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conniption » Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:55 pm wrote:
I'm sorry, but these lock-downs of neighborhoods and door-to-door searches bother me to no end. I swear, it is not the way they did it in the old days. Something about constitutional rights prohibiting this type of behavior. I would much rather deal with the criminals than the swat teams imposed upon us to protect us.

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‘G.I. Joe’ Shooting: Massive Multi-Agency, Martial Law Drill Underway in Fox Lake, Illinois (PHOTOS)

September 2, 2015 By 21wire
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Fox Lake officer's death is investigated as homicide or suicide, sources say
Fox Lake police officer shot
Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a 30-year veteran of the Fox Lake Police Department, was shot and killed Sept. 1, 2015.
Lisa BlackContact Reporter
Chicago Tribune
Fox Lake officer's death is investigated as homicide or suicide, sources tell the Chicago Tribune
Even as police probe the shooting death of Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz as a homicide, they are also investigating whether it might have been a suicide, sources close to the investigation told the Tribune on Monday.

Publicly, the spokesman for the investigation, Detective Christopher Covelli of the Lake County sheriff's office, repeated Monday that authorities are looking at "every theory" but that they are "still pursuing this as a homicide."

Speaking on condition of anonymity, though, multiple sources close to the investigation said one of the theories being examined is whether the gunshot wound that killed the officer was self-inflicted.



Oak Lawn Man Accused of Threatening Key Officials in Fox Lake Police Shooting Case: UPDATE
The man is accused of threatening to kill the officials unless they declare Lt. Joe Gliniewicz's death a suicide.
By AMIE SCHAENZER (Patch Staff)
September 14, 2015

Oak Lawn Man Accused of Threatening Key Officials in Fox Lake Police Shooting Case: UPDATE

A retired Chicago police officer faces felony disorderly conduct charges for allegations he threatened to kill those involved in an investigation into the shooting death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz.

An arrest warrant was issued Saturday for Joseph A. Battaglia, 54, of the 5600 block of West 103rd Street in Oak Lawn, on Saturday. He was arrested at his Oak Lawn home and has been charged with two counts of disorderly conduct, class 4 felony. Battaglia is being held at the Lake County Jail on a $100,000 bail, Lake County Sheriff’s Office Detective Christopher Covelli said in a news release.

The charges stem from a call made to the Lake County Coroner’s Office at about 2 p.m. on Friday. The caller said he planned to harm all of the task force members on the team investigating Gliniewicz’s unless Gliniewicz’s death was ruled a suicide, Covelli said.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:47 am
Report: Illinois Police Investigating if Officer Thought to Be Killed Actually Committed Suicide
BY POLLY MOSENDZ 9/15/15 AT 8:21 PM
Joe Gliniewicz

Updated | Illinois authorities are investigating whether a Fox Lake police lieutenant believed to have been murdered actually committed suicide and made it look like someone killed him, according to a report by Fox News.

Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz radioed fellow officers to tell them he was on a foot pursuit, identifying two white males and one black male as suspects on the morning of September 1. Contact was then lost with Gliniewicz, and when backup arrived, the officers found him dead from a gunshot wound.

A manhunt was launched to find Gliniewicz’s killers. It included more than 100 investigators, countless law enforcement agencies, helicopters and dogs. Authorities retrieved surveillance footage surrounding the scene in the days following Gliniewicz’s death.

Two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Fox News it’s possible Gliniewicz shot himself. According to these sources, Gliniewicz was found facedown with his hand “in a gun position” and the gun “dropped at his body.”

Two shell casings were found at the scene: One hit his bulletproof vest, but the second struck under the vest near the heart. It was fired in a downward trajectory, Fox reported. “There was no sign of a struggle or defensive wounds—especially one to save his own life.”

The investigation is still being handled as a homicide, and DNA has reportedly been found at the scene. However, no suspects have been named in the case, nor have any sketches of the wanted men been released.

"Based on all the facts, leads and evidence we have (this includes items we’ve discussed with the media and items we haven’t been able to discuss, to keep the integrity of the investigation), this is being pursued as a homicide investigation. This is a very active, complex investigation. Nothing has been ruled out, as it wouldn’t be prudent if we eliminated any factors prior to conducting a thorough investigation. At this point, we are still actively seeking three suspects, which were originally described as two white males and one black male. We are still waiting on several analysis reports to return from the labs (this includes ballistic, DNA and gunshot residue exams)," Christopher Covelli, the public information officer of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, tells Newsweek in an emailed comment.


