| LIST 20 | 14 Criminal Cops and Their “Punishments” |
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Crime: Officer Mark Bolger of Richmond, Virginia, forced a woman to blow him in exchange for not arresting her.
Outcome: Bolger was charged with forcible sodomy (a felony) but pled to the much lesser charge of simple assault (a misdemeanor).
Punishment: None. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: “He does not face jail time or a fine, but his guilty plea is admissible in future civil proceedings.” After he was charged, Bolger had received four months of paid leave (also known as paid vacation). Upon pleading guilty, he resigned.
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Crime: Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Webb of Newton County, Georgia, had four kiddie porn videos on his computer.
Outcome: Pled guilty to five counts of sexual exploitation.
Punishment: Five years probation (first year in a halfway house), $3,000 in fines, mental therapy, no contact with children under sixteen, including his daughter.
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Crime: Sheriff's Lieutenant Eric Douglass of Boone County, Indiana, was busted for driving drunk. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.17 percent (the legal limit is 0.08). Douglass was the county's DARE officer, teaching the children the evils of illegal drugs.
Outcome: Pled guilty.
Punishment: Suspended 180-day sentence, six months probation, 90 days suspended drivers license, $584.50 in fines and fees.
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Crime: A gang of six cops in Vancouver, British Columbia, picked up three men with drug records, drove them to a remote location in a park, and physically and verbally assaulted them.
Outcome: All six pled guilty to assault.
Punishments: Duncan Gemmell: 60 days house arrest, 40 hours of community service, six months probation. Gabriel Kojima: 30 days house arrest. Christopher Cronmiller: conditional discharge, six months probation. Raymond Gardner: 50 hours community service, nine months probation. Sgt.
James Kenney: absolute discharge without conditions. Brandon Steele: suspended sentence, 25 hours of community service, six months probation.
Comment from the judge: “Instead of a heat-of-the-moment situation it became, in my view, a situation of mob mentality.”
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Crime: Sheriff's Deputy Sean Davis in Utah County, Utah, molested two eleven-year-old boys, one of whom was an unspecified “relative.”
Outcome: Pled guilty to four charges of attempted sodomy of a child.
Punishment: Amazingly, Davis asked for the maximum penalty, and, even more amazingly, the judge obliged: six and half years to life.
Quotes: Officials were filled with praise for the incestuous child-rapist. The presiding judge said: “The truth of the matter is you've done an unbelievable amount of good, and it's a shame that we're here today.” The Utah County Sheriff enthused: “He was a hard worker with a good work ethic. [His work] was much appreciated.”
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Crime: New York City police Sgt. William T. Miley drove drunk and slammed into a stopped car at a red light, killing two men and injuring three other people. When other cops showed up at the scene, according to the website NY Finest's New & Views: “He pulled out a fistful of $20 bills and told cops, ‘Please let me go home. I'm a New York City police sergeant. Please help me.’”
Outcome: A trial on charges of vehicular manslaughter resulted in a hung jury. In a later trial, Miley was convicted of two counts of criminally negligent homicide and driving under the influence.
Punishment: Prison term of one year and four months to four years.
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Crime: Police officer David Mueller of New Vienna, Ohio, responded to a domestic violence call. The husband, Robert Cundiff, avoided being handcuffed and supposedly made a move at Mueller. The policeman hit Cundiff on the leg with his baton, then bashed his head so hard that the baton bent. Mueller pulled out his gun and shot Cundiff in the face, killing him. Later, he asked colleagues on the force to destroy his original report on the deadly incident.
Outcome: Pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and evidence-tampering, admitting that he used “excessive force.”
Punishment: Six-year prison sentence.
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Crime: Police officer Garland Yancey of Fyffe, Alabama, sexually abused four girls under twelve and a fifth girl who was twelve years old.
Outcome: Pled guilty to five counts of child molestation (two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes; three counts of first-degree sexual abuse).
Punishment: Two years in a state prison, five years probation.
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Crime: Cpl. John R. Mason, a Pennsylvania State Trooper, downloaded over 500 images and several films of child pornography onto a police computer and his home computer.
Outcome: Convicted on 20 counts of sexual abuse of children and eighteen counts of criminal use of a communications facility.
Punishment: Sentenced to nine to eighteen months in county jail, $2,000 fine.
Note: Federal statute dictates a minimum of five years in prison for each kiddie porn offense, and many courts count every individual image as a separate offense. Mason could've been sentenced to over 2,500 years and, in any case, should've been sentenced to no less than five years.
Dishonorable Mentions
Incidents: The Philadelphia Inquirer summarizes three alleged incidents: “Kensington resident Michael Lugo is disabled from a broken neck. But that didn't stop a Philadelphia police officer, he says, from roughing him up, ridiculing him for being a ‘cripple,’ and arresting him on false charges. Schoolteacher Angelo DiBartolo's throat was slashed in a Northeast Philadelphia bar fight involving a bouncer. An officer helped the bouncer—her boyfriend—flee the scene. US Department of Agriculture inspector Sukhwinder Dhillon reported that her car was rear-ended by a police officer, who threatened to arrest her and lied to investigators.”
Outcome: In each case, the police department's Internal Affairs Bureau concluded that the cops had engaged in the abuses. Though each alleged incident would appear to be a crime, no criminal charges were ever filed.
Punishments: Five-day suspension, one-day suspension, eighteen-day suspension (respectively). 
Law Quote # 4
“Laws are like cobwebs—strong enough to catch the weak, but insufficient to hold the strong.”
–Anacharis