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Investigation
Allegations
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Internal Affairs Summary II2017-0029 1
Addendum to II2017-0029 2
Complaint Letter From LRBPOA 3
Copy ofFacebook Post made by Brandon Schiefelbein 4
Memorandum's 5
Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein 1 & 2 6
Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Brandon Gurley 1 & 2 7
Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Katina Jones 8
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Internal Affairs Statement of Steven Beasley 10
Internal Affairs Statement of Dennis Alexander 11
Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Karshun King 12
Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Jonathan Walker 13
Internal Affairs Statement of Officer Elisha Ramer 14
Copy ofFacebook Post Signed by Steven Beasley 15
Current Photo of Steven Beasley 16
Copies of Facebook Messages between Recruit Schiefelbein and Recruit Gurley 17
Copy of Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual 18

And Signed Acknowledgement Form by Police Recruit Brandon
Schiefelbein & Recruit Brandon Gurley
Copy of Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein's Background Book 19
Internal Affairs Statement of Captain Marcus Paxton 20

Internal Affairs Statement of Captain Heath Helton 21
Internal Affairs Statement of Captain _ 22
Internal Affairs Statement of Lieutenant Troy Ellison 23
Internal Affairs Statement of Kathleen Walker 24
Copy of Email Correspondence between Human Resources and Captain 25

- & Administrative Policy and Procedural that relates to
Social Media and Hiring
Copy of House Bill 1901 and notification that HB901 is Act 1480 26
Internet Picture of Kevin Hart Stating "you wanna go night night nigga" 27
Miscellaneous 28 .
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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29. Supervisory Evaluation (Recruit Brandon Gurley ~ & Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein
~ - Sergeant Kendrick Hawkins ~
30. Supervisory Evaluation (Recruit Brandon Gurley ~ & Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein
~ - Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell ~
31. Administrative Evaluation (Recruit Brandon Gurley ~ & Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein
32. Letter of Termination - Recruit Brandon Gurley ~

33. Letter of Termination - Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein ~
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ADDENDUM TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
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City of Little Rof----._
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Police Department 700 West Markham
Little Rock. Arkansas 72201-1329
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Jacqueline Brandford, Lieutenant Professional Standards Section
FROM: Sergeant Cristina·Plummer ~

RE: Internal Investigation II2017-0029
DATE: November 22, 2017
Officer Involved: Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein

Date of Hire: 08/21/2017
Assignment: Training Division, Executive Bureau
Supervisor: Sergeant Kendrick Hawkins, Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell, and Captain
Marcus Paxton
Incident Location: Facebook
Allegation: Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual Conduct
Unbecoming A Recruit
Officer Involved: Police Recruit Brandon Gurley

Date of Hire: 08/21/2017
Assignment: Training Division, Executive Bureau
Supervisor: Sergeant Kendrick Hawkins, Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell, and Captain
Marcus Paxton
Incident Location: Facebook
Allegation: Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual

On/Off Duty Incidents (not part of original complaint)
Investigator: Sergeant Cristina Plummer, Sergeant Jim Bob Stephens, and Sergeant John
Trent
Summary:
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Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein
Police Recruit Brandon Gurley
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Between November 17, 2017, and November 20, 2017, Melvin Vester the President of the Little
Rock Black Police Officers Association sent a letter to the Office of the Chief of Police, along
with a copy of a Facebook post made on June 22, 2013, by current Police Recruit Brandon
Schiefelbein. The letter alleged that another "racist" police recruit had infiltrated the Little Rock
Police Departments Police Academy. The post showed a picture of an unidentified black male
who appeared to be asleep in a bed, with the statement "Go night night nigga. Go night night" at
the bottom of the post.
On November 20, 2017, Chief Kenton Buckner authorized an Internal Affairs investigation into
the incident.
Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein, who is in recruit class #88 was interviewed by Internal
Affairs investigators. Recruit Shiefelbein a white male, confirmed that he posted the picture and
comment to his personal Facebook page in 2013. Recruit Schiefelbein explained that the person
in the picture was Steven Beasley and the picture was taken while both were serving in the United
States Army. He explained that Mr. Beasley had fallen asleep when he was not supposed to be
sleeping so he posted the picture along with the caption that included the word "nigga".
Recruit Schiefelbein ·said that Mr. Beasley was a friend and squad mate in the Army . . He said that
Mr. Beasley was aware of the post that included the picture and the racial term, and that Mr.
Beasley was not offended by the use of the word "nigga" in the posting. Recruit Schiefelbein said
that the phrase used was a quote from a comedy skit by comedian Kevin Hart. According to
Schiefelbein, the phrase was used commonly amongst the members of his Army unit and in that
context, it had no racially derogatory meaning. Recruit Schiefelbein said that it is his
understanding that the use of the word in question has two possible meanings. When using the
word ending with "er", the word is derogatory and offensive. The use of the word ending with "a"
is a term used to denote friendship. Recruit Schiefelbein said that his use of the word in the post
was to denote friendship. He reiterated that Mr. Beasley was not offended by the posting or the
comment and that the other person mentioned in the posting, Dennis Alexander, who is also
African American, was not offended.
Recruit Schiefelbein said that he had forgotten about the posting because he made the posting in
2013 when he was eighteen years old and serving in the Army. He learned that the posting was
still visible on his Facebook page when he was approached by Recruit Brandon Gurley. Upon
being approached by Recruit Gurley, Recruit Schiefelbein explained the posting and its meaning
to Recruit Gurley and then immediately removed the posting from his private Facebook page.
Police Recruit Brandon Gurley, who is in recruit class #88 was interviewed by Internal Affairs
investigators. Recruit Gurley's statement was consistent with Recruit Schiefelbein. Recruit
Gurley, a black male said that Recruit Katina Jones, a black female, made him aware of the post
and sent him a copy of the Facebook post. Recruit Gurley said at first he was "taken aback" by
the post, and the comment that was made in the post. Recruit Gurley said that he was offended by
the comment, so he reached out to Recruit Schiefelbein on Facebook messenger. Recruit Gurley
said that he asked Recruit Schiefelbein about the post, at which time Recruit Schiefelbein
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explained the posting and its meaning. Recruit Gurley explained that Recruit Schiefelbein told
him that the individual pictured in the post was a buddy in the military with him. Recruit Gurley
stated that Recruit Schiefelbein expressed that he used the term from a comedy skit by comedian
Kevin Hart. Recruit Gurley stated that Recruit Schiefelbein apologized for the comment and told
him that he did not mean to offend him. Recruit Gurley advised that he kept the correspondence
messages between him and Recruit Schiefelbein. A copy of the Facebook messages are included
in the file.
During the interview, Recruit Gurley was asked to explain why he did not report this to his chain
of command. Recruit Gurley replied that the post was brought to his attention within the first or
second week of the academy. Recruit Gurley stated that at the time he was not fully aware of how
the process worked to notify his chain of command. Recruit Gurley stated that - -
- has been a mentor to him, so he discussed the incident with him. Recruit Gurley said that
asked him to send him a copy of the Facebook post, which he did.
Police Recruit Katina Jones, who is in recruit class #88 was interviewed by Internal Affairs
investigators. Recruit Jones stated that when the academy first started on August 21, 2017, Recruit
Schiefelbein was not in the class. She said when she learned that Recruit Schiefelbein would be
joining the class she wanted to see what he looked like so she went on his Facebook page. Recruit
Gurley stated that she was not friends on Facebook with Recruit Schiefelbein, but was able to view
his pictures. Recruit Jones stated that she saw a picture of the post and took a screenshot of it and
texted it to Recruit Gurley due to the language that was used in the post. Recruit Jones further
stated that she only spoke to Recruit Gurley about this photo and according to Recruit Jones,
Recruit Gurley stated that he would keep the photo just in case he needed to use it later. According
to Recruit Jones, Recruit Gurley made the comment that "if Chief ever pissed him off that he was
gonna tum them like with this". Recruit Jones said she was offended by the comment but did not
discuss the post anymore with Recruit Gurley or anyone else.
Recruit Jones was asked why she did not report the photo to her chain of command. Recruit Jones
could not give a reason why she did not report it.
Mr. Steven Beasley was interviewed by Internal Affairs investigators. Mr. Beasley was shown the
Facebook photo and he stated that he was actually asleep when the photo was taken but he
remembers the post from 2013. Mr. Beasley further stated that he is in the military with Recruit
Brandon Schiefelbein and he was not offended by the post in anyway. He stated the caption "Go
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night night nigga. Go night night" is from a stand-up comedy show with actor Kevin Hart. Mr.
Beasley signed and dated a printed copy of the Facebook post that was dated on June 22, 2013. A
copy is included in the file.
Dennis Alexander who was tagged in the Facebook Post on June 22, 2013, was interviewed by
Internal Affairs. Mr. Alexander stated he has known Recruit Schiefelbein for about six years, and
that they served in the military together. He advised that he was not offended by the statement
made in the post, and that they would often joke around with each other. Mr. Alexander said that
at the time, comedian Kevin Hart used the term "nigga" and Recruit Schiefelbein was quoting him.
Mr. Alexander advised that Recruit Schiefelbein is not "racist" and he reiterated that he was not
offended by the post or the statement "nigga".
At the beginning of recruit school #88 each recruit was issued with a handbook with the protocol
at the Training Division. Each recruit was required to review and sign showing they understood
the rules. A copy of the handbook, signed acknowledgment and agreement form for Recruit
Schiefelbein and Recruit Gurley is included in the file.
During the course of the investigation, members of the past and current Training Division, as well
as Human Resources were interviewed in reference to why social media records were not examined
during back ground investigations.
Captain Marcus Paxton was interviewed by Internal Affairs investigators. Captain Paxton is
currently assigned as the Division Commander of the Little Rock Police Department Training
Division. The purpose of the interview was to determine why the social media records were not
examined during Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein's background investigation. Captain Paxton
explained that he was assigned to his current position on September 2, 2017, and that he was not
in the chain of command when Recruit Schiefelbein was hired. Captain Paxton said that he spoke
with Captain Heath Helton, who explained that the examination of social media records was
discontinued prior to Captain Helton assuming command of the Training Division. He also spoke
with Captain who was the Commander of the Training Division in 2013, when the
practice of examining social media records was discontinued. Captain- told Captain Paxton
that the practice was discontinued based upon instructions of the Human Resources
Department. The examination of social media records was discontinued due to a state law
forbidding the practice that was passed in 2013.
Captain Heath Helton was interviewed by Internal Affairs investigators. Captain Helton said he
was assigned as the Division Commander of the Little Rock Police Department Training Division
from March 2014 until September 2017. Captain Helton stated when he took over as the Training
Division Captain, Training was not examining social media records of applicants. Captain Helton
stated he had a conversation with Lieutenant Fuller about new applicants and their social media
records. Captain Helton stated that Lieutenant Fuller informed him that there was a new law
passed in 2013 that prohibited asking for passwords and log-in information, therefore social media
for the applicants were not examined.
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Captain was interviewed by Internal Affairs. Captain - stated that he was

assigned to the Training Division in June 2012. At that time, applicants were asked about their
social media accounts, but in 2013, a new law was passed and Ms. Kathleen Walker advised
Captain - that they were no longer able to ask for usernames and passwords for the
applicant's social media accounts. Captain - provided an email from Kelly Hughes (City
of Little Rock Human Resources) that stated House Bill 1901 passed and employers are no longer
able to require employees or applicants to disclose his or her user name or password. Captain
- also stated that after the law passed, no one at the Little Rock Police Department Training
Division viewed the social media accounts of the applicants or recruits. A copy of the email
correspondence and a copy of the Administrative Policy and Procedural Manuel that relates to
Social Media and Hiring is included in the file.
Lieutenant Troy Ellison was interviewed by Internal Affairs. Lieutenant Ellison stated that in
2012, he was the Sergeant assigned to the Training Division Background Investigations unit and
he reported to Lieutenant Fuller. Lieutenant Ellison stated at that time part of the background
packet required applicants to list any social media accounts they have used or were currently using,
but passwords were never asked for. Lieutenant Ellison said during this time any social media
accounts that were "open" or available for public viewing were reviewed by the Training
Division. Lieutenant Ellison said in 2013 the new law went into effect in regards to social media
and they stopped viewing any social media accounts. Lieutenant Ellison also stated that he cannot
remember a specific conversation that caused the change of reviewing social media sites, but
stated it had to come from his Captain at the time, who was Captain
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, Kathleen Walker, City of Little Rock Employment Services
Manager, was interviewed by Internal Affairs. Ms. Walker was asked about the social media
policy regarding hiring new employees for the city. Ms. Walker explained that viewing social
media on applicants is discouraged because it might reveal age, race, sex, or religious
preference. Using social media to verify education, or to verify specific dates regarding education
or employment and any type of certifications is acceptable. Social media accounts that are not
private and open to public viewing, can be looked at but when making a decision regarding
negative employment action, it should be based on multiple instances. Ms. Walker stated that in
2013, the Legislative passed HB 2013 that prohibited an employer from requiring or requesting a
current or perspective employee from disclosing his or her username and password for social
media. A copy of the House Bill is included in the file.
Supervisors evaluating this file should consider, but not limit themselves to the following
violations:
Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein:
• Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual Conduct Unbecoming A
Recruit C. 2 which states, ''A pattern of behavior that reflects poor personal character
that involves conduct that may undermine or malign the training mission.
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Police Recruit Brandon Gurley:
• Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual On/OffDuty Incidents G
which states, "No recruit will visit or loiter around any law enforcement facility while
attending the Little Rock Police Department Training Academy. Any recruit coming in
contact with an officer while outside the Academy will be required to document the
contact on the first class session following the contact.
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Jacqueline Brandford, Lieutenant Professional Standards Section
FROM: Sergeant Cristina Plummer cp

RE: 112017-0029 Addendum (Police Recruits Schiefelbein and Gurley)
After the initial review of Internal Affairs file II2017-0029, it was determined that the captured
conversation from Facebook Messenger between Recruits Brandoon Schiefelbein and Brandon
Gurley, which is included in the file, needed to be further investigated.
On November 30, 2017, Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein was interviewed by Internal
Affairs investigators in reference to these comments that were made on October 21, 2017.
Recruit Schiefelbein was asked if he recalled the conversation and if he knew what Recruit
Gurley meant when he made the statement "lets lean back off the Kool aid water fountains fried
chicken and Shrek Kid jokes". Recruit Schiefelbein stated that he did recall the conversation
over Facebook messenger. Recruit Schiefelbein stated that Recruit Gurley is a larger person and
that is why he calls him "Shrek" as a nickname. Recruit Schiefelbein stated that he recalled
helping Recruit Gurley study for one of their tests and when Recruit Gurley passed, that Gurley
came up to him, picked him up and was hugging him because he had helped him out. Recruit
Schiefelbein said as Gurley hugged him he said to Recruit Gurley, "down Shrek" and that was it.
Recruit Schiefelbein said that he has heard other recruits call Recruit Gurley by that nick name,
but he could not name a specific person.
Recruit Schiefelbein explained that the "Kool-Aid water fountains and fried chicken" comment
was made during a conversation at lunch amongst several recruits in late September or early
October. Recruit Schiefelbein said that it was a diverse group of recruits having a conversation
about fried chicken and their favorite type of Kool-Aid. Recruit Schiefelbein said that the group
made reference to having a restaurant that had this type of food. He said that Recruit Gurley was
in the area, but was not engaged in the immediate conversation. Recruit Schiefelbein stated that
Recruit Gurley commented that in Alabama they already had restaurants that catered to this type
of food.
Recruit Schiefelbein was asked if he believed there was a link between a racial slur, fried
chicken and Kool-Aid. He replied that he was unaware of that relation, and said that Recruit
Gurley did not seem offended by any of the comments, because Recruit Gurley did not mention
it to him until he sent him the Facebook message on October 21, 2017.
On November 30, 2017, Police Recruit Brandon Gurley was interviewed in reference to this
incident. Recruit Gurley stated that he sent the statement to Recruit Schiefelbein because he
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wanted him to stop making jokes. Recruit Gurley stated that one day during lunch in front of
other recruits, Schiefelbein told him that his children were cute but they were going to grow up
looking like "Shrek", just like him. Recruit Gurley stated that Recruit Schiefelbein was the only
one that called him "Shrek". Recruit Gurley said Recruit Schiefelbein stopped calling him
"Shrek" or making any derogatory comments after he brought it to his attention.
Recruit Gurley said that the comments about the Kool-Aid and fried chicken were made during
the early weeks of recruit school. Recruit Gurley was asked if Recruit Schiefelbein made the
comment in reference to Kool-Aid and fried chicken. He responded that while he was leaving
the break room he heard Recruit Schiefelbein mention fried chicken and Kool-Aid, but he did not
hear the whole joke. Recruit Gurley said that it was a diverse group of recruits that were having
the conversation and he did not believe it was directed towards him.
Recruit Gurley stated that Recruit Jonathan Walker, who is a white male, sits beside him in
recruit school. He said after the conversation, Recruit Jonathan Walker asked him if he heard the
conversation amongst the group. Recruit Gurley said he told Recruit Walker that he heard fried
chicken and Kool-Aid. Recruit Gurley stated that Recruit Walker told him that it went right over
Recruit Karshun King's head. Recruit Gurley stated that according to Recruit Walker, Recruit
Scheifelbein asked Recruit King if he opened up a restaurant and it had all you could drink,
"Kool-Aid water fountains, fried chicken and watermelon, would he come". Recruit Gurley said
that he did not comment that restaurants in Alabama sells "Kool-Aid, fried chicken and
watermelon", but said that he did have a conversation with someone about eating fried chicken at
Green Acres Chicken restaurant in Alabama.
Recruit Gurley admitted that he spoke with Recruit King immediately after hearing the
comments that were made by Recruit Schiefelbein. Recruit Gurley said he asked Recruit King
how those comments made him feel. Recruit Gurley stated that Recruit King said the comments
did not bother him. Recruit Gurley stated that he advised Recruit King that those comments
were biased or judgmental. Recruit Gurley advised that those comments insulted him, so he told
Recruit King that they should have insulted him as well. Later in the interview, Recruit Gurley
changed his statement and said that Recruit King did tell him that he was offended by the
comments that were made, but he did not wish to take it up with anyone.
During the interview, Recruit Gurley stated that before he made contact with - -
111111 he went to Officer Elisha Ramer, the lead instructor for his recruit class. He said that
Officer Ramer gave him permission to speak to other officers outside the Training Division.
Recruit Gurley was asked, if the comments that were made by Recruit Schiefelbein offended
him, why did he wait until October 21, 2017, to address the issues with him. Recruit Gurley
stated that the comments began to stack up, so he said "enough is enough".
After his interview and prior to leaving Internal Affairs, Recruit Gurley provided a typed letter
that he wanted to be included in the file. The letter detailed his rel_ationship with- -
- A copy of the letter is included in this file.
On November 30, 2017, Police Recruit Karshun King, a black male, was interviewed by Internal
Affairs investigators in reference to this incident. Recruit King referred to the group
conversation as "colorful" between black and white recruits. Recruit King said the group
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exchanged stereotypes like chicken, watermelon and red Kool-Aid, but never intended to offend
anyone. Recruit King said prior to the conversation the recruit class had a session about
diversity and religion. Recruit King said that Recruit Brandon Gurley approached him
approximately a month later about Recruit Schiefelbein bringing up the topic of fried chicken.
Recruit Gurley asked Recruit King if he was offended about the comment and Recruit King said
no, we were all talking about stereotypes. Recruit King said that he expressed to Recruit Gurley
that he was not offended by the conversation. Recruit King said that he has made comments like
everyone there about stereotypes among other races. Recruit King wanted to clarify that the
stereotype conversation between the recruits was not directed only at the African American
community but also towards Hispanics and the white community.
On November 30, 2017, Police Recruit Jonathan Walker a white male, was interviewed by
Internal Affairs investigators in reference to this incident. Recruit Walker said that he recalled
the conversation, and recalled stating that he likes watermelon, fried chicken and Kool-Aid. He
further stated that he never discussed the conversation with Recruit Gurley any time after the
original conversation took place. Recruit Walker said that there was not any comments made
during the conversation that he would consider demeaning.
On November 30, 2017, Officer Elisha Ramer was interviewed by Internal Affairs investigators.
Officer Ramer is currently assigned to the Training Division and is the lead instructor for Recruit
Class #88. Because she is the lead instructor for the class, the recruits are ordered to report to
her for all matters pertaining to the class. Officer Ramer was asked about Recruit Brandon
Gurley's statement identifying her as the person at training who gave him permission to speak
with persons in the Little Rock Police Department, who are not assigned to the Training
Division. Officer Ramer said that she did not give Recruit Gurley permission to discuss Training
matters with officers who are not assigned to the Training Division.
In addition to the violation in the attached file, supervisors should also consider the following:
Police Recruit Brandon Gurley:
Violation of Rules and Regulations 1/8003.00, which states, "Officers shall be truthful at all
times, whether under oath or not, when conducting official police business."
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LIT, LC: ROCK BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ASSOC:-. i"ION
P.0. Box 164638 Little Rock Arkansas 72216 · 4368
"Dedicated to promoting justice, and fairness, in law enforcement and in the community"
"Here We Go Again!"
November 17, 2017
TO: Chief Kenton Buckner

BOARD .MEMBERS
2016-2017 FROM: The Little Rock Black Police Officers Association Executive Board~
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We the members of the Black Police Officers Association (L.R.B.P.O.A.) are very
MELVIN VESTER
President
disappointed to learn and report that another "racist" police recruit has infiltrated
the Little Rock Police Department's Police Academy. A current recruit in class #88
RODNEY LEWIS
posted a picture on his Facebook page in (June 2013) of an unidentified black male
1st Vice President who appears to be asleep in a bed. Brandon Schiefelbein's Facebook post is very
careless, distasteful and demeaning.
WILLIE DAVIS
2 nd Vice President The statement that is attached with the picture reads: "Go night night nigga. Go
night night". In 2012 former Little Rock police officer Josh Hastings shot and
ALLISON WALTON killed 15-year-old Bobby Moore. In Hastings background investigation packet he
Secretary admitted to attending a Klu Klux Clan meeting. He was recommended to be
terminated from the hiring process. He was ultimately hired by the City of Little
CRYSTAL SIMMONS Rock as a Police Officer. Because of his hiring 15-year-old Bobby Moore is dead!
Fiscal Officer Hastings was ultimately fired by LRPD and arrested for manslaughter. Just (7)
months ago Hastings was found liable in the wrongful death lawsuit for Bobby
VICTOR SANDERS
Moore.
Parliamentarian
Enough! The catastrophically bad choice by the City of Little Rock to welcome
LONNIE MYLES
Josh Hastings into the Little Rock Police Department dismantled an already
Sergeant-al-Arms
fractured relationship between the police and the African American community. We
will not sit silently and allow or wait for the City of Little Rock to unfold a
GLEN KING
welcome mat for this recruit. We will not tolerate it! His words have made it clear
Senior Advisor
regarding his thoughts about African Americans. We will not allow him to act on
ORA JENKINS
how he feels about us.
Chaplain
The recruit's post only exacerbates the current concerns of the African American
JOHNNY GILBERT community. There is a legitimate belief within the African American community
that this current administration is not willing to initiate opportunities to regain trust
and build partnerships with its community members. Our Board of Directors seems
to down play their roles as "City Officials" and remain silent regarding most matters
in the African American community. They are equally as silent when it comes to
holding you (Chief Buckner) and City Manager Bruce Moore accountable for not
adequately addressing BPOA concerns or concerns of the African American
community.
Chief Buckne~~~u or your designee who is assigned l .nonitor social networking
of police officers personal pages appear to be very selective in who you choose to
monitor and what you choose to monitor as well. We suggest that your concern
should not be limited to social media alone. Consequently the behavior and conduct
of officers who post inappropriate photos inside of department buildings for citizens
to view is a concern of yours as well. (Please review the attached photos)
We remain committed to holding you, City Manager Bruce Moore and the Board of
Directors accountable for your direction and care of the City of Little Rock and its
citizens. We demand that you initiate an investigation into the inappropriate posting
of the picture that was posted at the 12th Street Station. We further demand that you
direct Brandon Schiefelbein who is currently occupying a space in class #88, to the
exit door!
lv1 ewi,n; V~ev,

President
Little Rock Black Police Officer' s Association
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell (Z/l,

FROM: Sergeant Van Thomas (\
RE: Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein-Pre-Employment Background Investigation
I am submitting this memorandum in regards to a departmental investigation that has been

activated on Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein. On today's date, I was informed by my chain
of command that they had been made aware of questionable content that was located on Police
Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein' s Facebook Account. Due to this obtained information, I advised
that a social media check was not conducted on Recruit Schiefelbein, due to the common
practice of pre-employment background investigation for the department. I was advised to locate
the file and submit it to my chain of command. At which time, I located the file and did so.
Officer Herbert Kimbrough was the assigned background investigator. In viewing Recruit
Schiefelbein' s file, a social media check was not conducted and the provided
Background/Polygraph Booklet (paper form) did not ask a question regarding social media.
In addition, it was my understanding that the social media piece of the pre-employment
background investigation was originally a part of the process, but was later taken out. At which
time, I reached out to the two (2) recent supervisors that worked in my position prior to my
arrival in January 2017. On November 20, 2017, I made contact with Sergeant Harold Scratch,
who advised that they did not look into the applicant's social media accounts during the pre-
employment background phase during his tenure over the unit. I then made contact with
Lieutenant Troy Ellison, who advised that they did look into the applicant's social media
accounts during a portion of his tenure, but stopped in 2013-2014. Lieutenant Ellison advised
that this was due to possible freedom of speech issues.
On May 22, 2017, I submitted a memorandum requesting for a new Electronic Personal History
Statement for police applicants, to include a question that asked if an applicant is a user of a
social media site. This memorandum was approved on June 14, 2017, by Chief Fulk. (See
Attachments) However, Recruit Schiefelbein, was processed under the prior personal history
statement (paper form).
On today' s date, I attempted to view Recruit Schiefelbein' s Facebook page, by utilizing the
departments recruitment page and located that attached information. It appears that Recruit
Schiefelbein' s Facebook page is in a private status and very limited information is available for
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Little Rock, Arkansas 12201-1329
MEMORANDUM
TO: Lieutenant Mary Cook

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FROM: Sergeant J. B. Stephens(
RE: Legislative Issues-2013
DATE: October 16, 2013

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On October 14, 2013, I was assigned to review recently enacted legislation and compare it with
Little Rock Police Department General Orders and Divisional Operating Procedures in order to
determine if modifications are needed in the General Orders or Divisional Operating Procedures.
As a result of the review, I recommend policy changes in reference to three (3) of the new laws.
Act 1229 pertains to the protection of the identities of minors who are involved in accidents and
listed as "occupants" on Arkansas Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident Reports. The change requires
the redaction of any information regarding minor subjects listed as "occupants" in these accident
reports. I recommend two changes in reference to this act. The first change should be in General
Order 109 IV. C to include "accident reports".
The second change required by this act would be in the Headquarters Divisional Operating
Procedure 5600-4 XI.D. I recommend the inclusion of language directing the redaction of
juvenile occupant information prior to the release of an accident report. I further recommend that
Headquarters Division review this Divisional Operating Procedure and update the procedure to
reflect current practices. As currently written, this Divisional Operating Procedure references
technology and procedures no longer used by the Little Rock Police Department.
The Act does not take effect until January 1, 2015, however, I recommend that the policy
changes be written to take effect upon the approval of the Chief of Police, even if the effective
date is prior to January 1, 2015.
Act 361 pertains to changes in the law regarding driving while intoxicated. The law now allows
testing of a person's saliva to determine blood alcohol content. Little Rock Police Department
Divisional Operating Procedure 5500-16 VII.B needs to be changed adding saliva as a bodily
fluid that can be tested. Further, there is no procedure outlined for the collection, storage, and
testing of saliva. It is my recommendation that this information be forwarded to the START Unit
for development of an appropriate procedure that can then be included in this Divisional
Operating Procedure.
Act 1491 pertains to the use of electronic license plate readers and the disposition of the data
gathered by these license plate readers. This new law has already been reviewed by Headquarters
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personnel and a policy has been written and forwarded through the chain of command for
review. Lieutenant Lonnie Myles stated that he completed his proposal on August 27, 2013, and
forwarded the document for review. As of the date of this memorandum, the review has not been
completed. The policy can be issued immediately upon approval.
Act 1353 pertains to "certified peer support members" and the responsibilities and confidentiality
requirement of a "certified peer support member". It is the opinion of some in the Little Rock
Police Department that a "certified peer support member" is the equivalent of a "companion
officer" as described in General Order 3 03. I disagree with this assessment.
Act 1353 defines a "certified peer support member" as "a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or
emergency medical technician of an emergency service agency or entity who has received
training in critical incident stress management and who is certified as a peer support member by
the Arkansas Crisis Response Team to provide emotional or moral support as a result ofjob-
related stress or an- incident in which the emergency responder was involved while acting in his
or her official capacity." A review of the Arkansas Crisis Response Team website reveals that it
is a nonprofit all-volunteer organization that is trained to respond to natural disasters or mass
casualty incidents. I spoke with Little Rock Fire Department Assistant Chief Doug Coney, who
is a coordinator with this organization. Chief Coney stated that the organization does not provide
any certifications or training as it relates to counselors or peer support members. Chief Coney
further stated that the Arkansas Crisis Response Team has no plans at this time to certify anyone
as a peer support member.
Chief Coney further stated that the mission of the Arkansas Crisis Response Team is to respond
to and assist in natural·disasters and mass casualty events. The organization is not designed to
respond to individual incidents such as officer involved shootings. Based upon this information
is my opinion that no changes are required to General Order 303 until a certificate program is
developed. We also spoke with Brad King at Arkansas Minimum Standards and he advised they
have no plans for a certificate program.
Act 175 pertains to electronic proof of insurance and its acceptance as a valid proof of insurance
by law enforcement officers and the State of Arkansas. This act created an expanded definition
of acceptable proof of insurance to include electronic format. Electronic format is defined as
proof that can be displayed on a cellular phone or similar electronic device.
Little Rock Police Department General Order 305 does not define proof of insurance. It is
therefore reasonable to refer to ACA 27-13-102 for the definition of proof of insurance. ACA 27-
13-102 now includes electronic format as an acceptable proof of insurance. It is my opinion the
General Order 305, as it is currently written, will allow for officers to accept an electronic proof
of insurance. It is my recommendation that a training bulletin be issued to all officers of the
Little Rock Police Department providing them with the expanded definition as included in ACA
27-13-102.
Act 1480 prohibits employees or prospective employees from being required to provide their
passwords to personal social media accounts. The law forbids requiring employees or
prospective employees from providing these passwords "unless it is for the purpose of accessing
the social media account if the employee social media account activity is reasonably believe to
be relevant to a formal investigation ofrelated proceeding by the employer of allegations ofan
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employee's violation offederal, state, or local laws or regulations o_r of the employers written
policies. "
Little Rock Police Department General Order 118 addresses social media accounts and does not
require employees to provide passwords for their personal social media accounts. I consulted
with Sergeant Troy Ellison, Little Rock Police Department Training Division, who stated that the
Little Rock Police Department does not require applicants to provide these passwords while
conducting background investigations. I recommend no changes to Little Rock Police
Department policy in reference to Act 1480.
Act 1183 pertains to civilian passengers in law enforcement patrol vehicles. The act requires that
all police departments establish a written policy prohibiting civilian passengers in patrol vehicles
unless specific written approval is given for each civilian passenger by the chief law enforcement
officer or his or her designee. Little Rock Police Department General Order 108 XXVII
establishes this written policy and the Little Rock Police Department is in compliance with Act
1183. I recommend no changes in Little Rock Police Department policy in reference to this law.
Act 1089 pertains to the recognition of a concealed carry permit issued by states other than the
State of Arkansas. The law allows persons who have concealed carry permits from other states to
carry concealed weapons in the State of Arkansas. There is no conflict with Little Rock Police
Department policies.
Act 760 allows certain persons to possess a firearm in a retail liquor store that sells alcoholic
beverages for off-premises consumption. This law allows employees of liquor stores to be armed
while working in the business or establishment. There is no conflict with Little Rock Police
Department policies.
Act 419 authorizes the acceptance of a concealed carry license in electronic format. This law
defines and allows persons to display their concealed carry permit in an electronic format. There
is no conflict with Little Rock Police Department policy.
Act 415 pertains to persons who are allowed to carry concealed firearms. The law exempts any
current or former certified law enforcement officer, chief of police, court bailiff, or County
Sheriff from the requirement that they obtain a concealed carry permit. The law also allows the
exemption of auxiliary law enforcement officers if they meet certain training requirements and
are authorized to carry the firearm by that officer's Chief of Police or Sheriff. The law also states
that a former certified law enforcement officer whose employment was terminated by a law
enforcement agency due to disciplinary reasons or because he or she has committed a
disqualifying criminal offense is not exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit to carry a
concealed weapon. There is nothing in Little Rock Police Department policy which addresses
this law and I recommend no policy changes.
Act 170 allows the operation of a golf cart on city streets of a municipality if that municipality
authorizes such operations. Golf carts are still prohibited from traveling on a street which is also
designated as a federal or state highway or a county road. There is no conflict with Little Rock
Police Department policy.
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Act 1290 amends the Theft of Property law as it pertains to items sold to pawn shops or
secondhand dealers. It creates the offense of unlawful transfer of stolen property to a pawn shop
or pawnbroker. There is no conflict with Little Rock Police Department policy.
Act 404 pertains to pawnbrokers uploading transaction information into an electronic database.
The Little Rock Police Department is already in compliance with this law and it is addressed in
Field Services Divisional Operating Procedure 5500-36 XXVIII. I recommend no changes to
Little Rock Police Department policy in reference to this act.
Act 13 54 pertains to the sale, purchase, or transfer of scrap metal. The act establishes a reporting
requirement for the transactions to an electronic database similar to the one currently used by
pawnbrokers. The only portion of this law that applies to Little Rock Police Department policy
is already addressed in Field Services Divisional Operating Procedure 5500-36 XXVIII. I
recommend no changes to Little Rock Police Department policy in reference to this act.
Act 1003 pertains to the covering or partial covering of vehicle headlamps. There is no conflict
in Little Rock Police Department policy or practice which conflicts with this law. I recommend
no changes to Little Rock Police Department policy in reference to this act.
Act 965 expands the definition of improper lane usage to include persons driving in the left-hand
lane of a multilane highway while not passing or overtaking another vehicle. There is no conflict
in Little Rock Police Department policy or practice. I recommend no changes to the Little Rock
Police Department policy in reference to this act.
Act 1514 pertains to allowing law enforcement officers to provide a secondary address (such as a
P.O. Box) to state agencies in order to receive state communications from the State of Arkansas.
This law is not in conflict with Little Rock Police Department Rules and Regulations 1/5016.00
which states, "Officers shall furnish the Department with an address and telephone number at
which they may be reached in the event of an emergency. " The act does not conflict with Rule
and Regulations 1/5017.00 which states, "Police employee shall report changes in home
address, telephone number, emergency phone number and name changes within 72 hours ofsuch
change to their immediate supervisor for forwarding to the Office of the Chief of Police. "
General Order 108 VI addresses the requirement that the Office of the Chief of Police be
provided the physical location of an employee's address. I recommend no policy changes in
reference to this act.
Act 132 pertains to human trafficking. This law creates the offense of Human Trafficking and
establishes several definitions and responsibilities for a State Task Force for the prevention of
human trafficking and in the areas of training and policy development. The law makes no
requirements on local law enforcement as it pertains to training or participation in the task force.
I recommend no changes to Little Rock Police Department policy as it pertains to this act.
I recommend that a Training Bulletin be created by the Training Division explaining the changes
in these laws. The Training Bulletin can be issued through Power DMS to ensure that all sworn _
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Lieutenant Mary Cook
FROM: Stuart Thomas, Chief of Police
RE: Legislative Issue ¥-

DATE: September 30, 2013
In addition to the attached information from the Training Division, I am requesting your review
of the following 2013 Acts to determine if Departmental policies should be revised:
/f- Act 1229, pertaining to juvenile information in accident reports (to be effective January
2015);
/ I Act 1480, pertaining to social media passwords;
v J Act 1183, pertaining to civilian passengers in police vehicles;
VI Act 1089, pertaining to concealed carry permit reciprocity;
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./ f Act 760, pertaining to liquor store employees carrying weapons;
j i Act 419, pertaining to electronic concealed carry permits;
v, Act 1514, pertaining to second addresses for law enforcement officers;

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,J • Act 415, pertaining to concealed carry for law enforcement officers;
J• Act 1491, pertaining to license plate readers;
J• Act 170, pertaining to the use of golf carts on streets;
• Acts 404 and 1290, pertaining to pawn shop reporting and sales of stolen property;
• Act 1354, pertai~hg.Jo scrap metal sales;

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• Act 1003, pertaining to headlamps and tail lamps;
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• Act 965, pertaining to vehicles driving on the right; and,
• Acts 132/133, pertaining to Human Trafficking.
Further, I am copying the Training Division to ensure that staff there review these Acts as well
for inclusion in Departmental Training.
Please secure any assistance needed from any Division and forward recommendations no later
than October 18, 2013.
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Alice Fulk, Assistant Chief of Police
FROM: Mary A. Cook, Lieutenanfnt.AC:..:,c.,
SUBJECT: Electronic Background Software
DATE: June 2, 2017
Attached you will find a copy of the new proposed electronic background booklet as well as the
correspondence and confidentiality information provided by the software supplier. Mr. Mike
Nevil, owner of Background Solutions has offered the Little Rock Police Department the
opportunity to beta test his background software during our next background process which is
scheduled to begin on June 16, 2017.
Based on the results of the evaluation, Mr. Nevil has agreed to sell the software to the
Department at a cost not to exceed $795.00 per license. The cost may be reduced based on the
number of licenses required.
This software, we believe, will reduce the amount of time required to conduct a thorough
background investigation. I request permission to amend the background booklet and utilize it
for the beta testing of the software provided by Background Solutions, during the upcoming
application process. After the initial test phase, if the decision is made to purchase this software,
a full service contract will be completed.
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1 STATEMENT OF RECRUIT SCHIEFELBEIN

