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When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts 1
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When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts December 11, 2011 - AlterNet
Patrick J. Sullivan's experience as a cop is making him an exception when it should make him an example. The former "Sheriff of the Year" has a very shady past
Patrick J. Sullivan, 68, was the sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colo., near Denver, for nearly 20 years before he retired in 2002. Sullivan was considered such an exemplary police officer that, in 2001, the National Sheriff's Association named him Sheriff of the Year. In a hugely ironic twist, last week Sullivan became an inmate at The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility, and yes, the jail was named in his honor.
After several informants tipped off police that Sullivan was involved in drug trafficking, investigators watched as Sullivan agreed to meet a male informant and swap him methamphetamines for sex. That's when the cuffs came on. He was charged with felony distribution and possession of meth, in addition to a misdemeanor charge of soliciting prostitution.
Sullivan was released Tuesday after a judge reduced his bail from $500,000 to $50,000 for past service to the public, including his heroic rescue of two deputies. But the details of his arrest, as well as another shady incident involving an unsolved drowning, raise questions about the impunity with which law enforcement acts in the drug war.
It's also yet another example of people in authority — such as the football coaches at Penn State in the Sandusky molestation scandal, and the basketball coach and chief of police in Syracuse — using their positions of power to prey on vulnerable people, and then having the system give them protection when ordinary civilians would have the book thrown at them. Sullivan, too, used his position of power for sexual exploitation, and during pretrial proceedings, his authority worked in his favor.
Sullivan's attorney, Kevin McGreevy, argued against the $500,000 bail requested by prosecutors, saying, "Given the amount of good he's done, not just for Colorado but for Arapahoe County ... (I ask) that his bond be reduced to $50,000." The judge agreed, slapped a gag order on the case, and Sullivan posted bail and walked.
But the fact that Sullivan was a police officer is exactly the "public service" that should make him an example, not an exception. Having been a decorated cop does not mean that you deserve special treatment, just like having been a good parent or an otherwise upstanding person does not commute sentences for drug offenses. A crusader to keep drugs away from kids, Sullivan locked up people for crimes he evidently was not above himself.
Perhaps more importantly, Sullivan used his experience as a police officer to prey on the weak — and, as he was later charged, to influence a public official. Sullivan allegedly hung out at a home for recovering meth addicts, where he traded meth for sex with young men. Beyond prostitution, the activity raises questions of consent. A drug warrior who worked to keep drugs away from kids, Sullivan should know the plight that addicts face, as well as the great lengths they may go to to score drugs fueling their addictions.
Dillon Grilley, 25, called the cops on Sullivan in September because the "old guy" refused to leave his home. Grilley told CALL7 that Sullivan visited his two roommates as much as two to three times daily, and the three would disappear into a bedroom together. Having seen his roommates smoke methamphetamine, Grilley feared Sullivan had coerced his roommates back into drugs. As he called the cops, Sullivan reportedly shoved a badge in his face and said he was the police. He was gone by the time police arrived, but police report that he was stripped of his badge following the incident.
And still, it may get even worse for Sullivan. Current Araphoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said last week that police contacted him to inquire about interviewing Sullivan. They were investigating the Jan. 26 unsolved drowning of 27-year-old Sean Moss, a former gay porn actor, and the autopsy for whom showed intoxication from meth and gamma-hydroxybutryic acid, or GHB, best known as a date rape drug. Less than two weeks before Moss's death, Sullivan reportedly posted bail for Moss's arrest in a domestic violence case involving another man in a Denver suburb. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said Morris's case remained open because the coroner could not determine the cause of death. Was it an accident, suicide, or homicide?
The Moss–Sullivan relationship goes deeper than Sullivan's bail money. As far back as 2007, when Sullivan was director of safety and security at Cherry Creek school district, the district hired Moss for security at Overland High School. Moss listed Sullivan as a reference, but he resigned over "personal reasons" just 13 days later.
Denver police have not disclosed whether they questioned Sullivan or what information they sought in relation to the drowning. Sullivan's involvement with Moss is based on speculation at this point, but the silence of the police who reached out to Robinson is troubling. So, too, is the gag order the judge placed on the case. According to court documents, the gag order was issued to protect Sullivan's right to a fair trial in response to "the intense interest of the media" and "the amount of publicity which has resulted."
