San Diego PD and the Department of Homeland Security Engage in Whistleblower Retaliation

June 5, 2008 - PRLog -- San Diego, CA  - Citizens Committee For Constitutional Protection (CCCP) announced that recently discovered documents warrant an immediate investigation into activities of the San Diego Police Department officers for stalking and harassment of the former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer Julia Davis. Former CBP Officer Julia Davis made whistleblowing disclosures and won a discrimination suit against the Department of Homeland Security, obtaining a court ruling which declared the Agency’s activities against Davis to have been illegal.  

Davis has an ongoing multi-million dollar lawsuit against the agency and the Agents who engaged in a series of illegal acts, warrantless searches, warrantless surveillance, On-Star tracking, warrantless wiretapping, Patriot Act violations and illegal disclosures made by the DHS to members of the Bonanno mafia crime family in order to retaliate against Davis and her family members.

In one of their many acts of harassment, DHS Agents Herbert Kaufer and Jeffrey Deal recruited San Diego Police Department Officer Steve Webb to illegally pull over Officer Davis after one of the discrimination lawsuit hearings in San Diego. Handwritten diary entries by Herbert Kaufer and Jeffrey Deal show that SDPD Officer Steve Webb was contacted on April 15, 2005 and asked to stalk and pull over Davis on the day of her hearing which took place on April 28, 2005.

SDPD Officer Webb stalked Davis on the agreed-upon date and illegally pulled over Davis without any probable cause for such a vehicle stop. After Davis made an official complaint to the Internal Affairs of the San Diego Police Department, Department of Homeland Security and SDPD IA Lieutenant Carolyn Kendrick have conspired to lie that the vehicle was pulled over because of the “missing front plate” to justify the baseless vehicle stop, during which SDPD Officer Webb neither approached the vehicle from the front, nor asked Davis for her registration or insurance information. Formal complaints by Davis were never pursued and her claims were not investigated.

In light of the cover-up, conspiracy, violation of public trust and failure to investigate these actions by the SDPD Internal Affairs, the Citizen's Committee For Constitutional Protection is formally requesting a re-investigation of this matter by filing formal complaints with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, SDPD Chief William Lansdowne, San Diego mayor's office and the Citizens Review Board on Police Practices.

For additional information visit http://www.cccponline.org