Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

Thanks for bringing up South Bend. That's a lot of coffee to buy.



South Bend settled $1.3-million in civil rights violations, police brutality lawsuits

The City of South Bend has paid more than $1.3-million to settle lawsuits alleging police brutality and civil rights violations over the past five years. A WSBT 22 investigation revealed more than half of that money was related to police wiretapping cases.

“That was a case where it was almost a cross-fire of lawsuits,” said Buttigieg. “But the bottom line was, we knew there had been a problem with violations of the federal wiretap act, and we also knew the longer it was left dangling, the worse it was for the city.”


And here is Elkhart, a suburb of South Bend. Coffee or tugs for these guys, or both? Your choice.

 

South Bend doesn't want to be recorded, but like to record themselves..

Trial possible in South Bend 'police tapes' case after supreme court order

The legal saga of the South Bend "police tapes" took another turn this week as a ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court makes possible a trial to finally decide whether the long-sought-after-records can be released.

The tapes, which supposedly contain racist comments and discussions of illegal activity, were created in the winter of 2011 and led to former Mayor Pete Buttigieg demoting Darryl Boykins, the police chief at the time, in 2012, and involved questions of whether the tapes violated the federal wiretapping act.

The state supreme court denying to hear the case is the latest turn in a long legal struggle over the tapes that has led to a federal criminal investigation, generated multiple related lawsuits and became a topic in the presidential campaign of Buttigieg, who now serves as the U.S. Transportation Secretary.

The then-communications director, Karen DePaepe, has indicated some of the recordings contain racist language and comments that are “disturbing and possibly liable” to the police department, according to city and court records. She alerted then-police chief Darryl Boykins to the calls about two weeks later, at which point he allowed the recording to continue.

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I mean, why would the police want to keep tapes of the police being racist and possibly criminal from the public?

 

Dearborn, MI
June, 2023

Cop costs taxpayers $9,300,000

What happens when you ask a cop for directions and then decide to ask someone else for directions? You get tackled. You get choked. You get your foot broke in 5 places requiring multiple surgeries and get walk with a limp for the rest of your life. You also get a charge of " Resisting arrest." Missing is a reason to get arrested in the first place, or even a reason to be detained. How do you get a resisting arrest charge when there is nothing to arrest in the first place. Cop logic, I guess.

Other officers showed up and when he said his foot was injured, and officer kicked it.. Yep.

So, what does a cop get for a false arrest, seriously injuring an innocent person causing life long complications, and being the center of a 9 million dollar settlement?

-1 day suspension for unlawful arrest

-A promotion

When asked at trail if he had probable cause to arrest for "resisting and opposing," he still didn't know.





All this for asking someone else for directions. I guess the cop's feeling were hurt than his directions weren't good enough.

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Man wins $10 million lawsuit verdict after assault by Dearborn police officer

FOX 2 (WJBK) - Luther Gonzales Hall was coming from a friend’s house on his bike. He had a bit to drink and wanted to be sure he was heading the right way to get home when he was attacked by a police officer seemingly without provocation.

The suit he won not only alleges violations of constitutional rights but false imprisonment, arrest, battery - and the wrongful charging of a crime.

"I had asked him for directions and he was just being rude already,cursing at me and stuff," he said. " I just wanted to get away from him. I felt like he was having a bad day. That’s why I went to the White Castle and try to ask them. Because I had been there plenty of times.

"Luther had a right to resist, because as a citizen most people don't know this - you can resist an unlawful arrest," said Attorney Azzam Elder. "So the officer figures, oh he resisted, I’m going to stick him with a charge of resisting and opposing."

Video:

 

Oops, forgot this pic of the offender. Get than man a coffee.

 

Clearly an unnecessary escalation. I know many departments review all use-of-force incidents, and this was clearly reviewed because he got a one day suspension out of it. What baffles me is someone(s) reviewed this, saw the escalation, the baseless detention turned to arrest, the use of force, a clear misunderstanding of the law, and thought "This guy needs to be given more responsibility and pay via a promotion."

Also, weird that the news refused to name him. Similar to the police union trying their damnest to keep the name of the biggest offender in the Connecticut State Police fake ticket scheme from getting out into the public. Or the 25' laws being enacted. It's not about officer safety, it's about battling transparency and covering for corrupt acts committed by cops.

I have not looked, but I would bet IF Dearborn has an official Facebook page, it's either turned off commenting, or limited who can comment. Similar to the cops for suing Afroman for "mental anguish" and whatnot because he made music video about them, or pulling over people for giving them the finger, police are simultaneously big, tough, strong people and petty, childish, vindictive babies. Schrodinger's Cop.

 

I remember reading about Waldo on these boards and made sure I did not pass through there. Last I had heard, they were disbanded.

I'm not sure if you've been through this whole thread, but the practices of that town in Alabama was just crazy. Revenue generation above all.

 

Just read your link. I didn't know Waldo was that bad.

As CBS News reported last month, Waldo's seven police officers wrote nearly 12,000 speeding tickets last year, collecting more than $400,000 in fines - a third of the town's revenue.

The writers at AL.com won Pulitzer's for their reporting on Brookside Police Department. It put's Waldo to shame.

Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

 

This is oppressive regime territory. Raid a newspaper and it's reporters for something the might print. From what I understand, this is usually done by subpoena, not a raid.

Publisher of small Kansas newspaper calls police raid "Gestapo tactic" but police insist it was justified - CBS News



Marion, Kan. — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper's office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones and, in the publisher's view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend death.

Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department's actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution's protection for a free press. The Marion County Record's editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, worked with his staff Sunday to reconstruct stories, ads and other materials for its next edition Wednesday, even as he took time in the afternoon to provide a local funeral home with information about his mother, Joan, the paper's co-owner.

A search warrant, posted online by the Kansas Reflector, tied Friday morning raids, led by Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, to a dispute between the newspaper and a local restaurant owner, Kari Newell. She is accusing the newspaper of invading her privacy and illegally accessing information about her and her driving record and suggested that the newspaper targeted her after she threw Meyer and a reporter out of restaurant during a political event

A two-page search warrant, signed by a local judge, lists Newell as the victim of alleged crimes by the newspaper. When the newspaper asked for a copy of the probable cause affidavit required by law to issue a search warrant, the district court issued a signed statement saying no such affidavit was on file, the Record reported.

Video (He has a good channel worth sub'ing to if you're into this sort of thing):

 

Yep. I saw it a few days ago but didn't get around to posting it. Definitely brings out the chilling effect

 

Damnit.. I had that one in my back pocket when I first read it and forgot to throw that in there. Points to you, sir.

 

Not only did you create your own thread for this kind of stuff, you've posted this exact one in this thread already. Running out of good cops to mention?

Besides, what did you expect, him to know CPR and not attempt it? Do you think if anyone else on scene knew CPR they wouldn't have done the same exact thing, cop or not? Good for him. But that's behavior should be expected, not sure it's worth mentioning twice in the same thread.