And we can’t stand for that now, can we?
Gotta get that local control and a civilian review board ASAP, so that the SLPD can be hamstrung by St. Louis’s glut of welfare-dependent “community activists,” its cracker jack box theology degree “black preachers” and its Lizz Brown style militants.
…Mayor Slop praises the changes in 287(g) that will mean that cops can’t use racial profiling when apprehending illegal aliens.
AP:
Police stop more than 1 million people on street
NEW YORK (AP) – A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street.
These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.
Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year – a sharply higher number than just a few years ago. Most are black and Hispanic men. Many are frisked, and nearly all are innocent of any crime, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press.
Then there should be no problem. If they weren’t doing anything wrong, then the cops and the person will go happily on their separate ways. And I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that anyone would somehow link blacks and Hispanics to crime in big cities.
And the numbers are rising at the same time crime rates are dropping.
Maybe that’s why crime rates are dropping, Sherlock.
Ronnie Carr’s experience was typical: He was fumbling with his apartment door after school in Brooklyn when plainclothes officers flashed their badges.
“What are you doing here?” one asked, as they rifled through his backpack and then his pockets. The black teenager stood there, quiet and nervous, and waited.
Carr said the officers told him they stopped him because he looked suspicious peeking in the windows. He explained that he had lost his keys. Twenty minutes later, the officers left. Carr was not arrested or cited with any offense.
And it all worked out. Now, had Mr. Carr been an actual burglar, and the cops been too scared to take a little bit of innocent action, then you can pretty much figure out the rest. If blacks had resided in the home in question, and Mr. Carr would have killed one of them in the process, then the survivors would be blaming the cops for not being suspicious.
In Los Angeles, where Bratton recently stepped down as police commissioner, pedestrian stops have doubled in the past six years to 244,038 in 2008. The number of people stopped in cars is higher.
About 15 percent of the stops resulted in arrests in 2002, compared with about 30 percent in 2008, according to an analysis of the data by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Now if there would have been a cop on Martha’s Vineyard on a certain July 1969 night that would have pulled over a certain car whose driver was driving erratically….
CNS:
Hispanic Caucus Calls for Ending Program That Identified 100,000 Illegal Aliens, Many With Criminal Records
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“These agreements are the subject of serious concern as local law enforcement agencies have used the new powers to target communities of color, including a disproportionate number of Latinos, for arrest,” says the letter.
Sure, because there are all these Swedish illegal aliens running around killing people in drunk driving accidents, and smuggling dope, and screwing underage girls. Those are the ones to deport.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is giving the Congressional Black Caucus a run for its money when it comes to kookiness.
The St. Louis FBI office has a new leader. In fact, he used to be in charge of the St. Louis division.
The reason we just had to bring him back is that he had an office at the top floor of the St. Louis FBI building when Michael Devlin was arrested, and he evidently attended the law enforcement war room that came about when Baby Abby was kidnapped. He also wrote a couple of papers as a young man. I could also add that the mother of a six-year old boy in South County was right there at his soccer game with a tube of ointment that she could rub it on any boo-boos he might have gotten during the game, and since the person in question was the head of the FBI at St. Louis when the boo-boos happened, he’s the reason why everything was a-ok.
But he is otherwise qualified for the job; I digress. Hint: Don’t read the words.
CNS:
Study: Fewer Terrorism Suspects Going to Trial
Washington (AP) – The government is prosecuting only about one out of four of those charged in connection with terrorism, according to a study that suggests federal agencies don’t agree on who is a terrorist.
People charged with terrorism often go free because the evidence wasn’t strong enough to bring them to trial, says the study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data research group at Syracuse University.
Since 2002, the percentage of terrorism cases that federal prosecutors declined to pursue has grown from 31 percent to 73 percent, the TRAC study found.
Nearly 6,000 of the close to 8,900 cases referred for prosecution by federal investigators between 2004 and 2008 were closed without action. Of the remaining cases, 2,302 people were convicted and 1,245 went to prison, the study found, and just 52 were sentenced to 20 years or more.
