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TOPCOPS INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAGAZINE (A Law Enforcement Publication) Volume 3, issue 7- dated Sept. 1999

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Mike Lynch (national IPA president) - Nick Miluer (Remnet Coordinator and TopCops member) - Gus Baart (Ipa President, Region 25)

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Captain Jim Hilton

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Robert Dent - Senior Trooper

“Police work gives you the test first then the lesson.”

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The report was quite loud and came from behind some trees to my right. It sounded like a 12 gauge. Too heavy for a 4-10, and the wrong sound for anything else. A second concussion followed less than a minute later, followed in short order by a third. I was right; it was a 12 gauge. I continued to ride past the trees.

I knew who it was. I had seen his van parked in a gateway. The local gamekeeper was carrying out vermin control - shooting carrion birds that would like to get their tallons into his young Pheasants.

Here in the Northern Hemisphere it is high summer. The longest day has passed, and there is the slightest perceptible shortening of evening daylight. The latitude is the same as the southern extremity of Alaska, and it is daylight from 3.30am to 10:30 pm and the northern sky never grows dark.

Do you ever stop to think about your colleagues in other parts of the world? As the sun was setting this evening, a golden orb hanging in an azure sky, it was time in New York for the nine-to-fivers to leave for home, whilst in California the 2pm crews would just be coming on duty. Out in the Hawaiian Islands lunch is being served. In Guam its coffee time, whilst in Auckland the day shift has just started.

Our colleagues on the night shift in Australia are looking forward to going home, in the middle east officers body clocks are at their lowest ebb, that horrible feeling between 2 and 3 am when your head says you want to sleep, but you know you can't.

For our colleagues in the joint police force in Bosnia and Kosovo, it is just after midnight, tomorrow. A new day beacons...

On my bike ride this evening; I passed several fields of corn, some very close to being ready for harvest, others still green, with the grains swelling. They contrasted with the dark blue of Borrige, the pale blue of Linseed and Flax in flower, the yellow of Rape seed, and the deep greens of Cabbage, Sugar Beet and Caulies.

Looking out over the Plain of York, a landscape that has remained unchanged since the last iceage, it is difficult to imagine what it is like in the heat of Los Angeles, the cold of the New Zealand winter (skiing in the mountains?), the tropical winter of Northern Australia and I have no idea what it is like in Tasmania in Winter. In India the monsoon is about to arrive, whilst in Africa, every climatic condition can be found.

I disturbed a pair of plovers, who climbed whooping into the air - must have young around - a pheasant called, whilst small arrowheads of gulls were flying south to the saltmarshes of the Humber estuary for the night.

The sound of traffic could just be heard in the far distance, but with almost no wind, it was not disturbing. I turned and rode back down the hill, over the beck - the Yorkshire name for a stream - rushing east towards the North Sea, past a field of newly shorn sheep, one black one in the middle of the flock of white, through The Park, past Hotham Hall, and a little further the bell on the halls' clock tower struck the hour. Back home, a walk up the

garden, feed some dandylion plants to the rabbits, check the pond, enjoy the coolness after the heat of the day.

We all become very comfortable with our surroundings. As I write this in the study, looking out over the garden where dusk has fallen, I wait to see the first star appear. A pair of bats fly past, silhouetted against the pale northern sky, dashing this way and that, hunting insects.

Stop for a moment. Think of a colleague, somewhere else, call him or her send an EMail. Is it their birthday or anniversary? But whatever, take a second or two to think of them and do something positive, like the words in the old song, spread a little happiness as you go. By Norman Woollans

(All articles contained in this publication have been acquired from various Newswire and online newspapers on the Internet)

Police kill man wielding knife at fire scene

By Kieran Nicholson

Denver Post Staff Writer

Aug. 28 - Denver police shot and killed a man armed with a knife in his fire-gutted apartment early Friday morning after they said he lunged at them with the knife.

Steven Craig Evilsizer, 35, was dead on arrival at Denver Health Medical Center just before 6 a.m., police said.

The incident started with a 3 a.m. fire in Evilsizer’s apartment at Baker Tower, 330 Acoma St.

Firefighters evacuated the third, fourth and fifth floor of the building and put out the fire in apartment 411 before it spread. Arson investigators determined that the fire started in Evilsizer’s bed, Denver Fire Department spokeswoman Lenell Gallegos said.

Evilsizer was not in the apartment when firefighters arrived. But as investigators were leaving the building, a resident told them he in a building stairwell.

When an investigator went to talk with him, Evilsizer acted “suspicious” and “paranoid,” Gallegos said.

Evilsizer then bolted from the stairwell and tried to get back into his apartment, which had been sealed, officials said.

Evilsizer ran into a neighbor’s unit and grabbed a knife, Gallegos said. He then climbed across the balcony to get back into his apartment.

Meanwhile, investigators had called police.

When police arrived, firefighters knocked down the door to Evilsizer’s apartment.

Three officers and two fire investigators pleaded with Evilsizer to put down the knife, but he wouldn’t, said Lt. Frank Conner, Denver police spokesman.

