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While Training Day was by no means a documentary, there have been a whole variety of scandals involving police officers who abuse their power for wealth and influence. Unfortunately, this often means that regular civilians have, at times, encountered even beat cops who use their station for personal gain.
Someone asked “what’s the most corrupt thing you’ve seen happen from your fellow officers?” and netizens, both cops and civilians shared their examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to detail your own experiences in the comments section below.
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#1
We used to give homeless dudes rides in the back of the car all the time. Technically wrong, morally right Lol.
angelmomoffour62 1 year ago
Where I live the cops were giving the homeless water and food. The cops were fired...
Upstaged75 1 year ago
In certain places you can get arrested for feeding the homeless. This world is despicable sometimes.
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Evan Connolly 4 months ago
In my city in British Columbia, the police can be called to do wellness checks on homeless people out in the cold, making sure that they get to somewhere warm. I called the police before because someone was begging outside a store and looked half-frozen.
MyDogIsHighMaintenance 5 months ago
My brother worked the midnight shift. I rode with him several times. One time late at night we saw a guy walking down the side of the road. My brother pulled over and talked to him. The guy had just recently been released from prison. My brother asked if he needed a ride. He happily accepted.
MyDogIsHighMaintenance 5 months ago
My brother worked the midnight shift. I rode with him several times. One time we saw a guy walking down the road very late at night. My brother pulled over and talked to him. Guy had recently been released from prison. Brother asked him if he needed a ride. He happily accepted
Andrew Keir 11 months ago
Fellow Pandas, please downvote this shill to below the magma line
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#2
My buddy’s dad used to run with a biker gang and one of the ‘club members’ got an officer arrested because he had 3 pounds of grass and they charged him for 2. He was so adamant about the other pound they had to investigate and sure enough one of the arresting officers was in possession of a pound of marijuana.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Heard somewhere that majority of people arrested for weed were caught with juuuust the right amount to get them arrested. Interesting that so many people had this exact amount with them.
Karl der Große 1 year ago
Had a friend who rolled his car in West Texas. The officers found a small amount of weed. In those days, there was a certain amount that the police would not prosecute. They asked my friend if all that pot was his, and he said it was. The officer said, "This looks like less than twice the prosecutable amount. Are you sure it's all yours?" "Oh, yeah. Half is mine, half is my brother's." "OK, well I guess I can't take you in for it, then." He gave him a ticket for careless driving and let him go.
The Big Bad 11 months ago
It seems ridiculous to start with arresting people for owning something like weed. But you can get bastardly drunk.
#3
Been an officer for 15+ years. Maybe I'm biased but my agency's very strict about lying and corruption. Got a few stories about cops getting fired:
We had a hurricane and an officer called out saying a tree was blocking his street so he couldn't come to work. His sergeant drove to his house and called him from his driveway. fired.
An officer forgot to have a suspect sign a ticket for shoplifting. Instead of handling it by proper procedure the officer forged the suspect's name on the ticket. The officer was charged with felony forgery and eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor, resulting in termination.
An officer was spending time at home while on the clock. Eventually IA got a search warrant for the cameras inside of the officers house and found they were doing chores and other non work related activities. Fired and charged with embezzlement for stealing time.
An officer was shaking down prostitutes at hotels for money. Fired and criminally charged with embezzlement.
An officer was clocking in for court off duty and then going home and milking overtime. They caught him mowing his yard while on the clock. Fired and charged with embezzlement. This officer had weeks to reaching a full pension.
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
It's good to know that not all departments are corrupt. It is so sad that it only takes a few to screw everything up. Glad this department doesn't just look the other way.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
My BIL saw some corrupt practices in NYC. He got bored in retirement and took a position as the chief in the Rockaways. He ran a "clean" department and corrupt idiots knew not to apply for positions.
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Binky Melnik 11 months ago
Who upvoted this 🫏🕳️? Was it the downvoting a******s, giggling while making mischief?
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Maybe not the most corrupt, but one of the most slimy.
The weekend watch commander and four officers were stealing money from people brought in intoxicated.
