Posted on 02/22/2013 12:24:50 PM PST by scott7278
During her 10 years as a Utah state trooper, Lisa Steed built a reputation as an officer with a knack for nabbing drunken motorists in a state with a long tradition of tee totaling and some of the nation's strictest liquor laws.
Steed used the uncanny talent - as one supervisor once described it - to garner hundreds of arrests, setting records, earning praise as a rising star and becoming the first woman to become trooper of the year.
Today, however, Steed is out of work, fired from the Utah Highway Patrol, and she - and her former superiors - are facing a lawsuit in which some of those she arrested allege she filed bogus DUI reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
WEARING US DOWN..
Ten years is enough in most states to be vested.....so this rogue cop will collect some sort of retirement later on.....I do not live in UT ...but LEOs tend to get decent pension
Ten years is enough in most states to be vested.....so this rogue cop will collect some sort of retirement later on.....I do not live in UT ...but LEOs tend to get decent pension
It is now virtually deserted but for a few stragglers as we don't go there anymore. Reason is that the majority of the folks that used to hang out there were from Kanab. The Utah Highway patrol and the Kanab PD have made it a practice to start picking everybody up that leaves the place the minute they cross back into Utah.
And that's why the public should never allow them to be elevated to demi-god status. There's a TV show named "Southland" about Los Angeles policemen. I liked a statement that prefaced one of this new season's shows:
"We hold cops to a higher standard because we give them a gun and a badge. The only problem with that is they're recruited from the human race."
Any cop who does somethign like this should be sent to prison in general population, among those they may have arrested.
They destroyed other people lives, a death sentence is too good.
I left the American Legion Post one day and noticed a police car pull in behind me.
In a couple of miles the light cam on and I pulled over.
I was accused of having crossed the center ine, which I did not because I saw this cop behind me. I was driving particularly cautious.
He got me out of the car for the regular drunk excercises and the breatholizer, I passed them all and still got a ticket for crossing the center line. A lie.
I had been drinking Pepsi Cola all night.
I went to court on the ticket and had to pay the fine, as traffic court is one place where the cops word is law ,even if it’s a lie.
Bingo.
What prosecutor in his/her right mind would attempt to prosecute with no evidence?
There should be jail time for this. There was real damage to people... no excuse. This is no different than running a scam.
Are you kidding? She is Exactly what the In-Justice Dept., ATF and the Dept. of Homeland Defense desires.
From the article: By April 2012, her credibility had come into question so much that a prosecutor said he would no longer prosecute DUIs if Steed's testimony was the only evidence.
Since she started in 2002, I'd say about 10 years worth of prosecutors is your answer.
The same ones that file arrest warrants without any evidence of wrong doing. Most are political beasts that bow to pressure. They then spend your tax dollars dragging out the process trying to get innocent people to plea bargain so they don’t have to take it to trial and look like idiots. Knowing full well that most people can only afford a good defense council for so long.
Yep.
And people wonder why I’m anti-cop these days.
““Utah” should have NEVER been “given” “Statehood”!
Jerk! Utah is about the most conservative state in the union. We could do with a lot more Utah’s and a lot fewer New Jerseys, and Illilonis’. Bet you hate Mormons too!
“Bet you hate Mormons too!” I like “Donny and Marie”. “Hate” is SUCH a STRONG word. See “Mountain Meadows”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre
Aren't Utah prosecutors elected?
You really are naive, aren’t you? You have no idea why someone from the DA’s office would prosecute without evidence?
Duh. Because they’re paid to put people into court and convict them. That’s how they’re evaluated, and that’s how some chirpy assistant DA later on becomes the DA, etc.
These people are given incentives to do these things. And because they’re rarely, if every, held accountable, they get away with it.
You might not have heard of Mike Nifong, but I think you should google that guy and start reading. Doing so might help you understand that a) this does happen and b) it’s not uncommon, c) even in very high profile, high-scrutiny cases.
Never mind traffic court, where the judge assumes that all cops are telling the truth and unless a citizen has independent physical evidence, they’re not even given a fair hearing...
Look, eventually you going to fully fellate any cop on any issue. So get it over with, Just make a wild claim that this is no problem, then you can move to a new thread.
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