December 11, 2017

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Episode 41)

1 hour 23 minutes

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)

Our episode about the court ruling on this list (Fsck #19)

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)

Our earlier episode on ADA Mains and PD Adachi (Fsck #27)

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)

Our episode on Lamonte McIntyre’s exoneration (Fsck #39)

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)

Visits were eliminated in Charlotte-Mecklenburg too (Fsck #39)

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

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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