DACA DREAMERS TRUE NUMBERS HIDDEN BY MEDIA - NOT 800,000......BUT MILLIONS; WHAT ABOUT BACKGROUND CHECKS??

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DACA DREAMERS TRUE NUMBERS HIDDEN BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA - NOT 800,000......BUT MILLIONS:

MORE THAN 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE LIVING IN USA ON TAXPAYER DOLLARS (MOSTLY MEXICANS).

MANY COMPANIES HIRE THEM FOR LOW WAGES INSTEAD OF HIRING MORE SKILLED AMERICAN WORKERS.

MANY COMPANIES DON'T CONDUCT FULL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON IMMIGRANTS AND STILL HIRE THEM WHILE NOT HIRING US WORKERS WITH MINIMAL CRIMINAL RECORDS.

MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DON'T HAVE WORK SKILLS AND MANY CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH YET THEY ARE BEING HIRED TO WORK INSTEAD OF US WORKERS FOR LOW WAGES.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NEED TO BECOME LEGAL CITIZENS, PAY TAXES, COMPLETE FULL BACKGROUND CHECKS, LEARN ENGLISH AND NOT BE HIRED OVER AMERICAN WORKERS IF THEY'RE NOT TRULY QUALIFIED.


Sources: US INC., NY Times




***** What’s the Real Number of Illegal Aliens in the Country?



According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s population clock, the current population of the United States is approaching 325 million people.

One presumes that it includes the “official” current estimate of illegal aliens of 11 million.

Of course, that number is ridiculously low if you calculate the U.S. Border Patrol’s apprehension for the last 30 years, from 1985-2015.


Over that thirty year period, the Border Patrol apprehended 31,373,128 illegal aliens along the southern border, alone.

That does not include those apprehended on the East Coast coming from Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica or the other Caribbean Islands.

It doesn’t include numbers from the northern border with Canada and it doesn’t include those who overstayed their visas, thereby becoming illegal aliens. (“Visa overstays” are often, incorrectly, referred to as 40% of all illegal aliens.

Nobody really knows, because the U.S. still doesn’t keep track of those who have entered legally on a visa. But, that percentage isn’t close.)

For years, the Border Patrol (BP) officially used to report the “gotaway” rate, those who “got away” from apprehension.

For decades, it was felt that on a “good day,” the Border Patrol caught one in five illegal aliens, on a “bad day,” the number was one in seven.

That means that if every single day since 1985 was a “good day,” then for every one they caught, four “got away.”

4 x 31,373,128 = 125,492,512 illegal border crossings in the past 30 years.
And, that’s just across the southern border. But now, no more “gotaway rate.”

Retired Congressman Tom Tancredo, a good friend and ally in our fight to get our immigration laws enforced during the last two years of the Clinton Administration and all of the Bush Administration, had a good piece on Breitbart, August 6, titled, “Border Patrol to Illegals: Don’t Get Caught.”

He reports:

“… Obama’s Border Patrol has officially abandoned the use of the “Gotaway” number in weekly and quarterly reports of apprehensions. For decades, the Border Patrol routinely compiled and reported the Gotaway number as a supplement to the number of actual apprehensions.

Border Patrol agents knew and openly admitted that the number of illegal border crossers apprehended was only a fraction of the number of border jumpers.

Veterans and CBP retirees remember when that Gotaway number was three to four times the official apprehension number.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service recently calculated the Gotaway number to be at least 1.5.

Translated, that means the number of successful illegal entries is at least 150 percent above the number apprehended by the Border Patrol.”

Now, there is absolutely no reason to believe any number coming out of the federal government.

The Congressional Research Service number of 1.5 gotaways is laughable.

And, the number of illegal aliens in the country isn’t 125 million. There were multiple crossings by many people for years. I’ve heard of Border Patrol agents catching the same guy 6 or 8 times back in the 80s and 90s.

They didn’t finger print the illegals they caught for many years. They didn’t have computers back then, and when they finally did get computers, they weren’t linked together for several more years.

The various sectors couldn’t share the names, pictures and descriptions of those caught.

