Even more:
Cops Gone Wild
Nov. 30, 2005: Michael Joseph "Mike" Pechawer, with 20 years as a Biloxi police officer, was arrested for accepting bribes to refer detainees to an employee of A-1 Bonding Co. Pechawer pleaded guilty in July and received a five-year suspended sentence with three years of probation.
An old midnight shift corporal who will always be remembered more for what he failed to do.
June 2, 2005: Darrell D. Cvitanovich Jr., a Biloxi K-9 officer with 14 years on the job, was arrested at work while undercover officers seized 11 Ecstasy tablets and methamphetamine residue from his home. Investigators said they believe he also sold drugs from his patrol car. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in October to a 15-year sentence, with 10 years suspended and five to serve.
Son of the Biloxi Chief of Police who started off well and then fell.
Feb. 12, 2000 : Mark Hatfield, a Gulfport DUI officer, was off duty and drunk when he drove off the road and struck a New Orleans police cruiser, seriously injuring two officers. He was barred from police work and received a 5-year suspended sentence, three years' probation and was ordered to pay $5,000 to each of the injured officers.
Hat succumbed to the voodoo of the Big Easy, not the last to do so, unfortunately.
Some additional cases that y'all might find of interest:
Tom Pustay
Mike Chauvin
Steve Futral
Ronald Roach
Worst recent case of all (in my view):
Ryan Teel
And, while not a police officer, an entrusted public servant:
Bill Atchison
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” - Emerson
Some of us find ways to keep busy in the lonely vacuum of space by doing what is necessary, not because the job will ever be appreciated by anyone in the grand scheme of things or to measure the scales of justice...but because it is the right thing to do.
~ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?