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RCMP officer charged with sexual interference against 9-year-old
Winnipeg Sun
First posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 02:10 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 03:42 PM EDT
WINNIPEG - Police are investigating sexual assault and sexual interference charges against an RCMP officer.
Brandon police were asked to take over the investigation of a complaint involving a nine-year-old victim made on Friday.
The incident occurred near Ashern.
On Sunday, police arrested a 55-year-old male from the Arborg area. He has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference.
The suspect is a 26-year member of the RCMP. He was not on duty at the time of the offense.
The suspect's name is not being released to avoid compromising the investigation, police say.
The suspect has been released from custody, with conditions, pending a court date Nov. 19.
Winnipeg's Major Crimes Unit is assisting Brandon police with the investigation.
RCMP officer charged with sexual interference against 9-year-old | Canada | News
 
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7-year-old girl killed: Manslaughter charges thrown out
Aaron Foley, REUTERS
First posted: Friday, October 03, 2014 01:22 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 03, 2014 01:30 PM EDT
DETROIT - A judge on Friday tossed out an involuntary manslaughter charge against a Detroit police officer who shot and killed a 7-year-old girl during a 2010 police raid.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway was acting on a motion from the defense as the two-week jury trial headed into closing arguments.
Officer Joseph Weekley still faces a charge of reckless discharge of a firearm in the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Weekley is being retried after a jury failed to reach a verdict last year in the same case.
Judge Gray Hathaway said she accepted the defense's reasoning that evidence and testimony did not meet the involuntary manslaughter charge.
Involuntary manslaughter carries a stipulation of willful negligence but "the entire trial has been about the carelessness of the defendant based on his skills... Nowhere did I hear anything about a willful negligence," Gray Hathaway said.
Prosecutors made an emergency appeal to restore the manslaughter charge, which the judge is expected to review on Monday.
Detroit police were searching for a suspect in the May 2010 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake when they stormed Aiyana's building.
The suspect, Chauncy Owens, was apprehended and later sentenced to life in prison. Aiyana's father, Charles Jones, was convicted of providing him the murder weapon.
The retrial of Weekley comes during a national uproar over issues of police brutality and use of excessive force after an officer shot and killed an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., sparking weeks of unrest.
The Detroit Police Department is transitioning out of more than 10 years of federal oversight after complaints of excessive force.
7-year-old girl killed: Manslaughter charges thrown out | Crime | World | News |
 
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More Americans Killed By Police Than By Terrorists: With Crime Down, Why Is Police Aggression Up? | Alternet



More Americans Killed By Police Than By Terrorists: With Crime Down, Why Is Police Aggression Up?
We're safer than ever. So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing?





You might not know it from watching TV news, but FBI statistics show that crime in the U.S.—including violent crime—has been trending steadily downward for years, falling 19% between 1987 and 2011. The job of being a police officer has become safer too, as the number of police killed by gunfire plunged to 33 last year, down 50% from 2012, to its lowest level since, wait for it, 1887, a time when the population was 75% lower than it is today.

So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing across the country?


... In some jurisdictions, police have responded to these damaging videos by routinely confiscating bystanders’ cell phones and threatening witnesses with arrest, even though federal courts have consistently held that citizens have a right to photograph and videotape officers engaged in police actions ... This fundamental misapprehension seems to be fueling the continuing political push for more police and tougher policing. While the militarization of law enforcement has little or no relation to the falling crime rate, there is reason to fear that it is eroding our constitutionally protected rights under the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights ...







Losing rights and losing innocents to greater police militarization. Those who are politically conservative and who demand less government intrusion need to speak up about this dangerous trend.
 
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Georgia cops mistake okra plants for cannabis and raid innocent farmer's home:


The Great Georgia Okra Raid | First Draft


Welcome back to stupid cop tricks theatre. It’s yet another argument for ending the so-called war on drugs. Weed legalization is slowly wending its way across the country, which should give the po-po pause when they consider bringing the stupid to a citizens’ residence. It’s the South, we eat okra be it fried or in gumbo. Sure, it’s an acquired taste with the consistency of snot but they eat it in Georgia too. Schmucks.



 
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A Detroit police homicide sergeant has been suspended after department officials found him wearing a murder victim's expensive watch.