After about half a dozen arrests, followed by detention time, the illegal would just shift to another sector where the agents wouldn’t know him by sight. If he was coming through at El Paso, Texas, or El Centro, California, he would just move over a couple hundred miles and come across in the Tucson sector.

While the number of illegal aliens in the country isn’t 125 million, it isn’t the laughable 11 million number, either. That estimate is absolutely not credible.

Retired sector chiefs have opined that it could be 40 million, or higher. One recently said it could be as high as 50 million. But, he added, “they” (the federal government) don’t know, and they don’t want to know.

And if the 40-50 million estimate is close to the real number, that makes the population of the United States closer to 360-370 million, without even adding in the “visa overstays” or those sneaking in from Canada or the Caribbean.

At the current rate of legal and illegal immigration into the United States, we will have a population of half a billion people by mid-century, just 34 years from now.

Think of what that means for your children and grandchildren.

The Border Patrol was apprehending over 1 million illegals a year on average right up to 2009.

Print out the page on Border Patrol apprehensions.

You might find the numbers and estimates useful in any current, or near future discussions with friends and acquaintances, or co-workers about border security, amnesty, border walls, that sort of thing.

Now you will be ready when the topic of illegal immigration comes up in casual conversation.

UBER & ERIC HOLDER versus KASIM REED & RACIST FINGERPRINTS (JOBS)

UBER & ERIC HOLDER vs KASIM REED & RACIST FINGERPRINTS

WHY IS KASIM REED (BLACK MAN) FIGHTING SO HARD TO STOP UBER FROM HIRING BLACK DRIVERS?

ERIC HOLDER PARTNERS WITH TRANSPORTATION GIANT UBER TO HELP EMPLOY QUALIFIED DRIVERS.

Sources: AJC, Sacbee, YouTube

***** Former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder backs Uber in letter to Atlanta mayor

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has written a letter to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed in support of Uber, as the city considers regulations of Uber pickups at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

The Atlanta airport earlier this year proposed to legalize airport ride-share pickups and require fingerprint-based background checks for Uber X and Lyft drivers to pick up at Hartsfield-Jackson. Taxi and limo drivers who have long been fingerprinted say they want a level playing field.

Uber and Lyft have objected to the proposed requirement, saying they do their own background checks, which do not require fingerprints. The city of Atlanta is revising the airport proposal but has not said how it will change.

Holder, who was the nation’s first black attorney general, argues in the letter to Reed: “Requiring fingerprint-based background checks for non-law enforcement purposes can have a discriminatory impact on communities of color.”

Holder’s reasoning, also voiced by Uber: FBI records may lack information about the final outcome of some cases, and may not indicate if someone arrested was charged or convicted, so a fingerprint-based check “can prevent people from getting a job even if they were never found guilty of a crime.” That “disproportionately disadvantages people who have been arrested,” which “can have a discriminatory impact on communities of color,” Holder wrote.

Reed’s office and the airport acknowledged receiving the letter but declined to comment on it.

Holder, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 and left office in April 2015, works for law firm Covington & Burling LLP. The firm has a relationship with Uber that is also connected to Holder. Holder’s former chief of staff Margaret Richardson also now works at Covington & Burling and is a member of Uber’s U.S. Safety Advisory Board, providing “critical recommendations and counsel” to Uber.

Holder has written recent similar letters to officials in New Jersey and Chicago amid ride-share debates there.

And former U.S. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan also wrote a letter in support of Uber to Reed. Sullivan is also on Uber’s safety advisory board.

“In my opinion the City’s proposal to require a fingerprint-based background check for drivers doing pick-ups with Uber and Lyft at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlatna International Airport will neither increase nor improve airport security,” Sullivan wrote in his letter. He also wrote: “

Because there is a significant lack of information about the final outcome of cases, an individual may be prevented from a work opportunity even if he or she was never convicted or even charged with a crime.”

However, the state’s requirements for a “for-hire endorsement” on a driver license specify that in order to be eligible, applicants shall not have been convicted of a felony or crime of moral turpitude.