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Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
Even folks in US rarely know it, much less outside it, but US doesn’t have a policing system. It has thousands of policing systems. One for most every city, county, town, podunk township, etc. There is little standardization across counties and very little control. Lots of duplication in function and costs across all these levels.
#5
Not a police officer but happened in my hometown.
Chief of police was up for a new contract so one of the city manager wrote it up and got the rest of the city council to sign off on it, without reading it.
Turns out the city manager was the father (or some relation) to the chief of police. The contract paid him one of the highest salaries for a chief of police in the country, this is for a town of 60k in Massachusetts. The contract also had a clause that if it was ended by anyone but the chief he would get a payout of 1mil+, which the city couldn't afford.
During the pandemic he refused to take a pay cut so the city had to lay off a bunch of officers instead.
They finally got rid of him a few years back but the corruption involved was staggering.
Pollywog 1 year ago (edited)
You'd think at least one of them would've skimmed over the contract!!
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Bi.Felicia 1 year ago
As a Masshole, I'm guessing that the OP is referring to the former police chief in Methuen, MA who made over $325,000 in 2019 alone.
Robert Demers 1 year ago
I am a current resident living in Methuen. Can confirm. No way in hell does our town warrant that salary for a police chief. Lived here since I was 16 - I am now 45.
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Binky Melnik 11 months ago
As I’m a Masshole born and bred, I googled this. It appears to be the town of Methuen, though I also found this incredible tidbit: “The employer paying the highest salary for a Police Chief job in Massachusetts is City of Lawrence with an average salary as high as $522,131.” Good heavens; I had NO idea. (faint) I dare not look up to see what a police chief makes in NYC. Or Detroit and Baltimore.
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
Unless he, too, is related to these jackholes.
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Not a cop, but talked to a retired one at a wedding. Told me he would randomly arrest black dudes in NYC, and press their faces against the blistering hot hood of his car in the summer heat. His justification was that even though he didn't see them do anything wrong, he knew they were up to something. So he was "scaring" them into behaving. I wanted to say something to the guy, but he and several other attendees were open carrying and didn't know that I'm gay and not that brand of southern white dude. I just bowed out as quickly as I could. .
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
And not the millennial hipster meaning, but the real one
Load More Replies... 2econdSelf 1 year ago
I thought this list was supposed to be about actions that are “morally right.”
WindySwede 1 year ago
Though so myself, but ut was "30 Times Cops Have Done Something Illegal", andvthe morally right was prob just one of the copied reddit posts, not all?
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Richienotsorich 4 months ago
Must have been a dangerous wedding if they needed to take their guns to it! 🙄
Gregory Mead 5 months ago
Why should these black guys "behave", being treated like that? If I were being abused like that for doing nothing, why not do something, and deserve it.
#7
Police in South Africa resold/redistributed confiscated firearms to gangsters and thereby fuelled the gang wars in Cape Town. Amongst a lot of other things. Oh yeah, also over 4000 cops carry firearms despite not having passed the proficiency test. Also, over a 1000 firearms were „lost“, in one year.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I should point out that a lot of police officers in South Africa are also k!lled for their guns. (But yes, cops can be corrupt here. Apparently some of them ask for money for a "cold drink", and if you give them a R100 note they let you go.)
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Cops got in trouble for this in Washington DC in the 90s, so it's not super surprising.
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
"How many South African police officers does it take to crack an egg?" "NONE IT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS UNDERSTAND?"
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
I smiled, but it was a very rueful smile, and I feel yucky for having smiled. 😞
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I had a friend who joined the force because he wanted to help people. He quit because of all the s**t he saw.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
If you watch any of the body cam footage from police officers on YouTube you'll see the kind of insane things they deal with every day. Some of it is truly unbelievable. I certainly could never do it. One of the saddest ones I've seen is when an officer breaks down after finding a baby that had been killed by its mother - who was mentally ill. Absolutely heart wrenching.
The Big Bad 11 months ago
Think you got two types of police; 1. genuinely wants to help people, wants to do good 2. desires action and or power
#9
Someone in my neighborhood was chief of the local department.
