Posted by Kasey Christopher Clark David E. Mastagni The alleged bases of Farnsworth’s termination were a failure to properly report an on-duty vehicle accident, commingling of evidence, permitting an informant to drive without a license, alleged insubordination in Internal Affairs (IA), and dishonesty in the preparation of a number of […]
Agent Ricardo Salazar is an 11-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol assigned to the San Diego Sector. The first eight years of Salazar’s career with the Border Patrol was unremarkable from a discipline standpoint, and he was consistently rated by his supervisors as either “outstanding” or “fully successful” on […]
Posted by Harry Stern Arbitrator Joe Henderson has returned Oakland Police Officer Kwang Lee to work after the department fired him in April 2001. At the conclusion of a three-day evidentiary hearing, Henderson determined that the city of Oakland terminated Lee without just cause. Lee grew up in Milpitas and, […]
On March 26, 2001, Jason Schechterle, a 30-year-old Phoenix police officer, was responding to a call, a routine event on his tour of duty that evening. The routine tour came to an abrupt end when the 1998 Ford Crown Victoria he was driving was rear-ended by a taxicab. The Crown […]
It was just supposed to be another traffic stop. At least that is what Manhattan Beach Police Officer Eric Eccles thought when he activated the overhead lights of his patrol unit to stop a 1965 Oldsmobile on December 29, 2001. He never imagined that he would be sitting in court […]