National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 08-12-11

VERBATIM POST
Injustice Everywhere
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• Pima County AZ sheriff’s dept & members of a regional swat team are being sued by the family of an ex-marine who was shot to death during a questionable raid that turned up nothing. [0] http://t.co/WO0RVUQ

• Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission agent was sentenced to 20 years prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl who was helping with a sting operation targeting alcohol sales to minors. The sentence is to be served concurrently to a 10yr sentence for soliciting a minor. [0] ow.ly/1vGltC

• BART CA police have admitted to blocking cellular phone signals in an attempt to prevent rumored police brutality protests. Police cite public safety concerns as justification for the action which appears to violate constitutional free speech protections and put the public at risk for those who may have needed to call 911 during the outages. [0] ow.ly/1vFV9v

• Whitman MA police have charged a man with felony wiretapping for recording a cop during a traffic stop over tinted license plates after he went to complain about how he was treated and told police he recorded it. The officer wasn’t investigated. [5] ow.ly/1vFUdt

• A study claims that Oakland CA cops pulled gun without justification on people who were not posing a threat at at the time in at least 28% of the cases were firearms were pulled. [0] ow.ly/1vFSbA

• 5 Kansas City KS cops are suing their own dept claiming the chief and other commanders illegally detained them at gunpoint after a sting operation that targeted swat teams suspected of stealing during raids. They were not among the officers who were eventually charged afterward. [0] ow.ly/1vGoN6

• Brookline NH police are accused of failing to investigate a domestic violence incident involving the police chief’s son [1] ow.ly/1vGm0n

• Hamlin TX police officer jailed on unspecified charge, rumored to be harassment, after fired for tasering friend on video. [1] ow.ly/1vGg0z

• Redmond OR police lieutenant pleads guilty to charges for stealing guns & ammo from his department and selling them for personal gain [0] http://ow.ly/1vFbpP

• Sonshohocken PA police sgt gets probation in guilty plea to stealing money from parking meter collections [0] ow.ly/1vF0Mv

• Goshen County WY sheriff’s dept says they’ve been receiving complaints by officers from other agencies because their deputies arrested and cited two Aurora CO cops for drunk driving & littering while they were driving a cop car on the way to a police funeral in South Dakota. This is not a case against Goshen County, but I do wish we could find out what agencies the officers who are complaining are from and add those to the database. [0] ow.ly/1vFS2n