One evening he got drunk, crashed a police car. Then he went back to the station, took a new car, crashed it again. Only to return to the station again, and crash a third car.
I’m pretty sure he became chief again in a nearby department recently.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Him still being chief is more corrupt than crashing the cars in my opinion, that's a dangerous crime though
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Surely, drunk driving, rather than 'crashing' is the despicable thing, a crime even if he had not crashed.
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The Scout 1 year ago
Some policemen took a carkey off the father of a friend of mine once in a pub when he was visbily intoxicated. Having no other means to get home in his drunken state, he took the only transport available - which was the police car standing outside, open, with the key in the ignition. When he awoke the next morning he was qute surprised to find it in his garage. He actually got off very lightly, because the actions of the police were deemed negligent. But that was another time - somewhere around the 1960s in rural Germany.
Amused panda 1 year ago
Are you also visualising them all crashed into each other?
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Obligatory not a police officer but I used to chat with an officer who worked in my area because he passed by a place I used to hang out at nights. He once told me this story about how they were preparing a raid on an illegal poker club, allegedly run by some mafia or another. Everyone gears up and packs up into their cars and once they're at the place in question and getting ready to barge in, his supervisor receives a call from the commander telling him to pack up and go home and not bother anyone or anything there.
Whatever was going on was well beyond his or his supervisor's or even the commander's paygrade.
Meaghan Stewart 1 year ago
Commander standing inside the illegal poker club, watching the cop cars amass: go home! Uh, above my pay… grade.
Krzysztof Gajda 1 year ago
Ok, here... Not enough information. it is absolutely possible that the commander got information that this raid would interfere with a much more serious investigation. It could be corruption, but it could be legitimate.
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
That’s a great point, and thanks for posting it. Just goes to show we can’t take everything at face value, like the lady with her “frivolous hot coffee lawsuit” against McDonald’s when the coffee had SCARRED HER PRIVATES TOGETHER. We jump to the wrong conclusions when he haven’t all the info! 💋
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Barbara Deskins 5 months ago
Our local sheriff was recently arrested for running illegal gambling parlors
#11
This happened during my ride along before I got hired...
On the ride along, we got a call to the house of a neighboring department's sergeant. The oldest son of the family beat the ever loving s**t out of his mom.
When we got there, the dad (sergeant) had to be woken up and talked to downstairs. He couldn't care less. He was more upset about being woken up than his son beating the s**t out of his wife.
The officer I was riding with, told me they were familiar with this son and past instances of beating up his mom, and they usually dealt with this on the level of a "professional courtesy"... but it had gotten so bad with this latest instance, the kid would have to be charged. Which, in his words, was "too bad, because the kid wanted to be a cop really badly.".
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
I’m sure the kid learned how to beat his mom from watching his dad do it.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Apparently not badly enough to refrain from beating his mother up repeatedly.
#12
In the early 90's had the chief spend 300K on top quality industrial saw machines for the little craft shop we had because he was going to renovate his house. Attitude by then was that it wasn't corruption but handsome for all who would also need some wood for home.
Having some higher officers smash an illegally borrowed police car to get home after going into town while totally loaded on c*****e and alcohol (Hey uppers and downers level each other out...) also was a nice one, their high ranks saved them and it was dismissed as a normal accident.
For the rest a lot of small things that could have happened everywhere. This was in the Netherlands and corruption was not o.k. but not much was done about it.
I also loved Uruguay and how easy and nice the bribing system was. Wanted to rent a motorbike for my holiday there and although I had a lot of experience I had no license, rental dude told me to get to the municipality building in town, but they were closed and it had a sign where in case of emergence they were, so I went there to find 4 guys drinking beer upfront of a bar. Shared some beers with them and paid their meal and we had some casual fun chat about football and after that they wrote me a permit on a piece of paper to drive motorbike for two weeks free of charge :D.
Khavrinen 1 year ago
That stock photo is excruciatingly unsafe. DO NOT USE YOUR TABLE SAW LIKE THIS!
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
That's how my dad lost most of his fingers on his left hand! No guards, no glove.....