Police, coroner keep clashing in Fox Lake cop case

WRITTEN BY BY RUTH FULLER SPECIAL TO SUN-TIMES POSTED: 09/15/2015, 04:49PM

Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko at a news conference earlier this month | Getty Images
Investigators looking into the death of a Fox Lake Police officer met with the pathologist who performed his autopsy without the knowledge of the Lake County coroner, underscoring the strained relationship between the police and the coroner in the case, the Sun-Times has learned.

The meeting concerning slain officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was held last week, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at the Round Lake Police Department, where Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko is police chief.


Pathologist Manny Montez confirmed that he attended the meeting, along with Filenko, other members of the task force and members of the FBI. Representatives of the Lake County state’s attorney’s office also attended.

“They called me and told me to be present, so I showed up,” Montez said. “We went over my findings. They had copies of my sketches because I haven’t finalized my (autopsy) report yet.”

Rudd said he was “totally confused” when he learned about the meeting.

“I was not invited to the meeting and I have just found out that the meeting occurred,” Rudd said. Montez is a contracted employee of the coroner and reports his findings to Rudd, who makes the final determination on the cause of death.

Rudd, however, said that the task force’s actions thus far would not affect their relationship.

“I’ll continue to work and cooperate as a professional,” he said.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Detective Christopher Covelli said “no restrictions” were placed on the coroner attending the meeting, which was attended by “his staff.”

“I don’t know why he wasn’t there,” Covelli said, adding he didn’t know if the Lake County coroner had been invited.

To make the point that there is communication between the task force and the coroner’s office, Covelli said that there is a meeting which has been set up between members of the task force and Rudd in the next few days.

But Rudd said he was not aware of any such meeting.

“I have not been invited to any past, current or future meetings. I have received no e-mails, phone messages, texts or any other communication from any members of the task force or state’s attorney’s office,” Rudd said.

Filenko did not return several messages for comment.

Tensions between the cops and the coroner came to a boil the day after the meeting which the coroner did not attend.

That Thursday, Filenko and Lake County Undersheriff Ray Rose blasted Rudd in a news release and at a news conference for releasing information that they said could jeopardize the case. Such a news release during such a high-profile case is rare.

“We have not been contacted by or had communication with Doctor Rudd,” Filenko said in the news release. “Doctor Rudd, releasing information which is sensitive to this investigation, puts the entire case at risk.”

Rudd had said that a “single devastating” gunshot wound killed Gliniewicz and he couldn’t rule whether the death was a homicide, suicide or accident.

“I don’t know the manner of death yet, whether it was a homicide, suicide or an accident,” Rudd said last week. “I can’t give you that because I don’t have the evidence that the police have finalized.”

Rudd has said that his report can’t be completed until he gets the report from the task force and learns whether the bullet that killed the officer came from Gliniewicz’s own gun or someone else’s.

Filenko has said publicly that Rudd has not shared the autopsy findings with him.

The investigation has drawn national attention after Gliniewicz, a 30-year police veteran, was found dead Sept. 1 in Fox Lake, about 55 miles northwest of Chicago. The officer was found dead after calling in a report that he was investigating three suspicious men in an isolated area.

The shooting led to a massive manhunt, but no arrests have been made. Authorities have disclosed few details about Gliniewicz’s death.

Investigators have said publicly that Gliniewicz’s gun was found feet away from his body and that it was fired more than once. They have declined to say how many times it was fired, or if Gliniewicz was shot with his own gun.

Covelli said Tuesday that while police investigators have released certain details of the case, Rudd has released details that could be more damaging and that he did not communicate what he was going to tell the media before giving the statements.

Covelli said that the officer’s death is still officially being investigated as a homicide, but that the office is not “putting blinders on” and is investigating every angle as it comes up – including suicide.

“It would be irresponsible of us not to investigate other theories,” he said. “We still have as many people investigating this today as we did two weeks ago. If the evidence and the facts redirect us we are going to go down that path.”

