SWORN COMPLAINT
To: Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission
P.O. Box 1489
Tallahassee
Florida 32302-1489
Subjects of Complaint: St.Petersburg, Florida Mayor Rick Kriseman
Chief of St.Petersburg Police Department
St.Petersburg Police Department
FACTS
(1) Harold Hempstead authored a book entitled "Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department - My Life As A Juvenile Confidential Informant." This book can be located at Crusader books or Lulu Publishing.
(2) In Hempstead's book he explains how St Petersburg Police Department has a history of using children under the age of 17 as confidential informants. His book also explains in details how the St.Petersburg Police Department 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 Pretense"
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))
(5) 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.
(6) The Mayor of St.Petersburg and the Chief of the SPPD are allowing St.Petersburg Police Officers and detectives to abuse children and place their lives in danger by using them as confidential informants.
RELIEF SOUGHT
(1) I'm requesting that an investigation be conducted into the pattern and practice of the Mayor of St.Petersburg and the Chief of the St.Petersburg Police Department allowing St.Petersburg Police Officers and Detectives to abuse children and place their lives in danger by using them as confidential informants.
(2) I'm also requesting that an investigation be conducted into the pattern and practice of SPPD Officers and Detectives abusing children and placing their lives in danger by using them as confidential informants.
(3) Finally, I'm requesting that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement take appropriate action to prevent SPPD Detectives and Officers from continuing to use children as confidential informants and discipline the officials involved with children being used as confidential informants.
Unnotarized Oath:
Under penalty of perjury, I swear that everything stated herein is true and correct.
Executed on this 1 day of February, 2019
Affiant: Harold Hempstead (signature appears here on document)
Northeast Correctional Complex
P.O. Box 5000
Mountain City
Tennessee 37683-5000
CC:
John Trevena
Kathry Varn
Adam Playford
Craig Patrick
Casey Frank
Julie Brown
Rick Kriseman
Florida Department of Children and Families
Jeremy Schanche
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