Sgt. Alex Vinson was the officer in charge of a case several months ago involving an unknown murder victim who was found wearing an expensive, German-made watch, Detroit Police Chief James Craig confirmed.


The watch was photographed and put into storage in the Homicide Section's property room. The victim has not been identified, and the homicide case has gone cold.


This week, while Vinson was in Idaho for advanced police training, fellow homicide detectives decided to reopen the case.


The detectives wanted to take another look at the watch — but when they removed the victim's belongings from the property room, the watch wasn't the same one that was photographed at the start of the case. Instead, it was a cheaper model, Craig confirmed.


The detectives quickly informed police officials about the discrepancy, Craig said.


"We were made aware of this a few nights ago and immediately initiated an internal investigation," Craig said. "We directed (Vinson) to return home."


Craig added the FBI helped police recover the watch, which Vinson was wearing during the training session. Vinson returned to Michigan Wednesday, and was read his Miranda rights by Internal Affairs officers.


"The case in ongoing, and the sergeant has been suspended while we prepare a warrant for review by prosecutors," Craig said.
Attempts to reach Vinson for comment Thursday were unsuccessful, and a call to his union, the Lieutenants and Sergeants Association, was not returned.




A body, a watch, a suspended Detroit cop
 
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59-year-old Georgia man killed in no-knock raid, no drugs found







The Hooks' family attorney says the series of events was totally illegal:
“The [deputies] broke down the back door of the family’s home and entered, firing an excessive sixteen shots. There is no evidence that David Hooks ever fired a weapon,” said Shook, who also says the warrant did not have a “no-knock” clause and therefore required law enforcement to identify themselves.
And after 44 hours of searching every inch of the property, Georgia law enforcement didn't find a single thing:
Shook said the GBI did not find any contraband in the 44 hours they held Hooks’ property after the shooting.
Shook said Hooks was a devoted husband and father, not a drug user or distributor. He had passed multiple background checks to work on military bases and was financially stable.

“This is not a person who needs to be involved in criminal activity for financial gain. He did very well financially,” Shook said.

According to StopTheDrugWar.org, David Hooks was the 34th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.







Another innocent life lost.
 
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Funny how Hooks name came up 5 years ago in another meth investigation. Especially since he's just a great guy.

According to Cannuck, the police never make mistakes.
 
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New York Man Exonerated After Spending Nearly 30 Years In Prison For A Crime He Didn't Commit | ThinkProgress


A New York man who spent almost 30 years in prison was exonerated on Wednesday after prosecutors determined that he falsely confessed at age 16 to murder and abduction.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic dismissed the now 45-year-old David McCallum’s conviction at the request of District Attorney Kenneth Thompson.


As judges recognize the prevalence of false confessions—often a result of police coercion, the threat of violence or actual physical harm — more people are being released from prison after serving sometimes decades of their lives for crimes they did not commit.





Again, the taxpayers will be forced to pay for these crimes when it should be the police unions who should foot the bill.





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Nanaimo Mountie reprimanded for missing evidence Nanaimo Mountie reprimanded for missing evidence - Nanaimo News Bulletin