Examples of double standards and hypocrisy occur throughout the criminal justice system when people with power are arrested for crimes. If Sullivan's contributions to the community were considered when he was caught attempting to exchange meth for sex, then why was the work of Joe Miller, a probation officer in Arizona, not considered when he was fired for simply adding his name to a LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) petition to decriminalize marijuana in California? As the New York Times recently reported, cops do not rise up through the ranks by speaking out against drug laws but executing them. If you raise a question about policy, it can be the end of your career.
A multijurisdictional task force is examining Sullivan’s past and his potential involvement in other criminal cases. Several investigators on the case will work in the Cherry Creek school district, where they will attempt to contact students with whom Sullivan may have been in touch to determine if there are other victims.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: veggie]
#15505632 - 12/12/11 04:12 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Trading meth for sex? Is that a bogus claim the author expects us to believe? I mean it's probably true, just I don't know, wtf?
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: DebuteMachine]
#15505865 - 12/12/11 04:54 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I can and will vouche that this is very true. I see another story about him almsot every night on the news. More and more people seem to keep coming forward and it appears that he had been doing this a while. now i mostly don't mind drugs, but when the people who are put out their to take the drugs off the street, are just trying to lead more and more people down a "poor choice" path. it just makes me sick. thoguh i still do LoL at the fact that this guy was being housed in a jail which was named after him..
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Scudreloaded]
#15506663 - 12/12/11 07:09 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Seeing the justice system turn a blind eye to the men in blue makes me sick.. If the government doesn’t want to enforce justice, than I believe it is not only the right, but the responsibility of the citizens to fight back. We need to fight back brutally and make an example out of all the corrupt pigs ruining the justice system. Let them know the badge and uniform doesn’t put you above everyone else, but rather beneath them. Until cops exist to serve and protect the people rather than their own interest, I cannot in any good conscious respect or admire their service.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: DebuteMachine]
#15509014 - 12/13/11 06:28 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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DebuteMachine said: Trading meth for sex? Is that a bogus claim the author expects us to believe? I mean it's probably true, just I don't know, wtf? 
This guy was caught, brought to trial, and charged. Wtf else do you need to see to believe it? He is serving a sentence in prison, come the fuck on, take off the tin foil hat and get real
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#15510358 - 12/13/11 12:25 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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He hasn't actually been convicted yet it will be interesting to see exactly how hard they come down on him. I'd say lowering his bail to $50,000 is bullshit, sure he did a few good things while he was working but god only knows how many bad things he actually got away with.
It will be interesting to see how all this plays out. He better be spending a god damn long time in jail cause anyone who was caught doing what he was doing and wasn't a cop would probably be in jail the rest of there life. Until then though so far it would appear they are handling it pretty well, I wouldn't have let him out on bond though he doesn't deserve it.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Mycjunky]
#15513104 - 12/13/11 10:15 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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i do feel it should be brought up he's been on the force many, many years. if he's a faulty pig and is just doing his own system and people more harm, the larger question is "how long" from what ive talked to people they feel he should spend the rest of his life in a jail or prison. but of course we all don't know the details.. but the night i heard his bond was dropped i was angery. ..not at myself, or something even directly affecting me. but if we expect people to protect and help our people, and they do this... FUCK EM its a far form of corruption i feel im witnessing. and im not even related to the case. im just aperson posting about it. i'm sorry. ...all free thought should be welcome here but i've seen meth destroy people's lives and it has done a pretty number on mine. ..and here's this authority figure who *has* preyed on people whom alread have a lot of head trauma and stress. i almost don't feel like i should apologize, but i will because i try to be a good person atleast in my eyes/ world. This guy pissed me off. i heard it on the new and i totaly flipped out at the tv with my family present. so the people we choose to protect us from shit, are actually totaly making some of the problem worse (insert anger here)
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Scudreloaded]
#15513317 - 12/13/11 11:05 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Scudreloaded said: from what ive talked to people they feel he should spend the rest of his life in a jail or prison.
No one should be punished for trading sex for drugs. In a free society, people can do whatever they please in their own homes as long it doesn't hurt non-consenting people.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#15514123 - 12/14/11 05:25 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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> No one should be punished for trading sex for drugs. In a free society, ...
If our society were free, I would agree with you. Unfortunately, we live in a society where people are put in jail for prostitution and drug use. I find it abhorrent that people like Obama and Bush, who have used illegal drugs in the past, have the audacity to put people in prison for doing the same thing. When somebody like the ex-sheriff abuses their office of trust, they should suffer worse than the rest of us. Of course, as you point out, all of these problems go away in a free society.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Seuss] 1
#15514128 - 12/14/11 05:31 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Seuss said: When somebody like the ex-sheriff abuses their office of trust, they should suffer worse than the rest of us.
