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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 not in any way to link police officers in the performance of their duty which may involve damage to...

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 excessive force; no witnesses came forward; investigations revealed that the officer in question used s...

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 states are looking hard exactly to try to have some antidote, some stone wall against this pardon notion....

Is what happened july 16th, that's the point where a senior trump campaign official is directed. we don't know who that is, but there's 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 you're listening, if you can find those 30,000 e-mails, right? so here's the piece that i'm interested in. if a pardon comes down for stone, could he face any state liabilit...

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. i've 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 be brought by new york state? none of those are the slam dunks you see in this indictment against st...