Police Brutality & Harassment

Re: 7 more police officers taken off street duty

Pathetic ......I understand the streets are rough but once again it shows how most cops view us as animals and the communities they serve as jungles if their was even one a gun holding brotha in that car I would completely be indifferent because I understand the danger and respect that those cops would have to do what they have to do to protect themselves.....but from what I hear no weapon was on them and you can clearly see that within seconds of the final stop they where basically under control and face down on the ground:(:angry:
 
Re: 7 more police officers taken off street duty

"We just had a policeman murdered on Saturday ... and emotions are running high," he said

This is admitting abuse of power...
Feminine emotions don't deserve a badge.

Does this excuse work for anyone but cops?
 
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UPDATE:
Philadelphia police beating - With analyst Mike Brooks and the Rev. Al Sharpton
Rick Sanchez speaks with security analyst Mike Brooks and the Rev. Al Sharpton about the beating case in Philadelphia.

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Racial slur? So what! Two police officers say black chief didn't care

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BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, July 27th 2008, 11:11 PM


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Cops Shelron Smikle (l.), 28, and Blanch O’Neal, 38, pictured here at their lawyer’s office, plan to sue NYPD

Cops Shelron Smikle (l.), 28, and Blanch O’Neal, 38, pictured here at their lawyer’s office, plan to sue NYPD.

Cairo for News

The cops say when Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson (above) found out they had lodged a complaint about a black sergeant’s N-word-laced rant, Nelson repeated the N-word.
Two black cops who reported a boss for using a racial slur say they were viciously chewed out by an African-American chief in the NYPD and are now planning a lawsuit.

Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson went ballistic after Officer Shelron Smikle made a June 10 report to the Internal Affairs Bureau charging that a black sergeant at the 83rd Precinct dropped the N-bomb on him.

Two days later, Nelson, the commander of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, ordered Smikle, 28, and his partner, Blanch O'Neal, 38, to his office, they told the Daily News in an interview.

"'We have friends in IAB, and you're full of s--t!'" Nelson screamed, according to Smikle and O'Neal. "So what, he [the sergeant] called you a n----r? If you can't handle it, resign!'"

Smikle, who was born on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, said he also complained that the sergeant told him "to go back to [his] country" and referred to him as a "dollar van driver."

"So what, he said that to you?" Nelson allegedly responded.

"'Get the f--k out of my office! It doesn't matter if this conversation is being recorded. I'm not saying anything wrong.'"

The cops said they were shocked by Nelson's alleged racial insensitivity in repeating the slur.

"It's not acceptable for a chief in charge ... to say that," Smikle said. "It's a slap in the face."

The two cops have hired lawyer Eric Sanders of the firm Jeffrey Goldberg in Lake Success, L.I., to file a federal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a precursor to filing a lawsuit.

"Chief Nelson is African-American, and we would expect as a police executive he would have responded differently," Sanders said.

"If he feels this way, what does it say about how they treat the public in Brooklyn North?"

O'Neal and Smikle say the problem started when they were dumped on foot patrol on a 97-degree day because the keys to their radio car were missing, which they say was due to a prank.

A black sergeant lit into Smikle for being in the stationhouse instead of being out in the streets and allegedly spewed racial epithets that were overheard by O'Neal.

Later that day, the cops fell sick from heat exhaustion, then called the IAB and the office of equal employment opportunity to lodge complaints about the sergeant.

Nelson acknowledged that he reamed the cops for going to the IAB, told them their allegations were false and threw them out of his office.

He adamantly denies he used the N-word, however.

"I never use that language," Nelson said. "That is an absolute lie. You guys print whatever you like, but if you print that, you're printing a lie."

Nelson also warned that the cops' complaints would get them in more trouble.

"Now I have to open an investigation. If I see this in the paper, I will discipline them again. I don't need this in my career," he told The News. "But it comes with the territory."

Nelson's mouth has landed him in hot water before.

