{"id":179028,"date":"2018-06-12T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/12\/support-your-local-police-18\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:32:00","slug":"support-your-local-police-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/12\/support-your-local-police-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Your Local Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PxGXgGd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PxGXgGd.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Baltimore&#8217;s own Gun Trace Task Force<\/i><\/div>\n<p>A police chief in Florida decided that it would be good to have a 100% clearance rate on burglaries, so he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2018\/06\/11\/police-framed-a-teen-for-four-burglaries-so-chief-could-tout-perfect-clearance-rate-feds-say\/?utm_term=.4e4528c98df3\">framed a teen to close 4 cases<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Raimundo Atesiano had a statistic to tout at a town council meeting in Biscayne Park, a village of 3,000 in the middle of Florida\u2019s Miami-Dade County.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Biscayne Park Police Department, where Atesiano was chief at the time, had a clearance rate of 100 percent for burglaries, he said at the July 2013 meeting, according to federal court documents.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the statistics were a fictitious stunt to gain favor with elected officials, according to an indictment filed by Benjamin G. Greenberg, the U.S. attorney in South Florida.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Atesiano, with the help of two officers from his department, conspired to falsely arrest and charge a 16-year-old with four unsolved burglary cases that year, prosecutors said Monday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Atesiano and the two former officers, Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, were charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law and deprivation of the 16-year-old\u2019s civil rights. If convicted, the three could face 11-year prison sentences.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not enough time in jail for these folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore&#8217;s own Gun Trace Task Force A police chief in Florida decided that it would be good to have a 100% clearance rate on burglaries, so he framed a teen to close 4 cases: Raimundo Atesiano had a statistic to tout at a town council meeting in Biscayne Park, a village of 3,000 in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,526,374],"class_list":["post-179028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}