” he said. “So he [the shooter] probably came in, seen somebody he had issues with, went home and got his gun.”

Yup all of those efforts worked out real well in the end didn’t they?

Also note, this occurred in NY where guns are so very accessible. </sarcasm>

Sean Jang, a 4-year veteran of the department, was arrested Thursday after a scuffle with his ex-girlfriend.

Jang is charged with aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and false imprisonment, according to court documents.

Probably the most telling thing about this article was how it started with a statement that indicated this isn’t the first officer that has had issues in this department.  To then ice the cake though, he is merely on administrative duties while the department investigates.

It’s so good to see our city governments take such good care of their employees.  It’s not every day in this economy you see criminals get such wonderful treatment despite their behavior.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 57

Because if you’re the girlfriend of a cop, you’re job is to do what you’re told or it gets the hose again.

Campbell says he did what he always does: flashed his lights on and off to warn drivers coming from the other direction that there was speed trap ahead.

According to Campbell, 60 seconds after passing the trooper, "They were on my tail and they pulled me over."

Ends up the statue used to issue the citation doesn’t mention or reference the use of high beams.  What we do have is a police officer who thinks that warning others about his speed trap should be illegal.  He thinks that it should be illegal so badly that he is ticketing people for it illegally.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 56

Because they think warning your fellow citizens about a speed trap should be illegal so they ticket you despite the law.

The quick synopsis is, cop runs up with gun drawn.  He tells the owner to restrain the dog, and then fires 5 shots at the dog.  The icing on the cake, he pointed his weapon at the owner, and could have injured the owner due to proximity.

The dog hadn’t made any threatening actions and is just yet another example of the cops shooting mans best friend whenever possible.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 55

Because shooting dogs is what cops do, they’ll even break into your house just to shoot your dog.

HT Uncle 

Note: No citation from the original source or link due to blacklist status.  You can find the article in Uncles post.

This whole incident was entirely preventable by one very simple action.  The neighbor who called police could have just asked him to stop.

Phil Ray Gage, 40, was arrested on a complaint of disturbing the peace after a neighbor called police to report him for mowing a lawn at 2529 NW 33 at 4:30 a.m., Oklahoma City police said.

Yeah, it’s a bit odd to mow in my neighborhood that early, but he’s been doing it for 10 years.  I can not fault the person mowing the law as  he was doing it when he had available time and was avoiding the oppressive heat that is Oklahoma.

Seriously, if you have problem with your neighbors, just talk to them.  It’s the neighborly thing to do.  You might find out that they’re actually really nice people.  Don’t use the police and the force of government when a simple, “Hey, can you wait till later, we’re trying to sleep inside and we can hear the mower really well.  Thanks.”

That said, a neighbor that calls the police on me for something like that will forever hate me.  If you run to the police instead of talking to me I wont ever give you the time of day ever again.  Which around here also means most likely you’re shoveling the 6 feet of snow out of your driveway by yourself.

There is no reason one neighbor can’t talk to another.  It’s why we have vocal cords, you don’t have to run to the nanny state every time you think your neighbor is a problem.  Instead communicate and you might discover that he’s more than reasonable, and more than that, he might offer to mow your lawn too.

A veteran San Jose police officer with a history of alleged misconduct has been accused of molesting two teenage boys, authorities said.

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Authorities accuse D’Arrigo, 44, of molesting the boys, ages 15 and 17, at his Gilroy home. Gilroy police apparently began investigating D’Arrigo two years ago, authorities said.

Supposedly this officer held parties at his house and liquored up kids from the school he was responsible for.  That’s right he’s a campus officer for a high school.  That’s where he found and groomed his victims.

An earlier investigation found evidence, and identified two victims, however in true SSCC fashion no charges were filed against the officer.  A witness has now allowed the DA to move forward.

To put the finishing icing on the cake though, he also helped cover up the DUI of a fellow officer in 2008.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 54

Because being a state employee automatically means you couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

H/t Phssthpok

Disturbing allegations in College Station after a Brazos County Deputy Constable was arrested for handcuffing and kidnapping a 19-year-old woman.

The good news is though they’ve only placed him on paid administrative leave.  He’s currently facing nothing at all despite the fact that she was never taken to jail, her friends don’t know what happened to her, and he placed her in the back of his cruiser.

The police have refused to state if she was sexually assaulted, I would say all signs point to yes.  The guy was off duty, “arrested” a woman, who then blacked out, and then ended up coming to in a gas station parking lot.  Seriously what about this says honest police officer?

He may have been off duty but it qualifies because he used his police cruiser, and he just as easily could have done this if he was on duty.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 53

Because being a cop means that you can get any piece of tail you want whether she likes it or not.

H/t Texas Gun Geek