“The standards for the state level are a conviction,” said Georgia Bureau of Investigation director of privacy and compliance Dawn Diedrich. A plea of nolo contendere is also considered a conviction.

Diedrich said if there is an arrest on record without information about whether there was a conviction, “you can ask the applicant” if the charges were dismissed.

OBAMA'S TEARFUL GUN CONTROL LAWS COMPLETES HIS LEGACY, WON'T REDUCE DEATHS (CHICAGO)

OBAMA'S TEARFUL GUN CONTROL LAWS COMPLETES HIS LEGACY, WON'T REDUCE DEATHS:

MORE UNEMPLOYED, FRUSTRATED BLACK MEN WILL BE INCARCERATED OR THROWN INTO MENTAL INSTITUTIONS.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016 while delivering a Tearful Press Conference, Pres OBAMA announced his enactment of new GUN CONTROL laws in the United States via Fiat i.e., Executive Action.

During his new Gun Control laws press conference, Pres OBAMA mentioned several Communities adversely impacted by Gun Violence: Aurora, Colorado.......Sandy Hook, Connecticut......San Bernandino, California and CHICAGO.

***By the way Pres OBAMA only mentioned CHICAGO for one second.

Under OBAMA'S Administration thousands of BLACK Boys & Men in CHICAGO have died via Gun Violence yet he barely mentions CHICAGO.

OBAMA mentioned three Initiatives for his new Gun Control laws.

1). To stop Straw Buyers and Straw Sellers from putting Guns into the hands of Customers who can't pass a Background Check.

2). To ensure everyone who purchases a Gun is in fact subject to a Background Check and can clear a Background Check.

3). To help people who are MENTALLY ILL.

Now let's analyze these Initiatives.

Straw Buyers & Straw Sellers will continue to make Money selling Guns. Moving forward they will just have to do it completely LEGAL.

WHITE People and Middle Eastern citizens with Criminal Records and FELONIES will continue to purchase Guns LEGALLY just as they did before OBAMA enacted new Gun Control laws.

Citizens with NO Civilian Criminal Record and NO apparent signs of MENTAL INSTABILITY/ MENTAL ILLNESS but are actually Psychological walking time bombs, will continue to LEGALLY purchase Guns and KILL innocent people once their Psychological inner time bombs explode.

I perceive MORE Unemployed, Frustrated BLACK Men some of them with prior Criminal Records, will be thrown into Mental Health Institutions and Prisons.

Thus I don't quite see how Pres OBAMA'S new Gun Control laws will help curb Gun Violence in the United States.

Especially in WHITE Communities.

However I do see the number of Unemployed, Frustrated BLACK Men being thrown into Prisons and Mental Institutions increasing.

Dear GOD We Really Need To PRAY & VOTE In November 2016!

~ President Obama Cries During Gun Control Speech

For a man who's rarely rattled, this was a powerful display of emotion.

President Barack Obama has been recorded crying only a handful of times while in office, and this may very well have been the most poignant.

The president took executive action on gun reform Tuesday in a move that he seemed to feel was long overdue.

When discussing the deaths of shooting victims – particularly the first-graders murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 – the president was overcome with emotion.

"Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness – those rights were stripped from college students in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first-graders in Newtown. First-graders," he said, pausing and tearing up.

"Every time I think about those kids it gets me mad.

And, by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day."

Sources: France24, ABC News, US News, Youtube

Black Job Applicants Turned Away Due To Unnecessary Credit & Criminal Background Checks

Blacks need not apply: Report shows rise in job discrimination

Today, it is estimated that 65 million U.S. adults have a criminal record and continue to face barriers to employment as a result.

According to a new report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), the overuse of imposing criminal background checks and blanket bans against hiring people who have been charged with even a misdemeanor offense is a practice that has been adopted by at least 10 leading national employers, including Bank of America, Aramark, Lowe's, Domino's Pizza and Radio Shack, among others.

In 1987, the EEOC issued policy guidelines that determined barring people from employed based solely on a criminal conviction history disproportionately excluded African-Americans and Latinos from the labor market because they are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.

