The Mesquite Police Department is the local law enforcement agency of the city of
Mesquite, Texas. The department divides the city into nine police districts. The department has four bureaus, each headed by a deputy chief: Technical Services, Staff Support, Operations, and Criminal Investigations.
Misconduct
On March 3, 2011, Sergeant John David McAllister was arrested by
FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and its principal Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement age ...
agents. McAllister, who headed the department’s narcotics unit was photographed stealing money he thought was from an arrest. On June 20, 2011, he agreed to a plea bargain and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for having stolen $2,000.
On August 31, 2012, an officer from nearby
Garland, Texas, pursued a suspect into Mesquite, where he rammed his patrol car into the suspect’s truck, stopping it. The officer then fired 41 shots at the unarmed man, killing him. Press reports indicate Mesquite officers investigating the case seized a cellphone camera used by a witness to record the attempted arrest. When the camera was returned, the owner claimed the footage was deleted. A former employee of the City of Mesquite, Information Technology Department admitted to deleting the video in order to obtain special favors from the Mesquite Police Department.
[Witnesses to end of chase where Garland officer fired 41 shots say police deleted cellphone photos, video, by Selwyn Crawford and Travis Hudson, Dallas Morning News, September 11, 2012]
See also
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List of law enforcement agencies in Texas
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 1,913 law enforcement agencies, the most of any ...
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Mesquite, Texas