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Disgraced Veteran Milwaukee County Wisconsin Deputy Sheriff Chris Conell Keeps Job Over Sheriff’s Objections, Suspended For 30 Days After Drunk Driving Arrest At Three Times State Limit

Posted on April 24, 2008
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - The sheriff wanted him fired, but a deputy who was arrested for drunk driving will keep his job. Deputy Chris Conell will be able to wear his badge again and carry a gun by mid-May after serving a 30 day suspension without pay. “I love being a Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputy,” Conell said...

Sulphur Springs Arkansas Police Chief Andrew Little Fired, Sgt. Jeremiah Nicholson Forced To Quit - Dumbass Chief Stole Stepfather’s Guns, Pawned Them, And Lied

Posted on April 24, 2008
SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS - Sulphur Springs is minus two police officers after the termination of the chief and the resignation of another officer. On Wednesday night, Mayor Quinton Hoffer informed the Sulphur Springs Town Council of his decision to terminate Police Chief Andrew Little from his position...

Veteran’s Administration Lied To Congress About Veterans Committing Suicide, Claimed Less Than 800 A Year, While Actual Number Is Closer To 12,000 - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 24, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who have attempted suicide, Sen. Patty Murray said Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year while the department was publicly saying it was fewer than 800...

Trigger Happy Chula Vista California Police Officers Shot Frail Innocent 90 Year Old Man 7 Times For Refusing To Come Out Of His House

Posted on April 24, 2008
CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA ? Frail, 90 and apparently suicidal, Sol Oseroff was shot by Chula Vista police seven times, including once in the face, according to a recently released autopsy report that gives new insight into the December shooting. Oseroff is believed to be the oldest man to die at the hands of law enforcement agents [...

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Serial Child Molester Grayslake Illinois Police Officer Donald Rager Sentenced To Just 31 Years In Federal Prison After Abusing At Least 14 Boys In 4 States

Posted on April 24, 2008
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - A former police officer accused of sexually abusing 14 boys in four states including Wisconsin was sentenced in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, today to 31 years in prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan called 41-year-old Donald Rager one of the more prolific sexual offenders that his office has encountered...

Deserving Dumbass Veteran Baltimore Maryland Police Officer Norman Stamp Shot And Killed By Another Officer After Joining Bar Brawl With Brass Knuckles, Pulling Gun

Posted on April 24, 2008
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — A veteran Baltimore City police officer was shot and killed by another officer Thursday morning after he walked out of a bar with brass knuckles to join a fight and later drew a handgun, police said. Norman Stamp, 65, died in the incident, according to Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld...

Imitation Patrol Cars Simulate Real Police Doing Nothing - $12,990.00

Posted on April 23, 2008
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - A local company is making a full-size decoy cop car, promising that it will scare off speeders and crooks. The look-alike police car would be placed on the street to stop speeders. “I would slow down, sure,” said one motorist...

DEA Agents Losing Twice As Many Guns - In Wastebaskets, Airplanes, Bathrooms, Hotel Rooms, From Purses, Cars, While At School, And After Being Left Of Roof Of Car And Driving Off - Losses Often Reported To Wrong Authorities And/Or After Long Delay

Posted on April 23, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - How do Drug Enforcement Administration special agents lose their guns? Faster than ever, according to a new report from the Department of Justice inspector general. From 2002 to 2007, DEA lost 91 weapons, the audit found. The DEA isn’t always reporting the losses of weapons or laptop computers to the proper authorities, and [...

U.S. Border Agents Can Search Laptop Computers Without Probable Cause Or Search Warrent

Posted on April 23, 2008
CALIFORNIA - U.S. border agents can search traveler’s laptops without suspicion, according to a recent court ruling. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that computers are like luggage and therefore subject to searches at national borders and airports...

Texas Still Holding 416 Children After Bogus Abuse Call From Colorado And Resulting Armed Raid

Posted on April 23, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO ? A court document says a phone number used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in Texas had been used previously by a 33-year-old Colorado woman. It’s not yet clear whether authorities suspect Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs made any of the calls that triggered this month’s raid of the compound...