According to the data, U.S. attorneys reported that the cases brought to them by investigators were often based on weak or insufficient admissible evidence, lacked criminal intent or did not constitute a federal offense.
I have a theory — many of these “terrorism” cases only happen as a result of some undercover FBI agent or informant supplying a “terror suspect” something that “they think” is a bomb. In other words, the Alphabet Gang is doing to parts of the terroristical boogie woogie crowd what they have been doing with the hard right wing for years — provocation and shit disturbing, in order to justify their budget.
Many of the cases that make it are also not worth their salt. Like the “Liberty City Seven” for example. How is it possible to have a serious terrorist conspiracy to blow up the Sears Tower when you don’t even know what city the Sears Tower is in? The LC7 were nothing more than a bunch of dumb black/Haitian dope dealers that got entrapped into a non-conspiracy.
But when the actual bombs and terrorist plots come, Federal law enforcement is caught butt naked.
The official reason is that the city will save on insurance. I think it’s a (no pun intended) cop-out, because it would be virtually impossible to find the Wellford P.D. liable for damage caused by the chase; the person being chased would be fully liable.
I think the real reason is race. Wellford, S.C. is majority black, though only barely. That has to mean that the cops are mostly white, and the criminal class is mostly black. Madam Mayor just doesn’t like the idea of white “poleeeseseseses” apprehending black “babies,” as Lizz Brown would call them. Note in the video above how she gets all sassy and full of attitude when the white reporter dares ask her a few tough questions.
Wellford is in upcountry Spartanburg County, and whites in S.C.’s upcountry are the most conservative of South Carolina’s three major regions, so I don’t imagine this silliness will last long. The county’s Sheriff has already come out swinging. I have no doubt that he will have his deputies chase after PTBs in Wellford until the judiciary hands a rebuke to Madam Mayor.
P-D:
4 Chicago cops admit home invasions, thefts
Four former members of an elite Chicago police unit have admitted taking part in a brazen operation in which they barged into homes and stole money — in one case after withholding insulin from a diabetic man until he told him were to find the cash.
The four also admitted that they stopped Hispanic motorists who were driving nice cars, took the drivers’ keys and illegally searched their homes, later dividing the money they found.
The four pleaded guilty Friday — three to felony theft and one to felony official misconduct. All four were sentenced to six months in jail and promised to cooperate in the ongoing investigation.
Friday’s court action comes about two years after the department disbanded the unit amid allegations that its members had committed crimes ranging from home invasion and kidnapping to plotting a murder-for-hire
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I’ve been reading Second City Cop and Paul Huebl for awhile, and while they’ve mentioned this story, they don’t answer the most obvious question I have, and that the P-D doesn’t answer.
Let me spell it out for you:
R-A-C-E.
The P-D stated that Hispanic motorists were victims of these corrupt cops, but wouldn’t tell us the race(s) of the corrupt cops. The reason that I am guessing they are black is that this scandal is similar to the LAPD’s Rampart Crash scandal of the 1990s. Most of those cops were black.
Also, if they were white, the P-D would say so, and show their mugs.
The City Council of the city of Colorado Springs, Colo., over the objections from senior leadership within the Department, has mandated that the CSPD sell seized and no longer necessary firearms at auction so that the CSPD can have an alternate revenue stream in light of the city government’s budget problems.
I oppose this, but for reasons that are far different than those of anti-gun nuts. The reason I oppose this is because I oppose law enforcement agencies being able to auction any seized property for its own benefit. Likewise, I oppose a law enforcement agency keeping seized drug money. The reason is that it is begging for corruption and abuse in the process of property seizure. There will be a number of cops that will illegally seize legal and borderline illegal guns, cars, and other property, just so the department can have something to sell. Also, it gives cops an incentive to plant a bag of weed inside a pulled over expensive car, so the car can be seized as a “drug car,” then sold at auction to benefit the department. Also, departments being able to keep drug money gives the department a disincentive to crack down on drug activity in their jurisdiction, because eliminating it also eliminates the money stream for the department.