I agree, there should be a massive sentencing enhancement for abuse of public trust.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#15514163 - 12/14/11 05:58 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said:
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Seuss said: When somebody like the ex-sheriff abuses their office of trust, they should suffer worse than the rest of us.
I agree, there should be a massive sentencing enhancement for abuse of public trust.
If there were any justice...
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Humility]
#15514616 - 12/14/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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So what your saying Alan Rocketfeller is that its ok to exploit another persons drug addiction?
Thats fucking stupid man....Highly addictive drugs like meth and coke/crack definitely impair a individuals mental state and leaves them vulnerable to sexual predators.
And it is a free society, im sure the center for mental health would agree too, so would the police. But when scientists all over the world show astounding statistics that abuse of these drugs causes the effects that they do then they get added to a list of illegal substances because they're looking out for the public interest and thus hampering sexual predators and more from procuring control over individuals who do not recognize that they have a substance abuse problem.
To make this short, meth is bad mmmkay.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: HybridprX]
#15514856 - 12/14/11 10:32 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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At least he didn't lock the addicts in prison as fuel for the industrial prison complex, like in his past 40 odd years of service. It is quite possible that the addicts enjoyed it, as there are alot of horny gay meth addicts.
Its not like he fed them roofies and raped them, if sex for drugs is something they would never do otherwise what else would these people do for their drugs? I know I would rather rob somebody then get into some gayness, yet nobody says a meth addicted robber was taken advantage of. We still hold people accountable for their actions, meth or no meth. I doubt these were the first man on man encounters for anybody involved, and men like to fck.
With that said, the law says meth dealing and soliciting prostitution are illegal, so he should charged if he got caught. Thats only fair to the non-sheriff of the year offenders.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: sk8ordude]
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gangsters in a uniform. We call them polices
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: spacer]
#15515953 - 12/14/11 02:51 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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i just dont agree with it. i did laugh out loud though when someone said " but we do live in a free society"
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: Scudreloaded]
#15516433 - 12/14/11 04:28 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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And it is a free society, im sure the center for mental health would agree too, so would the police. But when scientists all over the world show astounding statistics that abuse of these drugs causes the effects that they do then they get added to a list of illegal substances because they're looking out for the public interest and thus hampering sexual predators and more from procuring control over individuals who do not recognize that they have a substance abuse problem.
Oh please
If the "system" had our best interests at heart, than they WOULD NOT CRIMINALIZE THESE DRUGS/ Criminalization address's 0 of the problems you bring up in your post. Treating drug addiction as a health problem, as opposed to a criminal problem, is what we need, hence, LEGALIZING ALL DRUGS. Maybe they would not be just "available" to everyone, but if they were caught with them, INSTEAD of going to jail, they would get the proper health care that is needed. Substance abuse is a HEALTH problem, not a CRIMINAL problem, and there is nothing just about our system as it stands today.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#15516573 - 12/14/11 04:52 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just shows you the law enforcers are just a dirty as the criminals they put behinds bars...damn this leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: HybridprX]
#15516878 - 12/14/11 05:46 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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HybridprX said: So what your saying Alan Rocketfeller is that its ok to exploit another persons drug addiction? Thats fucking stupid man....
I don't think it is ok to exploit addiction, but I don't think it should be a crime either. Acceptable behavior and criminal behavior are two very different things. There are all sorts of creepy/morally suspect behaviors that are not criminal.
The article didn't say anything addiction or exploitation - Maybe the guy wasn't addicted and just wanted to have some fun.
I don't think the criminal justice system has any place getting involved with what people do in the privacy of their own homes with consenting adults. The alternative is to invite the government to police our bedrooms.
I don't offer people drugs for sex and I don't think any of my friends do, but I think it is a relatively common practice for some people. I don't see what legitimate law enforcement purpose would be served by putting those people in prison.
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Highly addictive drugs like meth and coke/crack definitely impair a individuals mental state and leaves them vulnerable to sexual predators.
Agreed, but people should have the freedom to be sexually preyed upon if they so desire.
I certainly don't want my tax dollars used to imprison every coke slut in the city.
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To make this short, meth is bad mmmkay.
For some people it is bad, for other people it is good medicine. Methamphetamine is a prescription drug which has been approved by the FDA.
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Re: When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts [Re: veggie]
#15540851 - 12/19/11 04:42 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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What it all comes down to is this guy is a turd who deserves to be locked up and raped.
He probably threatened to imprison these boys if they didnt perform sex acts.
Ever see the movie "Bad Lieutenant"?
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