2
3 This interview is with -I'm sorry Brandon, and pronounce your last
4 name?
5 SCHIEFELBEIN: Schiefelbein.
6 PLUMMER: Schiefelbein, and he is a police recruit here at the Little Rock
7 Police Department in Training. Present with him is his companion
8 officer, Officer John Gilchrist. Present is myself, Sergeant Christy
9 Plummer, also present is Sergeant Jim Bob Stephens, the location
10 is the Little Rock Police Department Training Division, today's
11 date is Tuesday, November the 21 st and the time is 1102 hours .
12 Police Recruit Schiefelbein, you are aware this interview is an
13 internal administrative investigation and is being recorded and will
14 be treated as an official police report?
15 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yes ma'am.
16 PLUMMER: Recruit Schiefelbein is that- am I saying that right?
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: Schiefelbein.
18 PLUMMER: Schiefelbein, okay.
19 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yes.
20 PLUMMER: I'm sorry. Have you seen and read the complaint form as it relates
21 to this interview?
23 PLUMMER: That's the complaint or that's the -where the Chief of Police
24 ordered the investigation.
26 PLUMMER: Before we get started I also want to bring up the fact that Sergeant
27 Stephens spoke with you earlier and actually gave you enough time
28 to provide you with a companion officer, is that correct?
TG
1 PLUMMER: Okay. Employees are required to be honest and truthful in all
2 matters related to their scope of employment and the operations of
3 the depm1ment. Untruthfulness is defined as intentionally making
4 a false, misleading or untrue statement. This requirement applies
5 to all oral statements and written statements. Written statements
6 include, but are not limited to, reports of any type, and any form of
7 electronic communications. Untruthfulness is a severe violation
8 which is strictly prohibited and may result in discipline up to and
9 including termination. Do you understand that sir?
11 PLUMMER: Okay, sir this is in reference to investigation 2017-0029, this right
12 here is what we are investigating is a Facebook post that we
13, believe was made by you. I just want to show you this okay, and
14 this is you, correct?
16 PLUMMER: And I'm pointing to your name, and this is a Facebook post that
17 was made June 22 nd , 2013.
18 SCHIEFELBEIN : Yes ma'am.
19 PLUMMER: Is this on your Facebook sir?
20 SCHIEFELBEIN: Currently?
21 PLUMMER: Was it ever on your Facebook?
23 PLUMMER: Okay m1d did you put it on your Facebook?
25 PLUMMER: And in this statement you have a statement here and you have a
26 derogatory word right here.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, and did you write this statement on your Facebook?
30 PLUMMER: Okay, and what do you mean by that and who is this person that
31 you're referring to?
TG 2
1 SCHIEFELBEIN: So this person in the photo is tagged in the post, his name is Steven
2 Beasley, he is in the military with me and this -this term was a
,,
.) quote from a Kevin Hart comic -I don't know, platform, and he
4 was, you know, just -that's how he referenced it and at the time it
5 was very -a lot of people used it and it was a very funny skit and I
6 put that on there and the people that were tagged in that were with .
7 me were tagged into it and they had knowledge about it.
8 PLUMMER: Okay. So let me start and go back, so this was done in 2013 and
9 how old were you then sir?
10 SCHIEFELBEIN: Eighteen.
11 PLUMMER: Okay, and so you were in the military?
13 PLUMMER: What branch in the military were you in?
14 SCHIEFELBEIN: Army.
15 PLUMMER: Okay, and so were you deployed at this time or-
16 SCHIEFELBEIN: We were at annual training at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, we were
17 doing a field training exercise at this time and we just so happened
18 to get back- because F01i McCoy, Wisconsin doesn't- they don't
19 have cell phone service or anything like that, so we finally actually
20 had cell phone service and just, you know, a guy fell asleep during
21 while he was not supposed to be and I just took a picture of him
22 and that's-
23 PLUMMER: Okay.
24 SCHIEFELBEIN: that's all that came out.
25 PLUMMER: Do you remember, did you actually take the picture?
26 SCHIEFELBEIN: I can't recall.
27 PLUMMER: Okay. But you actually did put this-this statement right here on
28 your Facebook page?
29 SCHIEFELBEIN: I believe so.
30 PLUMMER: And you tagged these other individuals, is that right?
TG 3
1 PLUMMER: And just for the record, what does the statement say?
2 SCHIEFELBEIN: It says "Go night night nigga, go night night".
3 PLUMMER: Okay. And so the derogatory word here is the nigga.
4 SCHIEFELBEIN: Uh huh.
5 PLUMMER: And but you're saying that you go that from a comedian skit, is that
6 correct?
8 PLUMMER: Okay. Did you mean anything other than it being from a skit?
9 SCBIEFELBEIN: No ma'am.
10 PLUMMER: Did -and so are you- tell me his name again?
11 SCHIEFELBEIN: Steven Beasley.
12 PLUMMER: Okay and so y'all are buddies in the military?
14 PLUMMER: Did he- was he aware that you had done this?
16 PLUMMER: Okay.
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: Because it's tagged in there.
18 PLUMMER: Okay.
19 SCHIEFELBEIN: Because he's tagged in the post.
20 PLUMMER: Okay, so you actually put it on your Facebook then you tagged
21 him?
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yes ma'am and as you know, it reads my name and it says with and
23 the two people that I tagged in it.
24 PLUMMER: Did he-
25 SCHIEFELBEIN: The other person, Dennis Alexander, he's also African American
26 too, and so they both- they both knew and that I tagged them in it
27 and they saw the picture.
28 PLUMMER: Okay. Did either one of them come to you to find that offensive?
29 SCHIEFELBEIN: No ma'am.
30 PLUMMER: Is that something that y'all used that lingo amongst each other on a
31 regular basis while you were in the military?
TG 4
1 SCHIEFELBEIN: So you know that's - I hung out with a lot of African American
2 people and you know that was kind of a term and it's not anything
...,
.) derogatory, it just means friend, like within that community. So -
4 with the A, not with the ER at the end.
5 PLUMMER: Okay.
6 SCHIEFELBEIN: So the A is like you're a friend and then the ER is like it's a
7 derogatory term and degrading someone.
8 PLUMMER: Okay.
9 SCHIEFELBEIN: Essentially.
10 PLUMMER: And so is that just like understood amongst the black community?
12 PLUMMER: Okay.
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: Even music and pop culture nowadays they use it almost in every
14 single song that an African American sings it has that word in it at
15 least two or three times.
16 PLUMMER: Okay. Do you know when - you said that this is not on your
17 Facebook now, is that correct?
19 PLUMMER: Do you know when you took that down off your Facebook page?
20 SCHIEFELBEIN: So this -this was brought up to me by another recruit and he -he
21 asked me about it and I said that I honestly didn't know that it was
22 in my Facebook because it's almost five years ago that this picture
23 was posted, and I told him, I said honestly if that's -you know I
24 was like I took it down and I'm sorry if that offended you at all,
25 that is not what it meant and I told him the same thing I told you,
26 it's was from a Kevin Haii skit and that I mean nothing else by it
27 other than just from that just quoting it.
28 PLUMMER: Okay. So when did you start recruit school?
29 SCHIEFELBEIN: August 2l5 1.
30 PLUMMER: So you're more than halfway through now?
TG 5
1 PLUMMER: Okay, so -and your Facebook is set to private, is that correct?
3 PLUMMER: So when you started recruit school then you became friends with
4 other recruits?
6 PLUMMER: And so y'all friended each other on Facebook?
8 PLUMMER: Okay now you said another recruit brought this to your attention
9 that they found it to be offensive?
11 PLUMMER: Okay, do you know when that was?
12 SCHIEFELBEIN: When?
13 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
14 SCHIEFELBEIN: I don' t know the exact date, but I know it was a weekend and it
15 was I think early, maybe early October.
16 PLUMMER: Okay. And at that point that's when you removed it from your
17 Facebook page?
18 SCHIEFELBEIN: As soon as it was brought to my attention I took it off my
19 Face book.
20 PLUMMER: Okay. Jim Bob do you have anything?
21 STEPHENS: Who was the recruit that brought it to your attention?
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: recruit Brandon Gurley.
23 STEPHENS: Gurley?
24 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yes sir.
25 STEPHENS: Is that recruit still in this class and still here, correct? And just for
26 the record since it's not recorded, I'm asking that of John Gilclu·ist
27 who works at Training who is acknowledging yes, that the person
28 is still here. When you posted that four or five years ago, the
29 gentleman in the picture knew you had taken the picture?
31 STEPHENS: And he knew you had posted it?
TG 6
2 STEPHENS: Did he raise any objections whatsoever?
3 SCHIEFELBEIN: No sir.
4 STEPHENS: The other gentleman that's tagged in it, your buddy-
5 SCHIEFELBEIN: It's actually one of my team members.
6 STEPHENS: Your team members, okay.
7 SCHIEFELBEIN: So I was a team leader and then a squad leader in the Army and he
8 was, you know, both of these guys work under me.
9 STEPHENS: Okay.
10 SCHIEFELBEIN: Never a big deal and I've worked with many people from many
11 different cultures and it's never been a big deal, they know that I
12 always and will always, have their back and I'm -I'm no way that
13 way.
14 STEPHENS: Okay. Do you as a normal course use -and what you explained is,
15 using the term with the A means friends-
17 STEPHENS: but with the ER is derogatory?
19 STEPHENS: Other than this post, do you as a normal course, use that-
21 STEPHENS: to -either with the A or the ER?
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: No sir, I mean there was just a time that -and there was a time
23 where I decided you know whenever I decided to become a police
24 officer that is -because it could be misconstrued and thought of
25 another way and thought of another way than what it actually is, so
26 I decided then that I never wanted to try to get myself, you know,
27 into -jammed up or anything that way so I just, you know, never
28 use it whether I'm with African American people or whether I'm
29 just alone with, you know, other people, I just decided not to use
30 that and I never used it since then.
TG 7
1 STEPHENS : And just to verify that I heard you correctly, after posting this you
2 didn ' t even remember it was on your page until somebody here
3 brought it up to your attention?
4 SCHIEFELBEIN : Honestly I don' t even use social media that much, I mean
5 seventeen, you know, seventeen, eighteen, I was just coming out of
6 high school so social media was more prevalent, where you know,
7 getting older not having as much time to really just do that, I
8 rarely, rarely, the last post- even on Instagram, another social
9 media network, the last post was from 2015.
10 STEPHENS : Oh really?
11 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yes sir and that was, you know.
12 STEPHENS : So let me ask you this and forgive me, I don 't use social media at
13 all, how far back am I gonna have to scroll to find this thing?
14 SCHIEFELBEIN: You're gonna have to go a distance, in order to go back to 2013
15 you have to go through every single thing that's been shared,
16 everything that someone has ever tagged you in, every single thing
17 that you ever posted, all the pictures that everyone has ever tagged
18 you or post you in, and you're having to go and look, you're gonna
19 have to go deep .
20 STEPHENS: And tell me the name of the comedian again?
21 SCHIEFELBEIN: Kevin Hait.
22 STEPHENS: Okay, I have no further.
23 PLUMMER: Piggy back on what Jim Bob just asked you, so the Recruit Gurley,
24 so -and is that a- is it a male?
26 PLUMMER: I guess it's a male.
27 STEPHENS: Yes.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, so he would have had to go back for a length of time to pull
29 this to bring this to your attention?
31 PLUMMER: Why would you think that he did that?
TG 8
1 SCHIEFELBEIN: I don't know, I can't-I can't speak on, you know, what other-what
2 other people do or say or anything like that, I can only control what
3 I do.
4 PLUMMER: Okay. I don't think I have anything else, Jim Bob do you think
5 that there's anything else we need to cover?
6 STEPHENS: . No ma'am just if he's got anything else he wants to say.
7 PLUMMER: Yeah, this is your opportunity if you have anything else you want
8 to say or if you want to speak with Jolm real quick and then you
9 can relay it.
10 GILCHRIST: I think he's good.
11 PLUMMER: Okay. Well sir if we don' t have anything after consulting with
12 your companion officer, we've already discussed that there's no
13 more comments to make, this interview is confidential and you are
14 hereby ordered not to discuss the contents with anyone other than
15 your immediate supervisor or the Internal Affairs unit of the Little
16 Rock Police Department. This interview is concluded at 1114
17 hours.
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TG 9
1 STATEMENT OF RECRUIT SCHIEFELBEIN
2 #2
3
4 This interview is with Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein, also present
5 is Officer John Gilchrist and present is myself, Sergeant Plummer, and also Sergeant Jim
6 Bob Stephens. The location is the Little Rock Police Department Internal Affairs Office,
7 today's date is November the 30th and the time is 0903 hours. Recruit Schiefelbein are
8 you aware that this interview is an internal administrative investigation and is being
9 recorded and will be treated as an official police report?
11 PLUMMER: Sir have you seen and read the complaint form as it relates to this
12 interview, basically this is a continuation of the previous
13 investigation that was ordered by the Chief of Police.
17 the department. Untruthfulness is defined as intentionally making
25 PLUMMER: Again, this is Internal Affairs investigation 2017-0029, what I want
26 to do sir, is I want to show you, this is a Facebook, a copy of a
27 Facebook messages between you and another Recruit okay and I
28 just-for the recorder I just want to let you know that that's what this
29 is. I want you to look at this and tell me if you recognize this
30 conversation?
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1 SCHIEFELBEIN: I do.
2 PLUMMER: Okay, and who is the conversation with?
3 SCHIEFELBEIN: Brandon Le Wayne Gurley.
4 PLUMMER: Okay, and he's another recruit there, correct?
6 PLUMMER: Okay, if you will tum to page-the third page right there.
8 PLUMMER: Okay, let me see just for a second, I'm sorry, I meant to- okay,
9 yeah, so we're gonna look right here on the third page.
11 PLUMMER: Can you read the bottom of that message for me?
12 SCHIEFELBEIN: Let's lean back off the Kool-Aid water fountain, fried chicken and
13 Shrek kid jokes.
14 PLUMMER: Okay, do you recall seeing that message in this conversation?
15 SCHIEFELBEIN: I do.
16 PLUMMER: Okay, can you tell me what that message means?
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: Uh-
18 PLUMMER: And let me step back, this message is from Recruit Gurley to you,
19 correct?
21 PLUMMER: Okay, and tell me what that message means?
22 . SCHIEFELBEIN: So Recruit Gurley is a bigger gentleman, he's six five or six six and
23 three hundred plus pounds. He's a big guy and so you know Shrek
24 is just a nickname, it's got nothing to do with anything, it's just a
25 nickname and then the Kool-Aid water fountain and fried chicken
26 jokes, we -we were just talking about food and different things like
27 that and decided, you know, what if we made a restaurant like that.
28 And in this same conversation that you know, we were having,
29 Recruit Gurley told me oh yeah, in Alabama we have they already
30 have those kind of, you know, places.
31 PLUMMER: Okay.
TG 2
1 SCHIEFELBEIN: And I was like okay, that's cool.
2 PLUMMER: So let- let's go back, so this conversation was conducted I believe
3 over Facebook message and you were not at -it wasn't during the
4 day and you weren't at recruit school, is that correct?
5 SCHIEFELBEIN: That is correct.
6 PLUMMER: Okay, and so when he made this comment to you.
8 PLUMMER: And you said that Shrek is a nickname.
10 PLUMMER: I want to start from the bottom and kind of work my way back up.
12 PLUMMER: So is Shrek a nickname that you call him?
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: It's just- well one day he picked me up and you know just like
14 hugging me because I helped him out-
15 PLUMMER: Okay, are you talking-referring to in your recruit school?
17 PLUMMER: Actually at Training?
19 PLUMMER: Okay.
20 SCHIEFELBEIN: So I helped him -I helped him out with tests you know, study, and
21 you know, gave him my notes and everything like that and he
22 passed one his test and he gave me a hug and I was like -I was just
23 like down Shrek and that's- that's all it was.
24 PLUMMER: Okay, do you know when that was, do you recall when that was?
25 SCHIEFELBEIN: No ma'am I don't.
26 PLUMMER: Okay, so when you say Shrek, is that something that you use as a
27 nickname for him or is that something that other recruits use?
28 SCHIEFELBEIN: You know I've heard other recruits say, I can't name a specific
29 person, but I -you know because he is a bigger gentleman.
30 PLUMMER: Okay.
31 SCHIEFELBEIN: It's just a nickname.
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1 PLUMMER: Wh(?-Were you the one that came up with that nickname for him?
2 SCHIEFELBEIN: I don't recall.
3 PLUMMER: Okay. What did- what did- so if you don't recall, did you hear that
4 from someone else?
5 SCHIEFELBEIN: I mean I have heard it from someone else.
6 PLUMMER: I'm talking about in this particular incident though, at recruit
7 school?
8 SCHIEFELBEIN: Whenever I called him Shrek?
9 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
10 SCHIEFELBEIN: Did I hear it from someone else first and then I -I don't know if I
11 said it first or someone else said it first whenever I used it.
12 PLUMMER: Okay.
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: I don't know if that was- I can't remember if that was the first time.
14 PLUMMER: Okay.
15 SCHIEFELBEIN: Someone has ever said that or anything like that.
16 PLUMMER: So you called him Shrek as a nickname, did you use that often with
17 him?
19 PLUMMER: Okay, so you're just saying that you used it one time?
20 SCHIEFELBEIN: Probably maybe once or twice, usually I just referred to him as Big
21 Gurley.
22 PLUMMER: Okay.
23 SCHIEFELBEIN: Because that's- you know whenever we first got in that was in his
24 autobiography that that was nickname he went by whenever he
25 was, you know, even growing up.
26 PLUMMER: Okay. So did Recruit Gurley at that time, did he seem like he was
27 offended by you calling him Shrek?
29 PLUMMER: Okay. Let's move up to this second part ofthat-
30 SCHIEFELBEIN: Sure.
31 PLUMMER: and it says-
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1 SCHIEFELBEIN: Kool-Aid water fountain?

2 PLUMMER: Kool-Aid water fountain and fried chicken.
4 PLUMMER: Was that comment ever made while y'all were in recruit school?
6 PLUMMER: It was?
8 PLUMMER: And who made that comment?
9 SCHIEFELBEIN: Uh-
10 PLUMMER: Did you make that comment sir?
11 SCHIEFELBEIN: The fried chicken?
12 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: I didn't initially say that.
14 PLUMMER: Okay, do you know who did say that?
15 SCHIEFELBEIN: No ma'am, it was- it was a conversation at lunch.
16 PLUMMER: Okay, so when -so y'all are -at lunch you're talking about at recruit
17 school at Training and when y'all break for lunch-
19 PLUMMER: y'all in a group?
21 PLUMMER: Okay, and the fried chicken comment was made during a group?
23 PLUMMER: And you don't know which particular recruit said that?
24 SCHIEFELBEIN: I mean there's- you know there's people that bring fried chicken all
25 the time.
26 PLUMMER: Okay.
27 SCHIEFELBEIN: It's just a common dish and we just were discussing it.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, what about the -the Kool-Aid?
30 PLUMMER: Water fountain is that-
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1 SCHIEFELBEIN: We were- we were talking about, you know, we were just
2 discussing like our favorite type of Kool-Aid and then like how
3 great would it be you know like if Mr. Deets had a Hawaiian punch
4 water fountain, how cool would it be if there was a Kool-aide
5 water fountain.
6 PLUMMER: So this was discussed between the group of y'all at lunch at recruit
7 school?
9 PLUMMER: Okay. And you don't recall any particular recruit basically saying
10 that, is that correct?
11 SCHIEFELBEIN: No ma'am, it's just- in the- like I said, in the group.
12 PLUMMER: Sir have you ever made that comment to Recruit Gurley with it just
13 being you and him?
15 PLUMMER: Okay. At the time was Recruit Gurley involved m this
16 conversation with other recruits?
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: He-he usually ate in the same areas I did.
18 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
19 SCHIEFELBEIN: So if anything, he overheard it because we were, you know, we're
20 all in the same group.
21 PLUMMER: Okay.
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: Eating at lunch.
23 PLUMMER: Now you had said earlier that he had made the comment that this
24 was something that they had in Alabama already?
26 PLUMMER: When did he make that comment?
27 SCHIEFELBEIN: Whenever we were all talking about it that day or it was the same
28 day, I can't remember exactly what day.
29 PLUMMER: Okay, was it-was it early on in recruit school?
30 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yes ma'am, it was even before he even messaged me about all of
31 this stuff.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay, so before he messaged you about this-
3 PLUMMER: then y'all, as a group, this comment and these comments were
4 discussed at lunch?
5 SCHIEFELBEIN: Uh huh. Uh huh.
6 PLUMMER: Okay, and he was -he participated in that conversation?
8 PLUMMER: Okay, because that's- from what you told me is where he said that
9 he-they already had this in Alabama?
10 SCHIEFELBEIN: Right.
11 PLUMMER: Okay, at that time did Recruit Gurley seem offended by any of
12 these remarks that were made?
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: No ma'am, I mean like I said, he -he even said oh we've -we've
14 already got this kind of stuff in Alabama, like restaurants like this
15 m-
16 PLUMMER: Okay.
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: Alabama.
18 PLUMMER: Is this the only time that you were aware that Recruit Gurley
19 brought this to your attention or anyone's attention?
21 STEPHENS: This group conversation, okay, and I've been out there and I was
22 out there during lunch one time, it seems like y'all were kind of
23 around that big table there-
25 STEPHENS: back in that storage room?
27 STEPHENS: And I'm not sure if you were there, but maybe there.
29 STEPHENS: So if I'm understanding the context he~e, you've got roughly eight
30 or ten, twelve people sitting around?
31 SCHIEFELBEIN: Maybe.
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1 STEPHENS: Okay. And then somebody, you don't know who-
3 STEPHENS : made a comment about fried chicken?
5 STEPHENS: And then it got to a conversation about restaurants-
7 STEPHENS : in Alabama that have fried chicken and Kool-Aid, I'm not
8 following everything.
10 STEPHENS: I want to know, you know -and we have this issue here of you've
11 got somebody and nobody knows who apparently, talking about
12 fried chicken.
14 STEPHENS: Which can or may or may not be, taken as a racial comment.
15 SCHIEFELBEIN: Okay.
16 STEPHENS: Do you understand what I'm saying?
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: I understand.
18 STEPHENS: And so I mean I -I really need some idea, you know whose there,
19 what's going on, I know you're saying you didn't say it first, but-
21 STEPHENS: I mean did you say it, you see what I'm saying, I want you to cover
22 those issues.
23 SCHIEFELBEIN: So there- there is -Recruit Watson, so he's another recruit out
24 there, he always brings massive plates of food.
25 STEPHENS: Okay.
26 SCHIEFELBEIN: And they are -and it varies, he just brings them from family
27 barbeques and whatnot and we were -
28 STEPHENS: Like home cooked leftover type plates?
29 SCHIEFELBEIN: I think- exactly.
30 STEPHENS: Okay.
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1 SCHIEFELBEIN: So I think that that's where it stemmed from because he always
2 brings the best looking most, you know, the greatest pallet of food
3 every -every single time that we go to lunch. I think it stemmed
4 from there and then we started talking about Kool-Aid and like
5 what- what our favorite kind was and stuff like that and you know,
6 you know my favorite kind is the red Kool-Aid, it's not-you know
7 we were just discussing, it's not cherry, we don't know that it's
8 cherry, it could be strawberry or just a red Kool-Aid and we were
9 talking about how -if we had that you know even -there were
10 multiple people there of multiple different races that were there
11 that we all decided well if we had a restaurant like that, that we
12 had, you know, different types of, you know, our favorite kid
13 drink, Kool-Aid and then fried chicken which who doesn't like
14 fried chicken, that it would be- that would be a place I would go
15 and eat at.
16 STEPHENS : I'm gonna put a little context to this, where did you grow up
17 please?
18 SCHIEFELBEIN: Where did I grow up?
19 STEPHENS: Uh huh.
20 SCHIEFELBEIN: So I was born in Illinois.
21 STEPHENS: Uh huh.
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: Right outside -basically on the border of Saint Louis and -and
23 then I lived in San Antonio for most of my life and then I moved
24 here.
25 STEPHENS: Okay, and how long have you been here please?
26 SCHIEFELBEIN: Seven years.
27 STEPHENS: Seven years?
29 STEPHENS: And you're how old now?
30 SCHIEFELBEIN: Twenty three.
31 STEPHENS: Okay, so since you were about sixteen?
TG 9
2 STEPHENS: All right, so you didn't spend a lot oftime in the American south is
3 what I'm getting at, is that correct?
4 SCHIEFELBEIN: Yeah, yes.
5 STEPHENS: Other than the seven years you were here?
6 GILCHRIST: San Antonio.
7 SCHIEFELBEIN: San Antonio, Texas.
8 STEPHENS: Okay, I would consider that southwest but-
10 STEPHENS: that's my mistake then.
12 STEPHENS: And that's fine.
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: But I -you know -I -
14 STEPHENS : Thanks for correcting me.
15 SCHIEFELBEIN: have relatives that live in Alabama so I mean I've been-
16 STEPHENS: Okay.
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: I've been, you know across -I've traveled a lot.
18 STEPHENS: But what I'm getting at here-
20 STEPHENS : is, you know, and I grew up in the American south okay, a lot ofus
21 did, and sometimes comments like this can be taken as racist.
23 STEPHENS: And my question is, do you recognize it as such, or did you when
24 y'all were talking about it?
25 SCHIEFELBEIN: No sir, it was just a conversation talking about good food and-you
26 know, good company, good, you know, good drinks, whatever, it
27 was just a conversation. I didn't -I didn't view it as anything more
28 than that.
29 STEPHENS: Okay, so you -you weren't thinking this is a type of food normally
30 consumed, or not normally, common consumed, okay.
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1 STEPHENS: That's what I wanted to know, to you it was just talking about
2 food?
3 SCHIEFELBEIN: Just talking about food.
4 STEPHENS: And it kind of stemmed out of -and I'm gonna summarize it, it
5 kind of stemmed out of something that Watson brought because
6 this gentleman -or man or woman?
7 SCHIEFELBEIN: Sir, it's a gentleman.
8 STEPHENS: Okay, this gentleman brings leftovers and-
IO STEPHENS: stuff, home cooked kind of stuff?
12 STEPHENS: Okay. I don't have anything else.
13 PLUMMER: Sir, when this group, when y'all- and I assume -I don't know how
14 many males or females you have in that class, how many are black
15 or white or whatever, but in that lunch time when y'all were all
16 around there, is that a diverse group, was that a diverse group of
17 people that were having-
18 SCHIEFELBEIN: Y es ma'am.
19 PLUMMER: this conversation?
21 PLUMMER: Okay.
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: It sure was.
23 PLUMMER: And no one in that conversation later at any point, thought that that
24 was something they shouldn't be talking about or was
25 inappropriate?
27 PLUMMER: Okay. And you had said and I just want to clarify, that that
28 conversation took place early on in your recruit school, is that
29 correct?
TG 11
1 PLUMMER: And do you recall how long between the time that you got this
2 Facebook message from Gurley to that?
4 PLUMMER: From the- from the conversation -the initial lunch conversation?
5 SCHIEFELBEIN: If I had to guess maybe late September, really early October.
6 PLUMMER: Okay.
7 SCHIEFELBEIN: If I had to guess.
8 PLUMMER: Okay, so-
9 SCHIEFELBEIN: And this was not- yeah, this was not sent to me later that day, it
10 was sent to me the same time he came to me with the picture
11 asking me what was-what was up with this.
12 PLUMMER: Okay.
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: And I told him I apologize for it and everything.
14 PLUMMER: So would it be accurate to say that a significant amount of time had
15 passed from the initial conversation with everyone at lunch until
16 Gurley sent you this Facebook message?
17 SCHIEFELBEIN: I would believe so.
18 PLUMMER: Okay. I don't think I have anything else.
19 STEPHENS: Other than this Facebook message-
21 STEPHENS: And prior to us coming out and initiating our investigation, did you
22 receive this prior to us coming out and initiating our investigation
23 last week?
25 STEPHENS: Okay.
27 STEPHENS: So other than this Facebook message, has Gurley spoken to you
28 about any issues he has with the comments you've made, anything
29 you've said, anything you've done, you know whether it be by
30 Facebook or other than this Facebook message here-
TG 12
1 STEPHENS: have you had any conversations with him, has he complained
2 about your actions, words, or deeds?
4 STEPHENS: Okay.
5 PLUMMER: And also, I just want to go back to, you had said that you had -that
6 you helped Recruit Gurley.
8 PLUMMER: Has that been something that you've done from the beginning
9 when you were in recruit school and you would help him study for
10 tests?
11 SCHIEFELBEIN: Absolutely.
12 PLUMMER: Okay, and have you done that throughout your recruit school?
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: So yes I've helped him through -through a lot of things you know,
14 weapons, because you know he's not very-you know me being in
15 the military I know about weaponry, so I helped him out with that.
16 I gave him my full notes after he failed a test I -I took out my time
17 during my lunch period and during my breaks to help him study
18 and I gave him my handwritten notes. I've done that multiple
19 times and anyone that you would ask in my class would know, I'm
20 the first person to go help him out.
21 PLUMMER: Okay.
22 SCHIEFELBEIN: Furthermore, if I do get back in and go back to recruit school, the
23 type of person that I am, it doesn't matter, you know, okay this-
24 this all stemmed and I understand it's -it's a perception thing and I
25 -and I've learned a lot from this, that I need to watch, you know,
26 how things are perceived because things that I perceive are not the
27 same as what, you know, any person in this room could perceive. I
28 would go back, ifhe needed help, if Gurley needed help, I'm gonna
29 help him, no matter what, it doesn't matter what you've done to
30 me. I understand what I did wrong you know, back- back when I
31 was a civilian you know almost five years ago, I understood that,
TG 13
1 you know, that one- that was you know one of my First
2 Amendment Rights because I wasn't in a police capacity, nor was I
3 looking to become a police officer five years ago, and I did that in
4 the civilian capacity. But now I know, perception, no matter what,
5 anything can come back, but I will, no matter what, I will help him
6 if he needs help on a test, I'm gonna help him, if he needs help on
7 driving just like we did down in Camden and I sat in the- I sat in a
8 car with him to help him learn how to drive, I will do that.
9 PLUMMER: Okay.
10 SCHIEFELBEIN: Because that is the type of person that I am.
11 PLUMMER: Are you -does he reach out to anybody else in the class to help him
12 or are you pretty much the one he reaches out to?
13 SCHIEFELBEIN: He -he's reached out to a couple other people, but you know, in my
14 class right now, I'm leading -I'm leading in academics so if
15 anyone, if anyone needs help they always come ask me. You
16 know I've had other recruits call me in the middle of the night, hey
17 man what do you think, you know what do you think is gonna be
18 on the test, what do you think about this, and then I'll, you know,
19 and- and he's, you know I've reached out to him during while we
20 were at recruit school and just asked him, you know, are you
21 getting this, okay well let me quiz you on it a little bit and then
22 here, here is my notes, let's copy-let's, you know, let's- let's see if-
23 PLUMMER: Okay.
24 SCHIEFELBEIN: compare up.
25 PLUMMER: Okay. After consulting with your companion officer are there any
26 comments you want to make or provide clarity of any issue in this
27 investigation?
29 PLUMMER: Okay. Recruit Schiefelbein-
30 SCHIEFELBEIN: Bein.
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1 PLUMMER: Bein, sorry, and Officer Gilchrist, this interview is confidential and
2 you are hereby ordered not to discuss the contents with anyone
3 other than your immediate supervisor or the Internal Affairs unit of
4 the Little Rock Police Department. This interview is concluded at
5 0921 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF RECRUIT GURLEY
2
3 This interview is with police recruit Brandon Gurley, present is
4 Officer Anthony Withers as his companion officer. I'm Sergeant Christy Plummer, also
5 present is Sergeant Jim Bob Stephens, the location is the Little Rock Police Department
6 Training Division. Today's date is Tuesday, November the 2!5 1 and the time is 1157
7 hours. Mr. Gurley are you aware that this interview is an internal administrative
8 investigation and is being recorded and will be treated as an official police report?
9 GURLEY: Yes ma'am.
10 PLUMMER: Can you scoot up some for me, I want to make sure we get you on
11 tape there okay?
13 PLUMMER: Mr. Gurley have you seen and read the complaint form as it relates
14 to this interview, basically what I informed you it's an internal
15 investigation ordered by the Chief of Police?
16 GURLEY: Yes ma'am, I got the (inaudible) but I haven't seen the form yet.
17 PLUMMER: Right, there is no form.
18 GURLEY: Okay.
19 PLUMMER: That's just -it's an investigation that was ordered by the Chief of
20 Police.
21 GURLEY: ·Yes ma'am.
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2 PLUMMER: Mr. Gurley this is in reference to Internal Affairs investigation
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.) 2017-0029, I'm gonna show you a post that was made by police
4 recruit Brandon Schiefelbein I believe?
5 GURLEY:· Schiefelbein.
6 PLUMMER: Have you seen this post before sir?
7 GURLEY: Yes ma'am I have.
8 PLUMMER: Okay and how did you see this post?
9 GURLEY: It was brought to my attention by another recruit, Katina Jones,
10 that's the first person that showed it to me and she didn ' t know
11 what to do or what to say or, you know, she kind of was like
12 surprised. ·A t the time she found this Recruit Schiefelbein wasn' t
13 even in the academy at the time and she wanted to see what
14 Recruit Schiefelbein looked like and I guess just what he was
15 about and she stumbled on this and you know, came across it and I
16 ended up finding out about it that way so.
17 PLUMMER: Okay, so another recruit, you said Katina Jones, brought this to
18 your attention?
19 GURLEY: Correct.
20 PLUMMER: When was that?
21 GURLEY: I'm not sure about the date or time that-but I know it was probably
22 the week after he had gotten here for sure.
23 PLUMMER: Okay, so when did you stmi recruit school?
24 GURLEY: My hire date was August the 2I5 1•
25 WITHERS : Around there, yeah.
26 GURLEY: Yeah.
27 PLUMMER: Okay, so and you said that Recruit Brandon was not in the recruit
28 class at the time?
29 GURLEY: No, he wasn't here but we knew that he was coming.
30 PLUMMER: Okay.
31 GURLEY: Yeah.
TG 2
1 PLUMMER: Okay, so are you friends with him on Facebook?
2 GURLEY: Yeah he added me on Facebook.
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.) PLUMMER: Okay, and so when Katina Jones brought this to your attention
4 what was her reason for doing that?
5 GURLEY: I guess because of this word right here, nigga, "Go night night
6 nigga, go night night", I guess I mean he's an African American
7 male, nigga was what African American males and females were,
8 you know, called back in earlier times and I guess she felt that it
9 might be some type of racism so.
10 PLUMMER: Okay, so-
11 GURLEY: And especially with him being a military guy as well.
12 PLUMMER: Okay, do you know the gentleman that's in the picture?
13 GURLEY: No ma'am I don't.
14 PLUMMER: So when she brought this to your attention did she bring you this
15 picture like this or did she tell you to go on his Facebook and look
16 at it?
17 GURLEY: No, she showed me on her phone?
18 PLUMMER: So she pulled it up on her phone?
19 GURLEY: She showed it to me on her phone then she sent it to me, I have a
20 copy of this on my phone.
21 PLUMMER: Okay, as a photo?
22 GURLEY: Yeah as a photo.
23 PLUMMER: Okay. And when she sent that to you was that during working
24 hours?
25 GURLEY: No it wasn't during working hours.
26 PLUMMER: Okay, so you weren't at the Training Academy then?
27 GURLEY: No ma'am, we were off work.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, so when you-when you received this from her what -what
29 did you do with it?
30 GURLEY: When I received it from her I mean it shocked me, I mean you
31 know I couldn't believe that he had made it this far and you know,
TG 3
1 calling him a military man and it kind of devastated me . At first I
2 didn't know, I had to pray about it and you know, I had to-
3 PLUMMER: Let me- what devastated you about it?
4 GURLEY: Because I mean I didn't know he- I mean somebody you know, you
5 know this day and age would still use language like that towards a
6 person you know of that, you know, race.
7 PLUMMER: Okay, so you -when you saw this the word nigga offended you, is
8 that correct? Is that what you're telling me?
9 GURLEY: If you -I have some strong feeling towards that word, I've been
10 called that word myself so if someone would, say for instance, call
11 me a nigga, I wouldn't like react to it as far as name calling back or
12 wanting to get into a physical altercation like that so I mean it
13 wouldn't make me angry enough to do anything like that, but it
14 does bother me.
15 PLUMMER: Okay.
16 GURLEY: Yeah it does.
17 PLUMMER: So you said that you prayed about this, and did you bring this up to
18 Recruit Brandon' s attention?
19 GURLEY: Yes, on Face book I asked him about it and he told me that -we had
20 a conversation on Facebook and I have that conversation still to-
21 PLUMMER: When you say on Facebook, are you talking about Facebook
22 messenger?
23 GURLEY: Yes ma'am, Yes ma'am.
24 PLUMMER: Okay, so you brought it to his attention on Facebook?
25 GURLEY: Uh huh.
26 PLUMMER: Okay, and you didn' t bring it to his attention while you were at the
27 Training Academy?
28 GURLEY: No, at the time I was studying for a test and it had- it was just on
29 my mind and I feel like you know maybe I need to talk to him and
30 you know, see what was going on and -and he and I talked and he
31 said he didn't mean anything by it and you know that at the end of
TG 4
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1 the day that he cares about all of us and you know he's not that
2 type of person. He said he was just quoting Kevin Hart or
3 something of that -
4 PLUMMER: The comedian?
5 GURLEY: nature but you know I told him-
6 PLUMMER: The comedian?
8 PLUMMER: Okay.
9 GURLEY: Yes ma'am, and I told him if he's g01ma do that then he needs to
10 probably put Kevin Hart' s name on the bottom and put this in
11 quotation form if he's go1ma do it that way, but it wasn' t that way,
12 it just says "Go night night nigga, go night night" so.
13 PLUMMER: Okay and so after you had that messenger conversation with
14 Brandon did he remove this from his Facebook?
15 GURLEY: I don't know, I didn't -ma'am let me tell you, I've never gone on
16 his page, we were friends on Facebook, but I never went on his
17 page to actually look, you know, through his photos or through his
18 comments, we're Facebook friends and that's it.
19 PLUMMER: Okay.
20 GURLEY: So.
21 PLUMMER: So you actually, again, saw this from Katina Jones, correct?
22 GURLEY: Correct.
23 PLUMMER: And she sent it to you-
24 GURLEY: Y es.
25 PLUMMER: as a photo?
27 PLUMMER: And you said that the conversation you had with Brandon was on
28 messenger and that you still have those messages?
30 PLUMMER: And would you be willing to provide those to us?
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1 PLUMMER: Okay. After you spoke with Brandon -so you don' t know if he
2 removed it from his Face- did he tell you he did?
3 GURLEY: He told me-
4 PLUMMER: Okay.
5 GURLEY: that he did but as far as me knowing, you know -
6 PLUMMER: So you didn't go back on there and check?
7 GURLEY: Huh uh.
8 PLUMMER: Okay.
9 GURLEY: I never-like I said I never been on his page looking at his page,
10 scrolling through his pictures.
11 PLUMMER: Mr. Gurley after you contacted Brandon did you notify anybody
12 else about this statement or this comment or this post?
13 GURLEY: Well I talked to a person that I been knowing since I moved to
14 Arkansas.
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15 PLUMMER: Who is that?
16 GURLEY:
17 PLUMMER: U h huh.
18 GURLEY: And he's just been a big influence on me, telling me you know not
19 to quit because it's been times in this academy that-
20 PLUMMER: Okay.
21 GURLEY: I feel like you know I was at my wits end and-
22 PLUMMER: Mr. Gurley did you send this to -
23 GURLEY: Yes ma'am I did, he-he wanted to physically, you know, see it and
24 look at it and-
25 PLUMMER: Did he give you a reason why he wanted to physically see it or
26 look at it?
27 GURLEY: He just wanted to see it for himself.
28 PLUMMER: Okay. Do you know if did anything with it after he
29 received it from you?
30 GURLEY: I have no clue ma'am.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay. Did discuss this with you after you sent it to
2 him?
3 GURLEY: He just told me that just to hang in there and this, you know, thing
4 is, you know, in the academy and then more than likely it might go
5 away or, you know.
6 PLUMMER: Okay, so I want to ask you, y'all have a chain of _c ommand that you
7 go through out here, correct?
8 GURLEY: Correct.
9 PLUMMER: Okay. Did you notify your immediate supervisor about this?
10 GURLEY: No ma'am I didn' t.
11 PLUMMER: Why did you not?
12 GURLEY: First of all, at that point and time we had just started so I mean I
13 was -I've known about the chain of command, but I know- I know
14 about the chain of command, but I didn' t know how -at that point
15 and time just beginning the academy, how to go about getting
16 some-someone information like this.
17 PLUMMER: Okay, so is it correct to state that you reached out to -
18 - because you've known him ·and so you relayed that
19 information to him and he's not in your chain of command,
20 correct?
21 GURLEY: Correct.
22 PLUMMER: Okay. And that was where you were getting the advice from as to
23 proceed?
25 PLUMMER: Sergeant Stephens?
26 STEPHENS: No ma'am.
27 PLUMMER: Do you have anything you want to confer to him about?
28 WITHERS : Huh uh.
29 PLUMMER: Mr. Gurley is there anything else that you feel like that we should
30 know about?
31 GURLEY: At this time no, if you all need to -
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1 PLUMMER: Sergeant Stephens?

2 STEPHENS: Obviously you were offended by this? You have to say yes or no,
"I
.) you can't shake your head okay?
4 GURLEY: Yes sir.
5 STEPHENS : Okay. Have there been any other instances involving- well I can't
6 pronounce his last name, Schiefelbein, that have caused you
7 concern?
8 GURLEY: I haven't for say, myself, heard anything.
9 STEPHENS: Personal knowledge, what you know and not what somebody else
10 tells you, what you know.
11 GURLEY: No I don ' t know anything.
12 STEPHENS: Okay.
13 GURLEY: Yeah.
14 STEPHENS: That's all I have, I'm sorry.
15 PLUMMER: And Katina Jones, did you -after you spoke with Brandon did you
16 discuss this with her anymore, do you know if she reached out to
17 Brandon at any point?
18 GURLEY: I'm not sure what they do on their time.
19 PLUMMER: Okay.
20 GURLEY: If-
21 PLUMMER: So you didn't talk with her about this anymore then?
22 GURLEY: Huh uh.
23 PLUMMER: Okay, I don' t have anything.
24 STEPHENS: No fm1her.
25 PLUMMER: Mr. Gurley this interview is confidential and you are hereby
26 ordered not to discuss the contents with anyone other than your
27 immediate supervisor or the Internal Affairs unit of the Little Rock
28 Police Department. This also includes your companion officer.
29 Do you have something?
30 GURLEY: Yeah I do. I'm trying to think, when you asked me -you asked me
31 did Katina talk to anyone, could you repeat that question again?
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1 PLUMMER: I believe I asked you if after you spoke with Brandon if you and
2 Katina Jones discussed what you had talked with Brandon about or
do you know if she reached out to anybody else in reference to
4 this?
5 GURLEY: We talked, but as far as about this and I think on numerous
6 occasions, but as far as her getting in contact with anybody I'm
7 not-I'm not sure.
8 PLUMMER: Okay.
9 GURLEY: Yeah.
10 PLUMMER: That was it?
11 GURLEY: Yeah.
12 PLUMMER: Is that all you have?
13 GURLEY: Yeah that was it.
14 PLUMMER: Okay this interview is concluded at 1208 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF BRANDON GURLEY
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4 This interview is with Recruit Brandon Gurley, also present with
5 him is his companion officer, Officer Kenneth Thompson, present is myself, Sergeant
6 Plummer, also present is Sergeant Stephens. The location is the Little Rock Police
7 Department Internal Affairs Office, today's date is November the 30th and the time is
8 1006 hours. Recruit Gurley are you aware that this interview is an internal administrative
9 investigation and is being recorded and will be treated as an official police report?
11 PLUMMER: Recruit Gurley have you seen and read the complaint form as it
12 relates to this interview, basically this is a continuation of the
13 ,i nvestigation that we already interviewed you about and it's an
14 investigation ordered by the Chief of Police.
16 PLUMMER: Do you understand that sir?
17 GURLEY: I understand.
18 PLUMMER: Employees are required to be honest and truthful in all matters
19 related to their scope of employment and the operations of the
20 department. Untruthfulness is defined as intentionally making a
21 false, misleading or untrue statement. This requirement applies to
22 all oral statements and written statements. Written statements
28 PLUMMER: Recruit Gurley this is in reference to Internal Affairs investigation
29 2017-0029, myself and Sergeant Stephens met with you last week
30 and we conducted an interview with you, at that time after the
TG
1 interview you had provided us with Facebook messages between
2 you and Recruit Schiefelbein, is that correct?
3 GURLEY: That's c01Tect ma'am.
4 PLUMMER: Okay, I wanted to show you a quote in one of these messages and
5 just for the record, this is a copy of the Facebook message that you
6 provided to us and will you read this statement on page three to me
7 right here?
8 GURLEY: Let's lean back off the Kool-Aid water fountain, fried chicken and
9 Shrek kid jokes.
10 PLUMMER: Okay, and you sent that to Recruit Schiefelbein, is that correct?
11 GURLEY: That's c01Tect.
12 PLUMMER: And tell me what you meant when you sent this statement to him?
13 GURLEY: I just wanted him to stop inaking jokes, just pretty much about it
14 you know, you know go any fmiher than that.
15 PLUMMER: Okay, so let's go back, when did- when did Recruit Schiefelbein
16 make this comment or make these jokes to you?
17 GURLEY: The Shrek kids joke, we were going to lunch one day and he -he
18 told me he went on my personal Facebook this day and he seen my
19 kids and upon seeing pictures of my kids he told me, yeah your
20 kids are cute, and I'm quoting him as I'm saying this, " Your kids
21 are cute Gurley, but they're gonna grow up looking like Sl1rek just
22 like you".
23 PLUMMER: Okay. So the Shrek comment you're telling me that he made that
24 comment to you over Facebook?
25 GURLEY: No, he didn't make- it was in- it was in front of the other recruits
26 and myself.
27 PLUMMER: Okay, where were you at when that comment was made to you?
28 GURLEY: Either I was- I can't remember if I was standing, if I was sitting,
29 I'm unce1iain, but I was in the back room, our first break room
30 right behind classroom number two.
31 PLUMMER: Okay. So were y'all on a break as a group?
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1 GURLEY: We were either on break or we were on lunch, but I know-

2 PLUMMER: Okay.
3 GURLEY: we were eating so it had to be lunch.
4 PLUMMER: Okay, so y'all- so you are, as a group, eating lunch?
6 PLUMMER: Okay, and who was all present during that time?
7 GURLEY: I can't remember faces, I mean I can't remember exactly every
8 single person that was in that room that day so-
9 PLUMMER: Okay.
10 GURLEY: I can't-
11 PLUMMER: Okay, so it was a group of you recruits in there eating lunch?
13 PLUMMER: Okay, and he- and he made the Shrek comment?
14 GURLEY: Yes ma'am about my children.
15 PLUMMER: Okay. Okay, during that same time was the -was the jokes made
16 about the Kool-Aid and the fried chicken?
17 GURLEY: That had to be later on down the line, weeks before that comment
18 was made, I can't remember exactly what day that quote was made,
19 that joke was made, but other than that, I can't- like I said I pretty
20 much can't remember what day, what week, what time it happened.
21 PLUMMER: Okay, so let me back up, so the comments about the -the fried
22 chicken and the Kool-Aid, that was made before the Shrek
23 comment?
25 PLUMMER: Okay, and was that made early in your recruit school?
27 PLUMMER: And was that made as a group of recruits or did Recruit
28 Schiefelbein make that statement himself?
29 GURLEY: Well upon leaving the break room and me going back into the class
30 room, I was on my way to my desk and I was getting ready to sit
31 down when I overheard fried chicken and Kool-Aid and you know
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1 that already sent up -I told you I overheard it, I didn't hear the
2 whole joke, I didn't hear the whole joke.
3 PLUMMER: Okay, so would it be accurate to say that that was during your
4 lunch period as well?
5 GURLEY: That probably was during the ten minute break.
6 PLUMMER: Okay. And the group of them were having that conversation, is
7 that right?
9 PLUMMER: Okay, so it wasn' t just something that was directed right towards
10 you, is that correct?
11 GURLEY: Oh no ma'am it wasn' t directed towards me.
12 PLUMMER: Okay, so it was a group of the recruits and they're having a
13 conversation?
14 GURLEY: If I can explain what actually happened, Recruit Walker who is my
15 desk buddy that sits right next to me he was in that group, he
16 walked -out of my peripheral vision I seen Recruit Walker away
17 from that group, upon, you know, coming back to our desk where
18 we all sit down. Recruit Walker asked me did I hear anything from
19 that group and I told him fried chicken, Kool-Aid, you know that's
20 pretty much all I heard, he was like well it went right over Recruit
21 King ' s head and I was like what went over Recruit King ' s head.
22 He said that -he told me that the -that Schiefelbein asked Recruit
23 King if he opened up a restaurant and it had all you could drink
24 Kool-Aid water fountains, fried chicken and watermelon, would he
25 come.
26 PLUMMER: Okay. And -and what happened after that immediate conversation
27 you had with him?
28 GURLEY: I was in disbelief, but I believed him because I did hear the Kool-
29 Aid and the fried chicken but I couldn't hear the initial begi1ming
30 of the joke until the end.
31 PLUMMER: Okay.
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1 GURLEY: All I heard was Kool-Aid and fried chicken, I told him that I heard
2 that much.
3 PLUMMER: Recruit Walker, is he a black officer or a white officer?
4 GURLEY: He's white ma'am.
5 PLUMMER: Okay. He's- okay so Recruit Walker is a white recruit?
7 PLUMMER: And what about Recruit King?
8 GURLEY: He's black.
9 PLUMMER: Okay. And they were both involved in that conversation?
10 GURLEY: Correct.
11 PLUMMER: Okay, after you heard that and they- they said something about the
12 restaurants involving the chicken I believe and the fountain of
13 Kool-Aid.
14 GURLEY: And watermelon.
15 PLUMMER: And water-okay.
16 GURLEY: Well I didn't put watermelon in there, I just sh011ened it up because
17 as I'm texting on Facebook is what we do.
18 PLUMMER: Okay.
19 GURLEY: You know, this generation.
20 PLUMMER: Okay.
21 GURLEY: I just sho11ened it up some.
22 PLUMMER: So sir did you make a statement to anyone after they made that
23 comment as to oh we already have those restaurants in Alabama?
24 GURLEY: Do we have- no .
25 PLUMMER: So you never made the comment after that when you heard that,
26 that these s011 of restaurants already exist?
27 GURLEY: No, not -not a restaurant that sells Kool-Aid, fried chicken and
28 watermelon, no, and I probably had a conversation with somebody
29 about fried -eating fried chicken at Green Acres Chicken in
30 Birmingham, Alabama, letting them know how good the chicken is
31 there, but as far as that goes, no.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay.
2 STEPHENS : What exactly did you say?
3 GURLEY: I can't remember sir, even a conversation, like I said, we have
4 casual- I have casual conversation with everybody, I intermingle
5 with everyone so me saying something to a -pertaining to a certain
6 recruit about having a restaurant in Alabama, some type of
7 restaurant like this in Alabama, I can't recall that restaurant, but -
8 you know, I don't recall.
9 STEPHENS : Let me -I want to make sure I fully understand what you're telling
10 me okay?
11 GURLEY: Yes sir.
12 STEPHENS : So you overhear somebody say something about fried chicken and
13 Kool-Aid?
14 GURLEY: yes .
15 STEPHENS : Do you know who that somebody was?
16 GURLEY: I heard Recruit Schiefelbein's words, fried chicken and Kool-Aid,
17 I don 't remember anything outside of him telling the joke about
18 fried chicken, watermelon and Kool-Aid, that's all I heard, fried
19 chicken -fried chicken and Kool-Aid water fountains, that's the
20 only thing that I heard.
21 STEPHENS: Okay, so you heard that?
22 GURLEY: Yes sir.
23 STEPHENS: And then Walker comes up to you and asks you about it?
24 GURLEY: Yeah asked me about it, yes sir.
25 STEPHENS : Okay, and-
26 GURLEY: I told him I didn't know, I told him that the fried- I heard the part
27 about fried chicken and Kool-Aid water fountains, but I didn't
28 hear-
29 STEPHENS: Okay.
30 GURLEY: the initial part of the conversation.
31 STEPHENS: Were you a part of the original conversation?
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1 GURLEY: No sir.
2 STEPHENS: You just overheard something?
3 GURLEY: Yes sir.
4 STEPHENS: And Walker came up and asked you something about it?
5 GURLEY: Yes sir.
6 STEPHENS: He mentioned King, but you didn't talk to King about it? Is that
7 correct?
8 GURLEY: I talked to King about that conversation, yes sir.
9 STEPHENS: All right what did you and King talk about?
10 GURLEY: Me and King talked about him joking about fried chicken and
11 watermelon, how did that make him feel, he said he didn't feel any
12 type of way and I advised him, I was like look, you know that's
13 kind of being-the word I'm looking for, I can't think of it right- but
14 it wasn't- it wouldn't be fair in my opinion towards someone
15 saying something like that towards him, that's what I let him know
16 at that time. I can't remember the exact word that I used, it wasn't
17 racist, it was probably biased, the word biased, he was being biased
18 towards King by saying that or judgmental, something along those
19 lines, but other than that I can't remember the like exactly the
20 conversation was.
21 STEPHENS: So what you're telling me is, you went to King and you said he
22 wasn't insulted and you said -and you told him he should have
23 been insulted?
24 GURLEY: I felt like he should have been, yes sir.
25 STEPHENS: Okay. All right, so you rock along and you start talking about
26 something about the thing about restaurants comes up, .is this in the
27 same day, same conversation?
28 GURLEY: No, we didn't have a conversation about -after -
29 STEPHENS: When did the restaurant thing come up?
30 GURLEY: I can't remember the day sir, I can't remember the time, I can't
31 remember the week.
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1 STEPHENS: In relation with this?
2 GURLEY: No sir I can't remember, it was- it was later on down the road after
3 he made that -probably around the time that he made that joke
4 about my kids about the Shrek kid joke.
5 STEPHENS: So the conversation comes up about restaurants?
6 GURLEY: Yes sir.
7 STEPHENS: Okay, who said what about the restaurant that got you fired up to
8 say something about the Alabama restaurant?
9 GURLEY: No one said anything about an Alabama restaurant sir, I-
10 STEPHENS: You just said you did?
11 GURLEY: Yeah, once upon a time ago, a long time ago, it wasn't -it relates
12 to this day or what happened in this particular day or anything -
13 PLUMMER: Was it anytime when you were in recruit school?
14 GURLEY: Probably like they were asking me where- you know what's good
15 to eat in Alabama and I probably mentioned that we have a good
16 fried chicken restaurant.
17 STEPHENS: Okay so your comments about eating at this place in Alabama -
18 GURLEY: Yes sir.
19 STEPHENS: had nothing to do with this conversation, is that what you're telling
20 me?
21 GURLEY: Huh uh. No sir.
22 STEPHENS: So but you don't remember who you were talking to when you had
23 that conversation about restaurants in Alabama?
24 GURLEY: Yes sir I don't remember.
25 STEPHENS: You don't remember?
26 GURLEY: No sir.
27 STEPHENS: You don't remember when it was?
28 GURLEY: No sir.
29 STEPHENS: Was it before or after this, do you have any clue?
30 GURLEY: Probably before this had even taken place, I believe it probably
31 was around when we was trying to get to know each other and they
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1 were trying to probably ask me things about, you know, where I'm
2 from and what's good to eat there, are you an Alabama fan, things
3 of that nature and of course I am and I love, you know, where I
4 come from I love the places to eat in Alabama, but as far as it
5 relating to this day, no sir, I don't remember. I don't remember me
6 recalling anything about how fried chicken, watermelon and Kool-
7 Aid would have corresponded to this day, no sir I don't remember
8 that.
9 STEPHENS: Okay. You can remember specifically Schiefelbein, Walker and
10 King talking to you that day?
11 GURLEY: I didn't talk to Schiefelbein that day.
12 STEPHENS: You remember Schiefelbein saying it though, is that what you
13 said?
14 GURLEY: Yes sir I do.
15 STEPHENS: Okay, and you remember talking to Walker?
16 GURLEY: Yes sir I do.
17 STEPHENS: And you remember talking to King?
18 GURLEY: Yes sir.
19 STEPHENS: But something along the same lines you don't remember who you
20 were talking to? All right.
21 GURLEY: Walker, I remember talking to Walker about it.
22 STEPHENS: About restaurants in Alabama?
23 GURLEY: No.
24 STEPHENS: About what, that was my -that was my question to you.
25 GURLEY: No. No I don't, I don't remember. I don't- I don't remember, I
26 swear I don't remember who I was talking to about restaurants in
27 Alabama, like I said, if I was having a conversation about that to
28 anyone, it would have been towards the very beginning of the
29 academy on us getting to know one another and getting to know,
30 you know, where I come from, what restaurants I like and what
31 sports team.
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1 STEPHENS: That's when you would have said something?

