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California town shaken as police officers arrested

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California town shaken as police officers arrested KING CITY, Calif. (AP) — Residents of a California farming town were grappling Wednesday with the feeling that their trust has been violated after learning the acting police chief and a handful of officers were charged with crimes including  selling or giving away the impounded cars of poor Hispanic residents. The misgivings had been building for some time. Investigators heard people — many unable to speak English — complain that police were taking their cars and money, and there was nothing they could do about it. "I'm not at all surprised by the arrests, I'm just surprised there weren't more charges," restaurateur Vivian Villa said Wednesday in Spanish while sizzling a pan of beef in preparation for the lunch rush. "Now maybe some of them are going to feel what we feel when they target us." Later in the day, Villa held a meeting in her little restaurant where about a dozen community members spoke ou

Cop pleads guilty for showing naked photos of himself

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http://corruptionsucks.blogspot.com/2013/08/corrupt-cop-greg-key-sexting-erect.html I GUESS LITTLE ROCK ISN'T THE ONLY CITY DEALING WITH PENIS WIELDING CORRUPT COPS. AT LEAST THIS ONE IS PAYING FOR HIS CRIMES... Former Stamford police officer Paul Mabey with his attorney, Eugene Riccio, right, during his arraignment Tuesday morning in state Superior Court in Stamford. Mabey is accused of showing cell phone images of his genitals to women during traffic stops. Riccio said prosecutors moved the case to state Superior Court in Bridgeport and Mabey is due for an appearance there on July 23. Photo: Contributed Photo\News 12 Connecticut BRIDGEPORT -- A former Stamford police officer, who police said made sexual comments and showed naked photos of himself to women he pulled over for motor vehicle violations, pleaded no contest to criminal charges Friday. Paul Mabey , 43, Stamford's Officer of the Year in 2006, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced by  S

The Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Use-of-Force

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The Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Use-of-Force Police Foundation Executive Fellow, Chief Tony Farrar, recently completed an extensive year long study to evaluate the effect of body-worn video cameras on police use-of-force. http://www.policefoundation.org/content/chief-tony-farrar This randomized controlled trail represents the first experimental evaluation of body-worn video cameras used in police patrol practices. Cameras were deployed to all patrol officers in th e Rialto (CA) Police Department. Every police patrol shift during the 12-month period was assigned to experimental or control conditions. Wearing cameras was associated with dramatic reductions in use-of-force and complaints against officers. The authors conclude: "The findings suggest more than a 50% reduction in the total number of incidents of use-of-force compared to control-conditions, and nearly ten times more citizens’ complaints in the 12-months prior to the experiment." We applaud Chief Farr