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Griffith wants errant cops to pay Gary Griffith - RECOMMENDATIONS are to be made to the Minister of National Security to amend the State Liability and Proceeding Act to allow police officers to pay out of their own pockets when they are negligible. Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, at a media briefing on Thursday, said officers should be responsible of their actions since vicarious liability makes the state liable to pay millions because of the actions of errant and rogue officers. “This is...

PCA: 429 probes completed in 2020, 365 with no action File photo: Director of the Police Complaints Authority David West. The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) completed a total of 429 investigations in 2020, says PCA head David West. But of those investigations, 365 were closed without further action. West revealed the numbers in a conversation with Newsday on Monday. He explained that the 365 cases were closed because the investigations were complete and the PCA found there was no use of exc...

Face jeopardy. i would say, though, this is a problem that paul manafort has. it may not be a problem for everyone in the trump orbit that faces legal jeopardy. there are some of them that face obvious federal criminal liability only. roger stone, for example, if roger stone were to get a pardon, there is no evidence yet anything he did would bring him state liability. manafort maybe, if not unique, at least somewhat dissimilar from the other people in the trump orbit. >> it does show that state...

Is what happened july 16th, thats the point where a senior trump campaign official is directed. we dont know who that is, but theres only a couple of people that could be including donald trump or maybe trump, jr. or another campaign official who says to stone go reach out to wikileaks. and that end of the july timing is right around the time of the democratic national convention where trump gets up and says, russia, if youre listening, if you can find those 30,000 e-mails, right? so heres the p...

Interested in. if a pardon comes down for stone, could he face any state liability? so the key thing about a presidential pardon is it only affects federal criminal -- >> you were reading my mind. go on. ive been thinking about it. >> so this is the question is did mueller strategically bring certain charges of the indictment that only a federal prosecutor could bring? felony, false statements on a federal level, obstruction of justice, and did he leave out other charges that could potentially b...

Out. and i also want to say the pardon is of much lesser value because there are a whole lot of state crimes and when he -- when you listen to that lawyer for 40 minutes and then said im guilty, some of the crimes are state offenses as well. and so if he does chicken out and clam up, he has state liability as well. >> virtually all of the banking ones could be brought in a state court. the lobbying not as much but the banking stuff. >> and it would be right in his home state of new york where th...