THE SAGA BEGINS, JUNE 9, 2008: DEKALB CO. DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY SHOOTS 'ALLEGED' INTRUDER AFTER 'ALLEGED' INTRUDER 'ALLEGEDLY' SHOT YANCEY'S WIFE!

Deputy Derrick Yancey Shooting jolts DeKalb County Sheriff's Office
Deputy shoots man after wife killed
By April Hunt
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
06/11/08

The intruder in his home had just shot his wife, the woman he had loved since he was a teenager, Derrick Yancey told police. So Yancey, 46, a DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who was off-duty at the time, shot and killed the stranger, he said. His wife, 44-year-old Linda Yancey, also died inside the home that the couple shared for a decade. Click here for news video from the crime scene

They had been high school sweethearts. "She was in ninth grade and he was in 11th grade when they met," DeKalb Sheriff Thomas Brown said at a press conference Tuesday. Brown said the incident shook the Sheriff's Office, where both Yanceys worked. Derrick Yancey is a 17-year-veteran deputy whose job was to transport inmates around the state. L inda Yancey had worked for the department for 13 years, first in the county court and most recently as intake officer in the juvenile court.

Police are still trying to piece together what happened inside their brick two-story home. Yancey is the only witness to the shootings that prompted a 911 call to the upscale subdivision at about 1:00 p.m. Monday, June 9, 2008. DeKalb County police, who are investigating the incident, did not release details. Yancey said he did not know the man, who police had yet to identify Tuesday.

"We are still unsure who the man was, how that man got into the house or why he was there," said Mekka Parish, spokeswoman for DeKalb police. Police are waiting for an autopsy to help reveal the identity of the man, identified only as a Hispanic male. A relative told police that the man might have been a day laborer, but police were unable to confirm that information, Parish said. Neighbors in the quiet subdivision said Yancey would hire workers to help with landscaping and plantings at his home. But he also took personal care of the lawn, which stands out even in a neighborhood of groomed lawns and sculpted plants. "His yard is always meticulous," said Rhonda Broughton, who lives down the block. "He cut his grass every two or three days. He had to, because it's that grass they use for golf courses."

Yancey and the couples' two sons, ages 8 and 18, are staying with relatives. The younger son arrived home Monday from day camp to find investigators and media swarming the area, neighbors said. Yancey is on paid administration leave. The Sheriff's Office will conduct an internal investigation to make sure Yancey followed procedures when he fired his gun.

DEKALB CO. DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY HAD A HISTORY OF BIZARRE VIOLENT EPISODES & ARRESTS!!!

Killings not Deputy Yancey's First Tangle With Law
By April Hunt
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
06/12/08

The DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who told police he was forced to shoot an intruder who attacked his wife had brought the man into his home as a laborer, newly released records show. The shootout - described by Derrick Yancey as the laborer shooting his wife, Linda, and Yancey shooting the laborer - erupted when the man tried to rob the couple, say DeKalb police records.

Yancey, 46, had picked up the man "to help him do some work around the house," the report says.
Details of what Yancey said happened inside the Stone Mountain home Monday afternoon emerged as other records show that Yancey had been arrested twice in 2006 on domestic violence charges for confrontations with his son. All charges were dropped. (Of course the charges were were dropped! A domestic violence misdeamor conviction means the offender cannot buy or possess firearms! Cops and prosecutors look out for each other with respect to 'omestic violence crimes!)

After Monday's shootings, neighbors said Yancey previously had hired day laborers to help with landscaping. Yancey told police he did not know the man he hired on Monday. He called 911 after the shootings and led an officer to the basement. The officer saw a yet-to-be-identified Hispanic man lifeless on the floor, "with a silver revolver lying on his left side," the report said. Linda Yancey, 44, was lying in a doorway. The officer spotted at least one silver shell casing on the floor, as well as a "large roll of bills, including $50 and $100 dollar bills," the report said.

"The detectives are not going into any details at this time," said department spokeswoman Mekka Parish. "It's all very fluid." Yancey has not been arrested or charged. Derrick and Linda Yancey both worked for the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department. Derrick, was a 17-year veteran who transported inmates, and Linda, spent 13 years there, most recently as intake officer in juvenile court.

Neither the Sheriff's Department nor county police officials would comment on Yancey's arrests in April and November 2006, in separate incidents involving his son Karron, now 18. Police reports, which include some improperly redacted information, show that, in the April incident, Yancey told police that his son hit him in the face when he tried to take away the teen's cellphone, as punishment for downloading "dirty music." A relative who was at the home called police, saying Linda Yancey said her husband chased their son out of the home with his pistol and threatened to "blow her son [sic] head off."

Linda Yancey later confirmed the threat but said her husband was not armed when he made it. (So that makes it alright in DeKalb County's cop-justice system!?!) In November, Yancey said he returned home to hear offensive music playing and confronted his son. The teen said Yancey hit him and threw his computer keyboard down, according to the report.

FORMER DEKALB DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY CHARGED IN MURDER OF WIFE & DAY LABORER! DEKALB GRAND JURY DOESN'T BUY YANCEY'S BOGUS STORY!

Former DeKalb Sheriff's Deputy Derrick Yancey Charged In Two Murders
DeKalb grand jury doesn’t buy story that day laborer was shot after killing deputy's wife
By Mary Lou Pickel & David Simpson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 15, 2008

Jose Cax Puluc never believed his brother was a killer. DeKalb County sheriff’s Deputy Derrick Yancey claimed day laborer Marcial Cax Puluc killed his wife in an armed robbery June 9, forcing Yancey to shoot him. But on Thursday, a DeKalb grand jury indicted Yancey, accusing him of both slayings.