2 GURLEY: Yes sir.
3 STEPHENS: Immediately upon the end of interview she and I are headed to
4 Training.
5 GURLEY: Yes sir.
6 STEPHENS: To talk to every one of these people about this.
7 GURLEY: Yes sir.
8 STEPHENS: Okay.
9 GURLEY: Okay.
10 STEPHENS: And my problem here is, that you remember some things so well,
11 so specifically and there are things that seem to have hurt your
12 feelings or insulted you or whatever term you want to use, does
13 that make sense?
14 GURLEY: That makes sense.
15 STEPHENS: Okay, but things that, you know, all of these other things you just-
16 you just don't remember and that doesn't make sense to me. How
17 come you can remember some things so well, but other things not
18 so well?
19 GURLEY: Sir I don' t remember having -recall having a conversation with
20 anybody about fried chicken, watermelon, restaurants - and Kool-
21 Aid restaurants in Alabama, I don't remember that, I sincerely
22 don't remember.
23 STEPHENS: You recall a conversation about restaurants in Alabama?
24 GURLEY: Yeah, somebody might have asked me one day and they probably
25 did ask me, you know, and (inaudible) if that person was in front
26 of me and reminded me, I would probably agree and say yeah we
27 probably did but it wasn't in correlation to this conversation.
28 STEPHENS: And that was my next question, it had nothing to do with this
29 conversation?
30 GURLEY: No sir.
31 STEPHENS: Okay, I have nothing else on that.
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1 PLUMMER: And you said that that-that what you just said would have been
2 prior to this - the conversation that you overheard?
4 PLUMMER: Okay. And in that conversation you overheard Schiefelbein say
5 something about fried chicken and watermelon, you caught the last
6 part of that conversation?
7 GURLEY: I heard him saying something about Kool-Aid water fountains and
8 fried chicken.
9 PLUMMER: Okay, but you were not involved in the conversation initially and
10 the whole entire conversation, correct?
11 GURLEY: That's correct ma'am.
12 PLUMMER: But Recruit Walker and Recruit King were?
14 PLUMMER: And Recruit King is a black recruit, is that correct?
15 GURLEY: That's correct ma'am.
16 PLUMMER: And at the time he did not find that offensive until you brought that
17 to his attention, is that correct?
18 GURLEY: He said he found that offensive?
19 PLUMMER: That's not what you told me the first time.
20 GURLEY: He said that he found it -he found that offensive, he said that to
21 me, he did say that to me, but he said it didn't bother him, that's-
22 that's the- that's the conversation that we had. Recruit King and I,
23 when we had our conversation he -I told him, well I asked him, I
24 said how did you feel about that conversation that -the
25 conversation that you all had because I let him know that Walker
26 told me about it. He told me he- that he was offended by it, but he
27 -as far as taking it up to someone or letting someone know about
28 it-
29 PLUMMER: Recruit Gurley that is not what you said the first time, you said that
30 he- it did not offend him and you had to bring it to his attention
TG 11
1 and basically kind of convince him of that, is that not what you
2 told me the first time?
3 GURLEY: Ma'am I didn't convince him of anything, I didn't convince him of
4 anything. Yeah I didn't convince- I didn't convince him of
5 anything.
6 PLUMMER: So the conversation that you and Recruit King had, was that
7 immediately after you hearing that from Schiefelbein?
9 PLUMMER: Okay. Let's go back to the Shrek remark, is it accurate enough to
10 say that Recruit Schiefelbein is one of the ones that help you
11 through recruit school academically and in other areas of recruit
12 school?
13 GURLEY: Yeah he's one of the recruits that -
14 PLUMMER: Okay.
15 GURLEY: does help me, yes ma'am.
16 PLUMMER: Okay, and is it accurate to say that at one time he helped you pass
17 one of the tests?
18 GURLEY: We have-no, no ma'am, he-he didn't help me pass a test.
19 PLUMMER: Okay, did he help you study for a test?
20 GURLEY: Yeah he helped me study for a test.
21 PLUMMER: Okay. And did you pass that test, or have you passed tests that he's
22 helped you with?
23 GURLEY: I wouldn't put it all on him saying that he was the only one that
24 particularly helped me with that test, but he's a part of it.
25 PLUMMER: He- he does-he -
26 GURLEY: He does help, yes ma'am.
27 PLUMMER: provides some sort of -
29 PLUMMER: tutoring or something or notes or something for you, 1s that
30 correct?
31 GURLEY: Yes ma'am he did.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay, is it accurate to say that at one point after you had passed the
2 test that you came up and gave him a big hug and he said oh Shrek,
3 something like its okay or something like that?
4 GURLEY: Or something like that, I'm not sure.
5 PLUMMER: I mean like patting- you came up and hugged him, thanked him
6 and he was just kind of like Shrek, hey it's no big deal, glad you
7 passed, something in reference to that, is that-
8 GURLEY: Yes.
9 PLUMMER: when he made the comment to Shrek to you?
10 GURLEY: No that's not when he made that-he calls me Shrek all the time.
11 PLUMMER: Okay.
12 GURLEY: Yeah he calls me Shrek all the time, yeah.
13 PLUMMER: Okay, so did he st~ calling you Shrek like when he-at the
14 beginning- of recruit school?
15 GURLEY: From recruit-from the beginning of recruit school until I told him
16 not-
17 PLUMMER: Okay.
18 GURLEY: to say anything about it, yeah.
19 PLUMMER: Okay, is he the only one that calls you that, is that your nickname
20 in recruit school?
21 GURLEY: No ma'am.
22 PLUMMER: Okay, is there any-
23 GURLEY: To- to him.
24 PLUMMER: Is there any other recruits that call you that?
26 PLUMMER: So he's the only one that calls you that?
28 PLUMMER: Okay. And so you find that offensive to you that he calls you
29 Shrek?
30 GURLEY: I didn't find him calling me Shrek offensive, I found that when he
31 talked about my children, he referenced my children when he
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1 brought my children up I got offended by that when he talked
2 about my kids.
3 PLUMMER: Okay when-
4 GURLEY: That's when I got offended by it
5 PLUMMER: When did he talk about your kids?
6 GURLEY: I had already said in the break room.
7 PLUMMER: Okay but was it in the beginning of recruit school, at what period
8 in recruit school did that happen?
9 GURLEY: Probably the- somewhere between - somewhere in the middle, I'm
10 not sure.
11 PLUMMER: Okay.
12 GURLEY: What day, what time.
13 PLUMMER: He already established your nickname that he called you Shrek
14 before that?
15 GURLEY: Yeah he's been calling me that.
16 PLUMMER: Okay and so then you said he made a reference to your kids?
17 GURLEY: Yes.
18 PLUMMER: Being Shrek?
19 GURLEY: Yeah that's when I drew the line.
20 PLUMMER: Okay. At what point when you send him this message okay, and
21 that he made the comments about your kids or he would call you
22 Shrek, what is the period oftime that you addressed this with him?
23 GURLEY: October 21 st .
24 PLUMMER: Okay, so you addressed it with I'm October 21 st?
26 PLUMMER: And you started recruit school when?
27 GURLEY: In August, August 21 st -
28 PLUMMER: Okay. So basically two months?
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1 PLUMMER: Okay, so during that two month period he would call you Shrek
2 and at some point he had-you said that he made a reference to your
3 kids as being Shrek, is that correct?
4 GURLEY: They gonna grow up looking like Shrek just like me.
5 PLUMMER: Is that correct that he had done that prior to you sending this?
6 GURLEY: Repeat the question.
7 PLUMMER: In August you started recruit school, is that correct?
9 PLUMMER: Okay, you sent this to him October 21 st okay?
11 PLUMMER: That's a two month- there's a two month period there.
13 PLUMMER: Okay, so in those two months at some point he started calling you
14 Shrek, is that right, as a nickname he had for you?
15 GURLEY: Yeah for- yeah a nickname that he had for me, that's correct
16 ma'am.
17 PLUMMER: Okay. And then at some point during those two months he made
18 reference to your kids as being Shrek?
20 PLUMMER: Okay, two months later, okay why did you wait two months to
21 address any of the comments with Recruit Schiefelbein?
22 GURLEY: Because I drew the line when he started talking about my children.
23 PLUMMER: Okay again, when did he start talking about your kids in reference
24 to your kids to Shrek?
25 GURLEY: Probably maybe a couple of days after that -that comment was
26 made, I know I -it had to be at least a Thursday or a Friday he
27 made that comment because that day I want to say October 2l51,
28 2017, was a Saturday, a Saturday morning I was studying by
29 myself in Chick-Fil-A and it had just- you know been on my mind
30 at that point and time and I felt like that day was probably the day I
31 probably need to talk to Schiefelbein about, you know, his -the
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1 jokes that he's making and how they offended me, you know, as far
2 as my kids go.
3 PLUMMER: Okay, so you-let's go back to the- to the fried chicken and the
4 Kool-Aid fountain drink, so that comment was made early on in
5 recruit school, is that correct?
6 GURLEY: Yeah I want to towards in the middle-
7 PLUMMER: Okay.
8 GURLEY: of recruit school.
9 PLUMMER: And- and you said you were offended by those remarks?
11 PLUMMER: Why did you not address them then, why did you wait until
12 October 21 st to address that?
13 GURLEY: Because the reason why I waited until October 21 st to address that,
14 is because some stuff I can let go, you know I let that go, he -
15 Recruit King said he wasn't offended about it, he said he wasn't,
16 he wasn't gonna report it, he was offended by it, but he wasn't
17 gonna report it, that's his exact words were, so that I can be correct
18 here, he said that he was offended by it, but he didn't feel like he
19 needed to report the incident, that's -as far as that's concerned.
20 Now after that why I didn't- why did- why -why did I wait that
21 long for October 2l5t to come around and for those comments just
22 to, you know, because they kind of just added up, they kind of
23 stacked up and I felt like maybe this time I should go ahead and
24 say something to him and say enough is enough. That's why.
25 PLUMMER: Okay.
26 STEPHENS: Did he stop after it?
27 GURLEY: He did, he did stop, he stopped. He didn't say anything else, it
28 was- you know and you know I -we've been okay ever since and I
29 want to say this too, just on the record, I never intended or had any
30 knowledge of this going public, I feel like that's embarrassing. I
31 feel like it shouldn't have even went that far, I told
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1 out of confidentiality about this other situation thinking that you
2 know he was just a father figure towards me and someone I could
3 trust because I asked Officer Ramer at that point and time you
4 know could I talk to anyone outside of the academy and she told
5 me yeah, she said it was okay for me to talk to people outside of
6 the academy. So I mean I never intended for it to go this far or you
7 know to be sitting here in Internal Affairs, I - you know I felt
8 offended about the word, how it was used and the context it was
9 used and the picture that was used.
10 PLUMMER: Okay you're- you're going- you're going offtrack here okay.
11 GURLEY: Okay.
12 PLUMMER: So basically what you're telling is as far as on the comments that
13 were made about the fried chicken and the water fountains and the
14 Shrek, you said that that built up to the point where you finally
15 addressed Recruit Schiefelbein, is that correct? ·
17 PLUMMER: I want to ask you, if this was never brought to your attention and
18 this derogatory word was never said and you addressed that with
19 him, would you have ever brought that to his attention that the
20 other ones offended you?
21 GURLEY: If it had have kept going, yes ma'am I would have.
22 PLUMMER: So he would have kept calling you Shrek as a nickname then you
23 would have addressed that with him?
24 GURLEY: No, if he would have kept going with the fried chicken and
25 watermelon and Kool-Aid though I would- and if he had have kept
26 talking about my children-
27 PLUMMER: But hold on, you only heard him say that one time, is that correct?
28 GURLEY: Yes ma'am that's right.
29 PLUMMER: Okay, so it wasn't something that he joked about on a continuous
30 basis, is that correct?
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1 PLUMMER: Okay, so but the Shrek he continued to nickname you Shrek?
2 GURLEY: Yeah I can-
3 PLUMMER: Were you offended by that?
4 GURLEY: I can tolerate someone joking on me and I wasn't offended about
5 him-
6 PLUMMER: Okay, so you were not offended by him calling you Shrek?
7 GURLEY: No because I would have- I would have already had said
8 something to him about it right then and right there.
9 PLUMMER: Okay. You just brought up something else in this as far as, you
10 said that you went to Officer Ramer?
12 PLUMMER: When did you go to Officer Ramer?
13 GURLEY: It was on a break one day, I can't remember exactly what day, what
14 time, what week it was, I asked her right after another recruit asked
15 her something about a concealed permit and being able to carry his
16 weapon on campus and from campus, and I thought that would be
17 the appropriate time to ask her could I talk to any officers outside
18 of this academy that I had knew as far as me knowing prior to
19 joining recruit school and she told me yeah I could talk to people
20 that I knew outside of recruit school.
21 PLUMMER: Okay, so Officer Ramer is one of your instructors in your class?
22 GURLEY: She's my first.
23 PLUMMER: She's your first instructor?
25 PLUMMER: Okay. And so you're telling me that you asked for her permission
26 to speak to someone outside of Training?
28 PLUMMER: Is that correct?
29 GURLEY: That's correct, yes ma'am.
30 PLUMMER: Okay, and that was done before you sent this to Officer
31 Schiefelbein?
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1 GURLEY: Yes ma'am because I wanted to make sure if I -if I had anything to
2 discuss about the academy or just any questions in general
3 regarding anything about being police oriented or getting any type
4 of advice, that it was okay for me to vent or to talk or to ask
5 questions about anything because this is all new to me at the end of
6 the day and she told me yeah.
7 PLUMMER: Okay. And was that early on in recruit school?
8 GURLEY: Yeah that was towards the beginning of recruit school.
9 PLUMMER: Okay, and you didn't bring any of this up to her attention?
10 GURLEY: That was towards the beginning of recruit school, I didn't bring
11 any of that to her attention, no ma'am.
12 PLUMMER: Okay, and so you're telling me that she gave you permission to
13 speak to someone outside the Training or recruit class?
14 GURLEY: Correct, yes ma'am.
15 PLUMMER: Okay.
16 STEPHENS: I have no further.
17 PLUMMER: Recruit Gurley after consulting with your companion officer, are
18 there any comments you want to make or provide clarity of any
19 issue in this investigation?
20 GURLEY: No ma'am I don't.
21 PLUMMER: I just want to -I do want to clarify one thing with -and -and it
22 pertains to Officer Ramer, you are aware that you did sign out of
23 the handbook that says you're not to contact anyone outside the
24 Training Division if you have any contacts with officers or
25 anything you're supposed to let your recruit training chain of
26 command know the following day, is that correct, are you aware of
27 that and that you signed that?
28 GURLEY: I am aware that I probably signed some type of documentation
29 relating to that-
30 PLUMMER: Okay.
31 GURLEY: but I-
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1 PLUMMER: And so you're telling me you signed that and then -and Officer
2 Ramer knows that you signed that, okay, and so you're telling me
3 that she gave you permission to contact someone else outside that
4 Training Division?
6 PLUMMER: Okay. Recruit Gurley, Officer Thompson, this interview is
7 confidential and you are hereby ordered not to discuss the contents
8 with anyone other than your immediate supervisor or the Internal
9 Affairs unit of the Little Rock Police Department. This interview
10 is concluded at 1035 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF RECRUIT JONES
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3 This interview is with Police Recruit Katina Jones, also with her is
4 her compamon officer, Police Recruit Larry Mears Junior, this interview is being
5 conducted here at the Little Rock Police Department Internal Affairs Office. Today's
6 date is Wednesday, November 22 nd , and the time is 0851 hours. Ms. Jones this interview
7 is an internal administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be treated as an
8 official police report? Ms. Jones have you seen and read the complaint form as it relates
9 to this interview? You have not seen the complaint form, but as I explained to you, this is
10 an investigation ordered by the Chief of Police in reference to a Face book post?
11 JONES : Yes ma'am.
12 PLUMMER: So that is the -that's the complaint okay.
13 JONES: Okay.
14 PLUMMER: Ms. Jones, employees are required to be honest and truthful in all
16 the depai1ment. Untruthfulness is defined as intentionally making
22 including termination. Do you understand that?
23 JONES: Yes ma'am.
24 PLUMMER: Okay, as I spoke with you briefly on the phone, this is in reference
25 to Internal Affairs investigation 2017-0029, it's in reference to this
26 Facebook post that was made by another recruit, Brandon
27 Schiefelbein, have you seen this post before ma'am?
29 PLUMMER: All right, and where did you see it at?
30 JONES: On Facebook.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay and when did you see it on Facebook?
2 JONES: Some-like around the time in August, sometime in August.
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.) PLUMMER: Okay, is that when you started recruit school?
4 JONES : Maybe like in the first week.
5 PLUMMER: Okay so when did you start recruit school?
6 JONES: August 21 st .
7 PLUMMER: Okay. So in the first week is when you saw this Facebook post?
8 JONES: Yes ma'am.
9 PLUMMER: Okay, and how did you come across the Facebook post?
10 JONES: I had went on his page because the first week he wasn ' t there due
11 to like military.
12 PLUMMER: Okay.
13 JONES : So I wanted to see what he looked like.
14 PLUMMER: Okay, so you were not friends with him on Facebook?
15 JONES: No ma'am.
16 PLUMMER: Was his Facebook set for private at that time?
17 JONES: Well I just went on there and I strolled on there and that's like the
18 very first picture I seen.
19 PLUMMER: Okay, so you just saw pictures on his Facebook?
21 PLUMMER: Okay.
22 JONES : Like older pictures from like -yeah.
23 PLUMMER: Okay, so when you saw this what did you do with the post?
24 JONES : I screenshotted it.
25 PLUMMER: Okay, on your own phone?
27 PLUMMER: And what did you do with it?
28 JONES: I sent it to Brandon Gurley.
29 PLUMMER: Okay and Brandon is another recruit in the class, is that correct?
31 PLUMMER: And what was your reason for sending it to him?
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1 JONES: Just so he can see it, like the wording.
2 PLUMMER: Okay and when you say see the wording, so and this post it has
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.) this, it says "Go night night nigga, go night night"?
4 JONES: Right.
5 PLUMMER: Okay so why did you want him to see this post?
6 JONES: Just to see like his choice of words.
7 PLUMMER: Okay. So him using the term conm1ent nigga, did that offend you
8 at that time?
9 JONES: Well just his choice of words like just the wording that he used.
10 PLUMMER: Okay, did that offend you at the time?
11 JONES : Well no, not really, it was just his choice of wording.
12 PLUMMER: Okay so-
13 JONES: That he used.
14 PLUMMER: So you- did you or did you not find that comment offensive?
15 JONES: Well it was just the word that he used, I mean I didn't like it when I
16 saw it.
17 PLUMMER: Okay. It's a yes or no?
18 JONES: Well yes.
19 PLUMMER: Okay, so you were offended by that?
20 JONES: Yes.
21 PLUMMER: Okay, is that the reason why you sent it to Gurley?
23 PLUMMER: Okay. Did you do anything else with the post after that?
24 JONES: No ma'am.
25 PLUMMER: Okay, did you discuss this post with any other person or other
26 recruit?
27 JONES: No ma'am.
28 PLUMMER: Okay. Did you- what was your conversation with Recruit Gurley
29 about the post?
30 JONES: It was just the wording on there.
31 PLUMMER: Okay, and how did y'all have that conversation?
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1 JONES: I was just like look at the wording that he used on the picture.
2 PLUMMER: Was that through Facebook, was it through your phone, was it
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.) tlu-ough text messages?
4 JONES: What, talking to Gurley?
5 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
6 JONES: It was on the phone.
7 PLUMMER: Okay so you sent him this as a text message?
8 JONES: Right.
9 PLUMMER: And you had the conversation on the text message with him about
10 it?
11 JONES: Well we were like talking and I sent it to him when we was like
12 talking on the phone.
13 PLUMMER: Okay, so y'all never had the conversation via text message about
14 it?
15 JONES: I want to say it was more of a phone.
16 PLUMMER: Okay. When -was that the only conversation that you had with
17 Gurley about the post?
19 PLUMMER: Okay, did he tell you if he did anything with the post?
20 JONES: No ma'am, he just said that he was gonna keep it in his phone.
21 PLUMMER: Okay.
22 JONES: Like just save it.
23 PLUMMER: Okay, do you know if he approached Recruit Schiefelbein about
24 the post?
25 JONES: That I'm not sure.
26 PLUMMER: So you didn't have that conversation with him?
27 JONES: No.
28 PLUMMER: And you haven't discussed this post with anybody else?
29 JONES: No ma'am.
30 PLUMMER: And you haven't sent this to any other recruit?
31 JONES: No ma'am.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay. I don' t think I have anything else.
2 TRENT: I don't have any questions .
3 PLUMMER: Okay, Ms . Jones -and this is -is there any comments that you want
4 to make in reference to this at this time?
5 JONES: About this post or this-
6 PLUMMER: Uh huh. Anything that you feel like that we need to discuss or that
7 I did not bring up in the interview?
8 JONES: Well not about the post, but I do have something to say about
9 Gurley .
10 PLUMMER: Okay.
11 JONES: That he think everybody-
12 PLUMMER: Is it relevant to this pmticular incident?
13 JONES: I mean yeah I can so, yeah.
14 PLUMMER: Okay.
15 JONES: He think everybody in that class is racist.
16 PLUMMER: Okay, now are you and Gurley like friends out there at recruit
17 school?
18 JONES : No, I don't really talk to him.
19 PLUMMER: Okay. But you did in the beginning?
20 JONES: Yes.
21 PLUMMER: Okay, at what point have you kind of distanced yourself from him?
22 JONES: Maybe like a month or so, going on like a month, something like
23 that.
24 PLUMMER: Okay, and what's your reasoning for kind of having that distance
25 there with him now?
26 JONES: Because he-he thinks everybody in there is racist and I just got
27 sick of hearing it.
28 PLUMMER: Okay.
29 JONES: And he think everybody is out there just picking on him and they
30 don't want him there and everything like that.
31 PLUMMER: Okay.
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1 JONES: And I got sick of hearing that.
2 PLUMMER: Has he ever brought it to your attention that -that anyone in the
3 recruit class was being racist towards him?
4 JONES: Oh-
5 PLUMMER: Other than him making this particular incident with the Facebook
6 post?
7 JONES: Being racist towards him? Oh- well he had made a comment
8 saying like if Chief ever pissed him off that he was gonna turn
9 them in like with this.
10 PLUMMER: Okay, so Gurley made that statement to you?
12 PLUMMER: And do you know when he made that statement to you?
13 JONES: Well that was like when we was talking on the phone discussing
14 this.
15 PLUMMER: Okay, so that was in the beginning when the first- the post was first
16 made aware?
17 JONES: Yes, he think everybody is out there is racist and that it's a flag, it
18 says like "Don't tread me", we were in driving school and
19 somebody had it and he said it was -it was a racist flag and all of
20 that type of stuff and everybody was trying to explain to him that it
21 wasn't racist. He think everybody out there is racist.
22 PLUMMER: Okay. Okay, so you're referring to something that- and hearsay
23 and while y'all were in recruit school then on the particular driving
24 course or something, is that right?
25 JONES: Well right, we were down there and somebody had a "Don't tread
26 me" flag.
27 PLUMMER: Okay.
28 JONES: And he got to Googling and talking about this is racist-
29 PLUMMER: Okay.
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1 JONES : and like everybody said it wasn ' t racist. He think all the
2 instructors out there are picking on him and they don ' t want him
3 there .
4 PLUMMER: Okay.
5 JONES: Because he's a big black man.
6 PLUMMER: Okay. Ms. Jones when you first started recruit school were y'all
7 given a handbook that you had to sign that basically went through
8 all of the rules and what you were required to do-
9 JONES: Y es ma'am.
10 PLUMMER: at Training? In that handbook -did you read that handbook?
12 PLUMMER: And you signed that handbook?
14 PLUMMER: Is there anything that you recall in that handbook that you think
15 you should have made your chain of command aware of this
16 paiticular post?
17 JONES: Oh-
18 PLUMMER: When you first staited recruit school did you know how the chain
19 of command worked? They explained that to you up front did they
20 not?
21 JONES: Well you go through like your squad leader then-
22 PLUMMER: Right.
23 JONES: class leader then -
24 PLUMMER: So they explained to you how your chain of command worked?
25 JONES: Yes.
26 PLUMMER: Okay. Do you feel like that you should have notified your chain of
27 command about this particular incident or this post?
28 JONES: Well no, oh-
29 PLUMMER: Do you feel like that you should have, looking back on it now do
30 you feel like that you should have brought this to you chain of
31 command's attention?
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1 JONES: I mean possibly.
2 PLUMMER: Okay, and again I just want to summarize, you sent it to Gurley
3 because when you saw the comment that was made in the post it
4 offended you at the time?
5 JONES: Yes.
6 PLUMMER: Okay, and you' ve never discussed the post with Recruit
7 Schiefelbein?
8 JONES : No.
9 PLUMMER: Okay, I don't have anything else.
10 TRENT: No questions.
11 PLUMMER: Recruit Jones and Recruit Mears, okay, this interview is
12 confidential and you are hereby ordered not to discuss the contents
13 with anyone other than your immediate supervisor or the Internal
14 Affairs unit of the Little Rock Police Department. This interview
15 is concluded at 0909 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF STEVEN BEASLEY

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3 Today is Wednesday, November 22 nd , 2017, the time is 0943 , I'm
4 Sergeant Trent, TRENT, also present is Sergeant Aaron Simon. We're here with Mr.
5 Steven Beasley, STEVEN, BEASLEY. Mr. Beasley what is your date of birth?
6 BEASLEY: 4-6-92.
7 TRENT: And your address?
8 BEASLEY: 2610 Izard Street.
9 TRENT: Okay. And Mr. Beasley this is regarding Internal Affairs case
10 number 2017-0029. Have you been coerced into making this
11 statement or threatened in any way?
12 BEASLEY: No.
13 SIMON: Are you giving the statement voluntarily?
14 TRENT: Are you okay with giving the statement?
15 BEASLEY: Oh yes.
16 SIMON: And you are aware that we're recording this statement?
17 BEASLEY: Yes.
18 SIMON: Okay.
19 TRENT: Mr. Beasley I showed you a photo, it's a Facebook screenshot, it's
20 on Brandon and I'm just gonna spell his last name because I can't
21 pronounce it, SCHIEFELBEIN, do you remember that photo?
22 BEASLEY: Yes I remember a little bit of it now.
23 TRENT: Okay, where do you think y'all were at, it says Jacksonville, is that
24 at the base?
25 BEASLEY: Jacksonville, Jacksonville, it probably was more closer to -that's
26 probably when he posted it.
27 TRENT: Okay.
28 BEASLEY: To Jacksonville but I think-I want to say that was in Fort Smith.
29 TRENT: Okay and so are you- were you in the military then?
30 BEASLEY: Yes.
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1 TRENT: Are you still in the military?
2 BEASLEY: Yes.
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.) TRENT: Okay and do you remember Brandon, are you guys ' friends or tell
4 me about that?
5 BEASLEY: We're -yeah I'll say we -like you know we speak every time we
6 see each other and have conversations, he -he - I mean we always
7 joke around with each other. I don ' t actually remember him taking
8 the picture like I was really sleeping.
9 TRENT: Yeah.
10 BEASLEY: And so I don't remember it actually ever being taken.
11 TRENT: Okay, were you offended by it?
12 BEASLEY: No, I wasn't.
13 TRENT: Okay.
14 BEASLEY: I wasn't offended, I think when he posted it he tagged me in it.
15 TRENT: Yes, yeah he did tag you.
16 BEASLEY: Yeah.
17 TRENT: And that saying, "Go night night", what is that from?
18 BEASLEY: It's from a comic show, Kevin Hart, a stand up comedian.
19 TRENT: Okay, so there's a reason why he wrote that.
20 BEASLEY: Yes.
21 TRENT: Okay, I got you.
22 BEASLEY: Yeah joking on that comedian.
23 TRENT: Has anyone talked to you until today about this photo?
24 BEASLEY: I had one guy reach out to me and he said something about the
25 photo, actually the other guy that's tagged in it, Alexander.
26 TRENT: Oh okay, okay.
27 BEASLEY: So-
28 TRENT: De1mis Alexander?
29 BEASLEY: Uh huh.
30 TRENT: Okay.
31 BEASLEY: So he told me about the situation but-
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1 TRENT: Okay.
2 BEASLEY: that's about all.
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4 BEASLEY: And that was just like a couple of -that was like late last night so.
5 TRENT: Okay, so just sununarizing, this is you in the photo, obviously it
6 looks like you because I'm looking at you.
7 BEASLEY: Yes it is.
8 TRENT: And you are Steven Beasley, you know Brandon, you guys were in
9 the military together, at some point y'all were?
10 BEASLEY: We are still.
11 TRENT: Oh still?
12 BEASLEY: He's -I want to say he is still (inaudible).
13 TRENT: Okay, okay.
14 BEASLEY: (Inaudible).
15 TRENT: He might be, I don't know him. And this saying, you were not
16 offended by this post or anything else?
17 BEASLEY: No.
18 TRENT: Okay. Sergeant Simon you have any questions?
19 SIMON: No questions.
20 TRENT: This concludes this interview, the time is 0946.
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1 STATEMENT OF DENNIS ALEXANDER
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3 This interview . is being conducted by phone, I'm Sergeant
4 Plummer, today's date is Tuesday, November the 2l51 and the time is 1408 hours. I'm
5 actually on the phone with Mr. Dennis Alexander. Mr. Alexander are you aware this
6 interview is being recorded?
7 ALEXANDER: Yes.
8 PLUMMER: And are you giving this statement voluntarily?
9 ALEXANDER: Yes.
10 PLUMMER: And has anyone threatened or promised you anything to induce
11 you into making this statement?
12 ALEXANDER: No.
13 PLUMMER: Mr. Alexander for the record can you just state your full name,
14 your address and your phone number?
15 ALEXANDER: Full name, De1mis Maurice Alexander Junior, address, 102 Vega
16 Street, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 71913, and you said phone number?
17 PLUMMER: Yes sir, well I have your phone number, its 908-2004, is that
18 correct?
19 ALEXANDER: Correct.
20 PLUMMER: Okay. Mr. Alexander before we turned on the recorder I had
21 expressed to you that we were doing an investigation in regards to
22 Brandon Scheilfelbien and this is in reference to something that he
23 posted back in 2013 and I had asked you if you remember it, it's a
24 post where it's a picture of you and I guess you're sleeping and he
25 makes a statement of "Go night, night nigga, go night night", do
26 you recall that?
27 ALEXANDER: Yes ma'am.
28 PLUMMER: Okay. And were y'all in the military together?
30 PLUMMER: Okay.
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1 ALEXANDER: We've been serving together for about six years.
2 PLUMMER: Okay so-
3 ALEXANDER: A little over six.
4 PLUMMER: Okay, so are y'all like good friends, I mean how 1s your
5 relationship and how was it back then?
6 ALEXANDER: Back - since the day I met or Brandon or Corporal Schiefelbein as
7 I know him.
8 PLUMMER: Okay.
9 ALEXANDER: We've always had a good relationship and there's never been
10 anything negative, he's never done anything derogatory towards
11 me or any other fellow soldier.
12 PLUMMER: Okay.
13 ALEXANDER: Or any other race.
14 PLUMMER: Okay.
15 ALEXANDER: He's always been fair and honest across the board.
16 PLUMMER: So the picture that I'm referring to in that statement, I believe that
17 he shared this with you so you were aware that this was taken and
18 it was posted on a social media, is that correct?
20 PLUMMER: Okay. And the statement of the -the NIGGA, the nigga, did you
21 find that offensive when he did that?
22 ALEXANDER: No ma'am, because if I recall correctly he posted that right around
23 the time that Kevin Hart made his little standup comedy and that's
24 what it derived from.
25 PLUMMER: Okay so he was -
26 ALEXANDER: He-he-
27 PLUMMER: He was taking a statement then from a comedian, is that correct?
29 PLUMMER: Okay, and did y'all- I mean did y'all play around like that, is that
30 something that y'all did during that time or -
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1 ALEXANDER: Yes ma'am it's something we did, something we did during that
2 time and it's something we still do to this day amongst each other.
3 PLUMMER: Okay.
4 ALEXANDER: We don't do it out in the open around others that may be offended,
5 but between me and Brandon and even (inaudible) we have that
6 understanding.
7 PLUMMER: Okay, so you didn't find offense to it at all then?
8 ALEXANDER: No ma'am.
9 PLUMMER: Okay. Mr. Alexander that's basically all I needed to ask you, is
10 there anything else that you feel like that would be helpful during
11 this investigation that I need to know about?
12 ALEXANDER: Just being under Schief s-or Brandon's leadership we have had our
13 differences of course like all men do or all people do, but he's
14 always been fair and honest. I've never seen him as a racist or a
15 prejudiced person in six years.
16 PLUMMER: Okay. All right, and so you' ve known him for about six years
17 then?
19 PLUMMER: Okay. Well Mr. Alexander I appreciate your time in this matter,
20 and I'm gonna go ahead and turn off the recorder now at 1412
21 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF RECRUIT KING
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3 Today's date is 11-30 of 2017, the time is 1157 hours, present in
4 the room are, Police Recruit Krashun-
5 KING: Yes sir.
6 STEPHENS: King, Sergeant Cristina Plummer and Sergeant JB Stephens and
7 we're at the Little Rock Police Department Training Division.
8 Recruit King are you aware that this interview is an internal
9 administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be
10 treated as an official police report?
11 KING: Yes sir.
12 STEPHENS: Recruit King I don't have a complaint form on this, will you accept
13 the fact that the Chief of Police has ordered us to conduct an
14 investigation?
15 KING: Yes sir.
16 STEPHENS: Okay. Recruit King, employees are required to be honest and
17 truthful in all matters related to their scope of employment and the
18 operations of the department. Untruthfulness is defined as
19 intentionally making a false, misleading or untrue statement. This
20 requirement applies to all oral statements and written statements.
21 Written statements include, but are not limited to, reports of any
22 type, and any form of electronic communications. Untruthfulness
23 is a severe violation which is strictly prohibited and may result in
24 discipline up to and including termination. Do you understand that
25 sir?
26 KING: Yes sir.
27 STEPHENS: Okay, also we're interviewing you on very short notice, I mean you
28 were only told like an hour ago.
29 KING: Yes sir.
30 STEPHENS: That we're gonna interview you, is that correct?
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1 KING: Yes sir.
2 STEPHENS : Are you comfortable with that?
3 KING: Yes sir.
4 STEPHENS: Okay, you don't have a compamon officer here, are you
5 comfortable with that?
6 KING: Yes sir.
7 STEPHENS: Have we afforded you the opportunity to find a companion officer?
8 KING: Yes sir.
9 STEPHENS: Okay, and you still want to proceed?
10 KING: Yes sir.
11 STEPHENS : All right, thank you, all right Recruit King I'm just gonna set it up
12 for you.
13 KING: Yes sir.
14 STEPHENS: And I want you to tell me what happened.
15 KING: Yes sir.
16 STEPHENS: Allegedly one day over lunch in this building during y'all's recruit
17 class-
18 KING: Yes sir.
19 STEPHENS: there was a conversation including several people -
20 KING: Yes sir.
21 STEPHENS: and I'm saying allegedly because I don't know if it happened or not
22 because I wasn't here.
23 KING: Yes sir.
24 STEPHENS: That included comments about fried chicken-
25 KING: Yes sir.
26 STEPHENS : and Kool-Aid-
27 KING: Yes sir.
28 STEPHENS : and restaurants-
29 KING: Yes sir.
30 STEPHENS: or something to that affect?
31 KING: Yes sir.
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1 STEPHENS: Do you remember this conversation?
2 KING: I don't remember the conversation completely but we had a
3 conversation like it was -it was a very like colorful conversation as
4 I can say, like it was like you know black recruits, white recruits,
5 and we was all joking around you know making comments like as
6 far as like we start restaurants and things that -like diversity
7 because I think we- you know we was just talking about diversity
8 like you know if we started a restaurant and we had squash you
9 know, that you know it would attract a lot of you know, white, you
10 know like white people and you know-
11 STEPHENS: That's fine.
12 KING: back and forth and it was like you know well if I had chicken or
13 watermelon and red Kool-Aid would y'all come and I was like
14 yeah you know I don't drink, I don't eat chicken but I like Kool-
15 Aid and watermelon, you know it was just a conversation and we
16 didn't think it offended no one but obviously it got out so.
17 STEPHENS : Well that's fine, all right now then in reference to this, the
18 conversation was basically -and the way you're describing it, y'all
19 were talking about stereotypes?
20 KING: Yes sir.
21 STEPHENS: And did anybody in this conversation come across as being
22 offensive or were they just talking about the stereotypes?
23 KING: It wasn't offensive at all, matter of fact we had a class like prior to
24 it that Officer Jackson teached that taught and it was on- it was like
25 ethics and we were like talking about diversity and religion and we
26 all stood up and was talking about, you know, our religion what
27 things that we did you know far as like being black before
28 (inaudible) because you know I'm from Memphis, Tennessee so it's
29 a lot of things that I -that I'm aware of now that I wasn't you know
30 since I came down here so we, you know, it wasn't nobody
31 offended by like when we said it then on lunch you know on our
TG 3
1 own time nobody still wasn't offended by, you know, the
2 conversation at all.
3 STEPHENS: And you were present-
4 KING: That I noticed.
5 STEPHENS: That's fine, and -but you were present when the conversation
6 occurred?
7 KING: Yes sir.
8 STEPHENS: Okay, did Recruit Brandon Gurley approach you after this, after
9 the conversation?
10 KING: Yes sir he- not prior to it-
11 STEPHENS: No not prior to it, after the conversation, I'm talking about y'all left
12 the conversation and maybe an hour later or ten minutes later.
13 KING: No it wasn't an hour or ten minutes later.
14 STEPHENS: When was it, when did he talk to you about it?
15 KING: He talked to me about it recently, not that recent, probably like a
16 couple of weeks ago, it's like you know after-
17 STEPHENS: After all ofthis mess blew up?
18 KING: Yeah after all this mess blew up and said-
19 STEPHENS: What did he say?
20 KING: He was like do you remember the comment that he made about
21 then like about the fried chicken-
22 STEPHENS: And Schiefelbein made the comment about-
23 KING: The fried, yes.
24 STEPHENS: He did, okay, all right, so (inaudible).
25 KING: He didn't make like the whole-he brought up like fried chicken, but
26 it was other-
27 STEPHENS: Other people brought up Kool-Aid?
28 KING: Kool-Aid and stuff like that.
29 STEPHENS: Did anybody bring up watermelon?
30 KING: Watermelon, I don't know who exactly-
31 STEPHENS: Anybody bring up watermelon?
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1 KING: but watermelon was brought up.
2 STEPHENS: It was, okay. All right, now my question to you is this, and I will
3 get back to this-
4 KING: Y es sir.
5 STEPHENS: So about- and I'm guessing it's been about two -not even two
6 weeks ago, probably last week maybe?
7 KING: Probably last week.
8 STEPHENS: Whenever all of this blew up-
9 KING: Y es sir.
10 STEPHENS: Gurley came and approached you about it?
11 KING: Yes sir.
12 STEPHENS: Tell me what he said?
13 KING: He was like do you remember -like do you remember when we
14 was in the classroom and Schief was talking about making a
15 restaurant with fried chicken in it and he was like that didn't you
16 and stuff like that and I was like no I wasn't offended, we was all
17 making jokes like it ain't, you know we always make, you know,
18 stereotypes to see, you know, what each other do and it wasn't- so
19 he brought it up when this blew up like saying that he was
20 offended by it and was I offended by it. And I was like no, nobody
21 was offended by it you know so that's the only time he brought it
22 up and just like -that I remember.
23 STEPHENS: That's fine, and I want to verify, he didn't come to you right after
24 this happened?
25 KING: No sir.
26 STEPHENS : About when and I -
27 KING: (Inaudible) from it, like how long was it approximately the
28 conversation?
29 STEPHENS: Yeah that's what I want to know exactly.
30 KING: I believe it was like a month apart.
TG 5
1 STEPHENS: That's what I was getting to, the-the food, the stereotype
2 conversation the food, happened when, a rough idea.
3 KING: At least, I'll say we started August 2I5\ probably it happened. like
4 around September.
5 STEPHENS : Okay, but the same day that Officer Jackson came out and gave
6 y'all a class-
7 KING: No it was after.
8 STEPHENS: It was after that?
9 KING: It was after we had the conversation like that, but-
10 STEPHENS: Okay.
11 KING: It was- that was like around each other because you know we
12 started talking more and more about it.
13 STEPHENS: So within a few days or something like that?
14 KING: Yes sir.
15 STEPHENS: Okay, and but other than that, he didn't come to you until all of
16 this other mess blew up?
17 KING: Yes sir.
18 STEPHENS: And you know about when all this blew up because you saw us
19 come out here and everything?
20 KING: Yes sir.
21 STEPHENS: Okay. All right, I'm gonna ask you this, did you tell him that you
22 were not offended by it?
23 KING: Did I tell-
24 STEPHENS: Gurley that you were not offended by it?
25 KING: Yes sir.
26 STEPHENS: All right, if I told you that Gurley said that you were offended, but
27 you chose not to report it to your supervisors, would that be a
28 correct statement?
29 KING: That wouldn't be a correct statement.
30 STEPHENS: Okay. I'm gonna ask you flat out, were you offended by the
31 conversation?
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1 KING: I wasn't, I wasn't, it wasn't like -no I didn't-I didn't remember the
2 conversation until he brought it up.
3 STEPHENS: Sure.
4 KING: Now about like about the -no I wasn't offended by that
5 conversation.
6 STEPHENS: And just to make sure I understand, this was a conversation where
7 you had-
8 KING: Multiple-
9 STEPHENS: people in both races involved and it was after a diversity type class
10 and y'all were talking about stereotypes and it got to food, is that
11 correct, am I understanding that correctly?
12 KING: Yes sir.
13 STEPHENS: I realize I'm summarizing and I don't want to put words in your
14 mouth.
15 KING: Yes sir.
16 STEPHENS: Okay.
17 KING: That's correct.
18 STEPHENS: So you found nothing offensive about it?
19 KING: Nothing offensive about it.
20 STEPHENS: Were there any stereotypes made about other races?
21 KING: Yes sir, like -you know what I said, it was a conversation that-
22 STEPHENS: Well you mentioned something about squash.
23 KING: Yeah I said-and I made that -that comment, I said that.
24 STEPHENS: Oh you did, okay.
25 KING: Yeah I made that comment, I wasn't offended by it and we always
26 make comments about each other like you know like we got a
27 Hispanic guy in our class, we always like playing have, you know,
28 diverse conversations.
29 STEPHENS: Okay. All right, one more question and then I'll let Sergeant
30 Plummer, Recruit Gurley, does he have a nickname in the class?
31 KING: Not that I know of.
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1 STEPHENS: Not that you know of, okay.