Veteran Bradenton Florida Police Officer Sgt. Thomas Petty Suddenly Retires After On Duty Sex Complaint

Posted on April 23, 2008
BRADENTON, FLORIDA - A Bradenton Police Department sergeant abruptly retired over the weekend after a woman claiming to be having an affair with him filed a complaint with internal affairs. After 18 years with the department, Sgt. Thomas Petty, 43, retired after Alison Wright told officials that Petty had sex with her while he was on [...

Hennepin County Minnesota Sheriff Rich StanekTakes Credit For Shoplifting Bust In Which He And His Department Had No Role

Posted on April 23, 2008
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA - A big shoplifting bust lead to a generous donation Tuesday, as piles of clothes stolen from Macy?s were given to needy Twin Cities women. But the act of kindness became overshadowed with a photo opportunity for the Hennepin County Sheriff?s Department...

Child Molester Moorestown New Jersey Police Officer Robert Melia Jr. Now Charged With F*cking Cows

Posted on April 23, 2008
Police officer’s perversions include kids and cows. MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY - New charges of sex acts with cows have been brought against a Moorestown policeman who last week was charged with sexually assaulting three girls. [Currently featured on the Drudge Report, and Hal Turner’s website: “NEW JERSEY POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED FOR HAVING SEX WITH COWS! [...

Worthless $20 Million Virtual Border Fence Scrapped 2 Months After Disgraced Do-Nothing Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Announced His Approval Of Failed Effort - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 23, 2008
TUCSON, AZ - The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said...

Orange County North Carolina Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour Gives Former State Police Trooper Michael Steele Special Treatment After Officer Pleads Guilty To Serial Attacks On Female Motorists - Sentencing Postponed So He Can Remain Free And Be With His Baby’s Mother

Posted on April 23, 2008
HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA - The attorney for a former state trooper persuaded a judge to postpone his client’s sentencing Tuesday so he wouldn’t be in prison when his baby is born. Michael Steele pleaded guilty Tuesday to 10 separate charges stemming from claims by three Hispanic women that Steele touched, kissed or fondled them during traffic [...

Detroit Michigan Police Officer Sgt. David Cobb Released After Hit Men Kill His Wife Amid Officer’s Affair With One Killer’s Mother - Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy Claims There Is Not Enought Evidence To Charge Officer

Posted on April 23, 2008
DETROIT, MICHIGAN — Two men were charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the contract slaying of a Detroit police sergeant’s wife, but prosecutors said there isn’t enough evidence to charge her husband — the man investigators believe ordered the hit on Rose Cobb...

Very Special Deal Will Allow Suspended Sea Isle City New Jersey Police Chief William Kennedy To Quit, Receive Medical Benefits, Seek Pension, And City Will Drop Charges Against Him

Posted on April 23, 2008
SEA ISLE CITY, NEW JERSEY - Mayor Leonard Desiderio said the city has a tentative agreement with suspended police Chief William Kennedy in which Kennedy would retire immediately and the city would drop departmental charges against him. The city accuses Kennedy of ethical violations, having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate employee and misuse of city [...

Dumbass Former China Grove North Carolina Police Officer Edward Adam Hudson Charged With Impersonating A Police Officer

Posted on April 23, 2008
CHINA GROVE, NORTH CAROLINA - A former China Grove police officer has been charged with impersonating a police officer. Edward Adam Hudson, 28, of 167 Moosewood Drive, China Grove, was charged Wednesday by Rowan Deputy R.A. Amerson. According to information contained in a warrant, Amerson responded to a call at Hudson’s residence April 2, where Hudson reported [...

Dumbass Sulphur Springs Arkansas Police Chief Andrew Little Arrested, Charged With Stealing And Pawning His Stepfather’s Guns - Mayor Expects Little To Quit

Posted on April 23, 2008
SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS - Police Chief Andrew Little faces felony theft charges after allegedly stealing and pawning guns owned by his stepfather. Little turned himself in to the Benton County Jail on Tuesday, the same day a warrant was issued against him...

Asshole Pickaway County Ohio Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Cory Bachnicki Assaults And Arrests Man Who Arrived At Accident Scene Where His Son Lay Dying In Wrecked Car

Posted on April 23, 2008
PICKAWAY COUNTY, OHIO - It unfolded March 25 along London Road in Pickaway County. Sixteen-year-old Adam Carter was driving to school when his car crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a dump truck. Paul Carter soon arrived. As he ran toward his son’s crushed car, he was intercepted by Sgt...

