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As Much As We Want to Support the Boys in Blue…

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David Edward Stone. Photo credit: Daily Progress

…sometimes we end up with cases like this one. Richmond Police Officer David Edward Stone, a Louisa County resident, was arrested last week on 50 child pornography charges. Stone has served on the Richmond police force since 2006, reports The Daily Progress.

Society needs police to protect against criminals. And the Richmond police have been doing a creditable job in the past several months. But Stone reminds us that occasionally the cops are the criminals. Spotting and purging bad actors is all the more imperative when police departments are drastically understaffed, recruitment is suffering, and the temptation is strong to take anyone who seems remotely qualified. — JAB

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45 responses to “As Much As We Want to Support the Boys in Blue…”

  1. VaNavVet Avatar
    VaNavVet

    In some departments it is not only the bad actors but the policing culture that needs to be purged!

    1. kls Avatar
      kls

      Just like in schools you mean?

      1. VaNavVet Avatar
        VaNavVet

        “Policing culture” in schools? Some schools do have resource officers assigned to them but I would not say that this one officer establishes a policing culture.

        1. Stephen Haner Avatar
          Stephen Haner

          This pathetic wanker (word chosen intentionally) is clearly also an idiot if he failed to realize he was trading emails and disgusting photos with an undercover agent. Not indicative of anything except his sad existence.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            He’s has been background-checked, TRAINED and deemed qualified ?

            He’s police and he KNOWS about “undercover” and “on duty” until “discovered”?

            We have folks like this serving on police forces?

    2. kls Avatar
      kls

      Just like in schools you mean?

    3. James A. Bacon Avatar
      James A. Bacon

      Do you know of any police departments with a culture of devotion to child pornography?

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e5da32da33b41a869338e12f665fbe21d95e54621c203acc1718959e04caa672.jpg

      2. VaNavVet Avatar
        VaNavVet

        You should have noticed that I said “policing culture” clearly referring to the way they interacted with the public. For instance beating a man to death when they knew that they were being filmed which would indicate a total lack of concern about accountability.

      3. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        PDs? No. Now, there are other venerable institutions whose reputation includes such proclivities….

        A few of the 7 million results…

        Richmond Police officer charged with possession of child …https://www.nbc12.com › 2023/01/27 › richmond-police-…

        Jan 20, 2023 — COOK COUNTY, IL – A former Dixmoor police officer is facing multiple child pornography charges following an investigation by the Cook County

        Ex-Rockford detective gets 6 months for child pornography …https://www.wifr.com › 2023/01/28 › ex-rockford-detecti…
        2 days ago — Grover was a detective with the Rockford Police Department. He was arrested Sept. 23, 2021 after Homeland Security Investigations and Roscoe …

        Former Philly cop sentenced to more than 5 years in prison on …https://www.inquirer.com › news › william-watts-philad…
        Dec 14, 2022 — Philadelphia Police Officer William Watts, Sr. , a 32-year veteran, was convicted of possessing and transmitting child pornography.

        Baltimore Police SWAT officer sentenced to 25 years in …https://www.baltimoresun.com › news › crime › bs-md-ci-…
        Dec 15, 2022 — A judge sentenced a Baltimore Police SWAT officer Wednesday to 25 years … of a child to produce child pornography and possession of child …

        Fired Omaha police officer expected to change plea in federal …https://www.ketv.com › article › fired-omaha-police-off…
        Oct 17, 2022 — A new court filing shows a fired Omaha police officer is expected to change his plea to guilty in a federal child pornography investigation.

        Former Omaha police officer to plead guilty in federal child …https://journalstar.com › news › crime-and-courts › forme…
        A former Omaha police officer facing federal child pornography charges is expected to forgo his criminal trial and plead guilty.