Relatives and friends of the young illegal immigrant from Guatemala insisted from the beginning of the investigation that he was not a violent person. His 30-year-old brother, Jose Cax Puluc, reached by phone Thursday as he painted a house in Florida, paused when told the news. “That’s good,” he said finally. “My brother did nothing wrong,” Puluc said in Spanish.

Yancey, 49, surrendered at the DeKalb County Jail Thursday afternoon about an hour after authorities announced his indictment on two murder charges and two counts of using a gun in the commission of a felony. Yancey, a 17-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, resigned on Monday.

Yancey's indictment follows a murder charge leveled last month against former DeKalb County police Officer Torrey Thompson, (ADD LINK HERE!) who was indicted in an unrelated case after he shot an unarmed suspect in 2006.

Yancey was to be moved to another jail because of his former job with the DeKalb Sheriff’s Office, which runs the DeKalb jail, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Mikki Jones. Defense lawyer Keith Adams said Yancey will be proven innocent. He plans to file a motion today seeking Yancey’s release on bond.

Neither DeKalb police nor the district attorney’s office would discuss exactly what they think happened in the Yancey home near Stone Mountain, but police Sgt. Dave Fonseca said the case would lean heavily on forensics and ballistic evidence. Adams predicted that “the evidence will show that what happened in that basement is consistent with what Mr. Yancey said.” Yancey told police he had hired Cax Puluc to do yard work. He said the man found one of Yancey’s guns in his home and used it to try to rob Linda Yancey, fatally shooting her. Derrick Yancey then shot Cax Puluc with the gun he carried on the job, Adams has said.

Police records show no evidence of any prior violence between Derrick and Linda Yancey. But then-Deputy Derrick Yancey was arrested in April and November 2006 because of separate confrontations with his teenage son. Prosecutors later dropped the charges in both cases.

Linda Yancey also worked for the Sheriff’s Office. She spent 13 years there, most recently as an intake officer in Juvenile Court. Eugene Thomas, one of her brothers, said he had no idea what might have led to her death. “I was surprised. I was shocked. I was devastated, and I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since this occurred,” he said at a news conference at police headquarters Thursday.

Ludin Perez, who was one of Cax Puluc’s roommates in an apartment near Stone Mountain, said Cax Puluc, whose family says he was 20, was timid and would not rob anyone. He had been in the United States six weeks. “They have in their hands the opportunity to do justice,” Perez said of the police and prosecutors. “This is what we hope happens,” he said in Spanish. “This case is very sensitive in that it affected the state’s relationship with another country,” police Chief Terrell Bolton said. It’s about a person whose “life didn’t seem to have value,” he said.

FORMER DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY IN COURT FOR MURDERING WIFE & IMMIGRANT DAY LABORER! CLAIMS HE ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE!

Former DeKalb County Sheriff’s Deputy In Court On Murder Charges
By David Simpson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 22, 2008

In a courtroom where Derrick Yancey often escorted shackled prisoners, it was Yancey who was shown to the defense table Thursday by his former colleagues in the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. Yancey, wearing a pinstriped suit and no handcuffs, made his first court appearance on murder charges for a 45-minute hearing on which judge will preside at his trial. He walked past 25 relatives and friends of his slain wife, Linda Yancey, without looking at them.

Linda Yancey, a 44-year-old juvenile intake officer for the Sheriff’s Office, and day laborer Marcial Cax Puluc, about 20, were found fatally shot in the Yanceys’ home near Stone Mountain June 9, 2008. Deputy Derrick Yancey told police that Cax Puluc killed his wife in an armed robbery attempt, forcing Yancey to shoot him.

HOWEVER, authorities said last week that lab tests showed that Derrick Yancey shot both victims. The district attorney’s office wants Superior Court Judge Anne Workman and all the county’s judges to disqualify themselves from the case because Yancey worked in their courtrooms.

Yancey, 49, resigned from the Sheriff’s Office last week. Don Geary, a chief assistant district attorney, said the public could mistrust rulings if they come from a judge who had worked with Yancey. “People will scream, ‘Home cooked. Look what he got. Nobody else is going to get that, he’s a deputy,’” Geary said.

Defense lawyer Keith Adams opposed the request, saying it would delay consideration of his request for Yancey’s release on bond. “If you’re in jail one day or six months, it’s a long time to be in jail,” Adams said. (it's a long time to burn in hell too, Deputy Yancey...)

DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL INDICTED FOR BAIL BOND SCAM! MISCONDUCT CONTINUES TO PLAGUE DEKALB SHERIFF'S OFFICE...

DeKalb Sheriff's Dept. Crook & Two Other Thugs Indicted In Bail Bond Scam
Trio preyed on people who spoke poor English (which is about 80% of DeKalb County residents)
By David Simpson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
February 26, 2009

Two Atlanta men who claimed they were helping people get bond refunds conspired with a manager in the DeKalb County sheriff’s office to steal $350,000, a grand jury alleged Thursday. A DeKalb grand jury indicted Nathane Hoyte Jones, 42, Shandarrick Barnes, 33, and Dorcas Jernigan, no age available, of Decatur. They are charged under a state racketeering law for a conspiracy, which included theft, forgery, bribery and false swearing.

