There are no "good" cops, since there would be no "bad" cops.
We saw what happened to the most recent exemple...Dorner.
That's what would have drove Frank Serpico mad, had he been so inclined.
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NEW YORK — An FDNY medic was briefly arrested yesterday for allegedly shoving a cop from the back of an ambulance while a stricken woman was being treated inside, sources said.
http://www.ems1.com/fire-ems/article...gets-arrested/
Andrew Haley got into a beef with the transit officer when ambulances responded to the subway station at Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street in Boerum Hill at around 8:30 a.m. to aid a 59-year-old woman with chest pains.
Haley was about to give her an electrocardiogram when the unidentified cop asked her for information.
Haley then told the officer to leave and to shut the ambulance door because the unidentified woman's breasts would be exposed during the procedure, the sources said.
When the cop refused, Haley allegedly shoved him and the two got into an argument, with the cop shouting, "Get your hands off me!" and each calling for a supervisor, the sources said.
Cops cuffed Haley and he was taken to Transit District Precinct 32 nearby, while other EMS workers brought the woman to the hospital.
"The EMT was arrested for obstructing governmental administration. That arrest was voided," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said later yesterday.
"Some dispute arose inside the ambulance, the EMT wanted the police officer to leave. The police officer didn't want to leave. So that is the nature of the dispute."
Haley, who has been commended by the department for his lifesaving heroics at least twice, was led out of the station house at about 1 p.m. by an FDNY captain. He could not be reached for comment.
New York (CNN) -- A veteran New York policeman, jailed since October after being accused of involvement with drug dealers, is now charged with plotting to kill a witness who was to testify against him.
Officer Jose Ramos, from the NYPD's 40th Precinct in the Bronx, was charged Thursday along with his wife, Wanda Abreu, who is accused of using Ramos' pension money to pay off a hit man. The district attorney's office did not identify the hit man or the witness.
"Ramos once said, without him (the witness), there is no case. And so they began conspiring to have that witness killed," Omer Wiczyk, assistant Bronx district attorney, testified in court. "He said explicitly: Go ahead, do it; but do it right away."
Both Ramos and Abreu pleaded not guilty.
"We're very shocked and my client denies all these charges, and we're going to fight them," Dawn Florio, Ramos' defense attorney, said Thursday.
The Bronx district attorney's office said in a news release that the couple attempted to arrange the killing "through face-to-face meetings and telephone calls, some of which were recorded at a detention facility on Rikers Island, where Ramos is awaiting trial."
Court papers say the conversations took place between September and May.
Ramos and Abreu were charged with three counts of conspiracy in the second degree, and one of criminal solicitation in the second degree. If convicted of conspiracy, the most serious of the charges, they could be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison, officials said.
Ramos already faced numerous charges of attempted robbery, attempted grand larceny, transportation of what he believed to be drugs to drug dealers and revealing the identity of a confidential source. Those actions are alleged to have occurred from March to November 2009.
He was investigated after an anonymous tip to police.
Prosecutors say they also stumbled upon an alleged ticket-fixing scandal over the course of the investigation of Ramos, and officials have since accused 16 other police officers of getting rid of tickets for friends or family.
The ticket-fixing charges are unrelated to Ramos.
Bail for Ramos from the charges filed against him in October remains at $500,000 cash.
New York (CNN) -- A veteran New York police officer accused of equipping a robbery crew with state-of-the art police equipment and helping them loot drug dealers out of $1 million pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday.
Jose Tejada, 45, also is accused of allowing the robbery crew to use his Manhattan apartment for their enterprise.
In court documents filed Wednesday, federal prosecutors said the crew posed as police officers and used fake warrants to arrest drug traffickers.
The crew then robbed those it arrested of their money and their stashes of marijuana, heroin, ecstasy and cocaine, authorities said.
In all, the group -- comprising Tejada and at least 21 others -- is responsible for more than 100 armed robberies throughout New York City since 2001, according to officials.
The New York Police Department officer, arrested Wednesday, faces multiple counts of robbery, drug dealing and weapons charges.
A U.S. magistrate on Thursday ordered Tejada to remain in custody.
Prosecutors said they had "overwhelming evidence" and argued the man presented a continuing danger to the community.
But the officer's court-appointed attorney, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, said his client was not a flight risk and had remained on the force while on modified duty.
"If there was a danger, what's been going on the last four years?" Margulis-Ohnuma asked, referring to the length of the investigation.