2 KING: Not that I know of.
3 STEPHENS: All right, Sergeant Plummer?
4 PLUMMER: Yeah I just have one thing I was kind of confused, so when do you
5 -so we came out here Tuesday I believe.
6 STEPHENS: Tuesday of last week.
7 PLUMMER: We came out here Tuesday oflast week.
8 KING: Uh huh.
9 PLUMMER: At what point did Gurley make contact with you referring to those
10 comments after we came out here?
11 KING: Before.
12 PLUMMER: It was before then?
13 KING: It was before then.
14 PLUMMER: Okay.
15 KING: I think it probably -probably it was even before the information
16 got out he brought up about it, I didn't know-
17 PLUMMER: But it wasn't within the same day or the next day of y'all ·having
18 that conversation, it was later on, is that right?
19 KING: Yes ma'am, way later.
20 PLUMMER: But it was before we came out here?
21 KING: Yes ma'am.
22 PLUMMER: That's what- I just wanted -
23 STEPHENS: Okay, I misunderstood it, so basically you're saying it was about a
24 month apart between the conversation and him talking to you?
25 KING: Yes.
26 STEPHENS: And then it was -how long was it after that that all this mess blew
27 up?
28 KING: When he told me it was like _about it-about everything it was before
29 the information blew out but I think he asked me about it like a
30 week later.
31 STEPHENS: That's when-
TG 8
1 KING: When this blew out so-
2 STEPHENS: Okay.
3 KING: I was, you know I was worried about it basically because I'm like
4 wow he, you know, so I knew everything but that wasn't my place.
5 PLUMMER: Did he give you any reason as to why he wanted to discuss this
6 with you like say a month after the fact?
7 KING: I mean because you know I'm African American like he African
8 American so I guess he feel comfortable, you know, and see like
9 you know since he had like if he had problem with something that
10 I would feel the exact same way, you know, but I didn't because I
11 have- like I said I have a relationship with everybody in the
12 classroom so -so that- I mean I guess that's why he told me and
13 when he told me I was like you know because at the time when he
14 told me, I was at his house because I -you know right now I drive
15 from Pine Bluff all the way back here and on the weekends I go to
16 Memphis so he told me and I was on my way, you know, to go to
17 Memphis and I was like I'm shocked because first he just asked me
18 like was I offended by it and then he asked me while he was on the
19 phone with somebody so I'm like -so I just played it cool, I really
20 didn't say nothing and I was like wow and when I left I just left it
21 alone and then a week you know everything just came out so.
22 STEPHENS: So he was on the phone with somebody when he asked you this?
23 KING: Well no he asked me first and then he asked me again while
24 somebody was on the phone.
25 STEPHENS: Do you have any idea who that person was?
26 KING: I don't his name.
27 STEPHENS: That's fine.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, I don't have anything.
29 STEPHENS: All right, Recruit King that's pretty much all our questions and
30 you've covered everything we need to check in to.
31 KING: Yes sir.
TG 9
1 STEPHENS : But I want to ask you this, are there any comments you want to
2 make or anything that you can tell me that will provide clarity to
3 any issue in this investigation? Is there anything I don't know
4 about that I need to know about?
5 KING: Well you probably know about that we-like that first statement that
6 he made, we all make it, it wasn't just one sided, it was like we
7 wasjust-
8 STEPHENS: The first statement that who made?
9 KING: That -that was made about fried chicken that-
10 STEPHENS: Okay.
11 KING: That's not- it wasn't like everything wasn't towards like the
12 African American, it was all over.
13 STEPHENS: There were other stereotypes made, you want to make that clear, is
14 that what you're telling me?
15 KING: Yes sir I want to make that very clear.
16 STEPHENS: Okay, were there stereotypes made about what white people eat?
17 KING: White people eat and-
18 STEPHENS: Or Hispanics eat?
19 KING: Hispanics eat and like what -you know we always make jokes like
20 about each other, it's never just you know like African American
21 that's just, you know, made fun of or anything that's not-
22 PLUMMER: Do .you remember was Recruit Gurley involved m that
23 conversation?
24 KING: He had- he had to be but I don't remember him-
25 PLUMMER: Okay.
26 KING: exactly being there, he wasn't like he was in the room but he
27 wasn't like present in the conversation.
28 PLUMMER: Okay.
29 KING: Like so it wasn't -basically it wasn't directed towards them
30 because if anything it was directed towards the people who was in
31 the conversation.
TG 10
1 PLUMMER: Okay.
2 KING: But he was there so-
3 PLUMMER: Okay.
4 STEPHENS: All right, anything else ma'am? All right Recruit King this is real
5 important to listen to this okay?
6 KING: Yes sir.
7 STEPHENS: This interview is confidential and you are hereby ordered not to
8 discuss the contents with anyone other than your immediate
9 supervisor and in your case it would technically be Officer Ramer-
10 KING: Yes sir.
11 STEPHENS: but we've had to talk to Officer Ramer about this so if you need to
12 talk to a supervisor, go to- I guess her supervisor is Sergeant
13 Hawkins.
14 KING: Yes sir.
15 STEPHENS: Okay, and that's not telling you to go around her, but for anything
16 involving this you need to go to Sergeant Hawkins okay/
17 KING: Yes sir.
18 STEPHENS: All right, or you can call Sergeant Plummer or myself, I'm
19 Sergeant Stephens okay?
20 KING: Yes sir.
21 STEPHENS: All right, this interview is concluded at 1210 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF RECRUIT WALKER
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3 This is an interview with Police Recruit Jonathan Walker, today's
4 date is 11-30 of 17, the time is 1214 hours. The location is the Little Rock Police
5 Depm1ment Training Division, present are, Recruit Walker, Sergeant JB Stephens and
6 Sergeant Cristina Plummer. Recruit Walker are you aware that this interview is an
7 internal administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be treated as an
8 official police rep011?
9 WALKER: Yes sir I am.
10 STEPHENS: Recruit Walker I don't have a complaint form , will you accept the
11 fact that the Chief of Police has ordered us to conduct this
12 investigation?
13 WALKER: Yes sir.
14 STEPHENS: Okay . . Recruit Walker, employees are required to be honest and
23 sir?
24 WALKER: Yes sir.
25 STEPHENS: All right, we're interviewing you on short notice basically we
26 called about an hour, an hour and a half ago and said we wanted to
27 talk to you today?
28 WALKER: Yes sir.
29 STEPHENS: Do you have a problem with that?
30 WALKER: I do not.
TG
1 STEPHENS: Okay. You also don't have a companion officer here, are you
2 comfo11able with that sir?
3 WALKER: I'm very comfortable with that.
4 STEPHENS: Okay. All right, Recruit Walker what this boils down to is, while
5 doing another interview we learned about an allegation that there
6 was a conversation took place apparently during lunch which
7 included some comments about watermelon, fried chicken, and
8 Kool-Aid and basically were perceived as a stereotypical attack
9 against African Americans. Do you remember this conversation
10 sir?
11 WALKER: I do remember being asked about those things.
12 STEPHENS: All right, tell me what you remember then?
13 WALKER: I remember there was a recruit that asked me if I -
14 STEPHENS: Who, you're go1ma have to name him?
15 WALKER: I have to name him?
16 STEPHENS: Yes.
17 WALKER: It was Jerome Sims, he asked me what color of Kool-Aid I liked.
18 STEPHENS: Okay.
19 WALKER: And -or what flavor, I'm sorry, what flavor and I said fruit punch.
20 STEPHENS: Okay.
21 WALKER: And he mentioned that it was actually known as red.
22 STEPHENS: Anything else?
23 WALKER: Other than that, I just remember -I just remember saying that I
24 liked Kool-Aid and fried chicken and watermelon, but I don't
25 remember -honestly I don't remember anything else about the
26 conversation.
27 STEPHENS: Did you have the occasion to discuss the conversation- after the
28 conversation did you have the occasion to discuss the conversation
29 with Recruit Gurley?
30 WALKER: I think- I don't remember that I did, honestly.
TG 2
1 STEPHENS: So if Gurley came to me and told me that immediately after the
2 conversation you approached him and reported the contents of the
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4 what they eat and asked him if he was offended by it, would that
5 be true?
6 WALKER: I've had a lot of conversations with Gurley, I don't remember this
7 one in particular.
8 STEPHENS: All right. The context of the conversation, was it over lunch?
9 WALKER: Yes it was during lunch.
10 STEPHENS: Okay, and it was in this back room where a lot of y'all eat back
11 here?
12 WALKER: It was in-
13 STEPHENS: Behind the classroom?
14 WALKER: It was in the smaller break room.
15 STEPHENS: The smaller break room?
16 WALKER: The small narrow one.
17 STEPHENS: A lot of people present?
18 WALKER: Maybe eight or nine people present I think.
19 STEPHENS: Were there any comments made that you considered stereotypical,
20 racist or demeaning or anything like that during this conversation?
21 WALKER: I didn't think anything was demeaning.
22 STEPHENS: Okay. Sergeant Plummer?
23 PLUMMER: At any time after that -and he already asked you this, but did -did
24 Recruit Gurley bring anything like that to your attention?
25 WALKER: He has several times brought things to my attention because we sit
26 together in the classroom, we sit next to each other.
27 PLUMMER: Okay.
28 WALKER: He has brought things to my attention, one thing in particular was
29 the "Don't tread on me" flag in Camden (inaudible) it's a yellow-
30 the Gadsden flag I think, he's mentioned that to me.
31 STEPHENS: What about it?
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1 WALKER: That he feels like it's a racist flag and it was used in Camden on
2 someone's door.
3 STEPHENS: At the- at-
4 WALKER: At the driving school.
5 STEPHENS: Oh the driving school?
6 WALKER: Yes sir.
7 STEPHENS: Somebody had that flag on their door?
8 WALKER: Yes sir.
9 STEPHENS: Did y'all go down there for driving school?
10 WALKER: We did, yes sir.
11 STEPHENS: And stayed for a couple of days?
12 WALKER: We did and he mentioned that flag to me, he mentioned it there and
13 he's mentioned it since, several times.
14 STEPHENS: But he considers that flag racist?
15 WALKER: He does.
16 STEPHENS: Okay, anything else sir?
17 WALKER: I'm trying to thing, you know I've had so many conversations with
18 Gurley they- and most of them were positive I felt.
19 STEPHENS: That's all I have.
20 PLUMMER: Are you aware if Recruit Gurley has a nickname that recruits call
21 him or-
22 WALKER: He said- he told me that he's always been known as Big Gurley.
23 PLUMMER: Okay.
24 WALKER: But other than that I don't know of any nicknames.
25 PLUMMER: Okay.
26 STEPHENS : Recruit Walker you've answered our questions and told us
27 everything we need to know, but I'm gonna leave it to you like this,
28 is there any comments that you want to make or anything you can
29 me that will provide clarity to any issue in this investigation,
30 anything else you want to say at this point and time?
31 WALKER: I can't think of anything.
TG 4
1 STEPHENS: Recruit Walker this interview is confidential and you are hereby
2 ordered to discuss the contents with anyone other than your
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4 is Officer Ramer, is that correct?
5 WALKER: Yes sir.
6 STEPHENS: All right.
7 WALKER: She's (inaudible).
8 STEPHENS: Officer Ramer has been interviewed in this reference to this,
9 therefore, you cannot discuss it with her, nor can she discuss it
10 with you. So if you have anything about this issue, please to go
11 Sergeant Hawkins okay?
12 WALKER: Yes sir.
13 STEPHENS: All right, or you can contact Sergeant Plummer or myself at the
14 Little Rock Police Department Internal Affairs Office. All right?
15 WALKER: All right. •
16 STEPHENS: This interview is concluded at 1220 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF ELISHA RAMER
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3 This is an interview with Officer Elisha Ramer, she's present with
4 her companion officer, Officer Richard Glasscock, also present is Sergeant JB Stephens
5 and Sergeant Cristina Plummer. The location is the Little Rock Police Department
6 Training Division, today's date is 11-30 of 17, the time is 1148 hours. Officer Ramer are
7 you aware that this interview is an internal administrative investigation and is being
8 recorded and will be treated as an official police report?
9 RAMER: Yes I am.
10 STEPHENS: Officer Ramer I do not have a ·complaint form, will you accept the
11 fact that the Chief of Police has ordered us to conduct this
12 investigation?
13 RAMER: Yes.
14 STEPHENS: Okay, Officer Ramer, employees are required to be honest and
23 ma'am?
24 RAMER: Yes.
25 STEPHENS: Okay, Officer Ramer what is your current assignment please/
26 RAMER: I'm a training officer at the Training Division.
27 STEPHENS: Okay.
28 RAMER: Of Little Rock Police Department.
29 STEPHENS: All right, what are you- the recruit class that started in August, I
30 don't know their number.
TG 1
1 RAMER: Right, it's recruit class 88.
2 STEPHENS: 88, what is your position with that recruit class please?
3 RAMER: They assigned me as lead instructor.
4 STEPHENS: Okay, you're the lead instructor, so are you the one that they're
5 supposed to come to and talk and all of that stuff?
6 RAMER: Yes sir.
7 STEPHENS: You- I realize you're not a supervisor, you're technically m a
8 supervisory position over·it, is that correct?
9 RAMER: That's correct.
10 STEPHENS: Okay, when they first come down here did they not sign a bunch of
11 documents giving them their orders and about their conduct here in
12 the academy, is that correct?
13 RAMER: Yes sir, the first two days is processing in.
14 STEPHENS: Okay, is one of those orders not to -either not to have contact with
15 -and I don't have it in front of me so you can correct me if I'm
16 wrong, either not to have contact with other officers outside of
17 Training or not to discuss training -their training class with
18 officers outside of training, is there something to that affect?
19 RAMER: Yes there is.
20 STEPHENS: Okay. Are you familiar with Officer Brandon Gurley?
21 RAMER: Yes I am.
22 STEPHENS: Have you given Officer Gurley permission to talk to people outside
23 his class?
24 RAMER: No, not at all.
25 STEPHENS: Not about training things?
26 RAMER: No, definitely not about training things.
27 STEPHENS: About issues he may be having in the class?
28 RAMER: No sir, there's even a couple of recruits that have family members
29 that work in the department and I said I understand that you're
30 going to talk to these family members sometimes, so I'm not
31 talking about those two guys that are brothers or have someone in
TG 2
1 the family at LRPD, but any other time they need to have
2 documentation when they come in contact with other officers and
3 definitely do not discuss the training process. If you have
4 problems you can come to me first, if I can't answer it, or if I am
5 the problem, then go over my head to my supervisor, Sergeant
6 Hawkins.
7 STEPHENS: Okay, and has Officer Gurley provided you with any
8 documentation about contacting someone outside the Training
9 Division?
10 RAMER: No sir he has not.
11 STEPHENS: At no point during the class?
12 RAMER: At no point.
13 STEPHENS: Okay. Sergeant Plummer?
14 PLUMMER: I don't think I have anything, you addressed it.
15 STEPHENS: Okay, Officer Ramer that's all the ques~ions we have, it was just
16 one that came up during our investigation here and so now after
17 consulting with your companion officer are there any comments
18 you want to make or that can provide clarity to any issue in this
19 investigation?
20 RAMER: No.
21 STEPHENS: Very well then,- if we have nothing further, Officer Ramer and
22 Officer Glasscock, this interview is confidential and you are
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l ALICE FULK, EXECUTIVE BUREAU ASST. CHIEF OF POLICE

HAYWARD FINKS, FIELD SERVICES BUREAU ASST. CHIEF OF POLICE
WAYNE BEWLEY, INVESTIGATIVE BUREAU ASST. CHIEF OF POLICE
( HEATH HELTON, TRAINING DIVISION CAPTAIN

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INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... iii

CORE VALUES ............................................................................................................................................ v
CHIEF'S MESSAGE .................................................................................................................................. vii
ASSIST ANT CHIEFS' MESSAGE ....:....................................................................................................... ix
TRAINING DIVISION COMMANDER MESSAGE ............................ .'................................................... xi
OUR MISSION .............................................................................................................................................. 1
Little Rock Police Department Rank Structure .............................................................................................. 2
LITTLE ROCK POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ACADEMY .......................................................... 5
ACADEMY STAFF CODE OF CONDUCT ............................................................................................ 5
RECRUIT CODE OF CONDUCT ............................................................................................................ 6
Little Rock Police Recruit's Guiding Princ_ipals .................................................................................... 7
ACADEMY RULES, REGULATIONS AND CLASSROOM PROCEDURES .......................................... 9
CLASS HOURS ................................................................................................................................... 12
AUTOBIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................... 12
PARKING LOT PROCEDURES ........................................................................................................ 12
ILLNESS, TARDINESS, ABSENCE OR OTHER EMERGENCY ................................................... 13
TIME OFF REQUESTS ...................................................................................................................... 14
CLASSROOM PROCEDURES ...... :................................................................................................... 14
BREAK TIME ..................................................................................................................................... 15
REPORTING PROCEDURES ........................................................................................................... 15
OFFICER'S LETTERS AND HOMEWORK ..................................................................................... 16
ON/OFF DUTY INCIDENTS ............................................................................................................. 17
COURT APPEARANCES ................................................................................................................... 18
MILITARY OBLIGATION ................................................................................................................. 18
LUNCH ..............................................................................................................,................................. 18
VISITS BY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES ......................................................................................... 19
INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS ................................................................................. 19
PREVIOUS INJURIES ..................................................................... :.................................................. 19
MEDICAL LOG BOOK ...................................................................................................................... 19
INJURIES ............................................................................................................................................ 19
PHYSICAL FITNESS TRAINING ..................... :............................................................................... 20
PERSONAL HYGIENE ...................................................................................................................... 21
TATTOOS AND PIERCING .............................................................................................................. 21
CHANGES IN PERSONAL INFORMATION ................................................................................... 21
RECRUIT COUNSELING .................................................................................................................. 21
GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION OR DISMISSAL FROM THE ACADEMY .............................. 22
RESIGNATION PROCEDURES ........................................................................................................ 24
UNFAIR. TREATMENT ...................................................................................................................... 24
FIREARMS REGULATIO NS ............................................................................................................. 24
GENERAL CONDUCT ....................................................................................................................... 25
ACADEMIC PROGRAM .................................................................................................................... 26
TEST AND STUDY GUIDE ......................................................................................... :..................... 26
CHEATING ......................................................................................................................................... 28
CLASS LEADER DUTIES ......................................................................................................................... 29
CLASS LEADER RESPONSIBILITES .............................................................................................. 31
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BREAKS .............................................................................................. ................................................ 31
COMMANDS ....................................................................................................................................... 32
SQUAD LEADER DUTIES ........................................................................................................................ 35
FLAG DETAIL DUTIES .......................................................................................... ................................... 39
ACADEMY UNIFORM REGULATIONS & EQUIPMENT .................................................................... .43
UNIFORM ...................................................................................... ..................................................... 45
UNIFORM FORMAL INSPECTIONS ............................................................................................... 46
GUNBELT .......................................................................................................................................... 46
PHYSICAL FITNESS / CONTROL TACTICS ITEMS .................................................................... .47
SUGGESTED ITEMS FOR LOCKER ................................................................................................ 47
DRILL, CEREMONIES, FORMATIONS AND INSPECTIONS ............................................................. .49
FORMATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 54
INSPECTIONS ........................................................................ ............................................................ 56
WEAPONS INSPECTIONS ................................................................................................................ 57
Law Enforcement ......... ............................................ .................................................................................... 59
Code of Ethics .. ......................................................................................................... .. .......-.......................... 59
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT .... ........................................................ ............................ 61
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CVTRODUCTIOK
The Little Rock Police Department is a paramilitary organization by design and operates in accordance with
certain rules and regulations that govern the demeanor and performance of its members.
As a new member of this organization, you will be provided with academic and skills training that will
enable you to actively perform the duties of a professional police officer.
The Department stresses the importance of adhering to the Rules and Regulations of the Police Academy
and the Department Recruits are subject to all legitimate orders and directions, whether verbal or
written, and MUST conform/adhere to all City of Little Rock ordinances, rules and administrative
directives, as well as the Little Rock Police Department Rules and Regulations to include this Basic
Recruit Training Manual. As a probationary employee, infractions of these Rules and Regulations
may result in termination.
[ This publication has been prepared in order to inform you of some of the Police Academy policies and
General Orders of the Little Rock Police Department. It is your responsibility to read, become familiar with
and adhere to the information contained in this manual as well as the General Orders and Rules and
) Regulations. Your signature, which indicates you have received this document, will be evidence that you
understand that you are required to read and have a working knowledge of the Recruit Manual, General
Orders and Rules and Regulations of this Department. In the event of any improper/inappropriate
behavior/actions or breach of discipline, it will be presumed that you are familiar with the rule, regulation
or policy in question.
EEO Statement: The City of Little Rock provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees
and applicants for employment with regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or status as a
covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The City of Little Rock
complies with applicable state and local laws in employment in every work location.
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('CORE VALUES°"
Core Values and Ethics are the foundation on which the Little Rock Police Department was built. Total
commitment to the Little Rock Police Core Values is essential. A Little Rock Police Officer must hold
themselves to the highest moral and ethical standards, performing with competence and the utmost degree
of integrity. Leadership in ethics exemplifies absolute integrity. Individual commitment to the following
Core Values is paramount:
Character: Doing what is right no matter who or if anyone is watching.
Honor: Doing the right thing at the right time for the right reasons by demonstrating integrity, responsibility
and accountability.
Leadership: Setting the pace and unifying the fragments of a group through patience, wisdom, trust, ethics,
morals, and accountability.
Courage: Managing fear and performing the duties of a Little Rock Police Officer in the face of adversity.
Commitment: Embracing a spirit of determination and dedication to achieve a standard of excellence.
Pursuit of Excellence: Employing measures to attain excellence through a plan of continuous

improvement.
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I want to personally welcome you to the Little Rock Police Department Training Academy and wish you
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the very best as you pursue your profession as a law enforcement officer. The Little Rock Police
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Department is committed to providing superior services to our citizens. One of the ways in which we meet
that commitment is through our selection and training process.
Each of you were put through a demanding test, interview and selection process and were chosen from
hundreds of applicants to enter this Academy. Your success, thus far, has numbered you among a select
group possessing intelligence, integrity and fitness. Now you will be entering the most demanding phase
of the process, your Academy training.
Throughout the Academy training, you will learn there is a critical balance in the delivery of humanitarian
service and the enforcement of the law. You will be taught to maintain a high level of professionalism and
competency while, at the same time, guaranteeing the constitutional rights of each citizen. You will learn
to think and act ethically and work in a cooperative manner with the many diverse communities we serve.
Good luck to you during your Academy training. I look forward to seeing you on graduation day.
Kenton Buckner
Chief of Police
Little Rock Police Department
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ASSISTr'\NT CHIEFS' M~SSAGE
We want to welcome you to the Little Rock Police Department Training Academy and wish you success in
pursuing your career as a law enforcement officer. We are looking for the best and brightest individuals -
those who have the aptitude and sense of commitment - those who want to help their community, and who
want to make a difference. The Little Rock Police Department's goal is to provide the highest level of
professional public service to the wide range of ethnic and culturally diverse groups that make up our city.
The Recruit Training Staff of the Little Rock Police Department is committed to providing you with
superior training and education. Our training methods are designed with a specific purpose in mind. With
the proper attitude, you will become self-disciplined, vocationally competent, mentally mature, physically
sound, and emotionally stable.
Above and beyond the financial rewards, being a Police Officer with the Little Rock Police Department
brings significant personal rewards, which will give you a sense of what "to protect and to serve" really
means.
We wish you luck and success over the next twenty-four weeks of your training. We look forward to
congratulating you on graduation day.
Alice Fulk
Wayne Bewley
Hayward Finks
Assistant Chief of Police

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TRAININr DIVISION CO/t.r~'MANDER
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As Captain of the Training Division, I extend to you my welcome to the Little Rock Police Department
Training Academy. You are now involved in the finest law enforcement training program in the State of
( Arkansas. During the Academy training process, you will receive many hours of quality training in all
I phases of law enforcement. Upon graduation, you will have the basic background and foundation upon
which to build your career as a law enforcement professional.
It is the goal of this Academy to prepare you to serve our communities in the most professional way possible.
Nothing short of our maximum effort and your maximum effort will achieve this goal. Our standards are
high, therefore, the training ahead of you will be demanding. Together we will be successful, provided you
are willing to meet our standards in the areas of academics, ethics, leadership, general performance and
physical training.
If you accept the expertise we will provide you, honestly give all you have, and truly care about your future
in law enforcement, you will achieve that which only a few people have attained. Upon completion of this
Academy, you will join the ranks of the most professional law enforcement officers in the world.
Welcome aboard and good luck to each of you.
Captain Heath Helton
Training Division Commander

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OUR MISSION
"To provide the citizens of Little Rock with a law

enforcement system that effectively integrates and
utilizes departmental, civic and community resources, to
protect life and property, preserve law and order and
enforce state law and city ordinances, within the
framework of the Constitution."
OURCREED
"My goals are simple:

I will always be painfully honest,
Work as hard as I can,
Learn as much as I can and hopefully
Make a difference in people's lives."
Deputy David W. March, LASO
End of Watch- April 29, 2002
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LITTLE Roo~-- POLICE DEPARr-~ENT RANK .
STRUCTURE .
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Kenton Buckner
Ch ief of Police
Asst. Chief of Police

Asst. Chief of Police Asst. Chief of Police
Wayne Bewley
Hayward Finks Alice Fulk
Investigation and Support
Field Services Bureau Executive Bureau
Bureau
Captain Capta in
Max Spriggs Tanya Washington
Southwest Patrol Division Special Operations Division
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RECRUIT S CHOOL - .CHAIN or·COMMAND.
Captain Heath Helton - Training Division Commander
Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell - Training and Recruiting
Academy Training Staff Personnel
Sergeant Kendrick Hawkins - Recruit Training Sergeant
Officer Elisha Ramer - Lead Instructor

Officer Mitchel Jackson - Instructor
Officer Heath Atkinson - Instructor
Additional Training Cadre
In-Service Training Unit Recruiting/ Personnel Unit

Sergeant Robert Mourot Sergeant Van Thomas
Officer John Gilchrist Officer Allison Walton
Officer Henry Moore Officer Jessica Eubanks
Officer Shawn Bakr Officer Herbert Kimbrough
Officer Thomas Yelland (Quartermaster) Officer Joe Hill
Officer Anthony Withers
Officer Ira Whitfield
The Little Rock Police Department is a paramilitary organization. It operates by strict adherence to
commands or orders from superior officers. Orders may be either written or oral and are given by someone
who has authority over you. As a recruit, everyone from your Training Officer to the Chief of Police is a
superior officer. It is imperative that a recruit follow his/her Chain of Command. Recruits are
expected to provide a written request for permission to address questions or concerns with the level
of command beyond their immediate supervisor.
Deviations from the Chain of Command will be tolerated only when there are exceptional circumstances
that warrant skipping a member in the chain. This process is a principle of organization and is necessary
for the efficient operation of any sizable organization. It ensures that no member of the chain will be
deprived of vital information that could hinder or interfere with the member's duties and responsibilities.
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LITTLE RQ-~K POLICE DErPARTMENT
TRAINING .A CADEMY
ACADEMY STAFF CODE OF CONDUCT
The purpose of the Academy training is to teach the basics of law enforcement and enhance each recruit's
character development so they will know what is right and will do the right thing. It is the responsibility of
the Training Staff to encourage and develop recruits to look beyond their own self-interests. The staff and
instructors must emphasize the development of character in each recruit. The goal is only attainable in an
environment of trust, choice and reasonableness. The environment must be conducive to learning and allow
the recruit to grow strong physically and emotionally.
Academy staff and instructors shall adhere to the following code of conduct:
Embrace and implement leadership, blend the Department's Core Values and Mission Statement into the
lesson plan, and embody the philosophies and expectations of the Training Division. Negative references
about the Department, other employees and/or one's own personal opinions which are contrary to the
Department's objectives during recruit lectures are prohibited.
Commit to an environment that promotes learning, trust, and a climate that allows each recruit to be the best
they can be. Personal ridicule without a direct correlation to a specific learning domain is strictly prohibited.
Teach ethics by being a worthy role model and by helping recruits to reason clearly, about what is right_and
wrong.
Practice and teach ethical values such as respect for life and liberty, responsibility, honesty, fairness,
tolerance, courtesy, self-discipline, integrity, kindness, compassion, courage, and accountability for one's
actions.
Help recruits learn and understand the different customs, attitudes, and lifestyles of the various communities
we serve.
Encourage the development of empathy, looking beyond individual biases and responding to fellow human
beings on a personal, respectful level. ·
Raise the level of a recruit's self-esteem. With high self-esteem, they are more resistant to improper peer
pressure and better able to follow their own judgment.
Practice and teach recruits to be self-managed. Model and teach personal leadership skills.
Assist the recruits in developing a strong will. Teach the importance of keeping emotions under control and
to see and think through the ethical dimensions of a situation. It takes will to resist temptation and stand up
to improper peer pressure.
At no time, will an instructor stress a recruit solely for his or her own satisfaction. There shall never
be negative references made toward a recruit's family members. Such behavior is grounds for
removal from Academy instruction.
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LITTLE ROCK Pc-LICE DEPARTMENT TRt~NING ACADEMY
RECRUIT CODE OF CONDUCT
As a recruit at the Little Rock Police Department Training Academy, you are entitled to be treated with
respect and dignity regardless of age, race, gender, physical disability, religion, marital status, sexual
orientation or national origin. You are also entitled to an environment that is not demeaning or hostile.
Behavior that detracts from the dignity or self-esteem of others will not be tolerated. Respect the rights of
others. Your relationships with other recruits, staff, and civilian personnel, on or off Academy grounds
shall be professional. Your conduct at all times reflects not only on you, but also on this Academy, the
Little Rock Police Department and all law enforcement.
All recruits shall adhere to the following Code of Conduct:
Abide by the ethical principles reflected in the United States Constitution and the Little Rock Police
Department's Mission Statement. Resist any tendency to focus on self-serving desires, and do not take
advantage of situations for personal satisfaction.
Be ethical in actions, words and deeds. Work and live by ethical conduct. Respect human life and liberty.
Be honest, fair and tolerant of other's differences. Learn to couple courage with compassion and self-
control.
Practice integrity. If you make a decision that later is determined to be incorrect, admit to your error
regardless of the consequences. Take responsibility and stand accountable for your actions.
Be courageous both physically and ethically. Physical courage requires you to take appropriate action
despite the possibility of physical harm. Ethical courage requires you to do what you know to be right even
in the face of resistance or improper peer pressure.
Commit to excellence. Give your all in everything you do. Do not judge yourself by comparison to others,
but hy your own sense of self-esteem and personal accomplishment.
Be decisive. Make decisions based on what is ethically right, not your own personal interests. Be
responsihle to those that need your help.
Be honest. Never lie, cheat, or tolerate among you, another recruit who does.
Respect the Academy and its staff, the Department and its history, and the profession of law enforcement
as a whole.
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Little Rock Police Recru·-'-Guiding Principals
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l The role of a recruit while attending the Academy is unique and requires the ability to learn a variety of
skills and deal with a myriad of sensitive and volatile issues. As a recruit, you must be objective, fair,
patient, impartial and have exemplary character. The following principles are designed to steer a recruit in
demonstrating the necessary professional conduct that is expected by the citizens of Little Rock and
demanded by the Little Rock Police Department:
Respect of Human Dignity: Value the diversity of all persons.
Personal Leadership: Self-discipline, initiative, and accountability for one's own actions.
Integrity: Trustworthiness, honesty and taking a stand for what is right.
Life Fitness: Commitment to personal health and fitness in one's personal and professional life.
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ACADEMY RULES, REGULA_TIONS

AND CLASSROOM PROCEDURES .·
"THE STRENGTH OF A CLASS IS DERIVED FROM THE INTEGRITY OF ITS RECRUITS "
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RULES, REGULATIONS AND CLASSROOM PROCEDURES
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A professional demeanor will be maintained at all times in or out of the classroom. Polite and courteous
conduct will be required of recruits at all times. A recruit shall not act or behave privately or officially in
such a manner as to bring discredit upon himself/herself or the Department.
A. Conduct Towards Others
1. Recruits shall conduct themselves in a manner that will foster the greatest harmony and
cooperation between themselves and the Units of the Department.
2. Recruits shall not intentionally antagonize any person with whom they come in contact and
shall treat all persons in a respectful, courteous and civil manner.
3. In the presence of persons from outside the Department, recruits shall address Department
personnel by their rank and civilian personnel by the title (i.e., Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms.)
4. A recruit shall not willfully subject any person or animal to cruel treatment.
B. Harassment
The policy of the Little Rock Police Department and the City of Little Rock strictly prohibits
unlawful harassment because of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical handicap,
medical condition, marital status, sex or age.
I. Unlawful harassment may take many forms, including:
a. Verbal Conduct such as repeated, unsolicited, derogatory comments or slurs or

continued requests for social or sexual contact after being advised such is
unwelcome.
b. Visual Conduct such as derogatory posters, cartoons, drawings or gestures, staring,

leering or written material.
c. Physical conduct such' as assault, blocking normal movement or interference with

work directed at you because of your sex or other protected basis.
d. Threats and Demands to submit to sexual requests in order to keep your job or avoid
some other loss and offers of job benefits in return for sexual favors.
e. Retaliation for having reported harassment.
C. Sexual Harassment
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a
sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when:
I. Submission to such conduct is made, either explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of an

individual's employment.
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2. Submission to,r · rejection of, such conduct by an i · '..'. victual is used as a basis for
employment dec,.:.1ons affecting such individual.
3. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work
performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.
CLASS HOURS
Monday-Friday from 0700-1600, unless adjusted to accommodate the training schedule, which may include
additional scenario training days. Reporting time will be indicated by your Academy Training Staff.
Special classes will be posted on the classroom bulletin board.
A. The Little Rock Police Department has established a 'police day' from 0001 to 2400 hours in order
to eliminate any question of time being A.M. or P.M. The first two digits represent the hours and
last two digits represent the minutes. For example: 7:00 A.M. in the conventional time is expressed
as 0700 hours (no colon) under the 24-hour system and 1:30 P.M. is expressed as 1330 hours.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Every recruit will be required to submit an autobiography. It will include educational background, former
employment, prior police experience, main factors motivating you toward police work, relatives in law
enforcement and other information that you feel pertinent. The autobiography will be submitted on the
first Friday during the first week of recruit school and must be handwritten by the recruit.
PARKING LOT PROCEDURES
Recruits will park their vehicles only in areas designated by the staff. No valuables, weapons or uniforms
are to be left inside their vehicles. Liquor, any form of tobacco and narcotics are expressly prohibited on
the Training Academy grounds. The speed limit is 10 mph on the Academy grounds. Security of your
vehicle and personal beiongings is paramount. Therefore, it shall be the responsibility of each recruit to
lock his/her vehicle.
Recruits shall have a 3" x 5" white index card visible from outside their car with their name, squad
assignment, class number, and Recruit Training Officer's name printed in large letters. The card will be
placed face up on the top of the dashboard on the driver's side.
A. While in the Academy, recruits (and vehicles) will be subject to search at any time at the discretion
of the Training Staff. No weapons of any kind will be allowed on the Academy property. This
includes, but is not limited to; pocketknives, pepper_ spray, guns, batons, stun guns, TASERs,
ammunition or anything else considered a weapon by the Training Staff.
B. All police type stickers (blue line, etc.) will be removed from all vehicles.
C. When required__to carry any items, the gun hand will remain free at all times. This includes trips to
and from the parking lot or to recruit training facilities.
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D. Recruits will not be al D~wed to return to their vehicles after formation without the permission of
their Staff Instructor. 1 ( 1
ILLNESS, TARDINESS, ABSENCE OR OTHER EMERGENCY
In any absence (i.e., death of an immediate family member, an illness, injury or physical accident which
renders you incapacitated), notify the Lead Recruit Training Instructor on their cell phone one hour prior to
regular reporting time or as soon as possible. If there is no answer after the second attempt, leave a message
then call the secondary instructor's number. No phone calls for your absence will be accepted from anyone
other than you. Common health issues such as colds, allergies, headaches, soreness, strains, sprains, etc.,
will NOT be excused. Excused absences will only be granted with the authority of the Recruit Training
Instructor. If the excuse is medical related, a doctor's excuse must be submitted on the day of return . Any
absence in excess of 24 hours shall require approval of the Training Division Commander before the recruit
may continue their Academy Training.
A. Should a recruit be absent or tardy, the recruit is required to submit an Officer's Letter (5600-2),
requesting permission to re-enter the classroom, to his/her Recruit Training Officer.
B. A tardy recruit will advise the Class Leader that he/she has arrived and shall report to a Recruit
Training Officer prior to reporting to class.
C. Any recruit who is not at the Academy or other designated training site at the time prescribed by the
Class Leader is considered tardy. This recruit's name shall appear on the morning report
accordingly.
D. In the event that a recruit is going to be tardy more than 10 minutes, they will call or text their Lead
Recruit Training Officer notifying them of their approximate time of arrival and reason for their
tardiness.
E. If a recruit needs to leave due to an emergency, he/she must make their request to the Lead Recruit
Training Officer. In the absence of the Lead Recruit Training Officer, the request will be made to
a member of the Training Staff.
F. The Lead Recruit Training Officer is authorized to grant a recruit emergency leave. When a
Training Staff Officer receives a request for emergency leave after hours, he/she will note the time
of the request, the nature of the emergency and obtain a phone number where the recruit can be
reached. This information will be provided to the Recruit Training Leader.
G. If a recruit fails to report for duty after being told that emergency leave will not be granted, the
recruit will be assessed 'leave without pay' for the period of time absent. Leave without pay will
be assessed on an hour for hour basis with no tolerance. A charge of leave without pay will not
preclude additional disciplinary action.
H. It is the responsibility of the recruit to arrange for any classwork missed due to being tardy or absent
from class.
I. In the event of the death of a family member or close relative, an Officer's Letter will be submitted
to the Lead Recruit Training Officer as soon as possible. Provide pertinent information including
name, relationship, time, date, location, funeral home or mortuary and time of memorial service.
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TIME OFF REQUESTS ('
A. If for any reason (i.e. family surgery, birth of a child, etc.) you must be absent from class and you
know this in advance, an Officer's Letter (5600-2) will be completed and submitted to a Recruit
Training Officer. This letter will be submitted a minimum of five (5) business days prior to the date
of absence.
B. Granting of time off for any reason will be dependent upon the nature of the request.
CLASSROOM PROCEDURES
The classroom environment is relaxed to provide recruits with an atmosphere that is conducive to learning.
Recruits are encouraged to ask questions of all Instructors to clarify information or to request additional
information about a particular subject to increase understanding.
A. Recruits are reminded that they shall conduct themselves in a professional manner even inside the
relaxed environment of a classroom. Recruits shall exercise common courtesy and respect for all
Academy Instructors.
B. Pledge of Allegiance:
1. The Class Leader will lead the class in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Core Values at the
beginning of each Classroom-Training day in a loud and clear voice by the entire class.
2. The Class Leader will then direct the class to be seated and prepare for the arrival of the first
Instructor of the day.
C. Anytime a Recruit Training Officer or lecturer is observed approaching the class, the first recruit
who observes him/her will issue the command "class". At this time, recruits will stop whatever they
are doing, come to the position of attention and give their full attention to the Instructor.
D. While a lecturer or Recruit Training Officer is at the podium, the recruits are expected to give the
speaker their undivided attention. Recruits shall not look to the rear of the classroom; it is impolite
to the Instructor.
E. If a recruit desires to ask a question in class, the recruit will raise his/her hand and when recognized
by the Instructor will stand at the position of attention and identify himself/herself, "SIR/MA' AM
RECRUIT_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _." The question will be asked in a loud voice so that everyone in the
classroom will hear. The development of a command voice will be emphasized during all phases
of training. Recruits will speak with a forceful delivery, capable of being easily heard in the most
distant corner of the classroom. By this process, each recruit will be given maximum opportunities
to face the class and to demonstrate his/her professional demeanor, attentiveness and the ability to
organize and voice his/her thoughts.
F. There will be no sleeping or dozing in class. If a recruit feels drowsy, he/she will stand and move
to the rear of the classroom without requesting permission. He/she will return to his/her seat as soon
as possible. This procedure will be treated as a privilege and will not be abused.
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G. During instruction, rl .1its will not leave the classroom witr ;, approval from the Training
Staff or the Instructor.
H. Recruits will, at all times, cooperate in keeping classrooms and other rooms in a clean, neat and
orderly fashion. Cell phones, pagers, newspapers, magazines, coats, gym bags and all other personal
belongings shall not, at any time, be brought into the classroom until instructed to do so by the
Training Staff at the end of the day.
BREAK TIME
It will be the responsibility of the Class Leader to ascertain from the lecturer or a Recruit Training Officer
the length of time for the class break. ·
A. AU breaks will be taken in the area designated by the Staff and conducted in a quiet and orderly
manner.
B. Possession and/or use of ANY tobacco product(s) by recruits is strictly prohibited on the Academy
grounds.
C. Chewing gum is prohibited.
D. Two minutes prior to the end of the break, the Class Leader will announce, "CLASS _ , TWO
MINUTES". The announcement will be repeated by the class so everyone will know the break is
over. The recruits nearest the locker room, restroom, and outside doors will relay the "TWO
MINUTES" announcement to these specific areas so that all will know training is about to resume.
E. The class will return to the classroom and immediately prepare for_the next instructor.
F. Eating and drinking of beverages will only be permitted outside of the classroom and the areas
designated by the Recruit Training Staff. Each recruit will keep a water bottle at their desk to ensure
proper hydration is maintained.
G. Use of cell phones during breaks will not be allowed.
REPORTING PROCEDURES
A recruit may speak to a staff member at any time. Recruits are encouraged to enter the Recruit Staff office
in order to contact the Recruit Training Officer. If their Recruit Training Officer is unavailable, then the
recruit may contact any Training Staff member including the Sergeant or Lieutenant.
How to report:
1. Knock three times on the staff door while standing to the side of the door. Immediately enter
the office after knocking on the door (DO NOT STAND IN THE DOORWAY!)
2. Go directly to the Recruit Training Officer's desk you wish to speak to and center yourself
approximately 18" away at the position of attention.
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3. In a clear and;---C1nfident voice state, "SIR/MA' AM RECRUIT _ _ _ _ REQUESTS
PERMISSION'-- .) SPEAK TO OFFICER ( . REPORTING AS ORDERED
SIR/MA' AM". When speaking to a staff instructor always begin and end your sentence with
SIR or MA'AM.
4. When you are done speaking to a Recruit Training Officer, prior to leaving you will state,
"SIR/MA'AM, WILL THAT BE ALL SIR/MA'AM?''
5. The following is how to step away from a Recruit Training Officer's desk: look over your
left shoulder then your right shoulder; take a step backwards leading with your left foot;
make a facing movement (left or right) in the direction of the door; march out.
OFFICER LETTERS AND HOMEWORK
All paperwork will be turned into your Squad Leader prior to the morning inspection. The Squad Leaders
will then give the paperwork to the Class Leader who will provide the items to the Lead Recruit Training
Officer. Papers turned in after inspection will be considered late. Everything submitted shall be in
alphabetical order. ·
A. Officer Letters are to be informational in nature and shall be submitted on the standard letter form
(5600-2).
B. Homework assignments are used as an educational device. They are designed to better acquaint the
Recruit with a particular subject and are used by the Instructor in evaluating the Recruit's ability t~
put information into composition form.
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C. Each homework assignment will have a uniform look. A brief introductory paragraph will be
included stating the reason the homework assignment was given. At the conclusion of the
assignment, recruits will indicate the books, articles, etc., where the material was obtained. Unless
otherwise stated, the homework assignment will be submitted on 8 ½" X 11" lined notebook paper.
I. Each homework paper shall be a minimum of 500 words [two (2) and three (3) letter words
do not count]. The total word count also does not include the heading or the list of references.
a. Reports will be double spaced with each word numbered in the space above the word.
Homework assignments shall be returned and rewritten if, in the opinion of the Staff
Instructor, the paper does not adequately cover the subject or it does not conform to accepted
rules of grammar, punctuation or spelling.
3. No information shall be written on the reverse side of an Officer's Letter or homework