Just as it is illegal to overtly discriminate by race, ethnicity or skin color, it is also a violation of civil rights law for an employer to use non-job related selection criteria that disproportionately disadvantages people of color in hiring decisions.

Still, the violations are numerous and bold. NELP's four-month scan of Craigslist, which operates in more than 400 geographic areas of the U.S., documented more than 300 ads precluding the consideration of individuals with criminal conviction histories:

"No Exceptions!...No Misdemeanors and/or Felonies of any type ever in background."
"Do not apply with any misdemeanors/felonies."
"You must not have any felony or misdemeanor convictions on your record. Period."



Though each of these statements violate the EEOC prohibition against blanket bans, employers and their recruitment agencies continue to artificially and illegally limit the pool of qualified candidates for available jobs. The effects take not only a toll on resources in our institutions, as violations are now leading to considerable legal and community advocacy; they also take a human toll as well.

Darrell Langdon, from Chicago, struggled with addiction in his youth.

Despite this setback, he has persevered through the years, working as a boiler room fireman in the Chicago Public Schools and then as a mortgage broker. Though sober for more than 20 years, his 25-year-old felony conviction for possession of cocaine remains on record.

In 2008, Mr. Langdon applied to be a boiler room engineer in the schools. Despite the fact that he'd been clean for more than two decades and that he had prior experience in the schools, he was initially rejected for the job because of his conviction. It was only after Mr. Langdon's case benefited from substantial publicity, that the school system reversed its decision and hired him for the position in 2010.

"When they denied me for the job, I couldn't believe it, especially since it was because of something that happened way back then," said Mr. Langdon. "I just felt that there was no way they could deny me this job, so I went through the motions to contest it. I'm at work right now, and I feel great about it!"

Though research has confirmed that employment helps to thwart recidivism, and many of our public leaders, including U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis acknowledge employment as a pathway to help keep former incarcerated people "out of the legal system," our public policies and private employment practices often fail to consider long-term impact on our communities when people are illegally prevented from reclaiming their lives.

For example, Calvin Moore, who is 59 years old, grew up in a tough neighborhood in Washington, DC. He was convicted and served a 10-year sentence: 3 ½ years in prison, and the remaining 6 ½ years on parole.

Mr. Moore tried to start over and took college courses, but in the late 1980s, he again found himself face-to-face with the criminal system, after being unable to find a job. He was finally able to find various jobs that did not pay well, were hazardous to his health, and ultimately did not provide any benefits.

Over the years, Mr. Moore started developing some serious health problems from these poor jobs, and was forced to go on SSDI. Since August 2008, Mr. Moore has been out of work. He has been diligently looking for a job and since that time, has applied for over 42 jobs. Unfortunately, he's been turned down by all of them due to his criminal record.

In 2009, Mr. Moore went to the D.C. Employment Justice Center about the possibility of sealing his criminal record under the District's 2006 Expungement and Sealing law, but he was unable to seal any part of his record because the law in DC is so narrowly drafted.

"Things are beginning to happen. I'm trying to obtain my certification as a drug addiction counselor, but I have to be employed before I can continue my education," said Mr. Moore, who is optimistic and still interviewing for jobs. "Within the next couple of months, I hope something concrete settles, part-time, full-time...It doesn't matter at this point."

The report offers several recommendations for combating employer abuses of background checks. In addition to calling for the aggressive enforcement of civil rights and consumer protections that apply to criminal background checks by both the private and public sector, NELP also recommends that employers take a more active role in raising the profile of this issue and promoting best practices with respect to fair employment, beginning with an accurate and appropriate use of criminal background checks.

"We want the employer to do the right thing in the first place. I'd love to see the employer community step up in this area. Our employer best practices guide is a good resource for that," said Michelle Natividad Rodriguez, NELP staff attorney and lead author of the new report.

"In the Bay Area, we have a hotline, and in some cases, we try to represent people who have been affected by this type of discrimination. But if an individual feels they've been affected by an automatic ban, they should reach out to their local EEOC office directly, or to a local nonprofit that can help him or her file a charge with the EEOC, try to have a conversation with the potential employer, or look at the consumer protection laws."

