Ken Parks' attacks on police

Click here to return to the Ministrywarning web site regarding convicted criminal and fugitive Ken Parks of Duluth, GA. Parks runs a fraudulent "ministry" and "charity," that he calls ETC Ministries, last known to be operated from his residence in Duluth, as well as unlicensed businesses AtlantaMAXPhoto, Fotos by Ken and Ansisoft. Since 2000, Parks has been consumed with stalking, harassing, and threatening numerous people, including those in his own family, via web sites, chatrooms, e-mail and regular mail. Parks falsely claims he has won all of his pro se (without an attorney) lawsuits against his victims, when in fact the documentation shows he has actually lost his lawsuits.

Ken Parks' defamatory statements about the police:

02/15/2001 - Updated every month
Apopka PD

APOPKA, FL (KP) — Apopka, FL (KP) – On his way home from a night college class, Ken was pulled over by the Apopka Police Department and charged with operating an un-safe vehicle. Ken explained to the charging officer that his left front headlight had burned out on his way home and that he would get it fixed as soon as possible. The Apopka police officer maintained a non-sympathetic ear and still gave Ken a ticket.

The officer exclaimed, “Driving at night on this road and without a headlight… You could have hit an elderly person!” Ken turned his head away from the officer, and muttered, “Sure! There are always elderly people walking on this road at 10:30 at night. What an idiot!”

The fine for the charge was $5.00 and the inspection fee was $8.00. Ken replaced the failed headlight and brought his vehicle to the Apopka Police Department for the inspection. The officer at the desk had to summon the on-call police officer. Ken waited for 30 minutes, and upon his arrival, he asked to see the ticket and signed it without inspecting the vehicle. Ken commented to the officer, “You mean to say that I am paying for a ‘non-inspection?’ This is ridiculous!” The officer shrugged and went back to his patrol car. Ken claims, “The local yocals are a bunch of Keystone Cops!”

04/23/2001 - Updated every month
Florida's Traffic Stop Profiling

APOPKA, FL (KP) — Again, Ken was pulled over for another so-called motor-vehicle violation. Ken was on his way to work, passing through one of the side streets in Winter Park. A Winter Park (WP) police officer had pulled him over for an improper tag. Ken explains, “The patrol officer spotted my van at about 11:45 p.m. He had to be on another street and not able to see my tags, but just the van. I had a decorative frame around my tag that apparently hid part of the registration sticker, a sticker that is about one inch square! I had this frame for more than 3 years in Georgia and was never once pulled over for any such violation. I come back to Florida, and all of a sudden I am being pulled over for any trivial motor vehicle violation.”

The Mazda MVP is one of the vans and SUVs that are being profiled by Florida's police departments for traffic stops.

The Winter Park Police officer issued a ticket to Ken and a fine of $40.00. It was not until after reading about the infamous Aaron Campbell case and watching the court case on Court TV that Ken became aware of Florida Police profiling both minorities and/or the type of vehicles. Ken learned, “The type of vehicles that the local yocals were targeting happened to be vans and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). I happened to own a Mazda MVP van and was pulled over three times in less than 6 months for the most trivial matters. I realized that the WP police officer could not have possibly seen my tag, registration sticker, and decorative frame from a side street, at night, and no street lights as I passed by… He was after a van, and I met his profile.”

Aaron Campbell claimed that he was a victim of Orange County's traffic stop profiling.

Aaron Campbell, an African-American and a Major on the Miami-Dade County Police Department, was pulled over by an Orange County deputy sheriff while driving his SUV on Interstate-4. During the trial, it became obvious that Aaron Campbell was a victim of both racial and vehicle type profiling by the arresting police officers.

Ken sold his van shortly afterwards and bought a small sedan. He claims, “Since then, I have had few problems with the Keystone Cops. There was a period of nearly two weeks that I drove my newly acquired sedan with a burned out headlight, had passed by several police officers, and never once pulled over. When I had the van, the very evening when one of the headlights burned out, I was pulled over by one of Apopka’s finest. Does that tell you something?”

After reading into the matter of traffic stop profiling, Ken became aware that Florida and several other states are doing this. Ken states, “These police officers are provided training in traffic stop profiling, whereby they single out by vehicle type and by minorities. The officers are taught ‘that a trooper can find a motor vehicle violation for just about any car on the road.’ And, from this, they come up with petty excuses to search your vehicle, hoping to find drugs or large sums of cash."

The House of Representatives has recently passed a bill making traffic stop profiling illegal.