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Post by HippyCowGirl on Nov 8, 2013 14:18:03 GMT -6
Watching this on the news and couldn't believe it till someone I know got picked up on a civil writ. She ended up with torn rotary cuff and upper back/spine injury. That was such a big streator officer doing that to a 90 lb disabled older woman with no criminal background. He lied to her and said he called her husband when he couldn't of because she didn't give him the cell phone number, even lied to her husband when he couldnt find his wife he was worried and knew she has medical issues so called the hospital first when she wasnt there he called police to help find her and the cop said he tried to call him but got no answer, it wasn't on his phone history and he had to leave the phone on cause it is his work on call phone. Cop didn't give her a phone call so she could bail out or let anyone know where she was just roughed her up and sent her to county. I'm not saying more than that because she is filling a claim and she has several Dr.s/specialist who are behind her and have wrote out details for the DA. hell even if he didnt hurt her and was just a liar I wouldnt want a dishonest cop on our force. All the friggin drugs in this town and he needed to pick on an honest citizen with no criminal background picked up on civil writ body of attachment instead of going after real criminals...COWARD.
She dont want money,she dont want the citizens of streator paying for one cops power trip, she loves this town and volunteers regularly, but she does want his job, we do not need police like that on our force anyway imo. I could see roughing her up if it was a criminal matter but civil and then to lie to her and her family... unacceptable!!!
I know this is streator online so go ahead bash away at her she should of paid her bill but stuff like this is uncalled for by what is suppose to be our finest and she wasnt in the wrong, had no clue about the bill, she thought it was garnished like she was told.
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Post by cityslicker on Nov 8, 2013 16:01:55 GMT -6
And we thought, the old chief was ineffective. This clown is pathetic and an underling of the city Mis-manager. "From-unda" is more like it!
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Nov 8, 2013 16:53:19 GMT -6
I am very sorry to hear that this has happened and hope that it will be looked into properly.
You know that there have been many things that have happened that have made me doubt our police.
I have also talked to some officers that I believe really are good people and would like to do their job properly.
I would suggest that you could look for answers at City Hall, but with as little results as I have gotten, I won't bother.
I think one of the best things that you can do is try to convince as many people as you can to register, be informed and vote on April 7th, 2015 for our city to start doing things differently.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Nov 8, 2013 17:10:31 GMT -6
And we thought, the old chief was ineffective. This clown is pathetic and an underling of the city Mis-manager. "From-unda" is more like it! I can point out more than one example of the same under the previous one, so it isn't him. And lord knows, it isn't even just Illinois when you read the newspapers. Somehow we need to break the training habits of "us versus the civilians" I can't even really blame the individual officers, they do what they are trained to do. Doesn't make it right though. |
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Post by rocket on Nov 8, 2013 17:47:05 GMT -6
Enough people armed with cameras to record the event of police misconduct,and turned over to the feds,should get the feds motivated enough to take action against these officers.
Even turning these videos and pics over to the news media.should fire up the people to demand disciplinary actions to the elected politicians.
Like I said ,Spd needs to be overhauled and weed out the bad cops and replace them with honest ones.
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Post by no1inparticular on Nov 8, 2013 18:17:32 GMT -6
When the Los Angeles PD came under fire for their own corruption, they brought in Chief Bratton from New York...He managed to clean up the NYPD, then went on to change the culture of corruption in LA...
Rules were implemented, policies drafted to hold Officers accountable, especially in light of the Rodney King debacle...
The hiring practices also changed to where, if you lived in the city, you could not work there...This alone eliminated much of the cronyism between some Officers and local gangs, which many were raised around/related to/etc...
While La Salle county is nowhere near the size of either NY or LA, maybe they should consider adopting ideas from other locales that have proven successful...
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Post by oldtimer on Nov 8, 2013 21:39:52 GMT -6
When did this incident involving the streator police officer occur?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2013 2:58:18 GMT -6
Sorry but I would need a lot more information to believe this story. I'm not saying it isn't possible for it to happen but I'm very skeptical. Why would an officer, for no reason, do that to a "90lb disabled older woman" causing a "torn rotary cuff and upper back/spine injury"? Was she being uncooperative? Was she resisting so the officer takes her by the arm, she tries to jerk away, essentially causing harm to herself by resisting? I'm just trying to come up with some plausible explanation here that makes sense.
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Post by helencrump on Nov 9, 2013 7:43:52 GMT -6
I wondered if she had the same outlook as was posted, thinking 'why arrest me, when there are drug dealers, etc out there?' And like jules, wonder if she jerked her arm away, causing the injury. We've only heard one side. And that side does show some displeasure with the reason for the arrest in the first place. The officer has no control over why an arrest warrent is issued. Should it be up to the cops to decide if a warrent is 'important' enough to make an arrest? I would like to hear more, also. Jmo
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Post by dilligaf on Nov 9, 2013 10:23:32 GMT -6
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Post by davesez on Nov 9, 2013 15:56:24 GMT -6
And from the source where it is coming from just sayin.
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Post by father of two on Nov 9, 2013 18:03:13 GMT -6
During my first campaign for city council I asked why the police dept didn't have more cameras throughout the building. It would be to the benefit of the city and public to have them. If an officer were accused of mistreating someone or any other complaint there would be video footage to show whether it occurred or not. It would also show if perps were acting up and protect officers. I never did get an answer.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2013 18:33:29 GMT -6
I think audio is key also to really know what occurred but very few facilities have both video and audio.
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Post by HippyCowGirl on Nov 9, 2013 21:13:43 GMT -6
Sorry but I would need a lot more information to believe this story. I'm not saying it isn't possible for it to happen but I'm very skeptical. Why would an officer, for no reason, do that to a "90lb disabled older woman" causing a "torn rotary cuff and upper back/spine injury"? Was she being uncooperative? Was she resisting so the officer takes her by the arm, she tries to jerk away, essentially causing harm to herself by resisting? I'm just trying to come up with some plausible explanation here that makes sense. the arresting officer is friends with the person she owes the debt to, matter of fact a few officers on the force are buddies with him. Any reason you give above for her getting hurt give the officer merrit not give her a phone call to let someone know where she was or get the money to ail out? Or to lie and tell her he called her husband or lie to her husband and say he(cop) called him on the 309 number with no answer because no phone call was on the phone. |
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Post by manhunter on Nov 10, 2013 10:17:49 GMT -6
I have lived in Streator all my life 63 years and all I can say is all the GOOD OFFICER'S are not with us any more to me all they want to show you now is that they have the right to bully what happen to coming up to you and saying I have a warrant for you and you have to come with me with a nice voice . I saw a officer come up to a man when I was getting gas grab his arm and say YOU ARE COMEING WITH ME I HAVE A WARRENT FOR YOU boy I felt sorry for him he was a old man and I think if he was going to run the officer would have out run him . I am sorry but I just don't have much trust in SOME of them as the news shows us .
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