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Fuck the election, here's an article about how cops can continue to be employed in the United States after committing rape and murder
article is fucking long, I ain't pasting the whole thing
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-clean-record-agreements/
>THE POLICE OFFICER’S CAREER was in peril. Twenty-five years ago, Hossep “Joe” Ourjanian’s supervisors at the Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety accused him of “flagrant” misconduct. They said he had pretended to attend military training to skip work. They had already decided he should be fired when they learned of another allegation: Ourjanian’s girlfriend said he had grabbed her and pulled her hair while she held their infant son.
>But then Los Angeles County did something remarkable: The county agreed to hide evidence that Ourjanian allegedly lied to dodge work in exchange for his promise to go without a fight. Records documenting the county’s finding of misconduct would be removed from his personnel file and their very existence would be kept secret. His firing would be rescinded. If any future employer asked, the county agreed to say only that he had resigned “indicating personal reasons.”
>In the years since, Ourjanian has bounced from one policing job to the next. He left one agency soon after a local prosecutor questioned his credibility and ability to testify in court, citing criminal charges he faced of child abuse, perjury and witness tampering. (He was never convicted.) Then, in 2019, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office near Lake Tahoe accused him of embezzling money, records show.
>Once again, history was rewritten for Ourjanian.
article is fucking long, I ain't pasting the whole thing
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-clean-record-agreements/
>THE POLICE OFFICER’S CAREER was in peril. Twenty-five years ago, Hossep “Joe” Ourjanian’s supervisors at the Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety accused him of “flagrant” misconduct. They said he had pretended to attend military training to skip work. They had already decided he should be fired when they learned of another allegation: Ourjanian’s girlfriend said he had grabbed her and pulled her hair while she held their infant son.
>But then Los Angeles County did something remarkable: The county agreed to hide evidence that Ourjanian allegedly lied to dodge work in exchange for his promise to go without a fight. Records documenting the county’s finding of misconduct would be removed from his personnel file and their very existence would be kept secret. His firing would be rescinded. If any future employer asked, the county agreed to say only that he had resigned “indicating personal reasons.”
>In the years since, Ourjanian has bounced from one policing job to the next. He left one agency soon after a local prosecutor questioned his credibility and ability to testify in court, citing criminal charges he faced of child abuse, perjury and witness tampering. (He was never convicted.) Then, in 2019, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office near Lake Tahoe accused him of embezzling money, records show.
>Once again, history was rewritten for Ourjanian.
