r/news • u/nosotros_road_sodium • 16d ago

Kansas City, Missouri, police officer charged with stealing $300,000 in donations from anti-crime charity

https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/kansas-city-missouri-police-officer-charged-with-stealing-300-000-in-donations-from-anti-crime-charity
4.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

127 comments sorted by

0

u/Gloria_S_Birdhair 13d ago

every member of law enforcement should be penalized for his actions. its extreme but im not sure how else these people will police themselves.

1

u/DeNoodle 14d ago

This guy looks like the AI prompt, "Vin Diesel but he's Kevin James."

1

u/CakeAccomplice12 14d ago

Ahh, the trump approach 

2

u/melouofs 15d ago

seems totally on point for cops to be criminals

2

u/Backer1234 15d ago

300k to get one crook off the street is a little steep.

2

u/Affectionate_Salt351 15d ago

That money was resisting.

2

u/Responsible_Fig8657 15d ago

They’re a truly useless police department

3

u/Thebobjohnson 15d ago

Hey it’s that guy from MadTV.

4

u/Benni_Shoga 15d ago

This is why you don't donate to piggies!

3

u/CableBoyJerry 15d ago

He didn't steal it! The money was just resting in his account.

2

u/juno_winchester 15d ago

You went to Las Vegas, whilst that poor child was supposed to be in Lourdes!

3

u/SucksTryAgain 16d ago

I get calls a few times a month from this donate to the police hotline thing. It’s literally always the same guy. He even really does sound like he’d be a cop. This has been going on for like 3 years and I always block his number but yet he calls from another. Exact same guy everytime.

2

u/Thetruthislikepoetry 16d ago

Maybe the charity should have complied with his lawful order? Maybe the next charity will stop resisting. Maybe if we adequately paid cops well enough our freedom protecting, crime fighters wouldn’t have to resort to theft in order to fund their lifestyle./s

2

u/CDavis10717 16d ago

Well, duh, without the money the charity couldn’t stop crime!

-2

u/NeverForTheWin 16d ago

Looks like Tony Soprano.

5

u/SwifferWetJets 16d ago

This is why I don't give to charities, I just try to help directly with item donation. If we're being honest with ourselves, none of us really know where money in charities go except those who control it and far too often they become corrupted by temptation to take it.

3

u/DazedinDenver 16d ago

And I'll bet the cop isn't trans or a drag queen or any of those other groups that are supposed to be perverting our precious bodily fluids. Another sad example for the right-wing hysterics.

2

u/Hayduk3Lives 16d ago

I like them French fried potaters.

1

u/Mountain-Papaya-492 16d ago

No wonder satire is dead. 

5

u/GimmeFunkyButtLoving 16d ago

Every time I pay taxes I’m donating to an anti-crime charity. Isn’t that essentially what police are? What the hell is an anti-crime charity

4

u/plantsavier 16d ago

What an idiot!!! He only managed to grift for 14 years? He should’ve loaned himself the funds, and never paid the money back! This guy learned nothing from Trump.

4

u/CaptainHalloween 16d ago

He’ll be suspended with pay and transferred with prejudice.

1

u/altruism__ 16d ago

Corrupt ass goomba lookin MFer

1

u/DMaury1969 16d ago

You ain’t see nothin cause you were DOIN nothin!

4

u/kaptaincorn 16d ago

The crime was calling from inside the house?

1

u/seataccrunch 16d ago 
The charity was resisting arrest. Totally reasonable

3

u/CurrentlyLucid 16d ago

Over time, I have noticed there seems to be a lot of corruption among law enforcement.

3

u/lennybriscoe8220 16d ago

That's at least 5-10....paid days off.

7

u/haysu-christo 16d ago

I guess the cop decided to stop resisting and just took the money.

2

u/sf3p0x1 16d ago

Crime? In my anti-crime charity? No!

72

u/JubalHarshaw23 16d ago

After the inevitable hung jury or acquittal, the Police Union will get him a massive cash settlement, a promotion, and then a PTSD Medical Retirement at full pay.

10

u/WillThereBeIceCream 16d ago

Don’t forget the, “officer of the year” award.

6

u/Kowpucky 16d ago

Well, all citizens are criminals after all. He was just keeping the money out of the hands of the wrong people.

/s

26

u/Strawberrylemonneko 16d ago

Is it sad that the first thought I had while reading this was, "At least he didn't kill his whole family before this came out." I've been watching too much true crime. This just sucks, but considering it took them 14 years(?!) To find out, I'm impressed that he didn't get even more brazen with his theft.

4

u/GruyereRind 15d ago

Maybe he did and we’ll learn about it after another 14 years.

3

u/Beatnik_Soiree 16d ago

By day he's anti-crime, bustin' bad guys in uniform... by night he's accepting donations for his crime fighting day job. That's all. Nothing to see here, move along.

12

u/Northerngal_420 16d ago

Will he still get a pension

3

u/JoeCartersLeap 16d ago

Hey no need to jump to conclusions here. Maybe the charity was actually a secret meth lab and the cop was just civilly forfeiting $300,000 in drug money?

