January 08, 2018

“Beatdowns & Summary Executions, Winter Edition” (Episode 46)

1 hour 43 minutes

It’s been 3 weeks since our last update on criminal justice f*ckery around the nation, and it shows. Join us for an extra-long, f*ckery-only episode where we talk about the drop in crime nationwide, killer cops in Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, and Texas, child predators in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and a funny story about AI in the UK!

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Show Notes:

Tenth Circuit: Shooting van full of innocent kids is constitutional (Santa Fe New Mexican)

The Farrell v. Montoya opinion (10th Circuit COA)

The 2017 Police Violence Report is out (Mapping Police Violence)

Police killed more Americans than terrorists, Chicago gangs, and mass shooters. Combined. (The Root)

Heather MacDonald’s argues NYC is safe because it’s so white… (National Review)

…even though it’s had the lowest % of white people ever (Twitter)

Ames Grawert’s thread is worth reading (Twitter)

R Street Institute op-ed on mass incarceration of children (HuffPost)

Long-read on Hispanic children trapped between MS-13 and potential deportation (The New Yorker)

In-depth report on prosecutors treating opioid overdoses as homicides (Wall Street Journal)

Radley Balko’s list of some of this year’s most-outrageous criminal justice f*ckery (Washington Post)

John Pfaff on prison gerrymandering (Twitter)

New study: Police kill more minorities in the years after being protested (PAA)

Attorney General Beauregard wants more Americans locked up for weed (Washington Post)

And one of his advisors wants doctors to drug-test literally everyone (Daily Beast)

ALABAMA: Unarmed 17-year-old Ulysses Wilkerson savagely beaten by Troy police while handcuffed (Troy Messenger)

ALABAMA: Dad shoots, kills son for borrowing car (WIAT 42)

CALIFORNIA: Chico police sergeant Scott Ruppel charged with assault (ActionNewsNow)

CALIFORNIA: Riverside County Deputy Oscar Rodriguez indicted in love triangle murder (LA Times)

CALIFORNIA: Sacramento deputy paid to arrest prostitutes is arrested for soliciting prostitutes (KOVR 13)

COLORADO: 2 Longmont officers suspended over illegal searches (Longmont Times-Call)

Our first podcast with this story (Fsck #9)

…and how Longmont PD tried to avoid releasing info (Fsck #17)

…and taxpayers’ paying a $210K settlement (Fsck #38)

CONNECTICUT: Gross college co-ed Brianna Brochu ducks hate crime charge (CBS News)

Our episode on Brochu poisoning her black roommate (Fsck #36)

DC: Jury acquits J20 protestors on all remaining charges (Washington Post)

Our episode when the rioting charges were dismissed (Fsck #42)

And the Government admitting they lacked evidence (Fsck #39)

FLORIDA: Minneola man shoots gun, shouts epithets, fires up chainsaw… taken alive by police (Miami Herald)

GEORGIA: State police kill 35-year-old Jarvis Lykes for avoiding a DUI checkpoint (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

GEORGIA: Department of Corrections tweets holiday picture in cotton field because “LOL slavery!” (Newsweek)

Georgia has more people-per-100K in the justice system than every other state in America (Prison Policy Initiative)

GEORGIA: Killer cops Michael Howell, Henry Copeland, and Rhett Scott indicted for murder of 58-year-old black man (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

ILLINOIS: Carol Stream police to start roadside drug tests (Chicago Tribune)

Bayes Theorem (Wikipedia)

ILLINOIS: FOP Vice President Martin Preib is totally clueless about police misconduct (Chicago Tribune)

ILLINOIS: Men whose cases were dismissed in “mass exoneration” apply for certificates of innocence (Chicago Tribune)

Our episode on the mass exoneration (Fsck #38)

INDIANA: Jefferson County jail commander Andrew Horine charged with stealing $7,500 in bond money posted for inmates (WXIN 59)

KANSAS: Wichita PD summarily executes 26-year-old Andrew Finch over SWATting call (Wichita Eagle)

The gamer has been charged; the killer cop has not (Wichita Eagle)

Radley Balko on the bad conditioning of cops (Washington Post)

KANSAS: Wichita PD officer Paul Cruz tries to kill dog, instead shoots 9-year-old girl in the forehead (Wichita Eagle)

MAINE: Retired state trooper Jeffrey Linscott arrested for dealing cocaine (Portland Press Herald)

MARYLAND: All charges dismissed after high-profile Baltimore PD raid seized 16lbs of not-drugs (Baltimore Sun)

MARYLAND: Judge steps down from bench to apologize to 2 men framed by police (Baltimore Sun)

MARYLAND: Corrupt Gun Trace Task Force supervisor Sgt. Wayne Jenkins to pleads guilty to racketeering (Baltimore Sun)

Our episode on one of Jenkins’s Task Force lackeys pleading guilty (Fsck #32)

And another Task Force lackey being indicted… (Fsck #25)

…who stole $10,000 from a citizen (Fsck #27)

And the Philadelphia cop who helped the Task Force sell their drugs (Fsck #38)

And Jenkins setting up Det. Sean Suiter to find planted drugs (Fsck #41))

And Suiter being killed the night before he was to testify against the Task Force (Fsck #39)

MARYLAND: Baltimore officer harasses citizens for noting disparities between police, school funding (Twitter)

MASSACHUSETTS: Extended write-up on the State Crime Lab tainting 32,000+ drug cases (Rolling Stone)

Our first episode on the Crime Lab fiasco (Fsck #31)

And on the Crime Lab withholding evidence in DUI cases (Fsck #33)

And on 6,000+ drug cases being dismissed (Fsck #41)

And on the Washington Post’s exposé (Fsck #42)

