One Woman’s Bug

Washington, D.C.

NYP:

State Department has hired agents with criminal records, memo reveals

WASHINGTON — The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The Post reveals.

The background problems are severe enough that many of the roughly 2,000 agents in State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security can play only limited roles in agency efforts to police bad conduct and prosecute wrongdoers.

The problems in the bureau are the latest revelation in an exploding scandal that also involves accusations that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail and those of the US ambassador to Belgium solicited prostitutes overseas.

A whistleblower charges that State tried to cover up multiple scandals by removing them from an inspector general’s report.

“Department intakes of new . . . officers since the hiring surge a decade ago have reportedly been flawed, with ‘mitigation’ of troubling histories including criminal matters,” according to a December 2012 memo to State Deputy Inspector General Harold Geisel from a team leader in the IG’s Office.

One man’s bug is another man’s feature, and that also applies to women.

Don’t doubt me here — It wasn’t a “flawed hiring process” which led to this.  Any time “criminal or checkered backgrounds” are ignored in hiring law enforcement officers or any job for that matter, you can bet race and affirmative action is behind it.  Why do you think one-ago Mayor of Kansas City, Mark Funkhouser, wanted to eliminate the prohibition on people convicted of felonies as adults being KCPD cops?  He said it himself — The KCPD has “too few” black men.

There’s a Lot of Heat In Those Hot Spots

Vandeventer

When you play whack-a-mole, you almost usually get to whack the mole.  But sometimes, the mole whacks you.

Yes, I do think this was a deliberate ambush against someone the suspects figured was a cop.

Moving Down in the World

Wellston

Before:  Chief of Police in Crime Lawn

After:  Major on the Wellston P.D.

If you’re not laughing, you’re not a St. Louisan.

 

I Thought We Were Making Progress

Clayton

And the St. Louis County Police Department was getting better, too.  Until now.

Why fire him, when he was merely performing a valuable public service?  That being trying to prevent South County’s major shopping and entertainment venues from becoming too vibrant.

You’re Welcome

Eureka

Dear Chicago,

You’re Welcome.

Signed,

A St. Louisan.

P.S. This is what happens when undocumented dumbasses cross over from a more comprehensive state to a less comprehensive state.  The river is wide, both literally in its current over-flood-stage state and figuratively.

I Nailed It

Chicago

I’ve been predicting this for a long time.

I didn’t want to nail it.

Ward of the Feds

ESL

So saith the ESL Chief on TV this morning:  “But he was one of our most respected detectives!”

Yeah, and that minnow there is one of the biggest in the puddle.

No Hammer

Downtown

All of the newly minted SLPD rookies will be asked to play whack-a-mole without a hammer.

The only good news is that Bellcurvius has already pre-shackled his own legs, so even if he takes off on foot, you’ll be able to catch up to him with just a jogger’s pace.

OTOH, and seriously, I worry about walking uniformed cops in these “hotspots” (neighborhoods whose ooks are ookier than usual) — They’ll be slowly moving and easy targets.

Action in the Affirmative

Baltimore

Puggg was right.

WaPo follow-up on the Baltimore Jail scandal:

As many as 80 percent of correctional-officer applicants in the central region, which includes Baltimore, do not make it through the background investigation, said Binetti, the corrections spokesman.   Among those who do, women seem to dominate. More than 60 percent of the corrections officers in Baltimore’s jails are women, Maryland officials estimate.

Puggg told me on the phone when we talked about this story something that sounds a whole lot like this:

Since it’s the men’s jail, they want to hire men as jail guards.  But it being a jail in heavily black Baltimore, they want to hire blacks (i.e. not hire whites) more than they want to hire men.  And since so many black men have rap sheets, and are not eligible being employed by the right side of the law, they have to settle for black women.  And the kind of black women in Baltimore who would want to work as guards in men’s jails are easily susceptible to this gang’s bamboozling.