Covelli said that task force investigators are still awaiting the test results of several items sent to the laboratory for analysis, including the DNA of an unknown individual, which was located at the scene, ballistic test results and other results.

“We are hopeful they will be in soon — like in the very near future,” Covelli said.

When asked why the results appear to be taking longer than customary on a high-profile case, Covelli said that the items were sent to several different labs, which have put a rush on the results but still want to provide accurate information.

“They are going to do what they can to move it to the top of the list,” he said.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:04 pm
seemslikeadream » Tue Sep 15, 2015 6:51 am wrote:
tanks have quietly moved out of town ....rumors of suicide swirl




Fox Lake officer's death to be ruled suicide: law enforcement sources

Photo gallery: Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a 30-year veteran of the Fox Lake Police Department, was shot and killed Sept. 1, 2015.
Lisa Black, Jim Newton and Lauren ZumbachContact Reporters
Tribune Newspapers
Sources say: Fox Lake cop may have killed himself
Authorities have called a news conference for Wednesday to announce "significant new information" regarding the shooting death of a Fox Lake police officer, and multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation have told the Tribune that authorities are expected to announce that he took his own life.

The sources say that authorities believe Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, 52, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Sept. 1.

The new information comes two months after officers found Gliniewicz mortally wounded in a remote, marshy area of the village near the Wisconsin border.

Around 8 a.m. Sept. 1, Gliniewicz radioed that he was pursuing two white males and a black male. Dispatchers lost contact with Gliniewicz, a 30-year veteran and a fixture in Fox Lake, and responding officers found him shot and his .40-caliber handgun rested nearby.

A few days later, Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd said he couldn't at that point rule out suicide or any other manner of death. A month after Gliniewicz died, police said he'd been shot twice with his own weapon — once in his protective vest and once in the upper left area of his torso. But authorities said they could not yet rule on a manner of death, and police said there were signs of a struggle at the scene.

Police said GPS data showed Gliniewicz was on foot near the crime scene for about 20 minutes before calling in that he had seen suspicious activity. The officer had agreed to look into reports of vandalism in the area at a recent meeting with village officials, police said.

Fox Lake officer was shot twice with his own weapon: investigator

Gliniewicz long led the department's Explorers program, which gives aspiring officers up-close experience with policing. Many people in town referred to him as G.I. Joe.

Late Tuesday night, some Fox Lake area residents reacted to the news.

Crystal Moore, of Fox Lake, said many unanswered questions remain.

"It's a really messed-up case, and really sad for the community," she said. "I respect him, and I think he's a hero."

Standing outside a Fox Lake bar that still had Gliniewicz's picture in the window, an Ingleside man said "something still just doesn't feel right."

"There are a lot of unanswered questions," said Brad, who asked to be identified by just his first name because the situation remains sensitive.

A Lindenhurst man who said he knew Gliniewicz growing up recalled the late officer for his smile.

"He was just a really nice guy," said Bill, who also asked to be identified by just his first name. "I would hate for it to come out that (suicide) was true."

Investigation into Fox Lake officer's death has cost $300,000, analysis finds

The village has been in the midst of a review of procedures and equipment triggered by the retirement of police Chief Michael Behan days before Gliniewicz died. Just before he retired, Behan and another officer had been put on leave pending an investigation into the department's handling of an altercation between an officer and an arrestee in 2014. The village has revealed very little about those inquiries.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:05 am
“Every cop in America is looking over their shoulder right now,” said Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn on “Fox and Friends.”

Many Americans were also angry over the apparent cop-killing, particularly in Fox Lake.

“I hope they find them and blow their heads off,” Jeff Peterson, a local construction worker, told The Washington Post. “It’s time for [officers] to fight back.”

According to recently released FBI data, however, assaults on police officers dropped sharply in 2014 and are at their lowest point since 1996.



Reports: Illinois cop whose shooting sparked nationwide outrage actually killed himself

By Michael E. Miller November 4 at 12:05 AM

Hundreds gathered to pay their last respects to Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, the officer who died on Sept. 1 in the Fox Lake community, north of Chicago. Two months later, new details are coming to light about how he died. (Reuters)
Police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz received a hero’s funeral.

Whether he will be remembered as one, however, is suddenly shrouded in doubt.

