Brickbat: Easier Than Pulling Them Over

A former Norwalk, Connecticut, police officer has been charged with five counts of third-degree computer crime and five counts of second-degree forgery. Police said that Edgar Gonzalez filed written warnings into police databases for traffic stops that he never performed. They began investigating Gonzalez after receiving a complaint from one of the drivers whom Gonzalez claimed he had stopped and issued a warning to.

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[Utkonos]

When cops are abusing computer systems to frame innocent folk with traffic incidents you just know the System has crashed! And THESE are the Servers of the Public Domain?

[Utkonos]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Not much money in warnings. Hence the investigation.

[John F. Carr]

I know a guy whose car got flagged as "associated with a known felon" in a police database, apparently completely legally because it was not a formal DMV record of a traffic ticket or warning. It was a police list.

[Longtobefree]

Wait a minute!
The cops started an investigation because a civilian complained?
There has to be more to this story.

[Vernon Depner]

Yeah, somehow he pissed off his brother cops.

[mad.casual]

Not familiar enough with Norwalk, CT or the PD to distinguish between a "civilian complaint". And the dispatcher in Nowhere, CT knowing and specifically remembering where any given officer is at any given time.

Either Gonzalez just happened to (e.g.) write a warning for a councilman or a judge in his mistress' neighborhood on his wife's anniversary or wrote a warning for 12:30 on a Tuesday while forgetting that it was taco tuesday at the department and he was across town picking up tacos.

Agreed. A little suspicious how someone who received a warning they weren't actually handed found out about the warning.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Perhaps there's a process in place by which these warnings get mailed to the "offenders".

[mad.casual]

The more I think about it, the more I think "This is the story LTBF is looking for." WTF is a 'police warning' database? The whole point of the warning is that there isn't an infraction so there's no fine or record. If a kid's riding down the street on his bicycle too fast and the officer shouts "Hey Kid! Slow down!" does that go into the database? If the cop 'legitimately' pulls over a solid 10 for doing 55 in a 50 and issues her a warning just so he can stare at her rack does that go in the database? If so, how is that better than Gonzalez putting in false warnings not to stare at a girl's chest? It sounds and feels like a 'pre-traffic offender registry'.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

First draft of a rejected Onion piece?

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

They complaint might have included a really good alibi proving the ticket was fraud, and the complaint made it really clear he was really pissed and willing to prove it in court.

[Social Justice is neither]

How dare you speak ill of this brave man valiantly fighting for the common good. How do you know these people aren't terrorists who've honked before and he's just clearing the streets of such rabble in the approved WEF manner?

There goes your social credit score.

[markm23]

This is the Jayson Blair of policing. What is remarkable is that apparently the PD caught on in less than a year - unlike the New York Times, whose "fact-checkers" needed two years and a bunch of fake stories exposed by random people on the internet before they even began to suspect Blair.

[mad.casual]

Police are professional investigators. NYT is just journalists.

[Jim Logajan]

Propagandists, not journalists.

[Hank Phillips]

See? Arizona bans on filming, body cams and outside security cameras could help do away with this kind of disloyal snitching on brother asset-orificers!

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[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Be easier if Gonzales changed his name to Zimmerman.