Police Corruption Ignored

[J Andy Gallogly]

Hello:

I owned a night club in Tampa Florida for seven years.
Before I ever opened the doors, I was threatened by a sheriff’s deputy (Rocky Rodriguez) that narcotic trafficking in the club will happen.

Not long after we opened, I received numerous reports that it was true and I went to the FBI to report the activity, their advice was to tell the sheriff’s office. I replied, “it is the sheriff’s office” causing this activity (I had called the sheriffs office before to report criminal
activity going on and begged them to come inside to stop it, the officer said it was private property and there was nothing he could do and took off in his cruiser).

A lot of information came from strippers pressed into working for these criminals and they wanted to turn on these guys but no one would help.

After going to the F.B.I. to report the criminal activity I started receiving death threats. I then had one of the drug dealers get in my face and say I was playing both sides of the law. To make matters worse one of the other dealers went to my accountant, told her I was a
racist questioned my books, and then told her that he was Keith Hamilton of Florida’s A. B. T. When she gave me his physical description I confronted him in the club and told him what I thought of him. It turns out that this is not the real Keith Hamilton, but a dealer with the sheriffs protection.

A gun was planted in my apartment in Saint Petersburg and I reported it to the F.B.I. Again nothing happened.

In the seven years I owned the club, I witnessed extortion, prostitution, planting of evidence, narcotic trafficking, perjury, grand theft, mail tampering, and assault, to list but a few of the criminal activity done under the protection of the Hillsboro Sheriff’s office.

I have since closed the club and filed a suit. Any help to bring light to my investigation would be welcome. For the more on the police corruption in Tampa Bay being ignored by local government, Please go to.

www.copsandhookers.com

Sincerely,

J. Andy Gallogly

[Guest]

Errr, so you owned a strip club for 7 years and were surprised that not only were the girls doing drugs, but they were whoring themselves out?

Where have you been living, man? The Mormon Tabernacle?

[Appollyon]

"I must believe the officer"

How many times have we heard this in court? How does this work? The Constitution say all equal in a court of law.

Why do they say ‘until’ proven guilty instead of ‘unless’ proven guilty? Why would an officer be more believable than I? There was a cop in Albuquerque that raped several women, not one, several women.

The law says that we have the right to drive to a safe place if an officer wants us to pull over. This means any lighted area with witnesses or even the police station if you can. How many of you think you can?

I myself believe that I would be run off the road and several officers would beat me to death. Knowing this would you exercise this right? If you call any of the law enforcement agencies they'll just tell you to call someone else and days later you'll still not had an answer. No law agency will supply you with tools to inhibit their reign of terror.

I brought up the case of the officer that raped several women but that's just recently. This has been happening for a while. It's not just big city stuff either. A Cloudcroft officer was arrested for abusing his son.

The officer who killed himself on Florida Ave. was being investigated for stealing and dealing drugs.

It isn't just the police that are so trustworthy and honest. An ex Ruidoso Downs judge decided after 17 years to see if all was forgotten in his molestation case. It wasn’t and he was arrested for molested two girls.

NEW MEXICO CITIZENS LIVE IN FEAR OF THEIR POLICE

When the supervisor of the Albuquerque Police Department's Cold Case Squad criticized the grieving mother of a homicide victim for questioning the actions of "an impeccable police department," the families of over a dozen New Mexico murder victims decided to take a long look at that "impeccable" department, as well as other investigative agencies in the Albuquerque area. What that group has uncovered underscores the headline in the Albuquerque Journal, “The citizens of Albuquerque are afraid of their cops.” Honest police officers are almost as intimidated as the public -- afraid to speak out against their colleagues and supervisors for fear of retaliation against themselves or their loved ones.

Police in New Mexico have a long and on-going track record of murder, bank robbery, kidnapping, extortion, sex crimes, burglary, drug dealing, aggravated battery, auto theft, fraud, brutality, entrapment, the planting and/or destruction of evidence, intimidation of witnesses, and - above all - the cover-up of crimes committed by police officers.

According to the battered wife of Deputy Scott Finley. a member of the Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department's elite Crime Suppression Unit, when she threatened to call 911 to report a vicious beating. her husband's response was: "Go ahead and call. How can you break the law when you are the law?”

10/22/87: City Attorney Pat Bryan told investigators that he was present when APD Chief Sam Baca offered secret intelligence file information to Jim Baca. Tapes of investigators' interview with Chief Baca suddenly became "missing."

1989: The Albuquerque Police Department was sued by a citizen's group that wanted access to the APD intelligence files to see whether they contained evidence of unconstitutional police investigation of political figures who were not under suspicion of wrong doing. The police had the intelligence files burned one half hour before a federal judge issued a restraining order to prevent their destruction.