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Wife was a dispatcher in central Washington for a number of years. When we first started dating, One of her deputies was routinely stalking his ex-wife and her boyfriend - often sitting outside her house while - both on and off-duty, engaging in intimidation of the boyfriend, etc. On one of these “excursions” he scared away the boyfriend and proceeded to r**e the ex-wife. She reported the r**e and he was arrested shortly thereafter. He ended up hanging himself while awaiting trial.
I had gone on a ride-along with another one of my wife’s deputies just a month or so before all of this occurred and met him for the first and last time on a call to a suspected gang fight. Seeing how he talked to and interacted with the suspects that day, I can assure you he was the type of officer that is headlining in the media these days. I was absolutely ZERO surprised when this all came to light not long after.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I read a novel once about a cop who abuses his power to stalk his ex girlfriend, eventually raping her and then attempting to murder her for pressing charges. The genre of said novel? Horror. You don't need to be a vampire or a werewolf to be a monster.
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
That first paragraph: yikes. It’s like War Machine with a badge. 😱 I’m glad the trash took itself out, at least.
#14
Obligatory not a cop, but where I am is a very rural area. This guy I know was having trouble with a woman bothering some people who were renting a place from him. The tenants said they'd called the sheriff and they'd refused to help. Guy calls the sheriff's office and says hey, this woman's been bothering my tenants, but they said you wouldn't send anyone out there. The deputy says, yeah, she's a pain in the a*s and we've already wasted a bunch of time on her on other calls. He continues, we won't go out there, but if *you* were to go out there and she were to have an "accident", just call me, and we'll notify the coroner and we won't say anything more about it.
I'm not sure it gets much more corrupt than signing off on an extrajudicial killing of someone who's not really breaking any laws just because they're a pain in the a*s. .
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
Oh, she much more than a pain in the a** with that reaction. They are ENCOURAGING murder. She has something on them and they want her gone.
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
These are the ones where we need a town name so we don’t go there and annoy anyone!
#15
Most corrupt I was somewhat a party to: a detective had somehow weaseled his way into an old-timer's will. I learned of it after he had been found out and the will had been corrected.
Most corrupt I'm aware of: one of my police academy classmates from a different department got arrested for coercing prostitutes to screw him while he was on duty. He set up each encounter as a quid-pro-quo, but some of the girls had been in custody while these arrangements were made. Yeah, if you're in custody, you cannot consent. That's r**e. Learned this through the grapevine; no idea whatever became of it. The piece of s**t had a beautiful little family, too.
*Edit:* Holy c**p, I can't believe I forgot this one! I was once crossing the street in a crosswalk, off-duty. I heard a car accelerating, and looking towards the sound, I saw a sports car barreling toward me. I waved both my hands over my head and pointed at the crosswalk, but the car kept coming. I literally had to run to get out of the way. As the car passed me, the driver locked eyes with me, and I saw him and his buddies laughing. So, I took note of his license plate. When I got to work that evening, I mailed him a ticket for speeding and the crosswalk violation. I could have criminality charged him for reckless engagement, but didn't. A few weeks later I got a call from a state trooper that lived in town, asking me to ~~blood~~ *void* the ticket. I explained the circumstances and he pressed on. This trooper is/was the largest of a******s and had a nasty reputation. Not wanting to cross him and land on his bad side, I voided the ticket. Oh well, he got his eventually when he was fired, charged, and convicted of racketeering.
Edit: corrected my swypo.
kzys59pcrp 1 year ago
Way too many people become officers because they want to abuse power over others
Mark Bayliss 1 year ago
If you voided his ticket for an easier life then you are no better than him IMHO
#16
Co-worker used to be a cop. He was early on in his career when his shift supervisor picked him up for that day’s training. It was early morning, and the shift supervisor, who I remind you had been driving and continued to drive, was drunk off his a*s.
Co-worker quit at the end of the day. Looked into reporting it, but got told by a lawyer that the thin blue line would prevail, so he kept quiet about it and tells as many people as possible to not drive within five car lengths of a police car.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Surely the only way the thin blue line gets broken is everybody speaking up? I know things can be covered up, as evidenced by all these stories, but that doesn't mean people should stop trying. If enough complaints are made and enough people hear about it, surely it gets harder to sweep under the rug?
