Posted on 11/23/2013 11:31:11 AM PST by DariusBane
SAN ANTONIO -- Officer Jackie Neal, 40, was in full uniform, in a marked squad car and on-duty when he made a traffic stop Friday morning and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman, according to the San Antonio Police Department. Neal was taken into custody by SAPD Special Victims' Unit detectives after police officers pulled him over on the south side around 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement issued by the department. Neal was arrested on a warrant for sexual assault, a second-degree felony.
"This conduct is unthinkable and I'm absolutely outraged," San Antonio police chief, William McManus said in a statement issued by the department. "Once we became aware of the allegation, we took prompt action."
Neal is an 11-year veteran with SAPD and works the overnight shift on South Patrol. He was hired in October 2001, according to The Texas Tribune. Officer Neal has been placed on administrative leave, according to department protocol. He was released from custody Saturday at 7:25 a.m., according to the Bexar County Magistrate's website. Neal was suspended back in September, according to an agenda for the San Antonio Police and Firefighter Civil Service Commission. KENS 5 requested information regarding the suspension in mid-September; however, the department has yet to release any details on the incident.
"A high standard of conduct is a priority of the S.A.P.D. I praise the victim for having the courage to come forward and having the confidence in the S.A.P.D. to handle the case effectively," McManus added.
The occurrence of a State stop of a citizen going about his business should be rare, an unusual event taken with great trepidation. Instead these stops are routine, and we rely on the "system" to protect us from rogue cops.
I am more concerned with Liberty than I am with safety. The current reality of massive electronic surveillance, and the common occurrence of routine stops must be ended. We, have ceded too much power to get safety. Instead we get tyranny. Here the cop was caught. How many times does this happen and nobody says anything? While the story does not say why the traffic stop occurred, lets be clear, the Police can pull over anybody at any time they want. is far to easy to create a stop when the traffic regs are so huge that you couldn't print them all out and fit them in the back of a Police cruiser.
Time for the tyranny to end.
What do you think, firing squad or a good old fashioned hanging if found guilty?
Countdown for being asked if I recently got a traffic ticket, a DUI or a suspended license... 01,9,8,7,6,5...
Nope, but I have driven around 50k miles a year for nearly 20 years, so yeah I have seen a lot of road.
Punishment for the cop? Of course. But what we really need is reform.
Do you defend female cops, too?
“While the story does not say why the traffic stop occurred, lets be clear, the Police can pull over anybody at any time they want. is far to easy to create a stop when the traffic regs are so huge that you couldn’t print them all out and fit them in the back of a Police cruiser.”
My wife complained to our former chief of police (and former friend) about the fact that a cop could follow a citizen for a couple of miles and find some “legal reason” to pull him or her over. The chief said that it wouldn’t take a block. Kinda’ reinforces what you are saying doesn’t it!
Blowtorch, pliers & Jack Bauer, for 2hrs in a locked room.
Alaska Wolf has left the building.
Yup. The dirty little secret is that traffic laws are used to subvert the 4th Amendment every single day. It’s what they are for.
Yet, again.
Glad to see him gone. Do you know why?
Aggravated *sshattery, a.k.a. being abusive to other freepers, IIRC.
They can arbitrarily pull over anyone, anytime. They'll say they saw a swerve, sudden change in speed, thought he saw the driver texting, anything. They can use any one of a dozen excuses to "make contact" and then they immediately go in to evidence collection mode looking for anything they can charge you with.
I'm not usually this cynical (ok, sometimes)... But far too many LEOs think their primary job is to write tickets and make arrests. So that is all they are out there to do. They have completely lost sight of that whole "protect and serve" thing, and are focused on a couple aspects of their job.
You have to wonder how many times as he done this?
I think in some places you are supposed to use the blinker to get into your own driveway and most people probably never do this.
And, we have to identify ourselves to any uniformed goon who demands it. When a guy in newly-seized federal area outside of SF started walking away from the LE (rangerette goon), she Tazed him in the back. Someone I used to be friends with in the NPS told me that the rangerette was a “federal officer” and citizens must obey.
Did he shoot her dog, too?
I think it says a lot about how things work when it takes courage to report an assault.
Makes me wonder what kind of stories get told in Police locker rooms.
With all the absent minded car drivers on the road, signals and all that folderol are a good idea anyhow.
But yeah, we now have asinine police because we now have an asinine country.
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