Q.E.D.  aka S.T.F. (Spiking The Football)

However, since when does a rap sheet preclude you from working in law enforcement or similar professions?  So many jurisdictions are so desperate for “diversity” that they’re willing to overlook juvenile felony convictions, and Mark Funkhouser, the one-mayor-ago mayor of Kansas City crossed the rhetorical Rubicon by suggesting that people with adult felony convictions should be allowed to be KCPD cops, and said specifically that black was the reason.

Recruiting

Chicago

H/T SCC.

Except some people are still trying to hang on to Windows 95 for as long as they can.  Compared to the clusterfuck that is the default Windows 8 UI (unless you install certain third party de-fucker-upper programs), Windows 95 seems like progress.

Freaky and Blood

Chocolate City St. Louis

This is “Freaky.”  No mug of “Blood” yet.

P-D:

St. Louis ATF agent, informants saved when guns wouldn’t fire

Undercover work requires luck as well as skill, and a federal agent here used up a lifetime’s worth when two men buying guns and drugs opened fire inside a car. That is, they tried to open fire. Both their weapons failed, allowing the agent and two informers to escape with their lives last week, officials and court documents revealed.

Federal prosecutors charged Frederick “Freaky” Crayton, 23, and James “J. Blood” Jones, 21, with assault on a federal law enforcement officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. Prosecutors asked Monday that they be held without bail pending trial. A judge will decide later.

Crayton is from St. Louis; Jones’ home community was not available.

The agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was pistol-whipped in the ensuing fight. ATF spokeswoman Trista Frederick said Monday that the agent was doing “fine.” The officer’s name was not revealed by the agency or in court records.

Frederick could not explain how both guns malfunctioned at the same time. She did say that ATF had neither provided the weapons nor tampered with them.

“Sometimes things just work out better for us than for them,” she explained.

Authorities said the guns were semi-automatic pistols, one a .40 caliber and one a 9 millimeter.

Daniel E. Jackson, a retired St. Louis County police firearms examiner who now serves as a forensic consultant, said Monday that while it was “weird” for both weapons to misfire repeatedly, it is not unusual for a “street” gun to fail.

“There are frequently, frequently bad guys running around out there with guns that don’t work,” Jackson said. Many guns are abused, and bought and sold cheaply on the street, he said. “I’m just amazed that most of them don’t end up in a gunfight and find out the hard way.”

According to an affidavit filed in court by Special Agent Russell G. Johnson, one of the investigators, the undercover agent and the gunmen had had dealings before. The agent first met with them and another man to sell a gun to one of them, Johnson wrote. They met again April 15, and another man sold the agent and the informants crack cocaine. The third meeting was Thursday, in the 3200 block of Henrietta Place, just northeast of Interstate 44 and Grand Boulevard.

The sellers pulled handguns, prompting a “scuffle” inside the car, officials said. The men pulled their triggers over and over but the pistols would not fire.The agent was struck with a gun, “splitting (the agent’s) head open,” the affidavit says. The fight then spilled out of the car. Witnesses saw the men point their guns and pull the triggers again, accompanied by more harmless clicking.

The attackers ran off, only to be caught — with their guns — by other officers nearby.

U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said, “Obviously, this is a situation that could have ended tragically. It just underscores the … day-to-day danger that law enforcement faces and what you may encounter in these undercover investigations,” he said. Speaking of Jones and Crayton, Callahan said, “In their mind, they were going to rip them off.”

In court Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Toni Decker told U.S. Magistrate Judge [*****] the defendants were a danger to the community. “If that gun had not misfired, we would probably be talking about a dead federal agent,” she said. [*****] took the request under advisement. Decker said both men will probably be indicted on Wednesday or Thursday.

Court records show this is the first time either man has faced a federal charge.

In 1998, Crayton was convicted of burglary and theft in St. Louis County. In 2011, he was convicted of misdemeanor property damage in St. Louis.

Crayton’s public defender, Sean Vicente, said his client had served “minor sentences” on both his prior cases. He said Crayton had worked at a diner until it closed.

