CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones

sabri writes: Following the initial suspension of a California Highway Patrol officer earlier this week, news has come out that the CHP has an entire ring of officers who steal and subsequently share nude pictures. The nudes are stolen from women who are arrested or stopped. Officer Sean Harrington of Martinez reportedly confessed to stealing explicit photos from the suspect's phone, and said he forwarded those images to at least two other CHP officers. Where is the ACLU when you need them the most?

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Prison time

[weilawei]

Now. No other options. This shit has gotta stop.

Re:Prison time

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe the same thing as with what the people who stole those celebrity pictures. I believe that would be unauthorized use of a computer as defined by the computer fraud and abuse act. That's a federal level felony you know.

Re:Prison time

[binarylarry]

after all, they wouldn't steal a car.

Re:Prison time

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.oklahomalegalgroup.com/news/ohp-trooper-formally-charged-in-rape-case

Eric Roberts, a 16-year veteran of the OHP, resigned in September after he was arrested following an investigation into a claim that he raped a woman on a July 22 traffic stop. ...
Roberts has now been charged with 14 criminal counts in the three cases. Ten of those counts are felonies. Charges against the former trooper include second degree rape, rape by instrumentation, forcible sodomy, sexual battery, embezzlement, and bribery.

Members of three separate law enforcement agencies in Oklahoma have been criminally charged with on-duty sex crimes. In addition to the former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper charged with rape, and Oklahoma City Police officer and a Tulsa County Sheriff's deputy have also been charged with sex offenses.

This is just one state and with women who were brave enough to come forward and risk retaliation from the accused's fellow officers. Just think of how many women were too intimidated to press charges. Cops all over the country are able to steal, frame innocent people, assault, rape, and kill with damn near impunity. I'm no SJW, but if you think this shit isn't becoming more prevalent, the you're a fucking idiot.

captcha hint: harlots Really, Slashdot? jeezus.

Re:Prison time

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a woman. A real woman. I was born with my vagina, uterus and ovaries. I'm not one of those social justice freaks who was born with a penis, scrotum and testes but is somehow considered a "woman".

Bullshit, you're a dude.

Let's cut the crap, son.

The only time the term "son" is used is when referring to someone's male offspring, which you were not. The other instance is when one male is attempting to assert dominance over another male, by referring to the other as "son". I have never, EVER heard a female use this term in the second fashion described. It just isn't done. Son.

Re:Prison time

[Anonymous Coward]

Hand grenade? I can't take you seriously if you're going to spin the story like that.

"ATLANTA - A family says a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured a 19-month-old boy with a stun grenade. Alecia Phonesavanh told Channel 2's Ryan Young her child is at the Grady Memorial Hospital burn unit, and is in a medically induced coma..."

Sources: (left-leaning) and (right-leaning).

Fuck the police.

Re:Prison time

[Firethorn]

Now unless that article is a total white-wash, it sounds like a tragic mistake. Like insurgents who hide their weapons behind children hoping to vilify their attackers, it seems quite strange someone would place a baby's crib blocking their own front door.

Now ask why they're breaching in the midnight to 4 am time period, why they're breaching at all when there's no evidence that somebody's life is in immediate danger, etc... Heck, I was just reading about where they decided to raid both sides of a duplex and did the full 'bang&bash' before shooting a seven year old in the head. Disregarding signs of a child being in the house like toys scattered around the lawn... The seven year old didn't even live in the side where the suspect lived, there were no interior connections, etc... I don't even blame the officer who shot her all that much - his actions were the tip of an iceberg that involved the whole department. The chief's decision to have a SWAT team. The leader who decided to use them in such raids. The site lead/investigator who called them in for this case, and to have them raid BOTH sides at the same time, when reports are that he didn't have a warrant for her side at the time(got it retroactively, which is bullshit if true). The training he received, etc... Negligent? Sure. Manslaughter? I'd actually save that for the guy that ordered both apartments raided and higher.

These raids take place presumably when the drug dealers inside are at their lowest. Well, everybody is typically at their lowest during this period, so it takes them longer to identify police, and reflex actions are reflex actions.

They're not even really safer for the officers than walking up to the door and publicly presenting the warrant because death tolls DURING SWAT raids from people who manage to get a lucky shot off and worse, friendly fire from other SWAT agents is similar to officers lost handing them out the old fashioned way. If necessary, SHOW THE BLOODY SWAT VAN. At that point they know they can go quietly and painlessly or SWAT can put them down the hard & painful way. Yes, I've seen a couple incidents where they raid a house, find nothing, but in the progress of the raid one SWAT officer shoots another SWAT officer and they try to charge the occupants with assault/murder. Hell, I don't think it's justified to push an officer's death at the hands of another officer during a raid deliberately conducted when you're at your lowest ability level even if drugs are found.

Save lives - both officer and not. End the war on drugs.

Re:Prison time

[El Puerco Loco]

Ever hear of Civil Forfeiture? They steal cars all the time. And cash. And houses.

Re:Prison time

[jythie]

Yeah, paramilitary groups getting police to back down only works if you involve rich white ranchers.

Child porn?

[Anonymous Coward]

If I understand it correctly you might get a drivers license (with limitations) as young as 15 ½, I imagine young drivers are more often stopped than others, did the stolen pictures include depictions of anyone as young?

Re:Suspended?

[ArcadeMan]

Corrupted cops: So what if we stole some nude pictures...
ACLU: You'll be fired...
Corrupted cops: Fine.
ACLU: ...out of a cannon, into the sun.

Re:Really?

[ATMAvatar]

What the hell is wrong with these cops?

Some people become cops because of the power trip it gives. This is perfectly in-line with that personality type. The real tragedy is that it's likely very little (if anything) will be done to the officers perpetrating the acts, which will only feed into the power trip.