| Subject: Re: A Honolulu police officer threatened several times to murder auto shop owner Larry Woodward because of an argument over a tire. "I'm a policeman, I can do anything I want. You're a dead man. I'm going to kill you," the HPD cop told Woodward. The full news account can be found here: http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/24/news/index6.html |
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Date Posted: 11/12/07 1:36pm PST
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's message, "A Honolulu police officer threatened several times to murder auto shop owner Larry Woodward because of an argument over a tire. "I'm a policeman, I can do anything I want. You're a dead man. I'm going to kill you," the HPD cop told Woodward. The full news account can be found here: http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/24/news/index6.html" on 07/ 7/05 2:06pm PDT
What happened to policeman Damon Taylor?
http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/21/news/story2.html
Interesting public comments from the Honolulu Advertsier last month:
Honolulu settled police lawsuits for $1.1M
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|Report Abuse |#1 Oct 8, 2007
Not surprising at all. The police in Hawaii are incredibly undertrained, and mostly ignorant of proper procedures.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate them a 1. And I give them ZERO respect.
IMHO
Honolulu, HI Reply »
|Report Abuse |#9 Oct 8, 2007
It's funny how this article uses statistics to hide the fact that we the taxpayers are paying for all this nonsense. If HPD is so well trained and one of the best in the country, we shouldn't have to fork over $200,000 a year to pay for their mistakes. Yeah, Portland paid out more but also has a metro population of almost 2.4 million people as compared with Honolulu's 900,000. Also, based on FBI
Tony
Waipahu, HI Reply »
|Report Abuse |#14 Oct 8, 2007
I blamed on the SGT (supervisor)...they are not discipling their subordinates. For example, I was in court last week as a court interpreter....e few rookies sitting outside talking loud/cursing and a SGT sitting close by reading his paper doing nothing....the bailiff finally came and tole them to tone down. Maybe it the UNION thing.
Hawaii Victim
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|Report Abuse |#22 Oct 8, 2007
I was long ago also falsely arrested/detained/charged by this taxpayer-paid HPD officer named David Politsch (if he's no longer with the HPD, then there's really Divine Justice). I didn't fight him in court because I couldn't afford a private lawyer and my taxpayer-paid public defenders advised me to just enter a 'no contest' plea so that I would be given a chance to erase my court record. The lesson here is to stay away whenever possible from taxpayer-paid armed men like cops and soldiers since we can't read anyone's mind and he/she can hurt/harm/kill anybody anytime for unknown or whatever reason(s).
No room for mediocrity
Honolulu, HI Reply »
|Report Abuse |#25 Oct 8, 2007
The DELUSIONAL state wrote:
I lived in Los Angeles for 27 years and believe me, Hawaii's Police Force is some of the fairest, honest cops that I'VE ever come into contact with. I've had several run in's with HPD officer's and they called me "sir" so many times I thought I was a four star General. Some of you cry babies should move off this ROCK and then MAYBE you'll realize how good you have it. In LA, I had my civil rights violated so many times by racisit cops that I literally would be terrified when I dealt with them. Most of the times, I didn't even want to use LAPD's sevices. I hear this saying all the time, "Lucky you live Hawaii." Some of you should experience another state and then maybe you'll realize how good you have it here. You live in PARADISE. STOP COMPLAINING.
Arguing that we should accept this because it's worse in other places is why we tolerate mediocrity. It's like your mother always told you, if Johnny jumped off a bridge would you do the same? Why should the taxpayers tolerate ANY avoidable expenses. Yes, I said avoidable, if we (taxpayers) have to pay these settlements it means the officers were WRONG!
I could care less if LA pays 1,000 times more than what we pay. I don't want to foot a million dollar bill that should never have happened, if these SO CALLED COPS did their jobs properly.
Ben Manini
Honolulu, HI Reply »
|Report Abuse |#27 Oct 8, 2007
Give the wrong person a badge and a gun, they turn into super cop. Above the law. Civil rights violators. I have observed first hand a super cop hand cuff a man. With no kind of struggle mace was sprayed into the mans face and was manhandled. I was yelled at to leave or the same fate awaits me. GO FIGURE.
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/honolulu-advertiser/T6R8NCKESK9GPT792
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/honolulu-advertiser/T6R8NCKESK9GPT792/p2
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