Four crooked cops caught unlawfully seizing guns and lying about it now face termination — People's Fabric
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COPA’s investigation sustained 108 combined allegations against the four officers, citing “substantial and irrefutable” evidence that the officers engaged in or had knowledge of “a pattern of creating false reports to conceal the fact firearms were seized under false pretenses.”
    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      20 days ago

      Because if we start holding cops responsible for their crimes we might scare away all the other cops who want to do crimes.

      • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
        61·
        20 days ago

        We might scare the white cops away that also do the same shit. *FTFY

    • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      19 days ago

      One is being charged because they took the stand in a trial in which someone was convicted for a crime…due to their false report.

      However, I’d say they should each be indicted on each count of false reports and false arrests.

  • Drusas@kbin.run
    17·
    20 days ago

    In a particularly troubling incident, the FBI found that these two officers had unwittingly taken the murder weapon from a wanted murderer—but they were so focused on their scheme, they failed to ask for his name and released him.

    That is a special level of both corrupt and incompetent.

  • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    They also illegally searched children because they were so lazy on responding to a ShotSpotter (which by the way, also has its share of criticism and abuse) response that they took a legal firearm from their mother (who were waiting on a bus and told them that she had a firearm when asked) and said they found it near the scene of the shots fired. One of the cops then said “this never happened” as they left.