Jernigan was the manager of an office that issued refunds to people who had posted bonds for criminal suspects, said Sheriff Thomas Brown. Brown said Jones and Barnes ran a company offering to help clients, many of whom spoke little English, retrieve bond money.

They are accused of forging signatures of non-clients with Jernigan’s help. “We became aware of it when one of these individuals was written a check for $38,000 … but in this particular case, the father showed up who had put up the cash bond for the son” about a month later, Brown said. Jernigan has been fired, Brown said.

District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming said a related scheme took $61,000 from Cobb County, Georgia. (The smart money says EVERY Georgia county sheriff's office is running some variation of this scam, the REAL SMART money says most of the scammers will get away with it....)

ATLANTA POLICE FEAR CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD! CHIEF TRIES TO ELIMINATE OVERSIGHT OF ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT!

Atlanta Police Want Review Civilian Review Board’s Procedures Changed
Some fear move would ‘defang’ new oversight committee
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
December 9, 2008

Atlanta police are pushing for changes to the city’s new police oversight system that some say would turn the long-awaited and brand-new Citizen Review Board into a toothless “paper tiger.” The Atlanta Police Department, with the help of the city’s Law Department, introduced legislation Tuesday to amend city law regarding how the Citizen Review Board investigates complaints about Atlanta’s law enforcement officers.

The proposed change comes just as the review board has begun its work. Created in the wake of an illegal police shooting which killed an innocent 92 year-old black woman, the board was intended to restore the public’s trust in the police department. The city law recently enacted to create the review board gives the board “full access” to police reports and documents.

Police officials are asking the city to allow them to only turn over documents and information that are public record, which is minimal when an investigation is ongoing. If the change is approved, it would essentially allow the police department to withhold most information from the Citizen Review Board until after the department conducts its own investigation.

Those on both sides of the issue attended the city’s Public Safety Committee meeting, including Lane Hagin, the police major who heads the internal affairs unit and spearheaded the effort. No police officials spoke, but state Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) and the review board’s secretary, Rod Edmond, addressed City Council members, both voicing their opposition to the amendment. “In effect, it would defang the Citizen Review Board and make it nothing more than a paper tiger,” Fort said.

Edmond described the amendment as “ridiculous” and “insulting.” He compared the review board to referees for sporting events and said that, if the amendment passes, board members would be like referees trying to do their job blindfolded. Hagin said he and the department are pushing for the changes because they fear that the Review Board doesn’t have the experience or the resources to conduct investigations. Investigations are fluid and constantly changing, he said, and the department worries that turning over police reports early would cause the review board to rush to judgment before knowing all the facts, Hagin said. “For us, I think it’s better if we do our investigation in a reasonable period of time and then turn it over to them,” he said. “At the end of the day, I think the board is going to be impressed with the kind of work [the internal affairs unit] does.”

The four City Council members who attended the committee meeting didn’t offer an opinion on the proposed legislation. Council member C.T. Martin said that he’d heard that some frustrated board members were considering stepping down and encouraged them not to do so. “Just tell them to, please, stay in place,” Martin told Edmond. “I want them to have faith in the process.”

ATLANTA POLICE CHIEF PENNINGTON SUBJECT OF ETHICS INVESTIGATION! CHIEF MADE MOTORCYCLE COPS ESCORT HIS 'CORVETTE CLUB' THROUGH CITY!!

Atlanta Cop Files Complaint Against Police Chief

By Tim Eberly

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

October 2, 2008

An Atlanta police officer has filed an ethics complaint against Police Chief Richard Pennington, contending the chief made on-duty motorcycle officers escort members of his Corvette club through the city last summer, the police union said. Atlanta ethics officer Ginny Looney confirmed Thursday that a complaint was filed against Pennington on Aug. 22, but she would not discuss its details. She said an investigation into the complaint has begun. Pennington would not comment on an open investigation, said Sgt. Lisa Keyes, an Atlanta police spokeswoman. The officer who filed the complaint did so anonymously out of fear of retribution, said police Sgt. Scott Kreher, president of an Atlanta police union.

The escort incident happened on July 12, 2008, Kreher said. He said Pennington owns a Corvette and is a member of the United Council of Corvette Clubs, which describes itself on a Web site as the premier African-American Corvette club. Kreher said the club’s members came to Atlanta for its week-long annual convention and stayed at a hotel south of the city, near the airport.

On July 12, Pennington had a handful of officers escort the club members, driving their Corvettes, from the hotel to Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead, Kreher said. Pennington was with the group, was not on duty and was driving his Corvette, Kreher said, adding that the escort required about two hours of the officers’ time. (meanwhile, the bad guys got away....)

ATLANTA COPS RELUCTANTLY FOLLOW LAW AND TURN OVER FILES TO CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT BOARD!!! VICTORY FOR ATL'S CITIZENS!!! ATL THUG-COPS VOW REVENGE!!!

Atlanta Police Turn Over Documents To Review Board

Citizens oversight panel intended to ask for subpoena

By Tim Eberly

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

January 05, 2009

The new Atlanta police oversight board set up to investigate complaints against the city’s law enforcement officers won a small victory Monday morning. The Atlanta Police Department turned over documents to the city’s Citizen Review Board shortly before board was to ask a City Council committee for a subpoena to force the department to relinquish them. For more than a month, police officials had been refusing to release the reports, which are related to a February incident that the Review Board is investigating.

