Kenneth Holtz, a 20 year veteran of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, was fired in 2006 for violating department rules and regulations regarding “respect among members” and “conduct reflecting adversely on the department or employee.” What did he do? He pulled over a fellow cop for drunk driving. So even the good cops hate the bad cops.

Add the Albuquerque Police Department to the list of PDs that don't like being video taped during arrests. Or even AFTER an arrest. Clearly the photographer should have taken the right turn when he got there.

Because of his mental problems, Peter Ballance records all of his conversations so that he can remember things. He even has a pin on his chest informing you that he is recording the conversation. Well, the Greenacres Police Department has a problem with any record of their conversations so they decided it would be good to tackle him and charge him with resisting arrest. Now that he's acquitted, he suing the City of Greenacres. Sam Drucker had no comment.

Good ways to get arrested in NY include riding a bicycle and taking photographs of the police. But if you REALLY want to piss off NYPD cops like Sgt. Timothy Horhoe (the leader of this Gestapo action), refuse to surrender your Constitutional right protecting unlawful search and seizure and don't show them your identification.

Watch the 12 minute video documenting the violations.

After taking photos of Montreal police arresting someone, Brendan Colin Jones was fined $628 canadian dollars (which is now like $1000 US) for "improper use of city structures." What was he improperly using? The ledge in which he was sitting. So Montreal PD joins the long list of police departments that must be doing something bad when they arrest people because they HATE it when you photograph them doing it.

The crack Riverside, California Police Department staged a raid on a gathering of car enthusiasts which was labeled as a "street racing venue." The slight problem was that there was no evidence of racing. They were just motorheads gathering to brag about their cars.

So the owner of McFearsome had his house broken into in which he had his tv, macbook and xbox 360 stolen. He reported it to the local cops who really weren't interested. Then he found the local pawn shop to which someone tried to sell the macbook and got PICTURES of the kid (seen above). The cops told him to call during the workweek. Then he bought a new xbox 360 and found that someone left him a voicemail bragging that he had stolen his stuff and that he could pay to get it back. Because they used an xbox live account, he had all the kid's contact information AND a voicemail confessing to the crime. He called the Philadelphia cops again...and they hung up on him.

Here is the owner's website.
HERE is a much more interesting link to people from the blogosphere harassing the kid into pleading with the owner for them to stop.

Now that it is Monday and this being a slam dunk case, maybe the Philadelphia Police will make this a happy ending so that I will change the category of this post.

Update: Faced with the overwhelming majority of their work being done for them by the internet, Philadelphia Police have started to do their job. The kid who sent the voicemail has returned the Xbox.

In Crestwood, IL, you are guilty of abandoning your child in a car if you are more than 0 feet away from it for longer than 0 minutes. Unfortunately for Treffly Coyne, she was 30 feet away for about 5 - 10 minutes with her other kids, donating money to the Salvation Army. Now she faces up to a year in jail and a $2500 fine.

What a horrible mother.
(sarcasm off)

Poor Lisa Shutter was pulled over by Albany's finest because she "...fit the profile" of a white girl in a rental car who was wanted for a drug related issue. Well after illegally searching her phone and her car, the officers then proceed to search, HER VAGINA...in the middle of the street. As they were leaving, they told her she was lucky.

There were two cops involved in the alleged incident, Nick Abrams and Matthew Fargione(who's dad is a longtime friend of the police chief) but it isn't clear in the article who's finger it was that made Lisa so lucky.

Welcome to the newest category! Bad Cops! I have said many times over that I think that the VAST majority of cops do a wonderful job day in and day out. Then there are assholes like this guy: caught on his own dashmounted camera, planting marijuana on a guy.

BTW - Although I have a lot of articles about shitty cops in Massachusetts, the fact that they are FROM the dim state of MA trumps the fact that they are bad cops.

Update - Thanks to Michelle from Tennessee for notifying me of the latest news that the cop was vindicated of all offenses.