Suicide A Larger Threat To Police Than Criminals

Posted on April 23, 2008
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT - When Matthew Morelli, a 38-year-old police officer, was found slumped in a secluded parking lot with an AK-47 rifle on March 21, state and local authorities spent two days looking for a suspect, with helicopters and police dogs scouring the neighborhood, where witnesses reported hearing multiple shots...

Civilized Countries Look Down On U.S., Whose Prison Population Dwarfs Other Nations - U.S. Prisons Overflowing With Non-Violent Offenders With Lengthy Sentences, Many Of Who Committed Victimless Crimes - Less Than 5% Of World’s Population, But Nearly 25% Of Worlds Prisoners - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 23, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment...

New Jersey Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Web Surfer’s Privacy Online

Posted on April 22, 2008
NEW JERSEY - The Supreme Court of New Jersey became the first court in the nation yesterday to rule that people have an expectation of privacy when they are online, and law enforcement officials need a grand jury warrant to have access to their private information...

Dumbass Shelby North Carolina Police Officer Randy Conner Shoots Another Officer With What He Thought Was An “Air Soft” Training Gun, But It Turned Out To Be The Real Thing

Posted on April 22, 2008
POLKVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA - Some mistook the chaos as just part of an exercise. Officers from several departments were in their second day of training on Polkville Road, using an abandoned building to go through hostage situation exercises. But yellow tape around the building Friday afternoon - while officers declined to comment - gave the indication that [...

Orlando Florida Police Officer Ed Michael, Who Beat A Homless Man Into Coma, A No Show In Court. Larry Kamphaus, Charged After Falsifying Records, A No Show In Court. Fernando Trinidad Pushed A Woman Down Stairs, But A No Show In Court. Jonathan Cute, Involved In Shooting Death Of Motorist, A No Show In Court. - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 22, 2008
ORLANDO, FLORIDA — Channel 9 is naming names of Orlando police officers who failed to show up for court. As a result, accused criminals got their cases dropped and some of the cops have been charged with crimes themselves. Every time an officer is due in court, a subpoena is sent to the Orlando Police Department, [...

Ineffective Lorain Ohio Police Chief Appears Before City Council - Behind Closed Doors - Still Has A Job - Police Officers Plead To Have Their Own Department Investigated By Feds, Call On City Council Members To Pull Their Heads Out Of The Sand And Do Their Jobs

Posted on April 22, 2008
Cel Rivera LORAIN, OHIO — Lorain City Council members met with police Chief Cel Rivera behind closed doors last night. Afterward, Mayor Anthony Krasienko said council members seemed generally satisfied with what they heard. [What The Morning Journal didn’t print is that at least 10 Lorain Ohio police officers have pleaded with City Council members to [...

Arkansas Attorney Cindy Baker Found In Contempt Of Court, Again…

Posted on April 22, 2008
GREEN FOREST, ARKANSAS — Attorney Cindy Baker was found guilty of contempt of court in Green Forest City Court Friday, March 21, for missing a previous court date. According to court documents, Judge Scott Jackson presided over the hearing in which he found Baker guilty of the misdemeanor offense, and ordered her to pay a $150 [...

Pinellas County Florida Sheriff’s Department - Criminals With Badges And Guns

Posted on April 22, 2008
PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA - Several months ago, Pinellas County Copwatch and the Police Complaint Center began looking into the conduct of the officers employed by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. As previously reported, it was found that by the end of 2007, the PCSO had more than a dozen officers arrested within a matter of [...

San Diego California Police Officers Chris Tivanian, Michael DeWitt, And Mark Brenner Cleared After Beating And Killing Man Who Rode A Bicycle Without A Light - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 22, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA ? After a 21-month investigation, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has determined that three San Diego police officers ?acted reasonably? during a violent struggle with a 40-year-old man they stopped for riding a bicycle without a light in Lincoln Park...

Lawsuit Targets $5 Million In Illegal San Jose California Speeding Tickets Written By City’s Engineers - Dumbass City Attorney Richard Doyle Claims Ignorance, City Didn’t Know It Was Illegal

Posted on April 22, 2008
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - A driver nailed by a roving radar truck in San Jose is taking his case to court in hopes of getting back the money he spent on speeding tickets and increases in insurance costs for himself and others mailed fines by the city. The city killed the program that put white radar [...

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