4/3/89: APD Officer Matt Griffin shot and killed Michael Howard, a resident of Cibola Village Apts., when Howard caught Griffin in the parking lot attempting to steal his car.

8/5/95: MELANIE MCCRACKEN SUSPICIOUS DEATH: Melanie, wife of New Mexico State Police Sgt. Mark McCracken, died of unidentified causes - (the NIMSP tried to pass the death off as "accident related"; Sgt. McCracken stated that his wife died of cancer (although she didn't have cancer or any other disease) expert witness, Dr. John Smialek, issued a written opinion that Melanie died as a result of "homicidal suffocation.") The NMSP refused to let an outside agency investigate the case, stating there was "no conflict of interest," and showed their support of Sgt. McCracken by promoting him to the rank of lieutenant. This case was featured on 48 Hours. (See the Melanie McCracken Justice Report. A link to this case can be found in the Stephanie Houston Justice Report.) (Note just recently they dropped the charges for lack of evidence)

6/25/98: Katherine Teupell was awarded a $235,000 settlement for claims against the Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department and the Albuquerque Police Department for their use of a "We don't do blue" policy in dealing with an officer accused of beating his wife.

Teupell alleged police extended `professional courtesy" to her husband, Scott Finley, a member of the Sheriff Department's elite Crime Suppression Unit.

Teupell testified she fled from her home with her children, 6 and 2, still in pajamas, on the night of Oct. 18, 1993, after Finley beat her. Teupell that said when she threatened to call police, Finley responded, "Go ahead and call. How can you break the law when you are the law?" Although the APD officer who responded to the call confiscated Finley's police revolver, other officers who took over at the scene returned it.

2/27/00: STEPHANIE HOUSTON SUSPICIOUS DEATH: Stephanie's jealous and abusive boyfriend ran her over with his truck when he suspected her of seeing another man. The New Mexico State Police insist Stephanie's death was an accident, although the medical examiner has labeled it a homicide.

The scene investigator, Sgt. Mark McCracken., is under investigation in the SUSPICIOUS death of his own wife, Melanie McCracken. (See the Stephanie Houston and Melanie McCracken Justice Reports.)

4/23/00: APD Officer Tom Benard committed "aggravated battery with a deadly weapon" by beating a handcuffed homicide suspect with a metal baton. (It was later confirmed that the suspect was the
wrong person.) The suspect sustained head injuries.

A police belt tape recorded Benard telling a colleague, "I popped him one good in the head for you." An Internal Affairs Investigation found sufficient evidence to support allegations of excessive force.

7/9/00: Albuquerque Journal: APD Officer Robert Middleton chased pedestrian, William Lancaster, 18,
and ran over him with his police car, causing numerous broken bones and brain damage. Lancaster was
suspected of planning to shoplift a six-pack of beer.

9/5/00: APD Officer Andrew LeHocky sicced his 80-pound attack dog, Bart, on Eddie Mae Patterson, an unarmed homeless woman who was asleep at the time. Another city officer allegedly slapped the wounded Patterson, who is black, and used ethnic slurs against her while she was in an ambulance on her way to the hospital.

Patterson was left strapped to a gurney for seven hours and wasn't allowed proper follow-up medical care for the deep gash on her arm after she was booked into Bernalillo County Detention Center. LeHocky and Ban had recently been recognized with an "Officer of the Month" award.

5/23/02: During an arrest by APD, Detective Gerald Hicks observed a bystander taking notes. Hicks demanded to see the notes, and the bystander, David Shaw, stated they were personal notes and were none of the detective's business. Hicks responded by grabbing Shaw in a chokehold and throwing him to the ground, confiscated the notes, and filed a criminal complaint against Shaw for refusing to obey him.

5/26/02, Albuquerque Journal: APD DOG BITES COST CITY MORE THAN $940,000: The city of Albuquerque, over the past decade, has paid more than S725.000 to settle APD dog-bite claims.

Meanwhile, private lawyers defending K-9 officers in ongoing lawsuits have billed the city another $217,000 in fees and costs over the past two years. Police dogs have bitten dozens of citizens who were neither armed nor violent. In some cases, police gave no verbal warning a dog would be unleashed.

Officers in several cases allowed their dogs to continue biting suspects after the initial apprehension. In one case, an unarmed suspect was ordered to walk toward a police officer with the police dog still clenching her buttock.

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Guest said:

Errr, so you owned a strip club for 7 years and were surprised that not only were the girls doing drugs, but they were whoring themselves out?

Where have you been living, man? The Mormon Tabernacle?

opinions are like assholes we all have them