assignment. All paperwork will be clipped together not stapled.
4. All paperwork will be printed in black ink unless instructed otherwise.
a. Crossing out words is unacceptable
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C. Printing r. be legible
5. Every page of a homework assignment, the upper right hand comer of the page will include
the following: Recruit's name, Class#, Squad# and Staff Instructor.
ON/OFF DUTY INCIDENTS
A. In the event of any incident occurring off duty (GOOD or BAD) requiring civil or criminal police
action, the recruit shall notify his/her Recruit Training Officer as soon as possible. Recruits are to
submit a complete Officer's Letter explaining the incident to their Recruit Training Officer. This
shall be done on the first class session following the incident.
B. Recruits will obey all rules and regulations of the Little Rock Police Department and Academy at
all times. Traffic ordinances, state and city laws/statutes will be obeyed at all times.
C. Recruits are prohibited from entering any establishment (bars, nightclubs, etc.) where the primary
function is the selling of alcoholic beverages. Recruits are prohibited from sitting/standing at any
bar in any restaurant.
D. Recruits are not permitted to engage in any secondary employment while assigned to recruit School.
Secondary employment is defined as, any act for any person, company, or organization, from which
the recruit might receive pay or compensation. This does not include military participation in the
National Guard or Reserve.
E. Driving a police vehicle or riding with another police officer and/or accompanying him/her on their
patrol or investigative duties is prohibited.
F. Engaging in any police related function while off duty will not be permitted. This includes the
patrolling of an area or specific location by foot or private vehicle, the investigation of complaints
or crimes and responding to scanners or police radio devices.
G. No recruit will visit or loiter around any law enforcement facility while attending the Little Rock
Police Department Training Academy. Any recruit coming in contact with an officer while outside
the Academy will be required to document the contact on the first class session following the
contact.
SOCIAL NETWORKING
As a recruit of the Little Rock Police Academy, the use and application of good judgment, decency, and
common sense is expected both on and off duty. This expectation also applies while engaging in various
computer or digital media activities both on and off duty.
Participation in World Wide Web/Internet services such as Web postings, social networking sites like
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or entering tweets or blogs, participating in chat rooms, dating services, etc.,
should be carefully considered and monitored by the recruit making the posting for proper personal conduct.
All recruits are to refrain from o_psting on social personal networking sites,or media, photographs of recruits
wearing distinguishable unif( 's, any logos, shields, badges or weap( 1or writings that readily identify
one as a recruit in the Little Rock Police Academy.
Employees shall guard themselves accordingly and shall not participate in any conduct that is likely to have
an adverse effect on the reputation, the integrity or the operations of the Little Rock Police Academy.
COURT APPEARANCES
A. If you receive a subpoena, notify your Recruit Training Officer and provide him/her with the
following information in the form of an Officer's Letter:
1. Recruit's name and class number;
2. Case number and defendant's name;
3. Court location; and
4. Date and time of appearance
B. When appearing in court, male recruits will wear a business suit and tie. Female recruits will wear
appropriate business attire.
C. The day prior to the appearance, an Officer's Letter will be submitted to the Recruit Training Officer
reminding him/her of the appearance.
D. The Class Leader will also be advised so that the morning report will reflect the court appearance.
E. Upon returning from court, recruits will provide a copy of your subpoena, signed by court personnel,
to your Recruit Training Officer.
MILITARY OBLIGATION
Any recruit who has a weekend military obligation will submit an Officer's Letter to his/her Recruit
Training Officer the Monday prior to each weekly obligation. If Monday is a holiday, the Officer's Letter
will be submitted on the next scheduled class day. If a recruit is absent on Monday, he/she will notify the
Recruit Training Officer of this obligation as soon as possible.
LUNCH
A. Recruits will be responsible for providing their own lunch every day.
B. Recruits will only eat in areas designated by the staff.
C. Recruits will not be allowed to leave the Academy grounds during lunch break, unless authorized
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VISITS BY FRIENDS AND __,LATIVES
Personal visits by relatives, friends or other guests are permitted only with the prior approval of the Training
Division Commander. During Academy hours recruits are prohibited from contact with law enforcement
personnel, excluding the Training Staff and Instructors, without prior authorization from the Training Staff.
INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS
Recruits shall not grant interviews or make public statements regarding the Academy or Department
policies, procedures or training activities without prior approval of the Training Division Commander.
USE OF DEPARTMENTAL PHONES
The telephone located in the breakroom area should be used only for emergencies or with authorization
from the Recruit Training Staff. Recruits will be provided with the Training Division's telephone numbers
in the event of an emergency. Messages for recruits will be posted on the bulletin board. It will be the
responsibility of the recruit to check the board for messages. Recruits will be provided with cell phone
numbers for contacting the Recruit Training Staff. Recruits will keep these numbers confidential.
PREVIOUS INJURIES
Recruits will submit a letter detailing any previous injuries regardless of how minor the injury. Recruits
who have no prior injuries, will document this fact. Any deceit will be deemed as a serious violation of the
Code of Conduct and grounds for termination.
MEDICAL LOG BOOK
A Medical Log Book will be placed in the back of the classroom. Recruits will legibly write any
medications, supplements, etc. that the recruit takes throughout the day in the book. If a recruit has a
prescription medication that they wish to remain confidential, they will notify a Recruit Training Instructor
in writing in the form of an Officer Letter.
INJURIES
It will be the responsibility of the recruit sustaining an injury to report the injury to his/her Recruit Training
Officer as soon as possible.
A. In no case, shall a recruit leave the Academy grounds without notifying a Recruit Training Officer
as to the nature of the injury and circumstances or factors causing the injury.
B. The Recruit Training Officer will complete the appropriate Workers Compensation forms and refer ·
the recruit to the specified medical clinic or medical facility for treatment.
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C. All injuries will be re ed immediately even if medical atten is not desired at the time. An
Officer's Letter will be submitted by the recruit detailing their intentions to forego immediate
medical treatment.
D. If a recruit is hospitalized while away from the Academy, notification to a member of the Recruit
Training Staff should be made as soon as possible. If an extreme emergency occurs after hours and
all attempts to contact a Recruit Training Officer have failed, the recruit or a member of the recruit's
immediate family will contact Communications at (501) 371-4829 (24-hour number). Request a
Communications Supervisor to contact a member of the Training Staff.
E. If it is determined that a recruit's injury will result in time off work, it will be their responsibility to
obtain proper documentation from the attending physician, describing the injury and projected return
to full duty status.
F. If a recruit is able to return to work in a "restricted duty" capacity, the Recruit Training Staff will
take appropriate measures to ensure the guidelines set forth by medical personnel are followed and
documentation describing the "restricted duty" guidelines will be forwarded to the Training Division
Commander for review.
PHYSICAL FITNESS TRAINING
Physical fitness training is an integral part of the Academy training process and all recruits are required to
participate. The fitness program at this Academy was designed to prepare recruits to achieve a fitness level
necessary to meet the physical and emotional demands of law enforcement, to enhance self-confidence and
to remain motivated to pursue fitness throughout their careers. The central theme of this program is
designed so recruits leave the Academy with a positive attitude toward exercise, fitness and nutrition.
Recruits are required to meet the standard set by the Training Staff in order to graduate.
A. Any recruit unable to participate in physical training because of a physical disability must have a
doctor's excuse.
B. While at the Academy, each recruit must fully participate in the physical fitness program.
Participation must be without medical or personal restriction of any kind. Failure to satisfy the
participation requirements will be documented and forwarded to the Office of the Chief of Police
for review and a final disposition.
C. Recruits will be furnished a locker(s) in the men's or women's restroom area. Recruits will be
required to supply combination locks for these lockers and will furnish the combination to the Lead
Recruit Training Officer.
D. Lockers will be locked at all times. Empty lockers will not be used as trash receptacles. Every
recruit will have a clean bath towel in his/her locker at all times. Always double-check your locker
to be certain it is secure.
E: The locker room will be kept in a clean, neat and orderly condition at all times.
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PERSONAL HYGIENE
Personal hygiene is an important part of the Academy training and poor hygiene practices in the areas of
cleanliness, haircuts, clean-shaven, fingernails, etc., will not be tolerated.
A. Male recruits are required to be clean-shaven at all times. Recruit personnel will not wear
mustaches, beards or sideburns.
B. Male recruits' hair shall be neat, clean, properly trimmed and cut close to the scalp. Any hair
coloring must appear natural and compliment the person' s complexion.
C. Female recruits shall wear their hair above the collar, pulled tightly to the back in a bun. Hair
accessories (i.e., elastic bands, pins, clips) used to hold the hair in place must blend with the recruits'
hair color. Recruits using dyes, tints, or bleaches, must choose those that result in natural hair color
and compliment the recruit's complexion. Colors that detract from a professional appearance are
prohibited. Recruits will not wear hairs~yles that do not allow for the proper wear of headgear or
protective equipment.
D. Recruits are required to present a neat and tidy appearance at all times, whether in uniform or civilian
attire. All leather accessories, shoes and brass will be neatly polished and shined. All items of
clothing will be clean, neat and pressed.
E. Recruits are only authorized to wear wristwatches (beep or chirps off) and wedding rings, while
attending the Academy.
F. All recruits will trim their fingernails. Fingernails must not exceed ¼ inch in length beyond the tip
of the finger and must be clean and well-groomed. The use of fingernail polish will be restricted to
clear/nude -nail polish only and with no decorations, glitter, etc.
TATTOOS AND PIERCING
Recruits will be required to cover all tattoos and remove any visible body piercings prior to reporting for
duty. Arm sleeve tattoos may be covered by skin tone cover up sleeves. Other tattoos may be covered with
makeup designed to cover tattoos.
CHANGES IN PERSONAL INFORMATION
In the event of a change to a recruit's address, telephone number, change of vehicle, Driver's License status,
or marital status, an Officer's Report (5600-2) must be submitted to a Recruit Training Officer on the next
day of class.
RECRUIT COUNSELING
Staff members are available for recruit counseling at any time. Recruits are advised to contact the recruit
Training Officer they wish to talk to and make an appointment for the counseling. In most cases, recruits
are to follow the chain of command and notify their respective Lead Recruit Training Officer. An example
~f an exception to following the Chain of Command for counseling would be if a recruit should needs to
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talk to a specific Recruit Trai ~ Officer concerning a specific subject ·ass that is taught by that Recruit
Training Officer.
A. Reasons a recruit may request Counseling- Recruit's may request counseling for personal problems,
advice or suggestions regarding his/her Academy progress, standing in class, career direction,
problems encountered, etc.
B. Recruits may be counseled by a member of the Recruit Training Staff at any time for violations of
the Academy rules and regulations, failure to participate, or any other deficiency that might be
viewed to interfere with a recruits overall performance in the Academy. This counseling session
will be documented and forwarded to the Training Division Commander for review.
C. Recruit counseling will be scheduled at a time that will not interrupt the learning process.
GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION OR DISMISSAL FROM THE ACADEMY
Certain academic and moral deficiencies are serious enough to warrant a recommendation for immediate
termination. Among these are:
A. Rules and Regulations
1. Violations of recruit school policy/or regulations as outlined in the Recruit Training Manual
shall be grounds for dismissal.
2. Unsatisfactory performance.
3. Failure to perform satisfactorily during scenario training final evaluations.
4. Academic failure.
5. Failure to qualify twice consecutively at 80% or better on the final firearm's qualifications.
6. Failure to fully participate in the physical fitness program.
7. Failure to meet Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training regulation which
states, "Each trainee shall be required to attend ALL sessions qf the course. The school
director or coordinator may authorize absences of no more that 10% of the class hours.
Training credit will be awarded ONLY for actual hours and classes completed."
B. Personal Integrity
1. Any indication of cheating or dishonesty, including submission of notes or assignments not

prepared by the recruit himself/herself, shall be grounds for dismissal.
2. In the event a recruit engages in behavior which gives the appearance of dishonesty,
including, but not limited to, talking to a fellow recruit during an examination or looking at ·
a fellow recruit's answer sheet, the test monitor shall terminate the recruit's examination(s).
a. The recr -;t will receive NO CREDIT for the exa.r.:--;nation(s) and shall be subject to
dismisL _ upon review of the reported incident. ( '
3. Any act of dishonesty, such as theft or making false statements, will not be tolerated and are
considered grounds for dismissal.
C. Conduct Unbecoming A Recruit
1. A pattern of unprofessional, discourteous or immature behavior compromises the reputation,

values and public expectations of a future enforcement member of the Department and law
enforcement profession.
2. A pattern of behavior that reflects poor personal character that involves conduct that may
undermine or malign the training mission.
3. A pattern of verbal or physical conduct that is offensive, demonstrates a lack of professional

tact, poor judgment, and disrespect of Academy Staff and/or fellow recruits.
4. A pattern of behavior comments and/or demeanor that reflects an inability to maintain, self-
control/discipline, causing inappropriate responses during stressful conditions.
5. A pattern of behavior that reflects a low tolerance of constructive criticism, challenge to

authority and other negative reactions to lawful orders, directions and/or assignments.
ACTS OF INSUBORDINATION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
6. A pattern of conduct that brings into question the mental, physical or emotional fitness of
that individual to perform expected duties.
D. Alcohol/Tobacco/Controlled Substance Use
1. Possession of alcoholic beverages, tobacco of any kind/form or any controlled substance in

the building, on the grounds, in a recruit's vehicle, or any evidence of use shall be grounds
for dismissal.
a. Recruits in possession of physician prescribed medication must report this to the

Recruit Training Staff in an Officer's Letter.
2. Recruits may be selected randomly to provide a breath sample and urine specimen, which
will be screened for illegal drugs and alcohol. These recruits may be randomly tested up to
a maximum of three times per calendar year by a contracted firm/laboratory. The Random
Drug and Alcohol Testing Program in no way supersedes or eliminates a recruit from being
subject to testing based on reasonable suspicion testing by a Recruit Training Officer.
3. A recruit shall provide a sample of his/her breath, via a preliminary breath test (PBT), if
suspected of alcohol use. Failure to comply with this order shall be grounds for dismissal.
4. Use o(a,zy form of tobacco product on the Academy grounds is prohibited and shall be
grounds for dismissal. This policy will be enforced at all times during training hours.
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a. Althomib the enforcement of this policy will onlyJ oclude training hours, recruits are
educat .md encouraged to abstain from its use \ .ny other time.
This is not an all-inclusive list and will not preclude a recommendation for termination as a result of
other misconduct.
RESIGNATION PROCEDURES
A. Recruits wishing to resign from the training program shall adhere to the following separation
procedures:
1. Hours of Separation
a. Recruit resignations are only accepted during scheduled training hours.
2. Initial Contact
a. Recruits will contact a member of the Recruit Training Staff and immediately inform
him/her of the decision.
3. Issued Equipment
a. Tum in ALL equipment that has been issued to date, including notebooks and all
notes.
(1) In the event all issued equipment is not returned, charges against a recruit's
last paycheck may be made for the missing equipment.
4. Resignation Requirements
a. Recruit must submit a letter of resignation.

b. Recruit must complete required exit forms.
c. Recruit must participate in exit interviews with department personnel.
UNFAIR TREATMENT
A. Policy
1. A resigning recruit, who feels he/she has been mistreated at any time during the training
process, shall make these feelings known IMMEDIATELY through their Chain of
Command.
a. Arrangements shall be made for the recruit to speak directly to the Training Division
Commander or their designee.
FIREARMS REGULATIONS
A. Care and Handling of Firearms

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1. At all times, recruits must be fully aware of the potential hazards of a firearm and at all times
exercise the highest degree of caution. Previous knowledge of firearms is not recognized by
the Academy Staff. All firearms will be handled in accordance with the Recruit Academy
Staffs instruction.
2. Recruits will be given thorough instruction on the Rules and Regulations governing the safe
handling of firearms . These rules and regulations will be observed by the recruit and strictly
enforced by the Recruit Training Staff. The following principles will be adhered to:
a. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
b. Never point a weapon at anything unless fully prepared to fire the weapon.
c. Firearms shall not be loaded with live ammunition except under the supervision and
direction of a Firearms Instructor or a member of the Training Staff.
d. Dry firing a weapon is forbidden unless directed by a Firearms Instructor.
3. Recruits are not authorized to carry a weapon off-duty until completion of the Academy
training process. No weapons will be brought onto the Academy grounds unless
authorized by the Training Staff.
SCENARIO BASED TRAINING
1. During the course of the Academy, recruits will be asked to participate in various situations
that will test their decision making ability/understanding when it comes to Use of Force.
Recruits will receive instruction on Use of Force Policy and will be exposed to such options
that are commonly used in the law enforcement profession. The following devices may be
used as subject control tools or training tools and include, but are not limited to, Oleoresin
Capsicum (OC) Spray, Conducted Electrical Weapons (i.e. TASER), Simunition Fx training
ammunition, Shock Knife, batons (foam and expandable), handcuffs, etc. Participation in
this type of training is mandatory and intended to better prepare recruits for stressful
situations, understand the effects of such force options, and how to properly handle situations
that may require such options in accordance with policy, once they graduate the Academy.
GENERAL CONDUCT
Recruits shall not gather in doorways, aisles or other thoroughfares and shall not impede the progress of
staff members or other persons walking about the Academy grounds. While in the Academy, all recruits
will not be allowed to walk from location to location. Recruits will jog (double-time) at a fast pace when
moving from one location to another. This includes occasions when recruits are carrying items.
A. When any staff member, uniformed officer or other person who is not a recruit (excluding inmate
workers or work furloughs) approaches a recruit or group of recruits, those recruits shall stand so as
to make a clear path for the person. If the recruits are standing in a group and are unaware if the
approaching person, the first recruit to see him/her shall announce "STAND CLEAR" and the other
recruits in the group shall then stand aside and out of the way of the approaching person.
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B. While we realize that ~ .ne ·recruits h~ve prior law enforcemen[ ~ perience, war stories will not be
permitted.
C. When a recruit' s name is called, it is the responsibility of the class to ensure that the recruit is advised
that a staff instructor wishes to see him/her. The recruits will make every effort to locate the specific
individual and notify them of the need to contact the Recruit Training Officer who called him/her.
D. Every recruit will have a complete training duty uniform, PT uniform, and appropriate business
attire available at all times on the Academy grounds.
E. Recruits will not have their uniform or any other police equipment visible or unsecured in their
private vehicle on or off the Academy grounds.
F. Recruits shall not wear their uniform or any other law enforcement equipment while off-duty. In
addition, recruits shall not identify themselves as a law enforcement officer.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
This program is designed to increase the academic averages of the recruits and to enhance the learning
process over the course of the 24 week Academy. The examination for most blocks of instruction requires
a minimum passing score of eighty percent (80%); however, there are still some proprietary
companies/agencies (e.g. Defensive Driving, Radar, BAC, etc.) that have an established passing score that
may he higher than eighty percent (80%). If a recruit fails any two tests (original or makeup), he/she
will he dismissed from the Academy.
A. Recruits who do not achieve a passing score will review and discuss the original exam with a recruit
Training Officer in an effort to help the recruit achieve a passing score.
B. On a following day after the review session, the recruit will take the makeup test.
I. The makeup test covers the same topics as the original test, but may have different questions.
TEST AND STUDY GUIDE
A. Why Study - It is of the utmost importance that you acquire not only basic police knowledge, but
also learn problem solving techniques and develop habits that will be vital to your professional
growth.
B. How Long to Study - This depends upon how much material you have to study and how much time
you have available. It is impossible to set a time limit that will prove satisfactory for each and every
recruit. Depending upon the examination results, recruits may find that more study time is necessary
or that too much time was spent on a given subject.
C. How to Study Effectively - You must have a planned approach to study. Manage your time,
organize the material and make an effort to eliminate outside distractions. Plan to work in terms of
one and one-half to two hour blocks of concentrated effort. Plan your study environment so that
you are as comfortable as possible to encourage continuity of thought and concentration.
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Study Techniques - There ar~ hniques, which will increase your learr J efficiency. For example, once
you sit down to study, GET STARTED. Start by surveying what you intend to accomplish during this
particular study period. Glance through all of the material, noting particularly any questions to be answered.
Pick out the more difficult material to study. Proceed methodically and systematically.
1. Ask yourself questions about topic headings so that you read with a purpose.
2. Read with an active search for information.
3. Use memory aids or devices (flash cards, highlighting, etc.).
4. After you have read something, briefly recite high points in a condensed form so you are
sure you know what you just read. Think of how the material may be used in future situations
and relate it to what you have learned before.
5. Review the lesson as a whole unit. Look back over your reading notes and underline
important information. Review the same night. It has been found that more is forgotten in
one day when study is not followed by review than is forgotten in two months when retention
is aided by prompt and continuing review.
D. Preparing for Examinations - Preparing for an examination is a matter of vital importance to all
recruits. Unfortunately, it is the only a time when some recruits study, and their last minute efforts
are hurried and superficial. A good student realizes that exams serve the following purposes:
1. To motivate and stimulate learning;
2. To provide practice in applying things learned;
3. To indicate recruit progress;
4. To emphasize important points; and
5. To serve as a basis for grades.
E. Reviewing Often and Intelligently - Review new material as soon as you have completed studying
it. Review old material before going to new material. Don't put off studying for exams until the
last night. Study with other recruits and pool your information in the form of group discussions.
Memorize only where it is necessary and don't be afraid to seek help. Your Recruit Training Staff
is available at all times.
F. Taking Examinations
1. Take examinations in stride and assume the correct mental attitude. Don't worry about how
well you will do, just do your best. Don't read into questions, but read the question
thoroughly and accurately.
2. Glance through the entire test to determine the general type questions.
3. Work vigorously and concentrate.

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wisely. Don't spend too much time on difficult questions. Check the question and go on
with the test, coming back to the skipped question after you have completed the test.
CHEATING
Cheating in any form or matter will not be tolerated curriculum will not be tolerated and will be grounds
for immediate termination.
A. Cheating is defined as, to defraud, mislead, deceive or act dishonestly.
B. Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to, copying answers from another's paper,
allowing someone to copy your answers, not accurately recording test results/scores and/or any
deceptive behavior that would give an individual an unfair or unethical advantage over other
recruits.
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CLASS LEADER DUTIES
"IF YOU ARE AFRAID TO FAIL, YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED"
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CLASS LEADER RESPONSIBJLITES
A. The Class Leader will ensure complete compliance to the Rules and Regulations of the Academy
and control the demeanor of the class under direct supervision of the staff.
B. Ensure that orders are carried out promptly and efficiently.
C. Position the class in the proper area, at the designated time, in proper uniform and with the required
equipment.
D. In the event of inclement weather, contact a Recruit Training Officer for any changes in reporting
time.
E. Prior to morning formation, the Class Leader shall make sure all Squad Leaders have all Officer
Letters/homework assignments alphabetized and ready to be turned in to their respective Recruit
Training Officer.
F. A supply of all required forms will be kept in the classroom by the Class Leader.
G. In the absence of staff instructors;the Class Leader is in charge of the class and maintain control of
the class.
H. In the event that the Class Leader is absent, the First Squad Leader will assume the duties of Class
Leader and a selected member of Squad One will assume the duties as First Squad Leader.
I. It shall be the Class Leader's responsibility to ensure that all Squad Leaders become familiar with
the Class Leader duties.
J. At the conclusion of the training day, the Class Leader will inform the class of the starting time and
location for the ·n ext training day. The information shall include the uniform to be worn and any
other pertinent information.
MORNING REPORT
The morning report should include the number of recruits which are present at the start of each day.
A. The Lead Recruit Instructor will be informed of the morning report fifteen minutes prior to the
beginning of each training day.
B. The morning report shall account for those recruits that are absent, as well as those who are tardy.
The names and reasons for absence or tardiness will also be included.
BREAKS
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The Class Leader will ascertaiP- rhe number of minutes the lecturer or Recruit Training Officer desires the
class to take during the brea 'fhe Class Leader will then advise th .ass in a clear and professional
manner.
A. Two minutes prior to the end of the break, the Class Leader will warn the class members that the
break is over.
B. The class will return to their respective desks and be prepared to give the Instructor their undivided
attention.
C. Breaks may be utilized for remedial instruction and practice if the class is experiencing difficulty in
any area of training.
COMMANDS
When a recruit is selected as Class Leader, the recruit is put into this position to allow them the opportunity
to improve on their leadership abilities and command presence. When directing the class, the Class Leader
shall do so in a loud, clear and confident voice. The commands are as follows:
Dismissing the Class - When recruits are dismissed for the day, the Class Leader shall announce: "Class,
clear your desks. Class, atten-tion. Squad (NUMBER) you will have cleanup detail for the classroom and
Squad (NUMBER) you will have cleanup detail for the locker room/break room areas. Class tend to your
duties." Once the duties are completed, reassemble the class and prepare for instruction from the Recruit
Training Staff. "Class, upon my command we will be dismissed for the day. Reporting time for
(DAY/DATE) will be (TIME) hours on the track in formation facing (DIRECTION). Uniform of the day
will be (professional business attire/or the recruit duty uniform). Door Recruits post. Class, fall out!"
When moving from the classroom to outside: "Class, clear your desks. Class atten-tion. Class, upon my
command we will fall out of this classroom and onto the track facing (DIRECTION), Door Recruits post.
Class, fall out!" (Any additional duties, details or instructions will be added as needed.)
Breaks - Class atten-tion. Class, upon my command we will fall out of this classroom and into our
designated break area for a _ _ minute break. Upon completion of our break, we will fall back into this
classroom in front of our assigned seats at the position of attention. Door Recruits post. Class, fall out!"
Conclusion of PT/DT Sessions - "Class, upon my command we will .fall out of this PT/DT formation and
recover our gear and water bottles in our non-gun hand. We will then go to our respective locker rooms
where we will change out of our (PT/DT) attire, shower, change into our (professional business attire/recruit
duty uniform). We will then fall into the classroom in front of our assigned seat at the position of attention.
We have _ _ minutes to complete this task. Class, fallout."
Classroom to Locker room - "Class clear your desks. Class atten-tion. Class, upon my command we will
fall out of this classroom and into our respective locker rooms where we will change out of our (professional
business attire/recruit duty uniform) and into our (full and complete DT/PT attire). We will then fall into
the classroom in front of our assigned seat at the position of attention. We have _ _ minutes to complete
this task. Door Recruits post. Class, fallout!"
Lunch - "Class clear your desks. Class atten-tion. Class, upon my command we will fall out of this
classroom and into our designated break area for a _ _ minute lunch break. Upon completion of our lunch
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SQUAD LEADER DUTIES
"TO BE A GREAT LEADER ONE MUST BE ABLE TO FOLLOW"
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SQUAD LEADER RESPONSIBILITIES
A. Control the demeanor of the members of his/her squad.
B. Monitor proper uniform appearance of his/her squad.
C. Positioning his/her squad at the proper time, place, and in the prescribed uniform with required
equipment.
D. Know the names of every recruit in his/her squad in order to assist the Class Leader.
E. Collect and arrange all Officer Letters(5600-2)/homework assignments in alphabetical order and
submit them to the Class Leader during the morning report. All required documents·not submitted
with the morning report will be considered late.
F. Report the name of absent and tardy recruits to the Class Leader so they may be included on the
Class Leader's morning report.
G. Keep enough copies of all handout material for all absent recruits in his/her squad. It will be the
Squad Leader's responsibility to see that absent recruits receive this material the next day.
H. The Squad Leader, as well as every other recruit, carries a pen and small notebook each in the right
breast pocket of the recruit duty uniform. These items are not to be visible while in the pocket.
1. During the inspection, all uniform discrepancies will be noted. Contact a Recruit Training
Officer regarding what is to be done with this information.
I. Each Squad Leader shall become familiar with the duties of the Class Leader.
J. The first Squad Leader will assume the duties and responsibilities of Class Leader in the event that
the latter is absent. A member of the first squad will be chosen to assume the duties of the first
Squad Leader. ·
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FLAG DETAIL DUTIES
"ONE'S INTEGRITY CANNOT BE COMPROMISED "

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FLAG DETAIL
It will be the privilege of the entire recruit class to raise and lower the colors at the beginning and end of
each day. A flag detail will be assigned to handle the flag ceremonies. The following steps will be taken
by the flag detail to ensure the integrity of the flag ceremony is maintained:
A. Raising the Flags - The flag detail will fall out five (5) minutes prior to the morning class formation
and obtain the flags from the Staff Training Office. Once the flags have been obtained, the group
will assemble with the rest of the recruit class in the morning formation. The entire class will then
march in a military formation to the flag poles, located at the front of the Training Academy. Once
at the flag poles, the Class Leader will have the flag detail fall out of formation and prepare to post
the colors, at which time the flags will be attached and raised slightly off the ground. The flag detail
leader will command "ATTENTION TO COLORS" (this is to advise everyone in the immediate
area that the flags are about to be raised). The Class Leader will then command, "PRESENT
ARMS." When the Class Leader salutes, the flags will then be raised to the top of the flagpole. The
Class Leader will then give the command, "ORDER ARMS" (pause) and wait for the flag detail to
return to the class formation before returning to the recruit classroom.
B. Lowering the Flags - Prior to being dismissed for the day, the entire recruit class will march to the
flagpoles to retrieve the colors. Once at the flagpoles, the Class Leader will have the flag detail fall
out of formation and prepare to retrieve the colors. The flag detail commander will command,
"ATTENTION TO COLORS" (this is to advise everyone in the immediate area that the flags are
about to be lowered). The Class Leader will then command, "PRESENT ARMS." The flags will be
lowered, after which the Class Leader will give the command, "ORDER ARMS" (pause) and wait
for the flag detail to return to the class formation before returning to the recruit classroom. The flags
will be properly folded, and the flag detail will be responsible for marching the flags back to the
Staff Training Office where the flags will be secured.
C. Half Staff- If the flags are to fly at HALF STAFF, they will first be raised to the top of the flagpole
and then lowered slowly to half-staff. Upon lowering the flags at the end of each day, they will first
be raised to the top of the flagpole then lowered.
D. When marching with the flags to or from the building, the recruit carrying the flags will always exit
or enter the building first.
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EQUIPMENT
"OUTSIDE SHOW IS A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR INNER WORTH"
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ALL UNIFORMS WILL BE WORN IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE LITTLE ROCK POLICE
DEPARTMENT GENERAL ORDERS AND ACADEMY GUIDELINES, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE
DIRECTED BY THE ACADEMY TRAINING STAFF.
UNIFORM
A. The recruit's duty uniform will be neat, clean and properly tailored. All buttons on the uniform shirt
will be buttoned at all times except for the collar button. Military creases are required on all shirts.
Uniform shirts are to be tucked tightly in the trousers so as not to produce a blouse.
B. Trousers shall be properly tailored and pressed. Pockets shall be buttoned and free from items that
produce an obvious bulge.
C. The trouser belt shall be black and polished. The end of the belt shall point left and the belt buckle
shall align with the overlay flaps of the trousers and shirt creating a straight line ("Gig Line") down
the center of the recruit's uniform.
D. Every recruit will carry a pen and notebook in the right breast pocket of their duty uniform shirt.
They will be under the pocket flap and will not be visible. These items should be carried in a manner
so as not to produce an obvious bulge. A handkerchief may be carried in the off-hand rear pant' s
pocket but shall also not produce an obvious bulge.
E. Socks shall be black, heavy-duty cotton with no ornamentations.
F. Boots shall be plain black, leather toe, capable of a high gloss shine, contain no ornamentation and
must be approved by Training Staff. Boots must be highly polished at all times. Patent leather and
"Coram" type shoes shall not be worn.
G. Rain equipment, iacket and physical training uniforms shall be available at the facility on all
training days.
H. Sunglasses, other than prescription sunglasses, will not be worn. Prescription sunglasses will be
permitted outside the classroom, with the recruit duty uniform upon submission of the prescription
prior to the wearing of the sunglasses.
I. Modification in the wearing of the uniform or any part thereof will not be permitted.
J. No part of the uniform or its accessories may be worn with civilian clothing. During the weeks of
Firearm's Training, special clothing may be authorized to compensate for climatic conditions.
K. The wearing of all or part of the recruit uniform while not in actual attendance at the Police
Academy or its authorized field functions is strictly prohibited. Exception is provided for travel to
and fro_m the Academy, from a recruit's place of residence by the most direct route. Recruits shall
not wear attire bearing law enforcement references, whether on or off-duty, unless approved by the
Training Staff.
UNIFORM FORMAL INSPECTIONS
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Inspections are intended to instill personal and group pride, while fostering attention on cleanliness and
neatness of dress and equipment. Regular inspections will develop of a proper mental attitude resulting in
a disciplined response to professionalism and accepted demeanor to individual-group actions.
GUN BELT
The "Sam Brown" style gun belt will be issued to all recruits. All duty belts will be assembled in the same
manner and shall be kept clean and polished.
A. The following items shall be placed on the belt in the following order:
1. O.C. spray holder
2. Gun holster
3. Handcuff case
4. Flashlight holder
5. Radio Holder
6. Baton holder (when applicable)
7. TASER Holster (when applicable)
8. Magazine case
9. Metal buckle
B. There are four (4) belt keeper straps, which will be issued to each recruit. These straps are used to
hold the gun belt in place by securing the gun belt to the trouser belt. The straps shall be fastened
with the snaps in the downward position.
1. The four (4) keeper straps shall be placed in the following locations:
a. One strap shall be in between the OC spray holder and the gun holster.
b. One strap shall be in between the T ASER holster and magazine case.
c. Two straps shall be in the middle of the lower back.
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A. Recruits will be required to wear the proper PT attire and proper attire under their PT gear (sport
bras and proper support items will be worn if necessary). Recruits will wear matching socks. The
length and color of PT socks will be designated by the Lead Training Instructor. Recruits will wear
their sweatshirt and pants over-the-top of their t-shirt and shorts until commanded to remove them.
B. Recruits will wear this attire along with their gun belt during Defensive Tactics (DT) training unless
otherwise instructed by the Training Staff.
C. When recruits are wearing their PT t-shirts and shorts, they must cover all tattoos that are visible.
Recruits can wear a white or black long sleeve spandex type shirt under their t-shirt to cover the
tattoos on their arms. Tattoos on the legs may be covered by black spandex type pants or at the
direction of the Recruit Training Staff.
SUGGESTED ITEMS FOR LOCKER
• Extra pair of black gym socks and white gym socks
• Lint brush or tape
• Sewing kit with extra buttons
• Nail clippers to cut small threads
• Extra set of underwear
• Shoe shine kit
• Extra laces for boots and PT shoes
• Toothbrush and paste
• Razor and shaving cream
• Personal grooming items
• Extra PT gear and towel
• Contact lens solution and spare lenses, if applicable.

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DRILL, CEREMONIES, FORMATIONS

AND INSPECTIONS
"FAILING TO PREPARE IS PREPARING TO FAIL"
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This section presents principles and techniques for the Little Rock Police Department's Drill and
Ceremonies. The objective is to develop a command voice and individual and unit pride.
A. Drill consists of certain precision movements by which a Unit is moved in an orderly manner, from
one formation to another, or from one place to another. Each member of the Unit does his/her part
with exactness, so that on command the formation moves instantly, smartly and smoothly. The
members of the class are trained to stand, step off, march, and halt and to handle their service weapon
smoothly as individuals and in unison as members of the formation.
DRILL COMMANDS
A Drill command is an oral order from a Unit Leader. The Leader gives all the commands to his/her unit.
Most Drill commands have two parts: I) the preparatory command and 2) the command of execution.
Neither of these parts are a command by itself, but together they complete one order, which obtains the
desired response from the formation.
The preparatory command states the movement or formation to be carried out and mentally prepares the
individual for its execution. Example: In the command "FORWARD, MARCH", the preparatory
command is FORWARD. The command of execution tells when the movement is to be carried out. In
"FORWARD, MARCH", the command of execution is MARCH.
In some commands, the preparatory command and the command of execution are combined, for example:
"FALL IN", "AT EASE", and "REST". These commands are given without inflection and at a uniformly
high pitch and loudness comparable to that of a normal command of execution. In some instances there may
not be a preparatory command, such as in commanding the class to "SEAT". In these instances the word
"CLASS" will be used; i.e., "CLASS, SEATS" or "CLASS, HALT".
This supplemental preparatory command is not always necessary, such as in "CLASS, FORWARD
MARCH" as "FORWARD" is the preparatory command. The Class Leader faces the formation when
giving commands.
To revoke a preparatory command that he/she has given, the Class Leader gives the command "AS YOU
WERE." This instructs the persons commanded to return to whatever they were doing prior to the initial
command. If the Class Leader gives improper commands when they are in formation, the entire recruit class
will sound off with "AS YOU WERE".
VOICE CONTROL
The loudness of a command is adjusted to the number of recruits in the formation. Normally, the Class
Leader places himself/herself centered on the class. He/she speaks while facing the class so that his/her
voice reaches all the recruits.
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Inflection is the rise and fall in pitch of the voice. When giving a preparatory command it should be
delivered in a sharper tone and in a slightly higher pitch than the last syllable of the command of execution.
It must have plenty of snap. The best way to develop a command voice is to practice commands.
In some commands, such as "FALL IN" and "FALL OUT" the preparatory command and command of
execution are combined. Give these commands without inflection and a uniformly high pitch and loudness
comparable to that for a normal command of execution.
SNAP
Snap is that extra quality in a command that demands immediate response. It expresses confidence,
alertness, decisiveness and complete control of yourself and the situation.
CADENCE
Cadence in commands means a uniform and rhythmic flow of words, the interval between commands is
generally of uniform length for any given unit. This is necessary so that everyone in the formation will be
able to understand the preparatory command and will know when to expect the command of execution. For
the Unit while marching, the best interval of time is that of which allows one step to be taken between the
preparatory command and the command of execution. For example:
one two three

CLASS HALT
The same interval is best for commands given at the Halt. For example:
one two three

RIGHT FACE
POSITION OF ATTENTION
A. To come to attention, bring your heels together on the same line.
B. Turn your feet out equally forming an angle of 45 degrees.
C. Keep your legs straight without stiffening or locking your knees.
D. Hold your body erect with your hips level, chest lifted and arched, your shoulders square and even.
E. Let your arms hang straight without stiffness along your sides, with the palms of your hands turned
inward, your fingers curled so that the tips of your fingers touch the palms of your hands. Keep your
thumbs along the seams of your trousers.
F. Keep your head erect and hold it squarely to the front with your chin drawn in so that the axis of
your head and neck are vertical. Look straight to the front.
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REST AT THE HALT
At the command "PARADE, REST", move your left foot 12 inches to the left of your right foot. Keep
your legs straight so the weight of your body rests equally on the heels and the balls of your feet. At the
same time, place your arms behind your back with your hands extended and joined, interlocking your
thumbs so that the palm of your right hand is outward. Hold your head and eyes at the position of attention.
Remain silent.and do not move.
At the command "AT EASE", keep your right foot in place. However, you may talk and move. "AT EASE"
may be commanded from the position of attention or parade rest.
In resuming the position of attention from at ease take the position of parade rest at the preparatory
command of "SQUAD", "DETAIL", or "CLASS". At the command "ATTENTION", assume that
position.
At the command "FALL OUT", given from attention only, you may leave your position in the formation
but remain in the immediate area. Resume your former place in the formation at the position of attention on
the command "FALL IN".
FACING RIGHT AT THE HALT
The command is "RIGHT FACE". This is a two-count movement. The preparatory command is
"RIGHT". The command of execution is "FACE".
At the command "FACE", slightly raise your left heel and right toe and turn 90 degrees to the right, pivoting
on your right heel, assisted by a slight pressure on the ball of your left foot for the first count. Then come
to attention for the second count. Hold your arms as if you are at attention when executing this movement.
FACING LEFT AT THE HALT
The command is "LEFT FACE". This is a two-count movement. The preparatory command is "LEFT".
The command of execution is "FACE".
At the command "FACE", slightly raise your right heel and left toe; turn 90 degrees to the left, pivoting on
your left heel, assisted by a slight pressure on the ball of your right foot for the first count. Then come to
attention for the second count. Hold your arms as if you are at attention when executing this movement.
FACE TO THE REAR
The command is "ABOUT FACE". At the command "FACE" move the toe of your right foot back to a
position touching the ground one-half the length of your foot to the rear and slightly to the left of your left
heel. Raise your left toe and spin 180 degrees to the right, pivoting on the left heel and right toe. When you
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at attention when exercising this movement.
HAND SALUTE OR PRESENT ARMS
The command is "PRESENT ARMS". On the command "ARMS" raise your right hand and arm in the
most direct manner until the tip of your middle finger touches your right eyebrow. Keep your fingers and
thumb extended and joined, your forearm, wrist and hand straight, and your upper arm horizontal. This type·
of salute is only done when in uniform otherwise you place your right hand over your heart. On the
command, "ORDER ARMS" drop your right hand in the most direct manner to your side as in the position
of attention.
MARCHING
When executed from a halt, all steps and marching, except right step, begin with the left foot. For
movements involving a tum while marching, the command of execution is given on the foot in the direction
of the tum.
(Further instruction on marching will be provided in the first week of the recruit training.)
FORMATIONS
Every morning the class will fall into formation on the track for the morning report. Unless otherwise
dictated by the Training Schedule for the day, the class will fall into PLATOON FORMATION.
A. PLATOON FORMATION
1. Each platoon will have 4 squads (rows).
a. The first person in each squad will be the Squad Leader. After him/her recruits will
assemble from tallest to shortest furthest to the right.
• The distance between squads is determined by the 2nd , 3rd and 4th Squad
Leaders extending their right arm forward, fingers joined and extended, palm
down. The fingertips of the Squad Leader should just touch the back of the
Squad Leader in front of them. The First Squad Leader is the base element of
the formation .
b. The platoon should descend from the tallest to the shortest recruit from right to left
with the First Squad being the tallest recruit in his/her rank (column). NOTE: Every
recruit should be taller than the recruit behind them and to the left of them.
c. The interval (distance from shoulder to shouldei;) is determined by each recruit,

except the recruit furthest left (LEFT FLANK) of each squad, places their left hand
on his/her hip with the elbow in line with their body (rest the heel of the palm on the
hip with the fingers extended, joined and pointed down). Each recruit, except the
Squad Leader, turns his/her head to the right and aligns himself/herself (using side
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shuffle str",) so their right arm touches the elbow o/J.he recruit to his/her right. Once
the interL _ls determined returri to the position of a ~htion.
• This is considered CLOSE INTERVAL
2. Class Leaders are positioned six (6) paces forward, centered and facing away from the
platoon once the platoon is at the position of attention.
3. There shall be three (3) paces separating each squad. The First Squad Leader of the platoon
paces the interval from the last person in the first squad of the platoon to his/her right. The
First Squad Leader of the platoon is the base element for the entire formation.
4. The guidon is positioned approximately one (1) pace to the rear of and approximately 30
inches left of the Class Leader.
B. MARCHING FORMATION
L This formation will consist of the entire class in four (4) columns. The column furthest to
the right is the 4 th Squad and the base element. The formation aligns and covers based on
this element.
a. Align - making sure your shoulders are abreast and in line with the shoulders of the
recruit to your right.
b. Cover - making sure you are directly behind the recruit in front of you.
2. The first recruit in each of these columns is designated as the Squad Leader. Squads are
numbered from left to right.
3. The rest of the class fills in behind the four Squad Leaders in the tallest to shortest descending
order from left to right. NOTE: Every recruit should be taller than the recruit behind
them and to the left of them.
4. The distance between the recruits (back to chest) should be 40 inches throughout the
formation.
5. The class is at the position of attention while in formation, waiting for direction from the
Class Leader or Recruit Training Officer.
6. When marching the class, the Class Leader or Recruit Training Officer will center
himself/herself six (6) paces from the left side of the formation.
C. RUNNING FORMATION
1. The same as marching formation but in reverse. The shortest recruit in the class is the leader
of column one ascending to the tallest recruits at the rear of the formation (this will be the
running formation unless otherwise instructed by a member of the Recruit Training Staff).
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Inspections are used to instill pride in the recruits as individuals and as a class. Throughout the Academy,
the staff will conduct random inspections to ensure the recruit's uniform appearance, grooming standards
and weapon manipulation is in accordance with Departmental guidelines.
A. While in platoon formation, the Lead Recruit Training Officer will advise the Class Leader
"PREPARE FOR INSPECTION". The Class Leader will take two steps forward, execute an about
face and command, "SQUAD LEADERS, PREPARE YOUR SQUADS FOR INSPECTION".
B. At that time, the Class Leader will command each squad to "OPEN RANKS, MARCH".
C. On the command "MARCH," the first squad of the formation will take two 30-inch steps forward.
The second squad will take one 30-inch step forward. The third squad will stand fast and the fourth
squad wiJJ take two 15-inch steps to the rear (leadjng with the left foot). The Class Leader will then
command the formation to come to "CLOSE INTERVAL, DRESS RIGHT DRESS".
D. The Class Leader will verify the alignment of each squad by sighting down each quad from the
Squad Leader's side of the formation (RIGHT FLANK). He/she will do so with sharp facing
movements.
1. If the Class Leader needs to align a recruit in the formation, he/she will do so as follows:
Ex. "FIRST SQUAD, RECRUIT _ _ _ _ MOVE FORWARD A HALF STEP."
2. After alignment verification, the Class Leader marches three (3) paces in front of the first
Squad Leader, halts, faces left and commands "SQUAD_, READY, FRONT", at which
point the recruits in the designated squad will lower their arms and face head and eyes to the
front. The Class Leader follows with the command "COVER" at which point members of
the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th squads cover down directly behind the person in front of them.
3. Upon commanding the formation, the Class Leader immediately positions himself in the
center of the formation, takes two (2) paces forward, halts and executes an about face.
E. When all squads are ready for the inspection, the Class Leader will face about and report to the Lead
Recruit Training Officer "SIR/MA'AM, CLASS#__, STANDING BY FOR INSPECTION,
SIR/MA' AM." The Lead Recruit Training Officer will then inspect the Class Leader.
F. At this time, the remaining Recruit Training Staff will approach the Squad Leaders. The Squad
Leader will report "SIR/MA'AM SQUAD# _ _ IS STANDING BY FOR INSPECTION,
SIR/MA' AM."
G. After inspecting the Squad Leader, the Recruit Training Officer will direct the Squad Leader to
accompany him/her while inspecting the squad and record all information relative to the inspection.
1. When asked a question during the inspection, the recruit will repeat the questions in the form
of a statement prior to giving the answer.
Ex. "SIR/MA' AM, THE ELEMENTS OF BURGLARY ARE,_ _ _"
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Ex. "SIR/MA' J>-~, THE SERIAL NUMBER OF MY ~ L~APON IS _ _ _"
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H. Upon the completion of the class inspection, the Class Leader will bring the class to attention (if
needed) and command, "CLASS# __, CLOSE RANKS MARCH".
I. Upon command, the first squad will stand fast. The 2 nd , 3rd , & 4 th squads will t_ake one, two or three
30-inch steps forward respectively.
WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
Weapon Inspections may be executed one squad at a time or en masse. The command .is "INSPECTION,
(pause) ARMS". It involves several movements, which are executed quickly and smoothly. It shall be
executed only when halted at the position of attention with the weapon in holster.
A. At the preparatory command, "INSPECTION", the recruit will lower the protective hood on the
holster and grasp the butt of their weapon with their gun hand. DO NOT REMOVE THE WEAPON
FROM THE HOLSTER!
B. At the command of execution, "ARMS", draw the weapon from the holster and raise your gun hand
to the position level with and six (6) inches in front of your gun side shoulder. ALWAYS KEEP
YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER AND THE MUZZLE POINTED UP!
C. Without lowering the muzzle, grasp the slide with the thumb and fingers of your non-gun hand and
lock the slide to the rear. Drop the non-gun hand back to the position of attention.
D. Inspect the chamber to ensure a fully unloaded weapon. Smartly return the hand to the gun side,
shoulder position.
E. When a Recruit Training Officer takes possession of the weapon, the recruit will release the weapon
and drop their gun hand to the position of attention. When the weapon is handed back, it will be
grasped firmly by the recruit's gun and held at the position of inspection.
F. Once all weapons have been inspected, the command "ORDER, (pause) ARMS" will be given.
G. At the preparatory command, "ORDER", recruits shall grasp the slide with the thumb and fingers
of their non-gun hand and release the slide forward.
H. At the command of execution, "ARMS", the recruit shall bring the weapon down into the holster
with his thumb and the back of the slide, raising the hood to lock the weapon in place. Once the
weapon is secured in the holster, return to the position of attention.
AT NO TIME SHALL LIVE AMMUNITION OR A MAGAZINE BE LOADED INTO THE