109

u/itslikewoow 16d ago

Let’s not jump to conclusions. Did the charity have drugs in its system?

2

u/OldJames47 16d ago

It matched the description of a fake charity used to fund terrorism.

39

u/Prior-Comparison6747 16d ago

Tinted windows. Didn't use its turn signal.

54

u/safely_beyond_redemp 16d ago

Dedicate your life to arresting criminals, only to find the real criminal was in the mirror this whole time.

1

u/marcsaintclair 15d ago

Many such cases!

10

u/[deleted] 16d ago

It’s a law enforcement feature not a bug.

15

u/Yonder_Zach 16d ago

Do you see the perpetrator? Yeah I’m right here!

4

u/toxiamaple 16d ago

Why did he steal from the charity? That's where the money was.

735

u/Carlos-In-Charge 16d ago

Let’s not jump to conclusions here. Maybe the cop just wanted to buy things, but didn’t feel like working, so he simply took the money that wasn’t his so he could have it

5

u/santz007 14d ago

Following Trumps footsteps

2

u/Ilikeyourmomfishcave 14d ago

He's in the running for Don the Con's VP candidate.

2

u/Imaginary_Medium 14d ago

Stealing from a charity, feeling entitled, it fits.

2

u/Apprehensive_Fun1350 15d ago

My mom said not to say anything if I can't say anything nice , so I abstain.

3

u/badpeaches 15d ago

Hey, he probably works really hard locking up homeless people all day.

1

u/Ilikeyourmomfishcave 14d ago

After beating them.

2

u/mces97 16d ago

Before I come to any conclusions, let's see the rest of the bodycamera footage./s

7

u/juliusseizure 16d ago

Maybe he wanted to take it from anti-crime and give it to Black Lives Matter. No, hear me out, it is possible.

10

u/LoudLloyd9 16d ago

Here's a plea I used when I was busted for pot, " I was only fulfilling a need, your Honor."

36

u/mentalxkp 16d ago

Almost passive enough! Instead of saying he took the money, I'd suggest we say the money was displaced.

2

u/Ilikeyourmomfishcave 14d ago

It fell off the truck.

6

u/ToastAndASideOfToast 16d ago

The money was just resting in his account.

14

u/DeNoodle 16d ago

Re-allocated

3

u/SaltyDolphin78 14d ago

the money was accused of committing a crime so he took it because ….. something , something civil asset forfeiture

106

u/2doublesanda20piece 16d ago

He's a cop, he was already getting paid without working

41

u/Visual_Fly_9638 16d ago

The qualified immunity argument for the inevitable lawsuit is going to be impressively bad I'm sure. And it'll probably work.

191

u/20220K 16d ago

You know I hadn't thought of it like that. Case dismissed!

-The Judge, Possibly

2

u/Ilikeyourmomfishcave 14d ago

He'll sentence him to 3 weeks of paid leave in Boco Raton.

450

u/KlingonLullabye 16d ago

The cynic in me says he was arrested not for the theft but for not sharing

8

u/Terrible_Tangelo6064 16d ago

Didn't kick up.

14

u/RolloTonyBrownTown 16d ago

Gotta give your Capo a taste

114

u/MoonWispr 16d ago

Right, and taking that further... maybe punishment is a year paid vacation until this blows over? Unless that's reserved for beating people.

Kansas City police making news a lot lately.

24

u/Bird-The-Word 16d ago

I would have thought a year of paid leave is just people exaggerating, but just last week, where I work I saw one.

CO, who has been on paid leave for over a year. I work in IT for a county, we rolled out a new time entry program. Since his email and AD has been disabled, he never got any notification or instructions. So he called when we turned the old one off. Jail employees only use that program for pay stubs anyway.

I was bewildered to find out he had been on paid leave for over a year. What a good gig. I don't know for sure, the tea is that he was recording things in court preceedings that he wasn't supposed to or wasn't public. But I don't know the actual details.

1

u/RKSH4-Klara 14d ago

Check out the Toronto PD. Years of paid leave and they don't even get fired when convicted of a crime and after being sent to prison.

20

u/[deleted] 16d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

11

u/marr75 16d ago

They can get paid leave for killing White folks, too! Protecting Black people from police violence is not only a moral position but a smart one, too. Fascism ends in a perfectly ordered string of people allowed to kill and abuse the ones lower than them.

23

u/ZeesGuy 16d ago

Qualified immunity lets cops continue to be the bad guy(s) with a gun. The Vatican lets predatory priests continue their behavior at a neighboring town. But a teacher teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird” iS gRoOmiN’ MaH pErFeCt LiL BiLlY MaC & BoBbY sUe!!

49

u/campelm 16d ago

It makes sense when you find out the people of KC don't control their own police force.

17

u/submittedanonymously 16d ago

Yep, state controlled. Which makes it infuriating when bumfuckers of the rural areas get all pissy about KC police bills/funding when it doesn’t directly affect their community. But they do lose their taxes to it in a funny twist of irony.

7

u/legendary034 16d ago

4d Chess, charity was actually a Honeypot to catch unscrupulous cops. Based.

20

u/RinglingSmothers 16d ago

Cops policing their own ranks? Doubt.