In an attempt to get Evilsizer to comply, one officer sprayed him with pepper spray. “It had the opposite effect,” Conner said. “It enraged him and he lunged at them with the knife.”

All three policemen, Karl Roller, James Lucero, and Dean Walker opened fire. The arson investigators, who were armed, did not fire. The shooting is being investigated by the homicide unit, which will turn over its findings to the district attorney’s office.

Conner could not say how many times the three officers opened fire, but a fourth-floor resident who asked not to be identified said he heard at least 10 shots.

“There were a lot of shots,” he said. “I knew the guy was dead.”

Evilsizer had been arrested in Denver on drug violations in June and July. He had a Denver arrest record dating back to 1985. Several residents of the 11-story building called 911, Gallegos said. Most residents were apparently awakened by either the building’s fire alarm or neighbors. “I heard people screaming “Fire!’ “ said resident Katie McEntire.

Hong Kong Forms Computer Police Unit

(8/27/99) The Hong Kong police department will established a new team of officers solely dedicated to tackling computer related crimes, the August 27 ChinaByte (ChinaByte) reported. The formation of the computer police unit is in reaction to the more high tech nature of criminal activity occurring on the island. In addition, the Commercial Crime Department will require all officers to take special training on computer related crime, the newspaper said. The computer cops unit is expected to be formed by September, the newspaper said.

Officers face charges in mass killing

BOGOTA, Colombia - The attorney general ordered dishonorable discharges for three military officers and suspensions for five police officers Saturday for failing to halt one of Colombia’s most notorious mass killings in recent years.

The three midlevel officers each commanded a military post in the north-central city of Barrancabermeja, where paramilitary gunmen killed seven people and hauled away 25 others in trucks at a street fair in May 1998.

Paramilitary leaders later announced that they had executed the 24 men and one woman as alleged rebels and incinerated their bodies. The corpses were never found.

The officers - Capt. Oswaldo Prada, Lt. Antonio Daza and 2nd Lt. John Guzman - were disciplined “for failing to act promptly and decisively when the could have in accordance with their obligations,” according to the decision issued Friday.

In addition, five police officers and detectives, including a deputy police commander, were suspended from duty

without pay for between 15 and 30 days, the attorney general’s office said in a news release. The army press office declined to comment on whether the three officers had already been removed from duty. In Colombia, the attorney general is empowered to fire public officials for negligence, corruption, omission and other infractions.

The chief prosecutor’s office is also investigating the massacre, but no military officers are known to face possible criminal charges. According to the attorney general’s office, soldiers under Guzman and Daza’s command heard the gunshots fired by the paramilitary gunmen and “none of the units reacted despite being 800 meters (a half mile) from the actions.”

It said Prada “ordered his personnel to remain inside their installations to prevent them from becoming involved.”

Colombia’s armed forces have a history of turning a blind eye to massacres by the country’s right-wing militias, which emerged in the early 1980s with landowner and drug trafficker backing to counter the threat of leftist rebels.

After the massacre last weekend of at least 36 peasants by paramilitary fighters in a northeastern town near a military garrison, U.N. envoy for human rights Anders Kompass publicly criticized President Andres Pastrana’s government for failing to halt the bloodshed. Human-rights groups had warned for months that such a mass killing was imminent in the region near the Venezuelan border, which is in the midst of a cocaine bonanza. Investigators said many of the victims were coca leaf pickers.

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Police in South Africa say 'Make my day' then they make yours!

Make my day: Investigations suggest police resort to force too quickly, despite the legal stipulation that they exercise minimum force.

Trigger happy police killed 530.

Police killed 530 people in the last nine months of 1997, and critics blame a trigger-happy willingness to resort to force at the slightest provocation.

ANDY DUFFY reports

MORE than 530 people died at the hands of the police in the last nine months of 1997.

Early investigations pinpoint police negligence as a main cause of the deaths, though the police watchdog, the Independent Complaints Directorate

(ICD), has also found evidence of murder and culpable homicide.

The ICD's figures show that nearly 160 people died in custody or as a result of police action in Gauteng in the nine months; 154 in KwaZulu-Natal-with 20

deaths in that province in December alone. Another 58 died in the Eastern Cape over the nine months, and 48 in the Western Cape.

The death rate of two a day during these nine months suggests the toll for the full year was around 730 -- more than triple the official police figure for 1995.

The ICD, set up last April to investigate complaints against the police, says it is swamped by its work on deaths. "A lot of them are because the police are not properly trained, a lot is poor management," says the Western Cape ICD regional head, Riaz Saloojee.

"If procedures were followed, a lot of these deaths could have been avoided ... It would appear the bulk of the [investigations] show negligence at the

very least." National Police Commissioner George Fivaz's office declined to be drawn at the time of going to press on whether he has discussed the death rate with his provincial commissioners, or whether it merits any special inquiry.

Communication services head director Joseph Ngobeni says every case where police shoot is investigated, even when the victim is not killed.

"It would be dangerous to assume all cases of shooting [by police] are unlawful," he adds. "Every case is dealt with on merit, given the difficult

circumstances the police are sometimes faced with, and that they have to decide in a split second whether or not to discharge their firearms."

