Category: Cops Behaving Badly
The D.C. police union says a detective accused of unholstering his gun at a snowball fight faces a possible 10-day suspension.
Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results
The Arizona Attorney General has launched a probe of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office over bank accounts kept separate from normal county accounts and over the money from these accounts getting spent without approval from an outside agency, a television station reports.
The money in question: the Sheriff's Office's RICO fund, which includes confiscated drug money and funds taken from other criminal activities, and its Jail Enhancement Fund, which is supposed to be used to keep the jails in good condition so they hold their value.
Someone named Lawrence Schweinsburg wrote a letter to the editor of the Baltimore Sun this week to criticize Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Mayor Cheye Calvo and to offer a general defense of the widespread use of SWAT teams. His letter is worth breaking down and addressing piece by piece.
Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.
"With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun," Crenshaw said.
One of the officers apparently got into an argument with his girlfriend about 8 p.m. Tuesday outside a Panera Bread restaurant in the 15600 block of Whittwood Lane, the Whittier Police Department said in a statement.
Witnesses told police the officer took issue with a bystander, who was watching the altercation while talking on his cellphone, and struck the man in the face. A fight ensued, during which one of the officers allegedly pulled out a handgun and began hitting the victim in the head, the statement said.
Radley brings us a set of stories about cops behaving badly.
Was it sheer contempt of the law or a bureaucratic bumble? Whatever happened, the county could be on the hook for nearly $40,000 to replace Kimberley Marshall’s pot.
The 46-year old Los Osos resident filed a claim for damages against Sheriff Patrick Hedges and the county alleging the sheriff’s department unlawfully seized, and then had destroyed, six pounds of medicinal marijuana. If successful, Marshall could be the first medical marijuana patient in San Luis Obispo County awarded monetary compensation for confiscated cannabis.
A sticky-fingering, meth-snorting cop goes away for awhile, and a trio of jail guards get in trouble.