Margulis-Ohnuma said that Tejada "adamantly denies" the charges and said they will be "vehemently challenging them."
It is unclear what made police begin to investigate Tejada, who started with the department in 1996.
In 2006 and 2007, Tejada participated in three robberies, prosecutors say, stealing thousands of dollars while dressed in his police uniform. In one of the cases, the crew stormed a Bronx home searching for cocaine.
"The crew mistakenly believed the residents to be drug dealers," court documents said. "In fact, the residents were a family of three, including a teenager, who had no involvement in drug dealing."
The crew did not find drugs but searched the home while Tejada held the family at gunpoint, prosecutors allege. Once they left, the family called 911.
Tejada, a father of two, faces a minimum of 17 years in prison if convicted. His wife cried throughout the court proceedings Thursday and left without speaking to reporters.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday, "Obviously it's sad and disappointing any time a police officer is arrested, but this officer has been on modified duty for three years, so this investigation has taken a long time to come to fruition, and it's still not over. ... the officer has been arrested, suspended, and we'll see what the outcome of the trial is."
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...investigation/
Oakland PD shoots innocent teen in the face (bullet grazes jaw)
Thank God the cop was incompetent, looks like he fired from point blank range by how they described it.
http://www.wsbt.com/news/sbt-family-...,6181134.story
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SOUTH BEND — A local family has filed a lawsuit against the city and the South Bend Police Department accusing officers of entering their home without a warrant and tasing and punching a 17-year-old boy in the home while he slept.
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According to a January WSBT report, Hurley suspended Mentz for one day and Knepper for two days after an internal investigation into a prank at a 7-Eleven store last summer.
A clerk at the store on Miami Street, who said he has a learning disability, accused the officers of challenging him to eat a teaspoon of cinnamon and then 10 saltine crackers in a minute. Doing so caused him to throw up for hours, he said.
http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/news...-750000/nW7kD/
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CINCINNATI —The city of Oxford paid a former Miami University student’s family $750,000 after they settled the case involving a 2008 Taser incident.
The city and officers who tased Mary and Charles Piskura’s son settled the case March 6.
The city’s insurance company will pay the $750,000 settlement, City Manager Doug Elliott said.
“Our insurance pays for that,” he said. “We had a deductible early on and that was $5,000.”
In April 2008, 24-year-old Kevin Piskura was tased outside Brick Street Bar at around 2 a.m., while police were trying to break up a fight. Piskura, of Chicago, went into cardiac arrest at the scene and died five days later at University Hospital in Cincinnati.
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Another federal judge last week refused to dismiss a Taser case against the city of Mason and two officers who tased Douglas Boucher at a Speedway in December 2009. The coroner ruled Boucher died from a skull fracture when he fell face first on the pavement. However, Dr. James Swineheart, who performed the autopsy, said he couldn’t rule out “Taser-induced heart failure.”
http://www.kvue.com/news/Officer-no-...201133041.html
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AUSTIN -- An Austin police officer accused of being too rough while arresting a woman back in January 2012 are cleared of any wrongdoing.
Antonio Beuhler took pictures of the arrest from across the street. He was eventually arrested for getting into a heated face-to-face verbal exchange with Officer Patrick Oborski.
A Travis County grand jury decided not to issue any felony indictments against Officer Oborski. However, the woman could face up to a year in jail for resisting arrest.
Buehler was indicted for failure to obey a lawful order, punishable by up to a $500 fine.
http://citizensvoice.com/news/w-b-co...ment-1.1467019
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A Wilkes-Barre police officer under investigation for allegedly using excessive force during an arrest was cited Tuesday for harassment in an unrelated case.
A citation filed in court charges Ken Jones, 36, with a single count of harassment, a summary offense carrying a fine of $250.50, including court charges.
The citation alleges that Jones "did strike the victim in the back of the head, which caused the victim to be alarmed and or harassed."
The document identifies the victim as Jones' father-in-law, Thomas Cusick, 59, of 97 Green St., Edwardsville. Cusick was also cited with harassment in connection with the altercation that occurred about 10:40 p.m. March 23 at Jones' home, according to police.
Details of the incident were not available. Cusick and Jones did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday afternoon.
City spokesman Drew McLaughlin said the incident took place when Jones, a patrolman, was off duty. Jones is on administrative leave with an undetermined return date, he said.
Jones was suspended with pay earlier this year amid a state police investigation into what city officials at the time deemed an "alleged excessive force incident."