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Police Officers Whining About www.ratemycop.com Website - www.godaddy.com Screws Over Website, Lies And Shuts It Down

Posted on March 11, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - Police agencies from coast to coast are furious with a new Web site. RateMyCop.com has the names of thousands of officers, and many believe it is putting them in danger. Officer Hector Basurto, vice president of the Latino Police Officers Association, recently learned about the site...

Pierz Minnesota Police Chief Steve Boser Quits Amid Investigation Into Misconduct

Posted on March 11, 2008
PIERZ, MINNESOTA - Steve Boser is no longer Pierz’s police chief. The Pierz City Council, in an unanimous vote Monday, accepted Boser’s resignation effective March 3 - the day Boser submitted his letter of resignation at Pierz City Hall. Boser had been on paid administrative leave since Feb...

Colorado Bill Would Finally Allow Death Penalty For Child Rapists With Prior Convictions Against Children

Posted on March 11, 2008
COLORADO - Colorado could put child rapists to death under a bill that won a Senate committee’s approval Monday and would put the state on par with just five others that allow the execution of such sex offenders. Prosecutors could try for the death penalty in cases in which rape victims are 12 or younger, where [...

Crazed Eastern Kentucky Lawmaker Tim Couch Wants To Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

Posted on March 10, 2008
KENTUCKY - Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal. The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site. Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted...

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Miami Florida Police Officer Rondal Laroy Brown Charged With Killing K-9 Partner

Posted on March 10, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - A Miami police officer surrendered Monday to face animal cruelty and other charges in the death of his K-9 partner, a female bloodhound named Dynasty. Officer Rondal Laroy Brown, 48, will be released on bail, his attorney said. An investigation showed that Dynasty, who was donated to the Miami Police Department in 2004 and [...

Santa Clara County California Deputy Sheriff James Council Claims He Fell Asleep When He Drove On Wrong Side Of Road And Killed Two Bicyclists

Posted on March 10, 2008
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — A man who was riding behind two cyclists who were struck and killed by a Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy on a winding road in Cupertino said in an interview today that the deputy told him in the minutes after the collision that he had fallen asleep at the wheel...

California State Bar Should Crack Down On Bad Lawyers

Posted on March 10, 2008
CALIFORNIA - I’m not sure what it takes for a lawyer to be disbarred in California. I suppose murder would do the trick, or perhaps bonking a judge on the head with a very heavy law book. It’s amazing, though, how many of the most blatant transgressions never result in a voided bar card...

Boston Judge To Decide Damages After FBI Sanctioned Murders - Whitey Bulger, John Connolly Jr. Case

Posted on March 10, 2008
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ?Mobsters shot the two men dead to exact revenge, but a federal judge is now weighing how much the FBI should pay the families for their loss. The judge has already determined the FBI is responsible for the 1982 deaths of Edward “Brian” Halloran and Michael Donahue because former Agent John Connolly Jr...

Very Disgraced And Disbarred Nutcase Oak Harbor Ohio Lawyer Elsebeth Baumgartner Loses Appeal

Posted on March 10, 2008
PORT CLINTON, OHIO — An appeals court upheld Elsebeth Baumgartner’s 2006 criminal contempt conviction for accusing a judge of persecuting her and committing crimes. The disbarred Oak Harbor attorney gave no evidence to back up any of her dozens of allegations against Visiting Judge Richard Markus of Cuyahoga County while he presided over a civil libel [...

Los Vegas Nevada Police Set Up “Direct Officer Access Phone” For Businesses, Then Lose Phone

Posted on March 10, 2008
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Don Walford notices suspicious activity from time to time near his insurance office near East Charleston and 30th streets: a “flagger” directing drug seekers to a dealer down the way, or women strolling back and forth who might be practicing the world’s oldest profession...

New York City Sued After Crazed Police Officer Handcuffs 4 Year Olds Who Wouldn’t Nap

Posted on March 10, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The parents of two Bronx preschoolers are suing the city, charging that their kids were tossed out of class - and handcuffed by a school-safety officer - for refusing to take a nap. Lawyer Scott Agulnick said Jaden Diaz and Christopher Brito - both then 4 and students at CS 211, [...