But Saloojee says the ICD's investigations suggest police resort to force too quickly, despite the legal stipulation that they exercise the minimum

necessary force.

In one case, police in Grassy Park in the Western Cape shot a petty thief in the back of the head after he tried to escape by merely walking out of their

charge office.

"A lot of the police are trigger-happy," Saloojee adds. "You can't help but speculate about whether people aren't just taking the law into their own

hands, acting as executioners."

ICD executive director Neville Melville says the directorate's Gauteng office has sent recommendations on several of its investigations to the Gauteng attorney general. The KwaZulu-Natal attorney general is prosecuting three people for murder following an ICD investigation late last year. The ICD's Western Cape branch will hand its first recommendations to Attorney General Frank Kahn later this month.

The cases include the death of a 16-year-old Cape Flats youth, Angelo Asia, last June. He was arrested in Elsies River, spent a few hours in a police cell and died the next day in Tygerberg Hospital. His skull had been split from the nape of his neck to his eyebrows. The six officers involved in his arrest deny any wrongdoing. Other witnesses contradict their denials.

The ICD was forced to call in its own independent pathologist as part of its probe, because the state pathologist's report had merely recorded the cause

of Asia's death as a head injury.

Ngobeni says the directorate is helping the police "achieve our goal of replacing a human-rights violation culture with a culture of respect for

human rights".-Mail&Guardian, February 12, 1998.

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Police Evidence Caretaker Charged With Theft Sheriff Says Woman Took $61,000 in Drug Money

Aug. 27, 1999 By Stephanie Kirch

SARASOTA, Fla. () -- The property room supervisor at the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office

has confessed to stealing $61,000 from a cash room under her care during the past year, police said.

Four charges of felony grand theft have been filed against 34-year-old Holly Beth Schlegelmilch, said Sarasota County Sheriff Geoff Monge. Schlegelmilch is married to a Sarasota police sergeant, but he was unaware of the criminal activity, said the sheriff.

Tip leads to arrest

Monge told today that an anonymous tip led to an audit of the cash, which is kept wrapped in plastic and organized by case number in a separate room within a larger two-room property and evidence department.

The cash had been seized in drug busts in 1998 and this year, said Monge, adding that the theft will not affect any of the pending narcotics cases.

Monge said that he called Schlegelmilch at home late Wednesday night and asked her to come in to work. While there, she admitted during questioning that she took the money, including about $28,000 on a single occasion, he said. Schlegelmilch told Monge that she used the money to pay off medical and credit card bills, to travel and to buy a swing set for her children.

Saddened by arrest

In what he described as “one of the saddest duties we have to perform,” deputies arrested the woman, handcuffed her and brought her to the Sarasota County

Jail a block away. She also was fired from her position, which paid $30,276 per year. Schlegelmilch was released after posting bond. Her first court appearance is set for Oct. 1.

The incident has prompted the sheriff to assign a sworn sergeant to replace the civilian employee as supervisor of the property room. It’s not the first time the property room has become a crime scene. In 1997, more than $60,000 was reported missing. Schlegelmilch was not connected to that theft, Monge said

Record 4.1 million on parole or probation

August 23, 1999 8:11 a.m. CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans on parole or probation at the end of 1998 numbered more than 4 million for the first time ever last year, but differences in policies made for wide variations among the states, the Justice Department reports.

There were large declines in the number of adults on parole in several states, including Virginia, down 37 percent, and North Carolina, down 30 percent, the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics said Sunday. In contrast, Ohio had a 66 percent increase in parolees and Idaho reported a 55 percent jump.

A change in Ohio law contributed to its increase, said Thomas P. Bonczar, a bureau statistician. “A lot of states are passing mandatory parole,” he explained. At the same time, the increase in the number of parolees was balanced by states that have toughened their laws to keep offenders in prison longer.

The national release rate declined from 37 per 100 prisoners in 1990 to 31 in 1997, while average time served increased from 22 months in 1990 to 27 months in 1997, Bonczar said. Overall, 3,417,613 people were on probation and 704,964 were on parole at the end of 1998, up from 3,296,768 and 694,787, respectively, a year earlier. Adding those in prisons or jails, the U.S. correctional population totaled 5,890,300 last Dec. 31, up from 5,726,500 when 1997 ended.

A probationer is a person convicted of a crime and sentenced to supervision outside jail; a parolee is an offender under conditional supervision after serving a prison term. Idaho and Vermont each reported a 21 percent increase in their probation populations, the largest among the states, while 11 states reported declines.

Bonczar noted that while violent crime has declined in recent years, there have been increases in drug abuse violations and convictions for fraud and forgery, which tend to be the types of crimes for which people are sentenced to probation. Some 96 percent of parolees had been convicted of a felony. Fifty-seven percent of those on probation had committed a felony, 40 percent were convicted of misdemeanors and the rest were found guilty of other infractions.

The 1998 parolee population was 55 percent white, 44 percent black, 21 percent Hispanic - who can be of any race - and 88 percent male. In 1990, 52 percent of parolees were white, 47 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic and 92 percent male.

