Texas Cop is a Disgrace to the Badge
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Another Texas police officer is accused, this time of having sex with a 15-year-old girl who is a member of a law enforcement program for teenagers. Read the rest of this entry ... (188 words left) 2007/3/212006/9/27Cop Gets Off Easy With $25,000 BondddddR
Rules are definate
 Very Pretty Picture--NOT!! Rules are clearly different for officers who commit crimes across the country. The legal system does not apply the same treatment to officers as it does other offenders. In this case, just as in others that involve law enforcement, higher bonds need to be in place as well as the removal of all weapons and the surrender of their shield pending the outcome. And they should be court ordered to wear a monitoring device while out on bond.
An Indiana sheriff's deputy was formally charged with three felony counts following a 14-hour standoff at his home... they went to the home of Jonathan Lambert, 34, at about 10:30 a.m. on Friday after criminal charges were filed against him... The charges stem from an incident where Lambert is charged with threatening to kill his girlfriend so she would have sex with him. Lambert also is accused of forcing her to touch him and allegedly choking her, leaving red marks around her neck. Authorities have yet to disclose the contents of the arrest warrant that had been issued for Lambert before the standoff at his home in the town of Cloverland, and all court documents connected to the case have been sealed... Police set up a perimeter around Lambert's home and called the Indiana State Police Emergency Response Team after he refused to exit the residence... At least 50 police officers were at the home... Lambert came out of his home at about 2:15 p.m. carrying a long gun. He fired a round into the ground and then went back inside, state police said. About 20 minutes later, he came out again and fired a round from a handgun..
Sheriff's deputy charged with sexual battery, confinement
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN Sep. 26, 2006 BRAZIL, Ind. - A Clay County sheriff's deputy was formally charged with three felony counts following a 14-hour standoff at his home with police officers who had come to arrest him. A not guilty plea was entered for Jonathan Lambert, 34, during a hearing in Clay Circuit Court on Monday. He faces charges of criminal confinement, intimidation and sexual battery, all felonies that each carry possible sentences of six months to three years in prison.
He was being held Tuesday at the Parke County Jail in Rockville on a $25,000 cash bond.
The charges stem from an incident where Lambert is charged with threatening to kill his girlfriend so she would have sex with him. Lambert also is accused of forcing her to touch him and allegedly choking her, leaving red marks around her neck.
Authorities have yet to disclose the contents of the arrest warrant that had been issued for Lambert before the standoff at his home in the town of Cloverland, and all court documents connected to the case have been sealed.
Lambert's defense attorney, Joseph K. Etling of Terre Haute, said after the hearing that he did not believe Lambert violated the law, but that he would reserve further comment until prosecutors completed their investigation.
Lambert was also charged with domestic battery and criminal recklessness, both misdemeanors.
The standoff began about 10:30 a.m. Friday when state troopers and Clay County Sheriff's Department officials went to Lambert's home about along U.S. 40 about 10 miles east of Terre Haute to arrest him.
The Sheriff's Department had received a 911 call earlier that day about a domestic disturbance, Sheriff Mike Heaton said.
Lambert came out of his home around 2:15 p.m. carrying a long gun and fired a round into the ground before returning inside, state police said. About 20 minutes later, he came out again and fired a round from a handgun.
No shots were fired toward officers and no one was injured. About 12:20 a.m. Saturday, after talking to negotiators, Lambert walked out the back door and was arrested without incident.
Source:www.behindthebluewall.blogspot.com 2006/7/26National Registry Identifies Bad CopsWASHINGTON —Finally a National Registry for Police Officers gone sour. A registry of more than 7,000 police officers who have been stripped of their law enforcement licenses is being readied for use by police agencies throughout the USA to identify officers with troubled histories. This includes spousal abuse, officers who resign or take early retirement. Departments across the will be also be able to access an officers allegations of misconduct. Instead of the officer making up excuses as they have been known to do many times in the past.
The registry, which for the first time would give police agencies direct access to a list of decertified officers, is designed to help avoid hiring officers ousted from jobs elsewhere.
So far, 20 states are contributing to a computer database being assembled by the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST). The database could be ready this fall.
According to USA Today, there have been no national studies on how often disciplined or decertified officers have found work at other departments, the database reflects rising concerns about the quality of police recruits.
In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff's Department faces questions about its hiring practices in a lawsuit involving Sheriff's Deputy Lewis Perry. Perry had left two police jobs in Connecticut after conduct complaints were filed against him, court documents show.
He was fired from a third Connecticut agency while under investigation for allegedly stalking a girlfriend, court papers say. In Broward, Perry has been suspended without pay because he faces allegations of misconduct and perjury. A grand jury also is reviewing his conduct in a 2004 shooting. Perry's attorney, Eric Schwartzreich, says he has not reviewed the Connecticut evidence, but he notes that Perry's certification hasn't been revoked.
The new database will flag only officers who have been decertified by state accreditation agencies. While more states may sign on, records for thousands more ousted officers are under the control of state accreditation agencies that have chosen not to share the information or are prohibited by law from sharing it. Police agencies in all states would be permitted to use the database.
Project director Ray Franklin says incidents of misconduct that don't result in decertification could be added as the database expands.
Police officers typically are licensed by state agencies when the officers graduate from law enforcement academies. Officers remain accredited as long as they meet job standards. When they violate such standards, the loss of their law enforcement accreditation is supposed to prevent them from working as officers elsewhere. However, police departments — particularly those in different states — historically have not shared such information.
In the past three decades, more than 19,000 officers have been stripped of licenses for misconduct, according to a 2005 IADLEST survey.
"Some people view this as kind of like a blacklist," Franklin says. "It's really not. It's more like a pointer system, a reference for public safety agencies."
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