02 July 2003
Official Misconduct (Various law enforcement officials who have been accused of doing wrong):
(1) The mildest: "It was a situation where the officer was exaggerating what he saw in order to justify an illegal stop."
(2) Drugs: "Cortez was still with the Los Angeles Police Department when he was dealing drugs from his Burbank, Calif., home and running interference for his partners in the drug ring. He resigned in March after federal investigators in Iowa filed drug charges against him."
(3) Theft: "A sheriff's officer caught on tape zealously singing about stealing ammunition from the department's firing range was sentenced to the maximum 16 months in prison."
(4) Maltreatment: "Accusations against some of the former guards included kicking shackled prisoners, smashing their heads into walls and mixing human waste into their food."
(5) Malpractice: "The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit organization, said in a study of 2,341 jurisdictions that 2,000 criminal cases had been reversed or a sentence reduced since 1970 because prosecutors had stepped over the line." I believe this has been fisked elsewhere for not really being a good statistical study but when you consider how hard it would be to uncover prosecutorial misconduct it is still significant.
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