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Friday, September 9, 2011

Cops Police Bureau Fires Road Raging Scott Westerman

Posted by Alex Zielinski on Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM

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The Portland Police Bureau has officially fired Sergent Scott Westerman, the former president of the Portland police union who verbally assaulted a Smart car driver twice in January 2010. According to PPB Chief Michael Reese, Westerman was in violation of a heap of Bureau regulations, including truthfulness, courtesy, and professional conduct.

"I have determined that Sergeant Westerman did violate the above directives and that termination of his employment is the appropriate level of discipline," writes Reese in a press release. He also added that Mayor Sam Adam was included in this decision.

Following the pair of road rage incidents coupled with heavy news coverage, Westerman announced his resignation from the Police Association union in June of last year. However, he remained with the Police Bureau on the telephone reporting unit. His termination will conclude 19 consecutive years of service at the PPB.

Kudos to the Portland police for taking the clearly necessary move of firing Westerman. They could have just let him live out his days in the telephone unit, rather than taking a public stand against his disrespectful behavior. Compared to many cases where police officers in similar cases of violation are simply reassigned to a different department with a slap on the wrist, this smart move makes it seem that Reese isn't always afraid to lay down the law among law enforcers.

 

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1
Now bring us the ass of Kyle Nice.
Posted by GoodStart... on September 9, 2011 at 11:59 AM · Report
2
the douchebag will probably still get his pension.
Posted by randyzpdx on September 9, 2011 at 12:10 PM · Report
3
He looks like Frylock in that awesome drawing.
Posted by Commenty Colin on September 9, 2011 at 12:11 PM · Report
4
Kudos indeed, Reese has shown some real guts a couple times now. I am with GoodStart on Sergeant Nice, that guy needs to be next.
Posted by He is Chris Humphreys on September 9, 2011 at 1:01 PM · Report
5
OH near City Hall:

"Hey, did you hear that whats-his-name, that one bad cop - got fired?"

"The one that likes to dress up like a nazi and hang weird things in trees?"

"Nope."

"The one that killed that homeless dude? Wait - which one, right? The guys who crushed that poor Chasee guy downtown or the guy up at the arboretuem?"

"Neither."

"Oh wait - it must be the cop who shot that suicidal guy in the back when he was surrendering, right?"

"Of course not."

"oh...wait- I know- the guy who takes free food from 7-11 and then ruined that other trainee's cop's career when she reported him for being such a jerk?"

"No, he still works there."

"So it must be one of the guys who the city keeps ending up costing the city tens of thousands of bucks in civil suits, right?"

"You're getting colder."

"Dang, this is hard. I give up. No wait- it it that one lieutenent who went to his sisters house and shot that guy sleeping in a car nearby from behind? That's got to be it!"

"That was years ago. And no."

"I know! It's that job who perjured herself in court after tasering that guy over at the cheerful tortoise! I thought the DA said that perjury was too tough to prove."

"Wrong."

"This game sucks. I give up."

"Dude, you took so long to guess he already got the union to get PPB to reinstate him."
Posted by Number Six on September 9, 2011 at 1:03 PM · Report
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"truthfulness"! PPB, you'd crack me up if you weren't such a gang of roid raging, trigger happy assholes.
Posted by cat & beard on September 9, 2011 at 1:08 PM · Report
7
It's about time this filthy, rotten-ass pig Westerman finally got fired. And Hell knows it took long enough!

Though as demonstrated above by Number Six (well put!), it's fucking pathetic that a cop in this city is far more likely to lose his job over "misconduct" than shooting or stomping to death unarmed civilians. The fuck!

Westerman's gone, but those three pigs who kicked, punched, stomped, and beat James Chasse to death 5 years ago are all still on the take?!

http://targetingcops.blogspot.com/2011/09/…
Posted by DamosA on September 9, 2011 at 7:41 PM · Report
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Why did they hire a giant disembodied head in the first place?
Posted by FLEXIB on September 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM · Report
9
LOL
Posted by DamosA on September 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM · Report
10
Does the fired cop get to keep his pension?
Posted by bikefor1 on September 9, 2011 at 10:51 PM · Report
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Amen, Number 6. Testify!
Posted by stukasoverpdx on September 9, 2011 at 11:40 PM · Report
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Those incidents were blown WAAAY out of proportion. I hope he gets his job back and I predict he will. He also deserves his pension, which I've learned through the grapevine, he WILL be getting. Its funny, all you cop haterz, you really don't have a clue about what goes into being a police officer. Its not an easy job, sometimes they gotta put hands on, sometimes mentals do SUICIDE BY COP and its just that simple. Stop hatin and start lovin. Scott Westerman is a good guy, I hope he gets his job back in arbitration and I predict he will.
Posted by Tootie-Fruity-Fruit on September 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM · Report
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Hey Tootie, why don't you sign up and get an official account? You dumb-ass cop-supporter.
Posted by DamosA on September 10, 2011 at 8:32 PM · Report
14
If Number 6 doesn't win Comment of the Week, then there is no justice in the world (or maybe Alison is just slacking in her duties again).
Posted by dmitrir on September 11, 2011 at 12:47 PM · Report

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