In the incident, a Smyrna woman alleges that an Atlanta police officer detained her for an hour and a half while he wrote her two tickets for waiting curbside in her car for family members at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

It is one of the first complaints that the Review Board has decided to investigate since it began reviewing complaints on November 13, 2008. The Police Department’s refusal to release police officers’ statements about the incident marked the first sign of resistance and a potential power struggle between the police and the Review Board, which was created after an Atlanta police shooting of a 92 year old woman iin 2006. And the Review Board’s plan to ask for a subpoena from the City Council committee on Monday was its first move toward playing hardball.

The Police Department turned the statements over shortly after 10 a.m., less than an hour before the committee’s 11 a.m. meeting. “I’m glad we got the documents,” Review Board executive director Cris Beamud said. “I think it’s a step in the right direction.” Beamud said she believed the Police Department’s action is an acknowledgment that the Review Board is entitled to such documents. The city law enacted to create the review board gives the board “full access” to police reports and documents.

“The law is very clear,” Beamud said. “It requires them to turn over these reports.” Atlanta police Maj. Lane Hagin is in charge of the department’s internal affairs unit that was withholding the reports. He stopped short of acknowledging that city law requires the Police Department to release the documents, but said the department decided to do so last week.

“It’s the right thing to do for now,” Hagin said. “We made the decision to turn those documents over and wait to see what council does with the new ordinance." Police officials asked the city last month to allow them to only turn over documents and information that are public records, usually a small portion of a case file when the investigation is under way. The amendment not yet been voted on by the City Council. If the change is approved, it would allow the Police Department to withhold most information from the Review Board until after the department conducts its own internal investigations. (uhhh....can you say "WHITEWASH?")

ATLANTA POLICE DEPT. COVERUP! CHIEF PENNINGTON FACES SUBPOENA TO HAND OVER POLICE FILES! PENNINGTON WANTS NEW LAW TO KEEP OVERSIGHT BOARD IN DARK!

Atlanta Police Oversight Board Seeks 'Banned' Info
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
December 12, 2008

Members of Atlanta’s new police oversight board talked Thursday evening about seeking a subpoena to get information the Atlanta Police Department is refusing to turn over. The Citizen Review Board members, in their monthly meeting at City Hall, also discussed other options, such as pursuing legal action against police Chief Richard Pennington to get him to comply with city law. The Police Department has refused to turn over police officers’ statements in connection with an incident the Review Board is investigating. The board has been meeting for 1 1/2 years and has been asking for police documents for several incidents since September 2008.

Police Chief Pennington is desperately trying to amend city law to prevent the Review Board, created after the illegal police shooting of an elderly woman, from getting most police reports and documents until after the department conducts its own investigation. The board was created to investigate complaints against Atlanta law enforcement officers and, in a broader sense, to restore the public’s trust in the Police Department.

The standoff puts the city Law Department in the position of having two of its attorneys representing the Police Department, and two others counseling the Review Board. Roger Bhandari, one of the Review Board’s attorneys, told the board Thursday that it needed to exhaust all administrative options before pursuing legal action against Pennington or his department. Bhandari acknowledged that the next step would be asking city officials for a subpoena. An Atlanta police spokeswoman, Sgt. Lisa Keyes, could not be reached for comment Thursday evening. (Has anyone else ever noticed that this woman - the official Atlanta P.D. spokeswoman - is notoriously hard to reach for comment?!?)

As board members peppered Bhandari with questions, he suggested that it would be better to discuss their legal strategy in private. Earlier in the meeting, one of the more vocal members of the board, Vice Chairman Seth Kirschenbaum, described the Atlanta Police Department’s efforts as an attempt “to destroy this board.” If the amendment passes restricting Review Board access to police documents, Kirschenbaum said, “then we have been had, and we have, in a sense, been made fools of.”

ATLANTA P.D. REPORT ON BRIAN NICHOLS MANHUNT A SHAM! HUNDREDS OF MISTAKES 'GLOSSED OVER'!

‘After Action Report’ a Bust

Police reveal little about Nichols manhunt mistakes

By Tim Eberly

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

December 17, 2008

Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington promised to find out “what went right and what went wrong” in the manhunt for Fulton County Courthouse killer Brian Nichols. More than three years after the massive police dragnet, the Police Department has released its answer in the form of a 21-page “After Action Report.”

Atlanta’s report, however, is long on details already known to the public and short on constructive criticism. It also briefly mentions actions the department was taking three years ago to prevent the same mistakes from happening again, although most of those never came to fruition. While the department acknowledges some mistakes in its report, it glosses over others. At times, the report dwells more on technological problems, such as mismatched computer software, than on street-level police work that occasionally missed the mark.

Former Atlanta police Deputy Chief Lou Arcangeli, who retired in 2002 after nearly 30 years with the department, said after-action reports have never been the department’s forte. They are common in law enforcement after major police events, acting as a training tool by highlighting successes and failures. In the past three decades, Atlanta police have never done them routinely, Arcangeli said, adding that he could only remember one such report during his tenure, in connection with local violence related to the Rodney King beating trial.

Police departments often shy away from them because they fear embarrassment or making themselves legally liable, Arcangeli said. “So you can tell a lot about an agency by the focus of their after-action reports and their commitment to self-improvement,” Arcangeli said. Neither Pennington nor the deputy chief in charge of preparing the report, Pete Andresen, would do an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the report. “There will be no further comment at this time,” Sgt. Lisa Keyes, a police spokeswoman, said on Monday.

