Typical Baltimore police misconduct costs them $500,000.00

[RalR]

What a win for this young gentlemen!

BALTIMORE (WJZ)— The office of attorney Dwight A. Petit confirms a half-million dollar settlement involving a Baltimore City police offer accused of kidnapping two Baltimore teens.

Michael Johnson was one of those teens. Johnson was dropped off in Howard County without shoes.

In a settlement, Johnson was awarded $500,000.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/0...00-settlement/

[Lawman 27]

What a win for this young gentlemen!


http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/0...00-settlement/

That should teach the youth in the City!

Run amok, take chances, rape rob, and murder...You too could be in for a big payday!!!

[Lawman 27]

Before anyone fusses, I am not saying it is right to basically kidnap a child and drop him off in the County.

My point is that all most people see is that the City is willing to give away massive amounts of money at the drop of a hat. Officers' moral suffers and the kids honestly think that committing crimes will get them a windfall.

[bmore_ken]

That should teach the youth in the City!

Run amok, take chances, rape rob, and murder...You too could be in for a big payday!!!

You're excusing what the officers did? Is that what you call professional?

[bmore_ken]

Before anyone fusses, I am not saying it is right to basically kidnap a child and drop him off in the County.

My point is that all most people see is that the City is willing to give away massive amounts of money at the drop of a hat. Officers' moral suffers and the kids honestly think that committing crimes will get them a windfall.

If the officers did their jobs professionally there would be no windfall

[SonOf Scribbler]

His lawyer will get at least $166,666, and then he'll have to pay income tax on it, right? Will be barely enough left to buy a new Escalade, and of course, shoes.

[Wizard777]

Before anyone fusses, I am not saying it is right to basically kidnap a child and drop him off in the County.

My point is that all most people see is that the City is willing to give away massive amounts of money at the drop of a hat. Officers' moral suffers and the kids honestly think that committing crimes will get them a windfall.

Of course nothing is ever the fault of an officer. This is just a variation of the old you can't rape a hooker defense. Once you commit a crime you become the eternal criminal and cannot be the victim of anything. WRONG! I'm a bit disappointed. What those officers did to that kid goes far beyond kidnapping. They were trying trying to get him brutally beaten or even killed. They dropped him off in the middle of what they knew to be the territory of a rival gang.

This is yet another feather in Berstein's cap. He personally prosecuted this case. So of course the officers walked. It's not just him. When it comes to protecting the children in Baltimore the whole damned system is broke. To add insult to injury, sometimes quite literally, the people in Annapolis are far more concerned with fixing Baltimore's broken speed camera system. It's a sad statement that gangs offer kids greater protection than Baltimore's justice sysytem. If you beat up a kid in a gang. The gang will put you six foot under. You will never touch another kid again. What Baltimore's Justice system will do is the States Attorney will drop the charges from first degree to second degree assault. Then Judge Pamela North as, ahem, punishment for assaulting a minor will make the adult write an essay like he was the high school kid he put in the hospital. This is after determing that he attacked the kid with military precision. Who protects the children of Baltimore? It sure as hell isn't any part of Baltimore's Justice System. Then you wonder why they want no part of this society and even become hostile towards it. Uh huh.......

[Spot72]

This is good news.

[Lawman 27]

You're excusing what the officers did? Is that what you call professional?

If the officers did their jobs professionally there would be no windfall

Ken,

You saw what I wrote in #3, I am not excusing what they did. In addition, I am not calling these Officers professionals at all. (I have long maintained that the City is doing all it can to run off the professional Officers).

Here's the rub...
To a 15 year old, they are not thinking: "Gee, the City is holding its Officers accountable."
They are thinking: "We got paid for that."

[Wizard777]

Ken,

You saw what I wrote in #3, I am not excusing what they did. In addition, I am not calling these Officers professionals at all. (I have long maintained that the City is doing all it can to run off the professional Officers).

