http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/leo/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:57:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420948/posts The gunman who opened fire in the federal courthouse this morning, killing a security officer and wounding a deputy U.S. marshal, was Johnny Lee Wicks, according to a law enforcement source. LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420948/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:57:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420700/posts Here is amateur raw video outside a Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada where a gunman has been killed who opened fire. The gunman reportedly shot two officers before being killed himself. In the video, you can hear gunshots in the distance as the shootout took place. The second video is a report on the shooting . . . (VIDEOS) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420700/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:15:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420925/posts Police Officer Frank Tepper, who shot and killed an unarmed 21-year-old man in Port Richmond in November during a street fight, is losing his badge, police announced today. The announcement came from Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, who has reviewed the investigation into Tepper that was done by the Internal Affairs unit. Tepper, 43, was off duty when he shot and killed William Panas, Jr., on Nov. 21. Since the shooting, he has been relegated to office duty, and now will be suspended for 30 days with an intent to dismiss. Philly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420925/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419716/posts The L.A. Times, in a cutesy story about elderly Pasadena Rose Parade volunteers, inadvertently included details of a Pasadena Police program that would make Pol Pot jealous. Nicknamed "Parade Watch", the program consists of 50 volunteers trained by local police to "be on the lookout for suspicious activity" . In order to help "look out for the bad guys", participation in the program requires citizens to sign a form agreeing that their own vehicle can be searched. The article, entitled 'Pasadena police train volunteers to be on 'Parade Watch' includes details of RV enthusiasts parked and waiting to see the... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419716/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:21:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419313/posts A Roanoke man says officers violated his rights during a dispute about his gun license. A Roanoke man is suing city police over an altercation with officers that he said began as an argument about his permit to carry a concealed firearm. Aaron A. Stevenson filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke alleging that his constitutional rights were violated during a May 6 traffic stop. He named two officers, Chief Joe Gaskins and the city as defendants. On Wednesday, police spokeswoman Aisha Johnson referred questions to City Attorney Bill Hackworth, who was out of town and could... The Roanoke Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419313/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 03:09:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418798/posts A prison guard who acknowledged being a member of white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has been fired for belonging to a subversive or terrorist organisation, a violation of the county agency's code of ethics. Wayne Kerschner, an Alachua County Sheriff's Office corrections officer, was fired on Tuesday following a 10-month internal investigation. The investigation revealed that Kerschner applied online for membership to the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan a year ago, paid $US30 a month for access to a members-only Klan web site and that the group did a thorough background check that... Nine News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418798/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 04:32:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417822/posts A federal prosecutor blasted Fairview’s police chief for going to bat for a Cliffside Park man who was sentenced Monday to 51 months in prison for keeping a small arsenal of illegal firearms, including a silencer-equipped 22-caliber pistol, in his home.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa M. Colone told U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Greenaway that he should not consider Chief John Pinzone’s letter in support of leniency for Giovanni DeMaio, because the chief neglected to mention he is dating the defendant’s daughter.While the judge received more than 90 letters similar to Pinzone’s, attesting to DeMaio’s kindness and charitable endeavors in... northjersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417822/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:28:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418177/posts LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County prosecutors have decided no charges will be filed against a suburban police officer who kicked a surrendering suspect in the head after a dangerous car chase. Rodriguez, a parolee heavily covered in gang tattoos, was lying face-down on the ground during the May 13 incident, which was broadcast by a TV news helicopter. After four officers converged on Rodriguez, two of them did a "high five." msnbc.msn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418177/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418027/posts The LAPD plans to launch its own Explorer program for young people this month, removing the Boy Scouts of America from management, officials said Tuesday. The Police Commission voted two months ago to end its relationship with the Scouts because of the organization's policies that discriminate against gays. The program had been operated by the Learning for Life Foundation, a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts. The move to create the Los Angeles Police Department's own teen program should be launched by Jan. 1, Deputy Chief Earl Paysinger told the Police Commission. "We have received inquiries from dozens of agencies on... http://www.dailynews.