It’s nice to be a cop – at the least a politically linked cop.
Of course, should you’re a cop who’s not wired, you may as effectively be sporting a crimson MAGA cap, as a result of they’re going to throw the guide at you, or at the least attempt to make your life depressing for some time.
That’s my first takeaway from studying the 318-page report from the brand new MA Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission.
It particulars greater than 3000 disciplinary proceedings in opposition to cops, and as soon as once more, the previous saying appears to use:
“In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.”
First factor that’s apparent: the Mass. State Police motto ought to be “Omerta” – silence.
I heard this spring from a man who’s been all twisted up in a household home dispute with a state cop. He complained to what’s referred to as the Office of Professional Integrity and Accountability (don’t snigger; not a joke!) claiming that this trooper had been operating his household’s license plates, compulsively.
The man confirmed me the official letter he acquired years later from MSP, confirming 13 – 13! – illegal, unlawful searches.
I regarded up this cop on the POST web site – “Abuse of position, use of equipment, CORI violation, Policy, Procedure, Operations.”
His punishment for harassing this man and his household: “Loss of Time Off.”
So far this 12 months this man who ran 13 unlawful CJIS searches has made $148,481. Death, the place is thy sting?
Here’s one other statie I got here throughout, whose title didn’t ring a bell with me. What jumped out have been these three phrases: “submitting false timesheets.” This was in 2018, when the MSP’s huge RICO conspiracy out on the Turnpike was busted.
Dozens of corrupt Troop E cops have been submitting pretend time sheets and grabbing cash from the feds. This is called embezzling, or extra colloquially, stealing.
Again, bear in mind, these will not be random fees on the web site. These are what the POST Commission describes as “Sustained Allegations and Disciplinary Actions.”
A handful of sticky-fingered Troop E felons went to jail. Even worse, some needed to pay again the cash they stole!
And what did this trooper get? “Suspension, 30 days plus.”
Wow! I regarded him up on the state Comptroller’s web site. Yes, he vanished from the payroll for your complete 12 months of 2019, however apparently embezzlement is not any large deal to the MSP.
Last 12 months the timesheet-falsifying trooper was again as much as $245,000. So far for 2023 he’s made $160,482.
I’m undecided these are the kinds of messages the wokesters thought can be delivered by their new web site. Or perhaps they did. So usually, although, these new “reform” businesses simply become good dumping grounds for in any other case unemployable hacks.
Think Stephanie Everett, three-time unsuccessful candidate for workplace in Boston. Then she was handed a no-heavy-lifting sinecure at a City Hall hack holding-pen referred to as the Office of Police Accountability and Transparency.
Like the POST Commission, this was arrange within the wake of the nationwide “mostly peaceful” looting-murder-arson sprees by thugs from the non-working lessons after a profession felon on fentanyl died in police custody within the Midwest in 2020.
Everett’s fellow hacks lastly appointed Stephanie to a emptiness that she may be capable to maintain onto in an election – Suffolk County Register of Probate. It pays $174,000 a 12 months.
Here’s one other MSP story from POST. A fight navy veteran with a spotless file who refused the vaccine is listed as “terminated.” He was faraway from responsibility by a superior officer who had himself been charged earlier for allegedly sticking his spouse’s head in an unflushed rest room.
The fight veteran who refused the unsafe jab stays off the job. The trooper who was charged with abusing his spouse made $293,000 final 12 months and this 12 months took a buyout – by April he walked out the door with $170,000.
His title, in fact, doesn’t seem on the POST record. It’s good to have pals – or kin – in excessive locations.
Speaking of which, there’s a Boston Police Department man who briefly give up to go to, effectively, I gained’t point out the law-enforcement company. He didn’t final lengthy, however he was linked, so he got here again. Only drawback was, after returning to the BPD, he forgot to say his, uh, break-in service whereas below oath.
Now, he can’t exit on the road, as a result of he can’t testify, lest he be requested by a protection lawyer about his “career” on the different company. But he has an in depth relative (who himself gained a photograph end with a federal grand jury) so not solely is he again on the job, he’s been promoted.
I solely point out this as a result of this man with the notorious hack relative shouldn’t be on the POST record both. I do know, it’s as a result of he was by no means disciplined – once more, it’s not what you understand, however who you understand.
So clearly, the record has its limitations.
On the opposite hand, it’s amusing, should you’ve acquired time to randomly peruse the location. I’m fascinated, for example, by the crime wave that appears to have engulfed the MIT police division – three cases of “failure to abide by Institute Parking Policy.”
You might be disciplined for nearly something, in case your uncle or cousin wasn’t as soon as the… oh by no means thoughts. Here’s a listing of what cops get punished or written up for:
“Discourtesy… explicit text to female colleague… rudeness… insubordination… rumors or malicious gossip… conduct unbecoming… poked officer in forehead with finger… mask violation….”
A Worcester officer “called dispatcher a ‘bleeping’ moron over the air… threatened to shoot gas comp. empl.”
That was a feminine, by the way in which. She additionally “berated a citizen.”
But maybe essentially the most critical offense I’ve come throughout thus far concerned an Abington police officer alleged to have made “an offensive Facebook post regarding Town’s Board of Selectmen.”
Now that’s an actual no-no. Any of the opposite above misbehaviors, the powers that be can – and clearly do – look the opposite means.
But “offensive Facebook posts” about native politicians? Forget about it. And one final rule of thumb – the smaller the city, the thinner the politicians’ pores and skin. Some issues by no means change.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”