Portis was called to a woman's home on a 911 call and raped her instead.  He offered her $250 for further sex acts.

This is highly disturbing.

If proven true, this police officer seems to have preyed upon minors from an immigrant community, showing up at his house and forcing him to strip for his sexual gratification.

NOPD GPS data showed that Sirois was near the family's home for no good reason.  I'm glad this family came forward.

 Apparently Johnny De La Rosa was initially able to convince the police that he shot a woman in self-defense after she had stabbed him.  That's why she was arrested and spent ten days in jail.

Luckily we live in an age where there are video cameras everywhere, documenting everything.  This isn't the 1950s anymore, so she won't be rotting away in prison because he said he was the real victim.

The cameras showed that in the moments before the attack, De La Rosa attempted to hit the woman with his car.   He then grabbed her and tried to push her into oncoming traffic.  That was when she stabbed him. 

She told police he was harassing her for months.  He was a clerk at a convenience store who hit on her when she would go in.  She reported it to his manager and he was fired.  Then he started showing up at her job.  He's charged with stalking. 

It's not clear if the aggravated assault charge against her will be dropped or why it took them ten days to get her story or the corroborating video.

This would actually be kind of funny if Hair's supervisor wasn't still working there, to my knowledge.

From CBS8:

"SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Police Department officer resigned from his post after he accidentally locked himself in the backseat with a woman for more than an hour while he was transporting her to Las Colinas Women's Detention Center. 

On the night of Aug. 15, 2023, the two-year police veteran, Hair was one of several officers to help with the arrest of two people suspected of car theft. One of the people arrested was an unidentified woman who also had a bench warrant out for her arrest. 
Minutes into the transport, Hair and the woman began to speak. Their conversation was picked up by Hair's body camera that was attached to his uniform.
Woman: "Are you married?"
Officer Hair: "Why are you asking that?"
Woman: "You're not too bad. What's it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That's the way I see s---t."
Hair continued driving towards police headquarters. Minutes later the body camera microphone picked up moans coming from the backseat. 
Woman: "Are you single?"
Officer Hair: "Yeah. But you're not."

The conversation then turned illicit.
Woman: "I'm down to f--- right now."
Hair: "Don't say that right now...Don't say that right now because everything is being recorded right now."
For the next several minutes, as Hair sped towards Las Colinas, little could be heard between the two. As he approached Las Colinas, Hair asked what the woman was doing in the backseat. 
His police cruiser then slowed and Hair turned off his body camera.
According to the GPS tracking system inside Hair's police cruiser, Hair's car quickly slowed to seven miles per hour before turning down a dark residential street just blocks away from Las Colinas. 
At 1:34 a.m., Hair's police cruiser stopped. 

More than twenty minutes after the police cruiser stopped, Hair called a fellow officer asking if he had a master key for the patrol cars. 
In a subsequent interview, the unnamed officer described the conversation to internal affairs investigators.
"I heard and noticed Officer Hair had a panicky voice," said the officer. "I asked him if he was okay. He said, yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me...I asked why he was asking and what did he need. Officer Hair then asked me If I could go meet him. I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood... I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed."
After some back and forth, Hair finally said that he was locked in the backseat of his police cruiser with a woman that he was transporting to Las Colinas.
At 2:40 a.m., after more than an hour in the backseat with the woman, a supervisor arrived and opened the door."

Okay, Dumbest Holtzclaw Ever.

• How many Ring cameras were you on there dummy?
  
• You didn't roll the window down so you could let yourself back out?
  
• You were in the back seat anyway, you didn't get out of the car where there aren't cameras?
  
• You didn't call one of your off-duty cop buddies to help you?  Because you saw how he opened the door, right?  The trick was to leave the passenger door unlocked in the first place.  Then your off-duty cop buddy -- or if you had even one firefighter friend, which you don't -- can just reach in the side and unlock the back door for you and nobody's the wiser, Dumb Holtzclaw.
  