When he was in charge of the school-safety division in 2005, he allegedly referred to angry parents as "b-----s" at a meeting attended by 850 school-safety agents. The agents' union received dozens of complaints, but Nelson denied making the statements.
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The cops say when Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson (above) found out they had lodged a complaint about a black sergeant’s N-word-laced rant, Nelson repeated the N-word.
 
Re: Racial slur? So what! Two police officers say black chief didn't care

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Coon defined ^^^^^
 
Re: (CHAPTER 30) Cops Are They Our Friends??? Or Are They Our Foe's??

fuck the police
 
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Where is Serpico when we need him.
 
Raw: Pastor Beaten & Tased by Border Patrol & DPS

''ignore the elevator music'':hmm:

This is from Pastor Anderson's camcorder and additional footage of the DPS surveillance cam. (music added from the source)
text from the source;
I told them I was a US citizen.
I told them I was on a business trip.
I told them I had no drugs or humans in the car.

That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th amendment rights.

I DID NOT RESIST OR FIGHT BACK. YE More..T I WAS TAZERED REPEATEDLY AND SHOVED IN BROKEN GLASS REPEATEDLY!

I was IN the United States!!! I had crossed no international border!!!

This occured on the night of April 14/15, 2009
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If he was black he would have been shot or killed... he is lucky!
 
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Birmingham police officers beat an already-unconscious suspect after a
multi-city chase that ended with a wreck on Interstate 459 in January
2008. The beating was captured on a police cruiser video camera


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Birmingham police beating video: Five
days after the January 2008 beating,
Anthony Warren's booking mug.



Birmingham News
Posted by Carol Robinson
May 20, 2009


A group of Birmingham police officers beat an already-unconscious suspect with fists, feet and a billy club, a battering caught on videotape until a police officer turned off the patrol car camera.

Authorities believe the video, taken in January 2008 after a chase by several area law enforcement agencies ended when the fleeing suspect's van flipped, has been seen by numerous Birmingham officers and as many as a half-dozen supervisors over the past year.

But top city and police officials weren't made aware of the taped beating until they were contacted by the district attorney's office three months ago.

In fact, investigators say, the suspect, Anthony Warren, didn't even know he'd been beaten until the tape surfaced in March. Warren was ejected from the vehicle and knocked unconscious, and thought all of his injuries were sustained in the wreck.

Police Chief A.C. Roper called the video "shameful." Mayor Larry Langford said it was "disgusting."
After an internal investigation into the five officers shown in the video ended Monday, Langford and Roper are scheduled to announce disciplinary action this morning against those officers.

"Police brutality changed Birmingham," Langford said in an interview. "We are not going back."

Langford noted that Warren was "knocked out cold before they even got there. ... We are not going to tolerate that."

Roper said the video shamed the Police Department and the citizens served by the department.

"It was also troubling because these are seasoned, veteran officers," Roper said.

Roper said Tuesday there will be additional disciplinary action against supervisors who failed to report the incident to higher-ups. He has demanded the Internal Affairs Division track down every supervisor who saw the videotape, including those who have since retired.

The chief has also called in the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to probe possible criminal charges against the officers involved in the incident.

Four of the five officers worked in the department's Vice and Narcotics Unit. The other was a North Precinct patrolman.

The 22-minute chase on Jan. 23, 2008, involved nine police cars, and included officers from Birmingham, Hoover and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

It began near the downtown Police Department, when a North Precinct officer tried to question Warren about suspicious behavior.

The video, taken from inside a Birmingham Police patrol car, follows the chase from downtown Birmingham on Interstate 59 to Trussville, down I-459 to Hoover and around the Riverchase Galleria, where on U.S. 31 the Ford van driven by Warren struck and injured a Hoover police officer on foot.

Throughout the chase, the video shows Warren weaving through heavy traffic, cutting off motorists and crossing multiple lanes at speeds Langford said exceeded 100 mph.

The chase ended on a ramp back onto I-459 when a police cruiser nudged the van, causing it to flip.

Warren, 38, was thrown out of the driver's side window, landing face down and apparently unconscious.

