Topic: Suspended police officer who’s been fired 6 times wants to return to work
Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #20,531
A suspended Florida police officer—who's been fired six times over the years for alleged misconduct, only to be reinstated—says he's the victim of a "witch hunt" and wants to go back to work, even though he's being paid $60,000 a year to stay home.
Since becoming an officer in 1990, Sgt. German Bosque of the Opa-locka Police Department "has been disciplined, suspended, fined and sent home with pay more than any officer in the state," according to the Miami Herald.
Bosque—who has been accused of "cracking the head of a handcuffed suspect, beating juveniles, hiding drugs in his police car, stealing from suspects, defying direct orders and lying and falsifying police reports"—was suspended with pay in May after he allowed a newspaper reporter to ride along in his patrol car without permission. (During the ride-along, Bosque told the reporter, "I'm an excellent police officer, but I break the rules.")
According to his lawyer, Bosque wants to return to duty "rather than sleeping late and watching telenovelas and 'Cops' reruns."
In 1990, he was tossed out of the Miami-Dade Police Academy after being arrested for impersonating a police officer, auto theft and possession of a firearm. In 1992, after graduating from the Polk County Police Academy, he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
"Back then I was a big hot dog," Bosque told Herald. He became a full-time officer in Opa-locka in 1993.
In 1994, four people in a stolen car Bosque was following were killed in a high-speed chase that crashed outside Opa-locka. "Questions were raised about whether he was pursuing the vehicle against department policy," the paper said. In 1998, he was suspended twice for unauthorized police pursuits. The same year,Bosque called in sick with "food poisoning." He was on vacation in Cancun, Mexico.
Since becoming an officer in 1990, Sgt. German Bosque of the Opa-locka Police Department "has been disciplined, suspended, fined and sent home with pay more than any officer in the state," according to the Miami Herald.
Bosque—who has been accused of "cracking the head of a handcuffed suspect, beating juveniles, hiding drugs in his police car, stealing from suspects, defying direct orders and lying and falsifying police reports"—was suspended with pay in May after he allowed a newspaper reporter to ride along in his patrol car without permission. (During the ride-along, Bosque told the reporter, "I'm an excellent police officer, but I break the rules.")
According to his lawyer, Bosque wants to return to duty "rather than sleeping late and watching telenovelas and 'Cops' reruns."
In 1990, he was tossed out of the Miami-Dade Police Academy after being arrested for impersonating a police officer, auto theft and possession of a firearm. In 1992, after graduating from the Polk County Police Academy, he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
"Back then I was a big hot dog," Bosque told Herald. He became a full-time officer in Opa-locka in 1993.
In 1994, four people in a stolen car Bosque was following were killed in a high-speed chase that crashed outside Opa-locka. "Questions were raised about whether he was pursuing the vehicle against department policy," the paper said. In 1998, he was suspended twice for unauthorized police pursuits. The same year,
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 23 minutes later[^] [v] #332,174
I'd kill to get $164 a day just to stay home.
Lee O'Nidas !nBpim1wazU joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #332,176
He should be a security guard instead and everything else exactly like Adam Jensen.