In the end, fair and transparent processes -- in both the public and private sector -- are what lead to the best pool of candidates for our nation's jobs. Unnecessarily excluding qualified candidates from work violates these individual's civil and human rights, and limits the capacity of our inclusive nation. We cannot thrive as a democracy or viable economy when so many -- now 65 million people -- "need not apply."


Sources: The Grio, Youtube

North Carolina Pushes Background Checks Again: Due Diligence, Safety Or Discrimination?

Killing puts background checks in spotlight

The killing of a south Charlotte store manager - allegedly by a felon hired to work there - highlights the risks companies take when they hire an employee with a criminal record, or don't do a full background check on applicants.

The Flying Biscuit Cafe in StoneCrest shopping center faces possible fines or other penalties from the Alcohol Law Enforcement division for hiring Mark Anthony Cox, 22.

Background checks are only legally required in certain fields, such as child care and for people who work with the elderly, but the Flying Biscuit could be penalized because businesses aren't allowed to hire Felons convicted in the last three years for jobs that involve serving alcohol.

Cox is accused of stabbing 25-year-old Danielle Watson to death and robbing the store the night of Jan. 13. Prosecutors also have said they plan to charge Cox with a second count of murder in connection with Watson's unborn child.

He was released from prison in November, state records show, after serving nearly two years for robbery and breaking and entering.

A state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety spokeswoman said the Flying Biscuit's owner told ALE agents that a background check wasn't performed on Cox. The owner did tell WBTV that Cox had acknowledged a conviction during his interview. It's not clear if the owner knew the nature of the conviction.

Attempts to reach Flying Biscuit owner Hugh Bigham were unsuccessful Friday.

"A lot of small employers just don't think about background checks, or say they don't have the money," said Kenny Colbert, president of the Charlotte-based human resources group The Employers Association. He said the cost of a full screening is usually about $50, although there are North Carolina-only screens that go for as little as $10.

In the Charlotte region, Colbert said, 90 percent of companies with 500 or more employees do pre-hiring background checks, based on a survey of The Employer Association's nearly 900 member businesses. In contrast, only about 20 percent of firms with 20 or fewer employees said they do background checks.

Companies that don't conduct background checks on employees could be exposing themselves to legal liability, Colbert said. Employers lose more than 70 percent of negligent hiring lawsuits, according to statistics from background check company American DataBank.

Employers spend roughly $2 billion a year checking out employees, according to published reports. A wealth of material also is available free online, such as N.C. Department of Correction records, which detail Cox's prior conviction.

Timothy Keister, general partner at Charlotte-based background check company Total Screening Solutions, said business has been steady through the recession and recovery. He said his company does background checks and drug tests on behalf of large employers, but also for smaller employers.

"In this bad instance we have here, more than likely we would have pulled it up," said Keister, talking about Cox's past conviction.

He said his role isn't to tell employers whether to hire someone, but to enable them to decide based on the facts.

Advocates for those with criminal records point out that nearly everyone who is sentenced to prison will be released at some point, and they are less likely to be involved with further crimes if they can find legitimate work.

Employers shouldn't assume that someone with a criminal record will cause harm in the workplace, said Myra Clark, executive director of the Charlotte-based Center for Community Transitions, which provides employment and transition services to people with criminal records.

"There are a lot of people who have an encounter with the criminal justice system, and that's the only encounter they're ever going to have," she said. "There are people who make a conscious decision to change their lives."

Often, a search of someone's criminal record will show arrests for charges that may later have been dismissed. That might make it difficult for employers to determine which charges they should pay attention to, Clark said. Last year, background check company HireRight agreed to pay $28.4 million to settle claims related to not notifying people their background was being checked, and not responding to complaints of inaccurate information.

Outside of industries that are legally required to conduct background checks, there's little in the way of universal standards when it comes to employer liability, said Bernard Tisdale, managing partner for the Charlotte office of labor law firm Ogletree Deakins.

