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ProtoDonCheadle t1_j63rkwo wrote

"After learning of the existence of arrest warrants" makes it sound like the warrants had been around for a while...

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BackInVA t1_j63sag1 wrote

Finally, the last bad apple has been weeded out.

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instantcoffee69 t1_j63yic6 wrote

>Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett that Stone was arrested for 50 counts of possessing child pornography. If convicted, the first count carries up to five years in prison. CBS 6 legal expert Todd Stone said that each additional charge carries up to 10 years if convicted.

>Stone is currently on leave without pay.

Leave without pay is kind odd, no to mention that the "leave" part is actually jail.

Man, real odd none of the other cops figured out this guy was into child porn... Real odd.

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TGIIR t1_j63zyjc wrote

Well, this guy won’t do well in jail.

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mallydobb t1_j640fdy wrote

Back the blue right? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Diet_Coke t1_j642fy2 wrote

>Richmond Police shared the following statement about Stone's arrest: "The Richmond Police Department does not tolerate the abuse of children in any form ..."

"... unless they are at an anti-police brutality protest, then what happens happens."

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wilbo21020 t1_j643aig wrote

That’s almost the worst combo imaginable for someone in prison. If he gets convicted, then he will never be in gen pop

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eziam t1_j643myj wrote

Replying to instantcoffee69 (#1,529,402)

I mean, he isn't convicted yet. Hasn't had a fair trial, so I understand the "leave without pay" part. Now if he was on leave WITH pay", then that would would be a major issue. And it's not odd that the other coworkers didn't suspect he was into child porn. Most of the people caught are normal citizens that have a dark past.

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ripleyajm t1_j6466fp wrote

All the other cops scrambling to clear their hard drives now.

This isn’t “one bad apple” it’s most of them. They have a power fetish, it’s why they got the job. I’m sure he’s one of many and all his coworkers are guilty

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Va0utdoor t1_j64c7rf wrote

Lock the POS up with the hardest same sex rapist in the system.

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JustDyslexic t1_j64d87t wrote

There have been a lot of police arrested for this around the state recently

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GandhiOwnsYou t1_j64e54q wrote

Replying to instantcoffee69 (#1,529,402)

Much as I support the ACAB sentiment, the “leave without pay” thing is almost certainly due to bureaucratic requirements. Like, when I was in the military you could drop a video tape of you doing cocaine off a naked toddlers ass on your commanding officers desk… you’d still “have a job” at the end of the day. You’d be in jail, but actually processing you out would require all the paperwork to go through all the proper channels and be rubber stamped by all the right muckity-mucks, and it would often take a while. I can only imagine it’s similar with the police to a degree. Leave without pay is more than likely just saying “we need the conviction on paper before we fully shit-can you.”

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alkalineruxpin t1_j64eohu wrote

Wow. That is exactly what I expected to see after reading the headline.

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chairmanbrando t1_j64orhu wrote

Replying to Special_Smell9482 (#1,531,071)

Eh. He looks like a standard donut-eating cop bully who who delights in impressing his will over people but lets every bad guy get away in a foot chase because he's physically incapable of running. He's one of the dudes you see at the perimeter of a police line, gut protruding over his hidden belt and stressing his uniform buttons, telling people to Stay back!, delighting in his very serious tone, as he wheezes because standing up counts as exercise for him.

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jking94 t1_j64ppyr wrote

Always seems odd to me when people who's job is supposed to involve policing a community, being around a community, and understanding the culture of a community....live ~50mi from said community...

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vibe4it t1_j64xh1k wrote

Word is he was going to drop a bunch of it on Dogwood Dell. But they got a tip.

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MLM1414 t1_j652syh wrote

Replying to ripleyajm (#1,535,012)

TLDR; The 40% number is wrong and plain old bad science. In attempt to recreate the numbers, by the same researchers, they received a rate of 24% while including violence as shouting. Further researchers found rates of 7%, 7.8%, 10%, and 13% with stricter definitions and better research methodology.

The 40% claim is intentionally misleading and unequivocally inaccurate. Numerous studies over the years report domestic violence rates in police families as low as 7%, with the highest at 40% defining violence to include shouting or a loss of temper. The referenced study where the 40% claim originates is Neidig, P.H.., Russell, H.E. & Seng, A.F. (1992). Interspousal aggression in law enforcement families: A preliminary investigation. It states:

Survey results revealed that approximately 40% of the participating officers reported marital conflicts involving physical aggression in the previous year.

There are a number of flaws with the aforementioned study:

The study includes as 'violent incidents' a one time push, shove, shout, loss of temper, or an incidents where a spouse acted out in anger. These do not meet the legal standard for domestic violence. This same study reports that the victims reported a 10% rate of physical domestic violence from their partner. The statement doesn't indicate who the aggressor is; the officer or the spouse. The study is a survey and not an empirical scientific study. The “domestic violence” acts are not confirmed as actually being violent. The study occurred nearly 30 years ago. This study shows minority and female officers were more likely to commit the DV, and white males were least likely. Additional reference from a Congressional hearing on the study: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951003089863c

An additional study conducted by the same researcher, which reported rates of 24%, suffer from additional flaws:

The study is a survey and not an empirical scientific study. The study was not a random sample, and was isolated to high ranking officers at a police conference. This study also occurred nearly 30 years ago.

