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Abuse of authority: corruption

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	==Abuse of authority: corruption==		==Abuse of authority: corruption==

	There are numerous examples of police officers abusing their office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6x2pgk3yxo PC posed as paedophile hunter to blackmail suspect], [https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/15/detective-stalked-ex-partner-falsely-accused-a-paedophile-24166829/ Detective stalked ex-partner and falsely accused him of being a paedophile]</ref>		There are numerous examples of police officers abusing their office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6x2pgk3yxo PC posed as paedophile hunter to blackmail suspect], [https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/15/detective-stalked-ex-partner-falsely-accused-a-paedophile-24166829/ Detective stalked ex-partner and falsely accused him of being a paedophile]</ref> Cases where this involves sexual crimes against children turn up roughly 20 times a week, and are the subject of "police corruption" type social media accounts that aim to document this controversy.

	*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>		*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>

Jim Burton: /* Abuse of authority: corruption */

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Abuse of authority: corruption

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			There are numerous examples of police officers abusing their office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6x2pgk3yxo PC posed as paedophile hunter to blackmail suspect], [https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/15/detective-stalked-ex-partner-falsely-accused-a-paedophile-24166829/ Detective stalked ex-partner and falsely accused him of being a paedophile]</ref>

	*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>		*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>

Matthewyoung at 03:51, 15 August 2025

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	We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>		We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>

	At the same time, for reasons of state security, charges are rarely pressed for child pornography, when material is found on members of the ~~intel~~ community.<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>		At the same time, for reasons of state security, charges are rarely pressed for child pornography when material is found on members of the intelligence community.<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>

	==State-sponsored violence==		==State-sponsored violence==

Jim Burton at 12:44, 11 August 2025

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	We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>		We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>

	At the same time, charges are rarely pressed for child pornography, when material is found on members of the intel community.<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>		At the same time, for reasons of state security, charges are rarely pressed for child pornography, when material is found on members of the intel community.<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>

	==State-sponsored violence==		==State-sponsored violence==

Jim Burton at 11:56, 11 August 2025

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	We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>		We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>

			At the same time, charges are rarely pressed for child pornography, when material is found on members of the intel community.<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>

	==State-sponsored violence==		==State-sponsored violence==

The Admins at 16:05, 7 September 2024

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	We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups, ~~and~~ even ~~behave like~~ them.		We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups and conspiracy theorists, even employing them in the process of breaking laws and guidelines.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/k7t7qcNNxDM3sPHbxFdKqD Secret recordings from inside child predator sting shows police ignoring laws]</ref>

	==State-sponsored violence==		==State-sponsored violence==

The Admins at 13:39, 15 March 2023

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	*'''"Ohio to Pay $17.5M to Convicted Child Sex Offender After Prison Guards Boasted About Paralyzing Him"''':		*'''"Ohio to Pay $17.5M to Convicted Child Sex Offender After Prison Guards Boasted About Paralyzing Him"''':

	:The nature of the crime is mentioned at the end of the article. We have elevated it. Fletcher had been serving a two year sentence for pandering sexually-oriented material involving minors. His defense team claim the offense involved a consensual video the then-18-year-old made with a girlfriend a couple of years his junior.		:The nature of the crime is mentioned at the end of the article. We have elevated it. Fletcher had been serving a two year sentence for pandering sexually-oriented material involving minors. His defense team claim the offense involved a [[Consent\|consensual]] video the then-18-year-old made with a girlfriend a couple of years his junior.

	::''""It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO."''		::''""It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO."''

The Admins at 13:53, 19 February 2023

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	We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with anti-pedophile vigilante groups, and even behave like them.		We find that a commonly reported problem in child abuse investigations is an '''abuse of authority''' based on pre-emptive guilt or projected hate. Raids are very often carried out without a search warrant. Legal processes are frozen and mothballed with intransigence and bureaucracy once a decision has been made, despite new evidence. Officers have been known to co-operate with [[anti]]-pedophile [[Vigilantism\|vigilante]] groups, and even behave like them.

