Posted on 04/29/2011 9:31:07 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
HOUSTON - He's being called a rapist in blue: A Houston Police officer could be going to prison for a very long time.
It was last year when 26-year-old Demetrie Dixon was arrested for sexually assaulting at least 2 prostitutes near West 34th Street in northwest Houston.
Dixon, a 2-year veteran of the Houston Police Department, used his authority to detain and sexually assault the hookers, investigators said.
Friday morning, a Harris County jury returned a guilty verdict on 2 counts of Sexual Assault against the rookie cop.
Prosecutors paraded a string of street walkers into the court to tell how they were victimized by Dixon.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxhouston.com ...
Al this does is demonize those people.
TTIUWOP.
Amish? Or is that one they got from the wrecked sign truck.
Hey they were hookers, whats the big deal?
/s
speaking of hookers i’m going to las vegas next week.
At night almost every girl you see is a hooker.
pretty sad....
Your hatred of police continues to amuse me. I look forward to your postings, gives me pause ... did I sped my entire life as a police officer in vain? Nah.
Just maybe you don’t realize how many dirty cops are out there. You may have been the exception.
Had to do a Google search to see what you were talking about: TTIUWPO
The video at the link has a picture of the accused http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/110429-rookie-hpd-officer-guilty-in-rape-cases.
No pictures of the alleged victims, but they were street-level prostitutes so you can pretty much use your imagination there.
An Officer and Not a Gentleman
Do you suppose that Sir Robert Peel would read an article about a policeman declared guilty in multiple rape cases and would conclude that the person who posted that information hated police?
The abandonment of Peelian principles is a big problem for police departments across the country.
The conservatives of Robert Peel’s day were concerned about the potential abuses of his modern policing system, which is why he composed his nine principles. Sadly, in the abandonment of those principles, Peel’s critics are being proven right.
The problem doesn’t lie with the people who are exposing and reporting the abandonment. The problem lies with the people who treat the exposers and reporters as the problem, and not those officers and departments who reject the very principles of modern policework.
Every Freeper should know Peel’s principles, and compare his or her own local police force (some of which are better than others) to the standards Peel set.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2672663/posts
I notice you chose to go after the messenger instead of the message.
So are we to take that as your approval of what this criminal cop did?
You were such an honorable cop you’d be glad this POS is going to jail, yes?
Stories like this really grieve my heart. They really make all police officers look bad in the eyes of the public.
But this guy was apparently a bad apple who should have never been hired. He did get caught and his law enforcement career is now ruined and he is going to serve time, and it seems to me with this on his record his life is pretty much over.
You may have been the exception.
If I ever become an officer he won't be the only exception, I can guarantee you that.
Considering that I worked for the police department in a very large city for over 28 years, you would think I would know something about police corruption. Yes, it happens, but it usually gets cut short by other police officers, because most are true to their calling.
In my 28 years as a police officer, I have only known two officers that were corrupt and both were caught by their peers.
Yes, contrary to general myth, cops will report on bad cops ... the blue line only extends so fare.
Inquiring minds need (to know) data.
He just didn't get caught. Chicago cops cost $100. If this appeaser thug was so "honest," why isn't he out arresting Chicago Tac Troopers?
Brothers in Blue, my rosy red...
Just think, when the shooting starts, this skinhead bloused boot ninja is going to be parked in front of the New Black Panthers office, "protecting" them from us, while they build bombs... What odds can I get that he uses hinged cuffs, because they hurt more? ("To protect himself...")
I was in law enforcement for almost thirty years. I don’t think I actually knew of a murderer or rapist in uniform, but I knew officers who lost their jobs because they were accused of robbery, assault, burglary, theft, drug use, and other crimes.
I’m pretty sure none of these guys should have been hired in the first place. A good background investigation should have identified them as unacceptable risks, and an ethical department head should have known not to hire them. But I’ve known department heads with social agendas, who made politically-correct hiring a priority. (And I was told in background investigation school that some agencies even had the hiring authority taken away from the chief or sheriff, and given to government personnel boards).
If the department head is pressured into hiring risky candidates, or has a personal agenda that makes such risks acceptable, it opens the door for dishonest people to get into law enforcement.
There are supposed to be legal safeguards that prevent criminals from being hired as peace officers, but a clever chief or sheriff can find a way around them. For example, state law might prohibit a convicted felon from becoming a police officer. Yet a dishonest candidate could have multiple felony arrests, but no felony convictions, and still get hired by a department head who wanted to meet an affirmative action quota.
I’m somewhat cynical, but I even suspect there is sometimes pressure put on background investigators to overlook certain things. Or at least to not put it in the written report, so the department head can say he didn’t know. Background investigators can enhance their careers this way. They don’t want to get caught falsifying an investigation or its supporting documents, because background investigations can be subject to random inspection by state authorities (assuming the state inspectors are honest). But short of that, it’s easy to simply say you didn’t find anything that would disqualify the candidate.
I believe the problem is at the top, with elected officials who think there is nothing wrong with making the police department an instrument of social change.
Just committing the crimes that Americans don’t want to...
.....hey wait a minute!
Perhaps you’d prefer all the corruption be swept under the rug?
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