        Former Dixmoor Police Officer Charged with Child …https://thesouthlandjournal.com › former-dixmoor-poli…
        Jan 20, 2023 — The ICAC Unit received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about child pornography found on an email account …

        Former Wellsburg Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Child Porn …https://www.theintelligencer.net › community › 2022/11
        Nov 5, 2022 — WELLSBURG — A former Wellsburg police officer has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and is slated to appear for sentencing …

        Ex-Long Beach police officer sentenced for child pornographyhttps://www.latimes.com › california › story › former-lon…
        Jul 26, 2022 — A former Long Beach police officer who pleaded guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material was sentenced Monday to nearly six years …

        Waterloo regional police officer faces child pornography chargeshttps://www.cbc.ca › news › canada › kitchener-waterloo
        Dec 19, 2022 — Waterloo Regional Police Service say the officer was arrested on Dec. 14 by Ontario Provincial Police and charged with possession of child …

        Ex-Torrance police officer gets probation in child pornography …https://www.dailybreeze.com › 2022/12/07 › ex-torranc…
        Dec 7, 2022 — A former Torrance police officer was sentenced to a year on probation Wednesday for a misdemeanor charge of possessing child pornography and …

        1. Nathan Avatar
          Nathan

          Google “teacher child pornography”

          About 23,000,000 results (0.44 seconds)

          1. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            Confirmed data. 2,040,000 results in .41 seconds for “conservatives child pornography.” Only about half by substituting “libertarian” for conservative. Results may be aggregated. Virtue signaling works.

          2. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            For the record:

            Yesterday Nancy posted a comment about a Google search for “Police Officer Child Pornography” and displayed the result in bold. I saw no point to it and today responded with a couple myself to make the point.

          3. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            For the record:

            Yesterday Nancy posted a comment about a Google search for “Police Officer Child Pornography” and displayed the result in bold. I saw no point to it and today responded with a couple myself to demonstrate that.

          4. James McCarthy Avatar
            James McCarthy

            Musta all travelled over my head.

          5. WayneS Avatar
            WayneS

            And About 3,790,000 results (0.43 seconds) for “democrat child pornography”.

            And About 8,860,000 results (0.49 seconds) for “progressive child pornography”.

            And About 9,960,000 results (0.47 seconds) for “liberal child pornography”…

            What’s you point?

      4. Nathan Avatar
        Nathan

        I firmly believe (and can document) that denigrating all police, instead of the individuals and specific departments who are guilty, is extremely counter productive.

        The more the profession is looked down upon and becomes undesirable, the more difficult it becomes to recruit the best potential candidates.

        We can’t draft police officers.

        My nephew was one of the most promising state police officers in a state larger than Virginia – the exact type of person you want there. I believe he was the youngest ever to make detective there. He decided to leave the profession about the time of all the rioting and is now back in school to pursue a different career path.

        As the Tyre Nichols murder demonstrates, there are without question, problems. The important question is, what will help improve policing and what perpetuates the problems?

        In my view, one of the most important factors is a large pool of potential candidates to select from.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          Think the same way about public schools in terms of bad examples and the rest of public schools?

          If you think the leadership of NN schools should be fired for that incident, do you also believe the leadership of the Memphis police force should be similarly held “accountable”?

          1. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            “do you also believe the leadership of the Memphis police force should be similarly held ‘accountable’?”

            I do.

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            so all the way up the chain in Memphis?

          3. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            Go where the facts lead, and hold people accountable.

            What happened in Memphis is inexcusable. I find it hard to believe there were no warning signs that those guys were a blight on the force and society. Are there more like that there?

            What happened at Newport News was also inexcusable. There, it sounds like the rank and file were stopped by the administration.

            Might that be what happened at UVA? Those young men should not be dead. Why was nothing effective done? Investigate, follow the facts, and hold people accountable.

          4. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            so hold everyone in the food chain accountable? And in NN, go investigate all the principals to see who has not been doing the right thing with disruptive kids?

          5. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            Did you not read?

            Follow the facts. Go where the facts lead, and hold people accountable.

            I thought it went without saying that people who have done nothing wrong do not need to be held accountable. Additionally, accountability comes in many forms. Punishment must fit the offence.

            Don’t confuse my comments with anyone else’s views.

            If there is a systemic problem at a police department, university, or school system, the leadership may need to go. In any of the situations discussed recently, however, I don’t believe I have advocated for any specific person to go.

            Facts first, then action.

            I don’t see anything controversial in what I have said.

          6. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            I’m asking if you automatically fire people up the food chain for schools or police
            when something wrong happens?

            or do you investigate both first?

            and if you investigate do you investigate the whole police force or whole school system
            if the facts take you that way?

            In other words, a consistent approach no matter police, schools, other govt?

          7. kls Avatar
            kls

            When a USN ship hits something… the Captain is fired.. no matter who was on the bridge. FULL STOP.

          8. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            how about when one of the crew gets caught with child porn or commits a rape?

