The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has reassigned two officers who were captured on video taking photos next to a dead body last week.
After the incident occurred on February 25, footage of the officers was shared by Instagram user @zac.news. The video appears to show a VPD officer posing near a cadaver at Third Beach as a second officer takes a photo.
The person behind the camera asks the officers, “Is that a deceased person?” To which one responds, “Ya.”
Simi Heer, Director of Public Affairs for the VPD, tells Daily Hive that the two officers were reassigned on Monday morning to “non-deployable, administrative positions while the OPCC investigation is ongoing.”
Michael Mazzeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, said Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, that the officers involved in the incident that led to Daniel Prude s death conducted themselves consistent with their training. For its March issue, CITY published an expansive story detailing the history of the Rochester Police Locust Club, the union which represents the 701 sworn officers of the Rochester Police Department. A series of detailed questions were submitted to Locust Club President Michael Mazzeo, asking his stance on current contentious issues related to policing, police reform, and the role of the police union in context of the broader labor movement.
PHOTO COURTESY THE CITY OF ROCHESTER Rochester Police Department officers don helmets and batons during the riots of 1964, the same year the Rochester Police Locust Club negotiated its first labor pact with the city. Around the time that a Rochester police officer pulled out her pepper spray to use on a 9-year-old-girl, Mike Mazzeo, the president of the Rochester Police Locust Club union, pulled out a pen to sign a lawsuit contesting recent appointments by the police chief to the Rochester Police Department’s top brass. Two days later, Mazzeo stood at a podium at the union’s headquarters on Lexington Avenue in blue jeans and a black sweater facing a firing squad of news reporters and stumbled through an explanation of the “psychological trauma” experienced by officers at the scene and blamed the girl’s mother for escalating th
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The Lawrence Police Department unveiled the new police headquarters located in West Lawrence in December of last year, vacating their previous headquarters and downsizing their Bob Billings Parkway location.
The new headquarters, located at 5100 Overland Drive, is the result of the City Commissionâs Capital Improvement Program, a five-year program that identifies community needs and funding to address those needs.Â
âWhat this [new building] has allowed us to do is consolidate our operations, and it allows us to put them all under the same building under the same roof, which is something that we haven t been able to say in years,â LPD spokesperson Patrick Compton said.