State trooper Lisa Steed is the first woman to be selected as Trooper of the Year in Utah for her record of hundreds of DUI arrests. She was celebrated as having a type of sixth sense for drunk drivers that allowed her to rake up an unprecedented number of hundreds of such arrests in a year. She is now a former trooper after her arrests were found to be invalid. What is striking is how prosecutors long suspected that Steed was unreliable as a witness but she was allowed to continue to abuse citizens. Ironically, in an interview during her illustrious career, Steed referred to her work as a “numbers game,” where she assumed that one in every 10 drivers stopped for a violation is driving impaired.
Steed is trying to get her job back as various drivers are suing the state for her false arrests. One lawsuit recounts how drivers faced employment and financial ruin over their false arrests while Steed was being celebrated as a supercop. The lawsuit notes that Steed was off the charts in her raw number of arrests but the Utah Highway Patrol made no inquiry as she set a state record of 400 arrests. She made some of these arrests after drivers passed sobriety field tests.
Lt. Steve Winward simply told the press at the time that “with her training and experience, it’s second nature for her to find these people who are driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.” It now appears that the “second nature” was to simply arrest everyone to the applause of people like Winward.
In May 2010, a memo written by Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Rob Nixon raised Steed’s “pattern” of questionable DUI arrests. The memo noted that she relied on impressions that were unreliable and found flawed. Yet, the UHP allowed her to continue to abuse citizens. In April 2012, prosecutors admitted that they would not rely on Sneed due to her dubious arrests that often were thrown out in court. Yet, she was allowed to continue to abuse citizens.
It was not until April 2012 that Sneed was finally taken off patrol and then fired in November 2012.
The scandal shows how much of our enforcement efforts are driven by pressure to “get the numbers up” on arrests. The UHP was obviously not particularly concerned about the abuse of citizens as it was rewarding officers for maximizing arrests. Sneed is not the only officer who should be fired given this record.
Source: Fox
Sar77
What’s your take on some of the issues mentioned above? Can YOU explain how Lanza could die on the day prior to the alleged SH incident, yet be named as the perp of it?
Also, do you know why so many people think the Apollo Moon landings never happened? If you aren’t familiar with the subject, check out this
guy’s work. He’s brilliant, funny, and all the NASA believers can say is that
a paid propagandist says it was possible…even to pass thru the Van Allen radiation belts safely…despite the fact that NASA itself says that problem will have to solved before any manned flights to the Moon will be possible. We supposedly did it 40 years ago, but we can’t do it now!
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/Apollo1.html
Creepy weirdo’s basement stuff.
lottakatz —
The entire Apollo Moon Landing hoaxes hold the record for most expensive
propaganda ploy in U.S. history – but the two events that were even more important as far radically changing our country are:
1. The coup de’tat of 11/22/63.
2. The 9/11/2001 false flag inside job operation.
But the hits just keep on comin’, don’t they. Aurora, Tucson, Anthrax, Wellstone , JFK jr., Sandy Hook, and many others too numerous to list here.
http://apollo18movie.net/
🙂
Conspiracies? What about Apollo 18? Don’t tell me they make perfectly good lunar landers and don’t use them. Y’all probably thought that movie was entertainment instead of an expose’.
There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the Moon.
Don’t argue, Otteray, just explain how Lanza could have carried out a real attack one day after Gov’t records show that he was deceased. Is it your position that a Zombie carried out the alleged attack?
GBK -The ssDi lists lanza’s death as being on `12-13-12, but the SH event took place on 12-14-12.
How could a dead person shoot people?
Well if you do not drink and drive and do not take drugs and drive you will not fail a sobriety test.
I don’t have any sympathy for people who drink and drive or take drugs and drive. They are just putting the lives of others in danger in this ” I don’t give a crap about anyone else” society we all live in now.
J Koonce,
Thank you. Sometimes it becomes rather tiring arguing with a fence post.
Amazing she was fired, it is almost completely impossible to fire a cop today. If Jeffrey Dahmer was on the police force, he might still be on it today, cannibal or not.
If one judge heard more than one or two cases of slim and none evidence and let this go on without talking to the cop then the judge ought to go South too. A judge should not entertain weak cases much less false evidence.
Mr. Koonce,
Here’s your chance to shine. Tell me what I’ve got wrong, and why.
You appear to be out of your league here, but go ahead and give it a shot if
you think you can string together a rational argument. I don’t think you can.
You’re allowed to think whatever you like, but I’m smart enough to not be drawn into your circular logic and arguments based on pure anger. Let’s just save the time and agree that no matter what’s said, you’re right. I don’t have the time or energy to debate with someone so angry at the world and at those who dare to inhabit it with you. Go try to pick on someone else and thank me that I don’t make you look worse than you have already so successfully done on your own.
bill mcw,
RE: Evidence.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
This Bill character seems a bit self righteous. Indulging him will only fuel the fire. (not that I disagree AT ALL with those who have challenged his angry, ridiculous rants)
Bill,
You always want people to prove you wrong.
Argument doesn’t work that way — you have to prove your point(s). And this requires much more than a smorgasbord of perspective coupled with taunts of “prove me wrong” with every post you make.
Pick one issue, spell it out, help the feeble minds that read this blog.
GBK,
Can YOU be responsive to any of the evidence and links I’ve provided, or is
your knowledge too limited for you to say anything substantive?
In accordance with all the issues and strife that this officer caused everyone, she should be required to serve the maximum time of all of her false arrest and pay full restitution of all legal fees, lost wages, etc. I wonder how many instances of similar false arrests go without prosecution throughout the country each year. Something wrong with someone who decides to take up ruining lives for a living.
Bill,
Rabid froth doesn’t help your perspective.