Probably Not The Best Possible Career Move...
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 10:14 pm
I think these three have seriously jeopardized their chances to "Serve and Protect"...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/17/us/lapd-c ... index.html
LAPD cadets arrested after stealing patrol cars, police say
(CNN)The Los Angeles Police Department arrested and charged three of its own juvenile cadets after they stole and crashed three police vehicles, authorities said.
The three teens, two males ages 15 and 17, and a 16-year-old female, were all members of the LAPD cadet program, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.
They were not identified because they are minors.
In addition to the three vehicles, police also recovered two Tasers, two police radios and a bulletproof vest, he said.
The theft went undetected until Wednesday,
when a watch commander doing daily inventory noticed two black-and-white LAPD patrol vehicles missing from their fleet.
The investigation into finding the vehicles promptly focused on the female cadet who had been assigned to the location where the vehicles went missing, Beck said.
The female teenager was last seen on surveillance video putting gas on one of the vehicles that was missing. A few hours later, the missing patrol cars were spotted side-by-side on the streets of South Los Angeles.
LAPD officers attempted to stop the teens driving the patrol cars, but both fled and at one point during the pursuit, went different directions, initiating two police chases throughout the streets of South Los Angeles.
"One of the pursuits terminated when the pursuit vehicle was involved in a traffic collision ...The second pursuit ended when the pursuit vehicle collided with a non-involved motorist," Beck said.
The teenagers, one of whom was wearing an LAPD bulletproof vest, were arrested and taken in for questioning. During the investigation, one confessed to having stolen a third patrol car, Beck said, and possibly having had that vehicle for over two weeks. [So a teenager steals an LAPD squad car, and nobody notices it's missing for two weeks...
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Police found the third patrol car parked in front of a residence near the neighborhood where the two other vehicles had been spotted, and recovered two Tasers and two radios.
Beck said cadets are not allowed to drive patrol cars, [apparently they didn't get the memo] and the teens had outsmarted the checkout system set in place to account for patrol vehicles.
"They accessed our inventory system, logged in under a sergeant's name that they knew and was on vacation, and impersonated him to cover their use of their vehicles," Beck said.[Let me make sure I've got this straight...the security system for Los Angeles Police Department squad cars and other police equipment, is set up in such a way that a teenager logging in under a vacationing police sergeant's name can drive off undetected with anything they want... (ATTENTION TERRORISTS...It's all go in Los Angeles..).this reads like something out of a Breaking Bad episode...you just can't make this shit up...]
Beck reiterated that a full inventory has been done of all police vehicles and firearms. All 1,800 vehicles are accounted for and no firearms ever went missing.[Given what happened here, the citizens of Los Angeles should find that assertion very reassuring...]
"We are in the early stages of the investigation. We believe that the cadets may have impersonated police officers using these vehicles," he said.
"I have conducted a top-to-bottom review of our cadet program," he said. [How about a top-to-bottom head-rolling house cleaning, that starts with the Police Chief who presided over an equipment security system that allowed three squad cars (one for two weeks) to go missing and unreported until three teenagers took them for a joy ride...]
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/17/us/lapd-c ... index.html
