Saturday, December 20, 2014

MILITARY SURPLUS FOR COPS

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S. Indiana police chief returning military Humvees

"Don't fit the department's needs"

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NEW ALBANY, Ind. - A southern Indiana police chief plans to return four Humvee vehicles his department received as military surplus this year from the Department of Defense.
New Albany Police Chief Todd Bailey says the vehicles were acquired by his predecessor as chief and that he's found they don't fit the department's needs.
Bailey tells the News and Tribune he believes the Humvees were sought for use in bad weather but they've never been used. Bailey says the department will be working to return the vehicles to the military.
The four Humvees were acquired at no cost under a Pentagon program that equips local police with surplus military weapons. The White House has ordered a review of the program after complaints about the militarization of police departments.


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Indiana Excise Police seize alleged counterfeit merchandise, pills and more in Wabash

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Friday, December 19, 2014 - 12:01 am
Indiana State Excise Police seized hundreds of counterfeit items, synthetic marijuana, cash and prescription drugs believed to be counterfeit during a raid Wednesday morning at three buildings in Wabash.
Police began their investigation of the store after receiving an anonymous complaint about the store allegedly selling synthetic marijuana, which is known as "spice," an Excise Police news release said. Excise officers served search warrants at about 10 a.m. Wednesday at Plaza Mini Mart, 180 W. Harrison Ave.; City Fashion, 150 W. Harrison Ave.; and a vacant building at 186 W. Harrison Ave.
The merchandise seized included purses, jackets, hats, shirts and shoes, the news release said. The items were reported to be imitations of name-brand goods from manufacturers such as Nike, Michael Kors, Coach, Louis Vuitton, Polo, Gucci, The North Face, Ugg, MLB and NBA.
Officers also seized 625 packets of alleged synthetic marijuana, which weighed a combined total of about 2,500 grams, 93 pills believed to be counterfeit productions of the brand-name drug Viagra and $1,229 in cash, the news release said.
No arrests were made at the time the warrant was served, but the investigation is ongoing and the case will be forwarded to the Wabash County Prosecutor's Office once it is completed, the news release said.
The Indiana State Excise Police were assisted in their investigation by the Wabash City Police Department, the Wabash County Prosecutor's Office and Advanced Investigative Services.
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Friday, December 19, 2014

JAIL FOOD DOG FOOD



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Cost of jail food to drop slightly in 2015

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It will cost a little less to feed inmates in the Allen County Jail next year.
The County Commissioners Friday approved a contract under which A'viands Food and Service Management will feed inmates for about 89 cents per meal, down about three cents from the price currently charged by ABL Management Inc. A meal for work-release participants will cost $1.56, up from about $1.44, with transportation accounting for the higher cost, according to Sheriff Ken Fries, who said A'viands already serves the county's Juvenile Justice Center and is expected to provide better quality and service than ABL. By law inmates must receive at least 2,800 calories per day.


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It will cost a little less to feed inmates in the Allen County Jail next year.
The County Commissioners Friday approved a contract under which A'viands Food and Service Management will feed inmates for about 89 cents per meal, down about three cents from the price currently charged by ABL Management Inc. A meal for work-release participants will cost $1.56, up from about $1.44, with transportation accounting for the higher cost, according to Sheriff Ken Fries, who said A'viands already serves the county's Juvenile Justice Center and is expected to provide better quality and service than ABL. By law inmates must receive at least 2,800 calories per day.
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SHERIFF GLADIEUX RESTRUCTURES DEPT