Vicente pointed out that Jones was the one accused of pistol-whipping the agent.

Vicente noted, “I don’t know what to say” about the faulty guns.

Jones’ attorney, Peter Cohen, said his client was a self-employed tuckpointer whose only prior criminal case was a misdemeanor assault on a law enforcement officer at the age of 19. Cohen asked for Jones to be released on house arrest.

Neither lawyer commented outside the courtroom Monday. Decker referred questions to Callahan.

A mug shot of Jones was not available.

Unfortunately, two ATF informants can no longer be used as they have now been made.

And also, it’s a good thing that black illicit firearms buyers aren’t exactly in it for the quality.

The only good thing is that both Freaky and Blood will be spending a very long time with their Uncle Sam.

Internal Investigation (Yeah, Right)

ESL

The habitually drunk on the job ESL cop.

He won’t be fired, and won’t get much in the way of discipline.  Oh no.

Because…diversity.

Non-Violence

Brooklyn

There’s nothing more rowdy and potentially violent than a large gathering of peaceful non-violent blacks.

Thank goodness this isn’t the middle of summer.

And also…this is why I was doubtful that there would have been black riots if Obama didn’t win re-election.  Black riots are almost always a result of some sort of police or law enforcement action.  And that holds true to form here.

Hit With the Whackers

UMSL

UMSL Criminology Department study:  SLPD’s Whack-a-Mole Strategery works.

First off, remember who now works at that department:  Former SLPD Chief Dan Isom.  Which means it’s grain-of-salt time.

Second, they’re trying to tell us that hot spot policing doesn’t lead to an increase in crime outside the hot spots because it doesn’t result in the thugs within the hot spots running off to other neighborhoods.  What they forget to tell us is that many other city neighborhoods have a plentiful supply of thugs of their own, who will realize that when the SLPD declare a given neighborhood to be a hot spot and go there to play their game of Whack-a-Mole, that it’s a cue to them that now is a good time to start acting up and get some good quality thuggin’ in — While the cats are away, the mice shall play.

America: Chock Full o’Nuts

Los Angeles

Black former LAPD cop (probably someone the LAPD was forced to hire due to the affirmative action consent decree with the Federal courts) goes on a shooting rampage hurting three cops and two other people.  Turns out the black ex-cop is a big Obamahead and gun control advocate, along with advocating for MSNBC, Piers Morgan and Sir Skittles.

Haven’t you ever noticed something about a lot of “gun control” advocates?  They are merely projecting their own criminal, proto-criminal, flaky or nutty selves onto the rest of the world and everyone else in it, and they don’t want you to own firearms because they presume you’re as criminal, proto-criminal, flaky or nutty as they are.

Washington, D.C.

The Family Research Council shooter upper nutbar, just admitted at sentencing that he wanted to shoot up one of his political opponents, and therefore looked up the SPLC’s rock ‘em sock ‘em everything-must-go clearance list of extremisthategroups (TM).  I could have only wished that the nutbar picked a group on the SPLC’s list that does not really exist (of which there are many).

So, by the SPLC’s own standards, the SPLC has links to violent extremist hate criminals.

UPDATE 2 PM

Tony Perkins, FRC President, whose D.C. office was shot up by this nutbar who used the SPLC list to find a target, told the media something along the lines of “this is why we shouldn’t be on the SPLC’s list of hate groups.”

Wrong answer, slappy.  What you’re saying here is that you’re cool with the SPLC’s decades-long campaign of fund-raising agitprop and slander, as long as they slander someone else and not you.

On Par

New York City

89% of homicide suspects in NYC are black or Hispanic, 90% of those stopped under SQF are black or Hispanic.

We’re good.

BTW, going forward, I will use “SQF” to refer to that enforcement tactic, not “stop-and-frisk.”  The reason is that “SQF” stands for “stop-question-frisk.”  The “questioning” is how an SQF stop falls under the legal aegis of a Terry vs Ohio stop, and therefore keeps it Constitutional, because the “questioning” almost always leads to reasonable suspicion, and shuts the race lobbies up.

