How Seattle Cops Failed to Police Their Own

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Dozens of Seattle police officers have worked off-duty security jobs at nightclubs and bars in recent years, repeatedly violating department rules while their supervisors looked the other way.

The officers, working in police uniforms, sometimes put club owners' interests ahead of their duty to protect the public, a Seattle Times investigation has found.

Some failed to help people injured in fights just outside bars, while others didn't file police reports after learning of crimes.

One officer repeatedly stored confiscated drugs in his personal locker instead of logging them into the police department's evidence room. Another, in his off hours, was found intoxicated and lying near a street with his badge and gun visible, yet he was allowed to later work off duty at clubs. A third co-owned and managed a bar so notorious for criminal activity that the police department and neighbors attempted to shut it down.

Department rules prohibit off-duty work at liquor establishments because it can put officers in the middle of illegal or improper activities, testing their loyalties. But at least 48 officers worked for nightclubs and bars during a two-year period that ended in November 2004, according to a Times analysis.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002398763_offduty24m.html

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1. Herr Bushler approves

So long as they castrate the gays, kill the blacks, and imprison liberals on any and all trumped-up charges they can find.

[Mairead]

2. That they could get away with that without being policed by command

explains their behavior during the WTO 'police riot'. The Seattle police department is a pathological organisation. If it were a healthy one, those cops would have been retrained or sacked within a week or two of their stepping out of line.