Internal Affairs Sworn Complaint:
To: St Petersburg Police Department
Attn: Internal Affairs Division
1300 First Avenue North
St Petersburg
Florida, 33705
FACTS
(1) Harold Hempstead has authored a book entitled "Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department - My Life As A Juvenile Confidential Informant." His book can be located at Crusader books or Lulu Publishing.
(2) In Hempsead's book he writes about St Petersburg Police Department having a history of using children under the age of 17 as confidential informants. His book also explains in detail how the SPPD recruited a 13 year old to do confidential informant work. The police department assigned that juvenile confidential informant number 882.
(3) 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.
(4) 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))
RELIEF SOUGHT:
(1) I'm requesting that an Internal Affairs investigation be conducted into the pattern and pracice of St Petersburg Police Officers and Detectives physically and mentally abusing children and placing their lives in danger by using them as confidential informants.
(2) I'm also requesting that appropriate legal action be taken against any officers or detectives for child abuse who have used children as confidential informants.
(3) Finally, I'm also requesting that the Internal Affairs Division take appropriate action to prevent any more children from being used as confidential informants by the St Petersburg Police Department.
Unnotarized Oath:
Under penalty of perjury, I swear that everything stated herein is true and correct.
Executed on this 22 day of January, 2019.
Affiant: Harold Hempstead (signature appears here on original document)
# 577366, Northeast Correctional Complex, P.O. Box 5000, Mountain City, Tn. 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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