But the bigger problem is that the first thing the supervisor does is turn off his body cam before he starts talking to Hair.  And to my knowledge, he's still working there.

This video is so incredibly disturbing.

The 7-year-old not realizing his sister was dead, explaining that they had celebrated her birthday yesterday.

The deputy saying, "I got you, baby girl" as he snatches up the dead child.

The numerous complaints about this family to DCYF.  

I can't rewatch this video to properly report on it. 

I normally appreciate Explore With Us as a decent true crime channel.  And despite my initial appreciation for NVCAP and Gordon Flowers, and the many other Chris Hansen wannabes, I have very much cooled on all of that.  I'm a child trafficking survivor and I write true crime for survivors.  Tyler Oliveira, and the way that story was covered on EWU, is officially Not In My Name.

The NVCAP and other TCAP-type predator stings are a necessary evil.  But it's a necessary evil in a world where a legion of men are out there constantly preying on children in their every free moment.  There needs to be another legion of men countering that in their free time.  End-stage capitalism requires that things be monetized.  It is what it is.

So let me be clear.  I do appreciate good-faith efforts to prevent children being harmed, including TCAP-style sting operations.  We must do what we must do.  It unfortunately does take Gordon Flowers handing the police a  packet and a lengthy videotaped confession.  And even then there often isn't prosecution.

However, sex offenders need to live somewhere.  Having them all live in one trailer park after they serve their sentences, with one person who's responsible for monitoring them, keeping them in check, staying on top of the situation, is a best-case scenario.

Having Tyler Oliveira go over there and show his ass doesn't serve me as a survivor.  The police did a good job with him there.  Let me be clear:  I'm 100% Team Officer Kowalski in this interaction.  I don't appreciate EWU getting on a high horse about the crimes of these men, who were minding their own business not bothering children when Tyler showed up to divert public safety resources for his own merciless profit -- at the expense of people like me.

Let's not get it twisted, okay?  Tyler Oliveira is every bit as culpable as the RSOs, in a different way.  He's dehumanizing us for his own ends too.  He doesn't care about it either.  And for the moral grandstanding guys of EWU -- much as I normally appreciate them -- again NIMN, thanks.

Sex offenders are human beings, right?  They go to prison, then they come out.  They presumably have mandatory treatment, part of the mental health crisis America is in.  When people are getting enough mental health care, and are being supported appropriately, maybe they can control themselves better.

My issue with EWU was that they were kind of on Tyler's side about it.  The trailer park manager was pointing out that Tyler was harassing his residents.  He was having Tyler trespassed.  All of that is legit.  He's the manager of a trailer park, and Tyler was there trying to "sell candy" to the residents.

But of course Tyler was there to dox them, which EWU took no issue with.   The police had to deal with the situation as it was presented to them, as an illegal vendor, then a possible casing of the place for theft, then as harassment.  They couldn't go with harassment because it wasn't one person, it was the whole place.  Then they just trespassed him. 

But what Tyler was doing there was much worse, and EWU participated in it.  They doxed those people for clicks.  EWU went into detail about their sex crimes, which individuals who lived there did what.  Why?  What's the benefit of that?

The people who live in that area need to know that it's pedo park over there.  You don't let your kids anywhere near the place.  The manager seems to be  very much on the program.  The cops understand the deal locally.  Tyler Oliveira is the maggot feasting on the flesh of every molested child.  I lost a lot of respect for EWU in their position on this video. 

In almost all of the videos I watch of drunks who turn nothing into a felony, the biggest problem (aside from alcohol) is immaturity.  And that's the issue we have here:  people who are simply brats that need a time out.  America is full of people with inadequate coping skills that become a police problem.  That makes law enforcement an almost impossible job.

I'm posting this video because (a) this young lady is hilarious and (b) the cop handled her masterfully.  This calm, temperate officer is the opposite of Greg Morabito who I just posted about, who couldn't handle the first moments of an interaction calmly.

An officer approaches to find this young woman face-down on the dirt alongside the road.  She begins an ambulance en route.  The girl gets up and is obviously quite drunk.  She says things like, "I just mean I thought I was somewhere else," which is one of her more coherent statements.

