LAPD's finest: Cop stole debit card on the job.. victim tracked him down

[Indus]

Way to go young lady!
She should look into becoming a P.I.!

 

[MtnMan]

Yea, but has the cop been fired, arrested, charged?

 

[Indus]

Yea, but has the cop been fired, arrested, charged?

No he's the next leader of the LAPD union!

 

[Moonbeam]

Hope he goes to jail.

 

[Sunburn74]

I was watching a movie the other day where like half the police dept in a major US city was dirty and basically in bed with criminals and that was by far one of the most believable and reasonable aspects of that movie. I remember thinking to myself how sad it is that the idea that most cops are dirty is completely mainstream, so mainstream that it's like that least controversial or unusual thing you can include in a movie.

 

[Vic]

Yea, but has the cop been fired, arrested, charged?

Edmond Babaians has been arrested and suspended from the force. California public records show the taxpayers paid him just over $208k in 2021 (most recent year available).

LAPD officer arrested for allegedly stealing resident's debit card

The officer was caught buying items at a home improvement store.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[hal2kilo]

Edmond Babaians has been arrested and suspended from the force. California public records show the taxpayers paid him just over $208k in 2021 (most recent year available).

LAPD officer arrested for allegedly stealing resident's debit card

The officer was caught buying items at a home improvement store.

www.cbsnews.com

Marvelous OT racket they've got.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Edmond Babaians has been arrested and suspended from the force. California public records show the taxpayers paid him just over $208k in 2021 (most recent year available).

LAPD officer arrested for allegedly stealing resident's debit card

The officer was caught buying items at a home improvement store.

www.cbsnews.com

I get that this is LA, but at $208K salary it seems unfathomable that someone would risk losing a really good job over stealing a couple of grand. That's like people getting canned from good white collar jobs over stealing office supplies. The only reason I can see anyone doing it is if they felt completely untouchable... which actually makes a lot of sense this guy being a cop. Thin blue line something something...

 

[MtnMan]

Edmond Babaians has been arrested and suspended from the force. California public records show the taxpayers paid him just over $208k in 2021 (most recent year available).

LAPD officer arrested for allegedly stealing resident's debit card

The officer was caught buying items at a home improvement store.

www.cbsnews.com

Which wouldn't include working event security, or store security, where venues or stores typically pay around $50/hr.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I get that this is LA, but at $208K salary it seems unfathomable that someone would risk losing a really good job over stealing a couple of grand. That's like people getting canned from good white collar jobs over stealing office supplies. The only reason I can see anyone doing it is if they felt completely untouchable... which actually makes a lot of sense this guy being a cop. Thin blue line something something...

When I was in the mil, knew a contractor that got let go from what was at the time a 6 figure job, and lost his clearance, because he was filching old hard drives to ebay/craigslist rather than recycling them (this was before vendors started digital watermarking them so they couldn't be used elsewhere).

 

[Moonbeam]

I get that this is LA, but at $208K salary it seems unfathomable that someone would risk losing a really good job over stealing a couple of grand. That's like people getting canned from good white collar jobs over stealing office supplies. The only reason I can see anyone doing it is if they felt completely untouchable... which actually makes a lot of sense this guy being a cop. Thin blue line something something...

When people with ad cases of self hate achieve significant levels of success quite frequently they will act out unconsciously with behaviors that destroy them. They can’t take the inner dissonance. They will also be haunted with a sense of impending doom.

 

[Vic]

I get that this is LA, but at $208K salary it seems unfathomable that someone would risk losing a really good job over stealing a couple of grand. That's like people getting canned from good white collar jobs over stealing office supplies. The only reason I can see anyone doing it is if they felt completely untouchable... which actually makes a lot of sense this guy being a cop. Thin blue line something something...

I'm more than confident that he'd done this many times before.

 

[bononos]

I get that this is LA, but at $208K salary it seems unfathomable that someone would risk losing a really good job over stealing a couple of grand. That's like people getting canned from good white collar jobs over stealing office supplies. The only reason I can see anyone doing it is if they felt completely untouchable... which actually makes a lot of sense this guy being a cop. Thin blue line something something...

Just plain greed and maybe he knew it was just a matter of time he got fired so he grabbed everything he could.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I get that this is LA, but at $208K salary it seems unfathomable that someone would risk losing a really good job over stealing a couple of grand. That's like people getting canned from good white collar jobs over stealing office supplies. The only reason I can see anyone doing it is if they felt completely untouchable... which actually makes a lot of sense this guy being a cop. Thin blue line something something...

How they make that $208k in the first place is a straight up scam and they've been getting away with it for decades. There's been several articles about this racket that police pull. They intentionally "understaff" to justify the extravagant OT and other that they partake in. It also lets them howl that they're understaffed when people question why the fuck the police suck so much. When a good portion of that OT doesn't involve any work (and often includes them actually just being paid to attend events).

I'm more than confident that he'd done this many times before.

All but guaranteed.

Just plain greed and maybe he knew it was just a matter of time he got fired so he grabbed everything he could.

I think its because police operate with the belief that they won't be held accountable because they overwhelmingly are not. If people knew just how truly rotten police forces are. I'm not even joking that scrapping police departments would actually lead to a decrease in crime because of how much criminal activity the police partake in. If police want all this digital surveillance they should have to agree to it being pointed at them first and it be all consuming. That's the only way we'll meaningfully do anything about the rampant corruption in policing (the current method of relying on Internal Affairs, other agencies like the FBI, etc clearly isn't working). Those crimes won't show up in statistics because its obviously not reported, but crime statistics are basically made up anyway (police game the hell out of crime reporting, and even independent attempts to track it point out caveats because of the ways that police even simply report stuff or don't have to).

 

[m8d]

Yea, but has the cop been fired, arrested, charged?

He probably got a promotion. 2pac said it the best: "Cops are just as crooked as the Ni@@as they chasin'."