Gliniewicz was found dead on the morning of Sept. 1 in a remote area of Fox Lake, Ill. Moments earlier, the veteran cop had radioed that he was pursuing two white males and a black male on foot. When his fellow officers arrived, they found Gliniewicz bleeding to death with his .40-caliber pistol nearby.

[That Illinois cop-killing sparked outrage and tears. But was it a suicide?]

State, federal and local authorities scoured the area for signs of the three suspected cop-killers. Fox Lake, a northern suburb of Chicago, closed its schools as SWAT teams went house to house. Hundreds of residents lined the streets for Gliniewicz’s funeral, which was a sea of blue police uniforms.

“When we were growing up, we all knew Joe was a hero,” said his brother, firefighter Michael Gliniewicz, choking back tears at the ceremony. “But now the nation knows he was a hero.”

On Wednesday morning, however, officials are expected to shatter that image of Gliniewicz as a heroic officer cut down in the line of duty. Instead, they will announce that the veteran cop killed himself in an elaborately staged suicide, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times reported, quoting police sources.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has called a Wednesday news conference to announce “conclusive results” of the investigation, according to the Associated Press.

At the press conference, authorities will announce that Gliniewicz actually took his own life, multiple law enforcement sources told the newspapers.

The revelation could alter public perception of not only Gliniewicz but also the argument that cops are increasingly under attack in America.

The death of the Fox Lake cop, a 52-year-old father of four sons who for many years ran his department’s cadet training program, became a touchstone for law enforcement officials across the country who believe they are under increased threat amidst growing scrutiny of police in the wake of a string of high-profile police-involved killings.

[There is no ‘war on cops.’ And those who claim otherwise are playing a dangerous game]

Police badges have become “a target,” Wicomico County, Md., Sheriff Mike Lewis told Fox News during a discussion of Gliniewicz’s death. “I’ve never seen it like this,” he added. “It’s a scary, scary time for law enforcement in this country.”


“Every cop in America is looking over their shoulder right now,” said Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn on “Fox and Friends.”

Many Americans were also angry over the apparent cop-killing, particularly in Fox Lake.

“I hope they find them and blow their heads off,” Jeff Peterson, a local construction worker, told The Washington Post. “It’s time for [officers] to fight back.”

According to recently released FBI data, however, assaults on police officers dropped sharply in 2014 and are at their lowest point since 1996.

[FBI data show assaults on police officers dropped sharply in 2014]

In a case similar to Gliniewicz’s disputed death, an Arkansas police officer was arrested Tuesday for allegedly lying about being shot during a traffic stop.

Sgt. David Houser, 50, of the England Police Department was charged with filing a false police report, according to KTHV-TV. Houser had claimed that he was shot in his bulletproof vest during an Oct. 24 traffic stop.

“Houser told local and state law enforcement officers that while on patrol that he had exchanged gunfire with a suspect who fled from him driving a sport utility vehicle south of England along state Highway 15,” Arkansas State Police said in a press release obtained by the local TV station. “Houser also reported he had been shot by the suspect.”

[FBI chief again says Ferguson having chilling effect on law enforcement]


Mourners attend a candlelight vigil for slain Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz in Fox Lake, Illinois, United States, September 2, 2015. (Jim Young/Reuters)
As in Fox Lake, Houser’s claim sparked a massive manhunt as officials searched the state for a Hispanic man in a silver SUV.

“We went after it as if we were going after someone who had just tried to kill a police officer,” England Police Chief Nathan Cook told KTHV-TV. “The more we investigated, the more it became clear that the details of his story were inconsistent.”

Cook, who said he fired Houser on Monday, was at a loss why his officer had invented the incident.

“He was a good officer,” the police chief said. “I’m not a doctor, so I can’t speculate why this happened. I know he’s had some personal losses lately. We just hope he gets the help he needs.”

“Why would you ever make that up?” added Lonoke Sheriff John Staley. “What would he gain from that? It’s just amazing to me.”

He threaten the village administrator who was looking into irregularities

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Fox Lake Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz Tried to 'Put a Hit' on Administrator: Police
by M. ALEX JOHNSON

Disgraced Illinois Cop Who Staged Suicide Also Planned a Hit Job 1:57
Joseph Gliniewicz, the Fox Lake, Illinois, police lieutenant who killed himself in what authorities called a "carefully staged suicide," tried to have a hit man kill a village administrator who he feared would discover his crimes, investigators said Thursday.

