Category Archives: Police

Wow, 200 already.  It seems like just yesterday I was starting the count.  I could have reached this probably much faster but a few things have happened on the trip to 200.  The criteria for making it onto the count or becoming just an honorable mention became much more clear cut.  The Accountabilibuddyable series was started to cover many of those who would be honorable mentions due to getting fired and prosecuted with serious charges.  Those instances still are pretty rare though.  I also scaled back to only posting one a day.  Clear cut incidents are a bit harder to find and one a day helped limit the amount of work since I could easily queue them.  If something really spins my head it gets tossed up front and center.  This one was bumped to me by a reader and leaves me nothing but pissed off and wondering why nothing has been done to the officer.

A seventh-grader says a county police officer yanked him out of the school cafeteria, handcuffed him in front of his friends, dragged him to the band room, where no one could hear, and beat him while he was handcuffed – all because the student dressed like Ice Cube’s character in the movie “Boyz n the Hood” for school spirit week.

The school nurse was a witness to the injuries inflicted by the officer.

“(W)hile inside this room defendant Tilus chided plaintiff about the way he was dressed then smacked him twice in the face with his full force so hard that he left whelp marks on plaintiff’s skin; throughout the entire time plaintiff remained in handcuffs.”

The arrest in the cafeteria was caught on tape and I would assume his arrival in the schools office was able to be noted to display the time difference.  The whole point of this exercise remains unknown to anyone but the officer.  This wouldn’t be the first time an officer wanted to get his rocks off and took it out on a kid.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #200: Officer Wantalex Tilus

Because if you don’t like how a kid dressed for spirit week, haul him off to a sound proof room and beat his ass, and make sure to humiliate him in front of all of his friends.

via Ry

The beating by Denver police that left a 16-year-old with a damaged liver and kidney was unusual not for the violence dished out by officers but because the injuries were severe and two of the officers reported the actions of the third, former safety manager Al LaCabe testified Thursday.

As if that wasn’t bad enough though.

Few officers actually engage in the violence, but as long as the injuries aren’t too severe, officers rarely report those who do, LaCabe said.

Just because someone else is doing it doesn’t make you not responsible. Your job as officers isn’t just to cover your buddies ass but to protect the public. That includes those in your custody being investigated for a crime. Initially none of the officers even admitted to the violence. The officer responsible for the injuries was found not guilty by a jury. The three officers were fired though in 2010, no statement as to why, and 2 years after the initial incident.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 197: Chuck Porter

198: Officer Rivera

199: Officer Moerman

Because beating someone in custody is normal, necessary, and most importantly should not be reported.

via David

A Port Townsend attorney is taking on the
Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team, claiming its detectives
planted evidence, trespassed and used a convicted sex offender as a paid
informant to net his client on drug charges.

Now initially the story comes off as being a ploy to discredit an current investigation and protect a client.  Then as you read on though it becomes apparent the officers were corrupt and playing out of the any means necessary play book.

He said authorities weighed 3,768 grams during
the search, but when re-weighed six days later, the amount seized
totalled less than half that amount: 1,537 grams.

Interesting, half of the haul he’s being charged with disappeared, where to?  Couple that with the following and you really have to wonder what was happening out on the Washington peninsula.

Haas says that the case started in October 2008 when OPNET detectives began using an informant who they knew was a convicted sex offender and had a warrant for failing to register.

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Haynes’ warrant was never acted upon, according to Haas.

Haynes was living with a couple and their nine-year-old daughter who were left unaware of his first-degree sexual abuse conviction from West Virginia, according to the motion.

Let’s see here, he failed to register as a sex offender, then when caught the police instead of correcting that, and prosecuting him for it they use him as an informant.  All the while leaving a family with a small child unaware of the predator in their midst.  This whole incident is one gigantic bag of fail that just keeps building on top of itself.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 196: Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team

Because leaving predators around easy prey is just SOP for cops.  I mean look at all those incidents in schools.  Framing evidence seems to be a recurring pattern too.

A Lowndes County deputy is suspended for driving a patrol car to work after drinking alcohol. 

Let me get this straight, DUI, in government property and he was just suspended.  No fine, no ticket, and he wasn’t fired.  That’s fair justice right there.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 195:  Mark Selph

Because DUI only counts if you’re not a cop.

Now this was a staged video, however it was using public resources without authorization. Now the city is funding an investigation. It was city employees not sworn officers.

At the end of the video is what appears to be gun fire. However those could have easily just been special effects, though they were using department vehicles.

How much is this one little video going to cost the tax payers of West Covina?

Because taxpayer funded resources really exist for someone to make a movie for a “political statement”.  

h/t Weer’d Beard

According to the arrest warrant provided by SLED, Curtis Fields agreed
not to issue a speeding ticket in exchange for oral sex.  The warrant
states that on November 5^th, 2011, Fields conducted a traffic
stop on a vehicle operated by the victim who was speeding on Interstate
95.  During the traffic stop, he agreed not to issue the victim a
traffic ticket in exchange for sex. 

Seriously!? It gets better though, the bone head wasn’t even smart enough to turn off his mic and video. So the whole thing was recorded for posterity and when someone reviewed the tape, he was nailed to the wall.  So this one’s at least being held some what accountable.  The only statement was he was no longer with the department.  Which means they may have offered him the opportunity to resign meaning he could go find a position as an LEO someplace else.  Consider this my effort to add another hit in Google to limit that ability.  He has no business in law enforcement.

There are serious issues in the current system for dealing with speed limits and speeders though.  I can’t help but look at this situation and say, “there’s a hot girl and just pulled her over claiming that she was speeding.”  The thing with speeding tickets is it’s your word against there’s and any actual physical evidence obtained is only seen by the officer.  A little birdy told me of a simple way to fight back, now to figure out how I could market it and sell it after development.  It is technically legal since the whole system is passive.  

The bottom line though is if you think that the police and speed limits are really there just for your safety think again.  That’s why officer friendly here went out hunting.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #195: Curtis Fields

Because when you’re a police officer, solicitation means just pulling a chick over and offering her an out for the ticket.  

This is a first of the 4 legged variety.

An off-duty Campbell police officer was walking Storm and allowed the dog to go to the bathroom in a fenced-in area. But the dog saw the boy and ran after him, apparently mistaking a running boy for a suspect.

Remember though, had it been your or my dog, there would be a very strong and justified push to put down the dog as a dangerous animal.  There is no justification for attacking a 8 year old boy who was playing.  Why was the dog not trained to follow verbal commands.  The dog should not have attacked anyone without being instructed to do so.  At a minimum why in the name of Sam Hell was that dog anywhere off of a leash if that is it’s behavioral model.  It’s not as if the dog was defending it’s property or owner from a direct threat.  The property wasn’t even the owners.

“Anything running, they’re trained … could be a potential threat. And all he’s doing is reacting and doing what he was trained to do,” Rusnak told WFMJ.

Wait, your department did what!?  You trained your dogs to go after potential threats.  Who thought that it would be necessary to have a dog attack potential threats.  Where I’m from, your dog attacks my kid, if you don’t take it out to the woods and do it, I will.  Police dog or not, attacking a child, unprovoked, is completely unacceptable and shows severe training issues with the dog as well as handling issues with the officer responsible for the dog.

In this instance I’m going to blame the officer attempting to justify it since I am unsure of the name of the handler.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 193: Sgt. John Rusnak

Because a police dog is different than your dog because the state views him as a police officer.  So when he runs off and attacks and innocent child, that’s just like a cop shooting a boy hiding in a shed.