MICHIGAN: 817 serial rapists identified from abandoned rape kits (NY Times)

MICHIGAN: Killer cop Mike Bessner charged with murder for the killing of 15-year-old Damon Grimes (Detroit Metro Times)

Our episode on Grimes’s execution (Fsck #25)

MICHIGAN: Grand Rapids police who pulled gun on 11-year-old black girl will not be disciplined (WNDU 16)

Our episode with this story (Fsck #42)

MINNESOTA: Prosecutor on video saying he can’t prosecute Justine Damond’s killer (The Star-Tribune)

MISSISSIPPI: In-depth review of how poorly the state handles psychiatric evaluations (ProPublica)

MISSISSIPPI: Clarksdale judge arrested after fight with Police Chief (WREG 3)

MONTANA: BIA officer Michael Bullcoming pleads guilty to coercing woman into having sex (Billings Gazette)

NEBRASKA: Neo-Nazi Taylor Michael Wilson tries to derail Amtrak, arrested alive (Lincoln Journal-Star)

NEBRASKA: State legislator proposes giving sovereignty to businesses (Lincoln Journal-Star)

NEVADA: Kirstin Lobato released after serving 15 years for a murder she did not commit (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

NEVADA: Prosecutorial misconduct leads to mistrial in Cliven Bundy case (The Oregonian)

Our earlier episode when Bundy’s co-conspirators were found not guilty (Fsck #24)

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Killer cop Christopher O’Toole summarily executes 26-year-old Jesse Champney (Valley News)

NEW HAMPSHIRE: State legislator Richard Marple wants to recognize sovereign citizens (Daily Beast)

The text of Marple’s bill (LegiScan)

NEW JERSEY: Ex-Police Chief Frank Nucera lied to investigators about hate crime (Burlington County Times)

Prosecutors have him on 100+ hours of audio (NJ.com)

Our earlier episode with Nucera’s indictment (Fsck #36)

NEW JERSEY: Matawan PD removes photo on Facebook of officer flashing Nazi hand gesture (NJ.com)

A Zephyrhills Florida officer did the same thing (Twitter)

NEW JERSEY: Jail population, violent crime both plummet after bail reform (OC Register)

NEW YORK: Crime in NYC drops to 60-year lows (NY Times)

NEW YORK: NYPD officers suspended for ignoring 911 call from pregnant woman later found murdered (NY Post)

NEW YORK: NYPD flasher Adam Fridson exposed himself to 3 more underage girls (NY Daily News)

Our earlier episode on this pervert (Fsck #33)

NEW YORK: NYPD Sergeant Tamas Balatoni makes $170,000.00 per year, caught stealing from Banana Republic (NY Post)

NEW YORK: Man nearly killed by Nassau County police for buying shampoo (Twitter)

NEW YORK: White Plains police officer Anthony Carelli gets away with murder of 68-year-old Marine veteran Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. (The Root)

NEW YORK: Squirrel lunges for Brockport officer’s bodycam (Twitter)

NORTH CAROLINA: Corrections Officer Erica Johnson indicted for attempted murder of minister (Charlotte Observer)

NORTH CAROLINA: Durham Sheriff, County Manager want new (unconstitutional) protest rules (Durham Herald Sun)

NORTH CAROLINA: GOP lawyer to court: “Race correlates with party” (News & Observer)

NORTH DAKOTA: Inmates unable to receive visitors due to video visitation glitch (Seattle Times)

Our earlier episode on the video visitation scam (Fsck #25)

OHIO: Politicians call for inquiry into flagrant Taser abuses in jails (Reuters)

Our episode with Part 3 of the Reuters exposé (Fsck #24)

Our episode with Part 6 (Fsck #41)

OHIO: Police Chief Andrew Solomon arrested on federal child porn charges after raping 16-year-old (WKBN 27)

OREGON: Washington County deputies talk suicidal man off ledge (Twitter)

PENNSYLVANIA: Leechburg PD Chief Mike Diebold arrested for soliciting a 14-year-old (WPXI 11)

PENNSYLVANIA: New Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner takes office, fires 31 prosecutors (Philadelphia Inquirer)

PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia PD officers file suit claiming superiors forced them to lie on paperwork (AP)

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh cop Ronald Hough tases pizzeria employee for sport, caught on camera (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

And retires to avoid being disciplined (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

TENNESSEE: Police deliberately stage drug buys in “drug free school zones” to increase sentences (Reason)

TENNESSEE: Legislators allow handguns in legislature, but ban hand-held signs as a “serious safety hazard” (The Tennessean)

TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles spent 26 years in prison for crack; now rehabilitated, the Government wants him to go back (WPLN)

TEXAS: Bexar County deputies summarily execute alleged car thief, also kill 6-year-old Kameron Prescott (KENS 5)

TEXAS: Fort Worth police officer Kenneth Pierce punches domestic violence victim in the throat, has her tased (Reason)

TEXAS: Harker Heights PD savagely beat Leah Dure for sport (Killeen Daily Herald)

TEXAS: Killer cop Ken Johnson found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Jose Cruz (Dallas Morning News)

UTAH: Woman locks kids in trunk to go shopping, no jail time (Salt Lake Tribune)

VIRGINIA: Alexandria jury convicts former DC cop Nicholas Young of terrorism charges (Washington Post)

WISCONSIN: ATF Agent Justin Fahy arrested for taking pictures in girl’s restroom (WKOW)

CANADA: Calgary judge “uncomfortable” with “big dark people” (CBC News)

UNITED KINGDOM: Extensive coverage of hellish jail conditions for women (BuzzFeed News)

UNITED KINGDOM: London police try using AI to find porn, but it keeps flagging sand (Gizmodo)

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