Here's the rub...
To a 15 year old, they are not thinking: "Gee, the City is holding its Officers accountable."
They are thinking: "We got paid for that."

How do you know what ANYONE is thinking? I'm a Wizard and even I can't read minds. As far as that goes, there is no greater trespass than violating the sanctum of the mind. People would do well to never forget that.

[dialtone]

That should teach the youth in the City!

Run amok, take chances, rape rob, and murder...You too could be in for a big payday!!!

No it won't. If this were a county kid would think all of your kids would rape and murder. Everything is a case by case basis. In this case the police were wrong. That doesn't mean all of them are bad. Certainly there are bad kids in the city. That doesn't mean that all of them are bad. In order to have a mutually cooperative relationship everyone should be judged soley on their actions, only.

Maybe this will make police that think you should treat everyone in the city as if they don't matter, look a little closer at PEOPLE.

[Saticon3]

Before anyone fusses, I am not saying it is right to basically kidnap a child and drop him off in the County.

My point is that all most people see is that the City is willing to give away massive amounts of money at the drop of a hat. Officers' moral suffers and the kids honestly think that committing crimes will get them a windfall.

Hey, I'm on your side, but you really can't defend the indefensible...... anything you say in response to this incident like you did will probably be taken by most as mitigating if not defending the police actions in this case.
I think a better stance would be like bad cops did bad things, both them and the city took a deserved hit for it.

[bmore_ken]

Hey, I'm on your side, but you really can't defend the indefensible...... anything you say in response to this incident like you did will probably be taken by most as mitigating if not defending the police actions in this case.
I think a better stance would be like bad cops did bad things, both them and the city took a deserved hit for it.

Ironically one of Lawman's complaints about the people of the city is they don't cooperate with police. Hmmm I wonder why?

[musicmd]

Ken,

You saw what I wrote in #3, I am not excusing what they did. In addition, I am not calling these Officers professionals at all. (I have long maintained that the City is doing all it can to run off the professional Officers).

Here's the rub...
To a 15 year old, they are not thinking: "Gee, the City is holding its Officers accountable."
They are thinking: "We got paid for that."

Your answer is as dumb as you post.

[ybnormal]

Ironically one of Lawman's complaints about the people of the city is they don't cooperate with police. Hmmm I wonder why?

NEWSFLASH: The majority don't wonder at all.

[bmore_ken]

NEWSFLASH: The majority don't wonder at all.

So let me get this straight, you're defending the officer's actions in this case? Big surprise

[Omaha Beach]

Want to see the taxpayers off the hook for these lawsuits? Simple. Make it clear to the Officers that if they engage in conduct like this and they are sued by bottom feeders like Dwight Pettit that if a jury of their peers(hee hee) awards the plaintiffs hundreds of thousands or millions that the City is not going to indemnify them for those judgments. That will accomplish two things. One no tax money will be used to pay for those judgments and two the ambulance chasers, filing these lawsuits will stop filing these suits if they know there are no deep pockets to pay the judgments.

[musicmd]

Want to see the taxpayers off the hook for these lawsuits? Simple. Make it clear to the Officers that if they engage in conduct like this and they are sued by bottom feeders like Dwight Pettit that if a jury of their peers(hee hee) awards the plaintiffs hundreds of thousands or millions that the City is not going to indemnify them for those judgments. That will accomplish two things. One no tax money will be used to pay for those judgments and two the ambulance chasers, filing these lawsuits will stop filing these suits if they know there are no deep pockets to pay the judgments.

Dwight Pettit is not a bottom feeder

[bmore_ken]

Dwight Pettit is not a bottom feeder

He's a black man. In Omaha's mind that makes him a bottom feeder

[Marshan Man]

Before anyone fusses, I am not saying it is right to basically kidnap a child and drop him off in the County.

My point is that all most people see is that the City is willing to give away massive amounts of money at the drop of a hat. Officers' moral suffers and the kids honestly think that committing crimes will get them a windfall.

Most people? Most people 'cept those officers I suppose. Idiots...