COPWATCH

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January 17, 2011
Indianapolis officer charged again in fatal crash
The Bisard case has been another black mark for a police department already suffering an image crisis

http://www.policeone.com/officer-miscon ... tal-crash/

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January 27, 2011
'Gladiators' cop denies anger while making arrest
She is denying accusations that she arrested a shop manager in anger

http://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articl ... ng-arrest/

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You pay for and own the Criminal Justice System yet you have no say in how it is run.

How bad is the system?


Chester Turner, serial killer on death row, is charged with four more murders
Investigators say DNA links serial killer Chester Dewayne Turner to the slayings of four women. In some cases, others had been accused of the crimes now attributed to Turner, who is on death row.


By Jack Leonard and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times

February 2, 2011

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 0817.story

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February 08, 2011
Toronto cop pleads guilty in threat of TASER use on genitals
A spokesperson has condemned the officer’s actions, calling them "disgraceful, completely unacceptable and shocking"

http://www.policeone.com/international/ ... -genitals/

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February 16, 2011
Wash. police shoot, kill BB gun-wielding woman during domestic
The woman told officers to shoot her several times

http://www.policeone.com/officer-shooti ... -domestic/

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http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/v ... position=0


Statie brass wheeling and dealing
Use drug forfeit dough on SUVs, couches, flat-screens
Dave Wedge By Dave Wedge
Monday, February 21, 2011

Top-ranking state police brass at Logan International Airport shelled out $300,000 for a shiny, new fleet of take-home SUVs for themselves and bought couches, furniture and flat-screen TVs — all out of their own tightly controlled fund of seized drug money, the Herald has learned.

“It’s yet another example of things that seem to always end up happening at Massport, that are even beyond some of the normal excesses we see in state government,” said state Rep. Bradley H. Jones, a North Reading Republican. “It feeds into the perception of Massport as a cash cow from top to bottom.”

Commanders at Troop F at Logan — including the major, three lieutenants, a sergeant and a detective — are riding in style in $40,000-plus 2011 Ford Explorers purchased just weeks ago out of the unit’s asset forfeiture account — a discreet fund controlled by a detective lieutenant.

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February 23, 2011
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http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles ... -to-NYCLU/

NYPD must give shot-citizens data to NYCLU
The judge said the NYPD's stance flew in the face of the Freedom of Information law, and ordered the reports be released

By Dareh Gregorian
The New York Post

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has ordered the NYPD to release data on police shooting incidents that it had been fighting tooth and nail to keep private.

In a decision made public yesterday, state Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman ruled the cops must turn over two kinds of reports that are filed after every shooting incident involving a civilian to the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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Suspect dies after struggling with LA officers

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... .DTL&tsp=1

(02-26) 09:42 PST Los Angeles, CA (AP) --

Los Angeles police are investigating the death of an assault suspect who struggled with officers and was hit with a stun gun during an arrest.

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Witness testifies that Compton teen killed by deputy was holding a phone, not a gun
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... .A.+Now%29
February 26, 2011 | 11:32 am

A Compton teenager fatally shot in the back by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in 2009 was not holding a gun, according to the testimony of one eyewitness who sharply contradicted the sheriff's official account of the shooting.

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Drug cop allegedly filmed counting cash from sale
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1HV1EC.DTL
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle February 25, 2011

(02-25) 14:11 PST CONCORD -- A state drug agent was caught on video counting money and laughing after he sold a pound of methamphetamine he had allegedly stolen from a law enforcement evidence locker, according to court documents filed by state investigators.

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Hope this hasn't already been posted: Man sues SFPD after being tossed from theater. Outrageous case of unprovoked assault and injury.

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6 SF cops accused of illegal searches, perjury

Michael Cabanatuan, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle March 2, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... .DTL&tsp=1
Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle

Head of the public defender's office Jeff Adachi shows videos standing in direct contradiction to police reports which were signed by officers under penalty of perjury at the public defender's office in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Surveillance video from the Henry Hotel reveals that SFPD narcotics officers falsified police reports in order to justify searching residences without warrants or consent.
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(03-02) 17:35 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Officials with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office have produced a video they say proves that six narcotics officers lied in court about illegally searching two South of Market apartments in order to use what they found as evidence.

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Trooper indicted for allegedly assaulting, sexually touching girl under 14
By Heather Steeves, BDN Staff
Posted Feb. 28, 2011, at 6:39 p.m.


WISCASSET, Maine — A Maine State Police trooper was indicted in February on 13 charges involving a girl under the age of 14.

Gregory Vrooman, 45, of Nobleboro is accused of assaulting and sexually touching a girl under the age of 14 and then trying to cover up the crimes.

The Lincoln County grand jury indicted Vrooman on four charges of unlawful sexual touching, four charges of unlawful sexual contact, four charges of assault and one charge of tampering with a witness.

The 24-year veteran of the state police was arrested in November 2010 at his home and later released on bail.

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Neighbourhood watchers in Reading get speedguns

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Big society goes Big Brother – with speed-monitoring neighbours

By Jane Fae Ozimek • Get more from this author

Posted in Policing, 8th March 2011 14:25 GMT

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/08 ... _everyone/

Police in Reading are today encouraging residents to join the Big Society and zap speeding neighbours with personal issue speed detection kit. The speedster who falls afoul of the personal speedguns gets two written warnings from neighbourhood police. Police may then take action on the third infraction.


According to reports in GetReading, the controversial scheme, known as SpeedWatch, was trialled last year in Tilehurst East in co-ordination with the local neighbourhood action group (NAG).

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Contra Costa deputy's 'dirty DUI' arrests
see link for full story http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1I6IQC.DTL
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle March 8, 2011

Wednesday, March 9, 2011


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The Vine wine bar in Danville was where "targets" were drinking before they were arrested by Contra Costa sheriff's deputy friends of a private investigator who allegedly set the men up.


(03-08) 18:29 PST DANVILLE -- A Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy told two colleagues he was making "dirty DUI" arrests on behalf of a private investigator who was setting up men to damage their reputations in legal fights, an investigator said in court documents.

Deputy Stephen Tanabe, 47, told a reserve sheriff's deputy on patrol with him the night of Jan. 14 that a drunken-driving arrest the two were making outside a Danville bar was a "setup" and that the target needed to be "dirtied" for a future court date, a sheriff's investigator wrote in a search warrant affidavit.