          9. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            That should already be be VERY apparent from my previous responses but:

            -Investigate
            -Follow facts
            -Take corrective action
            -Hold people responsible accountable

            Apply that to any public entity with evidence of a systemic problem.

            Absent compelling evidence, I would not assume one pervert in a police department, school system, etc. speaks to a systemic problem.

          10. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            so not in favor of firing superintendent of schools before an investigation is conducted?

            How many kids carrying guns to elementary schools in NN? RIght?

            I ask myself these same questions, so curious how others think about it.

          11. Nathan Avatar
            Nathan

            “so not in favor of firing superintendent of schools before an investigation is conducted?”

            With respect to NN, I did not immediately call for his resignation. Then again, I haven’t been following Newport News school system prior to the shooting.

            That’s not to say the school board was wrong to do so.
            I can tell you that if I were on the school board, that would certainly be on my mind after I read about what happened.

            Why?

            What happened was not a single isolated event. There have been three shootings on school grounds within 18 months. I’m sure the previous two incidents were discussed at length at school board meetings.

            So following all that, if school administrators who answer to the superintendent don’t know that reports of guns on school property should be taken seriously, then there’s a good case for letting the superintendent go.

            Before an investigation? I assume that was to quell the public outcry.

            No more about NN please. That’s not the topic of this article.

          12. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            so only about the child porn guy in RIchmond?

          13. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            Would that be police chief > Mayor or City Manager > Voters?

          14. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Certainly to the Police Chief who approved the SCORPION group, no? And then all the others down the food chain between her and the officers, right?

            or are you referring to the Richmond thing?

        2. VaNavVet Avatar
          VaNavVet

          Agree so that is why my initial post said “some” departments.

      5. Beverly Avatar
        Beverly

        I live in Louisa County. I can send you the photo of the “Pump Penis for Virginia” campaign billboard. It took me two weeks to make Sheriff take it down. The new car windshield cost me 275 dollars when thugs showed up at my house with baseball bats.

        If that guy has victims here in Louisa….I hope Sheriff does not show up at their homes handcuff them and tell them to “git out of his town”. If you want to understand police “culture” round hea….check that Jesse Matthew’s case.

        Leave your email address…I can forward the billboard photo.

    4. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      Yes. So-called “Community Policing” which takes poorly trained 2-4 yr old recruits and tells them to conduct stop & frisk for autos… to “stop crime”. Yes indeed.

      How do these folks get hired in the first place? Like Virginia State Troopers who have “issues” or Sheriff deputies that go to DC to engage in mobs at the US Capitol?

      Lots of fodder for “reform” but ain’t going to happen because the “law & order” folk favor prisons over police reform.

      1. how_it_works Avatar
        how_it_works

        “How do these folks get hired in the first place?”

        Probably the same way incompetent fools get hired to work in any other government agency.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          so, hold everyone in the food chain accountable for hiring incompetent fools?

          1. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            Clearly, if they’re hiring incompetent fools, they’re not concerned about being held accountable for their actions.

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Well, what if they did not know they’d done that until after the fact and it was not them but
            a subordinate? Still fire the folks up the food chain from the guy/guys that effed up?

  2. Lefty665 Avatar
    Lefty665

    Pretty much like that with all our institutions isn’t it?

    1. Nathan Avatar
      Nathan

      Indeed. At least many police officers now where body cameras. When do doctors get them?

      “Doctor Accused Of Molesting U.S. Gymnasts Pleads Guilty To Porn Charges”

      https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/11/536568612/doctor-accused-of-molesting-u-s-gymnasts-to-plead-guilty-to-other-charges

  3. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-south-dakota-gop-chairman-rocky-hayes-faces-child-pornography-charges

    https://lawandcrime.com/crime/pro-life-ex-gop-aide-who-worked-on-trump-ads-sentenced-to-more-than-a-decade-in-prison-because-he-enjoyed-seeing-children-getting-raped/amp/

  4. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    The upshot of a Google search for police officer child pornography is
    About 7,870,000 results (0.39 seconds)

    1. Nathan Avatar
      Nathan

      Google search “Medical doctor child pornography”

      “About 6,010,000 results (0.51 seconds)”

      Your point?

  5. Matt Adams Avatar
    Matt Adams

    Pedophilia comes in all sorts of favors, it’s good this individual got caught and is no longer peddling filth.

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