New round of theft accusations against S.F. cops

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(05-17) 17:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- For the second time in a week, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi accused police of stealing from drug suspects after releasing video footage Tuesday that shows two officers walk into a residential hotel empty-handed and leave with bags that were not booked into evidence.

The latest accusation brought an angry response from the head of the police officers' union, who said there was probably an innocent explanation and called Adachi a "media whore" who is staining the careers of good cops for political gain.

At a news conference at Adachi's office, the 65-year-old resident of the Mission District hotel room that was searched, Jesus Reyes, said he recognized one of the bags shown on video taken by surveillance cameras. He said the backpack had contained a Dell laptop computer, and that he was missing a Sony digital camera as well.

Adachi identified the plainclothes officer with the computer bag as Richard Guerrero, who faces similar allegations in a separate case, and the second officer as Reynaldo Vargas, who was once accused of slashing a suspect with a broken crack pipe.

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Delagnes: I'm guilty of it myself," he said. "Rather than book the $1 backpack, we throw it away." Why has he thrown evidence in the garbage. Perhaps he is reselling the "evidence" on the street.

That's who he is. :puke:

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Police who are violent I can understand. I won't forgive it, and I think those people shouldn't be police officers, but I can understand it. This I just can't understand. It's like they hired street thugs to be police. WTF?

...Cops are running a private club for themselves, at the trough of the public.

Once they get in the club, the money AND power flows.

We are not too keen on most police.