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CRIMINAL POLICE TACTICS:
A WHISTLEBLOWING COP'S ANALYSIS OF L.A. LAWLESSNESS
by John Lee
Traffic cop crimes revealed. | Detective Mike Rothmiller, a whistleblowing LAPD government official, had some interesting things to say about how the police operate in the real world. Like Detective Serpico, he also barely escaped execution, in retailiation for having the audacity to refuse to become a corrupt cop for the government. He co-authored L.A. Secret Police—Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network, with Washington Post reporter Ivan Goldman.
Detective Rothmiller had started out as a patrolman, then had advanced to become a member of the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID). OCID never investigated organized crime, however. Their real purpose was to spy upon influencial citizens of the state, seeking political and personal dirt to use for extortion purposes. Church leaders, politicians, television and Hollywood personalities, news reporters, professional athletes—no one was safe from OCID. Liberal or Conservative, it didn't matter—all had to be controlled. Cops even spied on other cops. News reporters who interviewed police whistleblowers had their photographs used for target practice on the firing range, and the whistleblowing cop became public enemy numer one. Honest cops were not allowed to ever transfer out, since the risk was too great that they might tell their secrets. Arrests were not allowed, since that would open up the 50-man department to cross examination by defense attorneys in a public courtroom. When an honest cop wanted to actually make an unauthorized arrest, he had to call a 1-800 number and make an anonymous tip, the same as for any other citizen. Other LAPD spy networks had been ordered to be disbanded, such as the Political Disorder Intelligence Division, which was simply renamed the Anti-Terrorist Division. During the time Detective Rothmiller was in OCID, the captain of the department was Darrell Gates, who later was promoted to LAPD Chief of Police. Gates was "in charge" when the cops nearly beat Glen King to death on home video for all the world to see.
Lt. Michael Moulin, the watch commander for LAPD, watched the
announcement of the criminal court victory of the cops on a television in the squad room. When the verdicts were read, several officers cheered
or clapped. Moulin said, "White officers were prancing around like someone just had a baby. Frankly, I was disappointed. I thought the criminal justice system had failed the people of Los Angeles."
Denny attacked by gangsters as cops retreat to watch on TeeVee. | Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, himself a former police officer, made an impotent promise to the worried citizens, "We will not accept renegade behavior by a few cops." The largest riots in America for the past 130 years occured that evening as a response to the obvious unfairness of this DWI arrest—the worst since the New York City riots to protest the forced military draft (white slavery) during the Civil War. T.V. camera crews, perched safely in their helicopters, broadcast live coverage of the gang violence in L.A. However, there was not a police officer to be seen anywhere. The cops had been ordered to remain in their bunkers, since it was too dangerous for them in the streets. Lieutenant Mike Moulin, who ordered the police to retreat to the command post explained: "If I had two hundred officers for every one suspect on the street, I never would have had to pull them out." Truck driver Reginald Denny was videoed by news crews being dragged from his truck and beaten by a gang of thugs. America watched live as Mr. Denny was repeatedly slammed in the head with a brick and a hammer, fracturing his skull in 91 places. Some police watching T.V. from the safety of their bunker wanted to rush to his aid. They were ordered to wait for orders, under threat of being fired. They chose to keep their jobs, rather than help the citizens. Four "minority" citizens saved Mr. Denny and took him to the hospital, were he was already in convulsions (L.A. Secret Police).
Mr. Denny was "lucky"—54 other citizens died during the riots that evening. Total dead eventually reached over 60. Government profited from seven thousand arrests. One billion dollars' worth of buildings were burned and/or looted. Many of these were Korean-owned businesses—Korean shop owner Soon Ja Du had recently been convicted of manslaughter but given probation for shooting and killing 15-year-old African-American customer Latasha Harlins who he falsely accused of shoplifting, assaulting her and shooting her in the back of the head after she returned a bottle of orange juice to the cashier. This crime occured only 13 days after the LAPD's attempted murder of Glenn King. To add insult to murder, two years earlier a postal worker had been sentenced to six
months in jail for shooting to death a dog—the virgin judge thus implied an African-American girl is worth less to society than a dog. Due to police cowardice and incompetence, ordinary citizens were forced to fight for their lives and were forced to risk their lives to save victims, such as ex-convict Bennie Newton, an inner-city minister, who threw himself across the unconscious body of beating victim Fidel Lopez, saying "Kill him and you have to kill me, too."
