We were incarcerated the last three weeks on trumped up charges of resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and indecent exposure. We will be fighting these vigorously in the coming months.*
Which is the perfect lead in to what Kevin Williamson has to say about the corruptibility and incompetence of big city police forces.
In Fairview, Tenn., a new police detective was just fired after responding to a prostitution ad. An NYPD officer was awarded $15 million in damages for being kidnapped and beaten inside his own home by other NYPD officers with a score to settle. Honolulu announced that in 2015 it fired a record number of officers for misconduct. A cop in Memphis is being charged with “official oppression” — though not rape — for using his position to pressure a woman into performing a sex act on him while he was on duty. Pittsburgh’s DA is refiling criminal charges against a police officer for assaulting a man while moonlighting as a security officer. A New Orleans police officer saw his 17-year sentence reduced for his conviction in burning the body of a man improperly shot by another New Orleans police officer. Elsewhere in Louisiana, authorities have settled upon “suicide” as the explanation for the death of a man in police custody who somehow managed to shoot himself in the chest while his hands were handcuffed behind his back in the back of a police cruiser. These things will happen, you say.
And that’s true: But all these things happened last Friday.Read it all.
* We were just kidding about our getting arrested and incarcerated. We were just goofing off.
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