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Former Police Officer Pleaded Guilty To Civil Rights Charges

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that James Fetter, a former officer with the Memphis Police Department, pleaded guilty to involvement in two conspiracies to deprive individuals of their civil rights and to willfully using his position as a police officer to steal money during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tenn.

"Police officers every day carry out a vital and often dangerous duty, and they deserve our trust and confidence," said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "When a few violate the civil rights of those they have sworn to protect, they undermine that trust and confidence, and increase the burden on and danger to their fellow police officers. We will continue to pursue vigorously those who abuse the public trust."

Fetter pleaded guilty to two counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 241, which makes it unlawful to conspire to deprive individuals of their civil rights, and one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 242, which makes it unlawful for a law enforcement officer to willfully make an unreasonable seizure of property from an individual.

 

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Community Outreach Program

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Community Outreach Program is a continuous public relations approach to the achievement of the agency’s civil rights policies and objectives. The objectives of community outreach include, but are not limited to: Establishing and maintaining good working relations with leaders of minority, women's, and disabled persons' organizations; community leaders; officials of schools, colleges and technical institutions and more.

Underutilization

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To use less than fully; below potential use. This term is often applied to categories of employees who are working at jobs that do not make full use of their skills and abilities, although they may have been hired for those skills and abilities. When an employee is consistently assigned to "dead end" jobs, he or she may be underutilized because they are often seen as able to perform only limited tasks.

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Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when: Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term condition of employment; Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or Such conduct has the purpose or effect or unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

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