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December 18, 2014 12:06 PM

There's a new sheriff in town and he's bringing back a blast from the past

Dave Gong | The Journal Gazette

Allen County Sheriff-Elect David Gladieux will restructure some parts of his department once he takes office next year.
Speaking to the Allen County Council Thursday morning, Gladieux said he intends to bring back the position of deputy chief to command the department's operational and administrative divisions. There would be two deputy chiefs.
"What I'm here in front of you today for, the commanders of each one of those divisions are currently captains on the department," he said. "Years ago we used to have deputy chiefs. I'm interested in bringing back the deputy chiefs, replacing those captains with deputy chief positions." 
Gladieux said the reason for the change is "the simple fact they basically run each half of the department and have an awful lot of responsibilities," which have only grown throughout the years. 
"They do a lot of things and supervise a lot of people, and I felt it was appropriate to get them up to an appropriate pay scale," he said. 
The officers who will be reclassified as deputy chiefs currently hold the equivalent captain positions, so there won't be any staffing changes. Gladieux said he's changing the title and adding some responsibilities to both positions, which he said warranted increasing the pay for those positions.
The two deputy chief positions will each earn an annual salary of $85,000. 
The council unanimously approved the sheriff-elect's request.
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Sheriff-elect restores deputy chief positions

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When Dave Gladieux becomes Allen County Sheriff Jan. 1, a new command structure will come with him. County Council Thursday approved Gladieux's request to restore the position of deputy chief while eliminating two captain positions. Gladieux said the rank and added pay better reflects the officers' administrative duties. The promotion of two officers will cost about $25,000 annually but will be offset by other savings, including possible reductions in command-level positions through attrition. Gladieux said Charles Edwards will succeed him as chief deputy next year.

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When Dave Gladieux becomes Allen County Sheriff Jan. 1, a new command structure will come with him. County Council Thursday approved Gladieux's request to restore the position of deputy chief while eliminating two captain positions. Gladieux said the rank and added pay better reflects the officers' administrative duties. The promotion of two officers will cost about $25,000 annually but will be offset by other savings, including possible reductions in command-level positions through attrition. Gladieux said Charles Edwards will succeed him as chief deputy next year.

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Henry: Trust is a must for the community

Dave Gong The Journal Gazette


The effectiveness of local public safety and law enforcement programs took center stage Wednesday at a round table discussion led by Mayor Tom Henry. 
"We must have in this community open communication and trust if we are to move forward as a community," Henry said. "We must have the ability to effectively discuss and debate public safety initiatives and programs – we must have open dialogue." 
Councilman Geoff Paddock, D-5th, who participated in Wednesday's round table discussion along with Public Safety Director Rusty York, Police Chief Garry Hamilton, and Sheriff-Elect David Gladieux, as well as about a dozen neighborhood and community leaders, said while some of the meeting centered on community policing and racial issues, more focus was placed on community outreach and dialogue between the public and the police. 
"We have a community where we do work together to solve our problems, and we have police officers who are very well trained to direct their efforts," Paddock said. "If there is a situation, we haven't seen the distrust and the problems that other parts of the country are looking at."
From a community policing standpoint, York said, the round table discussions are meant to maintain a healthy dialogue, inform the community about the police department, and to listen and address citizen concerns. 
"The leaders of the community have evolved over the last 15 years, so we have to identify those new leaders and engage them," he said. "The dynamic has changed considerably, and you see a very diverse group that we talked to today from our Burmese community, Muslim community, Hispanic, African-American."
The way to avoid the troubles other communities across the country are currently facing, he said, is to make sure lines of communication stay open as communities continue to diversify moving forward. 
"When you look around the country to where they're having the most problems right now, it's where there's been no engagement, there has been no dialogue and there are segments of those communities who feel like they're being victimized by police instead of the police being the guardians," York said. "We want to get ahead of that game here in Fort Wayne and address that." 
Two things stuck out as main takeaways for Hamilton and the police department – specifically recruiting and diversity on the police force, as well as resident issues regarding complaints against police officers. 
"A lot of people say, 'I filed a complaint against a police officer,' but you have to file a complaint in writing, and there's a formal process," he said. "If those complaints are denied, they can appeal it through the Board of Safety. That was information (residents) didn't know."
Hamilton said that to address the issue of recruitment and diversity among police officers, many community members present Wednesday wanted to be better informed when the department is hiring. 
"They felt once we open up that process, they wanted us to give them that information so they can share that in their own community, so we may get a broader pool of candidates to apply," he said. 
Wednesday's round table is expected to be the first of a series of discussions related to public safety and community outreach to take place over the next several months. 
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Friday, December 5, 2014

POLICE PLAGIARIZERS? sept 1st - cops leading from behind..