She's there with a couple of other people, including a couple of young men who seem perfectly sober and were trying to help her get safely home.   The guy apparently helped her not get hit by a car and stood by waiting for an ambulance while she was face-down on the roadside.  She stands there calling him a liar and asshole the whole time he's talking to the police.

Throughout this interaction the young woman -- who is carrying someone else's ID -- is incredibly rude, both to the person who was trying to help her get home and to the cop, who is also perfectly polite the whole time.

My point in covering this is that this call is the majority of police work in America.  They get called out to this kind of crap constantly.  This is the demeanor they need to have.  They also need to be prepared to use force up to and including lethal if she happens to pull out a weapon.  Right?  We're asking a lot of people.  But most of the time it's almost nothing, like this.  And I wanted to highlight the amazing job this cop did with her.

This is exactly how to handle someone who says this litany of idiotic piss-takes -- you ignore and laugh, just as this officer did.

I'm sure the comments are full of "Karen" comments, too, despite both people being in the same demographic.  Because bigotry isn't about reality checking.  But here are some of the funny things this girl said while being arrested -- which was probably avoidable if she would've cooperated and given her name. 

• Your body cash is on
  
• I'm not arrested.  You're getting arrested and getting fired.  [Cop:  "Okay" LOL]
  
• You're illegally detesting me
  
• ...because you're not smarter than me.  And you're not smarter than my mom.  And you're an idiot.  And you will regret it.  [Cop takes phone call as she drives off.  "What's up?  I'm getting yelled at by a drunk girl" she nonchalantly explains.]
  
• ... and you will be arrested, and I will sue you.  You wanna know why?  Because I have more education than you.  And my mom, most of all, has more education than you.  [Cop continues phone call, ignoring her completely.]
  
• Learn your fucking place in the court of law, how I"m illegally being detested right now, because no one read my my Miranda lights and I'm in the back seat of a cop car.
  
• If I'm being detested my Miranda rights have to be read to me.
  
• ["It's called being detained," the cop explains.]  Girl, you're about to be fucked so far up your asshole that you will not know where you are when you come out of it.  I'm being detested illegally.
  

I would point out that it's legal in all 50 states to detest her. 

TL/DR the cop wins.  You can watch the video if you really want to hear the whole thing.  It's pretty sad/funny.  I'm glad that the internet wasn't around when I was young.  But also, despite getting drunk as a dog every night for years, nothing like this ever happened to me.  I was never banned from anything or even thrown out of anywhere. 

My point is that this is what policing is in America.  You have to go from this situation of a teenager who isn't safe to be out on the streets and getting her into a controlled environment, to a domestic situation where you're stopping family members from killing each other.  Then you bounce to a shoplifting situation.  And every once in a while someone is running down the street shooting people.  I ran calls like this constantly as a paramedic.  

My concern is how we can get this job done in the best way for all parties concerned.

In a video titled "Cop Realizes Career-Ending Moment Was Filmed," we see Utica, Michigan Police Officer Morabito arguing with two men alongside the road.

This channel, EWU (Explore With Us) generally does some pretty high quality crime reporting, though I'm going to report on another one where I feel like they dropped the ball.

But here they did a great job with the subtitles.  They open with Morabito telling a coworker to tell the mayor to get him out of this fucking job, because he's a hothead and a liability.  And that's how the story ends, with Morabito taking early retirement.

Morabito responds to a call about people filming cars on the roadside, which is not illegal to do.  He became angry when they began filming him, which (a) is not illegal and (b) is really stupid because he should also have bodycam on.  Per his quote, Morabito doesn't have the temperament for this job.

Morabito is seen slapping the phone out of the guy's hand as he charges toward him.

Now, this whole thing is just a giant pile of manbabies behaving stupidly.  I'm posting this because nobody looks good in this entire thing.  Morabito is a hot mess and needed to go.

