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Unions have fought hard to keep pensions intact, saying that governments must honor the checks they have promised both current and future retirees. Lawmakers in Connecticut went head-to-head with local unions when they tried to pass pension forfeiture legislation four years ago. The proposed legislation would have specifically allowed pensions to be taken from police who were convicted of crimes related to their jobs.

But it never made it to a full vote. Carter was one of the sponsors of landmark police reform legislation passed in Maryland this year. Early versions of the bill had attempted to enact pension forfeiture for police officers, but this provision was ultimately removed.

Stein said that while the emotional argument may be strongest for police officers, he still considers it a weak argument. And while the largest police union in the state said it could accept this repeal, it came out in adamant opposition to the part of the proposed legislation that would have allowed pensions to be taken from officers convicted of felony crimes.

When the massive reform package was signed into law earlier this year, the pension provision was deleted from the final text. The woman from the burgundy van, referred to in police reports as Jane Doe, nervously wrung her hands together and tapped her feet on the floor. Only portions of her face were shown during the television news segment to protect her identity. Joe Vargas, an Anaheim Police captain at the time, also appeared in the news report, representing the agency that both employed Wagner and arrested him.

He said the incident was "an embarrassment to this department and to the police profession here in this country. Jane Doe said one of the reasons she was speaking out was that she worried she was not alone. Two were also undocumented immigrants. Wagner allegedly fondled one in a dark alley after pulling her over late at night and threatening to have her deported. She told investigators she used her lip liner to jot down his license plate number after the second time he pulled her over.

A coworker told police she had noticed an officer with a mustache lurking near their workplace. The other woman said Wagner pulled her over four times, making her uncomfortable and terrified to get behind the wheel, though he did not physically assault her. She told detectives she was 8 or 9 years old when she was assaulted, making Wagner 16 or He closed the door, pulled down his pants and exposed himself, she claimed.

He allegedly told her to perform oral sex on him — forcefully holding her head down when she tried to pull away. She also told police he specifically warned her not to tell anyone. To back up her claims to detectives, the cousin provided evidence that at least a decade earlier, she had spoken to a therapist about being sexually abused by Wagner.

At the time, she had thought it was an isolated incident. But when she heard about what had happened to the woman in the burgundy van, she decided to turn to police. Many of the convicted officers raking in large retirement benefits worked for departments that have struggled to keep up with rapidly growing pension bills — forcing local governments to decide between employee layoffs, deep cuts to community services and higher taxes for residents. Making them even costlier, police are often able to begin receiving pensions, or at least partial pensions, in their 50s, 40s or even their 30s so governments are on the hook for longer.

In San Jose, former police officer Stephen Gallagher began drawing on his pension in when he was 54 years old, five years after he was caught molesting his month-old daughter on a nanny cam.

Staffing for city parks and recreation, meanwhile, was cut nearly in half and basic infrastructure improvements like road repairs were put on hold. Mayor Sam Liccardo said he is well aware of the continued effects to city budgets and services and that the city has taken a number of actions to stem rising pension costs. But he said he was outraged to learn from CNN about the two convicted officers still receiving pension benefits. Former school resource officer Alan Manchester was convicted of sexual battery of a minor and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Due to my ignorance of that aspect of the law I believed upon my arrest I had lost my right to a retirement.

The idea that I had lost my retirement was particularly depressing to me because I was the sole provider of income to my children. I wasn't until an employee of my department who had been designated to deliver my termination letter to the jail told me I was still entitled to my retirement.

It was a couple of weeks there after that the mother of my children we were never married showed up to the jail with the paperwork for me to fill out to get my retirement. I was arrested June 7 , terminated around the 10th about two weeks after that filled out the paperwork for retirement and received the first payment at the end of August.

I believe that I did wrong so to me it wouldn't have been unjust to have been stripped of my pension, but God knows I am greatful [sic] that I do receive it because of the support I could still provide to my kids.

My retirement now goes to my parents who have my kids because of there [sic] Mom losing parental custody. This money helps my parents raise my children with little to no expense out of their pocket which is a huge blessing to them and me.

I also receive some of it monthly which my parents place in my inmate account so I can purchase items from the canteen that are not provided by DOC. I guess I would and others would say I am a little biased about whether you should after an arrest receive a pension or not.

On the one hand should a person still get their retirement after an arrest probably not, but on the other hand I know how hard it would be if I didn't, and how hard it would be on my family if they didn't receive that money monthly. It gives me a sounder mind knowing even though I am in prison I can still provide for my kids and eventually when I get out I do have an income to help me start life all over again.

I have seen too many inmates have no support and no money struggling in prison and then having tons of anxiety knowing they have nothing on the outside to go to. I am truly greatful to have what I have. In reference to my conviction all's I can say is that it was just.

I had allowed my personal life to get out of hand due to bad marriage, stresses on the job, a form of PTSD that probably a lot of officers who have been through critical incidents have.

None of this justifies what I did at all, I allowed all these problems even though there was help out there to overwhelm me. I didn't get the help because whether most former officers will be truthful or not they didn't want to appear weak to their peers. I hope I didn't get to far off track with any of this and that I answered most of you questions the best I could.

But he noted that a reduction in problematic policing could still give a significant boost to local budgets, given the hundreds of millions of dollars cities and towns spend on settling lawsuits alleging police wrongdoing. It is these employers that typically end up on the hook for payouts to victims, given the legal immunity usually provided to officers.

And even in those rare cases when the officers themselves have been hit with civil judgments, pensions can be very difficult for victims to go after. She avoids short skirts or dresses and usually wraps a sweatshirt around her waist as a protection of sorts.

Memories of that day still visibly affect her. She wiped tears from behind her large sunglasses as she recently recounted the ordeal to reporters. Though a detective helped her get legal residency in the country, she feels Wagner ruined her life. To her frustration, the criminal case dragged on for years, as the court granted continuances and Wagner suffered serious injuries after hitting a horse on his motorcycle — taking painkillers that he said made him incapacitated.

Wagner spent years denying the allegations from the three immigrant women. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty to charges of sexual battery, forceful oral copulation, false imprisonment and detaining a person against their will related to Jane Doe and the two other victims in exchange for a four-year prison sentence.

Even when she sued the city of Anaheim and Wagner, her attacker paid nothing. When it came to his pension, it turned out that no matter what had happened, or what crime he had committed, Wagner had little to worry about. Even the one lawmakers passed years later could only slightly diminish his benefits since the law strips only benefits accrued after a crime has occurred and he committed the crimes at the very end of his career.

Wagner received his first retirement check just months after the sexual assault, and he collected monthly benefits throughout his stint in state prison. Jane Doe was stunned to learn from reporters that Wagner was receiving a pension, saying that based on what detectives had told her she had envisioned him living out his final years penniless and homeless due to his status as a registered sex offender.