Officer Driving Van HAS YET TO GIVE STATEMENT To Authorities

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34. The Albuquerque Police Union paid a $500 bounty to Officers who shot people

http://www.pressherald.com/2012/03/23/police-union-gives-payments-to-officers-involved-in-shootings_2012-03-24/

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque police officers involved in a rash of fatal shootings over the past two years were paid up to $500 under a union program that some have likened to a bounty system in a department with a culture that critics have long contended promotes brutality.

Mayor Richard Berry called Friday for an immediate halt to the practice, which was first reported in the Albuquerque Journal during a week in which Albuquerque police shot and killed two men. Since 2010, Albuquerque police have shot 23 people, 18 fatally.

“The administration has nothing to do with how the union conducts their business,” Berry said in a statement, “but I was shocked yesterday when made aware of this practice. I cannot stand aside and condone this practice. It needs to end now.”

Here's an oldie I found way back in 1992

"Spokane Police union offers squealer bounty"

Tho police union is offering $1,000 for the names of the officers who leaked to newspapers the identities of two patrolmen accused of hiring teen-age prostitutes

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19920619&id=2IRTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=84YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3629,1873654&hl=en