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418027/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:35:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416492/posts The LAPD is struggling to fill vacancies in gang units as a financial disclosure rule meant to fight corruption has been received by many rank-and-file cops as an insult -- and a deal-breaker when it comes to working the tough gangland assignments. After years of contentious battles with police union representatives over the issue, Los Angeles Police Department officials pushed through a policy in April that requires gang officers to disclose details of their personal finances. Intended to help supervisors catch cops who are taking bribes or to identify officers in financial straits who might be tempted to stray, the... Los Angeles Times / latimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416492/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:30:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415370/posts Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead—almost double last year’s tally—in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006 to wrest his country from the grip of four powerful cartels and their estimated 100,000 foot soldiers. But chillingly, there are signs that one of the worst features of Mexico’s war on drugs—law enforcement officials on the take from drug lords—is becoming an American problem as well. Most press accounts focus on the drug-related violence that has migrated north into the... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415370/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:45:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415262/posts The Metropolitan Police are carrying out searches in the UK after a suspected al Qaeda operative allegedly attempted to blow up a US passenger jet. The man, said to be a student at a British university, is accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic aeroplane with explosives strapped to his leg on Christmas Day. The Nigerian man caused panic as the jet was about to land at Detroit with 278 people aboard when he apparently tried to detonate some sort of bomb. He was overpowered by passengers and crew after the device failed to ignite properly. Sources have since... Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415262/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:11:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414586/posts Jurors on Wednesday recommended death for the man they had earlier convicted of murdering two Riverside police officers in 1982. There was no visible emotion in the courtroom from Jackson Chambers Daniels Jr., now 71. Daniels is confined to a wheelchair, as he was on the day officers Dennis Doty and Phil Trust were shot. ... "Their verdict said that Jackson Daniels -- a career criminal without an ounce of remorse -- that his life is not more valuable than Dennis Doty and Phil Trust's lives," she said outside court. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Roger Luebs set Jan. 28... Riverside Press-Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414586/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414238/posts PORT RICHEY — Deputy Matthew Kadel was taking a man to jail the morning of July 19 when he decided to grab some food. It was 9 a.m. and he'd been working since 5. He was hungry and thirsty and had at least a 20-minute drive ahead of him. As Kadel, 45, pulled into the McDonald's drive-through and placed his order, the man in the back seat — Richard Zukoski, 21, arrested on auto burglary and theft charges — used his own handcuff key to free himself. He took off through the parking lot off U.S. 19, just south of... St. Pete Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414238/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:37:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412894/posts A judge Monday ordered the NYPD to turn over the racial breakdown of all people shot at by police officers between 1997 and 2006. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the NYPD in 2008 for racial data about shooting victims. The NYPD agreed to release the racial breakdown of those injured by police gunfire, but not data about those who were shot at but not hit. In an opinion dated Dec. 15, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden ruled the NYPD had not met its burden under the state's Freedom of Information Law to withhold the data. After the... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412894/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:26:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412785/posts Two Pierce County Sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic violence call tonight were involved in a shooting. The shooting happened at about 9 p.m. Officers from multiple agencies are responding. The suspect was also shot, according to police radio traffic. http://www.thenewstribune.