Citizens were outraged after a former cop who was caught with horrifying images of abused children was given a suspended sentence and walked free.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Cop Busted With Hundreds of Pics of Child Rape, Gets No Jail—Walks Out of Court
Citizens were outraged after a former cop who was caught with horrifying images of abused children was given a suspended sentence and walked free.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
‘We Are 911!’: Tyrant Cops Threaten Innocent Family, Kick Them Out of Their Own House
A man was repeatedly harassed and threatened with arrest by police officers, after he purchased a decrepit house that one of officers had abandoned.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
WATCH: Cop Caught Speeding Scolds Officer Who Stopped Her, Peels Out – Nothing Happens

Dayton Beach, FL — An infuriating body camera video was released this week showing the callous disregard some police officers have for the very laws they enforce. The footage shows the above the law nature exhibited by law enforcement that would get the common citizen caged or killed.
Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member, breaking the law, they are let go without consequence.
Last year, dashcam video was released showing preferential treatment of an Arkansas police chief who was let off — without so much as a warning — after speeding to an off-duty job as a referee at a football game.
The examples are unlimited.
In one case, in particular, an entire caravan of cops was given a pass for needless and dangerously speeding through town. An audio tape and video were published online of a conversation between a Washington State Patrol aircraft and a patrol car on the ground.
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The aircraft kept identifying speeders while the ground unit would let them all go by since they were LEOs.
The cars were both marked and unmarked. There was also a dangerously driving motorcycle in the mix as well, weaving in and out of cars, who was actually stopped and then let go after realizing he was an LEO. Nothing happened to any of the officers for speeding.
The case in the video below, however, is perhaps, one of the most brazen practices of blue privilege TFTP has ever seen.
At 5 a.m., on June 13, Officer Rachel Ditton was driving a “red Chevy,” which was her personal vehicle, at high rates of speed. A patrol officer saw her speeding and conducted a traffic stop.
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The officer followed Ditton for over a minute, observing her speeding. He then moved to pull her over.
When the officer gets out of his vehicle, after Ditton finally stopped, he’s instantly berated by this infuriated speeding cop who couldn’t believe she was actually pulled over for breaking the law.
“I gotta get to work,” Ditton says, clearly employing a privilege not afforded to those in the prole class. Breaking the law to make up for being late to work is a prerogative enjoyed by only those with the power to arrest you for that very law.
“Start reading your tag first before you pull someone over,” the irate Ditton shouts at the officer as she throws her car back in gear.
As the officer tried to tell Ditton, “Well, stop speeding,” she then slammed down on the gas, peeling out as she sped away.
Had anyone but a police officer behaved in a similar fashion, rest assured, a high-speed pursuit, spike strips, helicopters, and potentially deadly force would’ve all been at the ready.
According to the News-Journal, Police spokeswoman Lyda Longa said on Monday that the department is “not going to answer any questions on this issue until the conclusion of the investigation.”
As for Ditton, she is still on the job and likely still breaking the very laws she, herself, would kidnap, cage, or kill people over.
Police in Dayton Beach would do well to take a page out of Volusia County’s sheriff’s book. Sheriff Mike Chitwood was busted earlier this year for going 78 mph in a 55-mph zone. Instead of acting like Ditton and demanding his blue privilege, he did the opposite. Chitwood actually asked for a ticket “to set an example” for the agency.
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“I ordered him to write a ticket to send a message,” Chitwood said of his own violation.
The sergeant who pulled Chitwood over quickly applied the blue privilege and told the sheriff to be on his way. But the sheriff realized this was wrong and called the sergeant back.
“I told him to write me a ticket,” Chitwood said, adding that the deputy was initially hesitant. “I shouldn’t be given a professional courtesy. I’m the sheriff for Christ’s sake.”
When cops refuse to act above the law and hold themselves accountable, this is most certainly a good thing. The Free Thought Project covered Sheriff Chitwood’s story back in January in hopes his example would spread to others — like Ditton and her ilk. As we can see from the video above, however, his leading by example has yet to have an effect.
Friday, February 24, 2017
WATCH: Cop Snaps, Pulls Gun on Tow Truck Driver for Towing Her Car — Gets Slap on the Wrist
Orange County, FL — If your vehicle was being towed for being illegally parked and you pulled a gun on the tow truck driver and demanded he put it down, you would be arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. However, if you do this as a police officer, you get a vacation.
Deputy Tracy Weiss with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was given a slap on the wrist this week after begin caught on video accosting a tow truck driver.
The incident happened in April of last year. However, the ‘investigation’ wasn’t wrapped up until this month. Investigators determined that Weiss flashed her badge and grabbed her gun when she demanded that the tow truck driver drop her car that was being towed for parking illegally.
