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(Message started by: deltadarlin on Feb 13^th, 2008, 8:55am)

Title: Cops gone bad?
Post by deltadarlin on Feb 13^th, 2008, 8:55am

You know, there are a lot of good cops out there, but it seems that the *bad* ones are the ones who make the news. IMHO, every cop in that video should be fired, *if* the story is correct (which the video indicates is).

http://www.nbc15online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3fc7f8fd-da6f-4aaf-b110-b77c729e0567

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by KingOfPain on Feb 13^th, 2008, 9:27am

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/090601/met_sinclair.html

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269669_pension11.asp

http://www.karisable.com/crlebc.htm

BAD COP, NO DONUT!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/ron666/bcnd.html

http://tinyurl.com/22y4f3

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Guiseppi on Feb 13^th, 2008, 9:55am

I agree, he should just tased the dude!!!!!! ;;D

Guiseppi

(Who really wouldn't have tased the dude)

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Jimi on Feb 13^th, 2008, 10:38am

Unacceptable. I don't even know what to say about that. I imagined that being my wife and it would have made me furious.

KOP...not sure what YOUR agenda is, but I'll say this. You can cram that donut up you ass. >:(

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by mummymac on Feb 14^th, 2008, 4:59pm

That made me feel sick, god forbid that should happen to anyone again

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Guiseppi on Feb 14^th, 2008, 5:28pm

I laughed this off and cracked a joke over it, and was mis understood by a few people...I apologize to those I may have offended......let me tell you why I responded the way I did.

I've been a cop for 28 years. The cop that did that will be fired, and hopefully prosecuted. It was a stupid, senseless, heartless, classless act, that indicates a psychological profile of a person who should never be in a position of power.

The good news is that it was BIG NEWS! Because stuff like that DOESN'T happen everyday in this country. So when it does happen, it's big news, the press runs with it, you-tube runs with it, it's a really big deal. A FELLOW OFFICER had to have dimed him out, releasing that video to the media. Which tells you even his fellow officers were appalled at the behavior.

So while in and of itself it was a pretty disgusting act, that fact that it got so much attention tells you everything is okay in our system. You think if a cop in Iraq did that it would make the news?

Guiseppi

(Who is pretty happy with our system!)

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Ghost on Feb 15^th, 2008, 11:25am

That was totally uncalled for by any standards! I hope they all get criminal charges brought on them and they get the same treatment!

Mike

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by nani on Feb 15^th, 2008, 12:45pm

on 02/14/08 at 17:28:45, Guiseppi wrote:

indicates a psychological profile of a person who should never be in a position of power.

I agree with you, Guiseppi. That's where the problem with "bad" cops is. It takes a special person to be a good cop. I'm not sure why, but many police forces fail to weed out the riffraff.

Here in NM, the Albuquerque PD and NM state police are top notch. They eliminate many potential officers due to those psyche profiles. Guess where the rejected go? To the County and local PDs. :-/

Most cops are good cops, but we only hear about the bad ones.

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Linda_Howell on Feb 16^th, 2008, 1:42pm

Quote:

but it seems that the *bad* ones are the ones who make the news.

Thank God that isn't always the case.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-funeral16feb16,1,5336314.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=6&cset=true

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Ree on Feb 16^th, 2008, 2:27pm

I want to hug that lady... how horrible.

I hope she gets millions... Ree

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by DragonSlayer on Feb 16^th, 2008, 5:58pm

on 02/16/08 at 13:42:02, Linda_Howell wrote:

Thank God that isn't always the case.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-funeral16feb16,1,5336314.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=6&cset=true

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Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Linda_Howell on Feb 16^th, 2008, 6:13pm

Not sure why you aren't able to access it.

The police officers arrived by the thousands -- members of a family bound not by blood, but by a uniform and a badge.

They were joined by countless other mourners Friday, inside a cavernous South Los Angeles church and throughout the region, to honor slain Los Angeles Police Officer Randal Simmons. The 51-year-old officer was remembered as a deeply religious man, devoted husband, caring father and model cop in a tearful three-hour funeral service.

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Simmons was shot and killed last week during a tense standoff with a San Fernando Valley gunman who already had killed three members of his family. He is the first member of the city's elite Special Weapons and Tactics unit to be killed in the line of fire since its start nearly 40 years ago.

Ten thousand people -- most of them police and other law enforcement officers -- filled the Crenshaw Christian Center's Faith Dome on Vermont Avenue. The funeral, attended by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other elected and civic officials, was the largest in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Simmons' death reverberated throughout Southern California. Television stations carried the funeral live and uninterrupted for hours. Thousands of people lined closed city streets to watch as the hearse traveled to the Culver City cemetery where Simmons would be buried. At Slauson Avenue near Angeles Vista Boulevard, several hundred people, including the elderly and preschool students holding their parents' hands, remained long after the hearse had passed. Some applauded. Others held "Thank You" signs.

Villaraigosa, whose children Simmons had once guarded, acknowledged to mourners that the death had hit the community hard.

"It touches a particular nerve way deep in our souls, and it hurts," Villaraigosa said. "I've thought a lot over the last few days about why that is, and I think it has something to do with the fact that the entire city community loses when we lose a police officer."

A video montage played at the service highlighted the many aspects of Simmons' life, from childhood through fatherhood, including his work on the streets of inner-city neighborhoods where he ministered to children on weekends. Images of an intimidating, chiseled officer carrying heavy weapons in the midst of missions were set off by others that hinted of a man at ease and with a sense of humor. In one, he was seen hamming for the camera as he and his longtime partner, Officer James Veenstra, playfully put handcuffs on Santa Claus.

Speaker after speaker recounted memories of the man known at the LAPD as "The Rock."

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?
Post by Ree on Feb 16^th, 2008, 7:18pm

Ya Linda and I like to think that my son Sean is an example of a great cop.

That story really bothered me

Ree

Title: Re: Cops gone bad?[Deputy charged]
Post by KingOfPain on Feb 23^rd, 2008, 11:22am

Deputy charged in wheelchair-dumping incident.

A US sheriff's deputy who dumped a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair
has been charged with felony abuse.

http://tinyurl.com/2loejn

http://tinyurl.com/2t4qnj

http://tinyurl.com/2bext3

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