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
Only in smaller towns. You'd be astonished at the number of bad actors who spend their careers going from high it force to small-town and back again to hide this kind of hing.
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
I was a 'special constable' in the UK - the number of times I'd be in a car on night shift with an on duty guy (always the guys) and he would stink of beer.
angelmomoffour62 1 year ago
It's sad the ones who are suppose to be enforcing the law are breaking the law....Shame on them....
#17
Not a cop, but dated a New York cop… he drove incredibly drunk off the clock and caused a multi-car accident. His boss covered it up for him and he got away without even a ticket.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
In the mean time everyone who was in the crash had to deal with minimum wrecked vehicles if not injuries. Cause a lodt of trouble for a lot of people.
#18
(I'm not in law enforcement)
I live in Clark Country, Indiana. Our former sheriff was just convicted of several crimes, including stealing from his non-profit ambulance business and using sheriff resources for personal business (among others things). The guy owes over $3 million in restitution and was given a 12 or 15 year prison sentence.
Google Jamey Noel (yes, the same sheriff that did the first two seasons of "60 Days In")
This is a case where the corruption was actually prosecuted. He has some family moments being tried and some other associates. I sure his web was wider than what was caught, but it has been a major local.news story for the last year.
David 1 year ago
why? Some charities operate like a business to better serve the needs of people. So run like a business, but are a non-profit so no one gets profit from it. There is a clothing store in NYC, that is legally a Non-Profit. They have all brand name clothing, and sure you can buy, but poor people who are verified before hand, get a special code to put in at checkout to get the clothing for free. It allows them to keep their diginity that they are shopping like anyone else, their kids are wearing regular brands, etc. And the money brought in from regular customers, funds the operation.
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Binky Melnik 11 months ago (edited)
Wow. I saw that guy on “60 Days In” and thought he was doing something important. I spose he still coulda been, but it’s kinda wrecked now that I know he’s just cowshit.
Mickey Spencer 1 year ago
Oh yeah. He was a real piece of work. I died laughing when they auctioned his belongings off to cover some of the restitution!
#19
Lots of these examples are of US cops; this happened years back in London England. It was told to me by a relative who was a serving officer at the time
A young constable went to an address as the elderly occupant (F80s) hadn't been seen for a few days. He eventually gets in she's dead at the bottom of the stairs with a head injury; her house had been ransacked and jewellery missing. He calls it in, and shortly, two hungover detectives turn up and tell him to wait at the front door, let no one in etc..
After approximately 30 minutes, he hears a loud banging and tearing sound. He glances around and notices one of the detectives has kicked a hole in the carpet at the top of the stairs. Meanwhile, the other detective is wrapping up the tidying. As they leave, they casually mention, "She fell. It was an accident."
so yes, cover up a m****r as you're too lazy to investigate it.
#20
Texas made it a Felony in 2021 to be a "John." Or someone who solicits a prostitute.
They busted a brothel in Texas and offered immunity to two girls who has very fresh "samples" of their work on their bodies.
One of the samples belonged to one of the cops on the raid. Meaning he was with the girl less than 15m before he took part in the raid.
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
So he gets the call they’re to raid the brothel, he thinks quickly, and manages to get his rocks off just in time? Why, oh, why did I open this article? I’m awfully depressed now. 😞 Time to binge some “South Park.”
#21
I live in the UK and had a police detective mention to me that if he leaves anything unlocked in the police station changing room it gets stolen by other police officers. For example deodorant, clothes, aftershave, shoes etc.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
We always said you can leave money lying around, but biscuits, pens and uniform kit will get nicked
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Sworn to uphold the law, but participating in crime? - I *would* label that dishonesty as corruption.
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Not a cop, but one place I bartended at some of the local PD would bring us w**d they got off people that was not worth the paperwork. In turn, free food and drinks.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
My biggest problem is simply the free food and drinks turns it into a sale of sorts. In many parts of the U.S., marijuana is still prohibited, but DAs won't prosecute as a matter of policy. So this means the cops have to go through all the paperwork and taxpayer expense of reporting the crime, but there's no chance of getting a conviction.
