Along with the ornaments and strands of lights, two police officers in the 4th precinct of Minneapolis' Police Department added some unusual items to their lobby's Christmas tree: A collection of street trash, including packs of Newport cigarettes, a crumpled bag of Takis chips, a cup from a Popeyes fried chicken outlet, a can of Steel Reserve malt liquor and some yellow crime scene tape. Critics say the items chosen play on negative stereotypes about African-Americans.
"These pieces of trash were deliberately chosen to represent how certain officers feel about the community they serve: that Black people are a stereotype to be mocked and the lives of those they serve may as well be reduced to trash in the gutter," City Councilman Phillipe Cunningham said on Facebook.
The department has since placed the officers on leave and has launched an internal investigation amid an outcry that the decorations mocked the precinct's predominantly black neighborhoods.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the tree "racist" and "despicable." On Friday, he vowed the officers responsible would be fired.

A North Carolina state trooper has been placed on administrative duty over an Instagram post that said police beatings are deserved.

No motive has ever been established and he has never expressed regret.

Robert Stephano, a 12-year CHP veteran assigned to the Morongo Basin Station, was arrested Friday in Twentynine Palms. He has been charged with committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child between 14 and 15 years old, communicating with a minor with intent to commit a sex crime and arranging to meet with a minor to commit a sex crime, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Raimundo Atesiano had a scheme to make himself look good. It landed him in federal prison.
The former police chief of Biscayne Park, Florida, once bragged at a city council meeting that his department had a 100% clearance rate for burglaries. But prosecutors say it's because Atesiano directed his officers to pin unsolved crimes on innocent people.

Throughout his tenure as chief in Biscayne Park, a tiny Miami village of just over 3,000 people, he encouraged three officers -- Guillermo Ravelo, Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez -- to falsely arrest individuals with no evidence or probable cause to cover for all reported burglaries, the release said.

"Putting an arrest statistic above the rights of an innocent man instead of working to protect all our citizens undermines the safety goals of every Miami-Dade police department," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. "Miami-Dade's residents deserve honesty and integrity, qualities that Raimundo Atesiano deliberately failed to deliver."

Pervert cop

He also asked police to explain how a "member of the public got into an unmanned police station".
"That is worthy of as much investigation as possible," he said.

"If you believe Carter, then there are no real answers as to else did it," Rosen said. "I'm fairly convinced that he didn't do it. But the thing I'm most convinced of is that he didn't get a fair shake."