Officers converged on him, beating him even though he never moved. On the video, Warren makes no defensive moves as he is beaten with billy clubs, punched and kicked.

The beating on the video lasted 12 seconds before officers stepped back and the camera was turned off.

At the time of his arrest and beating, Warren, of Vestavia Hills, had a string of felony arrests and convictions dating back to 1989 for crimes including theft, receiving stolen property and escape.

UAB Hospital officials said Warren was released from the hospital five days after the incident.

He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on Jan. 28, with his bond set at $1 million.

Warren was charged with attempted murder as a result of the chase but pleaded guilty in March 2009 to first-degree assault. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Top police officials became aware that the tape showed Warren being beaten the day Warren's trial was to begin. Because he pleaded guilty there was no trial. Prosecutors notified top police officials of the tape.

"No doubt this guy was a menace to society, but he didn't deserve what happened to him, bottom line," Roper said. "I fully support our officers and fully believe in officer safety, but this video speaks for itself."

Roper, who took office just a few months before the beating and since has made major changes in his command staff, emphasized that the incident is not reflective of the majority of Birmingham officers.

"We handle over 7,000 calls per week and receive very few use of force complaints because the vast majority are extremely professional in carrying out their duties," he said. "This tape shows a problem, and it's our job to fix it."

Langford said he intends to put video cameras in more police cars.

"We put cameras in the cars for their protection," he said of the officers. "These idiots were too stupid to know they would film them doing something wrong, too."

Join the conversation below or write to Carol at crobinson@bhamnews.com

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NYPD Police Officer Admits to arrest quotas



The real criminals of this country are the bankers that are robbing the American Tax Payers blind and what do the Police do is pick on the people who have know power at all because they have no money :smh:. I commend this Police Officer for coming out against this Tyranny which is coming down on the American people.
 
Re: NYPD Police Officer Admits to arrest quotas

This is wrong on so many levels:smh:. Panameno718, post this on the main board...
 
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Cops are out of control nowadays. I don't believe it's a high percentage, but it's definitely out there. And when one of them fucks up, you're usually dead or severely hurt.

Recent settlement paid out here in Washington to a guy that was slammed by a cop into the wall. Ended up a quadraplegic. A dude of European descent.

If you search Youtube for police brutality videos, you see that the beatings happen to people of all races and genders. There are cops beating down white women as well.

When a cop loses it, you can fight back almost guaranteeing your own death by the Gang in Blue or take the beating and hope the justice system does what it is supposed to do.

Which doesn't happen too often. We recently had a Native American woodcarver killed by a cop here in Washington. Guy was minding his own business and was shot down within seconds of the cop engaging him. No charges filed against the cop. They harassed the woodcarver's family. It wasn't until serious community pressure came down on the police forcing the cop to resign. That was the worst of it.

And look the Randy Weaver case. They killed that guy's wife. Then they did a smear job on him painting him like some kind of Aryan nations member, when he didn't even involve himself with the organization.

Also the Costco killing in Nevada. Cops opened up killing a former military man carrying a pistol. Erik Scott.

When you have law-enforcement agencies given broad powers to enforce the law including making judgement calls on when to use lethal force, you're going to have trouble. Especially when none of these agencies ever admits when they're criminally wrong.

The Gang in Blue acts like the Mafia when their gang members fuck up. They all circle the wagons and start giving politically correct speech to cover up the crime. It's total bullshit.
 
it will continue to happen as long as we focus on the holice and not the folks they are trying to impress..

with their trumped up numbers, its really all about getting federal funding...

its real war the top one percent is waging on the masses and untill the focus is on the head, the body of the pig will never die....

thats what happens when a nation is divided....

truth is, we are all victims of the willie lynch syndrome and thats why they can get away with is..

if there was more unity, then it could never happen... but folks need their tea parties.....
 

Video catches mayhem as gunfire
mars Miami beach party​



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Miami Herald
By David Smiley
Monday, May 30, 2011


MIAMI — Three police officers are in the hospital Monday after emptying several rounds of bullets on a driver who opened fire on South Beach.

