Tag Archives: Cops Behaving Badly

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

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.

…

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.