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Bill O'Reilly will have another shot at San Francsico values as the facts come out from an investigation into pedophilia in the San Francisco police Department. Recently an SFPD cop kiled himself in a jail cell in Cambodia where he had been arrested for having sex with a 14 year old girl. (How he got the gun in jail is a mystery!)

 

Then other offiers started saying that everyone knew for years that this guy was going there, and questions were raised why they didn't speak up. And now, apparently, other officers are suspected of also going on sex tours to SE Asia:

 

SAN FRANCISCO

Feds pursue leads within SFPD over officer held in molest case

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

 

Friday, November 17, 2006

 

Federal authorities are investigating leads connected to the case of San Francisco police Officer Donald Rene Ramirez, and have been doing so since before the 25-year veteran committed suicide in Cambodia after being arrested for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl, authorities said Thursday.

 

"We are working on some investigative leads emanating from the original probe," said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the federal agency handling the case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

Among the questions being investigated, according to those familiar with the case, are whether Ramirez traveled to Southeast Asia with other San Francisco police officers over the years and whether those officers molested children on the trips.

 

Ramirez, 50, was found shot inside his jail cell in Phnom Penh on Oct. 31. Cambodian authorities said the gun belonged to a guard who left it behind when he went to use the bathroom and that Ramirez had used a mop handle to drag it into his cell.

 

Ramirez had taken Asian vacations for at least 20 years, several colleagues in the department said. After Ramirez died, Gary Delagnes, president of the Police Officers Association, said that "everyone knew -- absolutely -- what he was going over there for."

 

San Francisco Police Commissioner Joe Veronese said Thursday that he had asked Chief Heather Fong to provide a complete accounting of what department officials knew about Ramirez and other officers who may have traveled with him, and when the officials knew it.

 

Fong said the department is cooperating with the federal probe and is awaiting its outcome before conducting any investigation of its own.

 

If other officers knew Ramirez was breaking the law and looked the other way, she said, the department would want to do something about it.

 

"We are law enforcement officers, sworn to protect the public and enforce the law," she said. "So if someone is aware of criminal activity and they choose not to do anything about it, that is a problem. But if they are not aware and there is rumor and innuendo, we have to work on factual information."

 

Fong and federal authorities would not say whether law enforcement agents had searched through Ramirez's effects at the department's Traffic Division, where he worked, or at his apartment in San Francisco.

 

According to Veronese, Fong told police commissioners that rumors about Ramirez molesting children during trips abroad had surfaced in 2001 and that the department had referred the matter at that time to federal law enforcement. Veronese said the federal investigators "essentially did nothing -- it was too hard to prove."

 

Kice confirmed that customs agents, alerted to the Police Department's suspicions, had conducted an investigation "about possible child-sex tourism violations" in 2001 and, as part of it, had subjected Ramirez to searches when he returned from several foreign trips.

 

"In all instances, the officers did not recover evidence of any crime," Kice said.

 

Veronese said federal agents told police officials several weeks before Ramirez died that the government had reopened its investigation.

 

Now, he said, the department needs to conduct its own probe.

 

"I'm not entirely confident that we should just rest on our laurels and rely on" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Veronese said. "I don't think the department should sit around when there's a potential that other officers were involved in this.

 

"The department is in the very same position it was in four years ago, and it is doing the exact same thing,'' Veronese said. "That is why I'm making such a big deal out of this -- you have an obligation to do something.

 

"I don't buy into the position that we are going to stand by and wait. The department response was unacceptable."

Guest ReturnOfS
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And we all know that San Francisco is the only place where stuff like this happens, right. x( (I wish there was a emotion icon of someone rolling their eyes)

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There is more to the story:

- How did the guard just leave his gun behind when going to the bathroom?

- How did Martinez manage to shot himself twice in the head?

Guest zipperzone
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>There is more to the story:

>- How did the guard just leave his gun behind when going to

>the bathroom?

>- How did Martinez manage to shot himself twice in the head?

 

Maybe he had Parkinsons

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Yesterday the tabloid headlines in London were blaring about the police chief there, who declared that teenage boys who had sex with girls 13 and over should not be prosecuted as pedophiles.

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