The driver was killed; four bystanders were injured.

The police officers involved are in non-life-threatening condition, said Miami Beach Police Sgt. Alejandro Bello.

Detective Jenny Velazquez, a police spokeswoman, confirmed that two officers were receiving treatment at Mount Sinai Medical Center with unknown injuries.

But with the number of officers from different police agencies helping patrol the Urban Beach Week crowds on South Beach, Velazquez said details remain sketchy.

"Everything is very cloudy right now," she said.

Velazquez said the police-involved shooting happened just before 4 a.m. on Collins Avenue.

Police believe the shooting was caused when the driver got into an altercation with a police officer.

There have been reports that there were other people in his car who escaped but police have not confirmed this yet.

After officers set up a perimeter in the heart of South Beach, there was a second shooting on 14th Street and Washington Avenue.

The driver of a grey Mercedes drove into the sectioned-off area and accelerated toward a police officer.

She fired at him until he crashed and officers arrested him.

No one was injured in the second shooting.

Monday morning his car remained on the scene, crashed into the front of a police car.

Velazquez said more details will be forthcoming.




http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/30/114986/gunfire-mars-miamis-annual-memorial.html
 
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Killing Of 7 Black Men Put Miami Police In Spotlight
Miami Police Chief Calls His Officers Predators...."We hunt, and I like to hunt"

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by Don Van Natta Jr.

March 22, 2011


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/us/23miami.html


MIAMI — The video, shot with a hand-held camera, shows brawny Miami police officers breaking down doors and hauling handcuffed African-American suspects off some of the city’s toughest streets. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"><b>“We hunt,” one officer says in the five-and-a-half-minute clip. “I like to hunt.” </b></span>

But it was not a source of embarrassment for Miami’s police chief, Miguel A. Exposito.<div align="right"><!-- MSTableType="layout" --><br><img src="http://i.min.us/iQNKA.jpg" align="right"></div>
The video was part of a reality television pilot, “Miami’s Finest SOS,” a project with the enthusiastic backing of Chief Exposito. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"><b>“Our guys were proactively going out there, like predators,” he says during his cameo in the video, which surfaced online in January. </b></span>

A few weeks later, a Miami police officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop at North Miami Avenue and 75th Street in the Little Haiti neighborhood. The man, Travis McNeil, 28, was unarmed and never left the driver’s seat of his rental car when he was shot once in the chest, members of his family said.

Mr. McNeil was the seventh African-American man to be shot and killed by Miami police officers in eight months. The shootings in this racially polarized city have led to marches on the Police Department’s headquarters and calls for a Justice Department investigation, and the city manager has initiated an investigation into the chief’s record.

After pushing for action for weeks, the families of the seven shooting victims will speak at a City Commission meeting on Thursday. Some families are demanding that Chief Exposito be dismissed.

“I don’t understand how the powers that be can allow these things to keep happening,” Sheila McNeil, the mother of Mr. McNeil, said of the Feb. 10 shooting death of her son. “Something is drastically wrong.”

Chief Exposito, a burly 37-year veteran who became chief in November 2009, defended his leadership. “We don’t have a violent police department,” he said in an interview last week. “You’ll find our officers are very compassionate with the people they deal with. They will try to de-escalate situations rather than resorting to deadly force.”

The officer who shot Mr. McNeil is Reinaldo Goyo, a member of the city’s elite gang unit who appeared in the “Miami’s Finest SOS” video. (The TV show has since been shelved.)

Saying on the video: “I’ve got some style. I’ve got some flavor” while wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the words “The Punisher,” Detective Goyo says he and his partner inherited the nicknames Crockett and Tubbs after the lead characters in the 1980s TV show “Miami Vice.” “It’s got a nice little ring to it,” he says.

Detective Goyo would not comment, a police spokesman said. A lawyer for Detective Goyo did not respond to phone messages.

