if this isn't a fake video, it's an OMG moment of a drunk cop pulling people over. Whoa....

Post by Daniel Ramos.

Lemme toss some news to you... headline "Tickets tossed after speeding police weren't cited"

The Washington State Patrol is dismissing speeding tickets issued to drivers near Cashmere last Tuesday and Wednesday because as many as eight police officers blasted through a speed trap there without being cited.

Post by KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

The officers were headed to a drug-recognition conference in Chelan, The Wenatchee World reported (http://is.gd/plpF92 ). An Arlington man, Bill Gillam, recorded video showing that while other drivers were pulled over and cited for speeding through the trap, the officers were not cited.

State Patrol spokesman Bob Calkins said he didn't immediately know how many tickets were issued, but dismissing them is "simple fairness."

"There weren't many written on Wednesday because the troopers were fundamentally uncomfortable with what was going on anyway," Calkins said. "They saw the inequity. They were still stopping people, but they gave them warnings."

One woman was pulled over, but she was let off with a warning after she reported being the wife of a state trooper, he said.

Some of the officers who sped past were in unmarked cars, making it tough to know the agency to which they belonged. But some were with the State Patrol, the Auburn Police Department and the Seattle Police Department.

State Patrol Chief John Batiste made that decision late Friday morning to dismiss the tickets after Gillam's video surfaced online. The reprieve applies to anyone who got a ticket between midmorning and mid-afternoon on Tuesday or Wednesday on Highway 2/97 between Cashmere and Wenatchee.

The State Patrol will notify ticketed drivers about how to get their tickets voided, Calkins said. Tickets already given to a court will have to be voided by a judge, but those still in the State Patrol's possession will be voided by troopers.

Info from  http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/10/11/3427098_tickets-tossed-after-speeding.html?sp=/99/296/&rh=1#storylink=cpy  via https://www.facebook.com/gavinseim for the video / audio of the cops that were incredulous and deliberately not slowing, stopping, or warning the cops in POVs while they continued their speeding trap for everyone without a badge

Keeping the cops in line, politely, as they aren't even aware they're violating the law about only patrolling in marked cars

Found on Gavin's facebook https://www.facebook.com/gavinseim

Pretty cool pr

The Orlando Police Department presented officer Karen Long with a pink patrol car to honour her fight with cancer & in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (photo: City of Orlando)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/police-officer-battling-breast-cancer-for-the-second-time-is#zubije

Pssst, hey buddy. You in the cop car. C'mere, I got a donut for you

Klamath Falls cops... will they fall for this? The Fire Dept shares the driveway, and set the trap to find out. I think this guy is going to try it...

Found on https://www.facebook.com/NWCableNews?fref=photo&sk=photos

There is something in the coffee or the donuts in the police dept break room in Indiana

FOX 32 News Chicago

Seems like the cops aren't going to take no for an answer, and until their police depts are bankrupted by lawsuits and out of court settlements, they aren't going to change their minds on excessive force, conduct unbecoming, etc.

The most heinous statement? The cops saying that the passenger had to exit the vehicle for the safety of the police. THE WHAT? And charged the passenger with "refusal to aid an officer" TO WHAT? Aid an officer? They TASED him, and it was because he wasn't being helpful?

Remember,  record every police interaction, as they aren't going to get busted without your evidence of their behavior. They have no integrity to police themselves, no honorable intent to act lawfully and professionally, and they will accuse you of NOT HELPING THEM! https://www.facebook.com/policethepoliceACP

Possible solution? Get a law passed in each state, and the federal govt, requiring that cops get malpractice insurance. it won't be long before they can't afford to assault people anymore, and are removed from the police force. Then they get to behave the same way and get tossed in jail. 

The Houston Chronicle reported that the Houston Police Dept has 4 corrupt cops that arrange tickets to get overtime, a million dollars worth

Four veteran Houston police officers who collected nearly $1 million in overtime pay combined since 2008 were recently suspended for listing one another as witnesses on traffic tickets to help themselves get overtime for testifying in court, according to records obtained Wednesday.

From 2008 to the present, the four officers who specialize in writing tickets together were paid $943,000 in overtime, city payroll records show.