Gliniewicz sent a text message asking a woman to contact a "high ranking gang member to put a hit on the village manager," Lake County sheriff's Detective Chris Covelli told NBC Chicago, confirming an initial report by the Associated Press.

NBC Chicago: Official: Cop Who Killed Himself Sought to Have Village Administrator Killed

Gliniewicz also suggested that the hit man could "plant something" on Village Administrator Anne Marrin, who was auditing Fox Lake's finances, Covelli said. The audit included the Police Explorers, a youth-focused program, from which authorities say Gliniewicz had been embezzling for seven years.

In addition, small packages of cocaine were found in Gliniewicz's desk, but the cocaine wasn't related to the alleged plot to have the village administrator killed, Covelli said.

"It's very unsettling," Marrin told reporters Thursday. "My concern is my family. It's quite unbelievable and almost surreal."

She said that if Gliniewicz was capable of stealing from a program to help kids, "then it's really no surprise to know he would go to great lengths to conceal his criminal wrongdoing."

Beloved Police Officer 'Was Not What He Seemed' 0:35
Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko said Gliniewicz forged signatures on official documents and stole and laundered thousands of dollars from the Fox Lake Police Explorer Post for personal purchases, mortgages, travel expenses, gym memberships, adult websites and personal loans.

Gliniewicz, 52, killed himself Sept. 1 and staged the scene to look as though he was killed in the line of duty, investigators said. He radioed dispatch that he was pursuing three men, and when backup arrived, officers found him fatally shot.

Authorities said they reviewed 6,500 pages of text messages from Gliniewicz's personal and work phones were reviewed during the investigation. They said Gliniewicz made incriminating statements in messages that were deleted before his suicide.

In a message sent May 13 to someone identified only as "Individual No. 1," Gliniewicz wrote that Marrin "hates me and I've never said more than 3 sentences to her in the year shes been here."

He wrote that Marrin "hates the explorer program and is crawling up my a-- and the program, chief wont sign off to move it to American legion and if she gets ahold of the checking account, im pretty well [expletive]." (Misspellings in original.)

Wife and son of cop who committed suicide are now under investigation 2:32
On June 26, he messaged a person identified only as "Individual No. 2": "This situation right here would give her the means to CRUCIFY ME it it were discovered."

Filenko said evidence "strongly indicates criminal activity" by at least two other people, whom he wouldn't identify. Sources close to the investigation told NBC News that Gliniewicz's wife and son are the targets. No further details were immediately available.

Mayor Donny Schmidt asked the community Thursday to wait for the full investigation before jumping to conclusions. But he said it was clear that "the person that I thought I knew for 30 years had another side I wasn't aware of."

Illinois cop’s mysterious death may have exposed double-life
Published November 05, 2015FoxNews.com

Police: Crooked cop's wife, son under investigation

The "carefully staged suicide" of an Illinois police officer who authorities said made his death look like a murder may have in the process exposed his double-life as an embezzler who inquired about hiring a hit man to kill a village administrator who he feared would expose him.

Detective Chris Covelli said Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz sent a text in April asking a woman to contact a "high-ranking gang member to put a hit on the village manager." Gliniewicz also texted that perhaps the hit man could "plant something" on the manager, Covelli said.

Anne Marrin, the village's first professional administrator, was auditing Fox Lake's finances, including the Police Explorers program that authorities say Gliniewicz secretly embezzled from for seven years. Investigators found small packages of cocaine in his desk, "not linked to any case that we could find," and believe the 30-year veteran officer may have sought to frame the manager as a drug criminal before she exposed him as an embezzler, the detective said.

"We never found any explanation why those drugs were in his desk at the police station," Covelli said.

Late Thursday, the village administrator who police said was the target said the case is "almost surreal."

More on this...

Detectives: Cop's 'staged suicide' is 'a complete betrayal'
Marrin said she never had anything but cordial and polite dealings with Gliniewicz, and never had any sense he was angry with her. She said she learned about the threat against her after Gliniewicz's death, and that she has been assured by police that she is safe.