"It's all a matter of degree," said Tisdale. "It's all gray. Not everybody has got a duty to do a background check."

Aside from extreme cases - "bringing on the convicted ax murderer with ongoing psychological problems," as Tisdale put it - employer liability can vary greatly. It depends, for instance, on the type of business, and whether the employer kept the employee on despite warning signs.

Tisdale also said employers could put themselves at risk of legal action if a background check prompts them to improperly reject an applicant.

Colbert tells employers to examine how relevant and recent a prospect's criminal record is.

Background checks have figured in several high-profile N.C. cases. The estates of two women who were beaten to death at Galloway Ridge retirement home near Chapel Hill sued the facility in 2010. They claimed the facility should have done a background check on the cleaning woman convicted in their killings. The case is still in court.

But employers can be faulted even if they performed background checks, especially if those checks miss something.

The city of Charlotte has paid more than $617,000 to defend and settle lawsuits stemming from former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Marcus Jackson. He was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting women during improper traffic stops. CMPD admitted that a pre-employment screening didn't turn up a domestic violence restraining order filed by Jackson's girlfriend, which should have disqualified him.

And Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is being sued by a former South Mecklenburg High School student who claims she was sexually victimized by a band director. A proper background check, the lawsuit alleges, would have found a history of inappropriate behavior with students at previous schools. CMS said it conducted a thorough background check.


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Sources: McClatchy Newspapers, WBTV, WCNC, Youtube, Google Maps

Actions Of Fired Charlotte Police Officer Destroys Public Trust

3rd Woman Accuses Fired Charlotte Police Officer; Police Chief Says Checks Failed


A third woman is accusing police officer Marcus Jackson of sexually assaulting her during a bogus traffic stop, and police admitted Tuesday they botched a background check that should have prevented Jackson from becoming an officer.

Also on Tuesday, a 17-year-old girl and a witness in the assaults reported last week described two separate encounters with Jackson, who was fired last week and is now in jail.

The teen told the Observer that Jackson ordered her into his patrol car during a traffic stop, drove her to another location and sexually assaulted her.

"I was terrified...," she said. "I was thinking about ways to get out, but the back doors were locked."

At a news conference Tuesday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe said Jackson, 25, should never have been hired in 2008 because of a 2005 domestic violence incident.

Monroe didn't explain how the police department's background checks missed the 2005 complaint and restraining order granted by a judge in that case. But he said it was "not very efficient work."

A police source, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to talk about the case, also said that Jackson was twice recommended for suspensions over incidents that occurred before the alleged attacks on the women. One incident involved allegations that Jackson was speeding, the source said, and the other incident involved allegations that he broke into his estranged wife's apartment.

Police have repeatedly declined to spell out details of Jackson's discipline history, although Monroe acknowledged that Jackson had been disciplined for speeding.

Police have also refused to release written incident reports about the sexual assaults but have twice held news conferences to lay out allegations against Jackson.

Police have also declined to release the exact location of the assaults, but have said two occurred in the Eastway Division that Jackson patrolled. It stretches from the Belmont neighborhood near uptown to just beyond Eastland Mall.

Meanwhile, Mecklenburg prosecutors said Tuesday they may have to dismiss more than 50 criminal and traffic cases that Jackson was involved in. They are reviewing all cases in which Jackson was the primary witness.

Said Monroe: "Everything he touched is ... jeopardized."

Jackson's most recent accuser says he assaulted her on two occasions, according to Monroe.

Monroe said Jackson stopped the woman on Nov. 2 and fondled her during an unlawful search, according to their investigation. Jackson again stopped the woman on Dec. 29 and again fondled her, Monroe said.

During the second stop, a male companion tried to intervene by challenging the traffic stop, and then tried to call 911. But Jackson interrupted the emergency call, Monroe said, and unlawfully arrested the man for obstructing and delaying a police officer. Those charges have since been dropped, and the man has been released from jail.

Jackson is charged in the latest reported case with two counts of sexual battery, one count of felonious restraint and one count of interfering with an emergency communication, police said.