More current research, including a larger empirical study with thousands of responses from 2009 notes, 'Over 87 percent of officers reported never having engaged in physical domestic violence in their lifetime.' Blumenstein, Lindsey, Domestic violence within law enforcement families: The link between traditional police subculture and domestic violence among police (2009). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1862

Yet another study "indicated that 10 percent of respondents (148 candidates) admitted to having ever slapped, punched, or otherwise injured a spouse or romantic partner, with 7.2 percent (110 candidates) stating that this had happened once, and 2.1 percent (33 candidates) indicating that this had happened two or three times. Repeated abuse (four or more occurrences) was reported by only five respondents (0.3 percent)." A.H. Ryan JR, Department of Defense, Polygraph Institute “The Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Police Families.” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308603826_The_prevalence_of_domestic_violence_in_police_families

Another: In a 1999 study, 7% of Baltimore City police officers admitted to 'getting physical' (pushing, shoving, grabbing and/or hitting) with a partner. A 2000 study of seven law enforcement agencies in the Southeast and Midwest United States found 10% of officers reporting that they had slapped, punched, or otherwise injured their partners. L. Goodmark, 2016, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW “Hands up at Home: Militarized Masculinity and Police Officers Who Commit Intimate Partner Abuse “. https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2519&context=fac_pubs

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ripleyajm t1_j653oht wrote

Replying to MLM1414 (#1,535,058)

Man your sources lost me with “pushing or shoving someone isn’t domestic violence” and that acting out of anger somehow negates the pattern of behavior.

We have all the evidence we need on video that cops are nothing but violent monsters. And mountains of proof that you can’t trust them to investigate their own. If you spend your work day pushing people around and beating up homeless people for fun, you’re likely to be just as violent to your spouse and children.

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TheCheeseDevil t1_j65523q wrote

Replying to MLM1414 (#1,535,058)

You ever had a cop screaming inches from your face? I take issue with "shouting" or "one incident" not constituting as abuse. If a man shouted in my face and shoved me ONCE, it's abuse.

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DustySleeve t1_j656h6z wrote

Replying to MLM1414 (#1,533,025)

hasnt been, was actually verified a couple years later. passes academic rigor, but has 2 major things working against it that have the same bullshit talking points thrown around by nonresearchers:

1, it doesnt fit the narrative 2, it was conducted by women, who have many times by meta analysis throughout the years been shown to not be taken seriously in academia.

as an antiintellectual, i like this study because the women who perpetrated it happen to have been cops, not dissociated pencil pushers.

read the study, compare your handfed talking points and dont get back to me. the truth is not for the willfully ignorant

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thats-not-right t1_j658p1p wrote

Replying to knf262 (#1,531,708)

We need some sort of civilian investigatory committee. It's becoming increasingly obvious that the police are unable to police themselves. It's pretty much a federally funded and government authorized crime syndicate.

If the government isn't going to do anything about it, and the police will never change themselves, what are the people to do? Just live with it?

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borkus t1_j65a8fs wrote

Replying to instantcoffee69 (#1,529,402)

"Leave without pay" is an HR status not a legal status. As he has been arrested only, they won't terminate his employment yet. He's no longer on duty and he's no longer receiving pay. However, he likely still has insurance and any other benefits.

Prosecutorial jurisdiction for this is Louisa not Richmond if that's where the files were found. Richmond is likely staying out of the way of Louisa's investigation and a possible Federal investigation assuming these images were received over the internet.

This is barely 48 hours after his arrest - I didn't read that he has been indicted yet.

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batkave t1_j65u73g wrote

Isn't this like the 5th one in last two years?

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Last_Caregiver_282 t1_j65vc39 wrote

Cop in jail on child porn charges…..he is not in for a good time and will be an easy target. You won’t find me losing sleep over it.

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kickingpplisfun t1_j65x9lo wrote

Considering how many times I'd been sexually harassed and otherwise abused by police, this is incredibly unsurprising.

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mize68 t1_j66hj30 wrote

I feel more sorry for his wife and child.

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MrImBoredAgain t1_j66nk2r wrote

They said, to the surprise and shock of absolutely no one.

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militantrubberducky t1_j66zrwg wrote

Replying to thats-not-right (#1,535,959)

How is this an example of that? One agency got a tip, investigated and found evidence of a crime, and sought charges for the officer. His own agency arrested him when they learned there were warrants. They did exactly what they're supposed to, what would a civilian committee have done differently?

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Frozen_Brownies t1_j674h49 wrote

“We are constantly running into cases where children are sending images that they are not supposed to be sending and parents [are] not being aware that they’re doing that,” Love said.
No. It’s grown ass adults preying sexually on children like pieces of shit. Don’t put this on the kids and parents. They wouldn’t even be in this situation if the consumers didn’t exist (predatory adults).

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hieronomus_pratt t1_j693sjw wrote

Replying to thats-not-right (#1,535,959)

Neighborhood watch organizations with broad community support and engagement. A politician can run on LE reform, but they usually cave to police orgs once in office because the police are the sole enforcers of the law. If people want police reform then we all need to be willing to take responsibility for the crime that happens in our communities and become active in its policing/care.

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oddistrange t1_j6b07wt wrote

Why are the thumbiest looking men always the nonces?

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oddistrange t1_j6b0v6k wrote

Replying to Ordinary_Kiwi_3196 (#1,544,020)

No experience, but probably. They have an obligation to kinda protect the dude and not outwardly neglect his wellbeing. It's safer for everyone involved to segregate them to special units usually full of sex offenders though.

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