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Barbara Deskins 5 months ago
way back, when I tended bar in a 'dive bar' in New Orleans, I had several local cops come in a get a drink. At the time, (not there anymore) you can get a drink to go
#23
Officer 'lost' a radar gun for weeks—turned out he was using it to clock his pitching speed at Little League practice.
#24
Not a cop, but this is a cop to cop information story.
A local youngster cop (that I knew from school, he was always a complete moron and total a****t) who was boating while very very drunk, killed someone who was swimming in a lake within the designated swimming area by striking them with the bow of his boat at high speeds. M*rderer cop fled the scene, and immediately went on duty somehow as a cover story. Fellow cop friend of his "found the body" as he happened across it, and dealt with it. Dad of said drunken boat cop (who was also the sheriff) bailed him out of trouble with a judge he was really good friends with when a case was tried. Drunken boat m*rderer got off by simply re-locating to a different police district as punishment. I don't think the m****r was ever solved officially with a legit cause of death outside of "accident", but it's been spoken/joked about across the county from the story drunkenly slipping out from several different sources who are acquainted with the sheriff father. I don't believe either is any longer an officer.
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
If they just talked about it, it would hurt too much
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What a funny joke!!! A person was killed by a drunk a*****e while swimming in the designated area! Hahahaha! I'm splitting my sides laughing! (What the f**k is wrong with people????)
Binky Melnik 11 months ago
To be fair, lots of us joke about truly awful things because if we don’t, we’d cry, but I upvoted you because at this moment, even I can’t think of a way to make this story funny. 😰 Maybe it’s because I keep imagining the victim was the class valedictorian, or a beautiful cheerleader who volunteered at a nursing home after school, those sortsa things. 😞
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#25
I was roommates with a couple of Criminal Justice majors in college. One got a job in a jail but was fired for roughing up inmates. He later got another gig and was injured on the job and now collects a little bit of disability and his life is a mess.
My other roommate was a got a job in Vallejo. This is where the "Gone Girl" case happened. Even after all of this he maintains that the couple lied and set the whole kidnapping up. Also, he said there was a fireman who lived outside of town. Night shift police officers would go there because he had a bed set up. They would sleep all night unless they got a call. They would not patrol neighborhoods or anything. Vallejo is a pretty rough place and the police staff was understaffed by a long shot. Still dudes would be sleeping all night. I remember his wife commenting how he has more energy than she does throughout the day eventhough he worked all night. .
#26
Not a cop. Had a regular at our bar that was a state trooper, who routinely received commendations and awards for the sheer number of DUIs she intercepted. She was very proud of these.
She drove home drunk from our bar 4 times a week.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Undercover work. Sgt. Marian Jones was a former archaeologist in Nepal.
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Philly Bob 1 year ago
A judge who sentenced my friend for a DUI used to come into our bar and get śhitfaced and drive home.
#27
I was a newspaper reporter. I knew a small town city administrator who would borrow the fire department's heat detector to go ghost hunting with his paranormal investigation club.
Hugh Crawford 1 year ago
This seems innocent enough. Presumably the heat detector was only needed after a fire, so as long as it was returned... Not saying misuse of city equipment is good, just not the worst examine
Richienotsorich 4 months ago
Using publicly funded equipment for your own personal use is corruption!
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You say this now, but wait until your grandma gets lost in a cornfield during a cold snap and there’s no heat detector available to find her!
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#28
My hometown is about 15 mins away from one of those communities where millionaires build their summer mansions. As a kid my grandfather loved to tell me histories about hard work paying off, but as he got older he has lost his filters, now his favorite is about how he had a deal with the cops, whenever the rich children where caught doing something dumb he would get a call and 'save the day' for a fee from the parents, and they would split the profit.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
I wonder what the grandfather did that he was the cops' choice to "save the day"
María Hermida 1 year ago
I don't think I want to know. This thread is depressing enough even without knowing all the details.