In related news, mahogany mobs are now part of the New York state of mind.

Pan-Alphabetic

Seattle

It seems like the Feds are about ready to back off the “states can’t legalize pot” line to “we’re going to tax it” line.

As part of that, the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) would have an “M” for Marijuana added to its name and acronym, making it officially BATMFE, and it and not the DEA would administer whatever Federal taxes on weed the Feds want to enact in weed-legalized states.  I guess the agency that used to be known simply as ATF, too, like LGBTQMIAPD, is going for the holy grail, an acronym that involves every letter of the alphabet.

Now let’s see who gets there first and most interestingly.  The race is on and here comes (gay) pride in the back stretch…doobie doobie, rolling on the inside…

The Gap Gap

Seattle

Lots of laughs, but we get an admission of something we already knew:

In arrests, minority youth were nearly 85 percent more likely to be arrested than white youth statewide, the study found. But researchers said that number is likely much higher because counties count Latinos as white in their record keeping. Latino is an ethnicity, not a race.

Sarah Veele, one of the researchers from the Washington State Center for Court Research, said there isn’t a federal or state requirement for local agencies to track ethnicity in their juvenile-arrest data, so Latinos are put in the “white” category.

Which also means that white youth crime is far less bad than it seems, if Hispanics are counted as white.  Therefore, the black-white gap is even higher than reported.

Be warned, though:  This only applies to “bad” factors.  Hispanic crime victims are counted as Hispanic.  It’s only when it comes to crime perpetrators and welfare recipients are Hispanics counted as white, in order to make whites “seem” worse.

More:

Once minority and white youth get to sentencing, the disparities begin to even out, Veele said, because judges usually follow sentencing guidelines.

“What we’re seeing is that the disparities are occurring earlier, such as arrests, referrals to juvenile court, and as you get deeper the outcomes are relatively comparable,” Veele said.

“The disparities occur earlier” because blacks commit more crime than Hispanics who in turn commit more crime than whites.  That’s why, genius.

But the admission that sentencing is relatively equal shouldn’t be glossed over.  The reason I want you to pay attention to that is that we’ll often get loaded research about how blacks and Hispanics often get “longer” sentences for supposedly the “same” crimes, when we know they’re not the same crimes and they’re not the same circumstances.

“The problem really starts early,” Gonzalez said. We need to look at “the link between juvenile justice, kids incarcerated and the achievement gap in schools. Most of the kids who end up in the juvenile system have some sort of contact with school discipline beforehand.”

Hooray.  The achievement gap in schools made an appearance.

In Pierce County, African-American youth are 2½ times more likely to be arrested.

More than whom?  It says it above:  More than “whites,” a category in which Hispanics are lumped in.  Yet another gap.

But to Gonzalez, the data backs up what he hears from kids.

“They don’t feel they’re trusted or respected by law enforcement,” Gonzalez said. “An officer is more likely to arrest a student of color rather than ask questions and talk things out.”

Yeah, because, you know, cops are hired to be chatty conversationalists, not to enforce the law.  That’s the problem with cops:  Unlike those students’ public school teachers, they really don’t care about the kids’ feelings or self-esteem at all.

What a Shame. A Nice Italian Surname, Too.

Waterbury, Connecticut

And I don’t mean “Arpaio.”

Here’s what idiocy looks like:

He’s worried that one of the items purchased there might one day be used in a mass shooting.  (But he’s not worried that they might be used in a solo shooting.)

Read this.

Then look at this.

I doubt he’ll close any of the latter.

Will the last firearms manufacturer or factory to leave the northeast for either Tennessee, Texas or Arizona not turn out their incandescent lights, just to piss off the libs they’ll be leaving behind?

Denny’s Committment to Diversity

Belleville

You’ve read probably ten different versions of the same story already.

And now you’re here for what I think and what you know in your heart of hearts is the rest of the story.

