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SPD officer commits suicide following
cocaine arrest
January 5, 2012 - king5.com
SEATTLE – A Seattle police officer who was arrested for possession of
cocaine Thursday morning committed suicide after he was released from
jail.
The body of Officer Richard F. Nelson, 50, was found on the John Wayne
Trail near Rattlesnake Lake with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,
Seattle Police said.
Just hours earlier, Nelson was arrested and booked into the King County
Jail after police officers in the Rainier Valley area provided him with
an unknown amount of cocaine.
Nelson was pulled over in his personal vehicle and arrested following
the end of his shift.
Nelson was the subject of an internal investigation within the
department called an "integrity test," said Seattle Police Chief John
Diaz, after concerns surfaced that narcotic evidence was not being
handled properly by Nelson.
"I can't let those things go, they have to be followed through," said
Diaz.
Nelson was arrested at 4:16 a.m. and released on his own recognizance
at 4:48. His service weapon was taken away, and he was driven home by
command staff.
Nelson, a 22-year veteran, was hired in September of 1990 and worked in
the South Precinct. He previously worked as a bicycle officer in the
Rainier Valley. He has two teenage children.
"Officer Nelson was a good man, he was a good officer," said his former
partner, Officer Brian Gunther. "Being a partner for nine hours a day
in a patrol car or riding bicycles together, you share a bond that very
few people can understand."
Click here to hear more from Nelson's former partner
"This is a tremendous tragedy, we have a lot of officers who are
grieving," said Deputy Chief Nick Metz, Deputy Chief of Operations. "He
was a friend to many."
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn stressed that Nelson was a member of the
community, despite alleged faults.
"This is a human being who is fallible, who had a drug addiction,
apparently, and that can strike anybody," said McGinn.
Officials would not say whether this is the only "integrity test" ever
conducted within SPD, but said they are rare.
Diaz said he requested an audit of all narcotics incidents Officer
Nelson has been involved in.
SPD does not conduct random drug or alcohol testing of officers and
employees.
Public records indicate Officer Nelson earned $99,183 in 2009.
News of the internal investigation comes after the Seattle Police
Department was admonished last month by the U.S. Department of Justice,
saying Seattle police have engaged in a pattern of excessive force and
the department had an inadequate systems of supervision and oversight .
DOJ ordered the department to implement a number of reforms.
"This is a human being who is fallible, who had a drug addiction, apparently, and that can strike anybody,"
yet they have no problem fucking people and throwing them in jail with violent criminals. shit, if you're going to make narcotics illegal, at least send people to rehab rather than lock them up.
the fact that a respected officer used drugs shows that good people can be lead astray. don't persecute them, help them.
People should write them letters about how drug addiction can strike anybody, and that we need to start treating it as a medical issue rather than a criminal issue..and urge the people in the department to work on changing the way they handle drug offenses.
Getting busted for drugs doesn't feel so good does it, hypocritical fucking pig. I wonder how many times this man has said ''do the crime, do the time''. When it came for officer oinkers to do his time, to lose his job, to be shunned from society, he decided to take the easy way out. It's sad that the drug war has claimed yet another life, but how fitting it should be an officers.
There is so much hypocrisy in this report it nearly makes me sick. I have no pity for this pig--took the cowards way out, I'm not surprised.
I do feel sorry for his two kids he has selfishly left behind, to deal with all his bullshit without their fathers support, though--more collateral damage due to this failed war on drugs.
Quote: StatuesCryBleeding said: Getting busted for drugs doesn't feel so good does it, hypocritical fucking pig. I wonder how many times this man has said ''do the crime, do the time''. When it came for officer oinkers to do his time, to lose his job, to be shunned from society, he decided to take the easy way out. It's sad that the drug war has claimed yet another life, but how fitting it should be an officers.
Quote: StatuesCryBleeding said: Getting busted for drugs doesn't feel so good does it, hypocritical fucking pig. I wonder how many times this man has said ''do the crime, do the time''. When it came for officer oinkers to do his time, to lose his job, to be shunned from society, he decided to take the easy way out. It's sad that the drug war has claimed yet another life, but how fitting it should be an officers.
Quote: StatuesCryBleeding said: Getting busted for drugs doesn't feel so good does it, hypocritical fucking pig. I wonder how many times this man has said ''do the crime, do the time''. When it came for officer oinkers to do his time, to lose his job, to be shunned from society, he decided to take the easy way out. It's sad that the drug war has claimed yet another life, but how fitting it should be an officers.
> Nelson was arrested at 4:16 a.m. and released on his own recognizance at 4:48.
Gotta like the special treatment that cops get... anybody else get released on their own recognizance in less than an hour after being arrested for cocaine possession? I don't think so...
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
Quote: zenstylee said: Drug Addiction is a disease not a crime!
Bullshit. Drug addiction is something that happens because a person made a choice.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
Stan: Dad, it's the middle of the day! I thought you weren't going to drink as much anymore! Randy: No, Stan, you don't understand. I have a disease. Daddy's very sick. Stan: What?? Did you go to your AA meeting?! Randy: Yes, they're the ones that told me. I thought I could just quite drinking on my own, but... it's an illness, son. I have to admit that I'm powerless to this terrible disease. [coughs, drinks, and burps.] Stan: Dad, you've had enough! Just stop now! Randy: I can't! I'm sick!
Stan: Uh, look, my dad was here yesterday and ...you all kind of messed him up by telling him he had a disease? Harry: Alcoholism is a disease. Stan: No it, it's not. And, y-you can't just go around saying stuff like that to people like my dad. He He's kind of, a hypochondriac Man 2: It is a disease because it's a physical dependency. That makes it a disease. Stan: No, cancer is a disease. My dad needs to drink less. Michael: He can't quit by himself. None of us could. He needs divine intervention. Spirituality. Stan: No, he just needs adisciprine. But thanks to you people, my dad now thinks he has a disease that he can't cure himself.
that sounds like a little more than a suicide. i think some other officers might have been nervous as well, so instead of risking the chance of him talking... they killed him and made it look like a suicide.
trust me... i watch a lot of movies.
-------------------- My senior year of high school one of the girls in my class got pulled over for her blinker not working. We told her that the reason it wasn't working was because she ran out of blinker fluid. The next day she came to school and goes "You guys are fucking assholes, I went to Autozone and asked for blinker fluid and they laughed at me and asked WTF I was talking about. - Gumby
Quote: zenstylee said: Drug Addiction is a disease not a crime!
Bullshit. Drug addiction is something that happens because a person made a choice.
Drug addiction is not a disease nor should it be a crime. I should have every right to be addicted to a drug if I so want. In fact, I am addicted to caffeine; this is not illegal and is not considered a crime.
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
Quote: zenstylee said: Drug Addiction is a disease not a crime!
Bullshit. Drug addiction is something that happens because a person made a choice.
Drug addiction is not a disease nor should it be a crime. I should have every right to be addicted to a drug if I so want. In fact, I am addicted to caffeine; this is not illegal and is not considered a crime.
I agree, and made no claim to the contrary.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
Quote: StatuesCryBleeding said: Getting busted for drugs doesn't feel so good does it, hypocritical fucking pig. I wonder how many times this man has said ''do the crime, do the time''. When it came for officer oinkers to do his time, to lose his job, to be shunned from society, he decided to take the easy way out. It's sad that the drug war has claimed yet another life, but how fitting it should be an officers.