Cop Mentality Follies
Of course you arrest and shackle an 80 pound, 94 year old to a bed.
In a nursing home.
"Family members are outraged after they said their 94-year-old relative was arrested and shackled to a bed at Grady Hospital.
Fran Daniel said her mother, who suffers from dementia, was charged with assaulting her roommate at a metro Atlanta nursing home."
"Police haven't commented on the matter."
New term for ticket quotas - Performance Goals. Got it?
"The city of Denver issued 33,000 more parking tickets and collected $3.6 million more in fines in 2008 than the year before, but officials said it is not an effort to make up for budget shortfalls."
"City spokeswoman Ann Williams classified a document requiring parking enforcement officers write at least 79 tickets per shift to cars blocking street sweepers as "performance goals" and not a ticket quota."
Here's a Wal-Mart gift certificate. All better now
"A Detroit woman and her seven children ages 9-18 are suing the Detroit Police Department for $15 million, because they allege officers attacked them without provocation in their home earlier this month.
Tasha Flowers said Thursday that approximately 14 police officers barged into her home in the 19000 block of Shrewsbury about 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 3 without a search warrant, demanding to know where drugs and guns were. After she explained she didn't have any, she said they twisted her arm and tried to handcuff her, while her children and two of their friends were there.
The following day, a police officer came back with $25 gift certificates to Wal-Mart and Target, $100 in cash and the promise to bring a cashmere coat because he felt bad about the alleged attack, Flowers said."
The stiff can wait on the donuts
"DETROIT (AP) — It took three calls to Detroit authorities over two days before they recovered the body of a man frozen in ice in the elevator shaft of a vacant warehouse, a newspaper reported Thursday."
No wonder it takes a long time to retrieve corpses.
Kranky Kop Kreates Krispy Kreme Kaos
"Shocked customers looked on as the officer argued with staff for several minutes in a bid to get his freebies, before finally storming off - empty handed and non-cinnamon-fingered. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," a witness said. "He was quite rude, insisting his doughnuts should be free. He was so greedy for the doughnuts. I thought, 'you swine, get your money out and pay for them like everyone else'."
"It is believed the Krispy Kreme store now gives the leftover doughnuts to the homeless instead."
Give me a blowjob and I won't arrest you
"FORT WORTH — A former North Texas sheriff has admitted to forcing a woman to perform a sex act after telling her it was the only way she wouldn’t go to jail for drugs found in her house, a federal prosecutor said Monday."
In a nursing home.
"Family members are outraged after they said their 94-year-old relative was arrested and shackled to a bed at Grady Hospital.
Fran Daniel said her mother, who suffers from dementia, was charged with assaulting her roommate at a metro Atlanta nursing home."
"Police haven't commented on the matter."
New term for ticket quotas - Performance Goals. Got it?
"The city of Denver issued 33,000 more parking tickets and collected $3.6 million more in fines in 2008 than the year before, but officials said it is not an effort to make up for budget shortfalls."
"City spokeswoman Ann Williams classified a document requiring parking enforcement officers write at least 79 tickets per shift to cars blocking street sweepers as "performance goals" and not a ticket quota."
Here's a Wal-Mart gift certificate. All better now
"A Detroit woman and her seven children ages 9-18 are suing the Detroit Police Department for $15 million, because they allege officers attacked them without provocation in their home earlier this month.
Tasha Flowers said Thursday that approximately 14 police officers barged into her home in the 19000 block of Shrewsbury about 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 3 without a search warrant, demanding to know where drugs and guns were. After she explained she didn't have any, she said they twisted her arm and tried to handcuff her, while her children and two of their friends were there.
The following day, a police officer came back with $25 gift certificates to Wal-Mart and Target, $100 in cash and the promise to bring a cashmere coat because he felt bad about the alleged attack, Flowers said."
The stiff can wait on the donuts
"DETROIT (AP) — It took three calls to Detroit authorities over two days before they recovered the body of a man frozen in ice in the elevator shaft of a vacant warehouse, a newspaper reported Thursday."
No wonder it takes a long time to retrieve corpses.
Kranky Kop Kreates Krispy Kreme Kaos
"Shocked customers looked on as the officer argued with staff for several minutes in a bid to get his freebies, before finally storming off - empty handed and non-cinnamon-fingered. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," a witness said. "He was quite rude, insisting his doughnuts should be free. He was so greedy for the doughnuts. I thought, 'you swine, get your money out and pay for them like everyone else'."
"It is believed the Krispy Kreme store now gives the leftover doughnuts to the homeless instead."
Give me a blowjob and I won't arrest you
"FORT WORTH — A former North Texas sheriff has admitted to forcing a woman to perform a sex act after telling her it was the only way she wouldn’t go to jail for drugs found in her house, a federal prosecutor said Monday."
posted by nolocontendere at 9:42 AM
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Fake 911 calls difficult to prevent
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jivgUe-_xO5XLcGy8zxP9vN1O-cQD96321G00
I've copied about a third of this article, it's terrible to think that juvenile delinquents are playing pranks from thousands of miles away, no wonder there are so many false SWAT Team house calls.
AP IMPACT: Fake 911 calls difficult to prevent
By JORDAN ROBERTSON – 1 hour ago
Doug Bates and his wife, Stacey, were in bed around 10 p.m., their 2-year-old daughters asleep in a nearby room. Suddenly they were shaken awake by the wail of police sirens and the rumble of a helicopter above their suburban Southern California home. A criminal must be on the loose, they thought.
Doug Bates got up to lock the doors and grabbed a knife. A beam from a flashlight hit him. He peeked into the backyard. A swarm of police, assault rifles drawn, ordered him out of the house. Bates emerged, frightened and with the knife in his hand, as his wife frantically dialed 911. They were handcuffed and ordered to the ground while officers stormed the house.
The scene of mayhem and carnage the officers expected was nowhere to be found. Neither the Bateses nor the officers knew that they were pawns in a dangerous game being played 1,200 miles away by a teenager bent on terrifying a random family of strangers.
They were victims of a new kind of telephone fraud that exploits a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from Internet-based phone services. The attacks — called "swatting" because armed police SWAT teams usually respond — are virtually unstoppable, and an Associated Press investigation found that budget-strapped 911 centers are essentially defenseless without an overhaul of their computer systems.
The AP examined hundreds of pages of court documents and law-enforcement transcripts, listened to audio of "swatting" calls, and interviewed two dozen security experts, investigators, defense lawyers, victims and perpetrators.
While Doug and Stacey Bates were cuffed on the ground that night in March 2007, 18-year-old Randal Ellis, living with his parents in Mukilteo, Wash., was nearly finished with the 27-minute yarn about a drug-fueled murder that brought the Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT team to the Bateses' home.
In a grisly sounding call to 911, Ellis was putting an Internet-based phone service for the hearing-impaired to nefarious use. By entering bogus information about his location, Ellis was able to make it seem to the 911 operator as if he was calling from inside the Bateses' home. He said he was high on drugs and had just shot his sister.
According to prosecutors, Ellis picked the Bates family at random, as he did with all of the 185 calls investigators say he made to 911 operators around the country.
"If I would have had a gun in my hand, I probably would have been shot," said Doug Bates, 38. Last March, Ellis was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to five felony counts, including computer access and fraud, false imprisonment by violence and falsely reporting a crime.
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