Gliniewicz, often called "G.I. Joe," was a respected figure in the bedroom community of 10,000 people 50 miles north of Chicago. His death on Sept. 1, moments after he radioed that he was chasing three suspicious men, prompted an intense manhunt involving hundreds of officers, and raised fears of cop-killers on the loose.

Two months later, authorities announced that he, in fact, killed himself to cover his crimes. And now authorities are also investigating his wife, Melodie, and one of his sons, D.J., an official said Thursday.

Melodie Gliniewicz helped her husband run the Fox Lake Police Explorer Post, which put young people interested in law enforcement careers through sophisticated training exercises. In a newspaper interview weeks ago, D.J. Gliniewicz, who is in his 20s, angrily dismissed suggestions that his father took his own life.

The official, who was briefed on the investigation, spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.

Authorities refused to officially identify anyone beyond the lieutenant who is suspected in any crimes.

The family -- the couple had three other children -- issued a brief statement Wednesday through their attorneys in which they said they were still grieving but which didn't mention the finding that Gliniewicz took his own life or that he had been stealing from the youth program. The attorneys, Henry Tonigan and Andrew Kelleher, didn't immediately respond to voicemail and email messages sent Thursday seeking comment.

On Sept. 1 -- the day he died -- Gliniewicz radioed in that he was chasing three suspicious men into a swampy area. Backup officers found the Army veteran's body about 50 yards from his squad car.

Authorities launched a large and costly manhunt for the suspects, but produced only one arrest -- a woman accused of calling in a false lead.

As the probe stretched on, suspicion grew that Gliniewicz had killed himself, but investigators publicly treated it as a homicide investigation, while saying they couldn't rule out suicide.

On Wednesday, investigators confirmed those suspicions. Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko, who led the investigation, said Gliniewicz had the kind of intimate knowledge of crime scenes needed to pull it off and clearly intended to mislead investigators.

Up until the day he died, the village administrator was pressing to see the explorer program's books as part of a village-wide audit.

Recovered text messages and other records now show Gliniewicz spent the money on mortgage payments, travel expenses, gym memberships, adult websites, withdrawing cash and making loans, Filenko said.

His precise motive for trying to make his death look like a homicide remains unclear. Filenko said he didn't know whether a suicide finding would prevent his family from receiving benefits.

"Gliniewicz committed the ultimate betrayal," Filenko said Wednesday. "We completely believed from Day One that this was a homicide."

The huge outpouring of grief in the village where the 52-year-old officer had long been a role model has been replaced by a sense of betrayal. Tributes to their slain hero have come down; signs praising "G.I. Joe" have disappeared, replaced in one place by a poster labeling him "G.I. Joke."

[Nordic]

So sick of hearing about "beloved police officers" inexplicably and shockingly (gasp) doing wrong!!


Fuck the police. Guilty until proven innocent with these assholes. Just the desire to be a cop makes a person deeply suspect.

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Colleagues Accused Crooked Cop Who Killed Himself of Years of Misconduct: Records
by M. ALEX JOHNSON

Disgraced Illinois Cop Who Staged Suicide Also Planned a Hit Job 1:57
Joseph Gliniewicz — the Illinois cop who committed suicide and tried to make it look like a heroic death in the line of duty — clashed for years with many of his own colleagues, who accused him of extraordinary misbehavior on and off the job, according to his personnel records.

Gliniewicz, 52, killed himself Sept. 1 and staged the scene to look as though he was killed by someone else, investigators say.

Thursday, investigators said Gliniewicz — a lieutenant who joined the Fox Lake Police Department in 1985 — also tried to find a a hit man to kill the village administrator, who he feared would discover that he had been embezzling from the department's Explorers Program for children.

Related: Fox Lake Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz Tried to 'Put a Hit' on Administrator: Police

According to his personnel file, it wasn't the first time Gliniewicz's behavior had created serious friction in the department.

As early as May 1988, Gliniewicz was found passed out in his pickup truck along a local highway, with the engine running and his foot on the gas pedal, according to a sheriff's incident report attached to his personnel records. The report quoted a Lake County deputy as saying "this was not the first time something like this has happened."

Otherwise, for the most part, Gliniewicz's record is filled with impressive reviews and commendations for about the first 15 years of his career.

