NOPD officer Darrius Clipps
This sketch eventually led investigators to suspect Darrius Clipps, an actual New Orleans Police Department officer.
Posted on 03/21/2009 4:20:58 PM PDT by BBell
Throughout the week, police detectives and on-edge residents were looking for a man impersonating a police officer who burglarized and threatened residents in three home invasions, forcing some of them to strip.
On Friday morning, New Orleans police announced they had found their man, and it turns out he wasn't an impostor. Rather, he is a rogue rookie cop who used his badge while off-duty to victimize Hispanic men and women in the Mid-City area, authorities said.
Darrius Clipps, 36, a patrolman of almost one year, appeared for work as scheduled Thursday evening, showing up at roll call for his night shift in the 2nd District, police said.
There, internal investigators approached and interrogated him. And in short order, Clipps admitted to two of the three burglaries and assaults, though he denied responsibility in the third case, police officials said. He resigned from the Police Department immediately.
On Friday morning, Clipps, in an orange prison jumpsuit and shackles, sat in magistrate court, near a murder suspect and an alleged crack dealer.
Booked with two counts of malfeasance in office and one count each of sexual battery, aggravated kidnapping, simple kidnapping, false imprisonment, false imprisonment with a weapon, aggravated burglary and unauthorized entry, Clipps was ordered held in lieu of $685,000 bond.
Just minutes earlier, Police Superintendent Warren Riley glumly announced Clipps' arrest in a news conference at police headquarters.
"The community should be alarmed and highly disappointed by this, as we are, " Riley said.
Under questioning, Clipps sought to convince his interrogators that he was undertaking an investigation into narcotics, Riley said. But Clipps was assigned to a separate section of the city, and was not assigned to any narcotics task force.
Clipps hadn't even completed his one-year probation period, Riley said.
The investigation initially focused on a police impostor, a clean-shaven
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NOPD officer Darrius Clipps
This sketch eventually led investigators to suspect Darrius Clipps, an actual New Orleans Police Department officer.
Nawlins has more than its share of rouge cops. Haven’t they heard of background checks?
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There is nothing worse than an IGNORANT ASSHOLE with a badge
Look at this guy— how did he get past ANY screening process???????
I guess this means he can’t be a New Orleans cop.....at least until he gets out of jail.
Question #1: Do you now or have you ever lived in NOLA?
This genius WORE HIS BADGE while victimizing the citizens of the Chocolate City. They must not have a minimum IQ to get into the NO Police Academy.
As for the police chief’s advice to citizens that they ask for an officer’s ID, uh...he HAD the proper ID because he really was an officer. I guess the chief had to say something.
This is the first comment someone made to the article at the source I posted: “who is screening the applicants?”
Background checks are discriminatory.
I remember a female NO officer who robbed a Chinese restaurant, and thought she killed all the witnesses. Unfortunately for her, one of the kids of the owners hid in the refrigerator and identified her as the killer.
There are only a couple possibilities:
1. The city hired the guy w/o checking his background.
2. They checked it, found a felony or two, but still gave him a gun.
3. This guy was squeeky clean, and he spontaneously “went gangsta”.
Who believes #3? Something tells me N.O. is going to be owing some folks A LOT of money.
Oh wait..! It’s not theirs ANYWAY..!
I have said this for > 2 decades: NOLA is a cesspool.
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Twenty years ago P.J. O’Rourke referred to New Orleans as a “high crime drainage ditch” and it’s still true.
An unbelievable piece of human trash, and they shouldn't waste money on feeding her any longer.
Chocolate city is back!
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A fourth possibility is that the guy was always a gangster, but never got caught. Here's the reality - the reason many so-called non-violent criminals are in prison for drug offenses is because there wasn't enough evidence to convict them for the more serious offenses they were suspected of having committed (things like murder, robbery, etc). Kind of like Al Capone, who was convicted for tax evasion, even though he was obviously suspected of having ordered large numbers of mob hits (and personally killed various people), authorized hijackings and all kinds of Mafia-type rackets.
Ka-CHING!!!!!!
Actually, it appears that an applicant MUST possess a VERY minimum IQ to get hired. Anything higher would be a disqualification.
Actually, I believe you can get hired by the NO police department without even existing.
When the hurricane hit, it was thought at first that a large number of police officers just took off and disappeared. But it turned out that they didn’t exist. Their names were on the rolls, but some politician was collecting their salary. I believe it was a pretty substantial number, maybe a quarter of the force, although naturally the news media never followed up on it.
I was there some years ago, and saw block after block of crime-infested red-brick projects and knew it was a place to stay away from.
Ive asked this question a thousand times on this forum: If we all know that people in general are morons, why in the world do we empower local governments and police to roam the streets and hold parking laws, code laws, speed laws, tax and registration laws over our head? The first reason given to me is safety. My answer is I am willing to accept a very high level of risk in return for not having to deal with city employees with guns. The second reason is to ensure that everybody pays their fair share of taxes to pay for roads and stuff, enforce the will of the courts. My answer to that is de-fund and fire half of city government and I wouldn’t even notice the difference. So the first thing the city will do is cut “essential services”. I say go ahead. I see a whole bunch of shiny new police cars covered in gadgets. I see a whole bunch of deputy directors of multi task force coordination (whatever the h#ll that is) who need to be fired. A bunch of perfumed leeches. Two kinds of people in this world: Producers and Consumers. City employees are consumers. Cops are consumers. I choose production, and stay the hell out of my way.
"Don't go there, Jake. It's N'awlins."
Much obliged for the ping.
As it turns out, our replies on the earlier thread could have been described in the most uncomplimentary ways, but they were correct. It’s been impossible to be too cynical for quite some time now.
NOLA won’t be owing, we will. NOLA does not have any money to spare.
I’m disappointed. I really was hoping that the crook was just a punk with a fake badge, not an NOPD officer.
Thanks for posting this. I remember reading about the AWOL cops, but I never heard the second part.
And I thought Chicago had Ghost Payroll Jobs down to a fine art!
One of the witnesses that was killed was her own NOPD partner, who was moonlighting, providing security to the restaurant-that’s how she found out the owners had lots of cash stored in the restaurant-the partner had mentioned it in passing while on the job.
The name isn’t Jake, and I don’t care how they refer to the place.
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