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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalif Highway Patrol "game". take explicit photos from phones of female arrestees to share
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Disturbing-texts-in-CHP-officers-nude-photo-5846327.php#photo-7048262CHP officers are accused in court documents of taking photos from suspects phones and forwarding them to others.
California Highway Patrol officers have been sharing explicit photos of female suspects for years as part of a game, an officer implicated in the scandal told investigators, court records show.
CHP Officer Sean Harrington, 35, of Martinez, acknowledged to Contra Costa County prosecutors that he had forwarded photos from the cell phone of a woman he had arrested in a DUI case, sent them to his own phone and had shared them with at least two other CHP officers, according to a search warrant filed in Superior Court.
Harrington said he had done the same thing to at least six other female arrestees in the past several years, authorities said. After taking arrestees photos, officers would share pictures with one another and exchange comments about each womans looks, Harrington told district attorney inspectors. Harrington said he first learned of the practice while working for the CHP in Los Angeles, investigators said.
Harrington described this scheme as a game, Darryl Holcombe, a senior inspector wrote in a search warrant affidavit.
One alleged victim was a 19-year-old woman, identified in court records only as Jane Doe 2, who had been involved in a DUI crash in Livermore on Aug. 7. The woman had two photos of her in a bikini taken from her phone as she was undergoing X-rays after being in a crash, investigators said.
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Calif Highway Patrol "game". take explicit photos from phones of female arrestees to share (Original Post)
Liberal_in_LA
Oct 2014
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Not a word on how officers involved are being handled. Want to bet paid admin leave?
Mnemosyne
Oct 2014
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. Not a word on how officers involved are being handled. Want to bet paid admin leave?
Logical
(22,457 posts)2. You are correct. A paid vacation is their punishment. Nt
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)4. What a country!
not
gerogie2
(450 posts)3. But because of kidnappers police should have full access to your cell phone.
At least according to the director of the FBI.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)5. and the rape culture continues. the god given right and privilege to pornify all and every woman.
without consent.
Wella
(1,827 posts)6. CHP: they beat up one woman and are now sexually exploiting others.
Do women matter so little?
cui bono
(19,926 posts)7. These are the type of men that should be barred from being LEO.
Unfortunately it seems these are the very type LE attracts. So sick of this shit.