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CODE OF ETHICS .
As a law enforcement Officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard

lives and property, to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or
intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional
rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice.
I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all; maintain courageous calm in the
face of danger, scorn, or ridicule; develop self-restraint; and be constantly mindful of the
welfare of others. Honest in thought and deed in both my personal and official life, I will
be exemplary in obeying the laws of the land and the regulations of my department.
Whatever I see or hear of a confidential nature that is confided to me in my official capacity
will be kept ever secret unless revelation is necessary in the performance of my duty.
I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities or

friendships to influence my decisions. With no compromise for crime and with relentless
prosecution of criminals, I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear
or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never
accepting gratuities.
I recognize the badge of my office as a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public
trust to be held so long as I am true to the ethics of the police service. I will constantly strive
to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before God and to my chosen
profession -- Ltlw Enforcement.
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The Man In The Arena
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually
in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly; who errors and comes short again and
again; because there is not effort without error and
shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who
knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, · who spends
himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor
defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
th
26 President of the United States of America
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ACKNofvLEDGEMENTAND
AGREEMENT
[, :/3a.vidtrvJ £,}w/).-,J .5(/b;cf.e/ke,r, a member of the Little Rock Police Department Recruit School,
:1cknowledge receipt of the Recruit Training Manual; and that I am fully aware it will be my responsibility
:o read and make myself familiar with the contents of the Manual. I acknowledge, more particularly, that I
iVill become familiar with the requirements for a recruit set forth in the Manual as well as the standards it
,ets for the attitude, discipline, demeanor, and courtesy of recruits.
( acknowledge that disciplinary action may occur if I fail to comply with the requirements, standards, and
)rocedures set forth in the Manual. I further understand that my failure or inability to comply may result in
ny dismissal from Recruit School and as an employee of the Little Rock Police Department.
tecruit Signature Date
9ranJcJVl &/we....,) 5t--'1:-ck,//,~',,_

~ecruit Printed Name
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~ecruit Training Officer Signature
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTAND
AGREEMENT
I, b{l/JAIDDA/(Jllft LE l , a member of the Little Rock Police Department Recruit School,

acknowledge receipt of the Recruit Training Manual; and that I am fully aware it will be my responsibility
to read and make myself familiar with the contents of the Manual. I acknowledge, more particularly, that I
will become familiar with the requirements for a recruit set forth in the Manual as well as the standards it
sets for the attitude, discipline, demeanor, and courtesy of recruits.
I acknowledge that disciplinary action may occur if I fail to comply with the requirements, standards, and
procedures set forth in the Manual. I further understand that my failure or inability to comply may result in
my dismissal from Recruit School and as an employee of the Little Rock Police Department.
DaJ
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Schiefelbein, Brandon - Command Staff Notes
Instructions for Approval or Rejection of Applicants:

Click anywhere below this box, type in your comments, whether you approve or reject this applicant for hire and your
name.
Applicant Recommendations
Helton Fulk Finks Bewley
I recommend this Candidate for Recruit School #87 X X
I recommend this Candidate be Disqualified
Candidate meets the requirements for considerat ion and I recommend employment. Capt.
Helton
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Schiefelbein, Brandon
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 1:57 PM
Contact was made with Mr. Schiefelbein via phone. He Contact was made with Mr. Schiefelbein via
advised that he still wants to be employed by the police phone. He advised that he can possible have his
department. He stated that he has military orders to orders charged to August 6th thru August 26th,
attend active training at the National Training Center in 2017 In Wisconsin.
callfornla from August 4th thru September 1st, 2017. I 7/20/2017
informed him to submit his military orders.
7/20/2017
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TO: Prc~Employment Rackground Investigation File
11KOM: Sur~::111t V.:111 TI10mas \(\
RE: Prc·Cmploymcnt Background lnvesrigntion Supervisor Summary
DATE: June 18, 2017
Ap11licon1: IJrandon J::d1vttrd Schi•f•ll,.in (Rntry J.onl A1>1llkont)
IJ•ckgmund: Mr. Schiclclbcin graduated fiom Cabot I ligh School in Cabot. Arkansas.
ll:1c.kground: Mr. Schicfclhcin i!;
Background: Mr. Schiefelbein joined lhc lJnilcd States ,\rmy Reserves in 2012. nnd is currently
assigned to the 806 Engineering Comp:my in Con,..,·n~· Arkansas, I le is ul~silicd as a ComOOt
Engin<cr Squad Leeder nnd hold the ntnk of E-3.
Rack~round: Mr. Schiefelbein received no documented previous job rcli:rcnccs.
BackRround: Mr. Schiefelbein hns nccrued zero (0) truffic points in the JU'-t $CVCn years.
Oackgroum.1: Mr. Schicfolbcin has positive ch:1r:1crer references, 10 include liHlc Rock Pulic:.:
Officers: Britt:my Oodfrcy, Johniuhon Oonzalcs nnd Recruit Oa\ticJ 8u1tl\\Tighl
Rackgrouud:
lfaekground: Mr. Schiefelbein d id not h:we any negnti\'e documc,ucd nt!ighborhoud interviews
anw'or l:mdlord references.
IJa<kKrouud: Mr.
Polygn1>h: Mr. Schiefelbein documented 1h31 he "dro~·c home .tfrer dinner \\'here I have had a
couple drinks le.ss th.in il year ngo"
Polygn,,ph: Mr. Schiefelbein polygrnph findin~s n:!»Uhct.l in " Nu Signiric.ant Reaction.~ Tndic:itivc
orocccptinn''.
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Pre-Employment Background lnvc.sligat.ion Supcrvioor Summary

Applicant Brandon Edward Sdricfclbcin
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Schiefelbein, Brandon
Thursday, July 14, 2016 8:41 AM
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LITTLE ROCK POLICE DEPARTMENT

PRE-EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND
INVESTIGATION
POI .JCE OFFICER ,\PPLICANT
Racl,ground ln\'cstigutor: Officel' Kimbrough
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ON
BRANDON EDWARD SCHIEFELBEIN
I. Synu1uis
2. Budq~rnund Jnve~tigutinn
J. llnckground IJooklet
4. Appli cation
5. H..ecord:f <.;htck LRPIJ Hcudquurtcr..
6. LRPDS.l.D.
7. North Little Rock Police Department
H. Pulo.ski County Shcrir-rs Office
9. Pulnski County District Court
10. Mo.umelle Police Department
II. Sherwood Police l)cp11rtmcnt
12. Arkansas State Poliec
13. AC:ICINC!C Record Check
14. t\rkan~:s.., Revenue Dcpurlmcnt
15. Ark.an:.a., Child .\1alrrcatmcnt
16, Conwny rolicc Depanmenr
17 . Fuulk.m:r C.:mmly Shcrifrs L>cpnrt1nenr
IK. F.mpluymenl lnquiri~ AXP~1 Warehouse
19. 806 Engineering Cot11J'1ny U.S. Army Reserves
20. Hibbett Sporting Goods
21 . Law F.nforcement App LRPD Mcmu
22. Mlli!U)' Selective Service Ver ification
23. DD214Fom1
24. Military R~ords
25. t.:'1ae:alinn
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Synopsis
BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
ON
Brandon Edward Schiefelbein
Investigation Conducted 13y: Jnv(:sligation Conduelcd On:

Officer Herbert Kimbrough Urandon cdward Schiefelbein
Period uf Investigation
02/ 10/2017 to 05/3 112017
Oflicc: (501) 918-4335
SYNOPSIS
Mr. Urandon Edward Schiefelbein was administered and pai;scd the Wrillen Civil Service Examination and he
successfully pnssed the Pre-Employment Agility '!'est. On January 13, 2017, Mr. Schicfolbcin participated in the
Or:tl Interview ;md scored
Mr. Schiefelbein Wl!S born un in St Clnir, Illinois. He attended Cabot High School in Cnhot,
Arkansas, where he b'Taduatcd in 20 12 with a
FAMILY IIISTO'RY
Mr. Schiefelbein is
~tlLIT·ARY HISTORY
Mr. Schiefelbein joined the United States Army Reserves in 201 2, and is currently assigned to the 806 Engineering
Company in Conway Arkansas. He is classified as a Combat Engineer Squad Leader nnd hold the rank of E-3. Mr.
Schiefelbein received the following nwnrds nnd dccorntions: )lorionnl Defense Service Medal and the Army Servie<:
Ribbon.
Selective Service Number:

Registered: 04/ 16/2012
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Background lnvestig~a_ti_o_n_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
CITY OF LITTLE ROCK
POLICE OFFICER
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PERSONAL HISTORY. STATEMENT

BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION BOOKLET
KENTON BUCKNER, CHIEF OF POLICE
Name: ~ " c?o~ :>i.,b,tJ'.-'--\\,'-'Y\

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Received by: ~ • JL./1111 ~{U)~J~&~ H:
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PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT - CITY OF LITTLE ROCK POUCE OFFICER f>l<,jc 2of3J
Instructions to the Applicant
Tho Information you provide ,n this Personal History Statement .,;11 be used In the background ;,.,,estigatlun to :issist
in d etermining your suibbiaty for the position of U UJe Rock PoUcc O f f i c•, ~da~ ~th UWe Rock Civil
Service Rules and Regulations.
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Records Check
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Pohcc 0<..'Purtmcnl 700 w~si Mic1J..t1.t111
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Name~~--c_\oc :-':e\.,1 ew\'te, f\

DatcofBinh:- -Racc:_ . __ _,,,,__Sex: m
Driver's l.1ccnsc Nwnhcr:
11us 1s to certify we have checked the Crumnalffraffic records files of the Little Rock
Police Department and find you have the record(s) listed below·
DISPOSITION
On b~•lo ol lnlormotlon fur nished

NO Tll/lFFIC R£CORO On basis of lnfonnation furnlshod
fl>~n~ In lh~ ~lltlo Rock Pel/co NO CRIMINAL RECORD
ll~{1Ji\Q!I~ Tr Ill~ Recoros Dlv!!Jlon found In tho LIHlo Rock Police
Dop11rtmont Crlmlnol Records Division
Note: Copies oftlus document ruid/or a.lteralJon to any pan will mva.lidntc this record
Search.
Cnmmul record sc:archcs include all felony charges. Routine searches do not cover 1111
m1sdcmcnnor charges before 1978. 1111s n local (City of Little Rock) Record Ch<:ck onh·
It does not include statewide CrurunaVTraffic Records.
Record Sc:irch Made By·
LRPD Fmm 5600-9)

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MEMORANDUM
TO: Caotain Heath Helton

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Employment Inquiries
LITTLF. ROCK POLICE DEPARTMEjl\:"'T

EMPLOYMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
Compuny Name: _ _ _ _a.;A;.:.X~l~'!V""I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Applicant's Name: ____B=ra::.:n::..:1:..,lo""o'-'S"'c:::h:.:.ie"'t"'e"'lb:..:e;::in..__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
NOTE: Inl.ormution li'om lhi~ fonn is held in STR[CT CONFIDENCI£ o.nd Is not nv3ilnble to the o.ppllcant.
I. Dates of employment for the above named applicant: March 20 l 7_ _TO Present._ _ __
(Jf exact dates arc unavailable, give approximate d,1les.)
2. Please rate the applicant on the following traits:
Dependability um! truslwm1hiness: Excellent__Good __Fair__Poor

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b. Quality of work: Excellent__Good __Fair__Poor
c. Rcspo11sihil ity to his/her creditors: Exccllcnt__Good __ Fair__Poor__
d. l'ersonal habits: Excellent__Good__ fo.ir __ Poor
e. Communications skills: Excellent __ Good fair __ Poor__
[. Conduct with fellow workcrs: ExccllcnL__Good F11ir__Poor__
g. Leadership ability: Excclk:ot__Good Fuir__Poor__
3. Di<.I Lht::applkaut huvc eustrn.ly ofmum:y or valuables? No _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
4. Any indication of a negative or uncaring attiti.1de through verbalization and/or actions of the
applicant'!No_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
5. If the 11pplic11nt. opcratC{I 11 compan)' vehicle, pleuse give Lhc typ-,, and number of any
accidents. No _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ __
6. Rcason(s) for leaving your employ: Presently Employed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

\Vould you re-cmploy? _ _lfno, state reason. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
7. l\dditionul rcmurks:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __
(Plcusc use rovcr$o side for nddition~I rom~rk$, i( needed.) Sec Reverse._ _
Print lllamc: Renee Jlurks Position: IIR Manager
Signnturc: Over the Phonc_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Datc: 05/31/2016 _ _ _ __ _
LIU'D Form 5230-03

Rev. I 0/08 /97
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Law Enforcement Application Status
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M~MORANOUM
TO: File
FROM: Officer I lerbert Kimbrough
RE: Branduu Schii:fo::lbein Law Eufon.:cmcnl Application Sum.ls
DATE: May 23, 2017
Police Applicant F!randon Schiefelbein has never applied with any other Lnw l:!nforcement Angeny.
(IJocumcnlation is in the lilc)
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Military
Selective Service System

Data Management Center I P.O. Box 94638 Palatine, IL 60094-4638
VNNI.SSS.gOV
May 11, 2017
MEMORANDUM FOR REGISTRANT

SUBJECT: Onllne Verincation of Your Registration
This document certifies officially that the below named individual is registered on
the date shown with the Selective Service System as required by Section 3 of tho Military
Selective Service Aet (MSSA}- 50 U.S.C. 3802.
Selective Service Number:

Name: BRANDON EDWARD
SCHIEFELBEIN
Dato of Rogls1ratlon: 4/16/2012
Because you have satisfied the MSSA by registering, you remain eligible for those
pro9111ms and benefits linked to registr<'ltlon compliance. such as student financial aid,
government employment, job training, driver's license In several states, and U.S. citizenship
for immigrants, for which you are otherwise qualified.
Thank you for your inquiry. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact
tho Data Management Center at the address above. Our telephone number Is e,17-688-6888
or toll - free: 1-888·655-1825.
Nicolo F. Harris
DMC Manager
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Character References
LITTLE ROCK 1'OLlCE DEPARTMENT

REFERENCE QUESTIONNAIRE
Rcfcrcucc Nnmc: _ _ _--=U"-ri:.:.tl:.:ua:.n)....'..,.

G""o~df:.:.r"'"cy.___ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __
A11plicant'~ Name: Brandon Schiefelbein

NOT£: Infonnation from lids Conn is not uv;,ilnblc: to the upp1icanl :ind is hdJ in Jfrkt c:c,q fid e"';e,
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7. To your knowledge does the applicant use intoxicants or drugs?_'~C~l D

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&. To your kn~}~ Tdge, hns the applicant ever been di scharced from any employment?
Ycs _No~ If yes, please explain. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
9. WhHL has been your observation of the applicant's stability or instability in hi S1l1er home nnd f
family lift:'! t-\e;. 'cos O,s';?iS\.fd "i:0 +\t,e (1/:dS:\-0-\0'1l l ~
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10. Docs the applicant appear to live ,vrihin his/her income?__
11. To your knowledge, what is the applicant's general reputation in the neighborhood and
community? 4.J&. 1',') ,1.2.,,v-y., \)..)-{';, 6 1·, \Uc!/ Ci. 1/\<-JI, v ,]s ~ !te.d) b "1
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12. Plcnse hst uny ndditional rcm:irkRyou might hnve regnrding the opplioanL's quulifi cution~.
13. Please provide the nnmes nnd nd<l.rcsses of lwo (2) additional people tlint know this opplicont.
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Signature: 96~~~~~ Date:\,rncL,L/~1 , 1.~r1
Occupation and/or Litle: "\ ,t:(s:y ~Q D-y£~ @_Q;\
c LRrD Fenn 5230-04
Rev. l0/08/9'1
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Neighborhood Interviews
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Fi le
FROM: Officer Hcrhcrt Kimbrough
RE: Rrandon Schiefelbein Neighborhood Jntervicws
l)ATF.: May 22, 2017
On Muy 19, 2017 omccr Jc~~ica F.uhanks ond I traveled to the addrc.<S o f
- Lo conduct ncighbmhood intrrvicws on Police Applicant Brandon Schiefelbein. Mr.
~ i n resides nt this nddrcss. Contact \',,'8S 1m.dt! with two neighbors.
/I photograph of Mr. Schiofelbein's .:orr<nt residence is in th• me.
(Oocumcntolion is in 1he file.)
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NEIGHBORHOOD fNTERVlEW FIELD REPORT
Applicant: JlJ,,,; '.!k/2,·/e/£e1AJ Uatc: 5-/'[-t)_

lnve.,ti~:imr(s): £2¼,nL l4 J /( rnbv.»f
rcn;nn Cnnlacfcd: )c:t;J-tl- Luc...~b,
Address: L\ d-- W, }/Ul,..., ·
Telephone: 501 d5 'i {a 11 J Time in Re,ridence: ¥
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MEMORANDUM
TO: File
FROM: Officer Hcrhcrt Kimbroui;h
RE: Brandon Schiefelbein Neighborhood Interviews
DATF:: May 22, 20 17
: M"; 19, 2017 Officer Jcssicn Euh,nks and I travclc-d lo the addrc.ss -
Lu coru.lucl neighborhood interviews on Police Applicant Brandon Schiefelbein. Mr.
bcin resides 31 this address. Contact \li-'os made with two neighbors.
/I photograph of Mr. Schi<folhein's .:11rron1 rosidence is in the me.
(Oocumentotion is in rhe file.)
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Telephone:.~
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MEMORANDUM
TO: File
~ROM: Officer Hcrbc1t Kimbroui;h
RE: Brandon Schiefelbein Neighborhood Interviews
DATE: May 22, 2017
On Muy I 9, 2017 Officer Jc:,,.."iicn Euhanks and I traveled to lhc addrc.°'s uf

!atnsas, Lu conducL neighborhood interviews on Police Applicant Brandon Schiefelbein. Mr.
Schiefelbein resides :11 this nddrcss. Contnct ,i,·os made with two neighbors.
/I pho1ograph of Mr. Schiefelbein 's C<Jrrent residence is in 1he rile.
(Oocumcntotion is in the file.)
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NEIGHBORHOOD INTERVIEW FIELD REPORT
Applicant:_~~1·-f'e//,e/y Date: 5-/"f-l)_

Inve.,li,:atnr(s): <Jr.nL (k;, J '/<, mbv.~J
Person ContAcced:
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Polygraph Booklet & Additional Items
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TO: File
FROM: Officer Hcrhcrl Kimhrough
RE: Pre-Emplymcnl Polyf,>Taph Review of Police Applicant Brandon Edwnrd Schiefelbein
DAT.I::: May31 , 2017
On May 4, 2017, Mr. Brandon Schiefelbein was administered a prc-cmplo}~ncnt polygraph by Mr. Todd
Arrnscrong of Arkansas Polygraph und lnvcsti1,,ativc Associates.
Ouring the initial review of Mr. Schiefelbein's pre-employment polygraph qm:stionnairc, he made the
following admis:,ions uf which he hud nlsn Iisled in his personal hisrory stntcment ns well:
I. Criminal: Mr. Schicfelhcin denied committing any crimes.
2. Drug, Use: i\k Schiefelbein denied any use or illegal dnigs or possessing, distributing, selling or
huying illegal drug .
'.l . Employment: Mr. Schiefelbein denied being fired, committing any crimes or stealing from nny
job£, he denied huving any disciplim: issues with his civilian or mililal)' jobs.
Mr. Schiefelbein is n member of the United Stnlcs Armed Rcscn•es.
Mr. Schiefelbc!ln'5 prc-cmploy1T1cnc polygraph findings rc.~ullcd in: No Signilicanl Reaction~

lndicam•c ofDccct>tion.
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Physical Fitness Test Results

Physical Ability ExamlnaUon RaUng Form
Date: I I - lu · 2.1)/v Test Monitor 1 Initials:_ _ Test Monitor 2 Initials:_ _

Test Monitor 3 Initials: Test Monitor 4 Initials:
Candidate Information
Last Name: 5 .,J,:.:.C,, \bcio Gender:
First Name: Br-c,,, Jo ,,, o Female

0 Male
Las t four of SSN#: - - - = - -
Age : '2.2.
EUmic Background:
O African American o Hispanic
O Native American
O /\sian/Pacific Islander
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Caucasian o Other
Do you havo any physical or medical conditions which could be aggravated by

oxtonslve exercise?
Yes No_~X_/ _ If yes, explain:
WARNING: THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK RECOMMENDS THAT YOU DO NOT

PARTICIPATE IN THE PHYSICAL ABILITY TESTING IF YOU HAVE ANY MEDICAL
OR PHYSICAL CONDITION WHICH COULD BE AGGRAVATED BY EXTENSIVE
EXERCISE. HOWEVER, WE WILL NOT PREVENT YOU FROM TESTING.
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LIITLE ROCK l'Ol/CE DEPARTMENT
700 Wt: fT M,IRl(/IAM 1 .~®1
l.l1TLII ROCK, ,IRKANS, IS 7120/-1119 (501)-3 71-46115
Kttlllu" B11dmer
(1,i~/ n/ Police. ra., (501)-371..f892
Rio: <.:on~ilionnl Offer of Employment
Polici! Ap(llicnnt: 7~( A.I t i /4.,-; / /r,J/, ,'l 'fr/,,· ( /,,: /},,f.1,,,
(Print foull :-Same)
We ;u-e plensed to hereby cxtcnJ to you a condition.,1 offe1· of cmplvym~nl fur lhc position of POLICE
OF~'IC:t'.lt. l'Lt:.ASE NOTE lhal: Con<lition;il offers m.1y l1i'1ve b~u extended to mun: cundidatcs limn
UClllttl vnc,ncics fo r this position. TLIIS IS NOT AN OFFF.R OF lMMF.lllATlo: EMl'I.OVll-1!:,'i'I'.
J!Q.llQI TERMINATF. YOUR l'RF,S~:r,, r t; MPLOYMEi'>"I' on UELOCATE TO THF. LITTLE
ROCl<. A.Rk:A.
·mis offe, i!. spccific:illy coiuiugenl upon yo ur succcs..'di.tl complclinn of the following prc-employ1n!:IU
i lc:~ ~u ~ct forth by the Linle Rock 1•0 Jice D::pmhncm (LRPD} in co mpli:mcc with the requirement~ of
1hc l.ittlc Rock Civil Se1vice Commission, and/or Arluns.:i." L,w F.nfnrccrnent Srnndnrds ;ind Trainine:
I. Background lnve5tig:uion
2. Pulygr.1ph F.xamination
). Command Staff Interview
11. Complete Mc-dic:tl E.., t1111 i11aCX111
5. D111g Scrtcl\/Vision E.xiunin~ticm
6. P:iychnloe,ic.oJ Ex.,minntion
Upon salisfoctory complcrion of all pn:.-cmpk>ymcnt steps, you \"·ill he eligible for employment
coadilion:al upon the following:
Offen, to bcein th= recnilt school will be m:sdc tu quulif)'ing candid!lt(!.S whh 1hc hit,he~t p:rncl
interview sc,orc:s for interviews coodocted before this conditional offe r.
Tite first dily of employment ~ cont'ing::nt upun the: recruit school sthl~duJc.
A ~unJitional offer \Viii be ,-e,·oked upon il c.1ndidati::'s fttilurc to sati$fy any of the.
~tc1Wconditicm, conr:1ined he1cin includi11.g IIY.: cnmfo.lntc's i1mbil it)' to comm;:ncc ~cruit ~chuol
011 tli..: de:iignuLcJ Jtttc.
The recruit sc.hool comme1\CCS d uring the cond11iowl1 o ffe r 1>i:nod ~htlctl below.
T his c9gdJtionlll ulJ~r is v.elitl for up to , ix (G} mouths from the date of,-·nur signature.
Sinc.:rcly,
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Kenton Uuckner
Chi.:f of Police
1hnvc rend nnd fully undl·Nt3n<l lhc ruturc of this condition.1ljoh offer:
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compare the nbovc listed police applicant '~ tingcrprinl~ ugnin.St the Arkunsus
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l!t,'it \li•l,1 criminal fil e.,;.
3 il1U,'f.l!)!'I The 1\rk a11sa'l State Police is now transmitting Police 1\pplicantc;
fk},r J~'l'Jl!X• electronically lo the FnJ . \Ve now have the i::lbility to pri nt FBl responses
and re1t1m them 10 ~our agency. Please, do nol shred or throw nw;1y the~c
N,11l ~, r..:~·~J;, rcs rwnsc,, ,ve will nor he :thlc lo duplit3tc another FBI response,
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without your ;1gi:11cy suhmittln~ nnothcr Applicant Fingerprint C;ar1I tn
the Arkousas St:ite Pulice for prnccssln~.
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CITY OF LITTLE ROCK
POLICE OFFICER
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PERSONAL IDSTORY--STATEMENT
BACKGROUND INVESTIGAJION BOOKLET
KENTON BUCKNER, CHIEF OF POLICE
Name: :B rc\.n cJ Of\ Sc...b; l, \-e., \~ iAV\

Date $ubmittecl: ( -t'Z, - 'Z O /'7
Received ~y: 1-1. fL,WJ ~(l,oJ&lt
LRPD Form 5230-39
Rev. 09/09/20 15
PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT-.CITY OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE OFFICER Page2 of 33
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Instructions to the Applicant
• The information you provide in this Personal History Statement will be used in the background investigation to assist
in determining your suitability for the position of Little Rock Police Officer, in accordance with Little Rock Civil
Service Rules and Regulations.
• Type or neatly print, in ink, responses to all items and questions. If a question does not apply to you, write "NIA"
(not applicable) in the space provided for your response. If you cannot obtain or remember certain information, indicate
so in your response.
• If you need more space for any response, use the last page of this form (page 25) and identify the additional
information by the question number.
Disqualification
There are very few automatic bases for rejection. Even issues of prior misconduct, such as prior illegal drug use, driving
under the influence, theft or even arrest or conviction are usually not, in and of themselves, automatically disqualifying.
However, deliberate misstatements or omissions can and often will result in your application being rejected, regardless
of the nature-or reason for the misstatements/omissions. In fact, the number one reason individuals "fail" background
investigations is because they deliberately withhold or misrepresent job-relevant information from their prospective
employer.
BOTTOM LINE: Be as complete, honest and specific as possible in your responses.
Disclosure of Medically-Related Information
In accordance with the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act125125, at this stage of the hiring process applicants
are not expected or required to reveal any medical or other disability-related information about themselves in
response to questions on this form, or to any other inquiry made prior to receiving a conditional offer of
employment.
LRPD Form 5230-39

Rev. 09/09/201 5
\q•.istial this page to indicate that you have read the instructions: _ _
PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT( ' 'TY OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE OFf l~R Page 6 of 33
-') NAME CUSTODIAL PARENT OR GUARDIAN {IF OTHER THAN YOU)
OM I BIRTH DATE
ADDRESS {NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CITY STATE ZIP
OF
CONTACT NUMBER
4) NAME
( ) I
CUSTODIAL PARENT OR GUARDIAN {IF OTHER THAN YOU)
OM I BIRTH DATE
ADDRESS {NUMBER / STREET / APT) CITY STATE ZIP
OF
CONTACT NUMBER
( ) I
5) NAME CUSTODIAL PARENT OR GUARDIAN (IF OTHER THAN YOU)
OM I BIRTH DATE
ADDRESS (NUMBER / STREET/ APT) CITY STATE ZIP
OF
CONTACT NUMBER
( ) I
6) NAME CUSTODIAL PARENT OR GUARDIAN (IF OTHER THAN YOU)
OM I BIRTH DATE
ADDRESS {NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CITY STATE ZIP
OF
CONTACT NUMBER
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REFERENCES
List 1O people who know you well, such as social and family friends, co-workers, military acquaintances. Do not include
relatives, employers or housemates, or other individuals listed elsewhere. No more than two police officers AND one
person per household .
HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?

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B) NAME CITY STATE ZIP
7Z. rt TL 7.Z:S
BIRTH DATE HOME PHONE E-MAIL ADDRESS
( )
/o. 0 ~ 11 J woRKPHONE CELL PHONE
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HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSON? {FOR EXAMPLE. FRIEND. TEACHER, FAMILY FRIEND, CO-WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
0- lJ y'k.ur" C~f~
HOME ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CITY STATE ZIP
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E-MAIL ADDRESS
/J 7 , /,, C, _i 1 WORK PHONE

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HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSON? (FOR EXAMPLE FRIEND . TEACHER, FAMILY FRIEND. CO - WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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. PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT ( "TY OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE OFF( . "'1R Page 7 of 33
(NUMBER / STREET/ APT)

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CITY STATE ZIP
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c>IRTHOATE HOME PHONE E-MAIL ADDRESS
ti-- 3--198'9 WORK PHONE CELL PHONE
( 501 ) 35 °i1 i lt
HOW 00 YOU KNOW THIS PERSON? (FOR EXAMPLE: FRIEND, TEACHER, FAMILY FRIEND, CO-WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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HOME ADDRESS (NUMBER / STREET/ APT) CITY STATE ZIP
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BIRTH DATE HOME PHONE E-MAIL AOOR SS
u[j -{ I . t;, WORK PHONE CELLPHONE
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HOW 00 YOU KNOW THIS PERSON? (FOR EXAMPLE: FRIEND. TEACHER, FAMILY FRIEND, CO- WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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F) NAME
DA." Id
WORK PHONE • - IL
1, I• •. ' • • ~ I ' • • , FAMILY FRIEND, CO- WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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G) NAME [J OAA I STATE ZIP
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HOME PHONE E-MAIL ADDRESS
i2- TL"L\O
BIRTH DATE
WORK PHONE CELL PHONE
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HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSON_;J.FOR EXAMPLE: FRIEND. TEACHER, FAMILY FRIEND, CO - WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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HOME ADDRESS STATE ZIP
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BIRTH DATE HOME PHONE E-MAIL ADDRESS
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HOW 00 YOU KNOW THIS PERSON? (FOR EXAMPLE: 'FRIEND. TEACHER. FAMILY FRIEND, CO- WORKER) HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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HOME ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) STATE ZIP
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BIRTH DATE E-MAIL ADDRESS
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HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSOr (FOR EXAMPLE· FRIEND. TEACHER. FAMILY FRIEND. CO· WORKER)
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WORK PHONE
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HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THIS PERSON?
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PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT("' ·yy OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE OFF( ---,_~R Page 8 of 33
NOTE: You will be required to furnish transcripts or other proof to support all of your educational claims.
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,0. Check applicable: ~High School Diploma from an accredited U.S. institution D GED D Home School
16. LIST ALL HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES or UNIVERSITIES, TRADE, VOCATIONAL, or BUSINESS SCHOOLS/ INSTITUTES attended:
A) NAME FROM TO DID YOU GRADUATE?
tot:F (S?'Yes
CITY t:J"'No
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B) NAME FROM TO DID YOU GRADUATE?
D Yes
CITY STATE D No
IC) NAME I FROM I TOTAL UNITS EARNED TYPE OF DEGREE

I TO EARNED
I CITY I STATE
ID) NAME 'FROM 'TO

I TOTAL UNITS EARNED TYPE OF DEGREE
EARNED
I CITY I STATE
IE) NAME I TOTAL UNITS EARNED TYPE OF DEGREE

'FROM
'TO EARNED
I CITY I STATE
NAME DID YOU COMPLETE

'FROM I TO THE COURSE?
I
D Yes
I TYPE OF SCHOOL OR TRAINING I CITY I STATE
D No
I G) NAME I FROM DID YOU COMPLETE

ITO THE COURSE?
D Yes
I TYPE OF SCHOOL OR TRAINING
I CITY I STATE
D No
I H) NAME I FROM DID YOU COMPLETE

I TO THE COURSE?
I TYPE OF SCHOOL OR TRAINING

I CITY I STATE
D Yes
D No
17. Have you ever attended a law enforcement training academy? ....... ..... ..... , .. . , ... ... ..... ....................................... ............... . .. ... .. ......... ....... .... 0 Yes r;{_ No
If yes, provide the following information:
A) ACADEMY NAME I DID YOU GRADUATE?
IFROM I TO
DY D N
LOCATION (CITY/ STATE) I NAME OF TRAINING OFFICER/ ACAD~MY COORDINATOR 'CONTACT NUMBER
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B) ACADEMY NAME !FROM I DID YOU GRADUATE?
ITO
DY D N
LOCATION (CITY/ STATE) I NAME OF TRAINING OFFICER/ ACADEMY COORDINATOR I CONTACT NUMBER
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PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT(< ~TY OF LITTLE ROCK PO~ICE OF\ ~-<~R Page 9 of33
1e. Have you ever been placed on academic discipline, suspended, or expelled from any high school, college/university,
business or trade school? ............. ................ ........................................................ ........... ............................. ........ ........................ D Yes
( ~No
If yes, describe in detail below. Starting with high school, list any and all disciplinary actions received in any school or educational institution. Include
when the disciplinary action(s) occurred, name of school(s), and explanation of circumstances.
19. LIST OF RESIDENCES

• List all residences during the last five years. Provide complete addresses (include markers such as
Street, Drive, Road, East, West, etc., and unit or apartment number). Do not use P.O. Boxes.
• If the residence is a military base, identify name of base in address, nearest city, state and zip code. DO
NOT LIST military barracks mates unless you shared individual quarters.
• If more space is needed continue on page 28.
FROM TO
2...oO Present
IF RENTING: PROPERTY MANAGER, RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER
CONTACT NUMBER
CITY STATE ZIP EMAIL
Names of those with whom you live:
B) FORMER ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) FROM TO
CITY STATE ZIP IF RENTING: PROPERTY MANAGER. RENT COLLECTOR, OR OWNER
ADDRESS OF PROPERTY MANAGER. RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CONTACT NUMBER
Names of those with whom you lived:
Reason for moving:
C) FORMER ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET / APT) FROM TO
CITY STATE ZIP IF RENTING PROPERTY MANAGER. RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER
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Reason for moving:
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PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT1 <'~TY OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE OFF'·,:-=:R Page 10 of 33
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( FORMER ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) FROM TO
CITY STATE ZIP IF RENTING: PROPERTY MANAGER, RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER
ADDRESS OF PROPERTY MANAGER, RENT COLLECTOR, OR OWNER {NUMBER /STREET/ APT) CONTACT NUMBER
Reason for moving:
E) FORMER ADDRESS {NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) FROM TO
CITY STATE ZIP IF RENTING: PROPERTY MANAGER, RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER
ADDRESS OF PROPERTY MANAGER, RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER {NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CONTACT NUMBER
Reason for moving:
-1 FORMER ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) FROM TO

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CITY STATE ZIP IF RENTING: PROPERTY MANAGER. RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER
Reason for moving:
G) FORMER ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) FROM TO
CITY STATE ZIP IF RENTING PROPERTY MANAGER. RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER
ADDRESS OF PROPERTY MANAGER. RENT COLLECTOR. OR OWNER {NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CONTACT NUMBER
Reason for moving:
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PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMEl",f ilTY OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE Ol ( '"' 'ER Page 11 of 33
Provide contact information for all housemates listed in Question 21 with whom you have resided during the past 5 years,
continue your response on page 28.
A) NAME CONTACT NUMBER
CURRENT ADDRESS IF DIFFERENT (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT CITY STATE ZIP
NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP (FOR EXAMPLE: RELATIVE. LANDLORD, FRIEND, HOUSEMATE ONLY) EMAIL
B) NAME CONTACT NUMBER

)
NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP (FOR EXAMPLE: RELATIVE. LANDLORD. FRIEND. HOUSEMATE ONLY) EMAIL
C) NAME CONTACT NUMBER
NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP (FOR EXAMPLE: RELATIVE, LANDLORD. FRIEND. HOUSEMATE ONLY) EMAIL
D) NAME CONTACT NUMBER
NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP (FOR EXAMPLE: RELATIVE, LANDLORD, FRIEND, HOUSEMATE ONLY) EMAIL
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E) NAME CONTACT NUMBER
NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP (FOR EXAMPLE: RELATIVE , LANDLORD, FRIEND. HOUSEMATE ONLY) EMAIL
F) NAME CONTACT NUMBER
CURRENT ADDRESS IF DIFFERENT (NUMBER /STREET/ APT CITY STATE ZIP
NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP (FOR EXAMPLE: RELATIVE, LANDLORD, FRIEND, HOUSEMATE ONLY) EMAIL
22 Have you ever been evicted or asked to leave a residence? ............ .... ... .......... ....... .............. ........... ... .......... ....... ... ...... .. ......... .... .. 0 Yes .I&( No
23 Have you ever left a residence owing rent? ........... ... ........... ............. ................ ....... .. ............. ........... ....... ................... .. ............... ... D Yes l'1 No
If you answered yes to Questions 22 and/or 23, explain (include when, where and circumstances):
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. PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT ( '~TY OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE 01 ( ~R Page 12 of 33
,?4. JOB EXPERIENCE IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS

List ALL jobs you have had, including part-time, temporary, self-employment and volunteer. (Begin with
your most current. If more space is needed continue your response on page 28.)
• If you have military experience, include the name of your unit of assignment and complete mailing address.
• List ALL periods of unemployment in excess of 30 days.
A) NAME OF EMPLOYER OR MILITARY UNIT FROM TO
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ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET OR BASE) SUPERVISOR
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F p5 WANTING TO LEAVE
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IF YES, EXPLAIN:
Would there be a problem if we
contact your current employer?
D Yes ~ No
II B) PERIOD OF UNEMPLOYMENT , FROM

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. · PERSONAL HISTORY STATEMENT ( ~ITV OF LITTLE ROCK POLICE OF. ( ~1R Page 13 of 33
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11 •· J PERIOD OF UNEMPLOYMENT FROM TO
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2s Have you ever been disciplined at work? (This includes written warnings, formal letters of counseling , reprimands,
suspensions, reductions in pay, reassignments or demotions) ................ .. .. ............................ ......... ......... .. .. .. .......................... ..... 0 Yes · cylNo
27 Have you ever been fired. released from probation, or asked to resign from any place of employment? .......................... .... .......... 0 Yes '7iNo
Were you ever been involved in a physical or verbal altercation with a supervisor. co-worker, or customer? .......... ....................... 0 Yes cyf No
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30. Have you ever resigned in lieu of termination? ................... ... ................................................... ... ............. ............... .... ..... ............. 0 Yes !¥1No
31 . Have you ever been accused of discrimination (such as sexual harassment, racial bias, sexual orientation harassment, etc.)
by a co-worker, supervisor, subordinate or customer? ....... .............. ...................... .............................................. ......................... 0 Yes
32. Were you ever the subject of a written complaint at work? ............... ............................................................................ ......... ... ..... 0 Yes
33. Have you ever been counseled at work due to lateness or absences? ......................................... ................................................. 0 Yes ~No
34 Did you ever receive an unsatisfactory performance review? ..................................... .............. .. ......................... .......................... 0 Yes ~No
35. Have you ever sold, released, or given away legally confidential information? ....................... ......... .. ............... .. ............... ............ 0 Yes fVJ No
36. A Have you ever called in sick when you were neither sick nor caring for a sick family member? ... ....................... .. ............. .......... 0 Yes
8 . How many sick days have you used in the past five years which were not due to illness?
If you answered yes to Questions 26-36, explain (include when. where and circumstances; indicate corresponding number):
r' In the past three years. have you missed days or been late to work due to drug or alcohol consumption? .............................. ...... 0 Yes :tzg No
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138. Has your work performance ever been affected by your use of alcohol or drugs? ... ............................................................ .:........ 0 Yes ·/xl. No
I WHEN? I NAME OF EMPLOYER
139. In the past three years, have you been warned by an employer about your drinking or drug habits and their impact on
your performance? ............. ... ................................................... ......................... ... ............. ......... ... .. ........... ........... ................ .. ...... 0 Yes °tQNo
I WHEN? I NAME OF EMPLOYER
40. Have you ever applied to any other law enforcement agency including Little Rock PD (city, county, state or federal)? ~ Yes ~ No
• If yes, list EVERY agency you have applied to, starting with the most recent (give complete and accurate addresses) .
• All agencies MUST be listed regardless of the outcome or current status. Check all boxes that apply for each agency .
• If more space is needed, continue your response on page 28 .
A) NAME OF AGENCY
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Check each step in the process that you completed, and your status:
- STEPS: 't,&Application ~Written ~Physical agility D Oral D Polygraph/CVSA D Background 0 Chiefs oral 0 Conditional job offer
STATUS: D Hired ~ On List D Withdrawn D Disqualified D Unknown
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40. Have you ever applied to any other law enforcement agency .. .
(-· NAME OF AGENCY DATE APPLIED
ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET) BACKGROUND INVESTIGATOR'S NAME (IF KNOWN)
STEPS. D Application O Written D Physical agility D Oral D Polygraph/CVSA D Background D Chiefs oral O Conditional job offer
STATUS: D Hired D On List O Withdrawn D Disqualified D Unknown
C) NAME OF AGENCY DATE APPLIED
ADDRESS (NUMBER/ STREET) BAC KGROUND INVESTIGATOR'S NAME (IF KNOWN)
STEPS: D Application O Written O Physical agility . D Oral D Polygraph/CVSA D Background D Chiefs oral O Conditional job offer
STATUS . D Hired D On List O Withdrawn O Disqualified D Unknown
41 . Have you registered for the Selective Service? . ............. .... .. ... .......... ............... .... ....... ..... ......... ~Yes 0No
If yes, what is your Selective Service Number? 0/VVW'J.SSS.GOV)
42 BRANCH OF SERVICE ~ LAST RANK HELO 43. OATES OF SERVICE
Uv"\ \ :€-- U S\-i\.\- e t bl'DOY-O....\ Fromo-i-21 , totI. To Prt.:5£VJ~

44 . TYPE OF DISCHARGE: D Entry Level D Honorable O General D 0TH (Other than Honorable) D Bad Conduct O Dishonorable ts{ N/A
Re-entry Code (1-4) if applicable - refer to your DD-214:
45 Are you currently participating in one of the following? ¢: Military Reserve D National Guard If checked, date obligation ends:
46 Have you ever been the subject of any j udicial or non-judicial disciplinary action (such as: court martial, captain's mast,
office hours, company punishment)? ........ .. ....... ... .... ..... ...... ... ..... .. ................... .............. ... ....... ... ... .. ....... ...... .... ...... ...... ... ........ ..... 0 Yes [}(No
47 Were you ever denied a security clearance, or had a clearance revoked, suspended or downgraded? .......... ......... ... ................... 0 Yes ~No
If you answered yes to Questions 46 and/or 47, explain (include dates and circumstances):
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DURING YOUR ENTIRE LAW ENFORCEMENT/CORRECTIONS OFFICER CAREER:

( • Have you ever been involved in an incident where an internal investigation was conducted (ex: excessive use
of force incident, officer involved shooting, accident involving serious/fatal injury, misuse of city property,
misconduct)? D YES fZJ NO
• If you have list place of employment, mailing address, approximate date, type of incident, circumstances
surrounding the incident, and outcome or disposition of incident.
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As an applicant for a Police Officer position, you are required to disclose any of the following which occurred on or after your 15th
birthday, even if the records were sealed. expunged. dismissed or pardoned:
• ALL detentions or arrests, whether they resulted in a conviction or not
• ALL convictions
• ALL diversion programs that were not successfully completed
If more space is needed, continue on page 28.
62. Either as an adult or a juvenile, have you EVER been detained for investigation, held on suspicion,
questioned, fingerprinted, arrested, indicted, criminally charged, or convicted of any misdemeanor or
felony offense in this state or in any other legal jurisdiction (including offenses punishable under
the Uniform Code of Military Justice)? .............. .................... ....... ......... ............... .............................................. ............... D Yes No
If yes, explain each incident.

