IMPD officer sentenced for stealing money from drivers

[gryphon]

Story is three months old, although I just read it today.

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis Metro Police officer was sentenced Friday after he was found guilty of stealing from drivers during traffic stops.

A jury found Officer David Butler guilty of charges of robbery and official misconduct. He was suspended from IMPD pending termination.

Butler was sentenced to eight years in prison. Four years will be executed, with three in the Department of Corrections and one year in home detention; the other four years are suspended, with one year probation.

Butler will also have to do 80 hours of community service while on probation, and the judge requested that the community service be in the Latino community.

Butler must also pay $2,700 in restitution.

One of Butler's victims told Eyewitness News that $700 went missing from his wallet after Butler demanded it during a traffic stop.

An Eyewitness News report found that since joining the force in 1988, Butler was disciplined nine times and suspended without pay for a total of 78 days. He was suspended six times in the last five years and has six violations for neglect of duty, including sleeping on the job and repeatedly showing up late for duty.

http://www.wthr.com/story/21310400/impd-officer-sentenced-for-stealing-money-from-drivers

[Shadow Bear]

'An Eyewitness News report found that since joining the force in 1988, Butler was disciplined nine times and suspended without pay for a total of 78 days. He was suspended six times in the last five years and has six violations for neglect of duty, including sleeping on the job and repeatedly showing up late for duty.'

This guy wasn't a cop; he was a menace to society

[Super Trucker]

'An Eyewitness News report found that since joining the force in 1988, Butler was disciplined nine times and suspended without pay for a total of 78 days. He was suspended six times in the last five years and has six violations for neglect of duty, including sleeping on the job and repeatedly showing up late for duty.'

This guy wasn't a cop; he was a menace to society

This is another example of a union hard at work.
 
Many communities that are short handed in the police department because of budget cuts could fill those vacancies with reserve cops to keep you safe, BUT MI doesn't allow that mainly because of the unions.

[part deux]

Sorry, even a union can't protect an employee that is that bad.  I place the blame squarely on his management.

[Super Trucker]

Sorry, even a union can't protect an employee that is that bad.  I place the blame squarely on his management.

So the "suspended pending termination" has nothing to do with a union?

[gryphon]

Sorry, even a union can't protect an employee that is that bad.

Multiple cases would dispute that claim.