Officer's body camera reveals 'unprofessional conduct'
PHOENIX - Video has just been released of a Phoenix Police officer fired for unprofessional conduct. That officer wore a department-issued body camera for three months. The video captured by that body camera led to his termination.
This all started with one complaint against the officer for unprofessional conduct. Investigators went back and looked at all of his body camera videos. He was eventually fired after what they saw.
Video: "Turn around and look at me because I'm [expletive] talking to you, you piece of [expletive] now get the [expletive] over here."
Officer Richard Greco on a domestic violence call: "What in the [expletive] is your problem? What do I want you to say? Why can't you get along with your family? Why are you pulling your wife out of the car? Then [expletive] you, you're going to jail."
And on another call talking to a possible victim of domestic violence: "I've got one tool, that tool is to beat people up and take them to jail."
Then he said this to an African-American driver: "Do you have a license? To be honest I would be surprised if you did."
Greco: "Do you ever hear the words that are coming out of your mouth? Turn off the car. Sit there. Idiot."
And to a suspect in back of his patrol car.
Suspect: "Don't talk to me I'll cry in my own blues."
Greco: "[expletive], you [expletive] I'll talk to you all I want to. You're in my [expletive] patrol car."
Suspect: "Yes sir."
Greco: "That's more like it."
Suspect: "Can I cry?"
Greco: "Yeah go ahead please."
Suspect: "Don't call me a [expletive]."
Greco: "Okay."
Suspect: "Thank you officer."
Greco: "You're welcome, [expletive]."
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/22798945/2013/07/09/officers-body-camera-reveals-unprofessional-conduct
Recently fired Police Chief Garcia was the one who initiated the changes, this and other accountability changes made him unpopular with the police unions which led to calls for his firing from city hall Republicans
Subsequently, Sergeant Percy Dupra, a 19-year veteran of the force, shot Cusseaux, who was taken to a hospital, where she died.
At the press conference, Garcia spoke of his face-to-face meeting with Cusseaux's mom, Frances Garrett, a couple of days earlier.
The chief said "the hurt in her face" and Garrett's words "touched my heart."
Based on the conversation, Garcia said, he asked the DPS to take over the criminal investigation of the shooting.
Normally, in all such officer-involved shootings, the Phoenix Police Department performs both internal and criminal investigations.
A review of the criminal investigation by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for possible charges is standard.
But on the Wednesday before the presser, Garcia issued a statement making it sound as if he was doing something different by asking County Attorney Bill Montgomery to "conduct a second -- and independent -- review of the [PPD's] criminal investigation."
In the same press release, Garcia stated that his department's "heartfelt thoughts" were with Cusseaux's family.
Still, the family wanted the criminal investigation done by an outside agency, and Garcia dutifully complied, one day after Cusseaux's family and its supporters marched her coffin through the streets of Phoenix to City Hall.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2014/08/lemons_fear_of_ferguson.php
I support police like him. Also the crime numbers are done as well.
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