Category Archives: Police

 In 2009, while newly elected State Attorney Michael McAuliffe was
still building a reputation for cracking down on public corruption, his
office charged two former West Palm Beach police officers with battery
and official misconduct in the beating of a handcuffed robbery suspect
captured on video.

Prosecutors actively pursued the case until
September, when they dropped all charges against one officer and allowed
another to plead to a misdemeanor. The move prompted speculation that
McAuliffe dropped the case to garner favor with the local police union
for his upcoming re-­election bid. Three weeks later, a retired police
officer filed an ethics complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics
against McAuliffe, citing a meeting between him and union officials
shortly before the case ended as evidence.

The prosecutors office claimed that new evidence was discovered however a review of this new evidence shows no new information.  So either the case was unfounded to begin with, which is unlikely, or more likely the prosecutors office used it as an excuse.

In this case instead of the criminal themselves, we have one of the people protecting them.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 207: Michael McAuliffe

Because you only do the right thing until you need to get reelected.  When that happens everything for sale.

In the third-largest settlement for a police incident in the past two decades, the city of Minneapolis on Friday approved a $1 million payment to a mother of two who was severely burned when officers, acting on a tip looking for drugs they never found, used a flash/sound device, commonly known as a flash grenade, during a raid on a south Minneapolis apartment.

The injury thought isn’t even the best part.

City spokesman Matt Laible told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, “The application correctly set out the grounds for a no knock warrant. The warrant itself did not include the “no knock” provision due to an inadvertent error.”

So lets make this clear.  Cops execute a warrant that was issued with an “announcement of authority” clause as a no-knock.  Then they find absolutely no drugs in the residence or evidence there of, and they injure someone not even associated with the investigation.  Good news for the cops though:

No police officer involved in the raid has been disciplined for the incident, the city confirmed.

Every officer violated the terms of the warrant and they carry the responsibility of it.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 206: Minneapolis PD

Because who needs to knock when you can lob flash grenades at people injuring them and get away with it.

Seriously I started trying to map out the criminals and investigators but the mesh was just unbelievable.

In 2005, a moose was standing somewhere in the mountains north of Columbia Falls when Jesse Jacobs allegedly shot it. Jacobs didn’t have a permit, however, so he reportedly got one from a friend who was a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The tribal member took the meat. Jacobs claimed the head and antlers, which he would later mount and hang on his wall.

Jacobs was a member of the local law enforcement.  The list of incidents and problems, many of which were poaching related, are numerous and lengthy.  They even include a DUI while boating cover up and the cop was told NOT to take his boat out by a fellow officer just moments before. 

Seriously how can I make an accurate count with things like this?

In September 2010, on the same day that Jacobs was charged with felony poaching, FWP began to take sworn statements from Lake County Sheriff’s deputies and detectives, trying to determine who else in the office might have been poaching. FWP ultimately interviewed more than 50 people in the case, including several informants and former officers. The investigation, led by Game Warden Frank Bowen, pieced together details of what was known as the Coyote Club, a circle of Lake County law enforcement officers who’d allegedly been poaching game animals for more than a decade.

This article is just one big gigantic bag of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

State Sponsored Criminals:

Jesse Jacobs

Dan Duryee

Cory Anderson

Mike Sargeant

Remember, they can hunt the kings deer without paying but you will take a beating for the same.

via Wolfman

During the investigation, Adams interviewed several females who had prior relationships with Kotson. Every woman alleged Kotson had made persistent, aggressive sexual advances toward them on different occasions.

One of the females interviewed accused Kotson of holding her down and forcing her to engage in unconsensual sex on three separate occasions. On one of those occasions, she said, her juvenile daughter was present.

He supposedly never committed any of the crimes while on duty, however it is certainly possible that he was victim hunting while on the job.  This guy obviously has a history of issues and it’s hard to believe the department was completely unaware.

A former Missouri sheriff was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for violating the civil rights of women who he coerced into exposing their breasts or other body parts.

While he was sentenced and has lost his job this honestly isn’t nearly enough given the following.

Some of the women were the victims of domestic violence assault or vehicular accidents, and Groom told them they needed to expose parts of their bodies to document injuries, even when they insisted that they had no injuries to those parts of their bodies, according to Groom’s written plea agreement.

It takes a seriously demented individual to victimize women in that position.  Not only did he do it under the guise of helping the victim, but he conned subordinates into collecting the information even though it served no law enforcement purpose.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 204: Neal Wayne Groom

Because when you victimize someone who’s already a victim, it doesn’t matter.  If they didn’t want to participate they shouldn’t have become a victim.