Officer Koon under arrest. | Eventually, two of the corrupt cops were prosecuted and convicted by the federal government, for violating Mr. King's civil right to protection while under government supervision (a $50 fine). Their failed defense (financed with $1 million from the L.A. Protective League) had been the Naziesque excuse "we were only following orders." The disgraced ex-cops complained in their memoirs of the unfairness of the American justice system and of unConstitutional police investigative tactics. Timothy Wind got a job with another police department as an auxiliary wanna-be, got deeply into debt, watched his marriage crumble and endured intestinal surgery. Stacy Koon racked up $350,000 in legal and other bills, and was denied the usual vacations and sex visits from his wife while stationed at a minimum security "camp." Koon could not afford to hire jail guards to escort him to his father's funeral ($25,000). The fired cop used his masters degree in criminal justice to good effect while in prison for two years, earning $5.25 a month. A $50,000 murder contract was placed on him, and an alcoholic gang member attempted to claim it by killing an inmate and assaulting several other hostages at a halfway house while prisoner Koon was away visiting his family. The 55-year-old gangster was killed by police after prisoner Koon alerted a SWAT team by telephone from the safety of his home (so he got to kill somebody after all).
The night of the L.A. riots, Gates had been busy attempting to save his job by attending a political fund raiser in exclusive Brentwood, far away from the bloody riots. Proposition F was under consideration by the citizens, which would make the chief of police more accountable for his performance. Gates, the individual who gave America its first of 30,000 infantry-style SWAT teams (a P.R. exercise to offset cuts in the police force) offered absolutely zero leadership to his "troops" during the riots. The troops had stayed safely in their trailer-park bunkers, awaiting their non-existant orders.
LAPD Chief Darrell Gates was forced to resign due to the incident, since the corrupt police officers alleged it was the police department who had intentionally trained them to abuse citizens. Detective Rothmiller was consulted by frightened politicians to explain the inner workings of the LAPD. Detective Rothmiller explained that politicians, journalists and celebrities could rest assured they were feloniously stalked, bugged, tapped, burgled and spyed upon, for "police intelligence" and extortion purposes. The politicians replied that they were already suspecting that. The fired Gates now receives $125,000 every year from the citizens of Los Angeles, until the day he dies.
Detective Rothmiller had survived the 1982 assassination attempt against him (by a hit man riding a motorcycle), which had been made by the national government's CIA as reprisal for Rothmiller investigating the Reagan/Bush White House's drug-and-gun-running operation from Central America (discussed in a later chapter). Rothmiller had not been interested in spying on famous citizens to see what they ate for lunch, or panhandling for extorted handouts—he wanted to bust mobsters. There are at least 300 such "intelligence" units operated by police departments around America today. Constructive chaos was standard operating procedure used by the police depatment to maintain its control of the citizens it was supposed to protect.
Detective Rothmiller gives detailed accounts of many illegal methods used by cops to extort their fellow citizens, including methods for manufacturing evidence of non-existent situations, or intentionally getting citizens fired from their jobs (by informing their bosses they were under investigation, or by sabatoging their business ventures with government inspectors). IRS records were illegally obtained, to be used against the citizens. Any enemy of the cops who happened to be arrested—such as journalists or judges, as for DWI, would receive special treatment—press releases supplied to news media. The only effective tactic of defense was to directly confront any illegal surveilance, possibly with violence, since OCID could not afford any public exposure. Corrupt police officers were even hired out to local gangsters—that was why OCID had been originally created. He reveals police crimes of massive corruption of the highest levels of the department, including murder and cover up of political assassination. The detective also reveals some of the secret information hidden inside the illegal police files kept on thousands of honest citizens—including the cover-up of the assassination of a presidential candidate in 1968, and how secret filing systems are illegally kept hidden from court orders. For a detective to be hired into OCID, he had to first "pass" a polygraph test proving he would tell lies. (There are many government jobs that require this skill.) The only time OCID investigated organized crime was to see which legitimate business people could be extorted for doing legitimate business with them.
Detective Rothmiller has some interesting things to say about how police departments treat citizens during a routine traffic stop. "[O]fficers were on the streets as an occupying force. The civilians were enemies to be subdued." First of all, rookie cops were trained by their superiors to hate all citizens, but especially minorities. "[A]ll niggers are fucked. Don't ever forget that," his trainer told him. Proactive patrol tactics were the norm. "False arrests were routine," according to the detective. The police department was "a corps of individual vigilantes on the public payrole. It was kangaroo justice." Minority cops were even more ruthless, since they had to prove themselves to their bigoted brethren in order to keep their jobs.
Police instructors taught recruits how to assault citizens without leaving visible injuries (go for the midsection), and how to inflict maximum pain (batons blows to the shin). This was the "defense" used by the corrupt cops' lawyers in the Rodney King trial, yet the cops had also been instructed in the legal methods, too. Cops were taught to never "intentionally" hit a citizen in the head, "But if you do, you simply say the suspect ducked or moved." Falsifying police reports against a citizen was simply another method of proactive policing. "If you don't like how someone looks, pull him over and see what's under his fingernails. You can always find P.C. (probable cause) later. Follow anyone for a block and he's sure to commit an infraction. But even if he doesn't, you can always say he crossed a double yellow line, he was following too close, something like that." Lying on the witness stand was grounds for perjury, but the plausible denial of "I don't recall" would keep him legally in the clear. Any witnesses who did not confirm the arrest charges against a citizen were to be intentionally omitted from police reports. Detective Rothmiller explained: "Defense attorneys could rarely shake the testimony of a polite, earnest, diligent, 'lying' cop." Falsely claiming a suspect was high on PCP was a common tactic to justify abusing an unarmed citizen, as in the King DWI assault.
