To Protect and to Serve II

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NurseGoodVol said:
So correct me if I’m wrong but an arrest warrant is not a warrant for property search.
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I'm here to correct you, sort of...

In Georgia, an arrest warrant also serves as a search warrant for the address listed on the arrest warrant. So, if we have a warrant for John Jones at 123 Any Street, and we go to 123 Any Street to arrest him, then the arrest warrant gives us authority to enter the residence to search for him.

But if we go to his Mom's house next door at 125 Any Street, we have no right for non-consensual entry and search. Note that there are exceptions. If we know him by sight, and saw him run into Mom's house, then yes, we can enter. But I prefer to set a perimeter and get a search warrant for Mom's house. That's just me. At that point I'm probably going to use the guys in tactical pajamas, so it's best to check all the boxes in case it goes bad.

Again, this is Georgia. It's likely that other states have different rules.
 
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On another note, Saturday will be my last shift with Patrol Division. After the 1st of the year, I'm moving over to the retirement home, also known as Civil Division. I'll serve papers on weekends. I'll still answer calls as needed; write a ticket or two on the Interstate when I'm done with papers; and be available if they need me for a major call-out.

But for those of you who worry that I might pull you over for no reason; throw dope in your car; hide a gun on your person; accuse you of being someone else; bust your window out with an ASP; pepper spray you, tase you; handcuff you; and then post the video on some RoidRage Facebook Cop Channel...relax. Worst case, I hand you my ticket book and ask you to fill it out since I can't read small print anymore.

My Tahoe has 264,000 miles on it and tops out at around 130 downhill with a tailwind. At that speed, it's like being on a drunk bull at Amateur Rodeo Night. If you're faster, just run. If we can't get a Charger on you, we'll likely quit at the state line.

21 years is enough. I ain't Tom Brady.

Y'all be safe out there.

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GreyWolf1129 said:
On another note, Saturday will be my last shift with Patrol Division. After the 1st of the year, I'm moving over to the retirement home, also known as Civil Division. I'll serve papers on weekends. I'll still answer calls as needed; write a ticket or two on the Interstate when I'm done with papers; and be available if they need me for a major call-out.

But for those of you who worry that I might pull you over for no reason; throw dope in your car; hide a gun on your person; accuse you of being someone else; bust your window out with an ASP; pepper spray you, tase you; handcuff you; and then post the video on some RoidRage Facebook Cop Channel...relax. Worst case, I hand you my ticket book and ask you to fill it out since I can't read small print anymore.

My Tahoe has 264,000 miles on it and tops out at around 130 downhill with a tailwind. At that speed, it's like being on a drunk bull at Amateur Rodeo Night. If you're faster, just run. If we can't get a Charger on you, we'll likely quit at the state line.

21 years is enough. I ain't Tom Brady.

Y'all be safe out there.

:cool:
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Good luck in being put out to pasture. I'm just curious about your long list of allegations you listed that I highlighted. If those don't happen, why would you list them?
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
I'm here to correct you, sort of...

In Georgia, an arrest warrant also serves as a search warrant for the address listed on the arrest warrant. So, if we have a warrant for John Jones at 123 Any Street, and we go to 123 Any Street to arrest him, then the arrest warrant gives us authority to enter the residence to search for him.

But if we go to his Mom's house next door at 125 Any Street, we have no right for non-consensual entry and search. Note that there are exceptions. If we know him by sight, and saw him run into Mom's house, then yes, we can enter. But I prefer to set a perimeter and get a search warrant for Mom's house. That's just me. At that point I'm probably going to use the guys in tactical pajamas, so it's best to check all the boxes in case it goes bad.

Again, this is Georgia. It's likely that other states have different rules.
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Tactical PJ's got me laughing. Congrat's on your move. Maybe they'll let you go down to the jail and rough some drunks up in the holding cells on Saturdays if you get bored. Again, Congrats on semi retirement.
 
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This 21k-word bombshell article is probably more than just about anybody here wants to read, so I'll post excerpts:

The sergeant, who I’ll call “Wanda,” checked her cellphone. Overnight, she had received a series of text messages from her colleagues at LRPD. The first was from then-Assistant Chief Alice Fulk, sent just before midnight. “Angie, Debbie, shorty, Linda and Marilyn,” Fulk’s text read, “it’s my understanding that u all hve heard inappropriate sexual remarks made by the chief.”

