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A Russian policeman has triggered a political storm by breaking a code of silence over corruption in the ranks, in videos posted on the internet. Major Aleksei Dymovsky, a senior drugs trafficking investigator, accused corrupt police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people and claimed that it was impossible to live on the official salary, £290 a month, without taking bribes. He made an appeal to Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, to order a national inquiry into corruption, saying that he was speaking up for ordinary officers who considered dignity and honour as “words burnt into the mind”. His...

The Justice Department today announced that Carlton Moore, formerly an officer with the Memphis Police Department, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in Memphis, Tenn., to three counts of violating civil rights for stealing money from motorists while acting under color of law. Moore faces up to three years in prison. Moore admitted that on March 1 and March 14, 2008, and again on May 4, 2009, he surreptitiously stole cash from three Latino drivers he pulled over while on duty as a Memphis police officer. During these stops, Moore ordered the victims out of their vehicles, patted them...

Black Leader Condemns Bush for Not Pardoning or Commuting Sentences of Jailed Border Agents During Pre-Thanksgiving Round of Executive ClemencyWashington, D.C. - Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie is condemning President Bush’s inaction regarding incarcerated Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean and is reiterating his call for a pardon or commutation of the agents' sentences before the President leaves office in January. Massie’s call comes as the White House has announced that President George W. Bush granted pre-Thanksgiving pardons to individuals involved in the distribution of drugs and bank embezzlement and commuted the sentences of two men given...

President Bush, who apparently uses the same pen for veto’s and pardons, has given out 14 and commuted the sentences of 2 others. All were pretty much low level scumbags who pretty much hurt no one but themselves, but what about the border agents? Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., noted that the list also did not include former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up. Ramos and Compean are each serving sentences of more than 10 years for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks while...

In yet another in the series of "guess the missing party label" we once again present the case of imprisoned former Broward County (FL) sheriff, Ken Jenne. As we have seen before, the South Florida news media is extremely reluctant to apply a party label to the disgraced Jenne, who was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion while in office, despite the fact that the Broward sheriff  office is most most important political post in the county. A hint as to what  is Jenne's political label is the fact that if he had been a Republican, we would have seen that fact...

RICHMOND, Va. — After repeated threats for speaking out on public sidewalks against abortion, two pro-life supporters, represented by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday against the city’s police chief and one of its officers. “Pro-life speech cannot be treated differently than any other kind of speech,” said ADF Senior Counsel Nate Kellum. “The police cannot reprimand speech for being ‘too loud’ when no standard definition of an unacceptable noise level exists.” Charles Neal and Paul Trout, both of whom remained peaceful and respectful while expressing their free-speech rights on a public sidewalk,...

Charges Dismissed Again! On November 4, Fred Neal had to appear in Richmond General District Court to defend himself against bogus disorderly conduct charges that were brought against him by abortion clinic employee, Officer Howard Noyes, on Sept. 20, 2005. This Police Officer has made it his cause to harrass and cite, and arrest law abiding Christians who dare to speak out on behalf of the murdered preborn and their Messiah. As expected the Prosecuting Attorney again asked that the charges be dismissed. Judge Cheek agreed and ordered it to be so. We thank our Heavenly Father for another court...

Charges Dismissed November 05, 2005 On November 4, Fred Neal had to appear in Richmond General District Court to defend himself against bogus disorderly conduct charges that were brought against him by abortion clinic employee, Officer Howard Noyes, on Sept. 20, 2005. This Police Officer has made it his cause to harrass and cite, and arrest law abiding Christians who dare to speak out on behalf of the murdered preborn and their Messiah. As expected the Prosecuting Attorney again asked that the charges be dismissed. Judge Cheek agreed and ordered it to be so. We thank our Heavenly Father for...

Contact: Joe Waldron of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911; Web: http://www.ccrkba.org BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following reports that police chiefs in Wisconsin are campaigning already against legislation that would allow concealed carry by citizens of that state, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is challenging those lawmen to explain why Wisconsin residents are less trustworthy with licensed, concealed handguns than residents in 46 other states. According to WBAY-TV in Green Bay, "police chiefs across Wisconsin say they need to keep all the guns they...

A San Francisco police officer faces internal charges that he abandoned his traffic control duties at the airport so he could fiddle with surveillance cameras and ogle women as they walked through the terminal.

A Dallas narcotics detective acquitted in a federal trial last year was indicted on state felony charges for allegedly helping frame Mexican immigrants for drug crimes. Senior police Cpl. Mark De La Paz was charged Thursday with seven counts of tampering with physical evidence. The indictments allege he knowingly submitted false police reports and other documents in cases where the immigrants were arrested on false drug charges. The panel also indicted a former narcotics officer, Jeff Haywood, who was charged with three counts of tampering with physical evidence. Haywood left the department in October 2001. The state charges are the...

