Courtney Johnson, just another victim of the troubling investigative skills of the SFPD.

Surprise, Surprise, the SFPD gets it wrong. It reminds me of their sex stings where an undercover officer pretends to be a teenage girl to lure perspective perverts to a park to meet for sex with someone who doesn’t exist. As a judge said ruling on one case, “It’s like charging someone for murdering Mickey Mouse.”

This whole notion of creating crime instead of preventing and investigating crime is getting old. And they wonder why their funding might be cut?

11 Thoughts on “I can smell another lawsuit against the city that they will lose.

  1. Hammerhead on August 14, 2010 at 6:33 am said:

    Thanks for posting the link to the StarTrib article. I have looked in Misleader but must have missed it. The KELO piece on it is worthless. The StarTrib makes the SFPD look like a bunch of hicks. She would be justified in bringing. This is just plain poor police work.

  2. On top of that, she had a solid alibi.

  3. Plaintiff Guy on August 14, 2010 at 9:34 am said:

    She can join what is becoming a constitutional class against city hall. If her attorney reads this, my testimony (Civ. 08-2478) will be damaging. I’m a free witness in cases against the city and I’ll pay my own expenses.

    There should be an internal affairs section at SFPD. These cops and the ones who made a false complaint against Staggers go unreprimanded.

    Incidently, there’s no process for making complaints against city employees or recalling a mayor. It’s not democracy. It’s a dictatorship with a fascist administration.

  4. anominous on August 14, 2010 at 9:26 pm said:

    What a bunch of fuckups.

  5. I don’t see fuckups, but laziness.

  6. CCFlyer on August 14, 2010 at 9:37 pm said:

    This is honestly embarrassing. Embarrassing to this girl, this city, and this state that something like this happened. The Star Tribune had the guts enough to actually what appears to be investigating into this story, unlike Stormbland or the Argus.

  7. l3wis, you seem to have friends at the argus, do they ever tell you why they actually don’t investigate stories, other than to ask where the press release came from?

  8. The cops should get about 24 hours to straighten out a property criminal complaint before the cops get locked up.

  9. I’m not defending the SFPD on this one, they do have a hard job. But when you have to solid of an alibi, you don’t lock someone up first, then ask questions later. Piss-poor investigative work, that is for sure.

    Scott – You are right on some levels, but not all of the reporters do that. I think a lot of them are overworked and underpaid, and will slide when they can. Have you watched this new program by the Argus? Jill and Bryann have no right to be in front of a camera. Not because of physical appearance but because you can tell they are better at newspaper journalism.

    http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/MULTIMEDIA/100714031&template=livestream

  10. Ghost of Dude on August 16, 2010 at 8:26 am said:

    I hope the SFPD gets taken to the cleaners over this. The only time organizations like the SFPD are motivated to change how they do things is when the status quo becomes prohibitively expensive.

  11. If the State’s Attorneys Office doesn’t like the case or the investigation they don’t have to charge the case and request a warrant.

    Since both happened here more than just the Coppers believed it was the girl. Are you sure you know all the facts???? Bet U don’t…

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