officers - The Black Vault

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,_ ~gl §pe11ger Lynn, an·t;,AP~·
t l~J er.nal., Wf~· ·}n~es~tOri •. re;f
· ''ceived a stress pension.l;, --r J. .• ~~­
; In his 18-year police -career, he
. w~. conVicted pf~eKi>arQ"~i'II*t~ci .
in several polic~· .shOoU~~,w~
'pinnecl down by 90 minutes ·of
gunfire 'during the Symbionese'
Liberation Army shoot--out in the
1970s, ·and once belcl a fellow police
officer as he died·'in hls arms: ·. '. - .
"I ha~ mghtmares fol' ye~,!' he
. told the pension ·board in Novem-.
~ ber, '~particularly over observing
the murders of at least three officers
during my ·career and· the
constant thought of being involved
in ·another one any day.'' . .
Lynn received 60% of )lis salary,
.· or $2,781.22 a month. · · ~
' • Sgt. David D. Wiltrou(another
LAPD internal affairs investigator,
became distraught and admitted to
his supervisors that he had lied on
the witness stand during the police
misconducttr1al of a'feUow officer.
He said he was also stressed out
after handling ~ number of highprofile
_police miscondu9t cases as
a,n internal af£a4's inve!!tigator, and
feared he was going to ·ne fired or
transferred to a light-duty position
after 22 years on the force.
He turned to the pension board
for help in 1989 and received 50%
of his salary, or $2,262 a month.
"They're going to put me in a
rubber-gun assignment and stick
me in some room doing.,n_othing,"
he told the .pension commissioners.
"That's just as bad as anything, if
Iiot wo~se." ·-
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Lt. Ken Staggs, the LAP D's representative on city_ p~rision board, ~istens to an officer and 'her attornef'