Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle hit by train sentenced to probat

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle that was hit by a train sentenced to 30 months probation, 100 hours community service

By Caroll Alvarado, CNN
Published 6:02 PM EDT, Sat September 16, 2023

(CNN) — A police officer in Colorado who placed a handcuffed suspect into a police SUV that was then hit by a train, was sentenced to supervised probation and public service, her attorney said.

Fort Lupton officer Jordan Steinke will serve 30 months of supervised probation and 100 hours of public service, according to attorney Mallory A. Revel.

In July, Judge Timothy Kerns found the former officer guilty of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault, but found her not guilty of a felony charge of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter, CNN previously reported.

“There’s no reasonable doubt that placing a handcuffed person in the back of a patrol car parked on railroad tracks creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm by the train,” Kerns said while reading the verdict.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/16/us/colorado-police-car-train-suspect-inside-probation/index.html

[Beaverhausen]

1. Not enough

I hope he was also fired?

[magicarpet]

5. ... and hopefully never to be re-certified or rehired by any police department ,...

.... in the USA, by order of the court. Too stupid, too idiotic, too incoherent, too uncaring to hold the power and authority of a law enforcement officer.

How could you not see the inherent danger of parking on railroad tracks. They were overly excited to invoke their authority and detain her to get her out of the way. Then they could search her vehicle uninterrupted - but lacking a required search warrant to legally do so.

This abuse of police authority almost cost this young woman her life - all for a minor traffic infraction.

I have the power over you,.. I'll be damned if I am not going to use it - no matter how abusively - to feed my precious ego.


Note: This one was a female. But there were two male officers also on this detail. Not one of them foresaw the impending danger of parking the police vehicle on the rail tracks with the detained and handcuffed driver they just stopped locked inside. Shortly thereafter a train blasting its whistle slammed into the side of the police car parked on the tracks. A ten year old would have foreseen the inherent dangers of doing so.

[Demovictory9]

9. She was fired

[Wonder Why]

2. Laughable, but truly sad. No wonder bad people become 👮

[Stardust Mirror]

3. terms of probation include no weapons, alcohol or illegal substance use/possession

just kidding - those probation terms are only for the lowly peons

[multigraincracker]

4. Those regular folks of the town

Will suffer from paying for the Civil case.

[magicarpet]

7. This mindless bullshit should pay civil liabilities out of the police pension funds.

Then the good cops would clamor to get the bad cops and idiots off the force pronto. As the current system exists the taxpayer gets stuck with the entire bill for this blatant stupidity. There is no incentive for the cops to police their own ranks and weed out the problem cops.

[Stardust Mirror]

8. I like that idea

what would any arguments against this be?

[Sneederbunk]

6. Probation includes classes on situational awareness.