By CHRIS BUSH
August 15, 2013 · Updated 2:35 PM
0 Comments A Nanaimo RCMP officer has been reprimanded and Nanaimo RCMP detachment has changed its evidence handling procedures following an internal investigation into a missing evidence case.
The action stems from simultaneous code of conduct and criminal investigations started in February 2011 after it was discovered in December 2010 that $10,000 cash and 0.3 grams of cocaine had gone missing from a temporary evidence storage locker.
Findings from that code of conduct investigation, conducted by officers from Island District RCMP in Victoria, were announced at a public hearing at the Coast Bastion Inn Monday and Tuesday.
Const. Tyler Jensen, 34, who has been with RCMP eight years and is now on administrative duties with South Island Highway Patrol, is alleged to have left his locker unattended for a short period of time and instead of securing his key on his person, had left it in a duty bag.
"(The evidence items) were put into the member's secure personal locker," Supt. Norm McPhail, Nanaimo RCMP detachment commanding officer.
Each officer in the detachment is issued a padlock and a key they use on a locker, which they can use to temporarily store evidence and other items securely. Money and other items are accounted for by two officers before they are put in the locker.
"Once they put the proper exhibit tagging on that it's taken into the vault and so the items went missing from the member's personal locker by virtue that they put their padlock on," McPhail said. "An investigation was conducted into what we believe was the theft of $10,000 cash, which was missing from the exhibits, as well as an administrative review into how we are managing our exhibits."
Jensen has been docked four days' pay and will receive disciplinary action from his commanding officer.
Jensen also consented to a search of his personal locker where investigators found a set of brass knuckles, which Jensen had confiscated on a previous investigation. Brass knuckles are a prohibited weapon in Canada.
Jensen allegedly was unable to recall from which investigation the brass knuckles were confiscated and had not forwarded the exhibit through proper protocol, McPhail said, for which Jensen faced a second code of conduct hearing, was docked an additional two days' pay and will receive another formal reprimand from his commanding officer.
The criminal investigation into the missing money is continuing.
"We are yet to solve the criminal case," McPhail said. "It's treated as a criminal case. The money's missing. We can't find any reason where it could be lost or how it could be lost. Complete searches have been done."
McPhail pointed out that there are currently no charges or allegations against Jensen from the criminal investigation.
"This (code of conduct investigation) was all focussed on his specific handling of exhibits taken into his custody and his responsibility for those items," McPhail said.
The detachment has since installed a drop safe that evidence cash and valuables must be dropped into, which is only accessible by the detachment's evidence custodian, plus high-resolution video surveillance cameras were installed in hallways and areas of the interim evidence exhibits locker and all other areas exposed to exhibits during the cell renovation carried out over the winter months.
"We can actually now see who enters and leaves the room, who's there and all that stuff," McPhail said.

it gets in the news 2 to 3 years after it happens LOL
 
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A Detroit police homicide sergeant has been suspended after department officials found him wearing a murder victim's expensive watch.


Sgt. Alex Vinson was the officer in charge of a case several months ago involving an unknown murder victim who was found wearing an expensive, German-made watch, Detroit Police Chief James Craig confirmed.


The watch was photographed and put into storage in the Homicide Section's property room. The victim has not been identified, and the homicide case has gone cold.


This week, while Vinson was in Idaho for advanced police training, fellow homicide detectives decided to reopen the case.


The detectives wanted to take another look at the watch — but when they removed the victim's belongings from the property room, the watch wasn't the same one that was photographed at the start of the case. Instead, it was a cheaper model, Craig confirmed.


The detectives quickly informed police officials about the discrepancy, Craig said.


"We were made aware of this a few nights ago and immediately initiated an internal investigation," Craig said. "We directed (Vinson) to return home."


Craig added the FBI helped police recover the watch, which Vinson was wearing during the training session. Vinson returned to Michigan Wednesday, and was read his Miranda rights by Internal Affairs officers.


"The case in ongoing, and the sergeant has been suspended while we prepare a warrant for review by prosecutors," Craig said.
Attempts to reach Vinson for comment Thursday were unsuccessful, and a call to his union, the Lieutenants and Sergeants Association, was not returned.




A body, a watch, a suspended Detroit cop
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This is just as bad as grave-robbing in my opinion. For all intent and purposes, he stole from a dead person.
 
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Yeah, I can think of only one crime that is worse than snatching watches!
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You do realize that he basically stole from a dead guy, right? How would you like it if a cop stole a necklace from a murdered friend because he thought it might look nice around his girlfriend's neck? You would be pretty livid, I'll bet. And it's not the fact that it was just a watch, it is the fact that it was stolen from a murdered person, which, to me, is a pretty big violation.


Add to the fact that the watch could ultimately lead to the identity of the currently unknown murder victim, or also to the murderer themselves!
 
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shadowshiv said:
You do realize that he basically stole from a dead guy, right? How would you like it if a cop stole a necklace from a murdered friend because he thought it might look nice around his girlfriend's neck? You would be pretty livid, I'll bet. And it's not the fact that it was just a watch, it is the fact that it was stolen from a murdered person, which, to me, is a pretty big violation.


Add to the fact that the watch could ultimately lead to the identity of the currently unknown murder victim, or also to the murderer themselves!
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I hear you!
 
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