Wanda was floored. Fulk was referring to Keith Humphrey, who had become the city’s chief of police the prior year. “I had no idea what she was talking about,” Wanda said. “I never told anyone that Chief Humphrey had said anything inappropriate to me — because he hadn’t.”

One lieutenant, a close friend of Fulk’s, pressed especially hard. “You need to get on this lawsuit train” — that was the lieutenant’s message, Wanda recalled. “She kept pointing out that since I’m Black, it was really important that I join them because it would look bad if it was just a bunch of white women accusing him. It didn’t matter that I had nothing to accuse him of.”

Alarmed, Wanda wrote up a memo. “I’m well-versed with the protocol of making a Harassment Complaint,” the memo read. “I feel that it was inappropriate to attempt to persuade me to file a complaint, when I do not have a complaint against Chief Humphrey.”

Wanda gave the memo to her captain, who passed it up the chain of command. When she later discovered the memo never reached Humphrey, she took it to the chief herself.

Wanda also filed her own HR complaint, detailing how she had been pressured to accuse Humphrey. HR didn’t respond.

A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
 
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"We made sure promotions were based on written tests, interviews, and job performance — objective criteria that could be scored and ranked.” He encountered resistance. “When you’re a Black chief of a mostly white department and you start promoting based on performance instead of connections or clout, you’re redefining what’s considered normal. So what I looked at as equity, some white officers saw as a system that wasn’t giving them the promotions they were accustomed to getting by default,” he said. “That’s the funny thing about it: When you change a discriminatory system, the people who were benefiting from it accuse you of being racist.”
 
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One of the first outward-facing policies Scott and Humphrey implemented were restrictions on the use of “no-knock” raids. In 2018, my own reporting found that the LRPD had been conducting such raids based on unchecked tips from unreliable informants, aided by judges who routinely signed off on illegal warrants, and had been waging the raids in an extraordinarily violent manner. Under the new policy, the police chief must review all unannounced raids, and they can only be authorized under limited conditions. The number of no-knock raids in the city subsequently dropped from 57 in 2018 to seven in 2019. Humphrey said he’s signed just three since taking office.

Scott next persuaded the Board of Directors to approve a citizens’ review board to look into shootings and citizen complaints. He also won approval to purchase body cameras for LRPD officers. And in May 2020, he announced a thorough, top-down review of the department by an independent body.

These outward-facing reforms were met with plenty of opposition from the union. It was Humphrey’s more mundane internal reforms, though, that sparked far more anger, both from high-ranking officers and from the FOP.

So in May 2020, Humphrey instituted an anti-nepotism policy, barring direct relatives from serving in the same chain of command. The FOP immediately filed a complaint. According to Humphrey, some members of his command staff also objected privately, especially those who’d had immediate family working below them, either at the time or over the course of their careers.
 
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SINCE THE LATE 1970s, Little Rock has had two police unions. One, the FOP, is official and mostly white; the other, the Little Rock Black Police Officers Association, is unofficial and mostly Black. Only the FOP is authorized to collectively bargain with the city. Many Black officers said the BPOA is necessary because not only does the FOP fail to represent their interests, it also often works against them.

The mere existence of a separate union for Black police officers rubs many in Little Rock the wrong way. White officers, some city officials, and many white residents see the Black union as unnecessary, a stubborn refusal to move beyond the city’s ugly racial history. Black officers said that sentiment reveals a misunderstanding of why the union exists: It isn’t to win special rights for Black officers, they said. It’s to demand they be treated equally.

GILBERT SAID WHEN he started on the force, Black officers knew that the FOP had little to offer them. Because it was the only union authorized to bargain with the city, though, he joined and hoped for the best. He left in 1993, after an incident at an FOP-sponsored Halloween party that older Black officers still talk about today. A white officer came to the party in blackface, an Afro, and bib overalls, carrying a watermelon. His date came dressed as a piece of fried chicken. The incident made national news.

The FOP reaction still rankles Black officers who were around back then. The union backed the white officer’s lawsuit to overturn his 30-day suspension without pay. The punishment was ultimately upheld in court, but the FOP used its own cash — drawn from union dues — to reimburse the officer for the salary he lost during his suspension, according to Gilbert and others who were on the board of BPOA and opposed FOP support for the suspended officer.
 
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