Follow me The following post was originally published at Reason.com by Elizabeth Nolan Brown and details media coverage of sex crimes by police heroes within the space of just one week. That works out to an average of more than two per day and that’s only the ones we know
Follow me In December, a complaint by a Las Vegas elementary school teacher led to the arrest of Michael Timothy Skelton, an overnight custodian, for masturbating on school property. However, within the course of researching that story Darcy Spears, a local news reporter, uncovered information that shows the school police
Follow me Last month, I posted about Bret Theil, who was one of two LVMPD officers to be involved in an armed standoff with Metro’s own SWAT team during the same week. Unlike most regular citizens, Theil survived his encounter with SWAT completely unscathed, in spite of being armed, and
Follow me Bret Theil, one of the LVMPD officers that (eventually) entered Stephen Paddock’s room, was arrested for sexual abuse of a child, leading to speculation of ulterior motives for those charges. Yesterday, I did a post about LVMPD Officer Bret Theil, the latest in a long and fast growing
Follow me On Wednesday (Feb. 7), it was announced that Officer Bret Theil, who has been with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department since 1998, had been indicted on charges related to the sexual abuse of a child. After his indictment was announced, Theil was involved in an armed standoff
Follow me Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth L. Hatch III was facing 20 charges of sexual assault against three minors, including one who was just six years old at the time. However, instead of refiling charges after his first trial ended in a hung jury, the Maine Attorney General’s Office offered
Follow me It should come as no surprise to our readers that our police here in Nevada, Las Vegas Metro in particular, are corrupt from the top down. From Metro’s Sheriff “Lyin’ Joe” Lombardo, his Undersheriff Kevin “Vagina Man” McMahill, all the way down to Commanders like Captain Yasenia Yatomi,
Follow me In December of last year, I posted about a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer who had been convicted of numerous abuse-related offenses after his son escaped from a makeshift dungeon he had created in the basement of his house. On Wednesday, that officer was sentenced to 15 years
Follow me California taxpayers will be forced to pay a woman that was seriously injured after falling out of an LAPD squad car in 2013 $3.5 million. (Video embedded below.) Kim Nguyen, who was being arrested on charges of being drunk in public, was handcuffed at the time she fell
Follow me Officer Travis Disney of the Wapato Police Department has been sentenced to “time served,” plus one year of probation for sexually assaulting a woman. (According to a different account, that woman was his wife) Disney had attacked the woman after an argument reportedly “got out of control.” He