Property that is legitimately and judiciously seized, and by that I mean that prosecutors have to prove that the assets were ill-gotten, should be used for purposes other than police departments and sheriff’s offices, and should be funneled in some way that it doesn’t lead to abuse and corruption. Missouri has the right idea — some seized assets to to a state crime victims compensation fund. Those funds are then used to recompense victims of crime that need the money for some reason.
Informants on the Federal level are nothing more than agents provocateurs and shit disturbers, the whole setup is meant to allow the ADL and SPLC raise money. But on the local level, especially in big cities like St. Louis, they are the key to the SLPD having a second to none intelligence department.
No link below because it mentions the name of a Circuit Court judge.
P-D:
St. Louis police bristle at bosses’ inquiry on their confidential informers
Worried about liars in their ranks, city police officials are demanding that up to 20 officers tell bosses details about their confidential informers.
But the St. Louis Police Officers Association has won a temporary restraining order to block the inquiry, pending a hearing in court next week. The organization says the probe would jeopardize informers’ lives, officers’ careers and public safety.
At issue is whether officers have attributed fabricated information to confidential informers to obtain search and arrest warrants, according to documents in the lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court.
Police brass acknowledge in court filings that they believe “one or more” officers “have included false information in affidavits” for warrants, and say the investigation is aimed at stopping “the concerns of police abuse and violation of civil rights.”
So it is certain cops (I’m betting most of them have something in common, ahem ahem) that are lying on search warrant applications, so the informants have to suffer. There is concern that informants lie. Believe me, the SLPD is not going to mess around with bullshitting informants, and the informants have a very good incentive to tell the truth, even if it is a little inflated at times — the informants are themselves persons of SLPD interest, and are turning snitch in order to save their own asses from the sling. In other words, the SLPD tends to make informants out of lower level criminals in order to bag the bigger ones. For example, if you live near College and Carter in north St. Louis, and you’re 14 years old, and you get popped selling weed as your first offense, you’ll get a light punishment, or you won’t be charged, and you’ll be used and milked for all the information you can give as long before the statutes of limitations expire, or you turn a certain age, if you can provide the SPLD with credible intelligence on the real ne’er-do-wells up on College and Carter. And of course what you say to the cops will be cross-checked with what other 14-year old first time weed slingers who live close to College and Carter tell the cops, to make sure you’re telling the truth (or close to it.) Therefore, when some girl winds up all full of holes lying out on the middle of the street at the corner of College and Carter, the cops are able to use the information you and others gave them to triangulate toward a doer.
If the SLPOA loses this case, then this flow of intelligence stops.
In spite of the late SLPD Officer Norvelle Brown’s boss’s efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, a St. Louis City jury took five hours to find one Antonio Andrews, now 17, guilty of first-degree murder in killing Officer Brown. As Mr. Andrews as 15 at the time of the murder, the only possible punishment is life in prison without the possibility of parole.
P-D:
Two young men who prosecutors said were eyewitnesses, Xavier McCully, now 20, and Lamont Johnson III, now 17, told police on video in the days after the killing that they had seen Andrews pull a gun on Brown.
McCully provided the gun that Andrews used to kill Officer Brown, but he and the Circuit Attorney’s office came to an immunity deal. It sounds so fishy to me. I have no evidence for what I’m about to type, all it is is just my hunch. If I were the CA, I would have made a deal with Andrews and Johnson to get to McCully. If you ask me, I think McCully was the one that wanted Officer Brown dead, and outsourced the job to someone under the age of 18, someone who would have been ineligible for the death penalty. McCully was 18 at the time, and if it could have been proven that he was the anagonist, he could have gotten the drip.
The flaw in my theory is that a cop was the victim, so the CA’s office wouldn’t have left this or any stone unturned. Maybe the reason they didn’t do what I suggested is because my theory is baseless.
Related: The Late Officer Norvelle Brown’s Youthful Arrogance
P-D:
Report will probe racial fairness in Police Department
Are black employees treated unfairly in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department?
That question prompted a 13-month investigation, the findings from which, the department says, will be released Wednesday morning.
Some members of the Ethical Society of Police, an association of 225 black (and zero white) city police officers, have complained that the department discriminates against blacks.