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Not a cop, but I used to have a football coach who was a cop. He gave opioids to a student whose dad was a lawyer and was forced to leave the school and police department. He's now the head of security for a major hospital in a different state. It's wild how things like that don't seem to follow people.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Still... sometimes you gotta wonder. I'm from a major metro area where we've hired several criminally corrupt, incompetent and just downright evil school admins from Atlanta. I just want to scream at the school board, "Don't even TELL me you don't know the s**t that happened in Atlanta schools, and you don't know only the worst of the worst lost their jobs! Some former low-level school admin from Atlanta comes up here and you're all fumbling over yourselves to give'em a job and a promotion and you don't even wonder why they're not working in Atlanta anymore?"
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Our small town keeps giving jobs to an attractive woman who has been fired THREE TIMES from jobs for embezzling thousands of dollars. She managed my apartment complex a few years ago and there were rumors of low-key fraud and theft. Oh yeah, and her brother was the maintenance guy.
#30
A civilian employee was selling information in our database to biker gangs.
She was caught and charged accordingly. .
Auntriarch 1 year ago
We had a control room operator giving intel to her dodgy boyfriend. Lost her job, her pension, and I believe the boyfriend didn't stay after she was caught either
María Hermida 1 year ago
I guess the dodgy boyfriend had chosen her because he could get information. Once she was fired, she was useless.
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Had a "friend" who would ride with a police buddy he had, they would "pull over" people they knew had d***s, and take them and party...
#32
We had a police chief who was in charge of all the police vehicles. When we switched from Harley’s to newer bikes they started dismantling all the old bikes.
The chief then took it upon himself to start selling parts from the old decommissioned bikes and kept the profit. A lot, if not all of the other officers in our department were very displeased with him doing this. I don’t know if he got reprimanded but the civilian staff shut that down rather quickly.
#33
My stepdad used to be a cop in Detroit and told me that anytime a cop finds contraband on you and lets you go with a warning but not the contraband , it’s because they are keeping it for themselves. I’ve also have a dealer that gets his firearms through sketchy connections with Atlanta Police.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
So there can't be tighter gun restrictions, because then only criminals (and cops) will have guns, meanwhile the cops are actively arming criminals?
#34
I was about 17, and driving to church. There had been a minor accident at an intersection that i needed to drive through. The cop managing the traffic waved me through, and I carefully and slowly wound my way past the tow truck, cop cars, etc.
A guy from the towing company stepped out in front of me from behind his truck. I stopped safely, but the guy fell down (presumably due to the surprise of seeing my car so close to him. We never made contact.
I got out to make sure he was OK (he was), and the cop came over and started chewing my a*s for hitting him. The towing guy even told the cop that I hadn't hit him, and the cop basically waved him off.
The cop proceeded to scream at me for five or six minutes, then ticked me for striking a pedestrian (a serious charge in my jurisdiction) and threatened several times to take me to jail when I tried to explain myself.
I took the ticket and went home. I showed the ticket to my father, who was a captain on the fire department. He picked up the phone, made a call, and tore up the ticket.
My father made sure to tell me that he thought that cop was an a*****e on a power trip, and that the only reason he made the call was that he believed my version of the story, and that he wouldn't be getting me out of any legitimate citations.
No more was ever said about the incident. Anybody else would have lost their license and/or paid thousands in fines because that a*****e cop wanted to shake down a scared kid.
#35
When I was just out of high school, I was 17 and had two on duty city policemen bring my friend (also 17) and I a cooler of beer multiple times over the course of months.
It was coolers they'd confiscate from other kids out cruising around. One of the cops wanted to bang my friend. To my knowledge, she never did.
#36
I gave a cop 150 bucks to not run my name after an accident that wasn't my fault. I had a suspended license...
#37
Not a cop, but have a few stories from cop friends.
Back in the mid 2010s it was a common sight around my district to find police cruisers parked in gas stations and other such places at night. However, upon closer inspection, one would find the cars to be empty, lacking fuel, and sometimes even missing parts.