An audit of traffic tickets written by the four officers showed they "unnecessarily listed other officers on tickets issued to citizens, or (were) unnecessarily listed on tickets issued to citizens by other officers, after writing multiple citations," according to disciplinary records.

As a result of the investigation, each officer admitted to breaking various rules, including failure to use sound judgment. They also acknowledged violating HPD rules against assigning themselves or other officers on citations "for the sole purpose of obtaining or accruing court overtime compensation," the records state.

Found on http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Four-suspended-HPD-officers-used-ticket-scheme-to-3877815.php

Finally, a notorious speed trap city in the south gets busted by the state, and it's police chief and interim chief resign under investigation of ticket quotas and embezzlement

Waldo Florida, just East of Gainesville on the 24 has a population of 1000, one traffic light, 7 cops, and was raising $400,000 dollars a year, through 12000 tickets, and that's one third the towns income.

AAA reports this town as having 2 of the worst speed traps in the nation. 1 on state hwy 301 and one one state hwy 24 to Gainesville, and the speed limits go from 65 to 35. In 10 mph increments. You've probably seen this before, the cops are under each speed limit sign, and you better be way under the speed limit to pass unnoticed. These are locally adjusted speed limits, and up to the city to post, enforce, and collect revenues on, at their discretion. There's where the dollar signs just go full klaxon for city managers, mayors, and police chiefs, just like a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

According to the complaint by the officers, the chief required 12 speeding tickets per cop, per shift, to keep their jobs. http://news.yahoo.com/waldo-suspends-2-police-chiefs-quota-claims-082259586.html



A couple of weeks after the Florida Dept of Law Enforcement investigate the police chief, and he was suspended, the town's interim chief, Cpl. Kenneth Smith, was also suspended after five of the department's officers told the City Council that he was mishandling evidence, taking city property for personal use and imposing a strict ticket quota. http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2014/10/04/notorious-waldo-pd-now-officially/16679601/



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-towns-notorious-speed-traps-under-investigation/

and if you've clicked on the links, and read how the local Sheriff was taking over for the disbanded police dept, you ought to know that when they refer to the other town the Sheriff had to step in and cover, it was because THEY too were ridiculously corrupt, so much so that this March they were the poster boys for the most corrupt city in the US, on CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/us/hampton-florida-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

The town has even extended its city limits 1,260 feet down the width of a busy highway in order to lay claim to any and all traffic violations--end their accompanying ticket fines--that occur there. (on the 301)

The sight of Hampton Police sitting alongside U.S. 301 on lawn chairs and pointing their radar gun at passersby bas become the norm on the outskirts of town. They became infamous for ticketing anyone and everyone they possibly could for even the tiniest of infractions and between 2010 and 2012 raked in an unbelievable $616,960 in fines. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577200/Welcome-Hampton-Florida-pop-477-The-speed-trap-town-corrupt-state-lawmakers-want-wiped-map.html


Hampton's peak year came in 2011, when 9,515 speeding tickets brought in more than $253,000.

That was the year state Rep. Charles Van Zant got his speeding ticket. He says he drove directly to the courthouse in Starke and paid it. And, he insists, he carries no grudge. But later, he observed, "When I got my ticket, you couldn't hardly pass by Hampton without getting a ticket. You can say that's law enforcement, but no. That's banking using the U.S. highway system."

Is it clear that speed traps and police corruption aren't rare, in fact, the corruption in Florida is easily the match for any southern state, according to a watchdog organization called Integrity Florida. The group's 2012 study revealed that more than 1,760 of Florida's public officials had been convicted of corruption since 1976. The mayor of Hampton was just busted for selling oxycodone, which he's been addicted to for years. Poor bastard, he was hit in the back with a forklift, and fell off a roof.

Hampton set up its speed trap, just like its neighbors, Waldo and Lawtey. Since Hampton has no schools, homes or businesses along 301, traffic safety really wasn't the issue. The focus always was on revenue -- and state and county officials say that's where the city went wrong. It's the crack that allowed corruption to creep in and take hold.

The city doesn't pay its bills on time, if it pays them at all, the audit says. It doesn't balance the checkbook or withhold employee payroll taxes or hold elections when it should. It doesn't maintain insurance on city vehicles.