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POSTED WAAAY BROFRE THIS ARTICLE. I bet the cops can get dozens of really good military surplus body cameras like the ARMY; and Marines have been using for years.. and when the cops whine about all the extra work they will have to do- well- they already have a staff processing dash board cameras- archinving, filing, uploading to police servers- so -ts not much more trouble like they make it out to be..
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GREAT IDEA- KEEP COPS ACCOUNTABLE- PROMOTE THE GOOD ONES, FIRE THE BAD ONES.. JAIL THE CROOKED ONES..
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FWPD Looking To Go "All-In" With Body Cameras


By Jeff Neumeyer

December 4, 2014Updated Dec 4, 2014 at 5:53 PM EST
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21ALIVE) --- Providing a new set of eyes to monitor the actions of Fort Wayne police officers.
A plan is in place to outfit all of the department's uniformed officers with body cameras.
The use of such cameras is becoming more popular by the day with police departments across the country, and it appears Fort Wayne P.D. is ready to go the same route.
Body cameras let you see police encounters on the street from the officer's perspective.
Departments nationwide are buying such devices for their officers in earnest, in response to controversial police action shootings like the one in Ferguson Missouri.
It's a way to prove police handled a confrontation the right way, or to substantiate accusations of excessive force.
"It's about the size of a pager, very light," said Stephen Reed, the city police force’s Assistant Chief, as he showed off a model of a body camera being considered for purchase by Fort Wayne P.D.
According to Reed, his department is embarking on a plan to purchase around 25 body cameras for regular patrol officers in 2015.
But it wouldn't stop there.
The city force in a matter of a few years could see as many as 200 uniformed officers outfitted with a personal body cam of their own, with more money spent on equipment to download and store data recorded by the devices.
“After doing some further testing, we will decide on which model we purchase, but we do intend on purchasing body cams for our operational personnel," Reed said.
Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries thinks people should be cautious about body cams.
"I think they're a good thing, but as I've said before they are not a panacea, don't believe that it's going to solve all the problems and all the answers, cameras are going to see things from one angle," Fries said.
There are certainly limitations with body cameras but there are others who feel strongly that they are the best way to protect the rights of citizens and officers.
"I think the more that we can do to have you know a fully visual scenario as it relates to trust and policing in our community the better," said Jonathan Ray, the director of the Fort Wayne Urban League.
It’s not known how much it will cost to get the body cams purchased and up and running.
Expenses related to the data storage can't be fully calculated yet.
The fact there are some grants available will help, but ultimately police commanders may have to convince city council that the system has enough value to warrant spending money to keep things updated and in good working order long-term.

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It's super cheap to attach HD body cameras with encrypted direct feeds back to a central location (the car, or even 4g back to the station, or both!). It would cost less than $50 an officer to put this kind of system in place, and allow for a front and back camera on the officers that can record an entire day without being charged. Why are they making this such a huge deal that it's so "expensive?" Maybe they are getting ripped off by the tech companies? This kind of hardware is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!
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PRINCETON, Ind. — Deputies with a southwestern Indiana sheriff's department will soon be equipped with body cameras designed to collect potentially crucial evidence during police interactions with suspects.
The Gibson County Council last week unanimously approved allocating $20,000 in riverboat revenue to pay for 20 cameras and computer accessories for the county's deputies.
Sheriff George Ballard told council members it was his job to bring the potential value of body cameras to the council's attention in the wake of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer's fatal shooting of a teenager that sparked days of rioting in that community.
The Princeton Daily Clarion reports (http://bit.ly/1pdbpFI ) Councilman George Ankenbrand says the $20,000 for the cameras is money well spent if it can prevent a big lawsuit. Ankenbrand is a former county prosecutor.
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A Ferguson police officer wears a body camera during a news conference in Ferguson, Mo., Sept. 1, 2014.
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In its most concrete move yet toward reforming law enforcement tactics and repairing its frayed relationship with the community, the Ferguson Police Department is now equipping officers with body cameras, a major step for a local police force that the whole country is watching.



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Ferguson Police: Armed and recording

The Justice Department will announce Thursday that it will open a civil rights investigation of the entire Ferguson, Missouri Police Department, according to administration officials. The Washington Post was first to report the impending investigation late Wednesday.