The Journal-Constitution obtained a copy of the after-action report last week after filing numerous Open Records Act requests, beginning in late spring 2005. The report is undated and Keyes did not respond to questions about when it was completed and who wrote it. Much of the report details how Nichols, on trial for rape in March 2005, overpowered a female deputy, killed a judge, court reporter and sheriff’s sergeant inside the courthouse before carjacking five people and later killing a federal agent.

The author touched on what went wrong:

- The 17 law enforcement agencies involved were confused about who was in charge. “It was never completely clarified to all of those involved who was the lead agency, and this caused communication to not flow smoothly among the departments,” the report said.

- There were numerous communication problems involving police radios, computer software and tiplines for the public to call with tips. The police agencies also did not have a shared and secure radio channel to communicate. The computer software used was not appropriate for managing and tracking the 1,200 tips that came in. Tiplines got clogged because of people mistakenly calling the same number to offer donations.

- Some police work was sloppy or incomplete. Carjacking crime scenes were not thoroughly searched, some possible witnesses were not interviewed, and authorities did not respond with enough manpower to at least one crime scene.When missteps are cited in the report, it is often without elaboration. For example, discussing Nichols’ escape on foot from a downtown parking garage, the report stated the garage employees “were not interviewed” and that police officials who handled that crime scene later got instruction on “the importance of proper crime scene processing.” Not included in the report is what could have been done to prevent Nichols from making his getaway on a MARTA train to the Lenox Square mall area. MARTA trains weren’t shut down after the shootings, although Atlanta’s public schools were.

Meanwhile, most pchanges in the wake of the Nichols case never got completed:

- The city spent more than $1 million creating shared radio channels for 16 police agencies in metro Atlanta.

- Atlanta police and Fulton County authorities considered a joint 911 Communications Center, but chose not to pursue it.

- Atlanta police were working with local, state and federal officials to identify software better suited for critical incidents, but have continued to use the same software.

- Atlanta police were working with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency to develop an operations plan for such incidents, but it was not finished.

IN SUMMARY, THE ATLANTA COPS ARE STILL A BUNCH OF SCREWUPS....

MARIETTA GEORGIA SCHOOLS GIVE LESSONS IN 'SNITCHING' IN ORWELLIAN SCHEME! ('LITTLE BROTHER' IS WATCHING YOU!)

Students Texting Cops in Marietta Schools
By Chris Camp
October 22, 2008 (WSB Radio) -- The Marietta School Board has unanimously approved a new safety plan for Marietta High School that allows the 1,900 students to text message a school resource officer about rumored or actual trouble on campus.

School board spokesman Preston Howard tells Channel 2 Action News "students sometimes have knowledge that we (the school board) don't have and anytime we can promote the use of positive tools like this, I think it will be an enhancement to our safety program."

Students will be provided a six digit number they can text 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That number connects them with MobileStorm, a California company that will monitor the texts and alert police when needed.

Marietta High principal Leigh Colburn tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Marietta wants to out front of school safety. Currently two police officers and a K-9 unit are assigned to Marietta High.

CASEY CARMICHAEL - CLAYTON CO. GEORGIA ROGUE COP - SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PEN FOR SENDING TEENAGER OBSCENITY OVER INTERNET WHILE HE WAS ON DUTY!!!

Clayton Co. Georgia, Cop Gets Federal Prison For Teen Email Obscenity
By Jeff Dantre
October 16, 2008
(WSB Radio/AP) -- A 29-year-old cop who pleaded guilty to attempting to send obscene matter over the Internet to a teenager while he was on duty as a police officer has been sentenced to federal prison. Casey Austin Carmichael of Newnan was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Willis B. Hunt Jr. to two years, nine months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Carmichael was a patrolman for the Clayton County Police Department when he was arrested last September. U.S Attorney David E. Nahmias said Carmichael used his department-issued computer to transfer obscene materials to a person he believed to be a girl under 16 years of age. Carmichael was dismissed from the police department upon his indictment.

SANDY SPRINGS, GEORGIA - VICE SQUAD COP GETS LUCKY AND WHILE BUSTING HOOKERS!!! (coitus interruptus policius?)

Sandy Springs PD Investigate Themselves
By Jon Lewis
WSB Radio
October 21, 2008

An internal investigation is underway by the Sandy Springs police into whether officers went too far (as in 'going all the way with some ho's!) in some vice investigations. Acting Police Chief David Betrand confirmed the probe saying he was spurred by two cases involving the same officer.

A report dated August 22, 2008, indicates an officer entered a spa, saying he was there for a massage. He was quoted a price of $200 and a woman removed her clothes. The report suggests she climbed on the table with the officer and began rubbing her body on him. The report then says she "initiated the act of sexual intercourse."

It goes on to say the officer told her to stop (coitus interruptus policius?) so he could use the phone. He gave other officers the take down signal and advised the woman she was under arrest. "I've probably done over 1000 vice cases and I've never seen one that went this far," says former Clayton County Solicitor General Keith Martin, who's reviewing the police reports. "I'm glad he's (the officer) is truthful. (yeah the problem is, the only truthful cops are the dumb ones!) I'm sad he's unwise." (what do you expect!?! he's a cop!!! synonym for 'cop' is 'moron'!)

A second report indicates the same officer responded to an advertisement just a few days earlier. A woman met the officer at an apartment, disrobed and, again, began another type of sex (hmmm. which type I wonder?) act with the officer. He again advised her to stop and placed her under arrest.

