. >> reporter: court documents say that fairfield police officers steven lewis and detective jacob glasshoffd time and equipment to search for women on internet dating sites and used a police database to screen the women they liked. it has folks in fairfield talking. >> i feel like it's an abuse of power. >> reporter: the court documents allege another fairfield officer reported the incidents to his superior back in the june. the reporting officer alleged that the two officers found women profiles on dating websites while working at the investigations bureau off of the fairfield police department. >> if it's downtime, you know, during their breaks or whatever, that's one thing. but not on the clock. >> reporter: court documents allege that they used a police issued computer to look up women that they found appealing in a database that connects to the dmv and state and federal records. court documents go on to say that the two officers would perform the searches and have conversations about the dating sites in front of other officers. >> you can't control yourself, you know, at work. come on.

appetite for wading into tense local situations, fox news contributor steven hayes, denine borelli, kirsten powers with us. three instances, lewises, trayvon martin and this case. how many kids died in chicago? is that a fair legitimate criticism? why here, why not all the kids that have died in chicago? >> well, i think you could apply that to a lot of different things. why does he speak out about a lot of things, why doesn't he speak out about the christians being persecuted in the middle east for example. until recently he wouldn't even acknowledge it was going on. he can't talk about every single thing. when it comes to these issues i think it was right for him to come out and say something today. this is an issue that's a major issue right now in our country. i think he gave a very good statement on it. >> sean, i think obama inserting himself is no different than al sharpton showing up on the scene. he added nothing to the situation. again, we have a president who was leading from behind. he's making comments that really, you know -- and from martha's vineyard, no doubt. that doesn't help the situation either. my biggest c

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steven sotloff. let's bring in cnn's michelle kosinski and errol lewis to discuss this further.are you hearing from the white house? what is their reaction, and what are you hearing in. >> we haven't heard directly from the white house on this. president obama arrived pack in martha's vineyard where he's been trying at least to take some kind of a vacation, but, you know, we've heard from the white house twice. heard directly from president obama twice last week while he was here on martha's vineyard regarding iraq, and, you know, the news was good. he talked about the progress made. we heard from him just this week on monday from the white house, again, talking about the progress made, but now this happens, and so far at least we have not heard a statement directly from the white house. you can imagine what's going on behind the scenes. i mean, while this other american journalist is in isis hands, his life hanging in the balance, the white house and its national security team deciding what exactly to say and when. the sensitivity of this situation surely intense. i think we're