In 2011, after Months of complaints from residents about the SWAT team SWATS-Broker, Lost, Lown Electronics, and even Poolcol Portographic, Kansas City began to faint of the Department with help and stealing from the police. They call it sticky fingers.
On January 6, the selected crime reduction officials in a mature area, carefully placed with thousands of electronics that cost electronics, weed, and cash, did not know that the house was wired with hidden cameras installed in Clock Clock and Smoke, recording all their movements. The ruse worked. Cameras captured three officers stealing video games, an Apple iPhone, headphones, and $640 in cash. All three were fired and charged Federally with Conspiracy, Deprivation of Civil Rights, and Theft of Government Property.
In an interview with investigators and investigators, however, three police officers gathered a fourth point officer, who could be caught with hidden cameras: Jeff Gardner, a man who was investigating recently beat his girlfriend.
According to other officials, Gardner had a history of smashing TVs during the raids, stealing video games, and even once stealing a bag of crab legs. “You can’t catch me unless you catch me on video,” the prosecutor said he remembers Gardner once saying.
With only the words of these three defiant officers, prosecutors refused to press charges. But in a memo to Phief Rick Armstrong, the District Attorney warned that any future police work involving Gardner — be it investigative work, arrests, or evidence — should be viewed with deep suspicion. “It would be so possible to file a case based in large part on his testimony,” the Memo concluded.
The memo placed Gardner on Veracial’s top-secret disclosure list, known as the giglio list, which refers to Giglio v. United StatesThe 1972 ruling established that the prosecutor must disclose any information that may cast doubt on the credibility of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In the case of KcKPD, this is a list of their most loyal Police officers who can tolerate the fact that the department believes their involvement in criminal cases, whether through evidence, arrest, or investigative work, would risk prosecution.
Still, 15 years later, Gardner still works for the KcKPD. He is among the 62 police officers who have engaged in misconduct to the extent that it damages their credibility, if called to testify, it may need to be reported to the courts.
Gardner did not respond to a request for comment.