Mark me — Denny’s “committment to serving customers of all races” (i.e. their succumbing to Jesse Jackson style extortion in the 1990s), plus the fact that this Denny’s is in rapidly blackening Belleville, plays into this somehow.  I bet the customers “uncomfortable” with seeing (probably white) Belleville cops openly armed inside that Denny’s were black.  And they were “uncomfortable” probably because they’re uncomfortable with seeing (white) cops to begin with, and the probable reason for that is because there are warrants out there for their arrest.

Another Truth Squader

Connecticut

Joplin Globe:

Marta Mossburg, columnist: Free speech must be defended, even amid tragedy

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, it seems crude to speak of rights and facts. With the unfulfilled lives of 20 children and six adults mercilessly gunned down foremost in our collective consciousness, it is much more soothing to talk about safety and stopping the violence and to let those in authority do their job.

But this is when those who care about civil liberties have most to fear, because those who would strip us of rights know it is easier to regulate and legislate after tragedies. Psychology tells us why: Humans crave coherence and neat solutions, even when none are available.

Think of the Patriot Act, passed six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It gave the government broad new powers to surveil individuals and search their property — with no means to test whether the new regulations would thwart terrorists. Or think of the Dodd-Frank Act, passed in 2010 in response to the financial crisis. Its regulations ensured bailouts for the biggest banks, which are larger now than they were before the Great Recession.

And as President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

It is in that light that we should view Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance’s comments about “misinformation.”

In a news conference Dec. 16, he said that anyone who posts misleading information online on social media sites about the Newtown case would be “investigated, statewide and federally, and prosecution will take place when people perpetrating this information are identified.”

He added: “All information relative to this case is coming from these microphones.”

It’s horrible that anyone would consider posing as [*****], try to disrupt the investigation of the murders or cause further heartbreak for the victims’ families.

But what kind of precedent does it set if the government gets to determine what is “misinformation”?

For starters, government is frequently the source of lies and obfuscation at every level — and not just in places like Russia, China and North Korea. Think of the official response to the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in September. According to the Obama administration, an anti-Muslim video incited the violence, which officials knew immediately was not the case.

At the state level, what if governors were able to arbitrate the truth? Before answering, remember that four Illinois governors have spent time in federal prison in the past 50 years.

We already know what happened after Lt. Vance spoke. Social media website Facebook suspended accounts of those whose versions of the Newtown massacre did not match the government one, officially because users violated company policies but more likely to avert criminal prosecution. Facebook is a public company and can set its own user rules, but its actions are a reminder of how little it takes to diminish free speech, which is constantly under threat. College speech codes that outlaw offending others and the dominant culture of political correctness that pushes people to self-censor for fear of being labeled a sexist, racist or homophobe are just two other examples.

Lt. Vance, no doubt, through his remarks wanted to protect the families of the victims from emotional harm and prevent new violence from spinning off of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But for him to claim that the government alone is in charge of information on Newtown and for a major corporation like Facebook to capitulate show how easy it is for government to control speech. Those targeted could sue, but how many people have the money or time to defend themselves appropriately? Our system depends on those in power respecting the rights of the governed. When that breaks down, it is not only the people targeted who suffer, but all of us in the form of more self-censorship by private individuals and businesses.

We are not Russia or China, but only because we have people who vigorously defend our rights. Now should be one of those times, even as we mourn.

No, but it is Connecticut, and J. Paul Vance must be related to either Jennifer Joyce, Bob McCulloch or Glenn Boyer.  And J. Paul Vance should realize that almost all of the initial misinformation (and much of the current misinformation or baseless hysteria) originates from the mainstream media, not dorks on Facebook.

J. Paul Vance should find better things to do, like telling his New Jersey counterpart to learn his own state’s firearms and ammunition laws.

I Told You This Was Coming

Downtown

Local control means civilian review board.

Some snarky ass blogger in this town kept saying it over and over.  But no, they didn’t want to believe him.