Weiss told investigators that she grabbed her gun because she didn’t know if the driver would be “aggressive.” However, the only one aggressive in the video below is Weiss.
Last April, Weiss was parked at the Starlight Ranch retirement community on a sidewalk. The community has a policy that forbids vehicles to block the sidewalk.
When Weiss noticed that her truck was being towed, she jumped into another vehicle and then drove the wrong way down a one-way street to block the driver in who had towed her car.
When she exits the vehicle, according to the tow truck driver, she had her gun drawn. When he saw the gun, the driver pulled out his camera phone and began to record.
“I’m a cop. Drop my truck,” yelled Weiss.
“You need to put your gun away,” replied the driver.
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“You see a gun?” Weiss asked, acting as if she didn’t have one once she saw the camera.
“Yes. It’s in your pocket,” the driver said.
“I am a cop,” she yelled. “You’re going to f**king jail for stealing my car.”
“I’m not going to jail,” the driver responded.
“Whatever,” Weiss said before storming off to wait for backup.
When deputies arrived, they confirmed that Weiss did, in fact, have a gun.
“She had a gun in her hand pointed at me,” said the driver.
The deputies refused to arrest the driver and allowed him to tow the truck as he was well within the law to do so. Also, instead of the normal impound fee of $62.50, Weiss had to pay double as she held the driver up for more than 15 minutes.
However, Weiss was not arrested.
For admittedly assaulting a man with a deadly weapon and abusing her authority, Weiss was later facing aggravated assault charges. However, likely due to her status as a cop, the state attorney’s office declined to prosecute her.
One would think that a cop, would, at the very least, be fired for such abuse of authority and misconduct — especially after it was captured on video. However, one would be wrong. It was announced by the department this week that Weiss received a 40-hour suspension which was merely docked from her vacation time.
“The penalty that was given to her, I find it, at this point, to be ridiculous,” said the driver, who asked not to be identified.
According to WFTV 9, the driver said he has quit working in Orange County because of the incident.
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“I just feel sorry for whoever else is going to come across her path,” he said.
This is Weiss’ second such incident in which she’s been suspended. Her disciplinary record revealed she was suspended in 2008 for violating OCSO’s use of authority policy.
Weiss was suspended for 21 hours without pay after she was accused of acting inappropriately regarding a business arrangement, the Sheriff’s Office’s said.
Below is a video that epitomizes the divide in America today that continues to grow between the police and the policed. Until officers like Weiss are actually held accountable, this divide will continue to grow.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Sheriff Caught Speeding Refuses Blue Privilege — Demands Cop Write Him a Ticket
Volusia County, FL — In case after infuriating case, the Free Thought Project has reported on cops who abuse their authority to break the law or do things that would get normal citizens ticketed or arrested. So, when we see a cop who doesn’t pretend to be above the law they enforce, we think it is a good idea to report on it — to set the bar for police across America. A Florida sheriff has done just that and demanded he be given a ticket for speeding.
Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers who, when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member, breaking the law, they are let go without consequence.
Just two months ago, Dashcam video was released showing preferential treatment of an Arkansas police chief who was let off — without so much as a warning — after speeding to an off-duty job as a referee at a football game.
The examples are unlimited.
In one case, in particular, an entire caravan of cops was given a pass for needless and dangerously speeding through town. An audio tape and video were published online of a conversation between a Washington State Patrol aircraft and a patrol car on the ground.
The aircraft kept identifying speeders while the ground unit would let them all go by since they were LEOs.
The cars were both marked and unmarked. There was also a dangerously driving motorcycle in the mix as well, weaving in and out of cars, who was actually stopped and then let go after realizing he was an LEO. Nothing happened to any of the officers for speeding.
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However, there is a new sheriff in town in Florida, who is setting out to reverse this trend.
As the News Journal reports, after a deputy’s radar clocked Volusia County’s new sheriff going 78 mph in a 55-mph zone, Mike Chitwood said he asked for a ticket “to set an example” for the agency.
“I ordered him to write a ticket to send a message,” Chitwood said of his own violation. “I was as wrong as could be, especially when we are paying out money in lawsuits for not operating vehicles in a safe manner.”
Chitwood is referring to a lawsuit settled this week in which the county paid out money for a deputy-related crash. According to the Journal, the county last week paid $200,000 in a lawsuit settlement to a motorist who was seriously injured after a deputy caused a chain-reaction crash in September 2014.
There is also a current internal investigation underway after another deputy was caught speeding and then crashed his vehicle into three other vehicles last month. Deputy Cory Freeburn, 30, was driving 81 mph in a posted 45-mph zone on his way to a non-emergency call, an Edgewater police accident report states.
