An officer with the Methune (MA) Police Department has been reinstated to the agency and given back pay after he was suspended after being accused of mishandling evidence during a 2018 investigation.
Police chief James Craig said the sergeant “sat in his scout car a block away while you could hear people screaming ‘officer down’ on the radio.”
An officer with the Boynton Beach (FL) Police Department was suspended for one day after an internal investigation revealed that his patrol rifle was stolen from his unlocked patrol vehicle in May.
Following widespread public outcry, the chief of the Fairfax County (VA) Police Department reinstated an officer who he had suspended for detaining an undocumented immigrant so that an official from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could come and take him into custody.
Gov. DeSantis failed to prove the allegations of “neglect of duty” and “incompetence” he leveled against the veteran lawman, Dudley Goodlette, a lawyer and former state legislator charged with investigating the Israel case, wrote in a report released Wednesday.
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the officer at the center of the Eric Garner case, has been suspended after a judge recommended he be terminated from the police force.
Thirteen officers with the Philadelphia Police Department are likely to be terminated from their jobs over a series of inflammatory comments they shared on Facebook.
In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Israel, citing problems with the Sheriff’s Office response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, in which 17 people were killed and 17 injured on Feb. 14, 2018.
Officer Sean Doohan stepped down on April 27, less than a week after he and fellow Officer Mary Sobieski were suspended for failure to take appropriate action, officials told the New York Post.
The Sheriff’s Office holds all its employees to high standard, and the public can be assured that a thorough and complete audit will be conducted and appropriate action will be taken,” said Madison County Lt. Donny Shaw, a sheriff’s office spokesman, in a statement. “The involved employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the audit.”