Apparently they were putting old cruisers cannibalized for spare parts near these buildings to "pretend" there is a police presence, but in reality there would be no cops anywhere to be found.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
That's not corrupt. It's a standard tactic to keep people from speeding or robbery by making them think there's a police presence. Although we all knew about the fake cop car near my college. :)
#38
I live near Valdosta ga. A new deputy responded to a call, an old dude found a couple guns in his yard the cop wrote em up took em after 90 days the guns weren’t reported stolen or anything. Old guy called up the department asked for the guns they obliged but didn’t know anything about the shotgun. The sheriff called the deputy, grilled him he admitted to taking it he got fired. Maybe charged with something?
#39
My colleague always extorts veggies and fruits from the vendors, one time we had a huge fight over the same and now I work nights.
#41
The Chief of Police in my town paid me a looot of money to dump chemicals in the harbour while renovating his yacht, under the table of course. "Isnt this like super illegal, wont i get in trouble?" "Bro im the chief of police!" The patrol boats would hang out with me while i did it too.
He also had me smoke cigars with him when i was 16, and we shot illegally loaded cannons across the bay for fun during events sometimes. Lit with the cigars of course. He would shoot off his shotgun into the air during this.
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Toby Flenderson 1 year ago
While a few anecdotes don't paint a complete picture, the fact that so MANY people who encounter cops have these anecdotes, does establish a pattern.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
Not exactly ''corrupt'' but in some ways worse. Among other similar incidents, a woman named Hannah Clarke repeatedly went to police for help and they pretty much ignored her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_family_murders
Jonas 1 year ago
Nah, fųck the criminals. ACAB, All Criminals Are Bítches
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talliloo 1 year ago
was married to a police officer. he got on with a small department that allowed him to take the car home as we lived in the area. while he was a rookie he was assigned the graveyard shift so when i was getting up he was getting home. one morning i see that he is home but he is washing the inside of the car. went out and i asked him why he was doing that now-especially since he was still in uniform. he didn't say anything at first and then just pointed to the water in the bucket with was pink. he later told me that his field training officer (fto) that he rode with got angry with a guy and gave him a 'screen test'. this is done by not buckling a person in, accelerate in speed and hit the brakes, causing him to go face first into the screen between the front and back seats. the fto had told him to clean up the mess before next shift. he quit shortly afterwards.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
All law enforcement personnel should be required to carry personal malpractice insurance. It would cut down on their being able to hide their crimes by going to another town and stop cities having to pay huge settlements out of their General Fund (money that could instead go to schools, parks, libraries, etc).
Sandy Jones 1 year ago
I've smoked a joint with an on duty Philadelphia police officer. Never again.
Toby Flenderson 1 year ago
While a few anecdotes don't paint a complete picture, the fact that so MANY people who encounter cops have these anecdotes, does establish a pattern.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
Not exactly ''corrupt'' but in some ways worse. Among other similar incidents, a woman named Hannah Clarke repeatedly went to police for help and they pretty much ignored her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_family_murders
Jonas 1 year ago
Nah, fųck the criminals. ACAB, All Criminals Are Bítches
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talliloo 1 year ago
was married to a police officer. he got on with a small department that allowed him to take the car home as we lived in the area. while he was a rookie he was assigned the graveyard shift so when i was getting up he was getting home. one morning i see that he is home but he is washing the inside of the car. went out and i asked him why he was doing that now-especially since he was still in uniform. he didn't say anything at first and then just pointed to the water in the bucket with was pink. he later told me that his field training officer (fto) that he rode with got angry with a guy and gave him a 'screen test'. this is done by not buckling a person in, accelerate in speed and hit the brakes, causing him to go face first into the screen between the front and back seats. the fto had told him to clean up the mess before next shift. he quit shortly afterwards.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
All law enforcement personnel should be required to carry personal malpractice insurance. It would cut down on their being able to hide their crimes by going to another town and stop cities having to pay huge settlements out of their General Fund (money that could instead go to schools, parks, libraries, etc).
Sandy Jones 1 year ago
I've smoked a joint with an on duty Philadelphia police officer. Never again.
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