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Rising tide of killings by pol
Officers have shot 11 people to death so far this year, equal to the toll for all of '03 and only three short of '04's.
It started as a routine pedestrian stop in West Philadelphia at which police say they asked for identification from three men shooting dice Thursday evening.
After one of the men, wanted on a probation violation, ran, the incident quickly turned into a fatal police shooting, the second within six hours. It was the fourth within a week and the 11th this year, an alarming number, law enforcement officials say.
"In the early part of this year, police h... Read more
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CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA
05 January 2009
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Miami Cops Lectured In Ethical
Months after their chief was accused of violating ethics laws for accepting a free SUV, Miami cops are being grilled on their own ethics knowledge. Miami Police Officers are undergoing mandatory training and testing on ethics.
Miami officers spent their Christmas season studying ethics and taking a quiz on what is and isn't ethical behavior: part of the process in keeping their accreditation as a law enforcement agency. For example, they're being schooled on whether it's ethical to make a false report, ignore department policy or accept a gift.
In fact, Miami Officers are instructed in the tutorial on ethical decision-making to ask themselves, "Would I do what I am about to do were it to become public knowledge… the lead story on the 6:00 news?"
In ordering all members to participate in the ethics test, high-ranking Miami Police officials issued a memo saying "…the department will maintain the highest professional ethics and integrity." That is a goal that would appear to have been compromised at the department's highest level.
Police Chief John Timoney was found guilty by multiple public agencies of violating ethics laws. "There is a perception that's been created that somehow I was getting something for nothing," Timoney said at a press conference in August 2007. The reality is that Timoney did get something for nothing: a $54 thousand luxury SUV. A CBS4 News investigation revealed Timoney drove the Lexus, compliments of Lexus of Kendall, for the better part of two years.
The County Ethics Commission found the Police Chief had, in fact, broken ethics laws and issued a scathing reprimand. The State Ethics Commission also found that Timoney broke the law. And Miami's Civilian Investigative Panel found the Chief guilty on six counts of breaking laws and violating his own department's policies by being untruthful about his free ride.
"He has led by the wrong example," Armando Aguillar of the Police Officer's Union said. "His example to our members is that it is okay to accept gifts; that it is okay to be untruthful."
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