The sheriff’s stop was untraditional as he was pulled over in his personal vehicle. However, the sergeant who pulled Chitwood over, quickly applied the blue privelege and told the sheriff to be on his way. But the sheriff realized this was wrong and called the sergeant back.
“I told him to write me a ticket,” Chitwood said, adding that the deputy was initially hesitant. “I shouldn’t be given a professional courtesy. I’m the sheriff for Christ’s sake.”
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When cops refuse to act above the law and hold themselves accountable, this is most certainly a good thing. The Free Thought Project applauds Sheriff Chitwood and hopes his example spreads to others.
“I have to set the example,” Chitwood said. “If I’m going to discipline these guys (for speeding), I have to discipline myself.”
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Dashcam: Chief Caught Doing Over 100 mph Only for Fellow Cops to Stop Him and Laugh About It
Brinkley, AR — Dashcam video showing preferential treatment of an Arkansas police chief has him scrambling to defend himself for being let off easy — without so much as a warning — after speeding to an off-duty job as a referee at a football game.
Footage obtained by THV11 from Arkansas State Police following a viewer tip, shows Brinkley Police Chief Edward Randle being pulled over in his personal vehicle, a red pickup truck, near Clarendon on Friday, October 21.
A state trooper assisted an officer from the Brinkley force upon request, and makes a U-turn after witnessing the speeding red pickup driving in the opposite direction, to make the stop.
As the trooper approaches the driver’s side, dashcam video shows he immediately recognized the Brinkley chief of police, and laughingly asks, “Where are you going so fast?”
Randle — obviously familiar to the state trooper — isn’t asked to produce identification, and tells the officer he’s headed for the game, which he later clarified for THV11 was the Clarendon-Marvell football game.
At that point, the Brinkley officer, who had summoned state police for assistance with the stop, also approaches Randle — as the trooper tells the chief the officer had been tailing him for miles when he finally called for assistance.
“I know you didn’t call the State Police!” Randle quips to the Brinkley officer.
“I didn’t have your plate,” the officer replies, “so it didn’t go over.”
As THV11 posits, that statement “could indicate that, since the officer did not announce the truck’s license plate number into his radio, nobody else would know the chief had been pulled over.”
The trio laughs about the chief’s excessive speed, and the officer tells him, “I had you locked in at 107.”
“It won’t do 107. It’ll only do 95,” Randle responds, referring to a governor capping his truck’s speed, as he later explained to THV11 in an unrecorded interview.
After a few more laughs, the officer tells Randle he measured the truck’s speed over 90 miles an hour — and the chief was still pulling away at the time.
Despite the obvious dangers of such high speeds on the narrow, curvy road, both the trooper and Brinkley officer simply walk away from the truck, as the officer says dismissively, “See you later, Chief.”
Video captures the last exchange between the two cops as Randle pulls away — the state trooper notes he clocked the chief doing “71 at the curve.”
In two phone interviews with THV11 — which were not recorded, by request — Randle disputes he ever came close to the truck’s alleged top possible speed of 95, as well as the trooper’s claim in dashcam footage he had been rounding the curve at 71 mph.
Additionally, “Though the state trooper claimed that the officer had been pursuing Randle for miles, Randle told THV11 that the officer was on his way to Clarendon to get fingerprints from someone at the county jail.”
THV11 spoke with local business owner, Benjamin Martin, who first noticed the stop by a Brinkley officer inside Clarendon city limits.
“I find it, you know, very disheartening, that anyone, public official or not, would show such blatant disregard for the speed limit, and put the lives of innocent others at risk,” Martin told the station in a video interview.
“I just feel that no one’s above the law, and you know, if it was me, I would’ve gotten a ticket.”
Indeed, the public might be lucky the off-duty Brinkley police chief didn’t lose control of his vehicle while traveling at such a high rate of speed — simply to make it to a football game.
Neither the Brinkley officer nor the state trooper are being investigated for wrongdoing — despite giving the chief a free pass. Arkansas State Police told THV11 the incident fell under control of the Brinkley Police Department as soon as the officer arrived on scene, even though the trooper affected the stop.
“As a chief of police, and as a law enforcement officer, you’re sworn to protect and serve,” Martin asserted, “which is the opposite of putting the lives of others at risk.”
Although nothing serious resulted from Randle’s excessive speeds, it was notorious blue privilege that allowed him to drive away without even a warning.
These seemingly small favors afforded to police by police on a constant basis highlight the divide civilians feel in their encounters with law enforcement. Indeed, the idea police belong to an exclusive club of impunity — simply because of their chosen occupation — only increases tension and resentment in their communities.
If police don’t uphold and enforce the laws they enforce against civilians, the law becomes an arbitrary, exploitive method for generating revenue — and nothing more.