All Cops Are Bastards

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Sgt. Joshua Hartup, the veteran Fort Wayne police officer who struck and killed a local attorney as he crossed Main Street downtown, pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to yield to a pedestrian in misdemeanor court.

Hartup, a Vice & Narcotics officer, appeared before Magistrate John Custer and at the side of his attorney, Adam Henry. He agreed to pay a $35.50 fine for the infraction.

An officer with the Fort Wayne Police Department since 1999, police records showed that Hartup had a history of four other crashes in a squad car, but this crash on April 19 around 7:30 p.m. resulted in the death of Henry Najedski, who had the right of way as he crossed Main Street at Calhoun.

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BERNALILLO, N.M. — A former state police officer charged with forcing a 1-year-old to perform sex acts was moments away from reaching a deal that would have avoided jail time.

Former state police officer Corey Newman, 30, of Edgewood, had been charged in June with criminal sexual contact with a minor. It was also revealed in court Thursday that Newman was fired when he was charged, and at the time, state police were investigating him for stalking women.

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A serving South Wales Police officer who blackmailed children into sending images of themselves performing sexual acts was said to have had more than 200 victims. His young victims "lived in fear" from the paedophile, who also sent images of himself masturbating.

Lewis Edwards, 23, of Bridgend, was caught after the police force he was employed by received intelligence about the downloading of indecent images of children from the dark web. The defendant was identified, arrested and subsequently resigned from the force, before an accelerated misconduct hearing delivered the sanction of dismissal.

An investigation by South Wales Police revealed Edwards' victims were aged between 10 and 16-years-old, who he groomed on Snapchat between 2020 and 2023. He posed a teenager and forced his victim to make indecent videos and images of themselves, which he covertly recorded.

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An Osceola County deputy sheriff who was arrested last month in Orlando after being accused of domestic violence had a pattern of abuse for years against a fellow deputy he was dating who later reported him to Orlando police, according to court records recently made public.

According to the affidavit, Alex Valentin, who was fired from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office after turning himself in July 10 at the Orange County Jail, is accused of repeatedly attacking his girlfriend since at least 2021, after two years together.

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A former officer who used police computers to stalk and harass a colleague has been jailed.

Justin Fraser, 51, a former response sergeant at Lancashire Police has been jailed for 21 months following an investigation into his conduct.

In June 2022 the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) received a complaint into the behaviour of two officers.

Following an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in June 2022, it was found that Fraser had been stalking an officer and used police systems to check her duties and what she was investigating.

The ACU established there was no policing purpose for doing this and Fraser, from Liverpool, was arrested in September 2022 and suspended him from duties.

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Update: In a news conference Thursday, Interim Police Chief Peter Pacillas explained that the victims first reported the alleged sexual harassment earlier this summer in June. The harassment had reportedly been going on for several years, according to Pacillas.

Pacillas went on to say that all city employees, including officers, recently went through sexual harassment training, and that the current cadets at the training academy are now getting advanced training.

The two officers are currently on paid administrative leave. Lieutenant Surface was relieved several weeks ago, while Sergeant Chavez was relieved yesterday.

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A Kelowna RCMP officer who dragged a nursing student down a hallway, pulled her hair and stepped on her head during a wellness check was handed a two-year conditional discharge in B.C. provincial court this week.

Const. Lacy Browning, a 15-year veteran of the RCMP, was also ordered to complete 160 hours of community service by provincial court Judge Roy Dickey for the assault on student Mona Wang in a student housing apartment building on UBC's Okanagan campus in January 2020.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Former Muncie police officer Chase Winkle on Wednesday was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for physically abusing five local arrestees and then filing false reports about his actions.

The 36-year-old Winkle had pleaded guilty last December to 11 charges pending against him in U.S. District Court — five counts of depriving arrestees of their constitutional rights by physically abusing them, and six counts of obstruction of justice.

The obstruction charges stemmed from fraudulent police reports Winkle filed about the cases, in most instances falsely claiming those arrested were resisting at the time he struck or kicked them.

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A Metropolitan Police officer killed himself the day he was due to be charged with child abuse image offences, an inquest concluded.

Ch Insp Richard Watkinson's body was found along with a handwritten note at his home in Saunderton in Buckinghamshire on 12 January.

He had failed to answer bail at Aylesbury Police Station that morning.

The inquest heard that his death occurred "against the background context" of the police investigation.

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A former Thames Valley Police officer who met a 13-year-old girl for sex faces a gross misconduct hearing next week.

Then a serving police constable, Luke Horner, 24, drove an hour from his home in Aylesbury to Rushden, Northamptonshire, to meet the girl on June 11.

He pleaded guilty earlier this month to sexual activity with a child, with the plea entered on the basis that he recorded the sexual activity between them on the girl’s phone.

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Taxpayers are often left in the dark by politicians who have spent more than $3 billion to settle claims of police misconduct involving thousands of officers, among them many that have been repeatedly accused of wrongdoing.

Unlike cases that make headlines, such as the $27 million Minneapolis paid to the family of George Floyd or the $12 million paid to Breonna Taylor’s family, most claims of police misconduct are resolved quietly and with smaller sums.

Cities say payments to resolve misconduct allegations, ranging from excessive force to illegal search and seizure, are more cost-effective than fighting lawsuits in court but since such settlements rarely involve admissions of wrongdoing, they allow misconduct to be repeated.

