The US Police have even more problems than just a free pass on endemic violence and corruption.
Now they have COPS TURNED BIKER GANG WANNA BEES.
Good luck America, your going to need it.
http://beforeitsnews.com/police-state/2015/05/cop-biker-gangs-on-the-rise-in-the-us-1426.html
Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against four members of
the Iron Brotherhood motorcycle club for their roles in a Christmastime
bar brawl in Prescott, Ariz., that sent one man to the hospital.
Their nicknames are Tarzan, Mongo, Guido and Top Gun. They rode
Harley Davidson motorcycles, wore vests decorated with skulls and some
allegedly carried knives and brass knuckles.
Moctezuma's Bar in Prescott,
Ariz., where a brawl took place last December involving members of the
Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club. ASSOCIATED PRESS
And their day jobs were police chief, county sheriff's sergeant, police officer and paramedic.
An increasing number of police officers are forming motorcycle clubs,
and hundreds now exist nationwide, according to experts on motorcycle
gangs. Gang investigators fear that such clubs, some of which have the
trappings of outlaw biker groups, can hurt the credibility of law
enforcement and undermine criminal cases brought against traditional
gangs.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323836504578553523684965066
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Police
officers and outlaw biker gangs often stand on common ground. Both
attract the young and adventurous who value order, discipline and
brotherhood. And on weekends tens of thousands of cops routinely trade
their cruisers and badges for choppers and club colors.The bond
doesn't mean a free pass for criminal motorcycle gangs, but even some
within law enforcement worry that too many officers believe bikers are
just misunderstood Robin Hoods. And empathy from officers who emulate or
even aspire to the outlaw life can put police or the public at risk,
gang experts warn."They're
supposed to be putting them in jail, not schmoozing with them, not
socializing with them," said Charlie Fuller, a retired special agent
with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "That's a no-brainer to me. You have a huge security issue for the whole
department. Here's a cop that's hanging with them socially. What's he
telling them? What are they asking him?"The
relationship between police and criminal biker gangs - dubbed Outlaw
Motorcycle Gangs or 1 percenters because they are said to represent the
fraction of motorcycle enthusiasts who operate outside the law - came
into focus following the May 17 shootout involving rival gang members,
including a retired San Antonio police officer, that left nine people
dead in Waco, Texas.Police on
hand at the meeting fired at least some of the shots once violence
erupted, but a photo showing some of the dozens the arrested bikers
sitting calmly on curbs using cellphones under seemingly nonchalant
police guard earned the ire of critics. Some wondered if police went
easy on the bikers.A 2014
ATF report said biker gangs count working police officers, firefighters
and 911 workers as members. The report details a California Highway
Patrol dispatcher listening to the scanner and tipping off her husband, a
Hells Angel prospect, that the police were headed to a fight he was
involved in. The husband took off before the cops arrived. In another
instance, the dispatcher ran a license plate for undercover agents
working on a weapons sting against her husband.In
New York City, Detective Wojciech Braszczok is on trial, charged with
joining a mass of angry motorcyclists - though not a gang - who
assaulted an SUV driver during a wild highway chase in 2013. Braszczok
said he didn't intervene because he thought it could compromise his
unrelated undercover work.The
gulf between outlaw biker gang and motorcycle club is vast, and the
great majority of the law enforcement or veterans clubs perform
community services year round, like delivering toys at Christmas or the
Patriot Guard Riders, who provide a rumbling motorcade - and a buffer
against protesters - at the funerals of fallen soldiers.Still,
Laconia police Chief Chris Adams, whose New Hampshire town will attract
hundreds of thousands of bikers to its annual Motorcycle Week starting
on June 13, said he has seen some officers instantly transform when
they're wearing club colors instead of their uniform.
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In this June 16, 2010 file photo, Mark Gauthier of Gilford watches the scene at Weirs Beach wearing ..."Some of them won't look at
you or talk to you," Adams said. He called the fuzzy lines between
police and bikers a "valid concern."Adams
said his department maintains a "working relationship" with the
region's dominant motorcycle gang, the Hells Angels, to address problems
big and small."I think it can be helpful," Adams said. "It can
be as trivial as a parking problem. Rather than towing 50 bikes, 'Hey,
can you get these bikes out of here?'"Look
around during Laconia's Bike Week - or at any of the other big rallies
like in Sturgis, South Dakota, or Daytona, Florida - and you will see
the colors of law-abiding motorcycle clubs made up of police,
firefighters and veterans.The
Blue Knights, among the most recognized law enforcement clubs, has
almost 20,000 members in 640 chapters in 26 countries, but there are
others sprinkled all over the country. The Blue Knights International,
based in Bangor, Maine, did not return a call and email seeking comment.Steve
Cook, who leads the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators
Association, says some of the legit clubs go to "totally embarrassing"
lengths to ingratiate themselves to criminal gangs."They're
going to a 1-percent gang and asking permission to start their club
up," he said. "You've got to pick a side. You're either a cop or a
biker."But the very existence of law enforcement clubs can stoke violence, Fuller said.
In
2008, Seattle police Officer Ronald Smith was charged with felonies
after shooting a Hells Angels member during a bar fight. Smith belonged
to the Iron Pigs motorcycle club, made up of police and firefighters.
The charges were later dropped.And in 2012, two officers who
belonged to a law enforcement motorcycle club were involved in a bar
fight with bikers in Prescott, Arizona."They
want to be like them, but not them," Fuller said of the law enforcement
clubs. "It agitates the real 1-percenters that cops want to come and
imitate them at all."Jay
Dobyns, a former undercover agent who infiltrated the Hells Angels for
the ATF, worries that chumminess between biker gangs and the more benign
law enforcement motorcycle clubs can lead to a perception that cops
will go easy on the outlaws.When Dobyns was undercover, he said, cops from motorcycle clubs would try to cozy up to the outlaw bikers."I'm
talking about the clean-cut law enforcement officers who wear a uniform
and ride around in marked cruisers every day; then Saturday comes
around and they put on a black bandanna and black T-shirt and scowl at
everybody," he said.The gang members were having none of it."'We're
never going to be friends,'" was how "true believers" in the bike gang
reacted to such interlopers, Dobyns said. "Some of these cop clubs don't
get that."http://news.yahoo.com/blurry-lines-between-bikers-police-clubs-draw-concern-163207325.html
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