[Peace-discuss] Former Chicago Police Officer Suspended in Colorado

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

Or the "good" sheriff of Arizona and his now convicted counterpart in
California.

 

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Sounds like this guy might be related to Blagojevich...

 --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Former Chicago Police Officer Suspended in Colorado
To: "IMC Print" <print at ucimc.org>
Cc: "AWARE Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, "Community
Court Watch Discuss" <discuss at lists.communitycourtwatch.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 7:14 PM

Saw this on Fark.com and had to send it on: 

 

http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2009/01/20/News/A
buse.Of.Power-3589639.shtml

 

Choice quotes (of which there are many)

 

In one classroom lecture in spring 2008, Yarbrough advised his students --
including many aspiring police officers -- to provide illicit drugs to
informants as payment for information.

 

"We may decide to give the informant 10 of those (crack cocaine) rocks..
OK," Yarbrough said to his criminal investigations class, for which he is
additionally compensated as an adjunct instructor.

 

In the recording, one student sought clarification on the chief's advice,
saying:

 

"So if a police officer gives an informant 10 rocks of crack, and they end
up in the hospital, are they responsible for it at that point? . Because I
could just say the police gave it to me?"

 

To the student's question, Yarbrough responded:

 

"Let me tell you what I would do: You give it to them, but you let them know
that, hey, if you get caught with this, you know, don't say my name. Or if
they get sick or something, I never gave them those (drugs).

 

"Didn't I tell you guys that sometimes the police lie? Didn't I tell you
guys that? If I didn't, there you go."

 

In another recording, Yarbrough alluded that sometimes police should cut
corners because "if you want the police to play fair, the police can play
fair. OK. But watch out when you go out at night, and watch your crime rates
go up. The police can play fair. Do you really want the police to do that?"

 

In a later lecture, the chief, who was a Chicago policeman prior to entering
academia, said sometimes excessive and violent force against a suspect is a
"reality of law enforcement."

 

"If there's a news conference going on, I can't get in front of a crowd and
say. 'He got exactly what the f*** he deserved.' You know the police should
have beat him, you know. I used to beat ass when I was in Chicago, too. I
can't say that.

 

"I'd have to say, 'Well, you know we're going to have to look into this
matter seriously . all of our officers, we like to think that they operate
with the utmost integrity and ethics . All of that sh** sounds good. That
sh** sounds real good, but in the back of my mind, damn. He got popped.. If
he would have done it the way we used to do it in Chi town (Chicago), man,
none of this sh** would have happened."

 

The lecture that inspired him to gather recordings, Gropp said, was one in
which he says Yarbrough told the class "women want the dick, even when they
say 'no.' They want the dick."

 

Live hard,     

     Neil

 

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear - fear of poverty,
fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the
plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting
locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a terrorist
sympathizer.

[hunter s. thompson, 1937-2005]

 

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience....Our
problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of
poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.

[howard zinn, 1922-]

 

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