That’s all I needed to know. The “white” (i.e. mainstream) association of St. Louis City cops, the SLPOA, has more black members than the “black” association, this ESP.
Ignore.
UPDATE 7/15: No racism, and it only cost the SPLD $100,000 to pay the law firm that did the study to find this out. In spite of there being no problem, the study recommends several solutions for the non-problem.
The ESP has 225 members. How ’bout the Department dock their checks $10 a week for the next year? That should cover the expenses incurred by their frivolous bitching.
P-D:
Major Case Squad probes killing of Jennings boy, 14
The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is investigating the shooting death of a 14-year-old Jennings boy who was gunned down as he walked down the street on Friday night.
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On July 7, 2005, Hinton’s father — Andrew Hinton — was killed during an argument at a retail store in St. Louis.
Isn’t that just rich — day in and day out, that particular community does nothing but bash the evil ole “white poleeeceseseseses.” But when one of their own gets mowed down in the typical fashion, but the local constabs can’t put two and two together to find suspects, Official St. Louis brings in the A-Team. It won’t be a week until the MCS is accused of racial profiling.
I wouldn’t spend all this time on this case if I headed the MCS. There’s this thing called gratitude.
The New York Post tries to give rhyme and reason to the fact that the NYPD hasn’t cleared three in ten homicides in the last decade. While the clearance rate was even worse during the height of the crack epidemic, it is way down compared to the 1950s and early 60s. Also, the murder rate among non-blacks has been decreasing, but is staying the same among blacks. The NYP gives four theories, which I have varying levels of agreement, concurrence and disagreement with.
I don’t know if a homicide is considered cleared or not if a bagged suspect is found not guilty by a jury, or the DA drops the case after too many hung juries. But if it does, I have two theories of my own to explain that:
(1) The CSI Effect, in reverse. As the NYP says, CSI is teaching criminals how to cover their tracks. But on the flip side of the coin, it is giving real-world jurors far too lofty expectations of police work. If the real NYPD don’t do it as well as it’s done on CSI, then real world jurors are more and more arriving at not guilty verdicts.
(2) Jury nullification. If you’re a minority criminal suspect, and you go to trial, Federal (and presumably, New York State) civil rights laws virtually guarantee that you will have at least one of your racial brethren on the jury. “Don’t be sendin one more of our babies into the hands of the man and his prisons.”
A 48-year old 23-year veteran officer of the SLPD was shot yesterday evening after he had cashed his paycheck at a North St. Louis cash checking joint, and two PTBs tried to rob him. He was off duty, but was carrying his service weapon. Which he used to make holes in one of them. As the one that was shot did not realize that Federal law requires ERs to call an LEA when a person with a gunshot wound comes in for treatment, he was quickly apprehended after they were done patching him up. The other one is still on the lam.
Not that this blogmeister in this medium would ever dismiss or excuse these kinds of crimes carried out by the usual suspects, or any other suspects, but hasn’t this cop ever heard of a bank and direct deposit? And should not he know by now, as a 23-year vet of the SLPD, that check cashing joints are crime magnets?
I lost track of the URL, and can’t seem to find it, but a story on KMOX radio about these shootings quoted the reactions three people associated with City Hall. Two of the people, one black man and one white woman, I can’t remember what they did at City Hall. The other person was Alderwoman Jennifer Florida. The black man said that he’s going to get a conceal-carry permit, Florida said that we need more surveillance cameras, and the unidentified white woman says that this proves we need more cops on the streets. Who can imagine the bigot whose words you’re reading right now thinking that the black man made the most sense here? But it’s true. And can you believe that I said just days ago that many more black men and women with clean sheets need to start getting and using CCW permits in order for CCW to reach its full promise of crime deterrence? That’s true, too.
Cameras won’t work, because all they will show us is all that we already know, at least in the context of St. Louis City. Look at how well they’re working in London and Chicago, cameras practically covering every square inch of those cities. The cops already have one of the two perps in custody, and will soon round up the other one, in spite of the lack of cameras. The SLPD’s intelligence unit is second to none in the St. Louis Area; usually, they can bag a murder suspect in very short order. Given limited resources, I’d rather have good intel than cameras. As far as more cops being on the street, all I can say is this: The cop here that was shot was on the streets, and he was shot anyway. More cops mean more targets, end of story. Pray tell, where are going to get all these cops? Who wants to be cop in this almost impossible city, where every accost of a black suspect is a potential career ender and life ender?
