Police Framed 16-Year-Old for Burglaries to Boost Crime Stats: Prosecutors

[Soph0571]

A former police chief and two officers of a tiny Miami-area town are facing federal charges after prosecutors say the law enforcement officials conspired to frame a teenager for four burglaries.
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In July 2013, Atesiano was scheduled to go in front of the village council at the end of the fiscal year to give a report on the police department’s crime-fighting efforts the Miami Herald reports. So, in order to solve his clearance-rate problem, the diligent police chief assembled a task force to work day and night to figure out this unsolved mystery and ...

I’m just kidding. They just picked a kid and framed him for the felonies.
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If convicted, the three officers face up to 11 years in prison.

The 16-year-old T.D. was arrested and would have been charged as an adult for second-degree burglary, a charge that carries a penalty of 15 years in prison.

On July 9, 2013, Chief Raimundo Atesiano told the village council of Biscayne Park that the town had a perfect clearance rate for the year.

Blue lies matter.

[link:https://www.theroot.com/police-framed-16-year-old-for-burglaries-to-boost-crime-1826760007|

I wonder what happened to the kid?

[Demsrule86]

1. Anyone know if the kid was ever tried and/or convicted or how long he spent in jail awaiting trial

for the phony charges?

[Iggo]

2. Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do.

[safeinOhio]

3. I know a cop that use to say

"Who's going to arrest me, I'm a cop"


No longer a cop too.

[IronLionZion]

4. Hope the kid is OK

Damn, maybe some of these cops should be considered guilty until proven innocent. That's the American way of justice and due process these days, right?

[Iggo]

5. Equal Protection Under The Law, right?

When a cop breaks the law, I want the at least same thing to happen to him as would happen to me if I broke the same law.

If there was any justice, a criminal cop's punishment would be more severe. But I'd be willing to settle for equal consequences.

Equal Protection Under The Law.

[47of74]

6. Punishment should be 100 times more severe for government employees who do this

Punishment for government employees who misbehave should be so God awful that no government employee will ever dare use his or her position to break the law. And it should be 1,000 times worse for government employees who see their colleagues do evil and say nothing.

[Iggo]

7. Like I said, if there were any justice.

Still, I'd settle for equal punishment.

That means arrested, go to jail, bail out or await trial, and if convicted, the same jail sentence I'd get if I did the same thing the cop did. Theft. Assault. Manslaughter. Murder. Same sentence I would get.