Jackson was initially arrested and charged Dec. 30 after two other women accused him of sexually assaulting them in the weeks before.

In both cases, police say, Jackson pulled the women over on traffic stops, while on duty in his marked patrol car.

The first reported case involved the 17-year-old girl. She told the Observer that Jackson stopped her about 11:30 p.m. Dec. 18 near 10th Street and Seigle Avenue close to uptown.

"He told me I looked like a suspicious driver," the teen said.

When she told Jackson she didn't have a driver's license, she said he ordered her into his patrol car and began driving around.

"He told me he didn't want to take me home if I would get in trouble with my parents," she said.

Then, she said: "He just asked me for a favor. ... He asked me for sex, and did whatever he was gonna do. Then he told me I could go."

The girl declined to give details of the alleged assault, but an arrest warrant says Jackson forced her to perform oral sex.

The teen says she has been too afraid to leave her house since the incident.

"I haven't actually been doing anything," she said. "I've been terrified of running into him."

The second reported incident involved a 21-year-old woman and her male companion.

Police say Jackson stopped their car Dec. 28 and sexually assaulted her.

Reached by the Observer on Tuesday, the male companion involved in the incident said Jackson stopped the couple about 2 a.m. After asking for their identification, Jackson told them to follow him to a nearby apartment complex, where he demanded to frisk the woman. She asked for a female officer.

"He said 'No. If you don't let me check you, I'm going to arrest your boyfriend and take him to jail,'" according to the male companion.

"She said, 'I don't want you to arrest him,'" he said.

The companion said he saw Jackson touching his friend's breasts, and that when she returned to the car, she told him that Jackson wanted her to take off her dress but she refused.

In connection with those incidents, Jackson was charged with three counts of sexual battery, second-degree sexual offense, kidnapping, extortion, indecent exposure and felonious restraint.

At Tuesday's news conference, Monroe continued to urge the public, as well as any other victims, to contact police if they information.

Monroe said he's investigating how the department's background checks failed in the Jackson case.

Police said they were aware when they hired Jackson in 2008 that he had been accused of domestic violence in 2003. In that complaint, the mother of a 15-year-old girl Jackson was dating wrote that Jackson had threatened her daughter, pushed her into a locker and tried to hit her with a car.

It's unclear whether those allegations should have prevented Jackson from being hired, but police noted that he was found not guilty of violating the protective order in that case and that his arrest record had been expunged.

Police said they were not aware of the 2005 domestic violence incident.

In that complaint, Jackson's then-girlfriend claimed, "The defendant grabbed me by the face several times, screaming and yelling. ..."

"The defendant hit me in the back of the head, slapped my face, pushed me down in the floor, forcing (me) in (a) walk-in closet," she wrote in the complaint.

A judge in that case ordered Jackson not to own or carry a firearm during the two weeks of the restraining order.

Monroe said Jackson would not have been hired if police had known about the 2005 incident.

"The information was there for us to see," Monroe said. "It concerns me greatly."













Accused, Fired Charlotte Police Officer Stared, Followed Her Down Road>


The third woman accusing Charlotte police officer Marcus Jackson of sexual assault says he pulled up beside her as she headed home from work, and stared at her for three blocks as they drove side-by-side down Eastway Drive.

"He kept looking at me," she said Wednesday, crying. "He kept looking at me."

Then, she says, he turned on his lights and pulled her over. Jackson ordered her out of her car and grabbed at her breasts, she says.

About eight weeks later, on Dec. 29, the 37-year-old Mexican woman says she was driving home at the same time, along the same route. Again Jackson appeared, this time pulling in behind her as she parked near her apartment.

Her boyfriend, Abel, arrived at the same time. He says he tried to call for help when the officer began frisking her, and Jackson arrested him. The charges were dropped, but Abel may be deported.

Jackson was initially arrested and charged Dec. 30 in connection with alleged assaults on two other women, one of whom is also Latino. Those alleged assaults also happened during traffic stops.

Jackson appeared in court Wednesday to face four new charges in the third case.