1/3 of ATLANTA COPS HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS!! OVER HALF ADMIT TO BEING POT-HEADS!! MOST REJECTED BY OTHER POLICE DEPTS!!! (lowered standards in ATL?)

Atlanta Cops with Criminal Records
By Chris Camp
WSB News
October 13, 2008

ATLANTA (AP) Atlanta has made concessions in hiring new police officers in trying to reach a goal of 2,000 officers. A review of job applications at the Atlanta Police Academy found that more than one-third of recent graduates 12 out of 33 officers hired have been arrested or cited for a crime. The Atlanta Journal Constitution conducted the review and found that the arrests ranged from minor offenses such as shoplifting to violent charges including assault. More than one-third of the officers had been rejected by other law enforcement agencies, and more than half of the recruits admitted marijuana use. Police Lt. Elder Dancy runs the department's recruitment unit. He says in an ideal world they would like to see every applicant with a clean record, but, he says, "Obviously that's not reality.''

DISGRACED FORMER ATLANTA COP C.J. DAVIS GETS JOB BACK DESPITE HER ROLE IN MAJOR CHILD PORN COVERUP!!! AT LEAST 5 OTHER ATLANTA COPS IN ON COVERUP!!!

Police Major Gets Job Back
Botched sex crimes case cost 2 detectives and a crime analyst their positions, but Atlanta’s Civil Service Board has reversed one dismissal
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
October 11, 2008

A former Atlanta police major who was fired last summer for her involvement in a botched sex crimes investigation is getting her job back. Atlanta’s Civil Service Board, which has the power to reinstate a city employee’s job, reversed the termination of former Maj. Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, according to documents detailing the board’s decision.

“She cried. She’s happy,” Davis’ attorney, Mary Huber, said of her client after learning the news Friday afternoon. “She’s very emotional about it. We’re delighted. It’s the right result.” (Atlanta Police Mentality - it's right to reward a cop for lying and covering up child pornographers?)

Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington would not comment on the ruling, police spokesman James Polite said Friday. Davis and two other police employees, Sgt. Tonya Crane and crime analyst Randolph Ory, left the department after Pennington released the findings of an investigation into a mishandled sex crimes case involving Crane’s husband, Terrill Marion Crane. Federal authorities indicted Terrill Marion Crane in November on charges of producing child pornography after Atlanta police provided them with sexual photos of Crane and underage girls. But Atlanta police were given the photos in 1999 and took no action.

The city’s investigation found evidence indicating that Davis told two detectives not to look into the case. Davis was demoted to lieutenant and later fired, Ory was fired and Crane resigned. The Civil Service Board, however, determined that one of the detectives who worked under Davis and blamed her for the botched case, James Guyton, offered “inconsistent” testimony. The board also found that both detectives who said they were told not to look into the case, Guyton and Bobby Render, “pointed the finger” at supervisors “in an attempt to give themselves clean hands,” the document states. (Were Guyton and Render disciplined? Probably not!)

FIRED & DISGRACED ATLANTA P.D. MAJOR CERELYN DAVIS FILES SEX DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT AGAINST ATLANTA P.D.!

Former Atlanta Police Major C.J. Davis Files Sex Discrimination Complaint
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/06/08

A former high-ranking Atlanta police official has filed a sex discrimination complaint against the Atlanta Police Department. Former Maj. Cerelyn "C.J." Davis, who was demoted to lieutenant and then fired in June, accuses the department of disciplining her differently than a male officer who had a similar case but held on to his job, said her attorney, Mary Huber. Both Davis and the male officer were charged with lying and failed lie-detector tests, Huber said. They both then got private lie- etector tests, passed them and presented the new findings to Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington, Huber contends. The male officer kept his job; Davis did not, Huber said.

An Atlanta police spokeswoman, Sgt. Lisa Keyes, said she was unaware of Davis' complaint and could not comment on it. Davis, Sgt. Tonya Crane and crime analyst Randolph Ory were fired or quit in connection with the alleged sex crimes of Crane's husband. Federal authorities indicted the husband, Terrill Marion Crane, in November on charges of producing child pornography after Atlanta police provided them with sexual photos of Crane and underage girls. But Atlanta police were given the photos in 1999 and bungled the investigation.

An investigation by the city's Law Department concluded that Davis told two detectives not to look into the case. The Law Dept. also found that Atlanta P.D. officer Tonya Crane burned sexually explicit photos of her husband and also that Officer Ory, a close friend of Terrill Crane's, knew about some of Crane's sexual exploits.

Davis' complaint was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and will be heard during an Aug. 26 hearing with the city's Civil Service Board, which has the power to reinstate a city employee to his or her job. Huber said Davis also has two other issues in her complaint: 1) that two detectives assigned to the Crane investigation should have been disciplined and 2) that lie-detector tests violate EEOC regulations. (CJ should have filed this when the Atlanta PD gave her the initial lie detector test, and she has a logic deficit in that she voluntarily took a private lie detector test to refute the Atlanta PD's...one wonders how many private lie detector tests she had to take to get a 'passing' result?)

DISGRACED ATLANTA COP CJ DAVIS BLAMES SUPERIORS FOR FORCING HER TO LIE/COVERUP KIDDY PORN INVESTIGATION!

Union Leader Thinks Demoted Cop CJ Davis Acted on Orders From Above
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
06/13/08

Cerelyn "C.J." Davis carefully shaped her 22-year career at the Atlanta Police Department. She earned a reputation as a self-conscious officer who didn't make risky moves without the direction of superiors. Some say her career aspirations included being Atlanta's top cop. That's why a police union leader suspects Davis was following orders when, a city investigation concluded this week, she told two detectives not to investigate the alleged sex crimes of a police sergeant's husband in 2004.

