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USA: Gang cop's actions cost Detroit $677,000
A Detroit Police Gang Squad officer allegedly caught on videotape beating a suburban college student has been sued eight times and cost taxpayers more than $677,000, according to court records.
That figure could rise because the college student has sued Officer Nevin Hughes in federal court, alleging the officer violated his civil rights during the incident outside a Detroit gas station in 2009.
The six-figure settlements are emerging as the department's Internal Affairs unit concludes a probe of Hughes' conduct — an investigation launched after The Detroit News posted... Read more
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24 May 2008
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USA: Former rookie cop who all
A former rookie cop is suing the city, saying the Portland Police Bureau forced her to resign after she reported alleged misconduct involving her field training officer that ranged from using excessive force to ordering her to falsify police reports.
Lindsay K. Hunt also accused the field training officer, Quency Ho, of repeatedly taking goods without paying for them from a Northeast Portland convenience store, refusing to fill out a bureau-required "use of force" report after drawing his weapon and attacking a citizen, and ordering citizens to get rid of a knife used in a crime.
When Hunt says she told Ho she wouldn't take anything from the store without paying, she contends Ho replied, "Come on. We're the (expletive) police. Nobody cares. It's fine."
Hunt says she complained to supervisors and training division officers but was consistently warned to keep quiet and "look the other way" and told she'd no longer get backup from officers on the street, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Sgt. Brian Schmautz, Portland police spokesman, said the bureau took Hunt's complaints seriously, told her she did the right thing to come forward, investigated and found only one of the allegations valid. He said one officer got a letter of reprimand for a "minor rules violation" but didn't identify the officer or the violation. He said the bureau also encouraged Hunt, who issued the complaints after working four days with Ho, to stay on the job.
Hunt's attorney, Dennis Steinman, said he was aware of an internal inquiry but that little action was taken.
"I think it's consistent with this conspiracy of silence that apparently is the undercurrent policy of the Portland police," Steinman said. "Lindsay Hunt was devastated by what she saw out there and was tortured within herself about what she wanted to do because she really wanted to be a Portland police officer."
Hunt, who was hired July 24, 2006, said the bureau transferred her from Northeast to Central Precinct after she complained.
A day before she reported to Central Precinct, Hunt says training Officer William Hubner arranged to meet her at a coffee shop and called her a "coward" and said she had "started a rebellion in Northeast" because officers there were no longer permitted to take goods from convenience stores. He told her to "be quiet about these incidents" because she had a lot of potential.
When Hunt balked, she says Hubner told her she wouldn't get backup on the street.
On her first day of work at Central Precinct on May 31, 2007, Hunt says she didn't feel safe and told an officer, "I don't think I can do this." With that, she says she was ordered to turn in her gear. She said police told her she would need to formally resign "to make things official," the suit says. She signed resignation papers June 4.
Hunt's lawyer pointed out that in the July issue of the union newspaper Rap Sheet, an unidentified officer writing under the pseudonym "John Brogan" made a veiled reference to a Northeast Precinct trainee who complained about her coach, writing that she was looking for an "an excuse" to quit. He went further: "To those who are currently trainees, try keeping your mouth shut . . . Remember, that you are not entitled to this job."
Hunt's attorney filed the lawsuit Thursday against the city of Portland as well as Ho; field training Officer Leslie Pintarich; training Officers Hubner and Joseph Schilling; field training coordinator Bryan Parman; training Capt. Eric Hendricks; and former personnel Sgt. Judy Brumfield, now retired.
Ho, a nine-year bureau member, remains an officer at Northeast Precinct, police said. Hunt, now working as an investigator for an insurance company, is seeking at least $750,000 in noneconomic damages and $100,000 in economic damages.
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