All the ticket revenue can't be accounted for, and obviously didn't get used properly for maintenance of the Fire Dept engine

Photo by EDWARD M. PIO RODA/CN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/us/hampton-florida-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Detroit cops shut down a chop shop

Fox 2 News Headlines

What is is the Donuts? Or is it 'roid rage? Cops busted, laughing and ‘Fistbumping’ as they beat a handcuffed nurse over using her cell phone while driving.

Post by Keith Kuder.

Proof that body cameras need to be used in LAPD

On Aug. 21 2012 , registered nurse Michelle Jordan was pulled over for holding her cellphone while driving. She got out of the car and did not comply with an officer's demand to get back in the vehicle. The 5-foot-4-inch woman was slammed to the ground and handcuffed by at least one officer. While being led to the patrol car, an officer slammed her to the ground again.

The incident was captured by a surveillance camera at a nearby restaurant.

The officers involved were removed from patrol duty pending an investigation, and their supervising captain was transferred. Beck said the videotape raised serious concerns and ordered it shown at officer roll calls throughout the department.

In one incident, Alesia Thomas died in a squad car July 22 after struggling with officers trying to arrest her on suspicion of child endangerment.

During the struggle to get Thomas into the patrol car, a female officer was captured by the car's video camera threatening to kick Thomas in the groin if she did not obey, and then she made good on the threat. A short while later, Thomas stopped breathing. The coroner has not determined what caused her death.

In a third incident, college student Ronald Weekley Jr. was stopped Aug. 18 by officers for riding his skateboard on the wrong side of the street. A bystander's cellphone video appears to show that an officer punched the 20-year-old in the face while he was on the ground being handcuffed with four officers on top of him. He said he suffered a broken nose and cheekbone.

Weekley was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest. Police have launched an internal investigation to determine whether excessive force was used, but the officers involved remain on duty. "These are unarmed, handcuffed suspects. It's a disturbing, growing trend of police brutality throughout Southern California," said Najee Ali, of the South Los Angeles civil rights group Project Islamic Hope.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/lapd-violent-arrests-rece_n_1849031.html

what is it with cops and donuts? Magnetic attraction?

law enforcement can be such assholes when parking in handicapped spots

Found on http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/

According to the caption, the lazy cop said "cut me some slack" and drove off

LA Sheriff deputy who killed bicyclist due to emailing while driving his patrol car is immune to prosecution, not even ticketed for distracted driving

California prosecutors have declined to file charges against a sheriff's deputy Andrew Wood who was apparently distracted by his mobile digital computer when his patrol car drifted into the bike lane, stricking and killing a prominent entertainment attorney last year.

‘Wood briefly took his eyes away from the road, typing on his onboard computer in response to an email, precisely when the narrow roadway curved slightly to the left, causing him to inadvertently travel straight into the bike lane, immediately striking Olin.’

Under the law, law enforcement officials are allowed to use electronic wireless devices while carrying out their duties. The victim’s family have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheriff's Department and accused Wood of negligence. Olin’s loved ones also started an online petition on Change.org demanding that charges be brought against the deputy. So far, more than 67,000 people have signed.

Found on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736376/Deputy-killed-former-Napster-COO-drifting-bike-lane-distracted-laptop-NOT-face-charges-answering-work-related-email.html

According to the Sheriff’s Department’s own policies and procedures involving the operation of a vehicle, “members shall always employ defensive driving techniques to avoid or prevent a collision” and shall not operate vehicles “in an unsafe or negligent manner.”

In mobile digital competency tests, employees are also reminded “to use caution” while operating an MDC and that “distracted driving is inherently unsafe,” according to training documents provided by the Sheriff’s Department.

Wood, who is still a deputy, transferred shortly after the incident to court services but had made the request more than a year earlier, a department spokesman has said.

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140827/in-calabasas-death-of-cyclist-milton-olin-no-charges-against-typing-deputy

What does it look like for another cop that was driving and using his laptop?

Keep you eyes on where your 4000 pound killing machine is going. The life you save might be your own

I'm guessing this is a K9 officer who sees his dog butt sniff all day long, and picked up the habit

Found on https://www.facebook.com/Truckdriverwtfmoments