Davis was demoted to lieutenant and removed from her job as major in charge of the Office of Professional Standards, which investigates complaints against Atlanta police officers. She has been transferred to a less visible unit and could be fired. Sgt. Scott Kreher, president of a union that represents Atlanta police officers, suspects Davis did not act alone. "In this instance, it would make sense to us that she had advice from someone [else] to not investigate this case," Kreher said. "She was very careful in her decisions and not quick to make decisions without advice from command staff members. ... Who that person is, we don't know."

City Attorney Beth Chandler, however, said Thursday that her department's investigation did not uncover evidence that Davis acted on orders. She added that the probe is finished unless new and credible tips are brought to her attention. Davis and two other police employees, including Sgt. Tonya Crane, are in trouble for their roles in covering up the alleged crimes of Crane's husband, Police Chief Richard Pennington announced this week. Federal authorities indicted Crane's husband, Terrill Marion "T.C." Crane, in November on charges of producing child pornography after Atlanta police provided them with sexual photos of Crane and underage girls.

But Atlanta police were given the photos in 1999! They only emerged last fall when found in a file cabinet. An investigation by the city's Law Department concluded that Davis had earlier told detectives not to look into the case, and that Tonya Crane burned sexually explicit photos of her husband after someone tipped her off, according to documents detailing the probe. A third police employee, crime analyst Randolph Ory, was a close friend of T.C. Crane's and knew about Crane's sexual exploits, documents show. All three will be disciplined for their involvement, possibly in the next week and a half, Pennington said. He was unavailable for an interview Thursday.

Kreher said he has talked to people who know and worked with Davis, and no one knows of any connection between her and Sgt. Crane. "So the burning question everybody has, 'Why, if Major Davis did make the decision by herself, would she put her career at risk for a sergeant's spouse whom she doesn't have a personal relationship with?'" Kreher said. The union leader also said he and other police officers questioned Pennington's decision to promote Davis to major and put her in charge of the internal affairs unit after she was reprimanded for saying she was on duty or moonlighting for 72 straight hours during the 2003 NBA All-Star Game weekend." A lot of people felt like she got a free pass," Kreher said.

The union, the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, represents 1,100 of the 1,400 eligible police officers, which include those at the rank of sergeant and below. While at the ranks of lieutenant and major, Davis could not be in the union.

DISGRACED ATLANTA P.D. INTERNAL AFFAIRS DEPT. HEAD FIRED FROM FORCE IN KIDDY PORN SCANDAL, THEN HONORED BY OPRAH!

Reinstated APD officer wins nod in Oprah’s magazine
She’d been demoted, about to be fired for botched investigation
By Tim Eberly
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
October 13, 2008

A former Atlanta police major who was fired last summer and got her job back last week is featured in the November issue of Oprah Winfrey’s “O” magazine. Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, 48, of Douglasville was one of 80 women selected for a leadership training contest, “Women Rule!”

The contest was for women involved in a project, such as a nonprofit organization or public policy initiative, who “wanted to take it to the next level,” according to the story. It drew 3,000 applicants. Davis’ project is listed as “Sisters-in-Law,” described as “a support network for women in law enforcement that also encourages girls to consider the profession by offering real-life role models,” the article states. The contest winners’ reward was three days of leadership training in New York in June, a few days after Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington demoted Davis and about a week before he fired her in connection with a botched sex crimes investigation involving the husband of an Atlanta police sergeant.

“I wasn’t going to go,” Davis said in a phone interview Monday. “I said, ‘They’re talking about disciplining me.’ I was more sick about it than anything.”

Family and friends convinced her to take the New York trip, and she’s glad she did. The feedback and camaraderie at the conference was exactly what she needed, she said. “The people at O magazine were so receptive to women’s issues.” (even women cops who cover up child pornographers?) Davis appealed her firing to the city’s Civil Service Board, which last week reversed her firing. It’s unclear whether Davis will return to the department at the rank of major, which was her position before she was demoted shortly before her firing.

An Atlanta police spokeswoman, Sgt. Lisa Keyes, said in an e-mail Monday that she did not know when Davis would return to work and would not comment further. Of the 15 women profiled in the story, Davis’s photo and profile are featured most prominently. When she first saw the article, “I really became emotional about it,” Davis said.

The profile details her Sisters-in-Law initiative, a project still in the proposal stage, and about the challenge of rising through the ranks in a male-dominated field. It quotes Davis saying that she had to work “above and beyond to deal with men not accepting me as a credible leader.” “A policewoman doesn’t get respect until she runs a robber down,” Davis said, according to the story. “But women in these roles contribute so much.”

Davis also said that her female coworkers are reluctant to “make waves,” and the story said one challenge she faces with the Sisters-in-Law initiative is “getting buy-in” from her male colleagues. Now that Davis has successfully appealed her firing, Davis said that “O” magazine has expressed interest in doing a follow-up story on her. (will "O" magazine reporters ask her about the determination by the Police Board that she lied to cover up a child molester?)

SEE MORE ON THIS OUTRAGEOUS STORY IN THE NEXT POST.....

ATLANTA P.D. EX-POLICE MAJOR CERELYN DAVIS CLAIMS SHE DIDN'T QUASH KIDDY PORN INVESTIGATION!!!