Beloved Police Officer 'Was Not What He Seemed' 0:35
In about 2000, the favorable citations dry up, although it should be noted that the file has several long gaps during which similar notices could have been entered.

It's about that time, however, that a string of serious incidents began to happen.

Related: Fox Lake Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz Committed Suicide: Illinois Police

NBC Chicago reported that in a 2003 complaint — which a judge dismissed in 2005 — a female Fox Lake officer alleged that Gliniewicz called her to meet him in a hotel room on Valentine's Day 2000.

When she arrived, Gliniewicz gave her a box of chocolates, rubbed her shoulders and pressured her to perform oral sex, according to the complaint, which said Gliniewicz was her commanding officer at the time.

Attorneys for the city denied in court papers that the female officer was ever forced to do anything she didn't want to, but Gliniewicz was suspended for a month.

In 2002, Gliniewicz's position as commander of support services was abolished, effective the following year, because of "the recent course of events concerning you and the problems in the Communications Division." Those events aren't described.

A year later, in April 2003, a dispatcher, whose name has been redacted, filed a memo alleging that Gliniewicz made remarks "regarding putting 'bullets in my chest'" and saying no one would find her body because "there are a lot of lakes around here."

The dispatcher added that she knew that "Commander Gliniewicz was only joking with me at the time and would never harm me" — although "I don't think law enforcement officials should joke about misusing firearms," she said.

Later in April 2003, however, the same dispatcher filed a second memo. This one complained that Gliniewicz had pulled and appeared to have cocked his service weapon while they were in the radio room together.

"I felt very uncomfortable and thought maybe he was trying to intimidate me," she wrote. "Why does he do this after his recent comment about putting 'bullets in my chest'?"

NBC Chicago: Fox Lake Officer's Wife, Son Under Criminal Investigation: Source

Gliniewicz responded in a memo that he should have better documented the encounters to assist the dispatcher with getting "professional help."

Police: 'We Took (False Report) Very Seriously' 2:17
Some of the most serious accusations are detailed in a stunning letter that members of the Fox Lake Police Department anonymously sent to then-Mayor Cindy Irwin in February 2009. The letter outlines almost two pages of complaints about the lieutenant, who they said had sent "morale within the department [to] an all-time low."

According to the letter, Gliniewicz had been suspended six times for "an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate." It says officers often were warned by suspects whom they'd arrested that they should drop the arrests because they were "friends with Joey," referring to Gliniewicz, the letter said.

The letter goes on to accuse Gliniewicz of having:

Grabbed women's breasts at more than one department Christmas party.
Confronted officers in public about reports in their own files, apparently in violation of privacy regulations.
Been thrown out of local bars by bouncers.
Repeatedly visited "establishments within the village" with a woman who wasn't his wife.
Walked out on a $300 bar tab.
Used his squad car for personal errands — including once having driven his family to Wisconsin on vacation.
Allowed civilians to fill their cars at the police gas station.
The anonymous police employees said Gliniewicz's behavior had "destroyed morale within the department and affected everyone's attitude." Gliniewicz's personnel file doesn't indicate whether any action was taken on his colleagues' letter.

Thursday, Fox Lake Mayor Donny Schmidt asked the community to wait for the results of the full investigation before jumping to conclusions. But he said it was clear that "the person that I thought I knew for 30 years had another side I wasn't aware of."

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No, no, no ... Cops are hero's!


State trooper delays telling children of parents' death, takes care of them on Halloween
http://wtvr.com/2015/11/05/georgia-stat ... undraiser/

Hurry, post it to reddit, the PR is slipping ... Wonder how much asset forfeiture this cost us?

Hits you in da feels, man, da feels. As all propagenda should ...

