While his officers are out on the street arresting people for a plant, the chief of police is at home smoking it while bragging that he can smoke it because he"s the chief of police.
A police chief is now facing criminal charges after he was caught soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl, while advertising the fact that he was a cop.
Adams County, IN — A 23-year-old man in Indiana pleaded guilty to molesting a 13-year-old foster child living with his family, and was sentenced to just three years of house arrest—now his family ties are being called into question.
Andrew Taylor is the son of Tim Taylor, the police chief in his hometown of Berne, Indiana. Waine.com reported that Andrew Taylor asked the young girl who had been placed with his family “to perform oral sex on him and she agreed” in October. He then told his father about what he did and turned himself in, according to court documents.
Jay County Prosecutor Wesley Schemenaur told Waine.com that he does not think Taylor was let off on such an incredibly light sentence because he is the son of the local police chief.
“That’s why I was asked to be on the case as a special prosecutor because I don’t have a relationship with the Berne police department or know the Taylor family at all,” Schemenaur said. “I don’t feel like he was treated, from the state’s prospective, any differently than any other offender in a similar circumstance.”
Waine.com reported that the judge ruled that “the fact Taylor self-reported, sought help, cooperated and took responsibility carried more weight than the prosecution’s factors.” He also made his decision based off of the fact that Taylor “didn’t threaten to hurt the victim and it can’t be said she is suffering.”
However, it should be noted that while the judge seems to have only taken Andrew Taylor’s well-being into consideration, there appears to be very little mention of the 13-year-old girl he molested. The victim, who was a foster child placed into the Taylor family’s home, was put into an inappropriate situation at the hands of Andrew Taylor, his parents, and the state.
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Despite the fact that this girl was the victim in the case, she reportedly had no legal representation, her state of well-being was assumed rather than verified, and she is said to have been placed in a different foster home.
In addition to spending three years on house arrest, Andrew Taylor will be on probation for five years. It is not clear as to whether Taylor will be forced to register as a sex offender, or whether his parents—the local police chief and his wife—will still be allowed to house foster children after this egregious incident.
As the Free Thought Project has reported, this is not the first time a police chief or his relatives have faced lenient treatment.
Blue privilege extending to a sex offender police family member should come as no surprise as police officers having sex with underage victims is, unfortunately, a fairly common practice.
Police sexual misconduct is so common that more than 1,000 officers have had their licenses revoked in just the last six years for it — nearly half of them involve underage victims.
According to a scathing report, around 1,000 policemen across the US had their licenses revoked and lost their jobs over the last six years on account of numerous sexual offenses that included rape and possession of child pornography. Half of these victims were underage.
Sexual misconduct is the second highest of all complaints nationwide against police officers, representing 9.3 percent in 2010, according to a study by the Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project.
A cop in Plano, TX was arrested twice within a 3 week period for indecency with a child and possession of child porn.
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We also reported on an officer in charge of a rape case who is accused of stalking and sexually harassing the victim.
Oklahoma made headlines with three serial rapists, in 3 weeks, all officers, as well as one police chief molesting children. Officer Daniel Holtzclaw was one of the worst serial rapists of all time and he was given authority over innocent people.
New York, NY — (RT) A retired police chief who served in US law enforcement for nearly 30 years says he was detained at JFK airport because his name, Hassan Aden, had reportedly been used as an alias by a person on “some watch list.”
After a joyful weekend celebrating his mother’s 80th birthday in Paris, Aden “happily” boarded his return flight to the US on March 13, a country he has been a citizen of for more than four decades.
When it was his turn to speak to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, Aden says he was asked if he was traveling alone.
“I knew this was a sign of trouble, I answered ‘yes,’ then he said, ‘Let’s take a walk,’” he wrote on Facebook.
That walk led Aden to what he described as a “re-purposed storage facility with three desks.” Signs were posted throughout the room, warning people to stay seated and informing them that using mobile phones was “strictly prohibited.”
Aden says he attempted to explain that he was a retired police chief, but the immigration officer said that he had “no control” and couldn’t release him, despite his long career in law enforcement.
A second officer provided a bit more information, explaining to Aden that his name “was used as an alias by someone on some watch list.” The 52-year-old was told that his information had been sent to another agency to “de-conflict and clear me so I could gain passage into the United States… my own country!!!”
While Aden waited, he noticed that he was being held longer than anyone else, despite having been a US citizen for 42 years. While the citizens of other countries spent five minutes in the room, Aden says he was stuck there for 1.5 hours.
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Despite being trapped with no means of communicating with his wife or family, he was told by the original CBP officer that he was not being detained.
“But I’m not free to leave – how is that not a detention?” he replied.
“My movements were restricted to a chair and they had my passport… and he had the audacity to tell me I was not being detained,” the retired police chief said.
As he waited, Aden said he recalled the “numerous trips abroad” when he had had “no problems” upon returning and was greeted by CBP officers with a “welcome home.”
Thanks for the support I’ve received since detailing my CBP detention.I’m fortunate to be able to give this problem a voice and a platform.
He was eventually cleared and made his connecting flight to Washington DC “by minutes.”
Aden wrote that, despite being cleared, he now feels “vulnerable and unsure of the future of a country that was once great and that I proudly called my own.”
“This experience makes me question if this is indeed home. My freedoms were restricted, and I cannot be sure it won’t happen again, and that it won’t happen to my family, my children, the next time we travel abroad. This country now feels cold, unwelcoming, and in the beginning stages of a country that is isolating itself from the rest of the world – and its own people – in an unprecedented fashion. High levels of hate and injustice have been felt in vulnerable communities for decades – it is now hitting the rest of America,” he wrote.
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Hassan, who worked in law enforcement for 30 years, grew up in France and Italy. He spent 26 years serving on the police force in Alexandria, Virginia, and most recently served as the chief of police in Greenville, North Carolina. The father of two now runs a law enforcement-focused consulting business.
His detention came just two weeks after President Trump rolled out a new travel ban, which has since been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii. The executive order would bar the citizens of six countries from entering the United States. Trump has described it as a “watered down” version of the first ban, which sparked protests around the globe when the restrictions were chaotically implemented in airports across the US.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, right, says he’d rather lose federal funds than enforce President Obama’s immigration orders. Image source: Wikipedia
LOS ANGELES — The chief of police in America’s second largest city has vowed not to cooperate with President Trump’s immigration policies.
“That is not our job, nor will I make it our job,” Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told The Los Angeles Times.
Beck has promised not to cooperate with the Trump administration even if it means a loss of federal funds for his department. Beck’s position is that threatening deportation will make crime worse by deterring those people from cooperating with police during criminal investigations.
“In the mid-1990s, when the state cracked down [on] illegal immigration, all we did was drive people underground,” Beck said.
There are around 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Los Angeles, Beck estimated.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has a formal policy of not cooperating with federal immigration law enforcement efforts that dates back to 1979, Beck pointed out. The policy even has a name: Special Order 40.
“When you create a shadow population … that fears any interaction” with police, he said, “then you create a whole population of victims, because they become prey for human predators who extort them or abuse them because they know they won’t contact the police.”
Another problem Beck faces is that 47 percent of his police force is Latino, and many of them have “blended families” – that is, some relatives who are legal and others who are not, he told The Times.
“To think the fabric of Los Angeles is going to change [through a legal edict],” Beck said, “denies our history.”
“We couldn’t deport 500,000 people if we wanted to, and if we did, it would be at the expense of public safety,” Beck said.
The solution to the illegal immigration problem, Beck said, is to help boost Mexico’s economy.
“We have a very rich country with a lot of opportunity that is immediately adjacent to a poorer country with less opportunity,” he said.
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