Denver PD cops caught using police databases for personal use

[GarfieldtheCat]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...cops-abuse-crime-databases-for-personal-gain/

Of course, none were fired, since cops breaking the law isn't a big deal to them, and they consider themselves above the law.

I guarantee non-cops wouldn't get off this easy. In healthcare, they would all have been fired right away. But hey, they are cops, breaking laws is their god given right. As our apologists tell us, cops are special.

Cops were even using it to try and hit on women they liked.

On May 15, 2015, a female hospital employee spoke with a DPD officer who was at the hospital to investigate a reported sexual assault. The female employee was not involved in the investigation, but the officer made ‘‘small talk’’ with her after his interview of the sexual assault victim. At the end of her shift, the female employee returned home and found a voicemail message from the officer on her personal phone. She had not given the officer her phone number, and was upset that he had obtained it (she assumed) by improperly using law enforcement computer systems. During an investigation into the incident, records revealed that the officer had, in fact, used the NCIC/CCIC database (and other DPD databases) to obtain her phone number, and the officer ultimately admitted to this conduct.

What a great bunch of cops, and the entire PD acutally....letting their employees do this without much in the way of punishment.

#fewmorebadapples

 

[DrPizza]

The quote in the OP - if a hospital employee did that, they're fired on the spot.

 

[Oyeve]

Cops are in the top 5 lowest scumbags on earth.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The FBI needs to turn more of its efforts towards investigating and charging officers rather than citizens. Cops are of trivial use anyways. Pretty soon video recording devices will be small and cheap enough that anyone could have 24/7 footage of their actions, and information to prove that they didn't commit a crime or that someone else did. As witnesses, cops are useless. For tiny towns they can be important revenue generators, but fuck that. For self-defense, cops are useless. The only thing they can do that private citizens cannot is respond to hostage situations and other relatively rare and violent crimes-in-progress, and for that we have specialized SWAT teams, not tubby behind the wheel of his cruiser.

 

[master_shake_]

quick!

give the FBI a backdoor in to apple cell phones.

what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Linux23]

Just another barrel of bad apples right?

 

[JSt0rm]

Cops are in the top 5 lowest scumbags on earth.

history.txt

 

[Brian Stirling]

quick!

give the FBI a backdoor in to apple cell phones.

what could possibly go wrong?

Yes, and part of the revelations by Snowden was that agents in the NSA were looking up info on old girlfriends etc.


Brian

 

[BoberFett]

Who could possibly have seen this coming. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

 

[Subyman]

Setting aside the legal issues, that is a huge pick up fail lol.

 

[LPCTech]

Hey baby, I looked up your number in the police database since you wouldnt give it to me. So when we goin out? Im so sexy. Wait.. why are you upset? Im confused. Also I carry a gun and can kill people and get away with it. Why wouldnt a woman be into that? If we did date and it doesnt work out, Im surely going to take it well and you have nothing to worry about.

:sneaky:

 

[Zorkorist]

Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, can't wait to read your emails.

Donald Trump is rightly disgusted.

-John

 

[LPCTech]

Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, can't wait to read your emails.

Donald Trump is rightly disgusted.

-John

This has nothing to do with this article.

You are like one of those people in yahoo comments section who is like "Obama is a muslim!!" in a story about kittens.

Also dont you think the police would be more likely to be friendly to Trump than the dem candidates? Do you think at all? lol

 

[waggy]

Setting aside the legal issues, that is a huge pick up fail lol.

lol. that was my first thought. Way to fail..

why did he think that would work? did he not expect her to figure out how he got the number and not be freaked out?

He should be fired.

 

[TheSlamma]

This POS is the man you can thank for YEARS of DPD blunders. They are unethical at best and criminal at heart. Denver tax payers have picked up the tab multiple times for their negligence and excessive force.