In this article, we find out why in essence Chief-to-Be Sam Dotson was made the new Chief, jumping over a whole rank and several finalists who hold that rank, to be the new Chief.  Two reasons:  One, he was on Mayor Slay’s suit-and-tie security detail, and two, he was a member (probably the only white member) of that rinky dink organization of black city cops, the “Ethical Society of Po-leeceseseseseses,” aka The Fifth Column.  This means the current BOPC members, even though they’re all still Gubernatorial appointees at the moment, save Slay who is ex officio on the BOPC, read the tea leaves and probably let Slay make the final decision in hopes that they get to stay on as police commissioners when local control takes full effect.

What else did we learn, boys and girls?  We learned that Sam Dotson is a Joe Mokwa-style insipid suck ass, squared.

The World Turned Upside Down

Clayton

2:

Police Chief Says New Gun Control Laws Won’t Do Any Good

St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch created controversy after the Newtown, Connecticut massacre when he said that school employees should be armed.

President Barack Obama and others favor re-instating the ban on assault weapons and outlawing ammunition magazines that hold more than ten rounds. Chief fitch says it’s way too late for any of that.

Chief Fitch says the rush to buy guns after the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown shows that it’s too late for any new gun control laws to have any real effect. Fitch says with hundreds of millions of guns already in the hands of private owners in the United States, that it’s already easy for anyone who wants to have a gun to get one. And Fitch says armed deterrence, like having an armed police officer at every school, is easier to do than trying to get guns off the street.

“I think that horse is out of the barn. We know there’s over three hundred million guns in this country that are out there. I don’t think there’s any way, I mean, if you pass a law it may feel good to pass a law, but realistically, what’s it going to change? You’re not going to, nobody in this country’s going to go up and knock on every door person’s door and say turn in your assault weapons, turn in your ammo. That’s not going to happen,” stated Chief Fitch.

Fitch says his preferred short-term solution is to put an armed police officer in each and every school, public and private, elementary, middle and high schools.

This Tim Fitch is making more and more sense by the day.  Which means it’s just about time for Charlie Doofus to start an investigation on how the County Board of Police Commissioners fucked up big time and did something sensible like hiring him, so they don’t make a habit of doing sane and rational things.

SLCOPD being competent and its chief making sense sounds almost as screwy and upside down Bizarro World as the Los Angeles Clippers being the toast of the NBA.

Errr…

STL Cop News

Downtown and Clayton

The biggest news from recent days that seems to have gotten lost in other news is that Sam Dotson will be the new SLPD Chief.  He jumps to Chief (Colonel) from a rank of Captain, jumping over Light Colonel (Assistant Chief) in the process, in spite of the fact that were there several Light Colonels on the final list of candidates.  That the next Chief is white doesn’t surprise me, because since Clarence Harmon left, the SLPD tick tocks between white chief-black chief.  Which also probably means Dotson’s successor will be black.

However, the real fruit thing about this news that probably zips by everyone else jumps right out at me:  Why was UMSL so involved in this process of picking a new chief?  Other than the fact that the exiting chief is about be a professor there.

The other news is more relevant (i.e. Drudge-worthy) nationally.  St. Louis County Chief Tim Fitch is displaying the first lick of sense from someone associated with the (“Internationally Accredited”) St. Louis County P.D. in a very long time.  Now all he needs to do is to get the SLCOPD internationally unaccredited, and find cops who look in closets of houses when they’re casing a house for a dead body, and not shut down picnics because of supposed paperwork errors, and we’ll really have something.

One slight hangup to Fitch’s desire in relation to the recent event which provoked his opinion is this:  Elementary schools are henocracies.  There will hardly be any teachers or staff members that want to carry.  There are virtually no men who teach academic subject matter in elementary education, because they’re scared of the pedobear whispers.  (The LAUSD jelly cracker teacher didn’t help matters.)  Yeah, men might teach gym and PE in elementary school, but they won’t pack with regularity because they’re teaching PE and a gun around your waist is pretty impractical at that point.  What will have to happen is that there are specifically indicated security personnel who pack.

