POLICE OFFICER 1: PARTY, CRASH AND COVER UPby John LeeWhat society fails to realize is that the tension between the police and the judiciary has always been fundamental to our constitutional system. It is intentional and healthy and constitutes the real difference between a free society and a police state. --Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicolas Katzenbach What happens to a government police officer who gets caught driving while intoxicated? Does a government police officer get any special treatment when compared to an ordinary citizen? After a Knoxville Police Department (KPD) party, held at the expensive lakeside home of a police lieutenant, a chief of police and his Public Information Officer were "present" when a police member of the Repeat Offenders Program unit crashed his car by driving off the road, rolling upside down, and skidding down the road on the car's roof. Two additional officers were also passengers in the crashed vehicle. After news headlines exposed the police crash, the local police officer who responded to the crash first claimed the crash had occurred at 12:56 a.m. Later, the same officer claimed to a news reporter that the police crash had occurred at 3:00 p.m. The local officer claimed the police officer had crashed after a head-on collision with a mysterious red truck, yet no driver was arrested, and informed sources claim there was no other car involved (other than perhaps another police car). Photographs of the crashed car, displayed in the news media, show no damage from a head-on collision.izen by the government, for alleged violation of the Prohibition laws. Ironically, the crashed vehicle, an expensive one-year-old model, had been previously seized from a citizen by the government, for alleged violation of the Prohibition laws. The car had been "assigned" to the police officer who crashed it, for a total loss of the vehicle. {Newspaper reports] |