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The Full List Of Crimes Falsely Blamed On The Black Lives Matter Movement

Before Ruled A Suicide, Cop's Death Used To Target Black Lives Matter

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[url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Suicide-Suspected-Minutes-After-Fox-Lake-Officer-Found-Shot-Documents-364223121.html#ixzz3wNR2cgIO]Suicide Suspected Minutes After Fox Lake Officer Found Dead: Documents
By Phil Rogers


Newly released documents reveal that at least one Fox Lake Police officer questioned whether Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz might have taken his own life, within minutes of his body being discovered last September. NBC 5's Phil Rogers reports. (Published Monday, Jan. 4, 2016)
Newly released documents reveal that at least one Fox Lake police officer questioned whether Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz might have taken his own life within minutes of his body being discovered last September.
Gliniewicz had radioed in that he was pursuing three suspects. Arriving officers said when they first found the lieutenant’s body, they noticed his holster was empty and his pepper spray was missing. Eventually, the officer’s weapon was found in tall grass a few feet from his body, and it’s believed he had purposely left his pepper spray canister nearby in an effort to throw off arriving police.
Caricature Artist Stabs Colleague in Head at Florida Theme Park
The reports, obtained by NBC5 Investigates on Monday, summarize interviews conducted with first responders by the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force.
They reveal that three of the arriving officers all reported hearing at least one gunshot. And that one sergeant, who was a former Gliniewicz student, recalled a colleague raising the possibility of suicide.


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Wife of Illinois cop who spurred manhunt indicted for stealing from charity
Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY 5:20 p.m. EST January 27, 2016

A grand jury on Wednesday indicted the wife of an Illinois cop who authorities say killed himself after embezzling thousands of dollars from a youth charity.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said a grand jury indicted Melodie Gliniewicz, 51, on felony counts of money laundering and disbursing charitable funds from a youth program without authority for personal benefit.

The mysterious death of her husband, Fox Lake Police officer Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz, spurred a massive manhunt along the Illinois-Wisconsin border when he killed himself. Police say he attempted to make it look like he had been fatally shot in the line of duty.

Authorities initially believed the veteran cop was killed by one or more assailants in the Sept 1, 2015 incident in the quiet northern Illinois town of Fox Lake. Investigators later determined that Gliniewicz decided to commit suicide because he feared it was about to be discovered that he had been embezzling thousands of dollars from a youth program he ran for his police department.

The sheriff's department said that the couple withdrew money from the police department's youth Explorer's account over the course of several years for their personal use. Detectives determined some of the personal expenses paid for included a trip to Hawaii and over 400 restaurant charges.

Melodie Gliniewicz, who served as an adviser to her husband at the Explorers post, was indicted on three counts of disbursing charitable funds without authority and for personal benefit, one count of disbursing charitable funds without authority and for personal benefit, and one count of money laundering.

"Melodie has suffered greatly over the past few months and continues to move her family forward after the emotionally traumatizing events of September 1, 2015," the law office of Kelleher & Buckley, which is representing Gliniewicz, said in a statement. "Considering Melodie’s cooperation with law enforcement, she is devastated by the decision to bring charges against her. Melodie is a victim of her husband’s secret actions and looks forward to her day in Court to show the world her innocence."

Gliniewicz turned herself in to authorities Wednesday afternoon. She was booked and released after posting bond, said one of her attorneys, Vasili Russis.

Her attorneys said in November that the Lake County State's Attorney's Office had moved to freeze her personal banks accounts. She was later allowed access to her funds that included more than $30,000 in donations made to the family following her husband's death.

A booking photo of Melodie Gliniewicz, who turned herself
A booking photo of Melodie Gliniewicz, who turned herself into police after being indicted on Wednesday (Photo: Lake County Sheriff's Office)
“Fox Lake, all of Lake County, and quite frankly the entire country have been through a mix of emotions throughout the Gliniewicz investigations," said Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran. "It is my hope the community can continue healing and rebuilding."

Investigators said at the time of Gliniewicz's death that he was patrolling in an industrial area in Fox Lake, when he radioed dispatch to say he was going to check on suspicious activity he had spotted.

He described the suspects as two white men and a black man to dispatchers. Gliniewiciz called for backup, saying he was in a foot chase, but was not heard from again.


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Illinois police officer who spurred manhunt stole money, committed suicide

Officers responding to his call found his body. An intense manhunt involving hundreds of law enforcement officials, including U.S. marshals, FBI and ATF agents, failed to produce any arrests or identify the suspects.

Investigators concluded two months later that Gliniewicz's death was a "carefully staged suicide" by an officer who was on the cusp of being discovered for stealing from the village.

The sheriff's department said Gliniewicz had stolen thousands of dollars from the Explorers post over seven years, which he spent on mortgage payments, travel, handing out personal loans, a gym membership and adult websites.