Among those on probation, 79 percent were male, down from 82 percent in 1990. Whites made up 64 percent of probationers, down from 68 percent, while the share of blacks grew from 31 percent to 35 percent. Hispanics made up 15 percent of probationers, down from 18 percent in 1990. Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

Ont. police lay charges in 30-year-old murder

CALEDON, Ont. (CP) - Police, aided by /memory and DNA technology, have laid first-degree murder charges in two 30-year-old unsolved murder cases.

Ontario provincial police say they believe the arrests for the murders of Doreen Moorby and Helen Ferguson in May

1970 are the oldest “cold case” arrests in Canada. Moorby, 34, of nearby Gormley, answered the door to a stranger on May 6, 1970, and was subsequently sexually assaulted and shot to death.

Approximately two weeks later, on May 19, Ferguson, 38, of nearby Palgrave, Ont., answered her door to a stranger and was also sexually assaulted and shot to death. The murders shocked these sleepy farming communities northwest of Toronto, known for their pastoral rolling hills.

“I’m amazed,” Mary Ray, a retired schoolteacher who has owned a farm near Palgrave for 32 years, said of the arrest. “A lot of the people in the area went out and bought guard dogs after that happened - there was a lot of panic and a lot of concern around here.”

Even though some 3,000 suspects were interviewed at the time, police never made an arrest.

In 1997, Insp. Don MacNeil of the provincial police’s criminal investigations bureau was reassigned to the case. The 35-year veteran, who had worked on the original task force in 1970, remembered certain facts that caused him to follow up further, police said. That key evidence resulted in two first-degree murder charges laid against Ronald West, 52, formerly of Toronto.

West was to appear in a Brampton court on Wednesday.

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Police search for released murderer, in abuduction and rape case

By Valerie Schremp - Of the Post-Dispatch

Police are seeking a convicted murderer - who was charged in an assault last month - as a suspect in a rape and abduction Friday morning near the St. Louis Marketplace shopping center.

Maplewood and St. Louis police are asking for the public’s help in locating, Kevin Moore, 35, who last year was released after serving 17 years of a 150-year sentence for first-degree murder. Police said they believe he is the man who at 4 a.m. Friday abducted a 22-year-old woman near the Sam’s Food Club, in the 7900 block of Manchester Road, and raped and sodomized her.

According to police: The woman, a Norfolk, Va. woman who was in St. Louis visiting, was walking with her 8-year-old brother near the shopping center. They were seeking a 24-hour convenience store. A man pulled up to the woman in a 1991 red Pontiac Sunbird and asked if she needed a ride. Sensing trouble, the woman ran across the street to a used car lot and sent her brother to seek help.

The attacker found her hiding in the lot, pulled her by her hair, punched her in her stomach and forced her into the car. He drove to the 7200 block of Lyndover Place and the 7300 block of Zephyr Place, in Maplewood. He raped and sodomized her between buildings.

Later, the victim and her brother were able to give police a detailed description of the assailant and the car. Police recovered the Pontiac Sunbird about an hour after the assault. The car belongs to a woman they later determined is Kevin Moore’s girlfriend; they live near the site of the rape, in the 7200 block of Lyndover Place.

Moore was charged last month in an unrelated assault on a woman in Maplewood. When he received a court date in that case he was released, said Det. Sgt. Mark Griffin, who is investigating the rape and abduction.

Moore had been released from prison last year after serving 17 years for a robbery and murder in St. Louis in 1981. Moore, who was 17 at the time, and a 14-year-old youth held up a downtown gas station and shot a female clerk in the chest, killing her. They stole $400.

Moore was charged and convicted as an adult. “The real question is why was he released after only serving 17 years of a 150-year sentence,” said Griffin.

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Computer crime often hard to investigate; new laws, training needed to keep up with advances in technology, police say By Robert Tharp

Star-Telegram Staff Writer

ARLINGTON—The gumshoe work that left an Arlington ninth-grader facing time in a juvenile lockup after he wrote a threatening, racist email message to a former teacher took more time to complete than many homicide cases.

After the message was discovered in April, detectives quickly traced it to the Internet account used by the teen. But the investigation stalled for several months when the Internet provider demanded a subpoena before releasing any business records, leaving the teacher without knowledge of who had made the threats.

Investigating computer offenses is complicated, especially for offenses that amount to only misdemeanor charges. But it’s the kind of case police investigators are expecting to see more frequently as computer usage rises.

The trend leaves Arlington police and other departments in a quandary: Investigators believe crimes are being committed by computer users, but police don’t have the resources or training to uncover them. Complicating the issue are questions about jurisdiction when offenses occur in other cities and legal statutes that lag behind the computer age.

“We’re still in the infancy of that level of

investigation,” said Lt. Jay Six with the Arlington Police Department. “It’s one of those things that’s on the horizon. Internet-related offenses and computer fraud are conceivably the largest-growing segments of

crime. It’s so accessible.”

Threatening email messages, such as the one sent to Boles Junior High School teacher Perinza Anderson, are still relatively rare. Police say the telephone continues to be the most common way to convey threats. But Six said he believes that many threatening e- mail messages are probably not being reported.

