Charges Dropped Against Woman Framed by Cops

[ProudDad]

Source: NBC Miami

Police seen plotting to blame car accident on woman they hit

Alexandra Torrensvilas was the target of cops who pinned a DUI on her for an accident they caused. Now she has been cleared of charges after the Broward State Attorney's Office officially dropped the four DUI citations on Wednesday.

But the saga is far from over as now prosecutors turn their attention to the four Hollywood police officers who made up an intricate story to cover for a February traffic accident involving a cop car. The scheme was caught on one of the officers dashboard cameras.

The disturbing video shows Alexandra Torrensvilas, 23, handcuffed in the back of the squad car as the officers get their stories straight on what they are going to say happened.

Officer Joel Francisco, 36, an 11-year veteran, crashed into the back of Torrensvilas' vehicle at a light on February 17 at midnight. The cop radioed to other officers who converged on the scene and hatched a way to bail Francisco out.


Read more: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Cops-Set-Up-Woman-After-Crash.html

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Unfortunately, this kind of bullshit is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE in most police depts. That's why they need tight, powerful, civilian review boards with teeth!

Watch the video!

[avaistheone1]

1. Duh! Good idea to drop the charges against the woman.

Those officers should never be able to wear a law enforcement badge again. They are corrupt cops.

That poor woman.

[lapfog_1]

3. I hope she can sue the shit out of the police department

and the four cops individually. I know I would award her about $20M or so.

Oh, btw, I worked with a company that supplies the dashboard cam a few years ago. Rank and file cops HATE those things (and now you know why). The city attorneys LOVE them since they dismiss more lawsuits than they generate. However, I had this idea, which I proposed. The cams were going digital and we were installing video capture systems. Normally, a number of triggers activate the recording... things like hitting the lights and/or siren, removing the shotgun from the rack, etc. I had a notion... why not leave them on all the time... and recording all the time... and only save stuff from, say, 1 minute before a trigger event to the end of the trigger. Uses about the same storage as the current method, but has the advantage of recording events from before enough happens to cause the trigger in the first place.

Of course, given the current price of storage, today you might as well record everything.

The idea didn't go over big with the police departments.

[formercia]

9. I wonder why.

and make sure it can't be disabled or erased.

[Divine Discontent]

2. good Lord, that's sick! assholes all of them. they actively tried to blame her for an accident

they KNEW was caused by their cohort! They HANDCUFFED her.... sick.

Make them be off the force - there's no other option that's rightful.

add this story to the story of the guy calling Gates a "jungle monkey", and all the other cop stupidity of late! In fact, since January 1, when the idiot in Oakland blew a hole into the back of a young black man he had face down on the ground, who died, the cops have had a banner year!

I agree with the review boards...

the asses need to lose their badges - why not - they're supposed to 'work for us'

[Why Syzygy]

4. Work for us?

They hate us. View each and every one of us as the "enemy". And many at DU call US "cop haters".
:eyes: As if we just blindly "hate" the innocent.

[sasquatch]

5. These assholes are still on the taxpayers dime though

[Divine Discontent]

6. I'm gonna watch this one closely... they tried to not only get blame off their cohort, they

also tried to figure out how to blame someone who wasn't at fault... really messed up. they're crooked. that means you're not supposed to be a cop, even if it doesn't mean you can't BE one, sadly.

[ScottLand]

7. Freaking incredible!

How much do you think this sort of thing happened before they installed video cameras in those cars? Probably more than it does now. Didn't the idiots realize they were being recorded? Or were they so used to doing this that they didn't worry about it?:wtf:

[NeoConsSuck]

8. Why did the mods move this out of LBN???

[BlueJessamine]

10. . . . . .

:shrug:

cop bashing maybe??? I don't know . . . :shrug:

I posted a story yesterday that was moved from LBN to State/Country forums:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=150x17536

Ten suits filed against ex-cop accused of faking DUI evidence

Ten false-arrest lawsuits were filed Tuesday in federal court against Joe D. Parker, a former Chicago cop accused of falsifying information in drunk-driving arrests.

The target of the suits, Joe D. Parker, 60, retired from the Chicago Police Department July 1. Earlier this year, the city's Independent Police Review Authority and the police Internal Affairs Division launched investigations into several of Parker's DUI busts on Lake Shore Drive.

The Cook County state's attorney's office is conducting a criminal investigation, court records show.

Prosecutors have dropped dozens of DUI cases because of questions about Parker's conduct, sources say.



Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1689629,CST-NWS-duic...



It's about a police officer who is accused of criminal activity and violating his victim's civil rights in the the third largest city in the United States.

Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago

Located on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is the third-most densely populated major city in the U.S.,<2> and anchor to the world's 26th largest metropolitan area<3> with over 9.5 million people across three states.<4><5>

[Why Syzygy]

13. Weird, moving it to a state forum.

New one.

[cosmicone]

11. Cops should wear a helmet cam and a wire while on duty

which records everything they see and say.

This will stop all the bullshit that cops propagate while thinking that they are above the law.

Also, cops and prosecutors should automatically get the same penalty when they knowingly put fabricated or questionable evidence on record.

Thus, the cops in this instance should automatically be convicted of 4 DUI charges.

[Tuvok Obama]

12. Apparently, they would forget they're wearing cameras

I don't know how someone plots a crime in front of a police security camera/mic that THEY KNOW IS THERE and that THEY KNOW IS ON ALL THE TIME.

[zipplewrath]

14. I suspect we're not far

For a whole host of reasons, including that the techology is quickly becoming quite affordable, I suspect that such a system will become common. As this article mentions, the prosecutors love 'em because it closes cases quickly. It would also mean that commanders could constantly evaluate the ability and performance of their officers. A shoulder mounted camera and microphone could accomplish much of this and more.