The Month of October
Months old actions and three fired Denver Deputies.
Welcome to my monthly sum-up. Every start of the month (a little late this first time) I send out a summary of patterns, oddities and interesting bits I can see within the last few months of aggregated data from Colorado’s Peace Officer Standards and Training public database of law enforcement misconduct and actions.
A particularity with the online POST database always worth mentioning is that it self-organizes by Action date. Combined with Actions often being delayed by months before being added — either due to agencies failing to inform POST in a timely manner or POST’s own internal speed of updating it — news of officer misconduct can become buried in the database.
For example, October saw a batch of 42 actions added going as far back as July, but only half took place during the month.
The earliest occurred on July 7 of this year. Sean McCall (CO-135574) retired while under investigation as a trooper with Colorado State Patrol just three months after testifying in court concerning a vehicular homicide case he investigated. He’s not currently employed, is certified, and has no other actions.
Other notes: three Denver Sheriff’s Department deputies have been fired in October alone — Devon Nelson (CO-038-967), Stefan Garcia (CO-123-004), and Michael Casias (CO-200-377). None are certified, but have not been decertified, which implies they may have been jail deputies or other positions that don’t require POST certification..
Two Denver Police Department officers were decertified in September: Adam Foisy (CO-130791) and Humberto Marquez (CO-128245), both for untruthfulness. According to discipline orders obtained by the Denver Police Department, Foisy had a history of forgetting to complete police reports, including for assault, domestic violence, and a hit-and-run. His untruthfulness was stating in the department’s report system that he had completed a report for a violation of a permanent protection order when he hadn’t.
In the future I will continue to have more detailed breakdowns of the data every month, probably a bit longer than this. This being the first post, I was still building the database.