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412785/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:38:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412115/posts The Washington Post reports that yesterday’s record snowfall resulted in an impromptu mass snowball fight in downtown Washington DC. While some may have been celebrating an upcoming white Christmas, it appears that the Metropolitan Police Department may have already received the best from Santa. A plainclothes detective was stopped at the intersection when his burgundy Hummer (a $40k+ vehicle) was hit with snowballs. Video shows him get out of his stylish ride and draw his service sidearm. He then drops his comm unit and bends to pick it up out of the snowy street, all while holding his handgun pointed... Austin Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412115/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411704/posts Well, as it turns out, Washington DC residents know exactly how much of a joke 911 is in their own town, after a cop. Pulled a gun. On kids. Throwing snowballs. Yeah, and they're reading this cop the riot act. Gawker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411704/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:27:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411447/posts According to an eyewitness, a D.C. Police detective went nuts after kids pelted his Hummer with snowballs at 14th and U streets NW this afternoon. The cop got out of his car and started waving his gun around. He did not immediately identify himself as a police officer. He calmed down once his fellow police arrived. Apparently, someone called 911 to report a man with gun. The snowball fight had been well hyped on Twitter. The news of the incident first broke there. We caught up with an eyewitness moments ago. Photos and video to come. http://www.nbcwashington.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411447/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:41:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410977/posts Cop's Two Shots Kill Small Dog By Nicholas Briano Police fatally shot a small pug dog in the head last week while responding to a call on a quiet Edgemere block, telling superiors that the dog attacked them outside its Beach 43 Street home. The incident began at 5:33 a.m. last Thursday, October 26, when Patricia Fernandez, who was already awake and getting ready for work, heard shots fired outside her home located on a quiet deadend street. According to police sources, patrol cars had responded to the house next door on a child endangerment call. Prior to the cop's... The Wave (Long Island) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410977/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:38:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409270/posts NORFOLK Jurors decided Wednesday that Philip Harvey should get $13,000 for being bitten by the police dog of Gordon Barry, who mistakenly shot and killed a fellow police officer during a disturbance in Young Terrace. Harvey sued Barry, saying the officer acted recklessly when he loosed his police dog in a crowded courtyard on the 400 block of Nicholson Street in May 2006. Barry testified that he believed his actions would save the life of Harvey’s brother, Denardo, who was in a confrontation with an armed man. The armed man turned out to be Officer Seneca Darden, who had responded... The Virginian-Pilot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409270/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407713/posts The letter extols Giovanni DeMaio’s "love and understanding," his efforts to raise money for a young girl with cancer, his propensity for treating others "as he treats his own children." The gushing note was one of more than 90 written on behalf of DeMaio, a reputed organized crime associate facing sentencing for possessing a trove of illegal weapons. What caught the attention of federal prosecutors, however, was the name signed at the bottom: John Pinzone, police chief in the Bergen County community of Fairview. Odder still, prosecutors say: Pinzone didn’t mention he was dating DeMaio’s daughter. That omission drew an... Star-Ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407713/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:00:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408009/posts Washington, D.C.'s Maryland suburbs are the home the latest jurisdiction to let political correctness put Americans at risk from criminal aliens. The indefensible policy of Montgomery County bars county police officers from communicating with federal immigration authorities, unless the suspect has first committed a terrible crime. Even then, officers must get permission to call ICE. This kind of “blame the good guys” policy disrupts the healthy information-sharing that is necessary for effective law enforcement. It puts police officers at risk from foreign-born criminals and gangsters, unduly creating life-threatening situations and a disadvantage for local badge carriers. And it subjects native-born... Center for immigration studies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408009/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:55:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406220/posts Hundreds of police officers and other customers lined up early Saturday for the reopening of the Washington state coffee shop where four officers were shot and killed two weeks ago. Bagpipers played as the Forza Coffee shop opened its doors at 8:14 a.m., the hour on Nov. 29 when Maurice Clemmons ambushed Lakewood Police Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold and Greg Richards. Lakewood Police Chief Bret Farrar was the first customer. He hugged patrons who turned out to reclaim the shop from tragedy. Some waited up to three hours in line. "It's just so heartwarming," Farrar... Towhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406220/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:37:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404873/posts An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near a landmark hotel, police said. (snip) When the officer approached, the man took off running the streets and through the Marriott Marquis hotel's passenger drop-off area, Browne said. The sergeant pursued, and the man turned and fired with a Mac-10 machine pistol that held 30 rounds; he got off two shots before it jammed, Browne said. The officer returned fire, killing the suspect, Browne said. It's not clear how many shots he fired.... Guardian (UK)/Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404873/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:32:07 GMT