Another ordered its officers to catch five speeding drivers a month. They were also told to arrest 24 people a year for motoring offences to meet new quotas.
Critics said the moves would strip traffic police of the right to use their discretion to give motorists a ticking-off instead of a ticket. They also warned that the quota-based approach would further damage relations with the public.
Other forces are now expected to issue similar instructions in the coming months. But AA president Edmund King said: “Traffic police performance should be judged in terms of reducing accidents, not in terms of the number of tickets issued."
We all know shit like this goes on in the states, but it's just not exposed to the public.
"Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime.
Drug charges against brothers Jose Colon and Maximo Colon, along with two of their friends have been dropped. The undercover NYPD officers are seen on video dancing in the street, then attempting to frame four innocent men.
"I asked police officer why are you arresting me," said Maximo Colon. "Never did I get an answer."
The investigators swore under oath they bought drugs from the four men. Jose and Maximo colon say that didn't happen.
"The cops are supposed to help us," said a shaken Jose Colon."
This is why I'm glad I'm not a minority. This shit is terrible and these officers should be fired. Good to see that only two of them have been put on restricted duty while the other two are still out on the streets, undercover, trying to bust drug dealers.
Hehe I wish I could be pulled over by a cop on one of these...
"With gasoline climbing toward $4 a gallon, police officers around the country are losing the right to take their patrol cars home and are being forced to double up in cruisers and walk the beat more. The gas crunch could also put an end to the time-honored way cops leave their engines running when they get out to investigate something.
Some police chiefs think the money saving measures are not all bad, and might actually help them do a better job. But they worry about the loss of take-home cars, saying the sight of a cruiser parked in a driveway or out in front of a home deters neighborhood crime. In Newberry, population 10,000, Chief Jackie Swindler is telling his officers to turn off the ignition whenever they are stopped for more than a minute or so, and to get out and walk around more. "It's not a rolling office that you stay in all day," Swindler said. "You still need to get out and interact with the public."
"Hired hitmen, one wielding a pistol with a silencer, shot dead one of Mexico's top federal police officers at his home on Thursday, in a blow to President Felipe Calderon's fight against drug cartels. Three gunmen waited for regional commissioner Edgar Millan at his house in the capital and shot him nine times as he came home early in the morning and opened the door, government officials said.
"They were hunting him," a spokesman for the Security Ministry said. Mexican media said the attackers, one of whom was caught by Millan's bodyguards, were professional killers hired by the powerful Sinaloa cartel, headed by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman. The man arrested had two pistols, one with a silencer, and was wearing a latex glove.
Millan was the head of operations for a federal police force known as the PFP and was in charge of coordinating large-scale operations to break organized crime rings, including drug trafficking. Calderon has sent thousands of troops and federa... Read more
"A Moorestown police officer who was charged earlier this month with sexually assaulting three girls faces new allegations that he performed lewd acts on animals. Robert Melia Jr., 38, of Cottage Avenue in Moorestown, was charged Tuesday with four counts of cruelty to animals.
Burlington County Assistant Prosecutor Kevin Morgan said Melia committed the acts at various times from June to December 2006 on cows in Southampton. The county prosecutor's office declined further comment on the charges.
Melia and his former girlfriend, Heather Lewis, 32, of Stockton's Bridge Road in Pemberton, were each charged April 12 with three counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of second-degree sexual assault. Since his arrest that day, Melia has been held in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly on $500,000 bail. Tuesday, Judge John Almeida set his bail at $10,000 on the animal cruelty charges. Lewis turned herself in on April 12 at the prosecutor's office."
"New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning for president in a neighborhood of Philadelphia so rough the mayor said, "Osama bin Laden wouldn't last here," pitched a $4-billion-a-year anti-crime package today that would put 100,000 new police officers on the streets and help stem the tide of repeat offenders back into the country's prisons.
Claiming that her husband's administration "reduced crime to historic lows" in the 1990s, Clinton argued that "we have to get back to doing what we know works." "I'm old-fashioned about that," she told a group at a YMCA gymnasium. "I think you should actually look for solutions to problems -- find out what works and execute. Enough with the talking, enough with the speeches, enough with the rhetoric."
Clinton said her program would include $1 billion for states that want to participate in anti-recidivism efforts through education, job training and drug rehabilitation. She also urged the end of the five-year term for crack users, who are disproportionate... Read more
Dustin Zebro, 18, and his friends said they threw the party after D.C. Everest High School administrators suspended their friends from sports. "We didn't know it would work well enough to make the cops show up," Zebro said of the plan to poke fun at the administrators by throwing a root beer kegger."
There's a youtube video to go along with the story made by the students, but it's not really worth watching. If you want to waste 5 minutes of your life, here's the link.
