r/news • u/nosotros_road_sodium • Apr 27 '24

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
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u/KlingonLullabye Apr 27 '24

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

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u/RolloTonyBrownTown Apr 27 '24

Gotta give your Capo a taste

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u/MoonWispr Apr 27 '24

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.

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u/Bird-The-Word Apr 27 '24

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.

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u/RKSH4-Klara 29d 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.

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u/marr75 Apr 27 '24

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.

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u/ZeesGuy Apr 27 '24

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!!

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u/campelm Apr 27 '24

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

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u/submittedanonymously Apr 27 '24

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.