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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found
July 12, 2018 12:25 PM
The indictment was damning enough: A former police chief of Biscayne Park and two officers charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record.
But the accusations revealed in federal court last month left out far uglier details of past policing practices in tranquil Biscayne Park, a leafy wedge of suburbia just north of Miami Shores.
Records obtained by the Miami Herald suggest that during the tenure of former chief Raimundo Atesiano, the command staff pressured some officers into targeting random black people to clear cases.
If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries, one cop, Anthony De La Torre, said in an internal probe ordered in 2014. They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city.
In a report from that probe, four officers a third of the small force told an outside investigator they were under marching orders to file the bogus charges to improve the departments crime stats. Only De La Torre specifically mentioned targeting blacks but former Biscayne Park village manager Heidi Shafran, who ordered the investigation after receiving a string of letters from disgruntled officers, said the message seemed clear for cops on the street.
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The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2018
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Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)1. I hope they all rot in jail a long time
And a lesson there to public officials who supervise police departments- you shouldnt expect or demand perfection because it is impossible, and if an agency reports perfection or near it you need to be digging and one oking deeper.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)2. To me, that should be a capital crime
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)3. +1, don't know why it wouldn't be close to kidnapping