UPDATE 6/15: The other one’s now been lassoed in and branded. You don’t need to guess.
The Ways and Means Committee of the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen has voted to plonk out the SLPD’s lobbying budget. Officially, it’s because money is tight, but the real reason is that that money is being used to lobby state legislators to oppose local control of the SLPD, and almost all of the black Aldermen and many of the white ones want local control. What that would mean is that white-hating police-hating black “community activists” and preachers would not allow white cops to arrest black criminal suspects.
No blogging until Tuesday, so enjoy my musings while you can.
(1) Libkooks calling for a California Con-Con, because “all this gridlock” is leading to massive state budget deficits. The problem isn’t that most of Mexico is transverting itself to California, thereby driving out its productive white people, oh no. The problem is the Constitution. So the answer would be to implement another new piece of paper. How that will narrow the budget deficit, I don’t know.
(2) What I’m about to say might seem sacrilege to some of you, but I have my doubts about the “Bronx Synagogue Plot” that is in the news today. The whole thing depends on an FBI informant, and FBI informants about as credible as a Zimbabwe billionaire. Sometimes they’re worse than that, they are the FBI’s (and the FBI’s boss in the President) agents provocateurs. For instance, I’ll go to my grave convinced that LBJ ordered the bombing of the black Baptist Church in Birmingham in order to pass civil rights legislation, he was that much of a Machiavellian bastard. We do know for sure that the supposed group of K-people that did it were FBI “informants.” Meaning shit disturbers, meaning LBJ change agents.
If this plot is for real, then it is further proof of the folly of moving GITMO terrorist to American prisons. They’d be the biggest damned heroes in such prisons, and they’ll have the ear of so many of the black inmates.
(3) The Police Chief in Topeka, Mexico doesn’t like people calling his city and cities like his “Sanctuary Cities.“ His reasoning is that ICE can still enforce immigration law in such cities. “ICE enforcing immigration law” is mostly an oxymoron (and an LOL moment at that), ergo sanctuary city. I’m betting that Topeka, Kanshit has a high Hispanic growth rate? It’s also the Capital of Kanshit, the long time perch of Kathleen Sebelius, so its government workers mean that the city’s whites are big time libkooks. Don’t forget that Kanshit gave us Bob Dole and Samnesty Brownback.
(4) Hey, NAACP. How ya likin’ all that comprehensive immigration reform now?
(5) Did you know that a cutting edge political issue in my state is the dangers of cigarette lighters that have cartoonish or toyish designs or images? Light that thing too close to many Illinois legislooters, and they’ll get scared. If they only had a brain…
(6) The new “in” thing for the Democrat/left is to add physical disability as cause for hate crimes riders. It won’t be “in” for that much longer after they see this video, showing two of their other favored categories assaulting someone in a wheelchair.
(7) I agree with most of the provisions in the credit card industry reform bill. It’s one of the few good things about the Democrat Congress. These banks practically beg you to take their lines of credit, then wonder why you can’t make the payments and go into default.
(8) Green Day has the most popular CD in the country? What’s that mean, five people too stupid to buy it from iTunes or download it from one of those other “avenues” went out and bought the CD?
St. Louis City’s diverse affirmative action police chief wants more diversity and affirmative action in department hiring and promotion. He also wants the “best possible police service” for St. Louis. I think they call it an oxymoron, Dan. Especially since getting more diverse cops means scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to qualifications. Background checks? NCIC scan? Fugeddabowdit.
So, businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens and know that ICE is going to breathing down their necks soon are complaining that ICE isn’t telling them how they’re going to conduct their investigation?
Well, how ungracious of ICE. What have we come to in this country when law enforcement doesn’t inform criminal suspects about every exact detail of the actions they’re going to take against them?