	==State-sponsored violence==		==State-sponsored violence==

The Admins: /* Abuse of authority: corruption */

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Abuse of authority: corruption

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	*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>		*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>

	*[[Bruce Rind]] commentates on a [[Canadian]] TV documentary that exposed abuse of authority:		*'''[[Bruce Rind]] commentates on a [[Canadian]] TV documentary that exposed abuse of authority''':
	::''"The teens' willing participation and their predominantly positive perceptions of the experience are completely consistent with the findings of the current study, as well as the other nonclinical research reviewed previously. Nevertheless, as the CBC series documented, the London media, social workers, and police treated the affair following the dictates of the incest model, with serious distortion and iatrogenic harm ensuing. The media consistently and repeatedly exaggerated and misrepresented the affair from the start, presenting it as a child pornography ring victimizing children as young as eight, when in fact almost none of the men knew each other, 95% of the cases did not involve pornography, and teenagers were involved, not young children. Social workers proceeded from the premise that the relations were coerced and non-consenting -- even though most boys were above the age of consent -- because of a "power differential;" they also tended to believe that men and boys get their "power needs" met through sex. The CBC series documented further that the social workers involved in the cases, were distressed that the boys did not see themselves as victims, and many had a declared agenda to make the boys see themselves as victims. They wrote "victim impact statements" for the courts, in which they interpreted the boys' refusal to talk with them about the sex as a traumatic reaction to the sex itself. Finally, the CBC series documented how the police, operating under the premise that the boys were victims and were being "ruined" by the sex, used threats, bribes, deception, and harassment to coerce them into providing state' s evidence. Teens interviewed for the series recounted how the police pressured them to claim in court that they felt victimized when in fact they did not. The CBC series was critical of the actions taken by the three London institutions just discussed, pointing out examples of harm imposed on the individuals brought "into a system of interrogation and confession and squealing, a system of punishment and therapy, humiliation and incarceration" (IDEAS, 1995, p. 61). The series presented an interview with a gay spokesman, who argued that "it was the whole criminal proceedings that caused them to feel victimized or caused damage to their lives, not the sex trade" (IDEAS, 1995, p. 57). Another London commentator opined that the police and social workers should stop treating these teens as if they were "damaged heterosexuals"; the president of a Detroit group organized to protect homosexuals against violence and discrimination added that "they're damaged now because of heterosexuals, in this case the police" (IDEAS, 1995, p. 53). The producer of the series summed up the procrustean influence of the incest model when applied to teenage males involved in willing relations with unrelated adults:		::''"The teens' willing participation and their predominantly positive perceptions of the experience are completely consistent with the findings of the current study, as well as the other nonclinical research reviewed previously. Nevertheless, as the CBC series documented, the London media, social workers, and police treated the affair following the dictates of the incest model, with serious distortion and iatrogenic harm ensuing. The media consistently and repeatedly exaggerated and misrepresented the affair from the start, presenting it as a child pornography ring victimizing children as young as eight, when in fact almost none of the men knew each other, 95% of the cases did not involve pornography, and teenagers were involved, not young children. Social workers proceeded from the premise that the relations were coerced and non-consenting -- even though most boys were above the age of consent -- because of a "power differential;" they also tended to believe that men and boys get their "power needs" met through sex. The CBC series documented further that the social workers involved in the cases, were distressed that the boys did not see themselves as victims, and many had a declared agenda to make the boys see themselves as victims. They wrote "victim impact statements" for the courts, in which they interpreted the boys' refusal to talk with them about the sex as a traumatic reaction to the sex itself. Finally, the CBC series documented how the police, operating under the premise that the boys were victims and were being "ruined" by the sex, used threats, bribes, deception, and harassment to coerce them into providing state' s evidence. Teens interviewed for the series recounted how the police pressured them to claim in court that they felt victimized when in fact they did not. The CBC series was critical of the actions taken by the three London institutions just discussed, pointing out examples of harm imposed on the individuals brought "into a system of interrogation and confession and squealing, a system of punishment and therapy, humiliation and incarceration" (IDEAS, 1995, p. 61). The series presented an interview with a gay spokesman, who argued that "it was the whole criminal proceedings that caused them to feel victimized or caused damage to their lives, not the sex trade" (IDEAS, 1995, p. 57). Another London commentator opined that the police and social workers should stop treating these teens as if they were "damaged heterosexuals"; the president of a Detroit group organized to protect homosexuals against violence and discrimination added that "they're damaged now because of heterosexuals, in this case the police" (IDEAS, 1995, p. 53). The producer of the series summed up the procrustean influence of the incest model when applied to teenage males involved in willing relations with unrelated adults:

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	::''"This emerged out from a report by a child psychologist during his mother's bail application at the Pretoria North Magistrate's Court yesterday. The assessment by Teddy Bear psychologist Charl Louw, who counselled the boy six times since his family's arrest in December, revealed details of the boy's feelings towards his family. "What his mother, father, ouma and oupa [grandmother and grandfather] did was very wrong and they must go to jail," the report read. "He indicated he'd like them to be part of his life one day, but that everything would be different.""''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110326042023/http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article986405.ece/Ten-year-old-boy-tells-of-family-sex Ten-year-old boy tells of family sex]</ref>		::''"This emerged out from a report by a child psychologist during his mother's bail application at the Pretoria North Magistrate's Court yesterday. The assessment by Teddy Bear psychologist Charl Louw, who counselled the boy six times since his family's arrest in December, revealed details of the boy's feelings towards his family. "What his mother, father, ouma and oupa [grandmother and grandfather] did was very wrong and they must go to jail," the report read. "He indicated he'd like them to be part of his life one day, but that everything would be different.""''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110326042023/http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article986405.ece/Ten-year-old-boy-tells-of-family-sex Ten-year-old boy tells of family sex]</ref>

	*The [[minimodels injustice]], in which a man was convicted of [[Child Pornography\|child pornography]] for clothed fashion shoots of adolescent girls, and framed for a series of other crimes.		*'''The [[minimodels injustice]]''', in which a man was convicted of [[Child Pornography\|child pornography]] for clothed fashion shoots of adolescent girls, and framed for a series of other crimes.

	==References==		==References==

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Abuse of process

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	::''"HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A man alleges that police entered his home illegally and ripped a catheter from his body during a child pornography investigation that led to the arrest of two neighbors. Andrew Glover, 60, of New Britain filed a notice with the city Thursday that he intends to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit. He accused the officers of inflicting severe injuries as he was recovering from intestinal surgery in February. Glover's lawyer, Paul Spinella, said police entered Glover's apartment Jan. 30 and Feb. 28. Glover wasn't involved in child pornography, has not been charged and has no criminal record, Spinella said."''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713132622/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354837,00.html Fox News Archive]</ref>		::''"HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A man alleges that police entered his home illegally and ripped a catheter from his body during a child pornography investigation that led to the arrest of two neighbors. Andrew Glover, 60, of New Britain filed a notice with the city Thursday that he intends to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit. He accused the officers of inflicting severe injuries as he was recovering from intestinal surgery in February. Glover's lawyer, Paul Spinella, said police entered Glover's apartment Jan. 30 and Feb. 28. Glover wasn't involved in child pornography, has not been charged and has no criminal record, Spinella said."''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713132622/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354837,00.html Fox News Archive]</ref>

	==Abuse of ~~process~~==		==Abuse of authority: corruption==

	*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>		*'''Jeffrey Nickel's example''' - '''Twominuteverdict.org''' documents countless abuses of authority and due process in the trial of a man whose conviction is yet to be overturned.<ref>[http://www.twominuteverdict.org/ Twominuteverdict.org]</ref>