Montgomery Police Officer Charged With Stealing $20 From Suicide Victim

A veteran Montgomery Al. police officer is being charged with theft after a fellow officer allegedly witnessed him taking money from the personal belongings of a 2012 suicide victim that was being held by the Department.

The officer, Corporal Stanley Wilson, 48, is accused of stealing $20 from the victim’s personal effects. The charge could cost the officer his job with the Criminal Investigation Division. He’s been with MPD since 1987. More here.

While stealing $20 from a person who died under tragic circumstances is not exactly the type of behavior to be condoned, this is certainly the lesser of some of the terrible abuses committed by police. Keeping in mind that the Thin Blue Line is very real, one has to wonder whether Wilson did something to anger a superior or colleague, to be ratted out for something as minor as stealing $20.