A citizen who chooses to outrun the police in a high speed vehicle chase was to be punished severely, in any way possible. This scenario can rapidly escalate into the ultimate expression of road rage. Police use the "pit maneuver" is to intentionally cause a citizen to crash his car, when a cop rams him from behind at high speed. Surrender is often not to be achnowledged, even after the fleeing vehicle has stopped. Rothmiller told of a traffic stop of a young white male. "The driver was cocky: 'What the fuck did I do?'" As the citizen reached for his wallet, as ordered by the cop, he was illegally assaulted by a baton blow. Both cops then beat the citizen. When Rothmiller asked the other cop what he had seen that had started it, the cop grinned and said, "Furtive move. I didn't like the prick's attitude." If a crooked cop didn't want to beat up a docile citizen, all he had to do was stick him with a hidden needle, or simply pinch him in the scrotum or under the armpit. That way any witnesses could testify that the citizen flinched or took a swing at the poor cop. When citizens are sitting in their cars, the way to escalate an assault is to flick a finger in the citizen's eyeball. Not even passengers could see the cop's illegal provocation.
This is the reason why so many citizens appear to resist arrest—they are intentionally provoked by police for the express purpose of giving police an opportunity to assault citizens. During the Rodney King video, police apologists constantly alleged King was attacking police when he suddenly ran from his car, yet suddenly getting stabbed with a metal dart and zapped by 50,000 volts would make all people jump out of their skins. This electric pulse, 450 times more powerful than a household electrical socket, causes muscle spasms that are literally uncontrollable.
The abuse did not have to end after the suspect was subdued, since cops could tighten handcuffs into torture devices and slam a citizen's head into the police car when pushing him into the back seat. "Compliance holds" were used as humorous tortures to get citizens to walk on tiptoe ("climbing the sky"), as the citizen attempted to keep the cop from breaking his wrists or fingers. Irritating citizens who were being vocal could have their mouths duct-taped shut--but first the cop pinched the citizen's nose shut, scaring the citizen into realistic fear of dying from suffocation. Female citizens were to be dragged out of their cars by the hair. Handcuffed citizens could be placed face down in police cars, with a criminal cop's boot grinding his neck into the floor. Citizens could be "cannonballed" by slamming on the brakes, since the captive citizens were not allowed use of seat/crash belts. Methods of abuse ranged from serious beatings to unjustified shootings. Suspects could even be dangled by their ankles from tall buildings. "Honest" cops who witnessed these tortures but did not want to participate were to become the official government cheerleaders, making jokes and taking bets on the level of injury done to a citizen. "A whistleblower [cop] would be snuffed out before he got his lips puckered. . . . The idea was to find a fight and then wade in like a cop from hell." Cops who did not play the game were to be abandoned if they ever needed backup -- assaulting citizens is a team sport.
Bored cops would hop into their government vehicles and play "follow the leader," cruising highways and inner city streets at 90 miles per hour, running red lights and stop signs in tight formation—the same crime as Rodney King had been provoked into doing—just for fun, until they tired of that game. (I have also spoken to cops here who bragged about doing the same thing.) The "Diamond Formation" was used against lone motorists late ate night, especially minorities. Cops would box a citizen in with four government vehicles, driving at 25 miles per hour, staring at him the entire time. Then they would peel off in opposite directions, leaving the terrified citizen parked dead in the middle of the street. Lone pedestrians of limited intelligence would be administered a "lie detector test," by handing him a traffic flare. The citizen was told that if he dropped it during the fraudulent interrogation, he would die. Psychological torture was very effective at terrifying its intended victims.
According to the detective, citizens did not have to be "scumbags" to warrant abuse from cops. "[C]ops, by and large, were excellent judges of somebody's socioeconomic standing." A well-mannered citizen who committed contempt of cop was merely arrested, booked, thrown in jail and prosecuted in court. A citizen with a social status at risk could be sufficiently humiliated by the arrest experience to give a corrupt cop decent satisfaction. "Staunch, middle class citizens didn't expect to be frisked, for instance, for routine traffic violations. Especially when there hadn't been any violation. . . . In 1991, the city lost $14,685,000 in excessive force settlements, judgements and awards." Even bigwigs could commit contempt of cop. After chokeholds were banned for killing so many citizens, batons became the weapon of choice for torture, with quicker escalation to the use of firearms.
