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In her tenure as chief, Nannette Hegerty has faced the challenge of rebuilding the credibility of her department in the eyes of the community. She's taken several steps to improve the quality of the force and said citizen complaints against officers have dropped significantly while she's been chief. As she faces retirement next month, Hegerty is asking Milwaukee Common Council mem... Read more
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Dallas Morning News - TX,USA
26 April 2007
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Officer fired for outburst at
A Dallas police lieutenant has been fired over a November incident in which he accused a fast-food clerk of cheating him out of his change, flashed his badge, grabbed an employee and left with the $9 he thought he was owed.
Lt. Jay Cooper, 44, was fired Thursday. The 23-year veteran had been on administrative leave since shortly after the incident.
"The Dallas Police Department is an organization lacking leadership with integrity," Lt. Cooper wrote in a statement that he faxed to The Dallas Morning News.
Lt. Cooper also wrote that he had "followed the law and the rules meticulously and am innocent of all charges."
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle could not be reached for comment.
The investigation that led to his firing began after a Nov. 15 incident at a Whataburger in the 11800 block of North Central Expressway near Forest Lane.
Lt. Cooper and his wife had gone through the drive-through line and ordered two hamburgers and drinks from Ahmed Sardar, the manager, records show. Lt. Cooper told investigators that he gave the employee at the window two $10 bills and a penny to pay for the $10.21 order.
Mr. Sardar told investigators that Lt. Cooper had given him $11.01.
Lt. Cooper and Mr. Sardar agreed that the manager gave the officer 80 cents in change. Lt. Cooper said he told Mr. Sardar he still owed him $9.
When Lt. Cooper insisted that he was owed money, employees said they counted the money in the register and found that Lt. Cooper had been given the correct change.
The manager then approached Lt. Cooper's vehicle and told him what he had found. He told investigators that Lt. Cooper pushed him by bumping him with his belly.
He said that Lt. Cooper showed him his badge and said: "You are under arrest." Lt. Cooper wrote that he placed Mr. Sardar in a wristlock and patted him down. Lt. Cooper wrote that his wife called 911 to ask for additional police help, but she got a recording.
The manager told police that Lt. Cooper pinned him against the truck and twisted his hands to his neck and searched his pockets.
"I keep telling him: 'I will give you the money.' He keep telling me he is arresting me," Mr. Sardar told investigators.
Another employee, Delana Clewis, approached as this was going on. "I was scared and I thought my manager was being robbed," she told investigators.
Lt. Cooper told investigators that he told her that the manager was going to jail for theft. He showed her his badge, and she then retrieved $9 from the store and gave it to him.
"I let loose of the man's hand and got back into my truck and left," he told investigators.
Store employees called 911 and reported the encounter.
Later that day, two corporate officials say that Lt. Cooper contacted them and told them that he was a Dallas police officer, that their employees were lying, and that he would not hesitate to take legal action.
Lt. Cooper wrote that he contacted corporate officials because he wanted them to know that they had a thief working for them. Lt. Cooper denied introducing himself as a police officer.
He was later issued a citation for Class C misdemeanor assault. A trial date on the ticket has been scheduled for June 19.
In 1998, he filed an internal report – three years before the fake-drug scandal that rocked the Police Department – that outlined poor tracking of paid drug informants. The problems he found mirrored those uncovered in the 2001 scandal, in which dozens of immigrants were wrongly jailed on drug charges.
Police officials have previously said that they could not find any record that anyone ever saw the report.
Lt. Cooper previously had sued the city, alleging that he was discriminated against and repeatedly passed over for promotions because he was a white man. He has sued the Internal Revenue Service, contending the agency owed him about $2,000. Those lawsuits are pending.
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