Morton TSA Agent Can’t Believe Apple MacBook Air Is A Real Laptop - Hassles Owner At Airport Because Of No Harddrive

Posted on March 10, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple’s thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath the scanner, security managed to find enough peculiarities to remove it from the flow, [...

Nutcase New York Governor, Illegal Immigrant Ass-Kisser Eliot Spitzer, Linked To Prostitution Ring - Expected To Quit In Disgrace

Posted on March 10, 2008
NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been linked to a prostitution ring, the New York Times is reporting on its Web site. He is not expected to continue his term, multiple sources in the state Legislature tell CBS 2, setting off one of the largest scandals in modern New York state political history...

Global Finance And Money Experts Predict Collapse Of U.S. Economy In 2008

Posted on March 10, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - And you thought that I had a gloomy outlook on the economy. Now the bad news pops up everywhere. Harry Koza in the Globe and Mail quotes Bernard Connelly, the global strategist at Banque AIG in London, who claims that the likelihood of a Great Depression is growing by the day...

Dumbass Philadelphia Pennsylvania Amtrak Police Officer Shoots Himself In The Foot While Hassling Homeless Woman About Coffee Refill

Posted on March 10, 2008
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — A woman was in custody Sunday night in connection with the shooting of an Amtrak officer, NBC 10 reported. The officer was shot in the foot by his own weapon, according to police. The shooting happened shortly before noon Sunday at a McDonald’s restaurant inside 30th Street station...

Sydney Australia Police Leave Keys In Truck While Searching For Armed Robber - Who Steals Truck

Posted on March 10, 2008
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - It’s easy enough to leave the keys in your car - but the consequences can be a good deal more embarrassing if you’re a police officer … especially if the suspect you’re after finds them before you. That’s what happened in Sydney last night when two officers saw a stolen silver [...

Sicko Texas FBI Sniper Lovett Leslie Ledger Shoots And Kills 8 Year Old Girl’s 3 Pound Chihuahua Dog With A Pellet Gun And Then Lies About It. Neighbor Talks To Media, Afraid To Use Name For Fear Of Retaliation From Crazed Cop

Posted on March 10, 2008
[Note: We’ve received 3 emails regarding this post. Evidently this nutcase has a thing against animals. He is implicated in other animal abuse incidents, including attacks on his own animals. Neighbors live in fear, in that he is a ticking time bomb, and will shift from abusing animals to humans - if he hasn’t done [...

Orange County California Deputies Not Charged After Inmate’s Beating Death - Deputy Said Inmate Was A Child Molester And Encouraged Others To Beat Him

Posted on March 10, 2008
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA - A special grand jury found no evidence of criminal negligence by Orange County sheriff’s deputies in the death of a jail inmate who authorities say was beaten by other inmates, a prosecutor said Friday. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said the grand jury was unable to corroborate inmates’ claims that a sheriff’s deputy [...

Legislature Targets Troubled Connecticut State Police

Posted on March 10, 2008
CONNECTICUT - The legislature’s public safety committee voted Thursday to form a task force to examine problems within the state police, including hiring, training, promotion and retaliation. The action came after a five-hour hearing Tuesday attended by 200 state troopers at which many testified that they had been retaliated against because they had been whistle-blowers and [...

Three Waterford Connecticut Police Officers And 1 Sergeant Suspended For Hanging Out At Home Instead Of Working - Chief Murray Pendleton Keeps Names Secret From Taxpayers

Posted on March 10, 2008
WATERFORD, CONNECTICUT - Three police officers and a sergeant have been suspended after an internal police department investigation found that the officers were spending time at home during their midnight shifts instead of working. Police Chief Murray Pendleton would not release the names of the suspended officers and sergeant or release the details of the investigation...

Connecticut State Police Officers Line Up To Describe Retaliation By State Police Managers

Posted on March 10, 2008
CONNECTICUT - Their voices cracking at times, trooper after trooper stepped forward at a legislative hearing Tuesday to testify that they had been victims of blatant retaliation by state police managers against whom they had filed complaints alleging severe misconduct...

