In May of 2010, Tapia was stopped by Chicago police officers for a minor traffic offense at 43rd and Paulina and later released. Minutes later, the police computer showed that a J. Tapia, 12 years older, 30 pounds lighter, 6 inches smaller and living 40 miles away, had an outstanding warrant. Officers stopped Tapia again and, according to official records and hospital photographs and hospital photographs, used a stun gun 11 times to subdue him.

This was an incident of mistaken identity.  When the officers got caught in that they attempted to trump resisting arrest charges to justify their force.  Ends up their lies were caught by the hospital too.

“When he went to the emergency room, they ran a complete tox screen on him for all drugs and alcohol and it was completely negative,” said Dennis Giovannini, Tapia’s laywer. “This whole situation was the blatant cover-up that the officers came up with after they realized that they had Tasered and beat up the wrong person.”

What an outstanding group of individuals that use force when it is unnecessary to such a degree as to permanently disable a peaceable citizen.  Remember though, officers are covered by qualified immunity and will not be held accountable for actions such as this.  Then people wonder why incidents like this happen.

If there’s no punishment, what negative effect is there to keep this behavior in check?

State Sponsored Criminal Count #173: John Doe

Because there’s a suspected warrant means you can tase and beat the crap out of the guy.  If it ends up a mistake, just trump up charges, the state will cover your ass.

Remember last week when we heard about the FHP officer who pulled over the speeding Miami PD officer. Well it appears that a bunch of Miami PD officers didn’t like that all too much.

Now, Thomas Vokaty, a Miami police officer, has been disciplined for pulling over an FHP trooper for apparently no reason.

At about 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday night Vokaty used his Miami police car to pull over an unnamed FHP trooper. Problem was Vokaty made the stop in Broward County where Miami police have no jurisdiction.

Couple that with the incident where someone smeared feces all over a FHP patrol car and you can see what the Miami PD think. They’re just like you and me, but better.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 172: Thomas Vokaty

Because by god if you’re a cop, all the other cops should just leave you the hell alone, breaking the law or not.

Chauvin, 50, was employed by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department as
a school resource officer at North Woolmarket Elementary when he was
accused of having child pornography on his home computer in October
2009. Chauvin was a week or so from retiring after a 24-year career with
the sheriff’s department.

It’s annoying that this predator who roamed around among his prey only got 3 years in prison for what he did.  He damn well knew better.  Seriously this crap pisses me right the hell off and the rage meter is plumb maxed out.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 171: Mike Chauvin

Because when you’re a elementary resource officer, what the hell else would you do with your free time!?

In keeping with my previous post regarding the state monopoly on alcohol and the PSH involved I found the following quite fitting.

A Vermont State Police officer has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, according to the state attorney general.

He did resign from his job, but he only got a $500 fine.  No time in jail, nothing.  We’re coming up on the holidays and I always remember seeing numerous ads from police agencies about drinking and driving.

The fact of the matter is drinking and driving is bad and he sure as hell knew better.  I have absolutely no sympathy and while he’s no longer employed the lack of a stiff sentence given his position is wrong.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 166: Joshua P. Lemieux

Because drinking and driving is only bad when the person who does it isn’t in law enforcement.

When Pompton Lakes police seized Darren Richardson’s car on a rainy September afternoon, they told him it was headed for an impound lot. When they returned it three weeks later, he says, the 2004 BMW belonged in a junk yard.

So the police trashed a car looking for drugs, they must have found a bunch right?  Wrong!

So what did police find after their $12,000 search?

Absolutely nothing.

Every time they searched the car and found nothing, they doubled down on their stupidity and called in another “expert” and another dog to find where to search.  Here’s the thing that bugs me about drug dogs, they are not infallible and they are trained through a reward system to find drugs.  The false positive rate on dogs is actually decently high.  Yet these dumb asses doubled down ever time to the final tune of $12,636.42.  All because initially an officer smelled a strong scent of Mary Jane.

To top it all off it appears this whole incident was caused by “contempt of cop”.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 229: Moises Agosto

Because when you someone starts arguing with you, just make crap up about drugs and then just trash their car.

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

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