August 13, 2018

A Culture of Corruption (Episode 79)

1 hour 36 minutes

Join us this week as we talk about the culture of corruption permeating the Trumpkin GOP. In our criminal justice news, an off-duty Ohio officer tases an 11-year-old girl, a Florida boy is arrested at a youth basketball league for bouncing a basketball, and ICE crashes a van in Texas then denies an accident even took place. Then, in our #Law140 section, we talk about a “bait truck” of shoes in Chicago and the law of entrapment!

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Show Notes:

Mike the Sound Guy got a shout-out! (Twitter)

We’re finalists in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards! (Podcast Awards)

I’m getting a new dog! Here’s the origin story on Chance (Twitter)

Republican Congresscritter Chris Collins indicted for paint-by-numbers insider trading (NY Times)

People knew about Rep. Collins scumminess over a year ago (Daily Beast)

Members of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club, who aren’t veterans or public officials, are secretly running the US Department of Veterans Affairs (ProPublica)

Analysis: Recreational therapy in jail lowers recidivism among juvenile offenders (JJIE)

ARKANSAS: England PD officer Michael Moore fired after being caught on video telling black men “you don’t belong in my city” (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

CALIFORNIA: LAPD Chief Michel Moore collected $1,270,000.00+ from “flash retirement” before hiring as $299,000.00/yr Chief (LA Times)

CALIFORNIA: Tyrone McAllister, teen arrested for brutally beating Sikh man, is son of local police chief (San Francisco Chronicle)

COLORADO: El Paso County taxpayers to pay $60,000.00 for keeping woman in jail 25 days over $55 bail (Colorado Springs Gazette)

FLORIDA: Department of Correction made millions selling MP3s to inmates; it’s now confiscating them to force inmates to buy new music (Florida Times-Union)

FLORIDA: Prosecutors admit Biscayne Park PD framed Clarens Desrouleaux, have his conviction set aside after serving 5 years in prison and deportation to Haiti (Miami Herald)

Our episode on the initial indictments against Biscayne Park PD (Fsck #72)

And the expanded investigation (Fsck #76)

And the initial guilty pleas (Fsck #77)

FLORIDA: Unidentified Jacksonville PD officer arrests 11-year-old black child for bouncing basketball in youth athletic league (WJXT 4)

FLORIDA: Marion County deputy Jeremie Nix saves lifeless 4-month-old baby (Ocala StarBanner)

FLORIDA: Republican Melissa Howard, running for State House, lied about graduating from college then posed with fake diploma (The SunSentinel)

GEORGIA: Rockdale County deputy Dedra Hall charged with sexual battery (WSB 2)

GEORGIA: Spalding County deputies Howard R. Costner and Jesse A. Jones fired for being neo-Nazis (WXIA 11)

ILLINOIS: Chicago PD, Norfolk Southern Railroad park truck of shoes in poor neighborhood to entrap residents (UK Daily Mail)

KANSAS: Overland Park PD officers caught muting bodycams, issuing bogus seatbelt tickets (KCUR 89.3)

MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Arthur Williams suspended after being caught on video savagely beating unarmed black man Dashawn McGrier (Baltimore Sun)

MARYLAND: Baltimore taxpayers to spend $176,800.00 on consultant to maintain decades-old Lotus Notes system at Baltimore PD (Baltimore Sun)

MARYLAND: Towson mom Elizabeth Eden kept from her newborn for 5 days because a poppy seed bagel trigger a false positive for opioids (WBAL 11)

MICHIGAN: Clare County PD officer Ashley Gruno jails 80-year-old grandmother for possessing weed for arthritis (Reason)

MINNESOTA: Minneapolis politician Carol Becker tries to register trademark for name of critic’s blog (Tony Webster)

NEW JERSEY: Palisades Interstate Parkway PD Chief Michael Coppola arrested for cocaine (North Jersey Media Group)

NEW YORK: Unidentified Sheriff’s deputy on video calling teen raped by NYPD officers a “stupid b*tch,” other insults (NY Daily News)

Our episode on NYPD officers Richard Hall and Eddie Martins raping the teen after arresting her for marijuana (Fsck #31)

And Hall claiming the rape was consensual (Fsck #33)

And the officers being indicted (Fsck #36)

And Hall shagging the prosecutor (Fsck #58)

NORTH CAROLINA: Alcoholic Beverage Control commission wasted millions in taxpayer money (Durham Herald Sun)

NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County Sheriff admits deputies lied, Arthur Kenzie Garner never shot at them before being summarily executed (WRAL 5)

OHIO: Off-duty Cincinnati PD officer Kevin Brown tased an 11-year-old black girl for stealing food; policy allows them to tase kids as young as 7 (Cincinnati Enquirer)

OKLAHOMA: Judge hides jail video of inmate dying after indicted Sheriff, deputies kept him in restraint chair for 54 hours (The Oklahoman)

OREGON: West Linn PD officer Tom Newberry, fired for racist posts, entitled to $100K in back pay because his supervisors encouraged the posts (The Oregonian)

PENNSYLVANIA: Deep dive on crooked cops in the Philadelphia PD (Philadelphia Weekly)

SOUTH CAROLINA: York grand jury indicts 900+ cases in a day, at 39 seconds per case (Rock Hill Herald)

TEXAS: ICE crashed a van full of immigrant women, denied it ever happened… until media got the accident report (Texas Observer)

UTAH: Enoch PD officer Jeremy Dunn given paid vacation for shooting woman with screwdriver in the leg (Reason)

WEST VIRGINIA: Legislative committee votes to impeach entire Supreme Court (Charleston Gazette-Mail)

Our episode on Justice Loughry’s suspension (Fsck #69)

And the indictment against him (Fsck #71)

And testimony from the court administrator (Fsck #77)

Sorrells v US (Justia)

US v Russell (Oyez)

Jacobson v US (Oyez)

US Attorneys Manual entry on entrapment (US Dept of Justice)

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