Feds To Continue Dumping Cash Into Tanking U.S. Economy Amid Crashing Dollar - Previous Efforts Proved Worthless - Goodbye Recession, Hello Depression

Posted on March 10, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — The Federal Reserve is taking bigger steps to ease the nation’s credit crisis, including increasing the amount of loans it plans to make available to banks this month to $100 billion. The Fed announced Friday that it will boost the size of auctions planned for March 10 and March 24 to $50 billion [...

Dumbass Santa Clara County California Deputy Sheriff Crosses Center Line, Runs Over 3 Bicyclists, Killing 2 - Killer Cop’s Name Kept Secret From Taxpayers

Posted on March 10, 2008
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Two of those riders were killed and another is in the hospital with serious injuries. The crash happened on an open spaced area near Stevens Creek Road in Cupertino. Police shut down that roadway while they were investigating, but has now been re-opened in both directions...

Innocent Man Imprisoned 26 Years In Illinois - Two Lawyers Had The Truth, But Kept Quiet As Man Served Life Sentence

Posted on March 10, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - This is a story about an innocent man who has been in prison for 26 years while two attorneys who knew he was innocent stayed silent. They did so because they felt they had no choice. Alton Logan was convicted of killing a security guard at a McDonald’s in Chicago in 1982...

Melbourne Australian Police Hold News Conference For Missing Couple, Just As They Return From Vacation - Cops Didn’t Bother To Check With Neighbor Who Was Feeding Couple’s Dog

Posted on March 10, 2008
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA ? A Melbourne couple returning home from vacation Monday were shocked to discover police about to hold a news conference at their house about their suspicious disappearance. William and Heather Ostell’s daughter, Angela, had not seen or heard from her parents since Thursday...

U.S. Virgin Islands Corrections Officer Carl Yhan Charged With Assaulting Woman And Threatening Her With A Gun

Posted on March 09, 2008
ST. CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS - A V.I. Bureau of Corrections officer arrested last month in connection with a report that he assaulted a woman and threatened her with a firearm, has pleaded not guilty and has been scheduled for a jury trial. Corrections Officer Carl Yhan, 28, of La Grande Princesse appeared before V...

Trial Date Set For Winnebago County Illinois Deputy Sheriff Joseph Boomer After Deadly 100 MPH Accident Which Killed Two Brothers And Injured Sister

Posted on March 09, 2008
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS - A trial date is set for a Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputy accused of causing a deadly accident while on duty. Joseph Boomer, 34, of Winnebago, is charged with Reckless Homicide and Aggravated Reckless Driving in an accident that killed Aaron Bachman, his brother DJ, and hurt their sister Kori...

Darlington South Carolina Police Officer Vincent Robinson Arrested, Fired, Faces Drug Charges

Posted on March 09, 2008
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - Former Darlington police officer Vincent Richardson’s bond was set at $1,000 Saturday morning. Richardson was arrested Friday night on a charge of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit. Vincent Richardson, an officer with the department?s special detail unit, was placed on administrative leave Friday morning after the department received [...

Former Asbury Park New Jersey Animal Control Officer Caren Cunningham Receives A Slap On The Wrist For Tampering With Records, Suffering Cat That Died

Posted on March 09, 2008
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY ? A former Asbury Park animal control officer who admitted she tampered with public records after failing to properly care for an injured cat was sentenced to probation today. Caren Cunningham, 50, of Asbury Park, was sentenced to one year’s probation and barred from holding any public office in New Jersey by state [...

Charges Against Former Interim Chesnee South Carolina Police Cheiff Jeff Kirby Suddenly Disappear - Returned Evidence To Convicted Man

Posted on March 09, 2008
SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA - A judge has dropped a misconduct in office charge against a former interim chief of the Chesnee Police Department. Authorities accused Jeff Kirby of removing brass knuckles from a police evidence locker and giving them back to a man convicted of using the weapon in an assault and battery...

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