http://pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1069878842263201.xmlHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Eighty-two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were arrested for felonies and misdemeanors that include aggravated assault, rape, bribery and incest during the past nine years, according to a departmental report released Wednesday.
In addition to the 89 sets of serious criminal charges — defendants were counted more than once if they were charged on more than one day — the department listed 25 troopers who were charged with summary offenses such as disorderly conduct and harassment since 1995.
Of the 114 total arrests, 45 resulted in convictions and 49 led to acquittals or the charges being dropped. The records in 12 cases were expunged, and eight cases are pending.
Speaking at an unrelated event in York on Wednesday, Gov. Ed Rendell said the report "shows there's a problem."
"An arrest or two a year is probably inevitable" but the report indicates "a very high number," he said.
Rendell said state police are taking steps to address the problem and noted that an outside consultant was hired to monitor reforms in the wake of revelations of dozens of complaints of alleged sexual misconduct by troopers since 1995.
Over the past three years alone, troopers have been arrested for stealing money and drugs from drug dealers in the Philadelphia area, downloading child pornography on office computers in Greene County, borrowing thousands of dollars from garages subject to state police inspection in Beaver County,
and mistreating POWs while on duty with the U.S. Army Reserves in Iraq.<snip>
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