Some laws are trailing behind technological developments. A threat conveyed in a computer message is defined as harassment because it doesn’t have the immediacy of communication over the phone. The laws don’t address automated computer programs that can send so many messages to a computer that they can debilitate it. Telephone threats are defined as terroristic threats and carry stiffer punishment.

“A terroristic threat involves an element of imminent bodily harm,” Six said. “You can harass the heck out of someone, but you can’t threaten someone. There has to be some degree of fear of bodily harm.”

But progress is being made. Investigators hope a law that goes into effect Wednesday will help slow down rampant forgeries being committed with the help of personal computers. Using an inexpensive computer, color printer and business software, counterfeiters have created realistic reproductions of personal and business checks.

The new law created by state legislators will make it a felony to be caught with blank checks that are not your own. Until now, police were powerless to arrest counterfeiters unless they were caught with completed counterfeit checks.

Six, who oversees the department’s criminal investigations, said police are trying to determine how to proceed with computer-investigation training.

Officials must decide whether to train investigators within the department, hire officers who already have the expertise or use contractors on a case-by- case basis.

Regardless, Six said, he believes offenses will increase as the department’s knowledge grows.

“Once you learn to do this, the floodgates are going to open,” he said.

Robert Tharp, (817) 548-5420

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Family Seeks Answers in Man's Slaying by Police During Raid on Home By BARBARA WHITAKER - August 28, 1999

COMPTON, Calif. -- Maria Derain stood before the gunshot-damaged doors that were propped on the front of her parents' house Friday, questioning why police fatally shot her 64-year-old father in his bedroom while executing a search warrant earlier this month.

"Why did they take my father away?" Ms. Derain asked. "We want answers. We demand answers."

Lawyers representing the family of Mario Paz said a federal civil rights complaint will be filed in an effort to fully explore why Paz was shot twice in the back as police from El Monte, a Los Angeles suburb, swept through the family's house at about 11 p.m. on Aug. 9., in search of drugs and drug money. "A homicide was committed in this house," said Brian Dunn, a lawyer with the firm of Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Ferrer. "Armed gunmen gained entry by shooting shots through windows and doors."

Dunn, whose law firm's most famous partner is Johnnie Cochran, who successfully represented O.J. Simpson in his murder trial, said Paz had no criminal record.

Lt. Mark Sullivan, a spokesman for the El Monte Police Department, said requests for comment were being handled by an assistant chief who was not on duty Friday. However, the department has justified using an elite SWAT team with about 20 members to enter the house, pointing to items found in searches executed a few days earlier at residences in the Los Angeles suburbs of Chino and La Puente. In those searches, the authorities found approximately 400 pounds of marijuana, three high-powered assault rifles and more than $75,000 in cash.

Although El Monte is about 25 miles northeast of Compton, authorities there have said it is not unusual for them to go to other jurisdictions as part of their investigations. The address of the Paz home, a modest blue stucco in South-Central Los Angeles, had been used by the person named in the search warrants, Marcos Beltran Lizarraga.

The family has said that Lizarraga lived in the neighborhood during the 1980s and in the past had mail sent to their address. But they maintain that they had no connections to him.

To enter the home, police used shotguns to blow locks off the doors and created a diversion in a back bedroom. The family said they believed a robbery was taking place. Earlier in the day, Paz had returned from Tijuana, Mexico, where he had taken $10,000, the remainder of a personal injury lawsuit, out of a bank. The money was in the house, family members said.

David Lynn, a private investigator hired by the lawyers representing the Paz family, said an extraordinary amount of violence was used to enter the house, particularly in light of who was there. "Mario Paz was never suspected of any criminal activity," Lynn said. "Mario Paz was a hard-working grandfather."

Lynn, who has worked as an investigator for the United Nations, questioned why police did not make more of an effort to find out who was in the house before using a violent means of entry.

"Why have they adopted a policy of shoot first and ask questions later?" Lynn said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported that four guns, a .22-caliber rifle and three pistols, were found in the house. However, none of the guns were within Paz's reach at the time of the shooting, people familiar with the setting in the bedroom have said.

Lawyers for the Paz family declined to discuss what happened in the bedroom prior to the shooting, which is being investigated by the Sheriff's Department and the El Monte Police Department's Internal Affairs Unit. Dunn said he had not decided whether to name the Compton police in his civil rights complaint. Compton police provided support to the El Monte authorities.

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Family asks $20M for killing by police - Wednesday, August 25, 1999 - By VERENA DOBNIK, The Associated Press

NEW YORK—The family of a young man who was fatally shot by police chasing him on a street in Westchester County filed a $20 million lawsuit Tuesday, likening his death to an “execution.” The civil suit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan accuses authorities in the village of Ossining of conspiring to cover up the truth in last year’s fatal shooting of Christopher Malone.

The case underscores long-standing tensions between black residents and the Police Department in Ossining, a village about 30 miles north of New York City best known for its maximum-security prison, known as Sing Sing. A county grand jury refused to indict the three officers who fired at the 24-year-old, but his family accuses village officials of tacitly encouraging police brutality against black residents. Hours after the shooting, a crowd of about 200 angry people gathered outside police headquarters to express doubts about the motives of the police.