David Chadd, a CNN iReporter from Las Vegas, was among the crowd shopping for video games set up in the Walmart’s grocery section. He said Newman “was not resisting” arrest as he was led away from the crowd by a police officer.

That officer, Chadd said, then suddenly hooked the suspect around the leg, grabbed him and “slammed him face first into the ground.”

There were a lot of incidents over Black Friday.  I question what initially happened, however given how hectic Black Friday is I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.  The officers in this instance were looking to make a show of force.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #203: John Doe

Because when someone is cooperative the proper response is to throw their ass into the ground.

Here we have a case of contempt of cop which is being backed by an over zealous prosecutor.

After speaking to the woman, an officer told Mr. Dittrich there would be no charges, he said, but requested identification. He told her he did not want to give it. She told him, he said, that he would be charged with obstruction. He gave his name and address. Then she asked what country he was from. He said he did not have to say. When she insisted and he insisted, he was taken to the police station in handcuffs and given a summons.

Now New York is a stop and identify state, however that still requires the reasonable suspicion of a crime.  In this case we have a thin skinned woman who got upset at a blind man staring at her trying to figure out why this woman was blue.  There is no law against staring and there is no reason to believe that this individual had committed a crime.  Further there is no reason this man needed to provide his country of origin, doubly so as an American citizen.

That’s when we arrive at this little gem.

At one hearing, the prosecutor advised the judge that he would like to see Mr. Dittrich spend a little time behind bars. Disorderly conduct carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, though it is unusual for a first offender to serve time.

Remember, it takes a good prosecutor to convict a guilty man, it takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent one.  Couple that with the diverse number of laws that are open to interpretation and anyone that a prosecutor wants they can have.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 202: Jane Doe (As usual if you find the names let me know)

Honorable Mention: Prosecutor John Doe 

Because putting an old blind man in jail is how you protect society.  You need to make them all sheep.

via Ry

Since this guy is currently waiting locked up in the jail named after him I feel this is more of an honorable mention.  It’s not going to be fully accountabilibuddible though.

Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan limped into court Wednesday morning, using a cane, as he faced accusations of trying to exchange methamphetamine for a sexual encounter with an adult man.

But this isn’t even the best part though.  He evidently would personally bond out suspects from jail.

Robinson would not say what type of suspects he bonded out and would not confirm if they were drug suspects.

Is it still prostitution if instead of a direct payment of cash the John just bond’s you out of prison?  Still that’s just minor icing on the cake compared to the next item.

At the time, Sullivan used the event to champion gun control. He held up a semiautomatic weapon on TV and demanded more restrictions.

Sullivan then participated in many national programs, some preparing the country for a national disaster. He also took a prominent role during the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. After he retired in 2002, he led the security department for the Cherry Creek School District. He worked there until the end of the 2007-2008 school year.

That’s right folks. This holier than thou member of the anointed class was using his position to argue for the disarmament of law abiding citizens.  He began his crusade in 1989 prior to the Brady Bill.  So here comes this eternal question, did he support the Brady Bill?  Not only did he, he was considered by the Brady Campaign an expert witness.  

He worked in a may issue county and attempted to use concealed weapons permits as bargaining chips to get people to stop fighting for the second amendment.

Sheriff Sullivan was also famous for trying to buy off local gun rights activists with a “buddy” concealed carry permit (when permits were almost impossible to acquire).

In 1995 Sullivan offered me a permit, attempting to buy my inactivity in the battle for concealed carry in Colorado.

Think about that for a second.  This state sponsored criminal was selling your rights down the drain and attempting to bribe others who were fighting the good fight to leave and be complicit.  They only way this guy could ever be held accountable is to have his naked body flogged by every victim of violent crime who was disarmed by his efforts.  When that was complete he would be keelhauled in open water.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 201: Former Sheriff Patrick Sullivan

Because it’s perfectly fine to use your position of power not only for your personal gratification, but then try and disarm the public so they can more easily become your victim.

*There has not even been an acknowledgement from the Brady Campaign of the corruption of one of their former “expert witnesses”.  I guess it never happened just like the death of Brian Terry and operation Fast and Furious.  Out here in the world of facts and logic we air our dirty laundry.  In the world of emotions and Peterson Syndrome that is not an option since it destroys the crux of their argument.

via David Wilson