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Brady List. a very little known fact to public. anybody know what is it?
 
Does it mean....400+ cops who lie on the witness stand? I googled that up. :lol:
 
Beowulf said:
Bad cops?
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Yeah, but, apparently, in some cases not bad enough to be fired, just relegated to do some other kind of work considered not "real" police work.......after they have served their suspensions, of course.....
 
Tousi said:
Yeah, but, apparently, in some cases not bad enough to be fired, just relegated to do some other kind of work considered not "real" police work.......after they have served their suspensions, of course.....
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Yeah, I know cops. Some good but most borderline. Is that what this thread is about?
 
lol - just informing ya'all about the existence of "Brady List" not widely known to public. Without further ado - Brady List is a list typically compiled by county prosecutor/district attorney. It only means the police officer has a credibility issue when it comes to prosecution. It does not necessarily means a bad cop.

Not all states or police departments maintain Brady List. Not all cops on Brady List are immediately fired. It depends on department policy - one may be immediately fired or one may be placed on revised duty like desk job.

From what I see - Seattle and Maricopa County have quite a list on Brady List... not good :nono:

Maricopa County (if you remember from past - that's a hot bed for illegal immigration - Sheriff Joe Arpaio) has over 400 officers in the list. This news just recently came out - same county. This officer is being charged with second-degree murder in shooting unarmed Domestic Violence suspect, aggravated assault with deadly weapon, and animal cruelty for shooting at dog for barking too much at that same scene.

Phoenix police officer indicted in fatal shooting

This same officer was the one who planted the drug paraphernalia in mentally-disabled woman (she had an arrest warrant) along with his partner as part of prank.

skip to 2:25 and soon - you will see they planted drug on her

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Report: Chrisman Planted Evidence In Past
'Prank' Landed Accused Officer On List Of Questionable Integrity

A report from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office details how Phoenix police Officer Richard Chrisman and his partner planted evidence on a woman they arrested in 2005.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office on Thursday released detailed information about the circumstances that landed Chrisman on the so-called "Brady" list, a database of law enforcement personnel whose credibility can be questioned on the stand for unprofessional actions in the past.

Chrisman was charged with murder Thursday in the Oct. 5 shooting death of Daniel Rodriguez.

In August of 2005 Chrisman and his partner were caught on videotape arresting a mentally disabled woman who had a warrant out for her arrest.
During the arrest, Chrisman's female partner searched the suspect.

At one point in the video, the female officer can be seen putting her hand behind her back and Chrisman placing something in her hand. The object was drug paraphernalia the officers had confiscated from a prior contact, according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

The female officer then pretended to find the paraphernalia during the search of the woman, officials said.

Chrisman and his partner never charged the woman with possession of the items. During the internal investigation, both admitted that they had decided to play a joke on the suspect because they knew she was mentally disabled and wanted to see her reaction.

Both officers were disciplined, according to the report. For his part in the prank, Chrisman was given a one-day suspension and placed on the "Brady" list.

The incident was captured by a nearby surveillance camera.
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more information about Brady List

Prosecutors keep list of problem officers
Supreme Court ruling

In February 2006, King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Mark Larson, chief of the office's criminal division, wrote a memo telling attorneys in the office to be diligent in keeping track of officers with credibility problems.

He reminded the attorneys of their responsibility to abide by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brady v. Maryland. That 1963 ruling states a prosecutor is obliged to provide the accused with any evidence that might help his or her defense, including information that could be used to challenge the credibility of police officers or other witnesses.

If that information isn't handed over, cases could be dismissed, allowing suspects to go free. The lawyers could face discipline by the Washington State Bar Association.

Moreover, the law presumes that if one attorney in a prosecutor's office knows of a credibility issue with a law-enforcement officer, then the entire office is on notice, Larson wrote. The next time that officer's name comes up in a case, the prosecutor is obligated to turn information over if it is relevant. There is no excuse, even if some in the office don't know about it.

Larson's memo got prosecutors to begin compiling the list of "Brady cops."

But it wasn't until the Neubert and Tietjen investigation that the prosecutor's office started contacting local law-enforcement agencies to raise the question of better tracking of officers with credibility problems.

The Brady list is a legal obligation, Van Olst said, but that doesn't necessarily mean that every person on the list is a bad cop or that cases in which they were involved can't be successfully prosecuted.

For its part, the Police Department doesn't use a "Scarlet A" to single out officers who have made a mistake or error in judgment in the past, said Deputy Chief Kimerer.

At this point, nobody in law enforcement knows what sort of misconduct should trigger the addition of an officer's name to the prosecutor's list.

"It hasn't been on our radar," said sheriff's spokesman Urquhart. "I don't think it's been on the prosecutor's radar either, until now."

Kimerer said that "very few issues of honesty and integrity are present among officers who are currently working."

Indeed, the list is tiny compared to the numbers of officers and deputies. The Sheriff's Office has 750 deputies, and about 1,300 officers work on the police force, including the police chief and other administrators.

Sgt. Rich O'Neill, president of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, says the bar for placing an officer on the list should be very high: a rare disciplinary finding of dishonesty against an officer.

But the prosecutor's office wants to know about more than just those officers who have been found to be dishonest. Already, it has included on its list some who were not disciplined by their employer. The standard for prosecutors is whether the defense could attack the credibility of the police officer or deputy.
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I think it is shame cos I remember there was used to have good ol' days. Now, I read this and sounds not so good to me...
 
I thought the Brady List was a list of step children that Mike Brady has accumulated during his life time as a polygamist?
 
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