Officer Milton McKinnon

[Citizen of Miami]

Regarding this Article:

"05/24/2005 - A police officer and two other men were arrested Monday, accused of entering the home of a Brazilian man, threatening him and stealing a rare watch and more than $47,000 in cash......."


I would like to say that this website is very informative but may sometime only put the bad and not the good.

If you would have followed the case after in came out in the news. You would have known that Miami-Dade Investigators did not follow procedures on the investigation. And at the end they had to drop the case, because there was never evidence of the robbery or assault and the only witness to Mr. Decarvalho had actually came in to confess everything was lies. Yes maybe they didn't abide by the law, but the price to pay was their reputations and lives were forever changed and the society will never see them with the same respect as before. Everyone only cares to hear about the bad, and nobody wants to hear the good or the other side of the story.

[KC]

Citizen said:

Regarding this Article:

"05/24/2005 - A police officer and two other men were arrested Monday, accused of entering the home of a Brazilian man, threatening him and stealing a rare watch and more than $47,000 in cash......."


I would like to say that this website is very informative but may sometime only put the bad and not the good.

If you would have followed the case after in came out in the news. You would have known that Miami-Dade Investigators did not follow procedures on the investigation. And at the end they had to drop the case, because there was never evidence of the robbery or assault and the only witness to Mr. Decarvalho had actually came in to confess everything was lies. Yes maybe they didn't abide by the law, but the price to pay was their reputations and lives were forever changed and the society will never see them with the same respect as before. Everyone only cares to hear about the bad, and nobody wants to hear the good or the other side of the story.

After researching the "net" there is no mention of charges being dropped on officer Milton McKinnon. Although I did find a mug shot of officer McKinnon, that will go good with the rest of the officers pictures on the site.

I agree we don't always go back and see if there is an "update" to a story. If we run across an update, we will post it. Other wise it's up to the readers to notify us of any changes in a story or corrections that need to be made. We post anywhere from 10-20 stories a day of bad cops. That's sometimes well over 300 stories a month of cops that rape, kill, sell drugs, kidnap, etc. As you can see it's sort of hard to keep up with updates, let alone the current news.

Please feel free to post any updates on the case and we will certainly add it to the original story on the main site.

Just curious about something, while doing a "quick" search on the net for information on "officer Milton McKinnon," I came across another article about 6 years back. I wonder if officer Milton McKinnon is the same officer in this article from California?

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Pasadena, California, February 2, 1999 - Culver City Police Officer Milton McKinnon, a seven year veteran, was terminated by Chief Ted Cooke, upon recommendation of Capt. Don Ruetz, on September 17, 1998, for (1) an "unauthorized Code-3 response" to a family disturbance call; (2) driving on the wrong side of a divided roadway; (3) swerving the police car on and over the sidewalk to avoid a collision; and (4) damaging the police car by striking a light pole while trying to maneuver the car on the sidewalk between the light pole and a planter.

An LDF Plan participant, Officer McKinnon selected LDF panel Lawyers Michael P. Stone and Muna Busailah of Pasadena to handle his appeal.

Under the Culver City Personnel Rules, the Civil Service may assign an appeal hearing to an appointed hearing officer, or it may hear the appeal itself. In this case, the Commission appointed Arbitrator Walter F. Daugherty to hear the case, make findings of fact and conclusions of law, and propose a decision for adoption by the Commission.

In his findings of fact and conclusions of law, Daugherty found that Chief Cooke’s decision to terminate McKinnon was "arbitrary, unreasonable and excessive". The evidence, he wrote, failed to support the charges that McKinnon performed an "unauthorized" Code-3 response. In any event, no "authorization" was required to initiate a Code-3 response and no manual provision or rule so provided. Moreover, Daugherty found that McKinnon did not "swerve" his car over a sidewalk to "avoid a collision" as theorized by the Department. McKinnon did, however, damage the unit by trying to maneuver the car between the light pole and the planter................................