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From the Houston Chronicle:

Officer had nude photos of suspect, report says

It began as the fairly routine arrest of a drunken-driving suspect on a Houston street.

It quickly evolved into a maze of questions as investigators checked out reports that a Houston police officer had found nude photos of the driver stored in her cellular phone, downloaded them and later showed them around the courthouse.

Patrolman Christopher Green has been reassigned to desk duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation. His partner, George Miller, also has been reassigned while the department looks into reports that he called the DWI suspect's home to ask her out.

Click here for the rest.

It's been a while since I've done one of my cop watch posts, so it's probably worth a link to my original "Culture of Swine" post where I explain what I think the problem with police culture is. If you don't have time to read it, here's the short version: society needs the police, but cop misbehavior and corruption is so commonplace, so out of hand, that it's an extraordinarily big problem, not simply a massive collection of "isolated incidents." The above linked story is but one example of what amounts to a daily stream of "Bad Lieutenant" manifestations.

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