The return to normalcy to the streets of Ferguson does not come without complications for a police department anxious to make amends with residents and outrun its reputation as having been ill-prepared to handle the national spotlight after officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown last month.
Critics who have called for greater checks on the embattled police department were pleased to see officers wearing portable video recording devices on their uniforms during protests Saturday that drew thousands of people to rally outside both the police headquarters and across town at the site where the 18-year-old was shot. Supporters say evidence from the cameras protects both citizens and police – cops are less likely to act aggressively while the cameras are rolling, and the footage can also potentially exonerate police when there are conflicting accounts of their behavior.
However, the ad hoc strategy used by the Ferguson police in responding to Brown’s case and the ensuing unrest continues to raise serious questions of accountability for a department desperate for relief.
Michael White, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University who wrote the book on police body camera surveillance policy for the Department of Justice, said the circumstances in Ferguson put the department in a unique position. Other departments across the country have taken months to test out methods and different products, and develop policies in pilot programs before the cameras were deployed in the field.
In Ferguson, it took a matter of days.
Two tech companies, Safety Vision and Digital Ally, were the first to offer help to Ferguson, together donating roughly 50 body cameras to outfit the entire department. Not even a week had gone by before officers were testing them out in real time.
The officers were “still playing with them,” Chief Tom Jackson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Saturday, as crowds of protesters swelled, flanked by Brown’s parents. “The quality is good.”
“This is moving at lightning speed,” White said. And while the technology in the field is still relatively new, White said Ferguson had the opportunity to adopt wholesale policies from other departments that had already been through the pilot stage of body-cam programs, although it is unclear whether Ferguson police ever looked into that possibility. The Ferguson Police Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment. 
“I think it’s very possible that they could have done this, and done it very well by reaching out to experts,” White said. “The concern would be if they didn’t do that.”
Supporters of body cameras for police caution that clear guidelines mandating when officers are able to turn on or off their device are crucial when implementing the policy. Recording interviews with victims of sexual assault or domestic violence are particularly sensitive. Privacy concerns also arise when children are being filmed, or when citizens request that officers turn off the cameras, or the footage is in any way tampered with. Additional privacy concerns over how video footage is stored, how long it is archived and what security precautions will be taken to protect the data have yet to be ironed out.
“Most of the footage should never see the light of day,” said Jay Stanley, senior police analyst at the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. “There must be very clear enforcement expectations for when police should have the cameras turned on and good policies around when the video is or is not made public.”
Concerns about the cameras also extend to officers’ privacy, with policies needed to ensure the cameras aren’t rolling during break periods. “That raises concerns with officers,” White said. “That could be troubling because in many places, everything that gets video coverage is discoverable [in court].”
Other policy issues quickly emerged on the first day of the cameras’ use in Ferguson when their batteries became drained, Chief Jackson told the Post-Dispatch, a supposedly rare occurrence since battery life is designed to last an entire shift. 
With the Ferguson police still in the spotlight, it is likely that many more departments will also make the move toward equipping police with body cameras, a movement that could become a game-changer for community-police interactions.
“The time is really right for this type of policy,” Stanley said. “I imagine they want to take steps to urge the public that they can be trusted.”
One test case out of Rialto, Calif., shows some promise. The city of just over 100,000 residents saw police brutality complaints plummet by 88% during the year-long pilot program that mandated all officers wear the devices. During that same time period, police use of force dropped another 60%.
“It is very important if there are tools that give a clear view of the interactions between someone in law enforcement and the people who are involved,” said Patricia Bynes, Democratic committeewoman for the township of Ferguson. “That’s a fantastic thing.”
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Departments use technology to ID troubled officers

