Posted on 01/21/2007 12:22:55 PM PST by eastforker
A veteran Houston police officer has been relieved of duty and charged with felony bribery after investigators say he took cash in exchange for not issuing a traffic citation, department officials said today.
Police allege that senior officer Alfred Alaniz, an accident investigator who joined the force in 1986, took an unspecified amount of money in an undercover sting.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
In todays hardprint edition it was also stated this cop has made over $200,000 in overtime over the last two years.
Good baby step, lots of cleaning house to go...
I worked for the LAPD for seven years. Not once was I offered a bribe when writing a ticket.
What's the problem, isn't this the way things are done in Mexico?
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This is one reason I am so critical over HPD, that and some personal experiance.
Aw - he was just being friendly and saving the motorist a trip to court which might cost him his license or raise his insurance premiums.
I think this cop was shaking the suspects down. You know for a c note I can tear this ticket up.
We had a couple in my town a few years back that set up and wrote a bunch of tickets in a few hours, but they put phony times on the tickets to make it look like they worked a whole shift. Most people don't read that part real carefully. If I were in Houston and had a traffic ticket pending, I might just go and say the cop collected the fine right on the spot.
"I worked for the LAPD for seven years. Not once was I offered a bribe when writing a ticket."
You shoulda moved to Houston.
"Just another crooked cop doing what honest cops won't!"
It's a shame that the 99% (the bad cops), give the rest a bad name...
You bragging or complaining??
:D
20 years down the tube! Almost impossible to believe.
Bet ya he will be allowed to resign and keep his pension.
"Bet ya he will be allowed to resign and keep his pension"
Only after the union hacks have had their day.
I hope not.
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