Me So Simple

Chocolate City St. Louis

Netting it out:  Affirmative action SLPD chief who is about to be a professor at UMSL pays UMSL for a study whose conclusion is to blame white cops when white cops have to shoot black thugs.

Nowhere in this study is any suggestion that black thugs not try to shoot at cops, such that the cops don’t have to respond in kind.

Mounted

North County

The undercover pizza squad netted its first prize.

This is what I predicted:  As tragic as crimes against pizza delivery drivers are, in the relative scheme of things, considering the demographics, they’re rare.  Hardly any black people are going to want to interfere with their pizza supply line.  The undercover pizza squad will wind up bagging far many more garden variety black criminals than blacks who whack the pizza delivery drivers.

Not that that’s a bad thing.

But if you’re going to go into North County to look for crime, I should warn you that it will be like looking for hay in a haystack.

Shopping Spree

Brooklyn

His first order of business when he wins his lawsuit against New York City will be to buy a shirt.

I’m usually down with cops and give them the benefit of the doubt.  But in this case, there was no way he could have been a threat.

Fusion Fizzle

Washington, D.C.

The “Fusion Centers?”

Mostly useless.

Remember, the infamous MIAC Report (cut and paste from ADL/SPLC) was out of the Missouri Fusion Center, and the faked up “link” between AR and the Nutbar of Tucson was said to be hatched out of ACTIC, the fusion center in Arizona, though that is not settled science — It might have been hatched out of DHS itself — We’ll have to wait for FOIA to run its course to find out for sure, and to find out what the “link” even was, whoever dreamed it up.

But they’re not totally useless.  Fighting terrorism by worrying about fishing boats is nice work if you can get it.

Short Arm of the Law

Atlanta

WAGA-Fox-5:

Man says parking officer criticized Mitt Romney bumper sticker

An Atlanta man says a parking officer criticized his Mitt Romney bumper sticker and then slapped a ticket on his vehicle. The Georgia Republican Party is incensed about the incident and is urging Mayor Kasim Reed to speak out.

The motorist admits that he was illegally parked, but is upset over the ticketing officer’s reaction to the bumper sticker.

“I overheard her say that, when she saw the sticker on the back of my car, the Mitt Romney sticker, ‘Oh, I’m definitely going to give you a ticket now,’” he said.

Georgia Republican Party Chairman Sue Everhart said she was surprised to hear of the incident.

“I am just amazed that this happened in this city, and I know this is not what Mayor Reed would like to see his employees do. It reflects on the whole city,” said Everhart.

I am unsurprised that it happened in Atlanta, if ABRA Atlanta is anything like St. Louis.

Every parking officer I have ever seen in the city of St. Louis out in the field writing tickets have been black women.  What’s even funnier is that they ride around in dinky little four-door Chevy Cobalts, and they have sirens on top, as if parking officers are expected to pull anyone over, and as if a Chevy Cobalt can engage in a high speed pursuit.  It goes back to the old joke about the Chevy Citation…impossible to get a citation while driving one.

Gaw, Nash

Chicago

WMAQ-NBC-5:

Wounded Officer Leaves Hospital

A Chicago police officer wounded in a gun battle on the city’s south side last month left the hospital Wednesday after an extended stay that included 10 surgeries.

Nyls Meredith came out of Advocate Christ Medical Center in a wheelchair, greeted by the cheers of fellow officers.

(snip)

The alleged shooter who struck Meredith is just 15 years old.

Because he wanted to become a rap star.  Shooting at cops is how you become a rap star and get signed to a major record label.  Chief Keef showed the way.

Disturbing:

Half of the people shooting at police are convicted murderers, said McCarthy.

Convicted murderers should be in prison, not out on the streets shooting at cops.

Then again, we’re all barking up the wrong tree.  CureViolence says this is all an accidental disease, and Superninentdo McCarthy says it’s all the fault of Sarah Palin, Tea Parties and Pilgrims.

More dispatches from the lunatic asylum that calls itself “Chicago.”