01-10-2014, 04:11 PM
If certain people (plural, not just one) on this forum are not familiar with police corruption on our island, allow me to entertain you for a few minutes:
Lower Puna is so bad, cops used to avoid the place like the plague. Locals that have lived here a loooooong time will tell you cops only really started going and responding to calls in lower puna about twenty years ago. I'm not saying they didn't respond to ALL calls, but you get my drift: unless it was a huge emergency, forget it!
Same thing with Ocean View on the other side, it's been cleaned up a lot in the past 10 years but most cops wouldn't go up the mountain past PK street, the first street! And for a long time, the only cop that would respond (if you were lucky) was so corrupt that everybody in Ocean View was scared of him. I remember when that very cop got busted by two tourists that drove down the highway and witnessed him sexually assaulting those young girls on the side of the road, and that got hushed up real fast because it would have ruined the real estate bubble that was happening there. Turned out the girls had drugs on them and he asked sexual favors in order not to arrest them and inform their parents. You can't find a link on that one, but ask 99.9999 percent of long-time Ocean view residents.
Then, on an entirely different occasion, the SAME officer tried to run another woman off the side of the road with his police vehicle and tried to kill her because she had reported being repeatedly raped by the same officer! The 911 calls to dispatch were intentionally ignored, according to the courts! But this woman wouldnt back down and kept fighting and finally officials actually had to act because of public pressure. And how do they act? Hah! They quietly suspended him (with pay!) long enough to cover it up, and later decided to promote him (go figure...) and we do have links on that:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/02...tory6.html
Also, what about the cop that was a SEARGENT over in Puna? He beat his wife half to death, and then when she tried to escape by jumping out of his van, he ran her over and tried killing her. Then he tied her body up with yellow rope, perhaps because she was still barely alive, and then threw her dead body in the back of his van! His HPD police buddies tried to cover it up and they let him get away with it for a long time, until the local community got completely outraged and forced authorities to give the case REAL investivation. He now sits in prison for 90 years:
http://damontucker.com/2008/12/03/mathison/
It's so bad that the police even did a huge survey SPECIFCALLY concerning local trust in police, doing it to address all the police corruption. It was a total joke around the island and it totally backfired in their face. In 2010 nearly half the residents viewed local police negatively when investigating a crime in their local community, and nearly 1/3rd of the island said they would not feel comfortable reporting a crime to police. Furthermore, those numbers are island wide! If they did that survey in Puna only, holy crap, it would have been an even bigger disaster, probably about 70-80% negative response instead of 30-40%.
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesM...ndows.aspx
Oh and you want to reveal this corruption to the FBI? Hah! Good luck! Even other cops have tried reporting police corruption to FBI, and even filing lawsuits against their own bosses and testifying to HIGH LEVEL corruption specifically in the criminal investigative units, but they get demoted for not being, and I quote, "team players"
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...ln02a.html
Oh also, while on the subject of cops suing cops, Hilo Police has quite the story. When it comes to upper level corruption, maybe the families would be interested to know how "certain" officers get placed in "certain" positions to assist in even more corruption:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/10...tory2.html
Its so corrupt here that according to the State Integrity Investigation done by a non-biased panel, they determined to give Hawaii police D and F grades according to the Corruption Risk Report Card:
http://www.aroundhawaii.com/community/fe...waii-.html
I could go on, and on, and on...and I encourage both families to read/ask about local corruption here.
Fact is, doesn't matter if you are in Kalapana (Lower Puna), Ocean View (lower Kau), or Milolii Bay (South Kona) it's all about territory and money, especially if your coming to the rock as a new haole. There's certain rules you better learn real fast. And certain cops in certain areas aren't likely to do anything serious unless they are pressured too, as they have a lot of proven corruption among their ranks, and a loooong and solid history of proven public mistrust.
Lower Puna is so bad, cops used to avoid the place like the plague. Locals that have lived here a loooooong time will tell you cops only really started going and responding to calls in lower puna about twenty years ago. I'm not saying they didn't respond to ALL calls, but you get my drift: unless it was a huge emergency, forget it!
Same thing with Ocean View on the other side, it's been cleaned up a lot in the past 10 years but most cops wouldn't go up the mountain past PK street, the first street! And for a long time, the only cop that would respond (if you were lucky) was so corrupt that everybody in Ocean View was scared of him. I remember when that very cop got busted by two tourists that drove down the highway and witnessed him sexually assaulting those young girls on the side of the road, and that got hushed up real fast because it would have ruined the real estate bubble that was happening there. Turned out the girls had drugs on them and he asked sexual favors in order not to arrest them and inform their parents. You can't find a link on that one, but ask 99.9999 percent of long-time Ocean view residents.
Then, on an entirely different occasion, the SAME officer tried to run another woman off the side of the road with his police vehicle and tried to kill her because she had reported being repeatedly raped by the same officer! The 911 calls to dispatch were intentionally ignored, according to the courts! But this woman wouldnt back down and kept fighting and finally officials actually had to act because of public pressure. And how do they act? Hah! They quietly suspended him (with pay!) long enough to cover it up, and later decided to promote him (go figure...) and we do have links on that:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/02...tory6.html
Also, what about the cop that was a SEARGENT over in Puna? He beat his wife half to death, and then when she tried to escape by jumping out of his van, he ran her over and tried killing her. Then he tied her body up with yellow rope, perhaps because she was still barely alive, and then threw her dead body in the back of his van! His HPD police buddies tried to cover it up and they let him get away with it for a long time, until the local community got completely outraged and forced authorities to give the case REAL investivation. He now sits in prison for 90 years:
http://damontucker.com/2008/12/03/mathison/
It's so bad that the police even did a huge survey SPECIFCALLY concerning local trust in police, doing it to address all the police corruption. It was a total joke around the island and it totally backfired in their face. In 2010 nearly half the residents viewed local police negatively when investigating a crime in their local community, and nearly 1/3rd of the island said they would not feel comfortable reporting a crime to police. Furthermore, those numbers are island wide! If they did that survey in Puna only, holy crap, it would have been an even bigger disaster, probably about 70-80% negative response instead of 30-40%.
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesM...ndows.aspx
Oh and you want to reveal this corruption to the FBI? Hah! Good luck! Even other cops have tried reporting police corruption to FBI, and even filing lawsuits against their own bosses and testifying to HIGH LEVEL corruption specifically in the criminal investigative units, but they get demoted for not being, and I quote, "team players"
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...ln02a.html
Oh also, while on the subject of cops suing cops, Hilo Police has quite the story. When it comes to upper level corruption, maybe the families would be interested to know how "certain" officers get placed in "certain" positions to assist in even more corruption:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/10...tory2.html
Its so corrupt here that according to the State Integrity Investigation done by a non-biased panel, they determined to give Hawaii police D and F grades according to the Corruption Risk Report Card:
http://www.aroundhawaii.com/community/fe...waii-.html
I could go on, and on, and on...and I encourage both families to read/ask about local corruption here.
Fact is, doesn't matter if you are in Kalapana (Lower Puna), Ocean View (lower Kau), or Milolii Bay (South Kona) it's all about territory and money, especially if your coming to the rock as a new haole. There's certain rules you better learn real fast. And certain cops in certain areas aren't likely to do anything serious unless they are pressured too, as they have a lot of proven corruption among their ranks, and a loooong and solid history of proven public mistrust.