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Two Dallas police officers found writing blank tickets
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DALLAS — Two Dallas police officers, Timothy Stecker and Jeffrey Nelson, have been cited for forcing homeless people and other regular violators to sign off on blank tickets; the officers would insert the offenses later.
Having tickets written against them meant that these people could be detained or taken into custody on a whim.
This is the latest in a series of revelations about these officers and their bad-ass ticketing practices. Nelson is already on restricted duty and their sergeant, Walter Clifton, was nailed for having encouraged it. The blank-ticket writing thing had come up but investigators said they lacked solid information. So the DMN went out found a victim, R.B. Barton, and the police investigators went back and looked into it again.
Nelson told investigators that he allowed people to sign blank tickets as a "courtesy."
Posted by T.G.
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