Cop posts nude pics of himself

[helping friend]

Question for everyone......I have a friend that is going through a seperation from his wife. His brother in law is a cop.....and as it turns out this cop has been sending nude pics of himself to my friends wife. This cop is sending nude pics of himself over the Net.

Can you give your opinion as to what I should do.......I'm worried that if I forwarded the pics to his office I'd get in trouble with the law.

[WaTcHeR]

You don't say what the wife thinks of all this? She would have to be the one to file a complaint. She would need to go to the police and explain that she's getting email of a nude man sent to her and ask what action could be taken by the police. She doesn't have to say it's a police officer right off the bat, just that she knows who he is.

As far as getting in trouble, the picture is of an adult and the cops are all adults.

Now if your buddy is upset with the cop, I'd be happy to post the cops picture on here for the world to see.

The cops sounds like a loser to me.

[Shuftin]

Some years back a female cop posed for playboy. She was fired as a result of this. I forget the exact reason that was given. I do know that a cop can be fired for "Conduct unbecoming of a police officer". This applies to officers who are of duty.

[KC]

12/10/04 - California - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that San Diego, California, officials were right to fire a policeman who sold sexually explicit videotapes of himself in uniform.

The unsigned, unanimous opinion reverses a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of the officer, who sued under the alias John Roe and claimed his free speech rights were violated.

At issue was the scope of the First Amendment, which protects government workers from discharge if their conduct involves a "public concern" rather than personal, job-related issues such as salary or promotions.

"The speech in question was detrimental to the mission and functions of the employer," justices said in the ruling, noting that Roe "took deliberate steps to link his videos and other wares to his police work, all in a way injurious to his employer."

[KC]

Ninth Circuit Rules Pornographic Videotapes Made by Police Officer Deserve Free Speech Protection

January 30, 2004 - Pornographic videotapes of himself made by a San Diego police officer and sold over the Internet were constitutionally protected expressive activity, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.

The 2-1 decision revives a suit by the officer, who was fired after his supervisors learned of the tapes and sought damages and reinstatement.

The court said U.S. District Court Judge Judith N. Keep of the Southern District of California erred in dismissing the suit. Keep ruled that the tapes, in which the partially masked officer stripped off a generic police uniform and engaged in solitary sexual conduct, did not deal with a matter of “public concern” and were not entitled to constitutional protection.

In an opinion joined by Senior Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, Judge Raymond C. Fisher said the officer’s “expressive conduct falls within the protected category of citizen comment on matters of public concern, rather than employee comment on matters related to his personal status in the workplace.” Keep, he said, should have balanced the former officer’s free speech rights against the Police Department’s interest in “promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs.”

The officer was identified by the pseudonym John Roe under an order issued by Keep to protect his privacy. According to the allegations contained in his complaint, his supervisors discovered the videotapes, which were being sold on an adults-only section of e-Bay, when a sergeant found a uniform formerly used by the department for sale under his username, “[e-mail].”

The sergeant searched for other items being offered for sale by “Code3stud” and found the videotapes, along with a photograph of the seller he recognized as Roe. San Diego police conducted an undercover operation in which officers not only purchased the tapes “Code3stud” was offering, but ordered and received a tape made to their specifications in which Roe issued a citation to another man before beginning his sexual performance.

Fisher said a public employee’s speech must be categorized as either speech on a metter of public concern or on matters of only of personal interest for the purpose of determining whether it is entitled to constitutional protection.

Keep should have applied a balancing test to determine whether a constitutional violation had occurred, Fisher explained.

Judge Kim M. Wardlaw dissented, arguing that the majority had announced an “astonishing new rule” in an opinion that “so dilutes the ‘public concern’ threshold...as to read it out of existence.”

“The pornographic nature of Roe’s videos is highly relevant because it establishes under our precedent that Roe’s speech is not on a matter of public concern,” she contended, adding:

“The test exists to exempt from employer discipline public employee discourse at the ‘highest’ level of protected speech— not the lowest level.”

The case is Roe v. City of San Diego, 02-55164.

www.metnews.com/articles/2004/roex013004.htm

[helping friend]

Yes, I would like it if you could post his pic......I don't know how to send you the pic.......but I will if you can tell me where to post it........I can supply his name as well.

Thanks!!!!

watcher said:

You don't say what the wife thinks of all this? She would have to be the one to file a complaint. She would need to go to the police and explain that she's getting email of a nude man sent to her and ask what action could be taken by the police. She doesn't have to say it's a police officer right off the bat, just that she knows who he is.

As far as getting in trouble, the picture is of an adult and the cops are all adults.

Now if your buddy is upset with the cop, I'd be happy to post the cops picture on here for the world to see.

The cops sounds like a loser to me.

[WaTcHeR]

helping said:

Yes, I would like it if you could post his pic......I don't know how to send you the pic.......but I will if you can tell me where to post it........I can supply his name as well.

Thanks!!!!

Sure I'll post his picture. You will have to sign up as a member of the board and "e-mail" me through this board. Then I can tell you a couple of ways you can send me the picture.

For other readers who want to see pictures of "BAD COPS" with there clothes on, you can go to the link below.

flyservers.registerfly.com/members5/policecrime.com/police_picture.html

[Chris]

There isa new stark naked police officer (Officer Streaker) who can be found on my website www.chrisgilman.com/funstuff page. Needless to say, we have a lot of fun with satire.

We have had a lot of trouble with our local police, (I thought our laws applied to everyone... silly me!) and found the best way to cope with our particularly bad situation is to laugh at it. They, however, are not amused.

I hope you enjoy it.

Chris
www.chrisgilman.com/funstuff