Chief Exposito said he thought the video was “excellent,” although in an e-mail to the production company in December, he acknowledged that he regretted using the word “predator” and asked that his quotation be changed. In another e-mail to one of his assistants, he wrote: “This statement would add fuel to the fire. They need to soften it!”

In an interview last week, Chief Exposito said the video was not supposed to be for public consumption. “I had a problem with the production company — it was not supposed to be on YouTube or anywhere else.”

The chief also defended the officer who said, “I like to hunt.”

“Hunting doesn’t mean you go kill people,” the chief said. “Hunting means you go out there and capture people.”

Miami has a long history of racially charged police shootings, some of which combusted into deadly riots and Justice Department inquiries that ended with police officers in prison. The pattern this time is familiar: All seven men who were fatally shot by the police were African-American; the police officers who shot them are all Hispanic.

“There is a wide range of growing concern in the community regarding the apparent lack of communication and response to these incidents by the City of Miami Police Department,” Representative Frederica S. Wilson, a Democrat from Miami, wrote in a recent letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., asking the Justice Department to investigate.

Questions about Chief Exposito’s leadership have galvanized some leaders of the African-American community, who say that two of the men shot by the police were unarmed. Police officials would not describe details, but they have said that during both shootings, the officers had reason to believe their lives were in danger.
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Community leaders also expressed outrage that a 12-year veteran of the city’s gang unit, Ricardo Martinez, shot and killed two men within nine days last August. Officer Martinez returned to his job six days after fatally shooting one man, then shot and killed another three days later. Before the shootings, he was under investigation for allegedly selling seized phones. </b></span>

One officer being responsible for two fatal shootings in such a short period of time is highly unusual, national experts on police forces say. Typically, officers are assigned to desk duty after a shooting pending an inquiry.

“What does that tell you about the chief’s judgment?” said the Rev. Anthony Tate, president of the civil rights organization Pulse and pastor of New Resurrection Community Church in the Liberty City neighborhood.

Chief Exposito said that the inquiry had been initiated by his department, and that it would have been inappropriate to keep Officer Martinez off the street because of an allegation of wrongdoing. In December, Officer Martinez was charged with selling stolen Bluetooth phone headsets. He has been dismissed.

Mr. Tate, two Miami city commissioners and other community leaders have repeatedly called for the chief’s dismissal. Chief Exposito was a major in the property room and in charge of a compliance task force before being elevated two years ago to police chief by Mayor Tomas P. Regalado. Since then, the chief and the mayor have feuded bitterly over a variety of issues.

City Commissioner Richard P. Dunn II was the first on the commission to call for the chief’s dismissal. “It’s not personal. He’s just not competent to be a chief, that’s all,” said Mr. Dunn, whose district includes the neighborhoods where all seven fatal shootings occurred.

“These shootings have us sitting on a time bomb,” he said. “Everyone wonders: When is the next one going to happen? And the fact the chief is still here just makes Miami look like a banana republic.”

Chief Exposito said that after the first of the fatal shootings, last July, he invited the F.B.I. to attend the department’s internal inquiry, a gesture his predecessors had not offered, he said. “This is not something I was forced to do,” he said.

The chief’s critics say his leadership is markedly different from that of his predecessor, John F. Timoney, a deputy police commissioner in New York in the Giuliani administration.

During Mr. Timoney’s seven-year tenure, the department once went 22 months without having a police officer fire a weapon. When Mr. Exposito succeeded Mr. Timoney in November 2009, he assigned more than 100 officers to “tactical units” to try to curb violent crime.

The tactical units, including the gang unit whose officers have been responsible for the majority of the most recent shootings, have arrested hundreds of suspects and removed 400 more guns from the street in 2010 than in 2009, the chief said.

During those sweeps, “seven people decided they were not going to obey the law and not adhere to the police orders,” said Armando Aguilar, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the police union, “and they ended up getting shot.”

The chief’s fate is in the hands of the city manager, Tony E. Crapp Jr. In late February, Mr. Crapp hired a former senior F.B.I. agent, Paul R. Philip, to assess the department’s record.