The young man was shot on July 19, 1998, about 4 a.m. after a 911 caller reported that Malone had fired a gun near James Street moments earlier. When police arrived and told Malone to stop, he fled and they chased him, according to Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

Last September, Pirro announced that the grand jury determined that Malone was killed when he pointed a loaded .40-caliber pistol at the three officers during the chase. But the court complaint filed Tuesday alleges that the officers—Richard Damiano, Raymond DeBenedictis, and Daniel Slater—are “liable for the shooting and execution of Chris Malone in violation of his constitutional rights.”

Malone’s mother, Renee Malone, and Kimya Pitt, the mother of his son, allege that he was unarmed when he was struck by six bullets, most fired while he was on the ground. They also charge that five officers and two supervisors invented the version of events that led to the officers’ exoneration.

At a news conference in White Plains Tuesday, Malone’s mother sobbed as activist Lynn Gannett said, “Witnesses described the officers right up on top of him, pointing their guns down as they shot him.” One of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, William Goodman of the Center for Constitutional Rights in Manhattan, has said the family’s claims were based on witness accounts and the results of an autopsy. The officers shot Malone “when there was no danger to them,” Goodman said.

But the lawyer for the Ossining Police Benevolent Association, Warren Roth, has said that the officers were telling the truth and that their account was based on forensic and scientific evidence. Among the defendants is Ossining Mayor Thomas Cambriere.

Cambriere has said that the district attorney, county and state police, and the FBI conducted an investigation into the shooting, and that the officers were exonerated. Since the shooting, the village has hired four minority officers.

The family’s suit seeks $20 million for Malone’s mother and the mother of his 6-year-old son. “No one has the right to take a father away from his son, or a son away from his mother,” Renee Malone’s attorney, Regina Darby, told reporters.

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Corporal Rocky Wainwright

Georgia Department of Natural Resources, GA

Cause of Death: Accident (Unclassified)

End of Watch: August 19, 1999

Date of Incident: August 19, 1999

Time of Incident: 1100 hours

Age: 36

Tour of Duty: 12 yr

Suspect Info: n/a

Weapon Used: No weapon

My thoughts and prayers go to the Family, Friends and Colleagues of these Officers.

As you will notice, I now have an e-mail address for the Condolence Cards Program. My old e-mail address moose_man@videotron.ca is still valid

However, I will use the new address condolences@ strictly for the program.

So please use this address for any messages pertaining to the program. Respectfully,

Randall Perry - TopCops Condolence Card Program Coordinator, condolences@

Ranger Wainwright was killed when his three-wheeled ATV crashed into a tree.

Ranger Wainwright was part of a search party searching for a missing 11-year-old girl in Bibb County, Georgia. He was driving the ATV down a road, when he veered off the road in a curve and struck the tree.

He was the first Georgia DNR officer to be killed in the line of duty in over 25 years. Foul play is suspected in the disappearance of the girl. Corporal Wainwright had been with the agency for 12 years and is survived by his wife and two children.

Sergeant First Class Jeanne M. Balcombe

United States Army Military Police, US

Cause of Death: Gunfire

End of Watch: August 21, 1999

Date of Incident: August 21, 1999

Time of Incident: 0350 hours

Age: 33

Tour of Duty:

Suspect Info: Arrested

Weapon Used: Handgun

Sergeant Balcombe was shot and killed at Camp Red Cloud, South Korea, by one of her own soldiers. The suspect, who was drunk at the time, was upset that Sergeant Balcombe had ordered a blood test on one of the suspect's friends.

He then overpowered a South Korean soldier stationed at the base and took his sidearm. He shot Sergeant Balcombe three times, including once in the head, before fleeing the base.

He was captured later in the day by Korean National Police officers. Sergeant Balcombe was a member of the 55th Military Police Company. She is survived by her husband and two daughters.

Officer Richard Dawson

Pennsauken Police Department, NJ

Cause of Death: Automobile accident

End of Watch: March 7, 1999

Date of Incident: September 17, 1974

Time of Incident: Unknown

Age: 57

Tour of Duty:

Suspect Info: Unknown

Weapon Used: Automobile

Officer Dawson died 25 years after being involved in an automobile accident while en route to a burglary call. During the response, Officer Dawson lost control of his cruiser on wet, slippery pavement.

He suffered a broken neck and was rendered a quadriplegic. He died from injuries related to the accident. He is survived by his wife and son.

S L O W D A N C E

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round

Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down

Don't dance so fast

Time is short

The music won't last

Do you run through each day on the fly

When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,

do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast

Time is short

The music won't last

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow

And in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

'Cause you never had time to call and say "Hi"?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast

Time is short

The music won't last

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away...

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

Note: A little girl has 6 months left to live, and her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to the prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. She wants you take time to enjoy family and friends..... before it is too late.

Robert Dent - Senior Trooper, Oregon State Police

International Police Association Member # R30960

Bend, Oregon, USA.

"Police work gives you the test first then the lesson."

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survival-

Tired of constantly being broke, and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife (with himself as the beneficiary), and arranging to have her killed.

