The Scott Administration's Human Resources Department has a data set (Excel spreadsheet) that provides a list of all city employee salaries. The data set provides names, departments, positions and incomes for all city employees including LRPD cops that are designated as undercover cops. Based on our research, this has occurred since Scott's first term.
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| List of all LRPD undercover cops we extracted from the data set |
In October 2022, we reported about the Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police having a LRFOP membership roster posted on their website that exposed all
LRPD undercover cops that were members of their organization.
LRPD has no real undercover cops. They have detectives that wear plainclothes and drive unmarked city vehicles. Some of those undercover cops are documented liars and are designated as Brady Cops.
Take for example long-time undercover cop Russell Littleton.
And any reasonable individual would believe that if you are exposed as an undercover cop when getting arrested for a DWI offense your undercover career would be over. Not at LRPD. Take the case of Russell Littleton.
On Thursday, August 14, 2008, at approximately 10:30 PM, Littleton was driving his assigned unmarked LRPD pickup truck at high rate of speed and blew past a marked Bryant Police Department patrol vehicle on I-30 in Bryant, AR. The Bryant cop in the marked unit, Nick Ramsey, clocked the speed of the truck at around 90 miles per hour.
Ramsey pulled the truck over and Littleton flashed his LRPD detective badge and denied he had been speeding after being advised of why he had been pulled over.
Ramsey smelled booze on Littleton's breath and asked him if he was on duty and had been drinking. Littleton stated that he was off duty and was on his way home and that he had a drink at lunch and more drinks at a fantasy football meeting with other LRPD criminal investigation division cops. Ramsey then performed a series of three sobriety test with Littleton failing all of them. Littleton refused a breath test and then asked Ramsey for some professional courtesy.
When Ramsey told Littleton he was being arrested for DWI, Littleton called another undercover LRPD cop to come pick up the city owned truck. When that undercover cop arrived, he asked the Bryant cop to let Littleton slide.
Leon Prickett, another Bryant cop arrived at the scene and he was the cop that transported Littleton to the Bryant Police Department. Prickett noted in a report that Littleton had told Ramsey and himself that the arrest would cost Littleton his job and custody of his daughter (Littleton was divorced from Laura Littleton in May 2008).
Prickett also reported that Littleton had changed his story after he was arrested saying he was on duty when Ramsey stopped him. Littleton also made threats against the Bryant cops saying "if you come through Little Rock, you'll be taken care of" and "good luck in Little Rock."
When the Bryant cops told Littleton they would have to keep his driver's license, Littleton said "that's fine...I have three more."
News reports of the incident noted that Littleton was an undercover cop.
And the LRPD internal investigation branded Littleton a liar, making him a Brady Cop.
LRPD does not utilize real undercover cops. You can't be an undercover cop and frequently appear a public meetings identifying yourself and posting your contact information on LRPD social media posts like alleged undercover cop Raymond Koonce does.
Another fake undercover cop is Mark Ison.
Ison was one of the undercover cops that conducted a no-knock raid on the apartment of Roderick Talley in August of 2017.
Ison was named as a Defendant in a federal lawsuit Talley filed.
We will post stories and records about all the LRPD undercover cops in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!