Mr. Philip, who headed the F.B.I.’s Miami field office, said in an interview that he compared the number of police shootings in 2009, the last year of Mr. Timoney’s leadership, with the first 15 months of Chief Exposito’s tenure. During Mr. Timoney’s final year as chief, seven officers shot at suspects, killing four and missing three others. Under Chief Exposito, there have been 10 shootings, with seven fatalities.

“It seemed to be a concern that the department was engaged in an accelerated rate of shootings, but there doesn’t appear to be,” Mr. Philip said. “The data seems to support the chief.”

Mr. Philip said his review did not include interviewing police officers who fired their weapons, witnesses or the family members of victims. Determining whether each of the shootings was justified is the state attorney’s job.

The chief said he was gratified that “someone with the stature of Paul Philip is agreeing with me.” He added: “I’ve been saying all along, we’re trying to get violent crime under control in that community. Unfortunately when you do that, you will be confronted by people who are armed and dangerous.”

Community leaders said they were upset about the pace of the Police Department’s own inquiries. They complained that police investigators had not taken a statement from Kareem Williams, 31, who is Mr. McNeil’s cousin and was shot three times as he sat with Mr. McNeil in the rental car last month. Mr. Williams, who left the hospital two days later, told his family that the officer began shooting without saying a single word, Mrs. McNeil said.

Not long ago, Mrs. McNeil met with Chief Exposito, who spoke about police procedures on the use of deadly force, she said. She added that the “impersonal” nature of the discussion had left her frustrated and sad.

“When your son has been shot,” she said, “you don’t want to hear about policies.”


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Police Brutality Against Peaceful Protesters On Wall Street

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Milwaukee Cops Charged With Felonies For Illegal Body Cavity Searches


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(Clockwise from upper left) Officer Jeffrey Dollhopf, Officer Michael Vagnini, Officer Jacob Knight, Officer Brian Kozelek


October 10, 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...rged_n_1954772.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

Four Milwaukee police officers face multiple felony counts for allegedly performing numerous illegal body cavity searches on suspects over the past two years, authorities said Tuesday.

"The conduct alleged today is by any definition disgraceful and it's brought disgrace to the Milwaukee Police Department," Milwaukee Police Chief Flynn said at a news conference with Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm.

All four officers pleaded not guilty during their first appearance in court Tuesday.

Officer Michael Vagnini, 34, an eight-year veteran, was responsible for the most egregious misconduct, prosecutors said, and he faces the most serious charges, including second-degree sexual assault.

Vagnini faces 25 counts over allegations that he repeatedly broke the law by rectally probing suspects after traffic stops, at times without using protective gloves, while searching for drugs. Wisconsin state law mandates that only trained medical personnel can perform body cavity searches on criminal suspects. Vagnini also allegedly forced suspects to strip naked after their arrest without authorization.

The other officers charged in the complaint allegedly assisted Vagnini in the illegal searches and failed to intervene or report the misconduct. In one alleged incident, one officer placed a suspect in a choke hold, while another held a gun to the suspect's head, as Vagnini conducted an unauthorized rectal search on a public street.

The three other officers charged are Jeffrey Dollhopf, 41, Jacob Knight, 31, and Brian Kozelek, 33.

More than 30 Milwaukee police officers provided testimony validating the most serious allegations, Flynn said.

"It was our internal affairs division that first detected a disturbing pattern of complaints. This sounded the alarm," he said. "Our own police officers provided testimony that validated the complaints."

The charges come after a lengthy investigation that led to the suspension with pay of Vagnini and six other officers in May 2012 over allegations of widespread illegal searches.

A statement by Milwaukee police said more than 60 separate allegations of illegal searches were investigated during the probe.

"Wisconsin strip search law is designed to protect both the suspect and the police officers conducting the search by clearly setting forth the rules that regulate such searches," said District Attorney John Chisholm.

"The facts alleged in this complaint are serious breaches of that process."
 
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