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DISPOSITION OR PENALTY
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0) APPROXIMATE DATE I ARRESTING OR DETAINING AGENCY
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63 Have you ever been placed on court probation as an adult? .. .... .. .......................... .. .. .. .. .. ......... .. ........ ...... .. ..... .. ...... ... ............ ....... D Yes ¢_No
64 Were you ever required to appear before a juvenile court for an act which would have been a crime if
committed as an adult? .......................................................... ............. ...... ... ................... .. ..................... .. ................ ...................... 0 Yes i;zl No
65 Have you ever been a party in a civil lawsuit (e.g., small claims actions, dissolutions, child custody, paternity,
support, etc.)? ............ ... ...... ... ..... ..... ......... ................................... ..... ........... ... ..... ...... .. ..... ........................ ................. .... .. .. ............ D Yes ~No
/ Have the police ever been called to your home for any reason? ............. .. ............. ............. .. ... .. .. .. .... ...... .. .......... ........... .. .............. D Yes _riaNo
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'167. Have you or your spouse/partner ever been referred to Child Protective Services? ................................................ ........ ................ D Yes !1No
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Have you ever been the subject of a restraining order, order of protection, or no contact order? .. ......... ......................................... 0 Yes
09. Have you settled any civil suit in which you, your insurance company, or anyone else on your behalf was
required to make payment to the other party? ........................ .... .. .... ........... ... ......................... ...... .............. .. ... .............................. 0 Yes ~ .No
10. Have you ever fraudulently received welfare, unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, or other
state or federal assistance? .............. .... ... .... .... .. .............. ... .................................................... ............................ .. ......................... 0 Yes IYJ No
11 . Have you ever filed a false.insurance or workers· compensation claim? ............................ .. .. .. ............. .............. .... ............... ......... 0 Yes ~No
If you answered yes to any of Questions 63-71, explain (include court case or document, dates, and circumstances; indicate corresponding number):
72. UNDETECTED ACTS - PART 1

Have you ever committed any of the following offense(s)?
A) Annoying / obscene phone calls .. ... ... .. ... .. ............ ................................................... ... ................. .. ....... .. .................. .. ..... .... .. .......... 0 Yes r&] No
B) Battery (use of force or violence upon another) ........ .. ...... .. .. .... .... .. ............... .................... ... ................. ... .... .. ............ .. .............. .. ... 0 Yes i;NNo
( Brandishing a weapon (any type of weapon) ........... .... ........... .. .. .. ............ .. ........... .. .. .. ... .. .. ....... .. ....... ... .. ....... .............................. ... 0 Yes [¥J_ No
D) Carrying a concealed weapon without a permit ...................... ........................... ................................. .. ............................... ............ 0 Yes ¢,No
E) Contributing to the delinquency of a minor .......... .. ..................... .. ............................. .. ... .. ................. .. .. .. ............... ........................ .. O Yes ~No
F) Not paying for food or room at a hotel/motel or restaurant.. ...... .. .. .. ........ ............ ....... .. ...................... ............................. .. .. ............. 0 Yes (K1_No
G) Driving under the influence of drugs (over-the-counter, prescription, or any chemical) .. ........ .. ...... .. ............................... ..... .. .... .. .... i;x1 Yes 0No
HJ Drunk in public (being so intoxicated in a public place that you're not able to care for yourself) ........................... ...................... .. .... 0 Yes
I) Hit & run collision (no injuries) ... ... ........ ............ ...... ......................................... ...... ....... .... .. ..... .. ... ....... .. ... ................... .... .......... .. .... 0 Yes r&J No
J) Hunting/fishing without a license ........ .................................... .. .... .. ....... .......... ..... .. .... .. ....... .. ... .......... ... .. .. .. .. .... ....... ....... .. ........ .... .. 0 Yes .f'\I No
K) Illegal gambling ............ .. .......... .. ...... ................. ......................................... .... .... .... .. ....... .. .... ... .... ............ .... ..... ....... .. ..... .. ..... ... ..... . O Yes ~No
L) Impersonating a police officer {pretending to be a police officer) ............................... .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. ........ .. .................. .. ... .. .... ...... .. ..... 0 Yes ~No
M) Indecent exposure (including flashing or mooning) ........... .. ... .. .. ...... .... .... .. .......... .. ......... ...... ........ ............... .............. .. ............. ....... 0 Yes ~No
N) Joyriding (using a car or other vehicle without owner's permission) ............ .. ................ ............................. .. .... ................... .. .. ......... 0 Yes ~No
0) Misdemeanor theft ( including shoplifting/switching price tags) .... .. ........................... ................ .. .. .. ......................... .... .. .. .... .... .... .... 0 Yes ~No
Possession of alcohol as a minor .. ...... .......... ... ... ... ..... .. ............ ...... .................. .. ..... ....... ......... ....... ........... .. ....... .... ... .... .... ...... ....... 0 Yes
\I ~No
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O) Possession of falsified or altered identification, including use of another person's ID (for any reason) .... ..... ..... ............................... D Yes t11No
R) Possession of stolen property (including vehicles) ................................................ ............. ..................... ......................... ................ D Yes ~No
S) Prostitution or soliciting a prostitute ................................. ...... ........... ............ ........................................ ......................... .................. D Yes ~No
T) Resisting arrest (including running from the police) .......... .................................... ........... ... ....................................... ....................... D Yes ~No
U) Trespassing ...... ................................ ... .... ........................................... .. ......................... .............................................. .................... o Yes ~No
VJ Vandalism (including "tagging," malicious mischief and/or property damage) .............. ..................................... ................................ O Yes· )Kl No
W) Intentionally writing a bad check .......... .... .. ......... ............. ................................ ........... ......... .. .............. ......................................... ... D Yes ~No
X) Filing a false police report ......... ... ................... ....................... ............................. ........ ..................................... ............................ .... o Yes ftiNo
YJ Any other act amounting to a misdemeanor within the past seven years .................. .................. .................. ................................... D Yes
If you answered yes to any item(s) in Question 72, fuily explain circumstances, including date(s), names of individuals involved, and
resolution. Indicate the corresponding letter (72-A, etc.) for each explanation.
73. UNDETECTED ACTS - PART 2

At any time in your life have you ~ committed any of the following?
AJ Arson (intentionally destroying property by setting a fire) ................................. ........................ ............... ....... .. ................................ D Yes
BJ Assault with a deadly weapon ....... .. .. ...................... .................... ................ ............................................. ................ ........................ D Yes ~No
CJ Theft of a vehicle and/or vehicle parts ............... ... ............................... .... .................................. .......... .. .......................................... 0 Yes ~No
DJ Burglary (entering a structure or vehicle to commit theft or other crime) ..................................................... ........... ..................... ...... 0 Yes q!No
EJ Child molestation (performing unlawful acts with a child) ........................................ .... ...... ................................ ............. .............. .... 0 Yes ~No
\__ ::cessing and/or possessing child pornography ........ ........................................................ .. ........................................ ................... 0 Yes ~No
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Elder abuse/neglect. ................. ................... ......... ................... .................. .. .......... .. .. ... ....... ... .. .................. ................ ..................... 0 Yes
H) Embezzlement {theft of money or other valuables entrusted to you) ............... .......... ........ ....... ................... .................... ................. 0 Yes l,ENo
1) Drunk driving or under the influence of alcohol ..... ......... ... .. ... .............................. ......... ..... ... ... ..... ........... ........... ... .......... .. .. ... ......... O Yes ~No
J) Forcible rape or other act of unlawful intercourse ........ .. ... .......... ....... ..... .......... .... .... .... ...... ........ ..... .... ........ ...... ............................ ... 0 Yes ~No
Kl Forgery (falsifying any type of document, check certificate, license, currency, etc.) ............. ..... .. .. ....... ........................... ................. 0 Yes 11) No
Ll Hit & run ................ ...... ... ......... ............. ............ .. ........... ........................................................................ .. ................. .. ..................... 0 Yes glNo
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M) Hate crime ...................................... ............... ...... ............ ... ........ ... ... ......... .... ...... ..... ................................. ........... .... ........ ............... o Yes '1J No
N) Insurance fraud ..... .. ... ......... ..... ........ ........... .... ........ ..... .. .. ......... ... ................ ...... ... ... .... ... .............. ... .. ... ................ ..... ............. ........ 0 Yes ~No
oi Felony theft (value of over $1000, or any firearm) ... .... .. ..... .. ............... ....... ...... ........ ....... ................... ..... ....... .. .. .... ......................... . O Yes ~No
Pl Murder, homicide, or attempted murder ................ ........... ................ ......... ................................... ................... ................. ............ .... 0 Yes i>iNo
O) Perjury (lying under oath) ............................................... .. ............... .......................................... .... ... ............................. ... ........ ....... 0 Yes !JJlNo
R) Possession of an explosive/destructive device ... ............ ... .......... ........ ... ....... ........ ........................... .. .... ... ... ..... .. ..... .... .......... ......... D Yes
S) Robbery (theft from another person using a weapon, force, or fear) ..... .... .... .. ............. ...... ........... ... .. ...... ........... .. ......... ........ ......... . 0 Yes !p No
( T\ Stalking ............. ........ .... .......... ........... ......... ....... .......... .................................. .......... ............. .. .... .. .. ......... ..... ... ..... .......................... 0 Yes ~No
U> Blackmail or extortion ................................................. ....... ............. .......................... ............. .. .. ..... .... .. .. ............................ ... .. ..... .. . D Yes !&No
V) Any other act amounting to a felony ...... ..... ........... .............. ....................... ........... ........................ ...... ....... ........ ... ........ ... ... ..... .... .... o Yes !il No
If you answered yes to· any item(s) in Question 73, fully explain circumstances, including date(s), names of individuals involved, and
resolution. Indicate the corresponding letter (73-A, etc.) for each explanation.
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78. UST OTHER STATES WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN LICENSED TO OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE:
State of issue Type of license Name under which license was granted and license number, if known
79. Have you ever been refused a driver's license by any state? .. ... ......... ........ .... ....... ... ................ .. ................. ........ ................ .. ..... D Yes No
If yes, explain (include when, where, and circumstances):
80. List your current liability insurance on your vehicle(s) :
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Has your driver's license ever been suspended or revoked? .................. .. ................................................................... .. .......... ... D Yes
If yes, explain (include when, where, and circumstances):
s2. List all traffic citations, excluding parking citations, you have received:
A) NATURE OF VIOLATION/AGENCY ISSUING CITATION CITY STATE
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DATE VIOLATION OCCURRED ACTION TAKEN
Month{;>'-/ Year D Not Guilty D Fined 9( Traffic School D Dismissed

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LOCATION (STREET) CITY STATE

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Month/)5 Year ·Z,_.O /c._ D Not Guilty D Fined }2(Traffic School D Dismissed
C) NATURE OF VIOLATION/AGENCY ISSUING CITATION LOCATION {STREET) CITY STATE
D Not Guilty D Fined D Traffic School _Qg_Dismissed

Month / (J Year
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D) NATURE OF VIOLATION/AGENCY ISSUING CITATION LOCATION (STREET) CITY

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E) NATURE OF VIOLATION/AGENCY ISSUING CITATION LOCATION (STREET) CITY

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F) NATURE OF VIOLATION/AGENCY ISSUING CITATION LOCATION (STREET) CITY
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83. Has a traffic citation ever resulted in a warrant or caused your driver's license to be suspended due to the following? (Check all that apply.)
D Failed to appear D Failed to complete traffic school D Failed to pay the required fine
( If checked, explain circumstances:
84 . Have you been involved as the driver in a motor vehicle accident within the past seven years? .... ... .. ... ..... .... .......... .... ... .......... D Yes
'No
If yes, give details.
A) DATE LOCATION (NUMBER / STREET / APT) CllY STATE ZIP
POLICE REPORT
DYES ONO
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
IO INJURY D NON-INJURY
B) DATE LOCATION (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CllY STATE ZIP
POLICE REPORT
DYES ONO
C) DATE LOCATION (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CllY STATE ZIP
POLICE REPORT
DYES ONO
85. Have you ever driven a vehicle without auto insurance, as required by law? .... ... .............. ...... .. .... ... ...... ............ .............. ......... 0 Yes ~No
IF YES. GIVE REASON:
( DATE ILOCATION (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CllY STATE ZIP
Month Year
86. Have you ever been refused automobile liability insurance or a bond, or had them cancelled? .... ...... ... .. ...... ... .... ................ ..... D Yes p No
IF YES, GIVE REASON: INSURANCE COMPANY
DATE ILOCATION (NUMBER/ STREET/ APT) CllY STATE ZIP
Month Year
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( Use this space for additional information you would like to include regarding your driving record.
87. Have you ever been refused a permit to carry a concealed weapon? ............................ ... ................ ............. ............ ............... D Yes
88. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member or associate of a criminal enterprise, street gang, or any other group
that advocates violence against individuals because of their race, religion, political affiliation, ethnic origin, nationality,
gender, sexual preference, or disability? ....................................................................................................... ............................ D Yes \6 No
89. Do you have, or have you ever had, a tattoo signifying membership in, or affiliation with, a criminal enterprise,
street gang, or any other group that advocates violence against individuals because of their race, religion,
political affiliation, ethnic origin, nationality, gender, sexual preference, or disability? ........ ................... ........ ............... .............. 0 Yes No
oo. Since the age of 16, have you ever been involved in an anger-provoked physical fight, confrontation or other
violent qCI? ··=·······································································································································:······················· .. ··········· D Yes No
91 . Have you ever hit or physically overpowered a spouse or romantic partner? .................................................................... .... .... D Yes No
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If you answered yes to any of Questions 87-91, give details including dates, location, and circumstances; indicate corresponding number.
92 I hereby certify that I have personally completed and initialed each page of this form and any supplemental page(s) attached, and that
all statements made are true and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that any misstatement of material fact
may subject me to disqualification; or, if I have been appointed, may disqualify me from continued employment.
. NATURE IN FULL
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residences, employers, explanations to questions, etc.)
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( . ·~t three qualities about yourself that you feel would make you a good Law Enforcement Officer?
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What are your future goals as a Police Officer for the Little Rock Police Department?
How did you become interested in the Little Rock Police Department?
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items if not already submitted)
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1 STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN PAXTON
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3 This interview is with · Captain Marcus Paxton, present is his
4 compamon officer, Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell, present is myself, Sergeant Christy
5 Plummer, also present is Sergeant Jim Bob Stephens. The location is the Little Rock
6 Police Depmtment Training Division, today's date is Tuesday, November the 21 si, and the
7 time is 1028 hours. Captain Paxton are you aware that this interview is an internal
8 administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be treated as an official police
9 report?
10 PAXTON: Yes.
11 PLUMMER: Captain Paxton have you read and seen the complaint form as it
12 relates to this interview? Basically the complaint is from the
13 Chiefs Office to do an investigation.
14 PAXTON: Yes.
20 include, but m·e not limited to, reports of any type, and any form of
23 including termination. Do -
24 PAXTON: Yes.
25 PLUMMER: you understand that sir?
26 PAXTON: Yes.
27 PLUMMER: All right, this is in reference to Internal Affairs investigation 2017-
28 0029, again it's an investigation ordered by the Chiefs Office,
29 Chief Buckner, and what we're here to discuss with you today is
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1 the background process of the recruits and basically relating to
2 social media okay?
3 PAXTON: Okay.
4 PLUMMER: So Captain Paxton when did you become the Training Division
5 Commander?
6 PAXTON: September 2nd I think.
7 PLUMMER: Of this year?
8 PAXTON: Yes.
9 PLUMMER: Okay, all right. So you've only been out here a few nionths then?
10 PAXTON: Yes.
11 PLUMMER: Okay. What is the policy do you know-I'm sorry, what is your
12 procedure in doing backgrounds and especially related to social
13 media?
14 PAXTON: Well to be honest with you I'm still trying to learn my job out here
15 first of all. But my understanding is that as of yesterday there was
16 actually -since 2013 there is no -there has been no background as
17 far as social media-investigation into social media of the recruits -
18 of the- I'm sorry, applicants.
19 PLUMMER: Okay. And that's in relation to the social media, correct?
20 PAXTON: That's correct.
21 PLUMMER: Okay. And was that something that was already in place prior to
22 you being here?
23 PAXTON: Yes, that's what I understand.
24 PLUMMER: Okay, and do you know or have you spoken with anyone 111
25 relation to why that took place in 2013 ?

26 PAXTON: I called my predecessor, Heath Helton, and he advised that it was
27 actually before him, that he was told that they were told that they
28 couldn't -they couldn't do it and that -that it was before him so I
29 also contacted who was also -it was before Heath
30 Helton and he advised -well he was off on vacation, he said that he
31 didn't have documents in front of him, but he was -this was in
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1 consultation with the HR and I think he mentioned that he was in
2 consultation with possibly the city attorney's office also about they
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.) had passed a law in 2013, I think it was in 2014 right around there,
4 dealing with social media and pre-employment, what was legal and
5 what wasn't. And there was some talk between the two and the
6 decision was made, I don't know who made the decision or how it
7 was made. I've searched for documentation but I haven't located
8 anything yet.
9 PLUMMER: Okay. So let me just make sure that I understand, so when you got
10 here in earlier this year, you -they're not- your background people
11 and the Sergeant are not doing social media investigation as far as
12 backgrounds, correct?
13 PAXTON: That is correct, I discovered that it was actually taken out of the
14 background material, a question of whether you used social media
15 and what social media you used, that was taken out of the
16 background book in 2013 , but it was actually placed back in by
17 Captain Helton, we bought some- we were using a new online
18 software as -to accumulate the background book and that- that
19 question was added back in, you know, last -the last six months.
20 The recruit in question was actually background was done prior to
21 that so they were never asked -the recruit in question was never
22 asked anything about background social media, it wasn't until after
23 he -after his background was completed and everything that they
24 staiied the process of actually asking them if they're online-
25 PLUMMER: Okay.
26 PAXTON: with social media.
27 PLUMMER: So in the process in the backgrounds now and I'll refer to the books
28 because that's the only - I think that that's how they used to do
29 them I guess and now they do a different process that's online?
30 PAXTON: It's a blue book, I think they call it the blue book or background
31 book.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay.
2 PAXTON: And now it's all online now.
3 PLUMMER: So in the process now there is something that asks about social
4 media?
5 PAXTON: That is correct.
6 PLUMMER: Okay.
7 PAXTON: That was-that was recently instituted, I can't give you a day, it was
8 prior to me being here, but it was within the last six months I do
9 believe.
10 PLUMMER: Do you happen to know what that, like, statement is 111 that
11 background or is it something for the recruits to check or -
12 PAXTON: Yeah, the applicants, I think they check on the -on if they're on
13 social media and I don't know the exact phrasing. Sergeant
14 Watson can tell you exactly -
15 PLUMMER: Okay.
16 PAXTON: what is on there.
17 PLUMMER: This right here, and I believe that you or Sergeant Watson sent this
18 to me, this -is this how the new backgrounds are done right now
19 and it seems a little smaller than they used to be, but that's all
20 online?
21 PAXTON: This is -yeah this is using One Note and what this is, is an easy
22 way to put a background book online for -it's used by the Assistant
23 Chiefs and me and myself and where you can look through the
24 whole background book from a (inaudible) instead of the hard
25 copy.
26 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
27 PAXTON: And everything that's in the background book is included in that.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, okay. All right.
29 PAXTON: And you'll notice there is no- there is no tab or anything for social
30 media on there.
31 PLUMMER: Correct, right.
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1 PAXTON: Since this has come to light and I met with Sergeant Watson and I
2 instructed him that from now on that we will look at any open
3 source -open source social media for future -for future
4 background investigations.
5 PLUMMER: So going forward that's something that y'all are gonna start doing
6 then?
8 PLUMMER: Okay. I don' t think I have anything else. Sergeant Stephens?
9 STEPHENS: I just want to summarize mid clarify something. The background
10 bn the young man we're talking about today and I can't pronounce
11 his last name.
12 PLUMMER: It's Brandon Schielfelbien.
13 PAXTON: Schielfelbien.
14 STEPHENS : This background was done prior to you becoming the Training
15 Captain is that correct?
16 PAXTON: That's correct, they started a class August 21 st, I didn't get out here
17 until September 2 nd .
18 STEPHENS: And so you would have no part in that background, correct?
19 PAXTON: None at all.
20 STEPHENS: And then the second part is, it was your understanding from talking
21 to your predecessors that prior to 2013 social media was looked at
22 and then there was a period where social media was not looked at?
24 STEPHENS : And his background would have been done during that time
25 period?
27 STEPHENS: And it's your understanding that this don't look at it came from HR
28 or Human Resources or the city attorney's office or somebody
29 (inaudible)?
30 PAXTON: It was in consultation, it was not made out of whole cloth from the
31 Training Division that this was looked at by other people, now who
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1 looked at it and who -who made comments, I was -I asked the
2 Chiefs Office to start looking at memos that might have come
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.) through there back in 2013 , but you might get more information
4 out of Odie, Lieutenant -Sergeant Ellison was the -was the
5 Sergeant over the backgrounds during that time.
6 PLUMMER: Right.
7 PAXTON: What- I can't remember Lieutenant Odie-
8 PLUMMER: Fuller.
9 PAXTON: Fuller, well she's retired now.
10 PLUMMER: Okay.
11 PAXTON: and then Captain - was there at the time.
12 PLUMMER: Okay. I don't have anything else.
13 STEPHENS: No further ma'am.
14 PLUMMER: Captain Paxton is there anything that you wanted to add to this that
15 we may-
16 PAXTON : No-
17 PLUMMER: need to know about?
18 PAXTON: Not at this time.
19 PLUMMER: Okay.
20 ROTHWELL: Can I clarify something?
21 PLUMMER: You can-
22 STEPHENS: What you will need to do, if there's some clarification you will
23 need to discuss it with Captain Paxton and then if he chooses to
24 say it-
25 PAXTON: Can we pause or do -
26 STEPHENS: No, we're go1ma leave it on.
27 PAXTON: Okay.
28 STEPHENS: Y'all just need to whisper.
29 PAXTON: The -as clarification, this form right here that you showed me the
30 background that was -this was a quick part of this is a quick
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1 synopsis of like -like the Lieutenant and Sergeant will go on there
2 and do a quick synopsis of it.
3 PLUMMER: Uh huh. So this is a short summary of the actual background?
5 PLUMMER: Okay. So we actually have then the big background of everything?
6 PAXTON: Yes, we keep binders out here.
7 PLUMMER: Okay.
8 PAXTON: And we actually forward the binder to the Chiefs Office if
9 anybody cares to go -to look at certain parts of it on paper.
10 PLUMMER: Okay. Okay. I don't have anything else.
11 PAXTON: Okay.
12 PLUMMER: No? Captain Paxton this interview is confidential and you are
15 Rock Police Department. This also includes your companion
16 officer.
17 PAXTON: Okay.
18 PLUMMER: This interview is concluded at 1037 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN HELTON
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3 This interview is with Captain Heath Helton, present is myself,
4 Sergeant Plummer, this is a phone interview, the location I'm doing the phone interview
5 is the Little Rock Police Depaiiment Training Division. Today's date is Tuesday,
6 November the 21 st and the time is 1134 hours. Captain Helton are you aware this
7 interview is an internal administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be
9 HELTON: Yes.
10 PLUMMER: Captain Helton have you seen and read the complaint form as it
11 relates to this interview? Basically you don't have a complaint
12 form , but this is an investigation ordered by the Chief of Police.
13 HELTON: Okay. What are the allegations?
14 PLUMMER: Well the allegations are basically on one of the recruits that is
15 currently in the training recruit class right now, I mean it's in
16 reference to a social media post that he made so that's what the
17 allegation is about.
18 HELTON: Okay.
24 include, but are not limited to, repo11s of any type, and any form of
28 HELTON: Yes I sure do.
29 PLUMMER: All right, so basically this is an investigation, Internal Investigation
30 2017-0029, and as I had said, it's in reference to one of the recruits
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1 that apparently made a Facebook post back in 2013 that had a
2 derogatory statement in it. What we're discussing with you is the
3 process of background checks in reference to social media and you
4 were the Captain out at Training at what time?
5 HELTON: I got out there in -this would have been I think around 20-mid
6 2014, March 2014 up until September of this year.
7 PLUMMER: Okay. To September of this year, okay, and you were the Training
8 Division Captain, correct?
9 HELTON: That's correct.
10 PLUMMER: Okay, so when you first got out here did you -what was the
11 procedures when y'all did background investigations with recruits
12 in regards to social media?
13 HELTON: They weren't really doing them at the time and I remember having
14 a very, you know, vague conversation with Lieutenant Fuller who
15 was the Lieutenant out at Training when I came on board, she
16 came- she was doing, you know, kind of monitoring all the books
17 that they completed that they completed the backgrounds on them
18 and you know, I remember asking her one day, I go hey, do we
19 look at social media stuff and she said no, they passed a law in I
20 believe it was right around 2013 in reference to I guess how
21 employers look at social media and we couldn't -there were some
22 restrictions, obviously you couldn't ask for passwords and things
23 like that and there was a reference that HR had said they couldn't
24 be doing them. I don't know if that was HR through the city
25 attorney or what, but that she said they just didn't do them and that
26 was pretty much the gest of it and we didn' t do them. the whole
27 entire time that I was out there.
28 PLUMMER: Okay, so when you came on m 2014 then that procedure was
29 already in place, is that correct?
30 HELTON: Yes, yes.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay, and then you asked Lieutenant Fuller, who was the
2 Lieutenant at the time, correct?
3 HELTON: That's correct.
4 PLUMMER: Okay, in -so what you had described to me is that you understood
5 that based on the law that was -that took place in 2013 , that they
6 did not look into social media accounts for backgrounds?
7 HELTON: Yeah that was my understanding, that's correct.
8 PLUMMER: Do you know if -was there- did you ever have any meetings or
9 anything with HR or the city attorney about that in regards to the
10 social media, checking, those?
11 HELTON: No, not at all.
12 PLUMMER: Okay. I don't think there's anything else, now before you came out
13 here who was the Captain before you?
14 HELTON: Captain -
15 PLUMMER: Okay. Do you know that during his time do you -did she talk
16 about with you if they actually were doing social media checks at
17 that time when he was there?
18 HELTON: I don ' t recall, I don't know if they were doing them prior to that, I
19 don't know, I would be speculating if I tried to guess, I don't
20 know.
21 PLUMMER: Okay. All right, I don' t think I have anything else sir, is there
22 anything else that you want to add to this?
23 HELTON: No ma'am that's it.
24 PLUMMER: All right, Captain Helton this interview is confidential and you are
27 Rock Police Department. This interview is concluded at 113 8
28 hours.
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STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN
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3 This interview is a phone interview with Captain
4 · present is of course Sergeant Christy Plummer, we are conducting this interview on
5 Tuesday, November the 2l51, at 1324 hours. Captain - are you aware that this
6 interview is an internal administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be
8 - Yes.
9 PLUMMER: Captain - have you seen and read the complaint form as it
10 relates to this interview? You actually haven't-
No.
11 -
12 PLUMMER: seen a complaint form, but basically it's what we discussed, it's an
13 investigation ordered by the Chief of Police in reference to how
14 background investigations are conducted with social media.
Okay.
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Yes ma'am.
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26 PLUMMER: All right, Captain agam, this is in reference to - it's gonna be
27 Internal Investigation 2017-0029, and as we discussed it's basically
28 about backgrounds and social media for police recruits that are
29 looking to get hired at the Police Department. Can you just tell me
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Yeah, I came out there in June of 2012, I'm not sure the exact day
in June, at that time when we came out there we actually did
require recruits to the best of my knowledge, to give us their social
6 media accounts where we could go on there and do that. We did
7 that for some time and then I remember HR, Kathleen Walker, and
8 a couple other ladies came out there and said there had been some
9 kind of legislative act or bill passed to where we weren't allowed to
10 ask for their passwords and she further clarified that we weren't
11 allowed to ask for their user names and to the best of my
12 knowledge, they had said something about we didn't need to look
13 at the social media accounts basically because the law kind of
14 reflected that in her opinion, we weren't allowed to do that
15 anymore.
16 PLUMMER: Okay. So when you got out there in 2012 then, you were looking
17 into I guess your background-the background books required that
18 y'all were able to ask them about social media, is that correct?
That is correct.
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20 PLUMMER: And then you believe in 2013 that y'all changed that procedure?
Well I know it was in 2013 because I have a memo from Kathleen
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22 -actually from Kelly Hughes, referencing Kathleen Walker for
23 recommended changes for our background booklet that asked us to
24 -can I read it?
25 PLUMMER: Yeah.
It says, Happy Friday afternoon, here are the recommended
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27 changes for the background booklet that we discussed yesterday.
28 The social media information requested on page 20 needs to be
29 removed since HB , it says House Bill 1101 passed in this year' s
30 legislative session, prevents a perspective employee from requiring
31 or requesting candidates to disclose his or her user name or
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1 password for social media accounts, question 78 on page 21 will
2 need to be expanded, I'll attach a copy of Kathleen ' s suggestive
3 changes. And one page that I printed out on page 20 of 30, it is X-
4 ed out where it says list all social networks (inaudible) screen
5 names that you are registered with, such as Facebook, My Space,
6 Match.com, etcetera.
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PLUMMER: Okay.
And it was my understanding that as a result of that meeting we
were advised that we weren't allowed to use the Facebook type
information anymore, at least that was my understanding.
11 PLUMMER: Okay.
Whether that is right or wrong, that was my understanding at the
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13 time.
14 PLUMMER: Okay. So just to kind of summarize that, so at the time when you
15 received this from Kelly and from basically Kathleen, you were
16 under the impression that even though someone may have had an
17 open Facebook account, when I say open that it's not private, but
18 that y'all are still not supposed to look at those, is that correct?
Yes ma'am, I remember conversations to the best of my ability
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20 Kathleen alluded to or stated that we shouldn' t be doing that,
21 looking into those things because of the house bill.
22 PLUMMER: Okay. And then on the part that you -that you discussed with her
23 that has X-ed out, I mean you're not asking them about any -if they
24 have any network and sites so I mean you wouldn' t know to even
25 go on there and look in those sites, is-
Correct
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27 PLUMMER: Okay. All right, okay I think Captain that's all I just wanted to
28 cover with you just to just kind of make sure that we were, you
29 know, that it did change in 2013 and that your interpretation from
30 Kathleen and Kelly in HR on that matter so- and you have
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file as well. Is there anything else that you want to add to this sir?
I would like to say that most of the times or almost every time,
when I would meet with somebody from HR I would always have
Lieutenant Fuller and for the most time, Sergearit Ellison was the
6 personnel Sergeant at the time, and usually we would have some
7 personnel officers, primarily Officer Alison Walton, so generally
8 there was several people from Training when we would meet about
9 these kind of issues.
10 PLUMMER: Okay, and so- and then they would -they would go down from you
11 to Lieutenant Fuller who is no longer here, and then she would -I
12 mean it was something that y'all all agreed on, is that correct?
Well we were all in those meetings -
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14 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
I don't know if we were all at this paiiicular one-
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16 PLUMMER: Okay.
but we had multiple meetings with Kathleen and all of them, what
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18 I'm saying is that most of the point and time would generally there
19 wouldn't just be me and Kathleen, there would be multiple
20 representatives from HR ai1d the Training Divisions perso1mel unit.
21 PLUMMER: Okay. Would this be a fair question to ask you is if -and this is
22 just your personal opinion, that everyone out there at the time
23 believed that y'all were not to look at social media even if they are
24 open and that's why no one out there was doing that after 2013 ,
25 correct?
That was my interpretation.
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27 PLUMMER: Okay.
And I understood it to be theirs, but I can't say for sure it was but I
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29 do believe so.
30 PLUMMER: Okay. Sir that's it, if you don't have anything else to include I'm
31 just go1ma let you know that this interview is confidential and you
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2 than your immediate supervisor or the Internal Affairs unit of the
3 Little Rock Police Department. We're going to conclude the
4 interview at 1331 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF LT. ELLISON
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3 This interview is with Lieutenant Troy Ellison, present is myself,
4 Sergeant Christy Plummer, also present is Sergeant John Trent. The location is the Little
5 Rock Police Department Internal Affairs Office, today's date is Tuesday, November the
6 215\ the location is -I'm sorry, Little Rock-we're at the Internal Affairs Office, today's
7 date is November 215t and the time is 0935 hours. Lieutenant Ellison are you aware that
8 this interview is an internal administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be
10 ELLISON: Yes.
11 PLUMMER: Lieutenant Ellison have you seen and read the complaint form as it
12 relates to this interview, basically what we discussed in reference
13 to, this is an investigation from the Chiefs Office on background
14 investigations out at Training and it has to be when you were out
15 there I believe in 2013?
16 ELLISON: Okay.
17 PLUMMER: So that's basically- but the complaint is from the Chiefs Office
18 and he ordered us to do the investigation so. Lieutenant Ellison
19 Employees are required to be honest and truthful in all matters
28 ELLISON: Yes I do.
29 PLUMMER: Okay, as we briefly discussed before going on tape, this is in
30 reference to, it's Internal Affairs I've 2017-0029. It has to do with
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1 background investigations for applicants to get hired onto the
2 Police Department. My understanding is, is that during 2013 you
3 were the Sergeant out at Training over background investigations,
4 is that correct?
5 ELLISON: That's correct.
6 PLUMMER: Do you know when you -do you remember when you actually
7 started out there in 2013?
8 ELLISON: I actually started in 2012.
9 PLUMMER: Okay, okay, so you started in 2012, okay. And you were over the
10 background investigations that you had officers conducting, is that
11 correct?
13 PLUMMER: Did you look at all background files that came through for
14 applicants?
15 ELLISON: Yes I did.
16 PLUMMER: Okay. So in 2012, this is in regards to applicants and their social
17 media accounts, in 2012 when you were the Sergeant over that,
18 how was that handled?
19 ELLISON: Well we -as part of the background, as part of the booklet they
20 give out, they had to list any social media outlets that they were
21 affiliated with. Once they do that we used a -our social media
22 account to look at what they had on their social media accounts.
23 PLUMMER: Okay, so when you got out there in 2012 they were already doing
24 that, correct?
26 PLUMMER: And you said that that was part of the book that they had to -at the
27 time were we doing the big books then?
28 ELLISON: The blue background books.
29 PLUMMER: The blue back- okay.
30 ELLISON: Yes.
31 PLUMMER: And so they had to actually check that?
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1 ELLISON: Yes they did.
2 PLUMMER: Now in doing that, did they provide any like passwords or anything
3 for y'all to look into their accounts?
4 ELLISON: No they did not.
5 PLUMMER: Okay, and that-
6 ELLISON: And we didn't ask.
7 PLUMMER: You didn't ask them, okay, so when you said that you looked into
8 their social media accounts, how- was that for the ones that were
9 set to public or private, how did you do that?
10 ELLISON: I'm assuming at the time it was so new back then, but yes, the ones
11 that were public that we could view.
12 PLUMMER: Okay, so anyone's that were private you-you didn't view those
13 then?
14 ELLISON: No.
15 PLUMMER: Okay. And you didn't ask the applicants for anything?
17 PLUMMER: Okay, at what point do you remember that that process being
18 changed?
19 ELLISON: That's been- I don't remember, it would seem like it was halfway
20 during the time I was there, I don't remember the exact date or
21 time.
22 PLUMMER: Okay.
23 ELLISON: But I do remember we just stopped doing it.
24 PLUMMER: Okay. And I'm going to -are you familiar with -there was a house
25 bill put into act in 2013 that basically said that you're not allowed
26 to ask employees for their passwords to get into any of their social
27 media accounts, does that ring a bell to you?
28 ELLISON: Yes.
29 PLUMMER: Okay. Who was your Lieutenant at the time when you were out
30 there?
31 ELLISON: Lieutenant Odistene Fuller.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay. Can you recall if at any time when y'all changed it do you
2 remember if it was in 2013 that y'all changed the policy on looking
3 at Facebook or -I'm sorry, I want to say Facebook, social media
4 accounts?
5 ELLISON: To the best of my recollection I can't remember specifically when
6 we -it would just be an educated guess, I would think around that
7 time.
8 PLUMMER: Okay. And besides that- that individual act that was passed, do
9 you recall if you spoke with Sergeant Jim Bob Stephens in
10 reference to in 2013 this bill in particular and the policy changes to
11 that?
12 ELLISON: I don't remember.
13 PLUMMER: Okay, I actually have a memo that Sergeant Jim Bob wrote where
14 he said that he spoke with you, let me grab that, I thought I had it
15 in this file, but -and see if this rings a bell to you. Okay yeah,
16 thanks. Okay, so if you will look on page 2 and at the top of page
17 3 -I'm sorry, look here at the bottom of page 2 and the top of page
18 3, and read that and see if that kind of refreshes your memory on
19 something.
20 ELLISON: Where did you say again, here?
21 PLUMMER: Yeah, at the end of page 2 where it talks about the Act 1480 and
22 the top of -at the bottom of page 2 where it says Act 1480-
23 ELLISON: Okay.
24 PLUMMER: And then the top of page 3.
25 ELLISON: Okay, I don't remember, but I see.
26 PLUMMER: Okay. So you don't recall then having that conversation with
27 Sergeant Stephens about that policy change or looking at that bill
28 that was passed?
29 ELLISON: All I can remember is the bill coming up.
30 PLUMMER: Uh huh.
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1 ELLISON: And us discussing it back during that time and we just stopped
2 doing them altogether.
3 PLUMMER: Okay, and so you think that was possibly in 2013 then that y'all
4 just- you changed the way that you did their backgrounds on social
5 media?
6 ELLISON: That is an educated guess.
7 PLUMMER: Okay.
8 ELLISON: I would think.
9 PLUMMER: Now can you remember what part you changed when you- from
10 2012 where you were- had them check social media and you were
11 looking at them to in 2013 what did you change, you don't
12 remember?
13 ELLISON: I don' t remember, I just -
14 PLUMMER: Was the books changed?
15 ELLISON: All I remember is -see that- I would be guessing, I cannot
16 remember if they changed the books because we changed them so
17 many times.
18 PLUMMER: Right. Okay, do you recall Lieutenant if you had any meeting with
19 Human Resources or anything during this time over the -how the
20 backgrounds were done in regards to social media?
21 ELLISON: No.
22 PLUMMER: You don't, okay. You don't recall if you had a meeting with
23 Kathleen Walker and Lieutenant and Captain -Captain -
24 was your Captain at the time, is that correct?
25 ELLISON: correct.
26 PLUMMER: You don't recall if you had a meeting with them about this or
27 anything?
28 ELLISON: Not that I can remember.
29 PLUMMER: Kathleen Walker, was she over that process at that time?
30 ELLISON: Yes.
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1 PLUMMER: Okay, so anything that was done or changed went through
2 Kathleen?
3 ELLISON: She's a part of it, right.
4 PLUMMER: Okay, okay.
5 ELLISON: She our representative from Human Resources, yes.
6 PLUMMER: Okay, all right. So just to recap, in 2012 y'all had a book that you
7 recall, the background book, that they checked if they had social
8 media accounts and y'all were looking at any open accounts at that
9 time?
10 ELLISON: They listed them.
11 PLUMMER: They listed them?
12 ELLISON: Uh huh.
13 PLUMMER: And then y'all went back and looked into those if they were open
14 to the public?
16 PLUMMER: Okay, and then from what you believe in 2013 that process was
17 changed and you believe that that was changed due to the bill that
18 was passed?
20 PLUMMER: That's- okay, I don't have anything else, Sergeant Trent?
21 TRENT: When you say changed, just for recorded purposes, changed from -
22 and I want to make sure I'm not putting words in your mouth,
23 where you would look at open accounts versus not look at
24 anything?
25 ELLISON: It was not look at anything from what I can remember.
26 TRENT: Okay.
27 ELLISON: Like I said, we did some phasing out, some changes and I can't
28 remember specifically if this was one of them, but I do remember
29 us checking them and then I was directed not to check them
30 anymore so it wasn't a part of it.
31 TRENT: Okay, got you, that clears it up.
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1 PLUMMER: When you say you're directed, do you remember who you were
2 directed by to not do that?
3 ELLISON: I'm assuming it was from the Captain himself.
4 PLUMMER: You believe that was something that came from Captain -
5 ELLISON: Yes.
6 PLUMMER: Okay.
7 ELLISON: Because we can't make any changes as a Sergeant.
8 PLUMMER: Okay.
9 ELLISON: (Inaudible).
10 PLUMMER: Okay. And Lieutenant how long were you out there after- when
11 you were there in 2012 how long were you there before you left?
12 ELLISON: 2012 to -I believe in 14.
13 PLUMMER: So you were out there for a couple of years?
14 ELLISON: Yes.
15 PLUMMER: Okay, and that -after you believe in 2013 that they changed the
16 process, during that time from the time you left, y'all still never
17 looked into any social media accounts for applicants?
18 ELLISON: No.
19 PLUMMER: Okay. All right, I don't have anything else.
20 TRENT: No questions.
21 PLUMMER: Lieutenant do you have anything else you want to add to this?
22 ELLISON: No.
23 PLUMMER: Okay, just let me find my thing here to read, here we go.
24 Lieutenant Ellison this interview is confidential and you are hereby
27 Police Department. This interview is concluded at 945 hours.
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1 STATEMENT OF KATHLEEN WALKER
2
3 I am Sergeant John Trent, this is an administrative interview with
4 Ms. Kathleen Walker, there is no companion officer/employee with Ms. Walker today.
5 Today's date is Tuesday, November 2151, 2017, and the time is 1031. The Internal Affairs
6 case number is 2017-0029. Ms. Walker are you aware this interview is an internal
7 administrative investigation and is being recorded and will be treated as an official police
8 repmi?
9 WALKER: I do .
10 TRENT: Employees are required to be honest and truthful in all matters
13 false , misleading or untrue statement. This requirement applies to
18 including termination. Are you a civilian employee of the Little
19 Rock Police Department?
20 WALKER: I'm a civilian employee of the City of Little Rock.
21 TRENT: As a civilian employee of Little Rock are you required to abide by
22 the code of conduct for civilian employees?
23 WALKER: Yes I am.
24 TRENT: As a civilian employee of the depaiiment/City of Little Rock, are
25 you required to abide by the Little Rock Police Depaiiment
26 General Orders and Rules and Regulations of the Little Rock
27 Police Depaiiment, Divisional Operating Procedures?
28 WALKER: No I am not, we have our own administrative policies and
29 procedures set forth by the city.
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1 TRENT: Thank you ma'am. Okay, Ms. Walker of course we kind of- you
2 talked to Sergeant Plummer on the phone a little bit regarding our
3 social media and our applicants. Can you kind of tell us about
4 your experience with social media and the new applicant' s kind of
5 guidelines?
6 WALKER: When we train our hiring managers or supervisors on how to use
7 social media, one of the things we discourage and frown on is
8 never go to social media before you' ve done any kind of
9 interviewing. So that is a strong stance and the reason for that is,
10 when you're on social media you will find out age, race, sex,
11 religious preference, anything that you are not supposed to have
12 access to. So the interview should take place, the only time that
13 you should ever get on the social media would be cases where you
14 would use it in a combo factor with something else, so you could
15 get on social media if there is maybe issues concerning someone's
16 education. Our stance on social media is Linkedln as the only one
17 that we would really recognize just because it's gonna be more a
18 business nature and then you can find that information of degrees
19 for education certifications. That just tells you or assists you if an
20 applicant has presented something in their po1ifolio or resume and
21 it doesn't look like the dates don' t add up, if the}e's something not
22 quite right you might want to go to Linkedln. ~t Facebook and
23 those other more of entertainment, we discourage people from
24 using that and in HR field it's kind of a drunken pirate picture, you
25 know is that information applicable to someone's work, can you
26 use it. Employers can use it for employees if for someone calls in
27 sick and you find out evidence that somebody has called in under
28 false pretenses, those kind of things. If it's to be used in the
29 selection process, if you are to disqualify anybody from it based
30 only on social media information, you are supposed to repo1i it to
31 Human Resources in, for myself as the Employment Services
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1 Manager and we will investigate if that information is viable in
2 fact. No one- to this date no one has done that. If -for police it
..,
.) definitely needs to be a combo factor so our stance is that social
4 media is a double edged sword, I've been to training put on by
5 actually attorneys on how to use social media, even though there's
6 no law that says you can't other than you caimot request
7 passwords, but I'm just talking about a general public search that
8 you can get maybe even doing a Google search or any of those.
9 Any general information then if you do that, then you're honor
10 bound to verify the correctness of it and it cannot be the only
11 information that you are using for a particular decision.
12 TRENT: So would this same thing apply to an applicant going -becoming a
13 police officer and in, you know, going through the background
14 procedures and background training, you know the manual they
15 have to fill out, would that same apply to that as well to an
16 applicant for the Police Department?
17 WALKER: There is no factor that talks about social media in of itself, I mean I
18 would make the assumption that you know you can put in the
19 moral turpitude factor, but again, it should be in a combo, it should
20 be information along with something else and you can -for an
21 example, use it as instead of saying something, but only
22 information that you are gained, only what we call the drunken
23 pirate picture that's kind of the example that HR uses in training,
24 you are not supposed to do that. Another part of the process that
25 training does have to go tlu-ough is when we will ce11ify a class for
26 hires, they are required to do what's called a disqualification memo
27 up through their chain of command that has to go all the way up
28 through the chain of command to the Chief's Office, then sent over
29 to HR and one of my roles is that my staff has to review it, one is
30 to make sure everybody is correctly coded into the computer
31 system and also to make sure that the examples provided of why
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1 someone was DQ'ed fits fr1to our practices and our definitions so
2 we review that DQ memo. After my staff signs off and it goes to
3 me, I review it, if something is not -does not either look right or
4 there's not enough information, I do understand some things are
5 very sensitive that you don' t want in a public document, then I will
6 contact the Training Division and they will give me the full verbal
7 explanation of what happened. Because some things are sensitive,
8 especially when you're dealing with offenses regarding children.
9 So once we sign off on it then it has to go to my director which is
10 Stacy Witherell, the City of Little Rock's Director of HR, and then
11 she also has to sign off on it. So there's several different layers to
12 verify the individuals that are not offered employment, that it is
13 vetted, meaning it has to go tluough the chain of command and it
14 has to be signed off by the Assistant Chiefs, then it comes over
15 here and signed off by employment staff, the Employment Services
16 Manager and the Director of HR. And that's for every single
17 applicant that is disqualified in the background phase from the
18 Little Rock Police Department.
19 TRENT: Okay, so let me give you this scenario, you have a recruit that isn't
20 currently in training right now, there was some stuff on his social
21 media, on his- I believe it is Facebook, but let's just say social
22 media in general, that is pretty derogatory towards a certain -
23 there's a derogatory word and it was from 2013 I believe. How
24 would that normally be handled?
25 WALKER: If somebody was to give me this situation and ask me about it, I
26 would advise them, unless there's other information that regards
27 then it should be discounted because you're looking at information
28 that's four years old and if the individual -if the individual is
29 twenty two and they made that statement at eighteen, as you know,
30 people grow up and mature. You are looking for a trend in
31 someone's behavior, you're not looking for one poor decision and
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1 one poor moment, especially in the case that they are not a City of
2 Little Rock employee at that time, they're an applicant, so if there
3 is a trend of being involved in either different sites, different
4 organizations or protests or anything that shows that this individual
5 has a trend or certain manners of behavior, that's an issue then, one
6 isolated incident. And don't forget we also have a MMPI so we
7 run an individual through a full battery of tests and our current
8 MMPI provider, we do fail people, we fail about ten percent of
9 those individuals that go through it and that makes sure that the
10 individuals that we are hiring have healthy coping and adjustment
11 mechanisms.
12 TRENT: I got you. House bill 200- or the house bill that was passed in
13 2013 regarding this-
14 WALKER: Right
15 TRENT: can you kind of give me a small summary of this?
16 WALKER: It just basically -it what made it illegal was the requiring of
17 someone's password that, you know, you can be on someone' s
18 Facebook. When they originally came out with the social media
19 bill, it read that it was illegal for a subordinate to be in a
20 supervisors Facebook post, that's not- that's not the intent of the
21 law. It just -those that drafted it didn 't really address how the
22 Facebook and how social media works, the next time, two years
23 later when the legislative came back around they adjusted it, that
24 you know a subordinate could be on a supervisors, that supervisors
25 could not ask for the password to get into the protected area of
26 information that somebody wanted to keep 11011-disclosable.
27 TRENT: Okay. Is it safe to say that if someone on their background, if they
28 have listed that they used certain social media outlets or using it
29 now, and those are open to the public, are those okay to view?
30 WALKER: Yeah those would be okay to view and again, any decision to make
31 any kind of negative employment action though, it should be based
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1 on multiple- and that's the same with any of our disciplinary, it's
2 needs to be on multiple incidences, there's needs to be counseling
3 involved so if something that has occurred, has the counseling, you
4 know, to the employee that said this is, you know, conduct
5 becoming or unbecoming to the individual so the social media
6 issue would fit just in any other type of instance that we have for
7 disciplinary actions for an employee.
8 TRENT: Okay, and to your knowledge recently no one has come- no one
9 has been in this office regarding a complaint of this nature?
10 WALKER: Well that is- it's not my area though, Dr. Shella Atlas is over the
11 Labor Relations, she's over the disciplinary and all of that process
12 so there could have been something that she is working on that I
13 would have no knowledge of.
14 TRENT: Okay.
15 WALKER: I-
16 TRENT: I got you.
17 WALKER: I have knowledge when they come through the applicant process
18 and all of that, but once somebody is hired then my role in what
19 the employees do as far as the City of Little Rock ceases, because
20 I'm over the recruitment, I'm over onboarding hiring and all of that,
21 but once a city employee is employed by the city, then the other
22 divisions assist them with the services.
23 TRENT: I got you, thank you. Do you remember after the social media, do
24 you remember going out to Training or talking to anybody at
25 Training or having any type of meeting with anyone at the PD
26 regarding this kind of new bill and what we should or should not
27 be doing?
28 WALKER: No I don't remember, you're asking me I think 2014 and we have
29 so many meetings with the LRPD Training on hiring and timelines
30 and deadlines and background and we've discussed the changes in
31 the background especially with the big audit that we did last year.
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1 I just honestly don't remember just this year number of meetings I
2 had with them.
3 TRENT: Okay, you printed out a couple of things for me and this was I
4 guess this is for some type of-
5 WALKER: That's the hiring process, yeah the hiring.
6 TRENT: And then of course it covers the referral of applicants and the
7 social media -
8 WALKER: .Uh huh.
9 TRENT: part of it, is that right?
10 WALKER: That's correct.
11 TRENT: And that's the same thing that I brought in which is y'all ' s
12 Administrative Personnel Policy and Procedure Manual, is that
13 correct?
14 WALKER: That's correct, yes.
15 TRENT: Okay and it's up to date?
16 WALKER: Yes.
17 TRENT: I got you, okay .
18 WALKER: We did a major overhaul, the 2014 we actually changed significant
19 processes besides the social media, one of the main changes is
20 treating part times and full times so if you're employed by the city,
21 all pre-employments, whether physicals, backgrounds, everything,
22 we don't look at if you're paii time or full time so that was a
23 significant change for the city of how it handled it's hiring. So we
24 did a massive overhaul on those -on the employment section for
25 2014.
26 TRENT: I got you, okay. Ms. Walker do you have anything else that you
27 think I needed to add or-
28 WALKER: No .
29 TRENT: Okay.
30 WALKER: Okay.
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1 TRENT: Thank you very much for your time, let me finish this little part, it
2 says Ms. Walker this interview is confidential and you are hereby
5 Police Depaiiment. This interview is concluded at-
6 WALKER: 1043.
7 TRENT: 1043 hours.
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From:
Sent:
Hughes, Kelley A.
~August 30, 2013 3:21 PM
To: - - Fuller, Odistene; Ellison, Troy
Cc: Walker, Kathleen A.
Subject: Background booklets
Attachments: Background Pages.pdf
Happy Friday Afternoon,
Here are the recommended changes for the background booklet that we discussed yesterday:
1. The social media information request on page 20 needs to be removed since HB 1901 passed
in the this year's legislative session prevents a prospective employer from requiring or
requesting candidates to disclose his or her username or password for social media accounts.
2. Question 78 on pg. 21 will need to be expanded. I've attached a copy of Kathleen's suggested
changes.
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend.
Kelley Hughes
Human Resources Analyst., Sr.
City ofLittle Rock Human Resources
500 W. Markham Suite W-130
Little Rock AR 72205
(501) 371-4564
mailto:kahughes@littlerock..org
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G) Elder abuse/neglect ........................ ~ ....................................................................................................................: .......................... o Yes 0No
H) Embezzlement (theft of money or other valuables entrusted to you) ............................................... ......... ........................................ 0 Yes 0No
11 Drunk driving ................................................................................................................................................................................... 0 Yes 0No
JJ Forcible rape or other act of unlawful intercourse ............................................................................................................................. O Yes 0No
Kl Forgery (falsifying any type of document, check certificate, license, currency, etc.) .......................................................................... O Yes 0No
L) Hit & run ..........................................................................................................................................................................................0 Yes 0No
Ml Hate crime ..................................................................................................................................................................... ..................0 Yes 0No
N) Insurance fraud ............................................................................................................................... ................................................. o Yes 0No
01 Felony theft (value of over $500, or any firearm) .............................................................................................................................. 0 Yes 0No
Pl Murder, homicide, or attempted murder ...........................................................................................................................................0 Yes 0No
01 Perjury (lying ~nder oath).................................................................................................................................................................0 Yes 0No
R) Possession of an explosive/destructive device ................................................................................................................................. 0 Yes 0No
S) Robbery (theft from another person using a weapon, force, or fear) ................................................................................................. 0 Yes 0No
T) Stalking ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 0 Yes 0No
U) Blackmail or extortion....................................................................................................................................................................... o Yes 0No
VJ Any other act amounting to a felony ................................................................................................................................................. 0 Yes 0No
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( 8. Notice of Examination Results/Review of Examination Papers
a. Applicants who complete the announced selection process will be notified of their
examination results.
b. Examination results will be forwarded to the applicant using the contact