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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2010 file photo, officers on bicycles keep watch as demonstrators protesting several incidents of alleged Los Angeles Police Department brutality, including the fatal shooting of Manuel Jamines a month ago, stand outside the LAPD's Rampart Station in the Westlake district of Los Angeles. Police departments across the U.S. are using technology to try to identify problem officers before their misbehavior harms innocent people, embarrasses their employer, or invites a costly lawsuit, from citizens or the federal government. The Los Angeles Police Department agreed to set up their $33 million early warning systems after the so-called Rampart scandal in which an elite anti-gang unit was found to have beaten and framed suspected gang members. The system was then implemented in 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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    LOS ANGELES — Police departments across the U.S. are using technology to try to identify problem officers before their misbehavior harms innocent people, embarrasses their employer, or invites a costly lawsuit — from citizens or the federal government.
    While such "early warning systems" are often treated as a cure-all, experts say, little research exists on their effectiveness or — more importantly — if they're even being properly used.
    Over the last decade, such systems have become the gold standard in accountability policing with a computerized system used by at least 39 percent of law enforcement agencies, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
    The issue of police-community relations was thrust into the spotlight after an officer fatally shot Michael Brown in Missouri. Since then, departments have held public forums to build trust with residents. Some are testing cameras mounted to officers to monitor their interactions with the public.
    Experts say the early warning system can be another powerful tool to help officers do their jobs and improve relations, but it is only as good as the people and departments using it.
    "It's not a guarantee that you will catch all of those officers that are struggling," said Jim Bueermann of the nonprofit Police Foundation, which is dedicated to better policing. "These systems are designed to give you a forewarning of problems and then you have to do something."
    The aim is to avoid cases where the first evidence of a troubled officer is a YouTube video showing them excessively beating a suspect. Such incidents stoke public fears about police and can result in huge monetary settlements.
    The systems track factors such as how often officers are involved in shootings, get complaints, use sick days and get into car accidents. When officers hit a specific threshold, they're supposed to be flagged and supervisors notified so appropriate training or counseling can be assigned.
    Some law enforcement agencies adopted the systems under agreements they entered into with the federal government after officers were accused of abuse, including departments in Seattle, which is currently working to implement such a system, and Los Angeles.
    The Los Angeles Police Department agreed to set up their $33 million early warning systems after the so-called Rampart scandal in which an elite anti-gang unit was found to have beaten and framed suspected gang members. The system was then implemented in 2007.
    The LAPD's inspector general found in a recent review that the system was seemingly ineffective in identifying officers who ultimately were fired. The report looked at 748 "alerts" over a four-month period and found the agency took little action in the majority of cases and only required training for 1.3 percent, or 10 alerts, of them.
    Sam Walker, a University of Nebraska at Omaha professor emeritus and expert on such systems, said he was troubled by the department's response to the report and concerned their follow-up study would be used to discredit the system a year after emerging from federal oversight.
    "These are not predictive devices," he said. "Is the failure in the system itself or is the failure in how the department managed the system. If they did such a small amount of retraining did they ignore lots of training needs and fail to do it?"
    Maggie Goodrich, the LAPD's chief information officer, defended the technology before the department's civilian oversight board but also said a deeper analysis of its impacts is necessary. "How do you prove a negative?" she asked. "What we can't capture with this system is how many times have we stopped somebody from engaging in behavior?"
    For rank-and-file officers, there's concern someone could be flagged merely because, for example, they work in a high-crime area where they are more likely to use their weapon or physical force. Some systems attempt to correct for such factors by comparing officers with their direct peers, and managers are supposed to account for differences in assignments.
    "Their concern is the concern that the public has about big brother," said Tyler Izen, president of the union representing LAPD officers. "If you're watching over me and there's a setup matrix that is going to tell you that I'm bad, people are always skeptical of things like that."
    A 2011 Justice Department report found the New Orleans Police Department's system, adopted roughly two decades ago, was "outdated and essentially exists in name only." Investigators said information was included haphazardly and flagged officers were put into essentially "bad boy school," a one-size-fits-all class seen by some as a badge of honor.
    The system is being overhauled.
    The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is on the verge of entering into a federal consent decree for its mismanagement of jails. And a Justice Department investigation that concluded last year found deputies discriminated against blacks and Latinos by making unconstitutional stops, searches, seizures and using excessive force.
    The sheriff's department has an early warning system. "Our diagnostic systems were fine," said the department's Chief of Detectives, Bill McSweeney, who advised his agency on creation of the warning system. "Our managerial and supervision response was not fine. It's that simple."
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