Detective Rothmiller described another torture he witnessed used by a criminal in government uniform. Late at night, a citizen was walking alone on a sidewalk. The cop driver pulled up to him and ordered, "Get your ass over here!" The citizen said he had just gotten off of work and was walking home. The cop said, "I want you running from now on! . . . Now you put your hand down here or I'll run your ass in!" As the citizen did as he was told, to cop crushed his hand with his metal baton. Then he was ordered to put his other hand down, and it too was smashed, as the citizen begged for mercy. "Run, goddammit!" he was ordered. The government criminal, laughing, retorted to his rookie partner, "You're not going to tell anybody about this." Rothmiller observed, "That man and his family . . . were living in a police state . . . that closed ranks around its torturers and psychopaths and protected them. . . . Some loonies did manage to bluff their way through the department's psychological screenings. . . . These were crazies whose ultimate goal was to waste someone, lunatics who liked nothing better than to inflict pain." Cops who didn't make the grade were termed "mouse meat."
SWAT teams used the slogan "death to the enemy." Chief Gates declared to Congress that "casual drug users should be shot," even though his own son was a drug addict. Police snipers kept lapel pins made from the shell casings of their "kills."
After the attempted assassination of Detective Rothmiller—who had been investigating a South American guns-for-drugs airline operation of the CIA (detailed in a later section), he was placed under surveilance by his bosses in OCID. The assassin, a federally protected witness, was interrogated but never arrested—he was later given a new identity in the government's Witness Protection Program. Rothmiller received death threats, was followed everywhere he went, and his wife was anonymously told her husband had been killed. When Rothmiller was subpeoned to testify regarding his workman's compensation claim after the assassination attempt, the existance of OCID was revealed for the first time to the public. He was fired and charged with 17 crimes of misconduct, and was sued by the CIA's gangsters. His home was burgled by OCID cops, as witnessed by another cop. Despite all this adversity, Rothmiller won all his legal battles (which merely paid his legal bills), and was ordered reinstated to the force. He declined the offer of a desk jockey job -- a demotion, choosing instead to work in the civilian sector. During his five years in the LAPD's Organized Crime Intelligence Division, Detective Rothmiller had not been allowed to arrest a single mobster.
This book is perhaps the most complete yet in the government's methods for illegally spying on the citizens. It should prove very useful for any citizen seeking political office, a career in law enforcement, or any type of high-profile civilian career.
These are some of the common tricks employed by corrupt police officers around the country. Forewarned is forearmed. Regarding citizens fleeing from police cars, it appears to be an unwise choice, except in certain rare circumstances. Luke Denny, in his biography Midnight Moonshine Rondevous, by Dr. Stony Merriman (former chief of Public Affairs for the U.S. Marine Corps at the Pentagon and editor of a Carthage, Tennessee newspaper (Vice President Al Gore's home town)), reveals his secret to 40 years of success was to always have a more powerful, better-handling, faster car than the local police, changing cars often. Police often would illegally "shoot to kill" fleeing bootleggers during the 1920s through to the 1960s, so Denny was properly motivated by survival instinct. Today, the "pit manuever" allows police to ram vehicles at high speed, killing citizens without the need for filling out the paperwork required of a shooting.
Racing drivers almost never win without an "unfair advantage," purchased by having a larger financial budget. In other words, it is virtually impossible to win without a superior race car. Driver skill is extremly important, of course, although a crash is guaranteed to occur as the driver with the slower, inferior car attempts to keep up with a race driver who happens to have a much faster car. The natural laws of physics are irrefutable. Racing drivers learn this lesson the hard way, by crashing in a controlled (and hopefully safe) environment.
So pickup trucks, family cars, economy cars or old clunkers should not be used to run from police—it's a no win situation. Hot-rodded sports cars or sports bikes, superior knowledge of the area and a secure hiding place nearby are the only protection from cops and their radios. These defenses are more expensive than simply paying traffic ticket, or hiring a lawyer to see if police acted illegally.
CAR 64 WHERE ARE YOU? The Dragon at Deals Gap - The crime committed by the Sport Bike rider was "flipping a bird" to a profiling speed trap (Constitutionally protected Free Speech - there is no such crime as "Contempt of Cop"). The cop was temporarily suspended for crashing. Biker was long gone  |
If a citizen driver wants to legally drive fast, he can move to a state without speed limits, move to a country without speed limits, or stay where he is and purchase a race car and join a local racing club. There he will receive accolades, trophies, kisses, dollars and fame for speeding as fast as he can. Or he can obtain a pilot's license from the government, and rent or buy an airplane, which likewise has no government speed limit. A citizen can choose to leave the psycho-driving to the psycho cops. The are many legal ways to go as fast as you want, without the risk of a insane individuals trying to murder you for "sport."
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