Actually, they might have one complaint that’s worth addressing. If you’re a business that operates in an area with a substantial population of illegal aliens, you’re caught between the rock of immigration and the hard place of racial profiling. In other words, if a Hispanic applies for a job, and you ask him for his immigration paperwork, you could get sued or prosecuted for racial discrimination in hiring, and racial profiling (“how dare you presume that a Hispanic might be here illegally.”) But if you don’t ask, ICE has got you on knowingly hiring illegals.
The P-D profiles the life and times of one Cyrus Willmore, who passed away sixty years ago tomorrow. One of his crowning accomplishments was developing the St. Louis City neighborhood known as St. Louis Hills.
To this day, it’s the last remaining mostly white middle-class neighborhood in the city. The main reason it’s still nice is the St. Louis City Police Department’s (now weakened) residency rule. When it was enacted, cops bought in St. Louis Hills because it had the best long term prospects to remain white. This created a dynamo effect which saved the neighborhood for awhile, because since cops lived there, this doubly encouraged good people not to move out and thugs not to move in. Which attracted more cops. You see where this is going.
When the RR was weakened several years ago, i.e. you didn’t need to live in the city if you had so many years on the force, the conventional wisdom was that there was going to be a mass exodus of cops from St. Louis Hills, and this would hasten the degradation of the neighborhood. It didn’t happen, because they had a good thing going there, peaceful neighborhood and close to work, short commute. There was no compelling reason to sell out.
There might be pretty soon — because the fringes of that neighborhood’s zip code has a lot of apartment spaces, there are already gang wars and other sorts of violent crime creeping into the area. All it will take is for one young son or daughter of a cop to be victimized by St. Louis City’s usual suspects, and the “For Sale” signs will pop up like weeds.
He fell on his sword. Though I might be getting too ahead of myself; he might not have done it because he is ashamed of himself, it’s just that he’s a Bush appointee, and Obama wants to clear the deck. Catherine Hanaway, you’re next.
The U.S. District Court Judge who supervised and agreed to the dismissal of the Federal felony convictions of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) is so furious about the abuse of power by the U.S. Attorneys in the case that he himself is going to launch an investigation of their conduct, which might lead to their being charged.
He told the media that he had to investigate because he can’t trust the U.S. Justice Department to investigate itself.
No shit, Sherlock.
Even if his investigation does dig up some skulls, bringing these U.S. Attorneys to justice might be a harder sale, because the very law enforcement agencies that would be expected to arrest them are still underneath the aegis of the Department of Justice. What’s worse is that the information gathered to find candidates for Presidential appointments and Senatorial confirmations to all levels of the Federal judiciary comes from that same Justice Department.
We learned from the Tom Sell saga that the DOJ has the U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the Federal judges, and the Federal correctional authorities all under its wings. You’re not going to find any relief from one through any of the others.
The creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 eased the problem a little bit, by plucking out most Federal LEAs out of Justice and sending them to HLS. But the FBI, and ATF (which was moved from Treasury to DOJ when HLS was created) still remain under DOJ.
What needs to be done is to pluck out the Federal prisons out of DOJ and create a new cabinet level Department of Corrections. Send the FBI and ATF to HLS, and for the sake of separation of powers, the DOJ should not exercise any suasion over the selection of new Federal judges.
Still, I think Stevens deserved to lose that Senate race, because there were plenty of reasons for him to be defeated even if he was not guilty of these particular felonies.
AP:
911 worker didn’t warn Pittsburgh police of guns
PITTSBURGH – The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn’t relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers says.
The dispatcher should have asked more questions about the weapons, but didn’t, and certainly should have told officers so they could take necessary precautions, Allegheny County Chief of Emergency Services Robert Full told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
But cops are supposed to assume that persons they accost are armed. Granted, the dispatcher should have said something (affirmative action, I bet), but a good cop should always assume the worst case scenario.
Usually, if you assume, you make an ass out of u and me. If you’re a cop, if you don’t assume, you make a widow out of your wife.
Today is the 150th Anniversary of the Cape Girardeau Police Department.
