Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[brihard]

OPS: record keeping and telling the truth in court are overrated, apparently.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/judge-hammers-ottawa-cops-for-lying-under-oath-misleading-court-in-searing-decision-1.7446113

And they lost a half kilo fentanyl seizure over it. Brutal.

Good instincts and training in what to watch for; they made a very succesful drug stop. Abject failure to properly document or communicate investigative information in order to support an articulation of grounds to arrest. Failure to document and articulate their decisions to keep focus on a different individual/vehicle when the fact set shifted. Those are the fuckups that lose cases that matter. Credibility and integrity drastically and irrevocably marred in court. That’s the fuckup that craters an investigative career.

 

[RangerRay]

Hoo boy.

Alabama police department should be abolished over "culture of corruption" after 5 officers charged, grand jury says

Hanceville Police Chief Jason Marlin and four of his officers are accused of multiple crimes, including removing evidence from the department's evidence room.

www.cbsnews.com

"There is a rampant culture of corruption in the Hanceville Police Department that has recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency," the grand jury reported. Hanceville is small city of 3,200 people about 45 miles north of Birmingham.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Hoo boy.

Alabama police department should be abolished over "culture of corruption" after 5 officers charged, grand jury says

Hanceville Police Chief Jason Marlin and four of his officers are accused of multiple crimes, including removing evidence from the department's evidence room.

www.cbsnews.com

Discovers too late that this was a TV series and not a policy manual

 

[Jarnhamar]

Internal military report blames botched shooter drill on poor organization

An internal report blames a lack of communication for a debacle on a Canadian Armed Forces base last fall, when masked men taking part in active-shooter drill fired blanks at civil servants who didn’t know it was a training exercise.

During the drill, which took place on Nov. 12 at a service depot at CFB Longue-Pointe in Montreal, military police also confused a racialized employee with a drill participant playing an active shooter and wrestled him to the ground.

Winger said a racialized person was physically assaulted and dragged throughout the workshop and “really, really extensively traumatized.”

“They tore his overalls and they pulled out his wallet, went through his personal papers in his wallet, spread it out on the floor,” she said. ”They ripped his clothes, had him remove his work boots and then they dragged him outside … and then told him that he had to sit outside in the winter — no shoes on, no coat

Sure that sounds bad but to be fair, military police are just security guards for gated communites (full of entitled people).

 

[Good2Golf]

Internal military report blames botched shooter drill on poor organization




Sure that sounds bad but to be fair, military police are just security guards for gated communites (full of entitled people).

Good think his racialization didn’t make him look like a raccoon!

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Be interesting to sit in on this tribunal....

NYPD Detective Pulled From Active Cases After Appearing as Stripper in Music Video

Detective Melissa Mercado -- the NYPD detective who went viral for appearing as a stripper in a raunchy music video -- has been taken off active sex crimes cases pending the results of a police review.

www.tmz.com

 

[Colin Parkinson]

And they lost a half kilo fentanyl seizure over it. Brutal.

Good instincts and training in what to watch for; they made a very succesful drug stop. Abject failure to properly document or communicate investigative information in order to support an articulation of grounds to arrest. Failure to document and articulate their decisions to keep focus on a different individual/vehicle when the fact set shifted. Those are the fuckups that lose cases that matter. Credibility and integrity drastically and irrevocably marred in court. That’s the fuckup that craters an investigative career.

Can they city sue the brothers in civil court for the fentanyl and what the drug trade costs the city, keeping it all in civil court?

 

[lenaitch]

Can they city sue the brothers in civil court for the fentanyl and what the drug trade costs the city, keeping it all in civil court?

I'm not sure what the grounds of action would be. They're not getting the drugs back regardless, cops get paid anyway so there is no monetary claim, and tainted evidence in a criminal process is equally tainted in a civil one.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I'm not sure what the grounds of action would be. They're not getting the drugs back regardless, cops get paid anyway so there is no monetary claim, and tainted evidence in a criminal process is equally tainted in a civil one.

As I understand it, in civil court the bar on evidence is much higher. There does not seem to be a dispute about them being found with it, just the methodology? You can sue for likley causing damage to the city based on the cost of dealing with the drug and the attending issue.

 

[brihard]

As I understand it, in civil court the bar on evidence is much higher. There does not seem to be a dispute about them being found with it, just the methodology? You can sue for likley causing damage to the city based on the cost of dealing with the drug and the attending issue.

Civil's not my jam, but Canada tends not to do big punitive damages on civil claims. The city would need to show some sort of tangible damages attributable specifically to them. Odds of them having much in terms of assets from which damages can be recovered are slim. Blood from a stone...

 

[lenaitch]

As I understand it, in civil court the bar on evidence is much higher. There does not seem to be a dispute about them being found with it, just the methodology? You can sue for likley causing damage to the city based on the cost of dealing with the drug and the attending issue.

Actually, the civil bar is lower; 'balance of probabilities' vs 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. As Brihard mentions, the city would have to show actual harm or loss related to these guys, not just 'their type'. We don't get to be awarded millions for a too-hot coffee in Canada.

 

[brihard]

Actually, the civil bar is lower; 'balance of probabilities' vs 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. As Brihard mentions, the city would have to show actual harm or loss related to these guys, not just 'their type'. We don't get to be awarded millions for a too-hot coffee in Canada.

More's the pity. I definitely got a first degree burn off some spilled soup earlier this evening. Granted I was the idiot wielding the microwave...

 

[OldSolduer]

Discovers too late that this was a TV series and not a policy manual

 

[dapaterson]

More's the pity. I definitely got a first degree burn off some spilled soup earlier this evening. Granted I was the idiot wielding the microwave...

No way that case would succeed; the main witness isn't trustworthy. His dog claims to have not been fed ever in their life.

 

[lenaitch]

No way that case would succeed; the main witness isn't trustworthy. His dog claims to have not been fed ever in their life.

Dogs can be 'convinced' (aka bribed). It's cats you have to worry about.

 

[OldSolduer]

I have heard rumors one of our staff is cosying up to inmates. Not good. No evidence, just based off her behavior - and this is all second hand too.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I have heard rumors one of our staff is cosying up to inmates. Not good. No evidence, just based off her behavior - and this is all second hand too.

Only Fans competition?

 

[Jarnhamar]

Police chief's apology over offensive podcast doesn't go far enough: CIJA

Uniformed Toronto police officers in now-deleted podcast praised Oct. 7 for surge in Islam converts, and dismissed criticism of hateful anti-Israel rallies as "Islamophobia"

 

[dapaterson]

There must be something in the water at Durham.

Should your custodial facility holding evidence have sprinklers? What's the worst that could happen? Destroying evidence from hundreds of cases?

Durham police were warned of ‘catastrophic’ losses ahead of fire that destroyed evidence, cost cases

For years, Durham Regional Police had known about the risk of “catastrophic losses” in the event of a fire at the Courtice Court storage warehouse.

www.thestar.com

 

[RangerRay]

There must be something in the water at Durham.

Should your custodial facility holding evidence have sprinklers? What's the worst that could happen? Destroying evidence from hundreds of cases?

Durham police were warned of ‘catastrophic’ losses ahead of fire that destroyed evidence, cost cases

For years, Durham Regional Police had known about the risk of “catastrophic losses” in the event of a fire at the Courtice Court storage warehouse.

www.thestar.com

Some wizard probably said “We can’t have all of our evidence destroyed by water!”