Mecklenburg District Judge Hugh Lewis told Jackson that if he can post his $423,000 bond, he will be placed under electronic monitoring and 24-hour house arrest.

Mecklenburg Public Defender Kevin Tully, who has assigned a staff attorney to defend Jackson, said Wednesday: "There have been statements by public officials on the front page of the newspaper expressing their opinions that he's guilty of these charges. That threatens the integrity of the system, which is a person is innocent unless proven guilty."

With two of Jackson's accusers being Latinos, some members of that community say some police prey on immigrants because they may be in the country illegally.

"The police take advantage of the fact that so many of us are afraid," said Marco Rodriguez, a landscape worker in East Charlotte. "The possibility of deportation prevents us from speaking out."

Other Latinos applaud Chief Rodney Monroe's handling of the case. They're encouraging the chief to root out officers who may abuse power.

Police declined to answer specific questions about the Latino community's concerns about police treatment.

Latino leaders say the case hurts police efforts to bridge ties with a community that doesn't fully trust them.

Monroe, as part of his 2009 strategic plan, launched a campaign to repair what he called the "damaged" relationship between the groups. He met with Latino media and organized community meetings that other officers attended.

Many immigrants see the police as an arm of immigration enforcement.

While police are not directly involved with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's 287(g) program that identifies illegal immigrants, police make the vast majority of arrests that lead to deportations through the program.

Jorge Medina, co-host of "La Voz de Charlotte" on Radio Formula (1310-AM), said listeners want Monroe to take steps to stop any police abuses.

"Hopefully this will raise the standard of police work when dealing with Latinos," he said.

Jordan Forsythe, a Charlotte immigration attorney, said she's looking through her list of clients to see if any were arrested by Jackson.

If she finds any, Forsythe said she'll file for a U-Visa, which is designed to give crime victims temporary legal status and work eligibility in the United States.

At the Dec. 29 traffic stop, Abel, 29, said he confronted Jackson, and the officer ordered him to go into the apartment while he questioned his friend. Abel said he called 911 when he says the officer began frisking his friend.

"I dialed the number," said Abel, who asked that his last name not be used because of his immigration status, "but he grabbed the phone before I could say anything."

Jackson unlawfully arrested Abel on a charge of resisting a public officer, authorities said.

Abel spent six days in jail. The charges were dropped, but he was run through 287(g) and found to be undocumented. He said he lost his job because his boss didn't believe he had been wrongly jailed.

The sheriff's department said immigration officials told Abel he will have to appear before an immigration judge.

Forsythe, who isn't involved in Abel's case, says Abel could be eligible for a U-Visa, but he still faces deportation.

"Once you get to the jail," she says, "you can't unring the immigration bell."

Despite Jackson's arrest, the 37-year-old woman blames herself for Abel's legal problems.

And she still fears the police and Jackson's release.

"He recognized me and my truck ...," she said. "He knows where I live. He followed me here."












Royce Mitchell Fired From Charlotte City Job


Royce Anthony Mitchell, named as a “person of interest” in the shooting death of 15-year-old Tiffany Wright on Monday, has been fired from his job with the City of Charlotte, city officials said Wednesday.

Mitchell, who has been charged with statutory rape and indecent liberties with a minor, had worked in the Charlotte Department of Transportation.

Kim McMillan of the City of Charlotte said Wednesday morning that “after administrative review, the City of Charlotte has terminated the employment of Royce Mitchell for falsifying his employment application, which is in violation of city policy.”

Mitchell, who was hired by the city in 2007, earned $25,808 annually with the street maintenance department, McMillan said.

McMillan did not say in what way Mitchell falsified his employment application, but city officials said Wednesday that as a result of the Mitchell case, they plan to expand background checks to include a search of federal offenses around the country. Mitchell served time in a federal prison on drug charges.

Until now, city officials' criminal background checks have included local and state records, and federal records in the Justice Department's Western North Carolina District.

Wright, who was eight months pregnant, was shot in the head Monday morning while waiting for a school bus.

Police are trying to determine if Mitchell was the father of the baby, who was delivered by doctors and is still alive.



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