Court: Cop fired for sexting victims should get job back

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Court: Cop fired for sexting victims should get job back

Updated 1:47 pm, Friday, February 26, 2016

CLEVELAND (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that a male Cleveland police officer fired for sending thousands of sexually explicit texts to female crime victims should get his job back.

Detective Vincent Lucarelli was fired in January 2013 after an internal affairs investigation found that Lucarelli had committed numerous departmental violations that included the text messages and having contact with women at their homes while on duty and inside his police car.

In a 2-1 vote Thursday, the 8th District Court of Appeals upheld a county court judge's ruling that an arbitrator correctly decided that Lucarelli should be disciplined but not fired.

Judge Tim McCormick wrote in a dissent that the arbitrator was wrong in overturning Lucarelli's firing because the officer betrayed the public's trust.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Court-Cop-fired-for-sexting-victims-should-get-6856621.php

---

[center][/center]
Earlier article:

Arbitrator says Cleveland police officer who sexted crime victims, visited women on duty, should keep job
By Ryllie Danylko, cleveland.com
on February 27, 2015 at 7:00 PM, updated February 27, 2015 at 9:16 PM

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- City officials fired police officer Vincent Lucarelli after the 12-year veteran admitted to "sexting" with crime victims and visiting women while on duty. But an arbitrator ordered the city to rehire him.

Mayor Frank Jackson on Friday said the arbitration process involved in punishing officers has been an obstacle in attempts to reform the department.

An arbitrator let Lucarelli keep his job after the officers admitted that he kissed and touched women inside a police car and tried to have relationships with a total of seven women -- six of whom were crime victims -- over five months in 2012.

The city appealed the arbitrator's ruling, according to records, and that case is still pending.

More:
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/02/arbitrator_says_cleveland_poli.html

[SoapBox]

1. WTF?

Sorry...I say fire his horndog ass.

[Scalded Nun]

2. Outcomes like this

just reinforce the horrendous, bullying behavior of these thugs.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Yes. And I think his behavour would have got worse.

[valerief]

3. I think the next president should have a little square mustache, because

the U.S. has gotten more and more like a little square mustachioed leader's country.

[Angry Dragon]

4. fired??-------he should be in jail

[Fred Drum]

6. most cops are pieces of shit

they can't function in regular society, within normal rules of behavior, without the ability to physically demonstrate their superiority

why am i paying their salary

p.s. fuck you cop