The original ordinance creating the police department allowed the identities of officers on the force to remain secret from residents, giving only the city marshal and mayor the right to know who served the captain.
Something I wish they would bring back, especially with all the black professional police haters in big cities, not to mention the increasing presence of Hispanic drug gangs and MS-13. I censor the names of all but the highest level of judges on this medium, and I’m going to start doing the same for cops. If I have problems with the judiciary or LEAs, I mention them as collective organizations, not the names of trial level judges or street-level cops.
Did you know?
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Denver is trying to fire one of their own agents?
Tom Tancredo, writing in the Washington Times:
Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Cory Voorhis thought the citizens of Colorado should know about the practices of a former Denver District Attorney, Bill Ritter, who allowed 121 illegal aliens to minimize their risk of deportation through generous plea bargain deals. Mr. Ritter demanded an investigation and ICE Agent Voorhis was prosecuted in federal court. The jury saw through the political character of the prosecution and took only two hours to acquit Mr. Voorhis of all charges. The story should have ended there, but Mr. Voorhis lost his job because the federal government would not accept the jury verdict.
Evidence presented at his trial showed Mr. Voorhis had never revealed any information not already available in public records, yet his actions in spotlighting that information was unforgivable in the eyes of powerful politicians and the ICE bureaucracy.
In both cases, the United States Department of Justice chose to spend millions prosecuting law enforcement officers whose actions offended powerful political interests – in the El Paso case it was the government of Mexico, and in Denver, the governor-elect of Colorado. In both cases, lives were ruined because of an abuse of prosecutorial discretion, and in both cases, the only people who benefited were Mexican drug smugglers, green card counterfeiters – and the high priests of sanctuary for criminal aliens.
For Mr. Voorhis, the injustice did not end with his acquittal. After his acquittal, ICE bureaucrats spent a year contriving reasons to fire him for “administrative misconduct,” threatening and intimidating Mr. Voorhis’ colleagues to change testimonies given under oath at the trial. Five weeks ago, on Feb. 13, Mr. Voorhis received his letter of termination. He is appealing the firing to the federal Merit Systems Protection Board, but that appeal will be expensive and may take a year to adjudicate. In the meantime, a highly trained, veteran ICE agent will be working as a private security guard to pay his mortgage.
Cory Voorhis was no ordinary ICE agent. A former Border Patrol agent and U.S. Army veteran, he was one of two lead agents in a five-year investigation that broke up the largest document fraud ring in the nation’s history. The Denver-based operation run by the Castorena family syndicate based in Guadalajara, Mexico, sold more than 18 million fake driver’s licenses, green cards, work permits and Social Security cards to illegal aliens across 18 states.
Even while Mr. Voorhis was still under investigation, the agency flew him to Washington, D.C., to brief agency brass on the Castorena case. He was so important to the case against the syndicate leader, Pedro Castorena, that when ICE management refused to let him participate in the prosecution of the case, the U.S. Attorney’s office chose to strike a plea agreement with the syndicate mastermind instead of going to trial.
Mr. Voorhis is still fighting to get his job back and still struggling to pay off horrendous legal bills of more than $500,000. The irony is that Mr. Voorhis never divulged information about ICE’s dirty linen. Mr. Voorhis “outed” not ICE management’s screwed-up priorities but Denver’s sanctuary city practices and Bill Ritter’s plea bargaining policies. But to ICE bureaucrats embarrassed by Mr. Voorhis’ revelations, that made no difference.
The message sent to ICE agents was the same: If you take immigration enforcement too seriously, you risk losing your job.
That’s true for the Marines in Iraq, and white cops in the black ghetto. The civil rights of Hispanic illegal aliens, Iraqi terrorists and black thugs are more important than safety, because Hispanic illegal aliens, Iraqi terrorists and black thugs are all diverse. And our diversity is our strength. Isn’t it?
Bill Ritter is now the Governor of Colorado, and TT is thinking about challenging him next year.