A "friend of a friend" put him in touch with a nefarious underworld figure, who went by the name of Artie". Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $5,000. The husband said he was willing to pay that amount, but that he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money.

Artie insisted on being paid SOMETHING up front. The man opened up his wallet,displaying the single dollar bill that rested inside. Artie sighed,

rolled his yes, and reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife to the local Safeway grocery store. There, he surprised her in the produce department, and proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands. As the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath and slumped to the floor, the manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the scene.

Unwilling to leave any witnesses behind, Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

Unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by hidden cameras and observed by the store's security guard, who immediately called the police.

Artie was caught and arrested before he could leave the store. Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the sordid plan, including his financial arrangements with the hapless husband.

And that is why, the next day in the newspaper, the headline declared-

(You're going to hate me for this)

"ARTIE CHOKES TWO FOR A DOLLAR AT SAFEWAY."

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"Professional Gambler"

During the Great Depression, there was this man who walked into a bar one day. He walked up to the bartender and said, "Bartender, I'd like to buy the house a round of drinks". The bartender said, "That's fine, but we're in the middle of the Depression, so I'll need to see some money first".

The guy pulls out a huge wad of bills and sets them on the bar. Well, the bartender can't believe what he's seeing. "Where did you get all that money?", asked the

bartender. "I'm a professional gambler", replied the man.

The bartender said, "There's no such thing! I mean, your odds are 50-50 at best, right?". "Well, I only bet on sure things" said the guy. "Like what?" asked the bartender.

"Well, for example, I'll bet you $50 that I can bite my right

eye." The bartender thought about it. "OK". So, the guy pulls out his false right eye and bites it. "Aw, you screwed me", said the bartender, and paid the guy his $50. "I'll give you another chance.

I'll bet you another $50 that I can bite my LEFT eye" said

the stranger. The bartender thought again and said, "Well, I know you're not blind, I mean I watched you walk in here. I'll take that bet".

So, the guy pulls out his false teeth and bites his left eye. "Aw, you screwed me again". "That's how I win so much money, bartender. I'll just take a bottle of your best scotch in leiu of the $50", said the man.

With that, the guy went to the back room and spent the better part of the night playing cards with some of the locals. After many hours of drinking and card playing, he stumbled up to the bar.

The guy, drunk as a skunk, said, "Bartender, I'll give you one last chance. I'll bet you $500 that I can stand on this bar here on one foot and piss into that whiskey bottle on that shelf behind you without spilling a drop".

The bartender once again pondered the bet. The guy couldn't even stand up straight on two feet, much less one. "OK, you're on". The guy climbed up on the bar, stood on one leg, and began pissing all over the place. He hit the bar, the bartender, himself, but not a drop made it into the whiskey bottle.

The bartender was ecstatic. Laughing, the bartender said, "Hey pal, you owe me $500!". The guy climbed down off the bar and said, "That's OK. I just bet each of the guys in the card room $1000 each that I could piss all over you AND the bar and still make you laugh!".

Corpus Sexus

A professor is giving the first year medical students their first lecture on autopsies, and decides to give them a few basics before starting. "You must be capable of two things to do an autopsy. The first thing is that you must have no sense of fear." At this point, the lecturer sticks his finger into the dead man's anus, and then licks

He asks all the students to do the same thing with the corpses in Front of them. After a couple of minutes' silence, they follow suit. "The second thing is that you must have an acute sense of observation:

I stuck my middle finger into the corpse's anus, but I licked my index." Mark decided to propose to Juanita, but prior to her acceptance, Juanita had to confess to her man about her childhood illness. She informed Mark that she suffered a disease that left her breasts the maturity of a 12-year-old. He stated that it was ok because he loved her soooo much.

However, Mark felt this was also the time for him to open up and admit that he also had a deformity too. Mark looked Juanita in the eyes and said...."I too have a problem. My penis is the same size as an infant and I hope you could deal with that once we are married."

She said "Yes I would marry you and learn to live with your infant size penis." Juanita and Mark got married and they could not wait for the Honeymoon. Mark whisked Juanita off to their hotel suite and they started touching, teasing, holding one another... As Juanita put her hands in Mark's pants she began to scream and run out of the room.

Mark ran after her to find out what was wrong. She stated to Mark, "You told me your penis was the size of an infant!" Mark said, "Yes, it is... 8 lbs., 7 oz., 19 inches long!!" PS: I have this same problem

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I'm only the web mistress for The Barn ...the HPD ...TopCops ...and several other sites. I created the Helping Hands Webring. I'm over the hill and people treat me like a "redheaded" stepchild. My mother still thinks I'm only 6 years old ...I can drive anything from a motorcycle to a MCI 8!!

I'm in the process of planning my daughter's wedding long distance as she's in Nashville, TN working for the HPD and I'm here in Atlanta ...;-((( the wedding is driving me nuts.... actually, it's my daughter that's driving me nuts!!! ..... it's going to be an outside "Western" wedding and anyone that wants to drop by and crash it is welcome ......my dog is my best and closest friend.

