St. Paul cop on leave amid claims she lied to grand jury
An investigator with the St. Paul Police Department has been placed on paid leave after federal judges rebuked her for lying to a grand jury concerning a sex trafficking case. The investigator also lied during a detention hearing.
Prosecutors in St. Paul are now trying to determine what to do with other cases that the investigator was involved with, as other allegations of misconduct have surfaced from a previous sex trafficking case in 2008 that involved the same investigator.
Defense attorney David Komisar said that the investigator should face consequences for lying in court as she was the lead agent in the current case. Yes, lying to make sure that defendants are all sent to prison is illegal.
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CherokeeJack
It’s good to hear your comments from a perspective of someone who has been on both sides of the fence. Your viewpoint is appreciated. Thanks. Just wish it could be shared with a bigger audience.
David
Although there are and always have been some good cops around, when push comes to shove, almost no officer is going to side with a suspect. Case in point, the George Floyd case. I am glad I was not there as an officer. I know the feeling that something is not right but if you speak up, your career is over. You are in a “No win” situation. I saw this first hand so many times that I asked to be transferred out of patrol.
I LOVED patrol. I loved to stop and talk to people and let them know they could trust me and that all cops were not bad. But when you are forced to choose between a fellow officer and a civilian, you are put in a situation that someone is going to hate you whichever way you go.
We hear the “Thin blue line” mentioned. Well the line is NOT thin. If you are not with the police then you are the enemy. (Not my words). A lot of officers have a mentality that they are in a battle field on every shift and all the civilians are potential felons that just haven’t been caught yet.
And do not even get me started on all the jokes you had to endure on a shift. I heard so many racial jokes that I became numb to them. Sex jokes, racial jokes, Jokes about woman and then of course were making fun of handicap people. We would go on a call with someone who had cerebral palsy and some of the officers would be behind a patrol car making fun of the person .
I do not even know how I made it through the years I was on the force without doing something I regret to one of these so called professionals. AND this is not unique to police. I was also an EMT for many years and the amount of people that were made fun of was sickening. When I complained I was told that is how they cope with the day to day traumas they see??? Really ?
Something else I thought of that I keep forgetting to mention. Isn’t it odd that some states have no statue of limitations on sex offenses.
And yet when I tried to go back and challenge some of my charges with new evidence, I was told by the judge “Too much time has passed, the statue of limitations has expired”.
Well I tried to file in while locked up and I was told “Wait until you get released”. Yeah I was set up to fail. Such dishonesty from the courts. Great examples of integrity and the oaths that you took.