St Petersburg Mayors Office
175 Fifth Street North
St Petersburg, Florida 33701
Re: THE ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT USING CHILDREN AS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS
Dear Mayor Kriseman
How are you doing? Good I hope. I'm writing you about the pattern and practice of the St Petersburg Police Department placing the lives of children in danger and subjecting them to child abuse by using them as confidential informants.
I authored a book entitled "Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department - My Life As A Juvenile Confidential Informant." My book can be located at Crusader books or Lulu Publishing. In my book I explain how St Petersburg Police Department has a history of using children under the age of 17 as confidential informants.
For decades, juveniles across our nation have been being killed as a result of their work as confidential informants.
In 1998 - 17 year old Chad McDonald was killed in California as a result of his confidential informant work. His 16 year old girlfriend was also kidnapped, held hostage and tortured for several days. During that time period she was also raped and shot in the face.
Cecil Calloway was 16 years old when he was beaten and murdered in 1982 as a result of his confidential informant work in Roanoke, Virginia.
Gregory "Sky" Erickson was from Estherville, Iowa. About a week after his first act as an informant he was found beaten and shot in the head in an abandoned farm house. His body was also set on fire by his killers. I believe he was 15 years old when he was killed as a result of his confidential informant work.
Brenda Paz was 16 years old when she was killed in Virginia as a result of her confidential informant work involving the Latin gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) -
Every child that the St Petersburg Police Department uses as a confidential informant, they place in a position to possibly be killed.
The following documents which can be located on the internet show that Professors and a large quantity of people across our nation agree that law enforcement place the lives of children in danger when they use them as confidential informants. Additionally, the following documents show that law enforcement commit child abuse when they use children as confidential informants:
(A) Document Title: "Collateral Damage? Juvenile Snitches In America-s War On Drugs - Crime and Gangs-"
Author: Professor of Law Andrea L Dennis
College: University of Georgia Law School
Date: July 1st - 2009
(B) Document Title: "Tragedies Of Juvenile Informants - Protect Children From Police."
Author: Jie Liu
College: Ohio State University
Date: May 3rd - 2013
(C) Document Title: "Juvenile Police Informants: Friendship - Persuasion and Pretence"
Author: Professor Mary Dodge
College: University of Colorado at Denver
(Sage Publications Research Gate)
Date: March 2001
(D) Document Title: "Does The End Justify The Means - Use Of Juveniles As Government Informants, Helpful To Society While Harmful To The Child."
Author: Charlotta J. Ransom
Company: HeinOnline (20 J. Juv. L. (1999)).
(E) Document Title: "The Use Of Minors In Law Enforcement Undercover Operations"
Authors: Judge Lee Sinclair and Attorney David L. Herbert.
Company: HeinOnline (24 Ohio N.U.L. Rev. (1998))
The citizens of St Petersburg, Florida have a right to expect the St. Petersburg Police Department to not abuse children and place the lives of children in danger.
As mayor of St Petersburg, Florida, you have the authority to stop the unconstitutional pattern and practice of St Petersburg Police Officers placing the livs of children in danger and subjecting children to chil abuse. You also hav the authority to request that the Department of justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) investigate the St Petersburg Police Department using children as confidential informants.
Will you please take action to protect the children of St Petersburg by ordering that the SPPD stop placing the lives of children in danger and abusing children by using them as confidential informants?
Will you please also request that the DOJ and FBI conduct investigations into the unconstitutional pattern and practice of SPPD officers placing the lives of children in danger by using them as confidential informants?
Thank you for your time with these matters and I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely, Harold Hempstead,
# 577366, Northeast Correctional Complex, P.O. Box 5000, Mountain City, Tennessee 37683.
CC:
John Trevena
Kathryn Varn
Adam Playford
Craig Patrick
Casey Frank
Julie Brown
Rick Kriseman
Florida Dept. of Children and Families
Jeremy Schanche
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