But it's hard to feel like the auditors are helping things, even though they did force Morabito into early retirement.  Is that the best way to clean up our police departments?  Having people go bait the police into arguments, stress testing each individual unit while actual crimes are ongoing?

Unfortunately America is set up to allow each individual citizen to abuse the 911 system however they want.  And so this will go on.  All of this gives me a headache and makes me feel like there's nothing worth fighting for.

If we stepped back into a time machine, we might recall that "Karen" started out as:  "a middle-aged white woman who calls the police on innocuous African-Americans to harass them over nothing more than their race."  That has metastasized into "any loud or rude person, especially if racist."  Karen no longer needs to be white, a woman, or even in America.  We have male Karen, and reports of "Karen" from China and India -- countries where woman are notoriously treated like shit from time immemorial.

Now, if you don't want to be called Karen, it seems like all you should have to do is keep sweet and obey, and people won't talk about you.  I went into "Speak only when spoken to" mode years ago.  But no.  

Because as you can see, nobody loves that Karen meme more than Kevin.  "Who's Kevin?" is the universal reply from every African-American I've ever  mentioned him to.  You know, Kevin, the owner-operator of this plantation from Day 1, the guy who really hates the crap out of Karen, even more than African-Americans.  Or as he's more commonly known, "Male Karen," because Kevin doesn't have to own his shit.  That's part of the agreement, isn't it?  I'm asking those who agree that the Karen meme is fine.

Because I would bet dollars to donuts (a very outdated expression since donuts cost about a dollar each now) that this video was posted by a Kevin for an audience of Kevins.    Now, the lady in that video may be white, but she doesn't seem to be.  It kind of looks like a bunch of white guys monetizing the misconduct of an African-American woman and demonizing my demographic for it.

This is another detour from important crime stories to simply point out why no reasonable conversation can take place about law enforcement in this country in the foreseeable future.  We have too many people monetizing too many side-agendas.  Common decency and critical thinking have disappeared.

And lastly, pretty much everyone in America behaves like "Karen."  No, really.  Kevin and African-Americans call the police on the police and do other stupid, obnoxious things all the time.  Watch Parking Wars.  Men of every color lose their minds, go full "Karen" over every little thing.  They start hurling racist and sexist abuse at everyone.  Race and gender don't predict how anyone will behave.  "Karen" is a classic American.    It's adorable how that all gets pinned on one demographic because "woke."

I'm not here to be a critic for the sake of criticizing the police.  I don't believe every one of them is a rapist.  I watch interrogations and  bodycam videos in the hope of forming my own opinions, in a larger way, about what's going on.

I know from experience that the police can choose what to release under a FOIA request.  And thus there is a sort of selective editing at play that may not be obvious to anyone who's never requested records from a police agency.  It can be very hard to get things the cops don't want to show you.

Even so, there's a lot to be learned.  This is another example of America's mental health crisis, and how the police become its front line.

The lady in this video got pulled over for speeding in a school zone.  She was only going to be given a warning and sent on her way.  Her attitude was so hostile and bizarre with the officer that other police arrived.  Even so she wasn't going to be ticketed for her broken mirror.  Then she almost ran one of the police over as she was being allowed to leave with a warning only, while being as rude as possible the whole time.

After almost running one of the police over, she was placed under arrest for assault with a deadly weapon.  Then she sat in the car praying and speaking in tongues, howling like a madwoman.

The driver, Brittany, had one very clear theme:  I'm grown.  You have no authority over me.  Nobody can tell her anything.  I think it's interesting that she's into a religion that does speaking in tongues, where you can shout syllables you don't understand, nobody understands, and it has meaning.  You get to just say gibberish and believe God is behind it.  She referred to "witches and warlocks" and God's vengeance, which was repeatedly threatened on the police. 

That's why Brittney can drive however she wants.  She felt certain nonsense syllables of Jesus inside her that overrode the communications of the people who paved the road she was riding on. 

The police aren't being paid enough for this. Their job was to actually make sure she was sober and her vehicle was up to code.