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#1 Rogerdodger

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Posted 29 January 2011 - 12:05 PM

It's a thin blue line as crime pays better than the city.
Here in Tulsa and Oklahoma City as well as else where in the country, some rogue cops are making Mexico look safer:

More convictions dismissed due to Tulsa police-corruption probe

Oklahoma City police officers accused in drive-by resign

Former Creek County "Penis Pumping Judge" released on bond Monday
Who could forget out "Penis Pumping Judge".

Atlanta Man Subjected To Body Cavity Search At Traffic Stop...
(Includes a rectal search (police rape) done in public. No drugs were found.)

SNAP: L.A. police officer lied about being shot, caused massive lockdown...

Dallas Police Officers Accused Of Collecting $250,000 In Rewards For Bogus Tips...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 29 January 2011 - 12:19 PM.


#2 Rogerdodger

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Posted 30 January 2011 - 02:31 PM

NY mob task force spends 6 MONTHS probing 50-cent sausage heist...

Its target: A suspect who swiped a $2 bottle of iced tea and used it to wash down a stolen 50-cent piece of sausage.
According to two sources, the case was quickly wrapped up: The thief confessed to the crime, and the victim said an arrest was unnecessary.

The victim "didn't want to see him behind bars...just wanted him to stop," one source said.
But top commission officials, convinced its investigators mishandled the case, ordered a second probe with every possible witness reinterviewed, the sources said.
Investigators from the 58-year-old agency returned to the docks and conducted about 80 second interviews, all the while cranking out piles of paperwork, the sources said.

The commission was blasted in August 2009 - one year before the sausage investigation was launched - as home to corrupt execs barely better than the waterfront's notorious mobsters.
Officials were accused in a damning 60-page report of misusing Homeland Security money, keeping a convicted crook in business and surfing the Internet for porn.

The iced-tea-and-sausage probe - which has yet to wrap up - is considered an embarrassment among investigators and dock workers.
"They snicker about it," one of the sources said.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 30 January 2011 - 02:32 PM.


#3 Trendy

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Posted 01 February 2011 - 05:46 PM

I like the police around but I do think half of them were former school bullies or those with unfulfilled power/control complexes. I had a cop once even drum up an argument with me about French Fries in a Wendy's after I asked the cashier a question. Believe it or not, the cop looked just like deputy Warren on the Andy Griffith show.

#4 milbank

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Posted 01 February 2011 - 09:20 PM

OK. I read all the articles and I have one question Rog. . .

Why are you smearing Matt Dillon. . .
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And Fiddy?
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I pitty the fool who tries to take his sausage! :angry:

Edited by milbank, 01 February 2011 - 09:23 PM.

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#5 Rogerdodger

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Posted 01 February 2011 - 10:25 PM

Why are you smearing Matt Dillon?


Actually one of my grandson's ancestors was a U.S. Marshal in Dodge City.
He even has his own postage stamp.
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Bill Tilghman was famous in his day, running with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson.
"Tilghman, along with Heck Thomas and Chris Madsden became known as “The Three Guardsmen”. These three lawmen cleaned up most of the outlaws in Oklahoma. Tilghman gained further fame when he captured notorious outlaw Bill Doolin alive and without firing a shot. Tilghman retired as a lawman in 1910 and was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate. Old habits die hard, when Tilghman resigned his office in the senate to become the Oklahoma City Chief of Police. As a champion of law and order, he wrote and directed a silent film, The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, a film dedicated to saluting lawmen. At age 70, Bill Tilghman was still doing law work in the booming oil-town of Cromwell, Oklahoma."

He was killed in the line of duty by a dirty federal agent.
http://www.okhistory...y/tilghman.html
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First City Officers of Perry that included Tilghman

Edited by Rogerdodger, 01 February 2011 - 10:36 PM.


#6 Rogerdodger

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Posted 01 February 2011 - 11:16 PM

Henry Glover Case Trial Begins for 5 Current and Former New Orleans Police Officers
By Laura Maggi, Times-Picayune
Two years after they launched the first in a series of civil rights probes into the New Orleans Police Department, which have resulted in charges against 20 officers in four separate cases to date, federal prosecutors will face their first major test in court today, as a trial begins in the shooting death of Henry Glover in Algiers after Hurricane Katrina and a shocking cover-up that allegedly followed. (Read more »)

http://www.pbs.org/w...e/law-disorder/

Edited by Rogerdodger, 01 February 2011 - 11:19 PM.


#7 milbank

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 07:49 AM

Seriously Rog, fascinating thread. I still get a kick out of the fact that Wyatt Earp ended up a sports reporter at a newspaper in New York City.

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Wyatt when Marshall in Tombstone, AZ

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Wyatt late in his life.

Edited by milbank, 02 February 2011 - 07:50 AM.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
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"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
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#8 Rogerdodger

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 10:31 PM

Now we have dead officers issuing tickets!
Baltimore officials say 2,000 red light camera citations may bear the signature of dead police officer - WBAL http://bit.ly/eCuOo5

Maybe Bill Murray could help here: Zombieland.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 February 2011 - 10:34 PM.


#9 Rogerdodger

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Posted 28 February 2011 - 10:25 PM

:lol: You have to love our Oklahoma judicial and enforcement professionals:

Penis pump judge faces stiff sentence

Sallisaw Police Officer Arrested For Stealing Cattle

OSBI: Sallisaw Officer Shot Himself, Blames Another

Edited by Rogerdodger, 28 February 2011 - 10:26 PM.


#10 Rogerdodger

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Posted 07 March 2011 - 12:49 PM

Thankfully, sometimes even THE WATCHERS are being watched:

Police Beating Caught on Tape: Denver Men Want Officers Fired

Beating victim Michael DeHerrera, 24, said he hopes the settlement will set the framework for the firing of the two Denver officers who threw him to the ground and beat him unconscious.

As Johnson was being arrested and roughed up by police, DeHerrera used his cell phone to call his father, a sheriff's deputy, for advice.
But when police officer Devin Sparks saw DeHerrera on the phone, he grabbed him and slammed him on the ground, repeatedly striking him with a metal club.
DeHerrera said he blacked out and doesn't remember anything until he woke up in the hospital with bruises, stitches and broken teeth.

"The last thing we heard was, 'We've got to get rid of the phone, they're recording us,'" Anthony DeHerrera said.

When the video surfaced, charges against both men were dropped.

Anthony DeHerrera said the entire incident has shaken his faith in his profession.
"It was very tough for me to put on a uniform after that," he said.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 07 March 2011 - 12:58 PM.