information and method included in the application documents. Applicants who
prefer electronic notification will only be notified electronically.
C. Examinations, answer keys or any other relate9 information are exempt from
review, including FOi requests for all non-uniform positions. The Employment
Services Manager or designee will meet by appointment with applicants to discuss
examination results upon request. Only Uniformed Police and Fire Promotional
Examinations are available for review according to the procedures outlined in the
Civil Services Promotional Procedure Guidelines, but are not releasable under a
FOi request.
d. Complaints or alleged errors relating to the scoring of written examinations, an

applicant's status in a selection process or any other complaint concerning an
administration of the selection instrument(s) must be directed to the Employment
Services Manager. If the matter is not resolved satisfactorily, then the Director of
Human Resources will review the complaint and supporting documentation for a
final decision.
Review and appeal procedures related to the promotion process for uniformed Fire
and Police positions are prescribed in the Civil Service Promotion Procedures
( Guidelines. •
9. Repeated Participation in an Examination
a. Generally, there is no restriction on the number of times an applicant may take

City employment tests. Restrictions, if applicable, will be announced on the test
bulletin prior to test administration.
b. Where specifically dictated by written examination protocol or any agreements

between the City and a vendor, an applicant will be permitted to use his previous
test score for competitive purposes for the same position. The utilization of
previous test scores are determined by the test and applicable cut-off scores, in
conjunction with the position being evaluated.
10. Referral of Applicants
a. Based on the results of the assessments referred to in 1-6.1 above, an eligibility list
will be established for the specified position. A referral list is comprised in whole
or in part of the eligibility list. Referral/Eligibility lists for non-Civil Service
positions shall be in effect for six (6) months from the date of initial referral and
may be extended up to six (6) additional months at the request of the Hiring
Department's Director and with the approval of the Director of Human Resources.
Non-Civil Service lists may be abolished by the Director of Human Resources,
and only in extenuating circumstances if determined to be in the best interest of
the City for recruitment purposes.
b. Based on the results of the assessment process, applicants will be referred to the
( Hiring Department. All qualified applicants for the position may be referred to
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the Hiring Department for further consideration; ·for others, applicants may be
referred in clusters or absolute ranking. Except where mandated by Civil Service
statutes or policies, the Employment Services Division staff in consultation with
the Hiring Department shall determine whether to refer only the highest ranked
applicants or all applicants who meet the minimum qualifications.
C. Interviewing Applicants
1. Pursuant to the referral of candidates, the hiring authority shall verify the
Preliminary assessment of the candidates' experience, training, licenses
etc. The hiring authority is encouraged to interview referred candidates to
enhance the evaluation of qualifications. The hiring authority may choose
which applicants to interview, based upon objective, job-related criteria.
Applicants chosen for an interview should be appropriately notified and
their status updated in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
11. Hiring authorities must follow the Intervi~w Guidelines published by the
Human Resources Department. Interview questions must be job related,
and information provided by the applicants during the interview must be
documented and sent to the assigned Human Resources Analyst for record
keeping. The assigned analyst for the specified position will provide
assistance, if necessary, to develop the interview questions. All
information concerning the interview process will be maintained for three
(3) years.
d. Additional Testing
C Hiring Authorities must obtain approval from Human Resources to administer any
additional tests. Such tests must be job related and assess abilities or
competencies which are predictive of successful job performance.
e. Socia l Media
Hiring authorities are prohibited from utilizing social media before applicant
interviews are conducted. This ensures that the information protected by the
Uniform Guidelines are not factored in the process of selecting which applicants
to schedule for interviews.
Once an applicant has been selected, a professional social media site may be
accessed to verify the applicant's education, skills, employment history or any
other relative experience. If possible, a neutral manager or supervisor other than
the hiring supervisor should perform this task. Removing any applicant from
additional consideration based upon any information provided by a professional
network/website must be approved by Human Resources.
f. Reference Checking
Hiring authorities are encouraged to perform reference checks on the chosen

applicant.
Previous employers will typically verify employment dates and job titles without
authorization from the former employee. Arkansas Statutes 11-3-204 grants
immunity to employers acting in good faith who disclose detailed work history
information. Information such as wage history, date and duration of employment,
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Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language '\\-villd be added to present law.
Act 1480 of the Regular Session
1 State of Arkansas As Engrossed: H3/22/13 S4/16/13

2 89th General Assembly A Bill
3 Regular Session, 2013 HOUSE BILL 1901
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5 By: Representative Steel
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7 For An Act To Be Entitled
8 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT AN EMPLOYER FROM REQUIRING OR
9 REQUESTING A CURRENT OR PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEE FROM
10 DISCLOSING HIS OR HER USERNAME OR PASSWORD FOR A
11 SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT OR TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE
12 CONTENT OF HIS OR HER SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT; AND FOR
13 OTHER PURPOSES.
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17 TO PROHIBIT AN EMPLOYER FROM REQUIRING OR
18 REQUESTING A CURRENT OR PROSPECTIVE
19 EMPLOYEE FROM DISCLOSING HIS OR HER
20 USERNAME OR PASSWORD FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA
21 ACCOUNT.
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24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
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26 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 11, Chapter 2, Subchapter 1, is amended
27 to add an additional section to read as follows:
28 11-2-124. Social media accounts of current and prospective employees.
29 (a) As used in this section:
30 (1) "Employee" means an individual who provides services or
31 labor for wages or other remuneration for an employer;
32 (2) "Employer" means a person or entity engaged in business, an
33 industry, a profession, a trade, or other enterprise in the state or a unit
34 of state or local government, including without limitation an agent,
35 representative , or designee of the employer; and
36 (3) (A) "Social media account" means a personal account with an
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1 electronic medium or service where users may create, share, or view user-
2 generated content, including without limitation:
3 (i) Videos;
4 (ii) Photographs;
5 (iii) Blogs;
6 (iv) Podcasts;
7 (v) Messages;
8 (vi) Emails; or
9 (vii) Website profiles or locations.
10 (B) "Social media account" does not include an account:
11 (i) Opened bv an employee at the request of an employer;
12 (ii) Provided to an employee bv an employer such as a
13 company email account or other software program owned or operated exclusively
14 bv an employer;
15 (iii) Setup bv an employee on behalf of an employer; or
16 (iv) Setup bv an employee to impersonate an employer
17 through the use of the employer's name, logos, or trademarks.
18 (C) "Social media account" includes without limitation an
19 account established with Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, MySpace, or Instagram.
20 (b)(l) An employer shall not require, request, suggest, or cause a
21 current or prospective employee to:
22 (A) Disclose his or her username and password to the current or
23 prospective employee's social media account;
24 (B) Add an employee, supervisor, or administrator to the list or
25 contacts associated with his or her social media account; or
26 (CJ Change the privacy settings associated with his or her
27 social media account.
28 (2) If an employer inadvertently receives an employee's
29 username, password, or other login information to the employee's social media
30 account through the use of an electronic device provided to the employee bv
31 the employer or a program that monitors an employer's network the employer is
32 not liable for having the information but mav not use the information to gain
33 access to an employee's social media account.
34 (c) An employer shall not:
35 (1) Take action against or threaten to discharge, discipline, of
36 otherwise penalize a current employee for exercising his or her rights under
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1 subsection (b) of this section; or

2 (2) Fail or refuse to hire a prospective employee for exercising
3 his or her rights under subsection (b) of this section.
4 (d) This section does not prohibit an employer from viewing
5 information about a current or prospective employee that is publicly
6 available on the Internet.
7 (e) Nothing in this section:
8 (1) Prevents an employer from complying with the requirements of
9 federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations or the rules or
10 regulations of self-regulatory organizations; or
11 (2)(A) Affects an employer's existing rights or obligations to
12 request an employee to disclose his or her username and password for the
13 purpose of accessing a social media account if the employee's social media
14 account activity is reasonably believed to be relevant to a formal
15 investigation or related proceeding by the employer of allegations of an
16 employee's violation of federal, state, or local laws or regulations or of
17 the employer's written policies.
18 (B) If an employer exercises its rights under subdivision
19 (e)(2)(A) of this section, the employee's username and password shall only be
20 used for the purpose of the formal investigation or a related proceeding.
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Lead Sponsor Stee l
Introduction Date 12/22/2014 9:54:00 AM
Act Date 4/22/2013 12:00:00 AM
Bill-Status History
Chamber I Date I Action IVote

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: : AM Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's
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Office.
House 4/17/2013 7:26:25 PM TO BE ENROLLED
House
House 4/17/2013 7:25:58 PM Senate amendment# 2 read and concurred in.
Votes
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House 4/17/2013 7:25 :41 PM Senate amendment# 1 read and concurred in.
Votes
l0:: AM Returned by ~he Committee with the recommendation that it do
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pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 and 2.
: : PM Re -referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND
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LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE
House 4/16/2013 4:44:57 PM Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1 and 2.
Senate 4/16/2013 2 :42:54 PM Returned To the House as passed as amended.
Senate
Senate 4/16/2013 2:41:54 PM Read the third time and passed.
Votes
Senate 4/16/2013 2:41:36 PM Rules suspended.
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Labor
Senate 4/16/2013 11:01:43 AM REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
l0: : AM Amendment# 1 ~ND 2 read the first time, rules suspended,
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read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
Senate 4/16/2013 10:27:03 AM Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
l:l : PM Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do
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Pass as amended, Amendment # 1
l: : PM Re-referred to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare and
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Labor
Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do
Senate 4/5/2013 2 :33:47 PM
Pass
: : PM Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to
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Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor
Senate 3/28/2013 5: 13:09 PM Received from the House.
: : PM Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the House
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Senate. Votes
House 3/26/2013 2:05 : 15 PM Returned by the Committee Do Pass
House 3/22/2013 11:20:59 AM REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
House : :ol AM Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered
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engrossed.
House 3/22/2013 8:29 : 56 AM Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and
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LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE
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I met in 2010 when I first moved to Arkansas and attended Arkansas Baptist College. We
lived in the same apartment complex west side loft. assisted me in the hiring process
when I applied for LRPD. advised me once I became a recruit to check in with him and let
him know if I had any problems, or issues with police academy.
Once police academy started the recruit class was asking question about wat we can and can't do while
in police academy. I asked if it was ok if we spoke with police while being a recruit and Officer Ramer
said we could speak with other police wile in the academy. I called regularly and
informed him on my progress and issues I was having in the academy. Several different occasions I felt I
was being singled out by the recruits and staff. My size and articulation always came into most incidents
or conversations they were having in the academy and I became a joke to everyone. I reported these
because I was stressed and felt like giving up most of the time. I spoke with
out of trust and in confidence, thinking he could assist me.
The on or about the second week of the academy recruit Jones advised me she looked Sheferbond up on
facebook because she wanted to know who he was and she observed a racial picture on recruit
Sheferbond Face book page. Recruit Jones and I was very upset about this issue and did not know the
procedure to follow concerning this incident. Recruit Jones and I both knew so we
discussed reporting the incident to Neither one of us said anything about the incident
but we did not know the procedure . After some time while I was speaking with in casual
conversation I told about this incident. - l a asked if recruit Shaferbond was in
the academy at the time and I told him he was not because he was in drill. Afterwards I thought nothing
of it and did not know this incident would be reported. ever told me to report this to my
chain or instructed me on wat I should do next.
ROBERT A. NEWCOMB, P.A.
Attorney at Law
425 West Capitol Ave., Suite 226
P.O. Box 149
little Rock, AR 72203
(501) 372-5577 · Fax (501) 372-6025
E-Mail: robertnwcmb@aol.com
newcomboffice@aol.com
November 29, 2017
Police Chief Kenton Buckner

700 W. Markham
VIA HAND DELIVERY
kbuckner@littlerock.gov
Re: Brandon Schiefelbein, recruit
Dear Chief,
Mr. Schiefelbein has contacted me concerning his proposed removal from

Little Rock Police Department~ You had asked me about fairness and I gave you
an answer at our luncheon that fairness is important. This would be most
unfair.
I think that this particular removal would be totally unfair after both
looking at the Internal Affairs file and obtaining some information concerning
the complaining recruit. The recruit who is complaining appears to use the
same terminology in Facebook postings of his. I'm enclosing those Facebook
postings for your consideration. Both of these were done when both individuals
were younger. If it is conduct unbecoming for one, it would be conduct
unbecoming for the other. The Department should do a complete review of Mr.
Brandon Gurley's post which were public.
It is also a great concern to me from a belief in equality and fairness that

there is no evidence other than the one word that Mr. Schiefelbein is a racist.
The individuals that were photographed and had the tag put on them both have
served with him in the Army Reserves and indicated to Internal Affairs that
they are not concerned at all about him. They clearly felt that this proposed
action is an overreaction by the Police Department.
Mr. Schiefelbein will give a complete release to the Department to turn

the Internal Affairs file over to the media if you decide not to fire him. I'm .
asking in the complete fairness to both individuals that you either keep both of
them on the job or fire both of them. That way there would be no
discrimination based upon race where firing one who is white but not firing the
African American for using the same term is wrong.
If you would like to discuss this matter please feel free to call me, my cell
phone number is 501-680-5297.
s~ i ~
Robert A. Newcomb
cc. Brandon Schiefelbein

Tom Carpenter
SUPERVISORY EVALUATION FORM
D Citizen Complaint
t8] Administrative Investigation Case# 2017-0029
Involved Employee(s): Recruit Brandon Gurley, Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein

Complainant or Type Incident: Conduct Unbecoming a Recruit
Date of Complaint: 11/17/2017 Date oflncident: 06/22/2013
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EVALUATION & RECOMMENDATIONS:
DISPOSITION
Charge/ l. Conduct Unbecoming a Recruit Disposition I. NS S Sustained

Allegation NS Not-Sustained
2. Failure to report 2. S E Exonerated
3. Untruthfulness 3. S U Unfounded
MC Misconduct Not
4. 4.
5.
- - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - 5.
Based on Orig.
6. - ----------------- 6.
Compliant
W Withdrawn
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DISCIPLINARY RECOMMENDATION
D Counseling D Oral Reprimand D Written Reprimand
D Suspension • - - - Days D Demotion
t8] Termination ONone
Comments: In 2013, when Recruit Brandon Schiefelbeir. :1 1111

was eighteen (18) he posted the statement "Go
night night nigga. Go night night", on his Facebook Page. The statement was tagged underneath a picture of his friend
which is a black male. Recruit Schiefelbein's friend (Steven Beasley) is his squad mate in the Army. Mr Beasley is aware
of the post and is not offended by it.
During the first week of Recruit School 88 Recruit Katina Jones hllll discovered the word "Nigga" posted on Recruit
Brandon Schiefelbein's Facebook Page and was offended by it. Recruit Jones took a screen shot of the post then texted it
to Recruit Brandon Gurley .\ - Recruit Jones never notified her Chain of Command of thjs incident. Recruit Gurley
found the post offensive and called Recruit Schiefelbein to get clarification on why the post was made. Recruit Gurley
never notified his Chain of Command of this incident but he gave a copy of the post to - -----
On November 30, 2017, further investigation was conducted on this matter. During a interview with Recruit Gurley he
said before he made contact with - he spoke with Officer Elisha Ramer, his lead instructor. He said
Officer Ramer gave him permission to speak to other officers outside the Training Division. During a interview with
Officer Ramer she was asked if she gave permission to Recruit Gurley to speak with persons in the Little Rock Police
Department, who are not assigned to the Training Division. Officer Ramer advised that she did not give Recruit Gurley
pemission to discuss Training matters with officers not assigned to the Training Division.
After thoroughly reviewing this file I find that Recruit Gurley is in clear violation of the Little Rock Basic Recruit
Training Manual On/Off Duty Incidents (G.) which states "No recruit will visit or loiter aro,md a11y law e11forceme11t
facility w/,ile atte1Zdi11g tl,e Little Rock Police Departme11t Trai11i11g Academy. A11v recruit comi11g i11 contact wit!, a11
officer wJ,ile outside the Academy will be required to document tJ,e co11tact 011 the first class sessio11 followi11g the
co11tact." Recruit Gurley is in clear violation of Rules and Regulations 1/8003.00, which states "Officers shall be truthful
at all times, w/,etlter under oath or 11ot. wJ,e11 co11d11cti11g official police busi11ess."
/2/1/17
Supervisor Date LRPD Form 5030-17
January 23, 2001
Supervisory Evaluation Form
Page2
Case# 0029
Comments Cont'd: I recommend that the allegation of violating LRPD Basic Recruit Training Manual On/Off Duty
policy and the allegation of untruthfulness both be found Sustained. I further recommend that Recruit Gurley be
terminated as an Little Rock Police Department Recruit.
I find that Recruit Schiefelbein was not in violation of the Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual
Conduct Unbecoming a Recruit (C . 2) which states: '~ pattem of behllvior that reflects poor personal cltaracter tltat
ittvolves co11d11ct tit at mav 1111dermi11e or malig11 tJ,e trai11i11g missio11. " in 2013 due to not being affiiated with this
Department, I recommend that his allegations be Not Sustained. However. I recommend that he receive a counseling on
the importance of not using a word or remarks that could be considered offensive or racist.
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Date
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SUPERVISORY EVALUATION FORM
0 Citizen Complaint
IZI Administrative Investigation Case# 112017-0029
Involved Employee(s): Recruits Brandon Schiefelbein & Brandon Gurley

Complainant or Type Incident: Conduct Unbecoming a Recruit and On/Off Duty Incidents
Date of Complaint: 11/20/2017 Date of Incident: 06/22/2013
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EVALUATION & RECOMMENDATIONS: DISPOSITION
Charge/ I . Schiefelbein (Conduct Unbecoming) Disposition I . NS S Sustained

AIIPa!:ltin NS Not-
2. Gurley (Failure to Document Contact 2. S Sustained
3. Gurley (Untruthfulness) 3. S E Exonerated
U Unfounded
4. 4.
5. ------------------
MC Misconduct
5.
6. ------------------ 6.
DISCIPLINARY RECOMMENDATION
IZI Counseling IZI Oral Reprimand 0 Written Reprimand
0 Suspension - _ _ _ Days Ooemotion
IZI Termination ONone
C.om men I have reviewed the contents of this file and I concur with Sergeant Hawkins. I agree with Sergeant
Hawkins that Recruit Brandon Shiefelbein's alleged violation of the below listed section of the Little Rock Police
Department's Basic Recruit Training Manual should be "Not Sustained" however, he should receive a Counseling on
using remarks or words that could be considered racist or offensive.
The Basic Recruit Training Manual states, ''A pattern of behavior that reflects poor perso11a/ character that
i11volves co11duct that may 1mdermitze or malig11 the trai11ing missio11".
In order to be fair, I feel it is incumbent upon me to address both my feelings and popular opinion of the word
"Nigga". I was raised to believe that any form of the word is offensive and degrading towards African Americans. With
that being said. our younger generation seems to have adopted the word as part of their evervday vernacular. The Urban
Dictionary refers to the word ''Nigga" as meaning. "Term that can be used to describe anyone close to you; no matter
what race you are. Can be used to describe a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend or an enemy". Obviously both Steven Beasley
and Dennis Alexander, who are both African American, did not believe it was used as an offensive term towards them and
both gentleman referred to Recruit Schiefelbein as not being a racist individual. I also cannot lose sight of the fact this
incident occurred in the Summer of 2013, when Recruit Schiefelbein was eighteen years old, and more than four years
before he began the Police Academy.
I do not concur with Sergeant Hawkins that Recruit Brandon Gurley should receive a written reprimand for the
below listed violation.
The Basic Recruit Training Manual states, "No recruit will visit or loiter around a11v law enforcement facilitv
while attendi11g the Little Rock Police Training Academy. A11y recruit comi11g i11 contact wit!, an g.(ficer while outside
the academy will be required to docume11t t[,e co11tact 011 the first class session followitzg the contact".
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Supervisor Date
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LRPD Form 5030-17
January 23, 200 I
Supervisory Evaluation Form
Page2
Case # 112017-0029
Comments I recommend the allegation of Recruit Gurley failing to notify his chain of command about his
contact with - be "Sustained". This is Recruit Gurley's first violation and I recommend he receive
an Oral Reprimand.
******** On 12-01-17 I was ,.:iven an addendum to this ori,.:inal file********

On 12-01-17. Internal Affairs Sergeant Cristie Plummer delivered additional information that she added to the original
file. In order to remain consistent, I have decided to add to my original Supervisory Evaluation Form. IA investi2ators
went back and interviewed both Recruit Schiefelbein and Recruit Gurley a second time to clarify their original statements.
Based on these new interviews, Recruit Gurlev now has a new allegation for Untruthfulness.
I have reviewed the new portion of the file, and after careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion Recruit
Brandon Gurley was Untruthful in his statement dated 11-30-17. During the statement. Recruit Gurley advised he spoke to
fellow Recruit Karshun King about some comments made by another recruit. Initially, Recruit Gurley advised Recruit
King was not offended by the comments and that he pulled him aside and spoke to him about the matter. Recruit Gurley
advised the comments were offensive to him and he believed Recruit King should have viewed them that way too. Later
on in his statement, Recruit Gurley changed his story and stated Recruit King did in fact find the comments offensive. IA
investigators later interviewed Recruit King and he stated a number of different times he was not offended by the
comments made.
The second, and more importantly the worst of the two inconsistencies. centers around the fact that Recruit Gurley now
states he had a conversation with Lead Instructor Elisha Ramer about discussing matters with other officers outside of his
chain of command. According to Recruit Gurley, he asked Officer Ramer in the beginning of the academy for permission
to go outside of his chain of command to discuss police matters and she told him he could. The following is a portion of
Recruit Gurley's statement from 11-21-17
Plummer: Okay. so I want to ask vou, v'all have a chain ofcommand that you go through out here. correct?
Gurley: Correct.
Plummer: Okay, did you notify your immediate supervisor about this?
Gurley: No Ma 'am I didn't.
This portion of the statement is referencing Recruit Gurley going outside of his chain of command and contacting
- In my opinion, If Recruit Gurley truly had spoken to Officer Ramer, and got her permission to
discuss police matters with someone outside of his chain of command. he would have brought this up during his
statement. I contend Recruit Gurley realized later on he had violated our policy in reference to this infraction and now is
attempting to lie in order to cover it up.
IA investigators interviewed Officer Elisha Ramer and she denied ever having a conversation with Recruit Gurley where
she gave him authorization to outside of his chain of command.
Recruit Gurley is in clear violation of Rules and Regulations l/8003.00 which states. "Officers will be truthful at all times,
whether under oath or not, when conducting official police business. I concur with Sergeant Hawkins and recommend this
allegation be Sustained and Recruit Gurley be Terminated from the Little Rock Police Department.
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Supervisor Date
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DISPOSITION
Little Rock Police Department S Sustained

NS Not Sustained
Administrative Evaluation Form E Exonerated
U Unfounded
(Final Recommendations Only) MC Misconduct Not
Based On Orig.
Citizen Complaint Formal Complaint Complaint
W Withdrawn
Administrative Investigation D Yes [gJ No Case #112017-0029
Involved Employee(s): Recruits 8. Schiefelbein & 8. Gurley
Complaint or Type Incident: _C_o_n_d_u_c_t_U_n_b_e_c_o_m_i_n-g_ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Date of Complaint: 11/20/2017 Date oflncident: 08/28/2017
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DIVISION REVIEW- EVALUATION & RECOMMENDATIONS: DISCIPLINE
D None
Allegation or I. R&R 1/4003 Schiefelbein Disposition I. s D Counseling
Charge 2. Failure to Document Contact (Gurley) 2. S D Oral Reprimand
3. R&R 1/8003.00 Untruthfulness (Gurley) 3. S D Written Reprimand
4. 4. D Suspension _ _ Days
5. 5. D Demotion
6. 6. [gj Termination
Comments/Recommendations: =S~ee~a=tt=ac=l=1e=d~m=em=o=ra=n=d~u=m=·~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Division Commander
BUREAU REVIEW -EVALUATION & RECOMMEND ATIO NS: 0 DISCIPLINE
FINDINGS & DISPOSITION: 0 D None
D Counseling
~ Concur D Do Not Concur D Oral Reprimand
D Written Reprimand
Allegation or I. Disposition D Suspension _ _ Days
Charge 2. D Demotion
3.
Assistant Chief Date
CHIEF OF POLICE - FINDINGS & DISPOSITION - IF APPLICABLE - DISCIPLINE

ONone
Concur With: D Assistant Chief D Division Commander D Do Not Concur D Counseling
D Oral Reprimand
Allegation or I. ;tJ,'?~ Disposition I. 5 D Written Reprimand
Charge 2. 2. 5 D Suspension _ _ Days
3. 3. ---2- D Demotion
Chief of Police Date

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LRPD Form 5030-14
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I {City C
of Little Rock
L,nle Rock. Arkansas 72201-1329
MEMORANDUM
TO: Assistant Chief Alice Fulk, Executive Bureau
FROM: Captain Marcus Paxton, Training Division ~
RE: Recruit B. Schiefelbein Investigation
DATE: December 3, 2017
I initially reviewed the file and made a recommendation. Chief Buckner reviewed the file and
requested additional investigation into comments there were documented during the initial
investigation. I have reviewed this file and make the following observations and
recommendations:
Recruit Brandon Gurley
Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual On/Off Duty Incidents #G
''No recruit will visit or loiter around any law enforcement facility while attending the Little
Rock Police Department Training Academy. Any recruit coming in contact with an officer while
outside the Academy will be required to document the contact on the first class session following ·
the contact."
Recruit Gurley intentionally made contact with on several occasions

during his time at the academy. Recruit Gurley did not report this contact to recruit staff as
required by the Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual. What should have
happened is Recruit Gurley should have reported this to his supervisor in the Training Division.
I recommend this allegation be shown "Sustained".
Rule and Regulation 1/8003.00 Untruthfulness

"Officers shall be truthful at all times, whether under oath or not, when conducting official police
business."
Recruit Gurley made statements during two interviews in this investigation. I believe there were
a total of three inconsistencies in these statements when compared to the other statements taken
by Internal Affairs investigators.
The first inconsistency involved his conversations with Recruit King. If you examine Recruit
Gurley's second statement beginning on page 7:16:8-24, he claims at first that Recruit King
found the comments made by Recruit Schiefelbein not offensive but that he should be
offended. In the same statement beginning on pages 7:20:16-30 and 7:21:1-6, Recruit Gurley's
Recruit 8. Schiefelbein Investigation
December 3, 2017
Page 2 of3
story changes and now says that Recruit King found the remarks offensive but he wasn't
going to let anyone know about it. He reiterated it on page 7:25: 13-24. This could be easily
explained as maybe Recruit Gurley got confused during the interview, however, Recruit King's
statement on page 12:3:23-31 stated that the statements made by Recruit Schiefelbein "It wasn't
offensive at all". He repeated this several times during the interview. Recruit King is not under
investigation here, what would be his motive to not tell the truth?
Another in inconsistency is in Gurley's statement on page 7:21:6-8. Gurley advises that he

approached Recruit King right after he overheard Recruit Schiefelbein make statements he was
offended by. On page 12:5:23-25, Recruit King advised that Gurley did not come to him until
maybe a week before his IA interview. This is at least a month difference of when Recruit
Gurley claimed he approached Recruit King. I don't believe Recruit King would have any reason
to lie about when Recruit Gurley approached him about the statements.
The biggest inconsistent is Recruit Gurley's claim on 7:26:3-6 and continuing on 7:27 9-7:28:15,
that he went to Officer Ramer and received permission to talk with anyone outside the academy.
He advised that this was towards the beginning of the academy. This was his second interview
and he never mentioned this during his first interview even though on 7:7 they discussed his
chain of command. It would stand to reason that if this were true, Recruit Gurley would have
mentioned this in his first interview when he referenced his chain of command and the Facebook
post. He advised that he was unsure about his chain of command. LRPD Basic Recruit Training
Manual states "Any recruit coming in contact with an officer while outside the Academy will be
required to document the contact on the first class session following the contact." This rule has_
been part of the academy manual for at least 10 years. It is enforced by the training staff. Officer
Ramer was interviewed on page 14: 1. She advised that Recruit Gurley never approached her
about this and she never gave him permission to meet with other officers outside of the academy.
Officer Ramer is a trusted training officer who has no reason to lie. Why would she waive this
rule for only Recruit Gurley in the opening weeks of the academy and not everyone? Why would
she waive it for Recruit Gurley only knowing him for only a couple of weeks? It defies logic.
I believe Recruit Gurley realized between the first and second interviews that he broke the
academy rules and is trying to cover this violation. I believe the conversation that he claims he
had with Officer Ramer never took place. I believe he was not truthful in his second interview.
After examining all of the inconsistencies in Recruit Gurley statements verses the statements of
Recruit King and Officer Ramer, I believe Recruit Gurley violated Rule and Regulation
1/8003.00.
For these violations, I recommend Recruit Gurley be separated from the Department.
Recruit B. Schiefelbein Investigation
December 3, 2017
Page 3 of3
Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein
Rule and Regulation 1/4003.00

"No officer shall engage in any personal act or conduct which, if brought to the attention of the
public, could result in justified criticism of that officer or the Department. No officer shall be
personally involved in disturbances or police incidents to his/her discredit."
It is apparent that the Facebook post in question was not created and posted by Recruit
Schiefelbein to be derogatory or meant to be a racial slur. The two people that were tagged in the
post, both black males, advised that it was a joke between the three friends. Mr. Alexander
defended Recruit Schiefelbein and advised that he was not a racist. This post was made years ago
when Recruit Schiefelbein was just out of high school. Posting that joke on Facebook showed
bad judgment by Recruit Schiefelbein. He should have realized some might be offended by the
use of the racial slur "nigga". As Lieutenant Rothwell pointed out, I am very aware that popular
culture uses the word often. For some it means friendship or comradery. For others it is a slur
and denotes racism. As a recruit or an officer of the Little Rock Police Department, we must be
aware that the perception of racial, sexual orientation, and religious bias cannot be tolerated.
By leaving this post on his open Facebook page after being hired by the Little Rock Police
Department, Recruit Schiefelbein is in violation of 1/4003.00. I recommend this allegation be
shown "Sustained".
The issue here is not one of reality, but one of perception. As a police officer, we must avoid the
perception that we are biased against one race or another. This Facebook post has come under
public scrutiny. Without any explanation, it would appear that an officer with this department
had made an insensitive and derogatory racial statement. While this would not be reality, it is the
perception. Some of Recruit Schiefelbein's fellow officers and the public would treat him with
distain. The department would be thought of as hiring a known racist. This perception would
follow Recruit Schiefelbein and the department as long as he was employed by this department.
While I fundamentally don't think this is fair, sometimes things we do in life have negative
consequences. Had this post been discovered prior to Recruit Schiefelbein being hired, I would
not have recommended him to be hired. For the good of the department and Recruit
Schiefelbein, I recommend that he be separated from this department.
After this incident, as part of the pre-employment screening, the background investigators have
begun examining all future applicant's social media footprint. This will be the policy going
forward.
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City of Uttle Rock

December 8, 2017
Police Recruit Brandon Gurley ,.-i

Training Division
RE: Termination of Employment
Dear Recruit Gurley:
This letter is to inform you of your termination as a police recruit of the City of Little Rock Police
Department effective Friday, December 8, 2017, at 1000 hours. You are being terminated for ·
violation of the following listed sections of the Little Rock Police Department's Rules and
Regulations, and the Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual:
Internal Investigation #112017-0029
Rules and Regulations

Section 1/8003.00
Which states, "Officers shall be truthful at all times, whether under oath or not, when conducting
official police business."
Basic Recruit Training Manual

On/Off Duty Incidents #G
Which states, "No recruit will visit or loiter around any law enforcement facility while attending
the Little Rocle Police Academy. Any recruit corning in contact with an officer while outside the
Academy will be required to document the contact on the first class session following the contact."
You violated the aforementioned sections when you made intentional contact with a police
sergeant on several occasions outside of the purview of your training while at the Academy. This
contact was not reported to the Training Division's staff as is mandated in your recruit training
manual. In addition, you have made several inconsistent statements during this investigation.
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Police Recruit Brandon Gurley 41111111
December 8, 2017
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Internal Investigation #112017-0032

Section 1/4003.00
Which states, "No officer shall engage in any personal act or conduct which, if brought to the
attention of the public, could result in justified criticism of that officer or the Department. No
officer shall be personally involved in disturbances or police incidents to his/her discredit."
You violated the aforementioned section as a result of comments you made on social media that
have caused complaints both from within the Department and from citizens in the community.
Some officers with whom you would be required to work on a daily basis and who must trust you
in tense situations are extremely offended as well as some citizens. Your comments have
significantly damaged this trust and contributed to an already tense relationship between the
Department and the community.
As a result of your actions, especially at this early point in your career, your employment must be
terminated.
All uniforms, equipment and any other department-owned items issued to you during the course
of your employment must be immediately returned to the Department. Information concerning the
status of fringe benefits may be obtained from the City of Little Rock, Department of Human
Resources, 371-4590.
As a probationary employee, you do not have any rights of appeal in this matter.
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Kenton Buckner
Chief of Police
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cc: Captain Marcus Paxton
Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell
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Sergeant Kendrick Hawkins

Trena Bronson, Payroll Clerk
Stacey Witherell, Human Resources Director
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City of Uttle Rock
Lillie Rock, Arkansas 72201-1329
December 8, 2017
Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein , _

Training Division
Little Rock, AR 7220 I
RE: Termination of Employment
Dear Recruit Schiefelbein:
This letter is to inform you of your termination as a police recruit of the City of Little Rock Police
Department effective Friday, December 8, 2017, at 0900 hours. You are being terminated for violation of
the following listed section of the Little Rock Police Department's Rules and Regulations:

Section 1/4003.00
Which states, "No officer shall engage in any personal act or conduct which, if brought to the attention of
the public, could result in justified criticism of that officer or the Department. No officer shall be personally
involved in disturbances or police incidents to his/her discredit"
Your termination comes as a result of comments you made on social media that have caused complaints
both from within the Department and from citizens in the community. Some officers with whom you would
be required to work on a daily basis and who must trust you in tense situations arc extremely offended as
well as some citizens. Your comments have significantly damaged this trust and contributed to an already
tense relationship between the Department and the community.
As a result of your actions, especially at this early point in your career, your employment must be
terminated.
All uniforms, equipment and any other department-owned items issued to you during the course of your
employment must be immediately returned to the Department. Information concerning the status of fringe
benefits may be obtained from the City of Little Rock, Department of Human Resources, 371-4590.
As a probationary employee, you do not h~e any rights of appeal in this matter.
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Kenton Buckner
Chief of Police
cc: Captain Marcus Paxton

Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell
Sergeant Kendrick Hawkins
Trena Bronson, Payroll Clerk
Stacey Witherell, Human Resources Director
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Internal Affairs Summary II2017-0029 1

Complaint Letter From LRBPOA 3

Copy ofFacebook Post made by Brandon Schiefelbein 4

Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein 1 & 2 6

Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Brandon Gurley 1 & 2 7

Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Katina Jones 8

Internal Affairs Statement of Dennis Alexander 11

Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Karshun King 12

Internal Affairs Statement of Police Recruit Jonathan Walker 13

Internal Affairs Statement of Officer Elisha Ramer 14

Copy ofFacebook Post Signed by Steven Beasley 15

Current Photo of Steven Beasley 16

Copies of Facebook Messages between Recruit Schiefelbein and Recruit Gurley 17

Copy of Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual 18

Copy of Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein's Background Book 19

Internal Affairs Statement of Captain Marcus Paxton 20

Internal Affairs Statement of Captain _ 22

Internal Affairs Statement of Lieutenant Troy Ellison 23

Internal Affairs Statement of Kathleen Walker 24

Copy of Email Correspondence between Human Resources and Captain 25

32. Letter of Termination - Recruit Brandon Gurley ~

TO: Jacqueline Brandford, Lieutenant Professional Standards Section

FROM: Sergeant Cristina·Plummer ~

DATE: November 22, 2017

Officer Involved: Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein

Officer Involved: Police Recruit Brandon Gurley

Allegation: Little Rock Police Department Basic Recruit Training Manual

Captain was interviewed by Internal Affairs. Captain - stated that he was

Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein:

Police Recruit Brandon Gurley:

TO: Jacqueline Brandford, Lieutenant Professional Standards Section

FROM: Sergeant Cristina Plummer cp

DATE: November 30, 2017

Police Recruit Brandon Gurley:

November 17, 2017

TO: Chief Kenton Buckner

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Go night night nigga. Go night night

TO: Lieutenant Rusty Rothwell (Z/l,

RE: Police Recruit Brandon Schiefelbein-Pre-Employment Background Investigation

DATE: November 20, 2017

I am submitting this memorandum in regards to a departmental investigation that has been

TO: Lieutenant Mary Cook

RE: Legislative Issues-2013

DATE: October 16, 2013

TO: Lieutenant Mary Cook

FROM: Stuart Thomas, Chief of Police

RE: Legislative Issue ¥-

/ I Act 1480, pertaining to social media passwords;

v J Act 1183, pertaining to civilian passengers in police vehicles;

VI Act 1089, pertaining to concealed carry permit reciprocity;

j i Act 419, pertaining to electronic concealed carry permits;

v, Act 1514, pertaining to second addresses for law enforcement officers;

J• Act 1491, pertaining to license plate readers;

J• Act 170, pertaining to the use of golf carts on streets;

• Act 1354, pertai~hg.Jo scrap metal sales;

• Act 965, pertaining to vehicles driving on the right; and,

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