At least three, and maybe four, Oakland, Calif. cops were murdered on Saturday in the city by this parolee. It was described as a “grim” day for the Oakland P.D., but thanks to the Federal Judiciary and the Schwarzenegger Prison Blues, there are about to be a lot more parolees and therefore many more such grim days. It is said that Mr. Mixon feared returning to prison, but if he wouldn’t have killed any cops, he wouldn’t have gone back to prison anyway. There’s just not the space. And, as other cops sent him to his just reward, he will have gotten his wish. Nothing ever became him in life like the leaving of it.
Michael Savage’s website at the time of this writing suggests that the Oakland Police Department has restrictive rules of engagement for its police officers. This being the Bay Area, and Savage living in nearby Marin County, it wouldn’t surprise me that (1) The Oakland P.D. does, and (2) The ROE were directly responsible for these cops being murdered.
UPDATE 3/24: There are new theories about the high powered rifle Mixon used to kill some of the cops, see this earlier post.
American Renaissance had the story, and there have been a couple of cogent comments.
On the first day of this year, there was an incident at a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, i.e. heavy commuter rail) station, where an Oakland cop shot an unarmed young black man. In the weeks and months since then, black preachers and talking heads in the Bay Area have been demagoguing the incident to the point where Oakland’s black population has to be incensed and bitterly angry. It doesn’t take a dummy to figure out that one of them would have planned an ambush shooting of white Oakland cops in revenge.
One commenter thinks it was a preplanned ambush:
I am a law enforcement officer working in San Francisco.
I know exactly what this is about. It was a well set up ambush, something the blacks have been doing for decades. Set up the ambush. Then a black drives around the area committing gross traffic offenses such as driving on the wrong side of the street, blowing through red lights and speeding 30 miles over the speed limit.
When the driver is stopped, the first police officers are shot. Others arrive and are shot by well placed snipers. The murderers run off.
This is exactly what that Mumbia Abu Jamal or whatever he calls himself did to officer Danny Falkner back in Philly decades ago. Mumbia’s brother drove his taxi cab through a red light over and over until an officer came along and stopped him for a ticket. Mumia shot officer Falkner from ambush.
Mumbia mumbo is now a great hero to the liberals, especially to the older liberals who were revolutionaries at the time. Those liberals now run the government through their puppet Pres. Obama
This happened a lot in the sixties and seventies when the liberals and their black puppets were at war with America.
Seems it is still going on. This being Oakland, the accused, if ever caught will never be convicted. When and if they are caught there will be massive demonstrations and threats of riots if they are convicted.
Communist black Mayor Ron Dellums probably congratulated the murderers.
I’ve been predicting organized black ambushes of white cops for a long time on this medium. This might have been an ambush, but not as well planned as I think could happen, and not AQ-financed.
Other comments have been along the lines of the media harping on the gun but not the race of the suspects and the cops.
I’m also of the mindset that these shootings in Oakland are a direct consequence of the election of a black president, and an example of increased arrogance on the part of black thugs that we all knew was coming.
Calling a black criminal suspect the n-word, tripping him up and banging his head against the roof of a cop car? Oh no, not in St. Ann. That’s much worse than leading cops on a ten-mile high speed chase along one of St. Louis’s busiest stretch of interstate highway, risking their own lives, the lives of the cops chasing them, and the lives of other motorists.
IMHO, the suspects got off easy.
BATF agents are headed to the Mexico-Aztlan “border” to keep guns flowing from north to south. But not to keep illegal aliens from moving from south to north, which is precisely why guns are flowing from north to south.
In that, the ATF agents will essentially serve as the Mexican Border Patrol.
Because they believe that Our Diversity Is OUr Strength (ODIOUS). And, unlike Missouri, when the Escondido, Calif. Police Officers Union tells you about a problem, they show you the true face of the problem.
Open borders rabble in Morristown, N.J. doesn’t want the City’s Finest to get 287-g authorization. They give some cock-and-bull excuse about “creating rifts” and “making immigrants reluctant to report crimes” (even though every jurisdiction that matters has anonymous tip lines). The real reason is that the Morristown P.D. might actually help enforce immigration law, whereas if it were up to the Feds alone, they wouldn’t do it very much. In spite of what you see on ABC every Tuesday night.
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