ATLANTA P.D. Ex-Police Major Says She Didn’t Quash Kiddy Porn Probe
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 26, 2008

A former Atlanta police major appealed her firing Tuesday, testifying before the city’s Civil Service Board that she never told detectives to quash a sex-crime investigation into the husband of a police sergeant. The board will make a decision on Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, who was terminated in June, 2008, after both sides submit their closing arguments by Sept. 5, said Davis’ attorney, Mary Huber.

The hearing at City Hall lasted about five hours and included more than three hours of testimony, Huber said. Davis said in her testimony that she never would have stopped a sex-crimes investigation from moving forward, Huber said. “I thought she was very definite and poised,” Huber said. “She did great. I was very pleased.”

Among the others who testified at the hearing: Police Chief Richard Pennington, a Law Department investigator and the two detectives who said that Davis told them to “cut” an investigation into Terrill Marion Crane, the husband of former police Sgt. Tonya Crane.

Davis, Tonya Crane and crime analyst Randolph Ory were fired or quit after a Law Department investigation concluded Davis told the detectives not to look into the case. The investigation also found Ory, a close friend of Terrill Crane’s, knew about some of Crane’s sexual exploits and that Atlanta cop Tonya Crane burned sexually explicit photos of her husband.

Federal authorities indicted the husband, Terrill Marion Crane, in November on charges of producing child pornography after Atlanta police provided them with sexual photos of Crane and underage girls. Atlanta police were given the photos in 1999 and bungled the investigation.

Since her firing, Davis has been working on getting an advanced degree and preparing her appeal, Huber said.

INCREDIBLY - CERELYN DAVIS WAS FEATURED IN THE NOVEMBER 2008 OPRAH MAGAZINE AS ONE OF 80 WOMEN WHO RULE!
See this link Women Rule! A Crash Course in Changing the World.

See this link for details on C.J. Davis in Oprah Magazine - DISGRACED ATLANTA COP CERELYN WHITE NAMED ONE OF USA'S TOP 80 WOMEN LEADERS IN OPRAH'S 2008 WHITEHOUSE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP CONTEST!

Maybe Oprah should name C.J. Davis to "A Crash Course in Rogue Policing!"

ATLANTA P.D. INTERNAL AFFAIRS LIEUTENANT C.J. DAVIS FIRED FOR COP KIDDY PORN COVERUP!

Atlanta Police Department Lieutenant Fired Over Kiddy Porn Coverup!
Probe of police officer's husband buried in files
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
06/26/08

Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington on Wednesday fired a high-ranking official in connection with a botched investigation involving the husband of a police sergeant.Pennington fired Lt. Cerelyn "C.J." Davis after a half-hour administrative hearing with her Wednesday afternoon, said Davis' attorney, Mary Huber. Earlier this month, Pennington demoted Davis from major to lieutenant and removed her as commander of the department's internal affairs unit.

Two other police employees involved in the case, Sgt. Tonya Crane and crime analyst Randolph Ory, are also no longer with the department. Ory was fired, and Crane resigned before the department made a decision on how to discipline her, according to police. Davis, Crane and Ory got in trouble for their roles in covering up the alleged crimes of Crane's husband, Pennington said. Federal authorities indicted Crane's husband, Terrill Marion Crane, in November on charges of producing child pornography after Atlanta police provided them with sexual photos of Crane and underage girls.

But Atlanta police were given the photos in 1999 and took no action! The photos re-emerged last fall when found in a file cabinet. An investigation by the city's Law Department concluded that:

- Davis told two detectives not to look into the case.
- Tonya Crane burned sexually explicit photos of her husband after someone tipped her off.
- Ory, a close friend of Terrill Crane's, knew about some of Crane's sexual exploits. Huber attended the hearing with Davis and said they had hoped to convince Pennington not to fire Davis. They gave Pennington the results of a private lie-detector test given to Davis by a certified examiner - a test that Huber claims Davis passed with flying colors, the attorney said.

It didn't work. "We thought she was going to keep her job, and she didn't," Huber said. "This is a crock." Pennington ultimately fired Davis for lying to city investigators who were trying to find out why the Terrill Crane case was buried.

Huber, however, said, "Davis never lied or tried to cover up the case and will appeal the chief's decision to the city's Civil Service Board."

She feels really bad. She's crushed," Huber said. "They're giving her the death penalty. It's the death penalty of her career." yeah, and what about the kids molested by Terrill Crane?

ATLANTA ROGUE COP PUMMELS CRIPPLED MAN AT AIRPORT!!! POLICE BRUTALITY VICTIM HAS LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE!

ATLANTA THUG-COP BEATS MAN WITH LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE AT AIRPORT!
by Jeff Dantre
WSB Radio
October 14, 2008

Was a man with a neurological disease similar to ALS beaten up at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport by an APD officer? It depends on who you talk to. Airport spokesman John Kennedy tells WSB's Jennifer Griffies that police were called after Bradley Sorman got into an argument with a skycap. A police officer arrived to mediate the discussion and was pushed by the passenger. The police officer tried again to mediate and was pushed a second time by the passenger. On this occasion, the police officer took the passenger to the ground and handcuffed him.

But Sorman's wife Tamara tells Channel Two Action News that her husband can barely move and could not have assaulted the officer. Sorman was released Tuesday on a $10,000 bond. He has been charged with simple assault on a police officer and obstruction. Part of the incident was caught on tape but the tape has not been released. hmmm, no tape? wonder why?