Dec. 11, 2017
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Episode 41)
It’s another long episode packed with criminal justice f*ckery! Join us as we talk about black police in California and New Mexico being abused by their colleagues, Pennsylvania spending $4,300 to save $60, and some accountability for police brutality in both Georgia and South Carolina!
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Show Notes:
- Rep. Chuck Grassley says your poor because of “booze or women or movies” (Des Moines Register)
- Cheeto-in-Chief commits to ending veteran homelessness, then cuts funding to end veteran homelessness (Politico)
- Roy Moore is an idiot, on top of being a pedophile and racist (CNN)
- Fourth Circuit: police can no longer ask minors to masturbate for them (4th Circuit COA)
- Analysis of the NCVS and why its 2017 results are problematic (FiveThirtyEight)
- Federal data on hate crimes is largely non-existent (ProPublica)
- Long-read exposé on the misuse of Tasers in jails and prisons (Reuters)
- Parole violations drive prison’s revolving door (The Conversation)
- Coast Guard operates secret floating prisons (USA Today)
- ARIZONA: Killer cop Mitch Brailsford found not guilty in the execution of Daniel Shaver (Washington Post)
- CALIFORNIA: Laguna Beach PD officer arrested for elder abuse and fraud (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: The media has gotten the “Brady list” of bad deputies (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: LAPD cadet joyrides went on for two months before anyone noticed (LA Times)
- Our earlier episode with this scandal (Fsck #19)
- CALIFORNIA: Long-read on racial bias in the San Francisco PD (The Undefeated)
- CALIFORNIA: San Francisco prosecutor fired after hiding evidence (San Francisco Chronicle)
- CALIFORNIA: Pathologist resigns, claims Sheriff attempts to cover for police (KQED)
- CALIFORNIA: San Leandro cop Marco Becerra resigns after sex with 17-year-old (NBC Bay Area)
- CALIFORNIA: Nonprofit teaches computer coding skills to inmates (CNBC)
- DC: Addressing the mistrust between black youth and police (NPR)
- FLORIDA: Police arrest wrong man arrested for drug sale, spends 6 days in jail (Tampa Bay Times)
- GEORGIA: Atlanta officer Trevor King found guilty in tomato-related beating in Walmart (WSB 2)
- GEORGIA: Savannah officer saves unresponsive newborn (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- INDIANA: Indianapolis officer Francisco Olmos purged dead girl’s texts at scene of her death (The Daily Beast)
- INDIANA: Female captain suspended for saying coworker benefited from “white male privilege” (WRTV 6)
- KANSAS: Federal judge dismisses drug prosecution due to crooked prosecutor (KCTV 5)
- KENTUCKY: Great op-ed on the foolishness of the War on Weed (Richmond Register)
- LOUISIANA: Details on the abolition of in-person visitation (UK Guardian)
- LOUISIANA: Audit finds retired police superintendent fleeced taxpayers for years (The Advocate)
- MARYLAND: Public defender wants new look at cases prosecuted by dirty cops (Baltimore Sun)
- MARYLAND: One of those dirty cops set up Det. Sean Suiter to find drugs (Baltimore Sun)
- MASSACHUSETTS: 6,000 new cases dismissed after more crime lab misconduct (Boston Globe)
- Our earlier episode on crime lab chemist Sonja Farak (Fsck #31)
- And on the crime lab flubbing DUIs (Fsck #33)
- MASSACHUSETTS: Judge rules arrests of cops, politicians are public records (Boston Globe)
- MICHIGAN: Man choked, arrested for paying $10 ticket with pennies (Fox 2 Detroit)
- MINNESOTA: Girlfriend of Philando Castile reaches $800,000.00 settlement agreement (NY Times)
- Our episode on Castile’s killer going free (Fsck #11)
- And then getting paid a year’s salary to quit (Fsck #16)
- MINNESOTA: Deputy Tom McBroom Sr. tweets that settlement will be “gone in 6 months on crack cocaine” (The Root)
- MISSOURI: School cop snaps 12-year-old’s arm (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- NEVADA: New study shows bodycams reduce use-of-force incidents (Las Vegas Sun)
- Our episode with the DC bodycam study (Fsck #33)
- NEW JERSEY: Ex-Newark cop Dino D’Elia given 2 years probation for stealing personal info (NorthJersey.com)
- NEW JERSEY: Police catch squirrel responsible for vandalizing Christmas lights (WNYW 5)
- NEW MEXICO: Black ICE agent repeatedly stopped by deputies without cause (Associated Press)
- NEW YORK: NYPD’s 81st Precinct celebrates plant seizure (Twitter)
- Some of the 81st Precinct’s history (Village Voice)
- NEW YORK: NYPD officer Reynaldo Lopez federally indicted for dealing heroin (NY Post)
- NEW YORK: Racist son of FDNY commissioner gets a promotion (NY Post)
- NEW YORK: Editorial on reforming the state’s contract with prison unions (NY Times)
- NEW YORK: 2 prison guards convicted for beating inmate, covering it up (US DOJ)
- NEW YORK: Rensallaer County DA indicted for obstruction (NY Times)
- NEW YORK: Suffolk County DAs got $3,250,000.00+ in bonuses from asset forfeiture (NewsDay)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Analysis of how NC makes it difficult for convicts to find jobs (John Locke Foundation)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Dashcam footage released in 2012 roadside beating by police (WRAL)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Long View woman unlawfully arrested for photographing police (WBTV 3)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Hackers compromise 48 county government servers (WSOC 9)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Tryon PD officers find a stray cat, add it to staff (ABC News)
- OHIO: Riverside officer accidentally tases partner during traffic stop (Dayton Daily News)
- OKLAHOMA: Judge creates fake rehab program for defendants (Center for Investigative Reporting)
- Our earlier episode on CIR’s reporting (Fsck #36)
- OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Keith Sweeney charged with murder in death of suicidal man (Washington Post)
- OKLAHOMA: Jail nurse performs exorcism on dying inmate rather than providing treatment (KOCO 5)
- OREGON: State licensing board admits it violated law in “engineering without a license” case (Reason)
- PENNSYLVANIA: County spends $4,300 to fight $60 pants reimbursement (Penn Live)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: Killer cop Michael Slager sentenced to 20 years (Post & Courier)
- Our #Law140 on the Slager plea (Fsck #2)
- TEXAS: Corrupt judge Elizabeth Coker files to run for DA (Houston Chronicle)
- TEXAS: No executions this year in the “capital of capital punishment” (Houston Chronicle)
- TEXAS: Teacher calls police on mute 6-year-old with Downs Syndrome, claims he’s a terrorist (Fox 26 Houston)
- VIRGINIA: Charlottesville PD made “major mistakes” in handling protest (NPR)
- VIRGINIA: US Park Police summarily execute 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar (NBC News4)
- VIRGINIA: Charges dropped against mom who put recorder in daughter’s backpack (WTOP)
- Our earlier episode on that lunacy (Fsck #39)
- WYOMING: Police issue man $25 seatbelt ticket, steal his $91,800.00 (Vox)
- UK: Police responsible for the death of Sean Rigg will not be charged (UK Guardian)
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