A serial killer who terrorized Wichita during the 1970s by committing a series of seven murders has claimed responsibility for an eighth slaying and is probably now living in Wichita, police said Wednesday. A letter The Wichita Eagle received Friday suggests that the BTK strangler was responsible for the Sept. 16, 1986, strangulation death of Vicki Wegerle, who was found dead in her home at 2404 W. 13th St. The crime was never solved. The letter contained a single sheet of paper with a photocopy of Wegerle's driver's license and three pictures that apparently were taken of her body. Each...

THIS WAS NOT RUMOR or speculation: Post staff writer Serge F. Kovaleski witnessed three D.C. police cruisers parked within 25 yards of illegal drug dealing, without any of the officers even getting out of their vehicles. Two of the police cruisers carrying a total of three officers were parked next to each other, he reported. The drivers were conversing through their open window, engrossed in laughter and not paying attention to the drug activity in an adjacent lot. Another officer, Mr. Kovaleski reported, was smoking a cigarette and reading something on his lap as drug dealers were going about their...

February 10, 2004 Memphis, TN - A Shelby County Grand Jury late Tuesday indicted Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. O.C. Smith. The charges stem from an investigation into a June 2002 incident in which Dr. Smith was found outside his office early one morning with a bomb strapped to his chest. The indictment charges Dr. Smith with "Possession of a non-registered destructive device" and with two counts of making "false statements" to Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigators. Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons says the indictment will have no bearing on the validity of Dr. Smith's...

Officer charged in Texas drug haul By Tom Bailey Jr. January 24, 2004 A brand-new traffic law in Texas led to drug charg es Friday against a Memphis police officer. Terrance A. King, who patrols on the 5 p.m.-to-1 a.m. shift for the North Precinct, was released on $50,000 bond Friday morning from the Bi-State Justice Center Jail in Texarkana, Texas. The 39-year-old officer was charged Friday in state court with possession of 100 pounds of marijuana and possession of 2.2 pounds of cocaine. The arrest started with a Texas traffic law that took effect Sept. 1: If you pass...

Property room theft easily turned routine By Erin Sullivan January 25, 2004 He was wearing a baseball cap, leaning against his green pickup truck in the driveway in front of his house, on a street where all of the houses look the same. It was Friday afternoon on Cordova Club Drive in a neighborhood of quarter-million dollar homes, varying slightly in shades of brick veneer and shutters, neatly wrapped around a golf course. A woman was walking her two Shih Tzus on the sidewalk. Another woman was power walking with a cell phone pressed to her ear. He saw a...

Ex-Dallas officer jailed in drug case E. Texas troopers find 100 pounds of marijuana in his car January 23, 2004, Friday SECOND EDITION A former Dallas police narcotics officer was in an East Texas jail Thursday after being stopped with 100 pounds of marijuana and about 2.2 pounds of cocaine in his car trunk, authorities said. State troopers pulled over Terrance A. King, 39, after he passed too close to an emergency vehicle on Interstate 30 in New Boston, about 25 miles west of Texarkana. Mr. King, who is now a police officer in Memphis, Tenn., displayed a Dallas police...

Larry Wallace Is Surprise Choice For Police Chief Former TBI Director Had Been Hired To Help Pick Dotson Replacement posted January 13, 2004 Former TBI Director Larry Wallace is the surprise choice of Mayor Bob Corker as the next Chattanooga Police chief. Mayor Corker said at a press conference late Tuesday morning that he would be recommending Mr. Wallace to the City Council at their 3 p.m. meeting today. Mr. Wallace had been hired by the mayor as a consultant to help pick the new police chief. He replaces Jimmie Dotson, who is stepping down at the end of the...

Ex-police employee guilty; Stole drugs and cash from evidence room"By Chris Conley January 21, 2004 When Kenneth W. Dansberry was running the Memphis police evidence room - and using his position to loot it of drugs and money - he grew so swamped with cash that stacks of it grew mold. Dansberry, 41, a former Police Department civilian employee, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a wide array of drug conspiracy and money laundering charges. U.S. Dist. Judge Bernice Donald, who received his guilty plea, called the magnitude of Dansberry's crimes "daunting." Fifteen alleged co-conspirators and two other property...

WEAPONS OF CHOICE Homeowner charged after shooting intruder Family protected but suburban town prohibits possession of handguns Posted: January 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Chicago-area homeowner protected his family by shooting an intruder but was charged with violating a local ordinance banning possession of handguns. Wilmette, Ill., Police Chief George Carpenter believes charges against Hale DeMar, 54, underscore the suburban village's serious concerns about the shooting, the Chicago Tribune reported. "The outcome of the matter in this case was very fortunate for the homeowner," he said. "We much prefer, for the safety of the home, that...