Comments on: November 2009 National Police Misconduct Statistics

By: bfitz

bfitz — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:32:11 +0000

I’m looking for some help trying to identify a legal term. It was used ( officially or unofficially ) following the testimony of a police officer. It would have been something noted in the officer’s transcripts. The word relates to a degree of zealousness.
I regret I only have these vague references to help define the word except that
the term I’m looking for sounds like: lori (laurie, lowery) but I don’t know if it’s a name or not.
Thanks for any help you can offer.

By: Mark A. Adams JD/MBA

Mark A. Adams JD/MBA — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:53:36 +0000

Every day, right here in the “good” old USA, hundreds of Americans are beaten and raped by U.S. “law” enforcement and an average of two are murdered by U.S. “law” enforcement. If you don’t believe me, see the admissions by Congress and the DOJ in Why does the U.S. Government Torture People? at http://dailycensored.com/2009/06/24/why-does-the-u-s-government-torture-people/

If you want to know how those in government get away with violating our rights and ignoring our wishes, see Why Does the Government Ignore Our Wishes? at http://dailycensored.com/2009/09/11/why-does-the-government-ignore-our-wishes/ and don’t miss my 18 minute speech.

If you take a look, you’ll learn why they get away with violating our rights, abusing their power, and committing horrible crimes. My article on torture includes a link to the U.S. Supreme Court case which explains how one of our stolen rights makes the difference between justice and injustice, between freedom and slavery.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:06:28 +0000

Good work here. Thanks for donating your time and energy into this.

By: mepsipax

mepsipax — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:15:03 +0000

Good information as always. Keep up the good work. Good luck with getting results out of that trial FBM.

By: FBM

FBM — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00:38 +0000

These stats are pretty sobering. I’ve been at the trial of the police officer here charged with sexual assault under the color of authority and he’s testifying right now using what can only be called the “Bad apple defense” meaning that he’s denying criminal conduct (in the strongest case, evidence wise) and saying the oral sex was consensual because the victim expressed an interest in fulfilling a “doing a cop” fantasy. He deleted recordings and didn’t activate his recorder at required times because he was “lazy”. He violated the informant policy because he’d “done it before” and gave his personal cell phone number to one of the victims because he “had developed a rapport”. He used CLETS because “red flags” went up. He called her by a phone number she had never given him “because it showed up on caller ID when she had called him” (itself an amazing feat because records show she used a different number when calling him to inquire on the status of a crime report). Yeah, yeah. Right.

Then after a half hour of inconsistent testimony, he broke down on the stand and they had to call it for a day.

Although I’ve lost count how many times officers and not just him admitted to violating departmental procedures on the stand most particularly the audio recording procedure. Though I’m sure playing and joking with a victim’s underwear while you’re supposed to be searching the residence is probably a policy violation of some sort. There’s rumors of at least one other male officer behaving inappropriately.

He’s being cross-examined on Thursday. That should be interesting. I guess he figures his career’s gone so he might as well try to stay out of prison.