I've been a single parent since my daughter was 6 months old.... I’m the son that my brother never has been since he's always been in the military and retired 2 hours away from our folks...I hate housework...I have a degree in computer programming that I've never used.... I have 5 computers.... I’ve built 2 of them.

I earned my name "NiteOwl^" years ago by preferring to stay up all night and sleep all day. I'm a fanatic about computers and reading ...I love really good comedies, action movies and horror shows ...I HATE Jerry Springer type shows and I REFUSE to watch a soap opera ...I live off of coffee...I hate Winter and Summer.... except for the Holidays and when it snows....;-)) .... I’m the world's #1 procrastinator...

My real name is Therese...actually its Rosalie Therese Marie.... Trying putting all that plus a maiden name and a last name on a small dotted line!!! But everyone calls me Tee cause it's a hell of a lot faster to say and easier to spell...LOL

Web Master!! Denny Coarsey, Det’v. detdc83@hendersonville-

J.D Coarsey - detective I started out in law enforcement while attending State University in 1977. I worked as a campus security officer and was commissioned through the county sheriff's department. In 1979 I applied to the police department.

I served as a Patrol officer there until end of 1980. I then worked for the Police Department from 1980 ‘til 1984, serving the last three years as a Patrol Sergeant. I then returned to another police department and was assigned to criminal investigations Division. In 1986 I went to work for the County Sheriff's department as a Captain. I worked Narcotics and helped start the 17th Judicial Drug Task Force.

Three months of this year was undercover. In 1987 I again returned to and was assigned to the 18TH Judicial Drug Task Force. I served as asst. director as then as k-9 handler until 1990 at which time I returned to C.I.D.

I now handle all missing children and adults, as well as working major felony cases.

I helped form the Hendersonville Dive team. I have been chosen as Officer of the Year. I am a certified range instructor, Hostage Neg. numerous schools to long to list serve on Volunteer state College Board of Trustees and I serve on Jason Foundation for teen suicide. Further, I am a member Masonic lodge York Rite, Scottish Rite 32-degree mason Shriner, Licensed Auctioneer, licensed

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Top 25 Country Songs...

25. Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye.

24. Her Teeth Was Stained, But Her heart Was Pure.

23. How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

22. I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling.

21. I Just Bought A Car From A Guy That Stole My Girl,

22. But The Car Don't Run So I Figure We Got An Even Deal.

20. I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You.

19. I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well.

18. I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better.

17. I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dog Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win.

16. I'll Marry You Tomorrow But Let's Honeymoon Tonight.

15. I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Like Having You Here

14. I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lyin' On My Back and Cryin' Over You.

13. If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You.

12. If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To, I'd Be Out By Now.

11. Mama Get A Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head).

10. My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love You.

9. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him.

8. Please Bypass This Heart.

7. She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger.

6. You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat.

7. You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.

4. If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me.

3. She's Actin' Single and I'm Drinkin' Doubles.

2. She's Looking Better After Every Beer And the Number 1 Country and Western song of all Time is:

1. I Haven't Gone To Bed With Any Ugly

Women But I've Sure Woke Up With A Few

China Arrests 140,000 Drug Traffickers

(8/23/99) In the first half of the year, Chinese law enforcement officials arrested more than 140,000 drug traffickers and solved over 110,000 drug-related cases, according to the August 20 Hua Sheng Bao (Hua Sheng Overseas Chinese Newspaper).

An official from China’s National Narcotics Control Commission announced Aug. 19 that since 1997 a total of 15.4 tons of heroin has been seized and confiscated.

Despite these successes, it is becoming increasingly difficult for law enforcement to keep up with drug runners, especially in terms of weaponry and equipment, the official said.

As narcotics smugglers become more organized and armed, the police need to use ever more sophisticated and costly measures to apprehend them.

To finance these efforts, the government plans to take 8% of the proceeds from anti-smuggling fines and confiscated goods.

"Narcotics control should be part of overall economic and social development planning," the official stated. "Funding should increase annually, just like any other line item."

Anaheim police rally to find donors for ailing

August 28, 1999

By RACHEL TUINSTRA

The Orange County Register

ANAHEIM - Guy Reneau is most comfortable when he's working behind the scenes to help others, but now the Anaheim police detective hopes a stranger will help him.

Reneau is fighting leukemia and hopes a donor will be found who can give him the bone marrow he needs to conquer the cancer that invades his blood.

To help his fight, the Anaheim Police Association and the City of Hope are holding a bone-marrow registration and blood drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

today at the Anaheim Community Center.

The drive will also benefit Anaheim police Detective Judi Harmon, who is also fighting leukemia, and two children of other Anaheim police officers

who are fighting cancer.

"It does appear that we've had more than our fair share of grief in this area," said police Sgt. Joe Vargas.

For Reneau, the hardest part is feeling helpless while waiting for a donor to be found.

He said his co-workers have acted like an extended family by organizing the drive. "It's awkward. I've never been one to want attention drawn to me," Reneau said.

"But I appreciate every effort. It makes you realize how much they care. They are giving up blood, literally giving a part of themselves."

The drive will be held at 250 E. Center, Anaheim.

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