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    Another troubled cop

    Now another city cop faces assault counts. This goofball cop faces two counts of third degree assault. How many cops and city jailers in the past year. He is a cop at 31 years old and didn't grow up.




    A decorated Buffalo police officer arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor assault charges allegedly tripped a defendant at Central Booking, and a cut on the defendant's forehead required five stitches to close, according to a Buffalo police source.

    Officer Joseph Hassett, 31, was charged with two counts of third-degree assault and one count each of official misconduct and second-degree offering a false instrument for filing.

    The man he is accused of assaulting, Timothy Staton Jr., 27, was taken into custody on March 18 on a mix of misdemeanor and felony drug possession charges.

    "We do not tolerate inappropriate or criminal behavior," Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said after Hassett's arrest. "We have and will continue to hold our officers accountable for their actions."



    Hassett turned himself in to the department's internal affairs investigators Tuesday, Derenda said. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 5 in Buffalo City Court.

    "Officer Hassett is innocent of the allegations," said defense attorney Timothy W. Hoover. "The limited use of force was entirely justified against a physically resistant, aggressive and non-compliant arrestee.

    "We look forward to trying the case in court and obtaining Officer Hassett a complete acquittal and a return to duty as a Buffalo police officer," Hoover said.

    Hassett, who joined the Buffalo Police in 2009, made headlines in 2013 when he was wounded in the knee by gunfire during a foot chase and still helped apprehend the suspect in that case. Hassett received the Medal of Honor, the Police Department’s highest distinction.

    According to police records of the March incident, officers noticed Staton parked in a van on Jefferson Avenue near where East North Street dead ends. The van was more than 12 inches from the curb, police said.

    When Hassett pulled up next to the van, Staton rolled down the window and Hassett "noticed a strong odor of marijuana along with a white cloud of smoke," according to a police report.

    Hassett asked Staton to step out of the vehicle and noticed a jar of what appeared to be marijuana in the driver's side door handle and a plastic bag containing "white rocks" on the driver's side floor. A second officer recovered a burning marijuana blunt and an open bottle of Remy Martin, in addition to a red cup containing liquor, according to police records.

    Staton was brought back to Central Booking. A police report said Staton "became combative" with officers and "refused commands and taken to the ground." It adds that Staton was taken to Erie County Medical Center where he was treated and released.

    A police source said Hassett deliberately tripped Staton while in Central Booking, which left him with a cut on his forehead.
    God must love stupid people; He made so many

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    Really?? It takes special type of person to become a Cop....Being, shot at , spit on and physically and mentally abused by the scum lowlifes that run the streets nowadays....wondering if he will make it home safely each day...tell me that wouldnt play on your mind??! After awhile the tolerance that is part of the makeup of anyone would expire..and this would be the end result at the very least...no matter if and what uniform this person was wearing. I can imagine a cop seems useless today with the revolving door courts...when arrestingor risking their life to nab a suspect that has an arrest record longer than you arm. I have more compassion and sympathy for the cop and his family, than the scumbag who will probably sue the city and continue on his criminal ways.Karma will probably catch up with Staton..and we willread about him , a drug OD or being shot by another scumbag.

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    A couple of points here:

    First, many cops simply are not fit for the job. Beyond being quick on your feet, both mentally and physically, you need a certain disposition to be a police officer. Hiring someone to fill a quota or based on how they take tests is not a good way to ensure you get someone who can deal with the job.

    Second, it takes a toll to deal with the worst of humanity on a daily basis. It's even worse when those people think you're the problem. You would almost need to be a robot to go from a call where you find a 5-year-old abused by drug addicted parents and not have that anger sit with you for a while. Some of the times this manifests itself with copious amounts of booze after a shift and other times it means that a criminal who spits on a cops face while being arrested for breaking the law might get a little ruffed up.

    None of this is good of course. But it's all true. So what do you do?

    Do you change the rules on who you hire and base it more on a mental evaluation than current methods? I don't you would find issue with this in the ranks. It would be the preachers and politicians who find issue. Funny how they are also the first to find issue with bad police officers...

    Do you change the workplace for police officers? As in allowing them to take a time-out and visit HR if a criminal is upsetting them? It's funny that a lot of the progressives who protest the actions of police officers demand a workplace environment that is not provided to those they are protesting. Funny how that works....


    Or do you just tell the uneducated class like Cheeks and the criminal class like Staton to STFU?

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