How much cities pay — and who the responsible officers are — is generally hidden from the public, whose taxes often cover these costs.

To shed some light on the process, Washington Post reporters spent more than a year filing public records requests and combing through court documents to connect nearly 40,000 payments to specific officers. That investigation documented nearly 40,000 payments involving allegations of police misconduct in 25 of the nation’s largest police departments, totaling over $3 billion.

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Former Alabama deputy sheriff with the Dallas County Sheriff’s office was sentenced Friday to 12 and half years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in his custody.

Joshua Davidson, 33, committed the crime while on duty as Dallas County deputy sheriff on Jan. 30, 2020. According to a statement from the Department of Justice, Davidson put the victim in his custody and then drove to a dark desolate location where the victim was forced to perform oral sex on him. The victim reported the assault immediately and said she feared Davidson would shoot her if she did not cooperate.

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ALBANY – New York State is facing an onslaught of lawsuits accusing prison officers of sexually abusing adult inmates, litigation allowed under a new one-year window for survivors to sue, regardless of when the abuse occurred.

A single Manhattan-based law firm, Levy Konigsberg LLP, is handling more than 500 cases statewide, including nearly 150 cases filed or pending that claim abuse occurred in Western New York prisons. Several other law firms also are handling a high volume of cases, and the total number likely runs into the thousands.

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A former Alabama deputy sheriff has been sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in his custody.

On 30 January 2020, while on duty as a Dallas county deputy sheriff, 33-year-old Joshua Davidson placed a woman in custody following a traffic stop. He drove her down a dark road to a desolate location where he forced her to perform oral sex on him against her will, the justice department said in a statement.

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https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9

Cause of death: climate change, cops, cars

“So the police were blocking roads, the exit, some of the exit roads out,” he says. “And I’m assuming it’s because there’s been some downed power lines or some downed trees.” Maui Police Chief John Pelletier confirmed that at a news conference two weeks later. "We did not close or forbid people from getting out of Lahaina,” Pelletier said. “If there was a downed power line that was live, we wanted to make sure that you didn’t go over a downed live power line.”

“The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” said Cuevas-Reyes, 38. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.”

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A long-time correctional officer at Oregon’s troubled women’s prison faces charges of sexual misconduct.

Sgt. Levi David Gray faces two felony counts of custodial sexual misconduct and two misdemeanor counts of official misconduct for acts prosecutors say occurred while he worked at the Coffee Creek Correctional Institution in Wilsonville.

According to the indictment, Gray engaged “in oral sexual intercourse” and also touched the person in custody, who is only identified in court documents by their initials.

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A trainee CIA officer has been convicted of assaulting his female colleague by wrapping a scarf around her neck and trying to kiss her.

Ashkan Bayatpour, 39, was convicted of attacking her in a stairwell at the agency's headquarters on 13 July, 2022.

He was found guilty of a state misdemeanor charge of assault and battery for coming up behind the woman in the secluded area.

Bayatpour, who served in the US Navy as an intelligence officer, told her: 'There are many uses for this. This is what I want to do to you.'

It's a shame he took 3 people with him on his well deserved trip STRAIGHT TO HELL. If it even existed.

Fuck the police.

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An L.A. County sheriff's deputy attempted to cover up the suspected DUI crash of a fellow deputy by pulling the allegedly drunken man from the patrol vehicle he'd wrecked and depositing him in another car to be driven away, prosecutors say.

Deputy Gregory Davis was charged with felony conspiracy to obstruct justice, a misdemeanor count of giving false information to police and three misdemeanor counts of obstructing an investigation in connection with the incident, according to a news release from Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón.

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A Hudson Valley Corrections Officer was arrested for his alleged illegal activity with criminals.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office announced a corrections officer was arrested after a month-long investigation.

Corrections Officer Gioron Wilkins was arrested and charged with one count of promoting prison contraband in the second degree on Thursday.

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A trial date has been set for William Morrissey III, the former police officer charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old Auburn High student while working as a school resource officer there.

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Tacoma – A 69-year-old member of the Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 34 years in prison for nine federal crimes related to the sexual abuse of minors, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Joseph Anthony Turrey, of Port Angeles, Washington, was convicted following a seven-day jury trial in March 2023. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle said Turrey had shown no sign of remorse telling Turrey, “You demonstrated a wantonness, a cruelty, and mercilessness…. No restitution can give (your victims) back what was stolen from them.”

In 2021, according to records filed in the case, three victims disclosed abuse by the defendant that occurred between 2008 and 2016. The charged assaults occurred on tribal land, triggering federal jurisdiction. Two of the victims were as young as 6 and 7 years old when the sexual assaults began.

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A former suburban New York police chief who once led the Gilgo Beach killings investigation and later went to prison for beating a suspect was arrested again Tuesday after authorities say he attempted to engage in sex with an undercover ranger at a Long Island park.

James Burke, Suffolk County's police chief from 2012 to 2015, was arrested around 10:15 a.m. at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Farmingville after exposing himself to the ranger and saying he was interested in oral sex, according to an arrest report obtained by the Associated Press.

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A school safety officer at a Central Florida high school has been arrested on allegations of sexual abuse against a child.

The Groveland Police Department said James Wolfe, 50, has been arrested and charged with sexual battery, engaging in sexual battery with a child under 18 years of age, and giving obscene material to a minor.