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“I didn’t break the law, I AM the law”

- Judge Dredd

Queue “Dueling Banjos.”

@Nemo

But I think we should remember, Judge Dredd is a JUDGE. No mere cop would last 5 seconds in Megacity One.

Where the hell is the attempted murder charge?

The fact that the prosecutor does not even know the name of the officer who discharged his weapon in a courtroom and injured another officer shows that she did not even investigate the incident in the first place.

Looks like a corrupt small-town dictatorship that you come across every now and then in these isolated locales. I imagine higher authorities will get involved as this story spreads.

Difster’s got it right! LOL

Carlos,

Just because you got spanked for defending PAMPer (Passive/Aggressive Malicious Photographer) misconduct, doesn’t mean you’re always wrong. You have pointed out a valid instance of police/just-us system misconduct.

A couple questions: What does this post have to do with the theme “photography is not a crime; its a first amendment right?” Do you just have a hard-on for skanky cops?

“Sheriff’s deputies patrolled Jericho until the 1990s, when the city received grant money to start its own police force…”

A federal grant for a police force for fewer than 200 people? I wonder if there was a genuine need for a police force or if the grant was part of the ubiquitous, unending “War on Americans?” (AKA, the “War on Drugs.”)

Cop: “Hello, Fire Dept? The police station’s on fire.”
Fire Chief: “Bummer…” /click/

I’m sure there is another side to the story. Perhaps the chief was reaching for one of the cops guns.

I don’t believe anything I read on this blog.

Ron believes there’s /always/ another side of the story which justifies police misconduct, apparently. Better to believe the police are never wring, and this site is never right, I guess.

Feh

One officer per 25 residents. The ratio in my town is nearly ten times that, at 225 residents per cop.

“You can’t even get them to answer a call because normally they’re writing tickets,” said Thomas Martin, chief investigator for the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department. “They’re not providing a service to the citizens.”
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“When I first moved out here, they wrote me a ticket for going 58 mph in my driveway,” 75-year-old retiree Albert Beebe said.
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“I know that he was unarmed and I know he was shot,” Fishman said. “None of that sounds too good for the city to me.”

Financing a small town via a traffic ticket quota system is a really bad idea. That town is one excessive-force lawsuit away from insolvency…

City hall has been shuttered since the shooting, and any records of how the money was spent are apparently locked inside…Mayor Helen Adams declined to speak about the shooting … A white Ford Crown Victoria sat in her driveway with “public property” license plates. A sales brochure advertising police equipment sat in the back seat of the car.

They could have gone after tourism… cheap farmland… retirees… internet startups… but no. Like a leach, the town attached itself to its’ residents wallets by writing everybody expensive traffic citations.

Maybe it’s time to shut down the municipal corporation and switch back to county services.

I don’t believe anything I read on this blog.

I fail to understand why you would read and bother to comment if that is so.

Ron,
You can follow up on all these stories of police abuse of powers or get-out-of-jail-free-cards elsewhere. Carlos may editorialize at times, but it is his blog and his interpretation of events. Generally, he is correct on his outrage, except about Republicans as a group. ;>)

The fact is, you don’t want to believe it. The police have gone from protectors of the Peace to protectors of the State. Face it, Ron, if a cop stops you and there is an altercation or you’re accused of anything, you’re a criminal in the minds of people like you. And whatever happens to you, you deserved it. And no matter what you say, the cop is right and you’re a criminal who must be lying. The only class of people, the only job people like you give 100% certitude to is the police. But you, Ron, and anyone else is a criminal if the police say so. They don’t give a damn if you back them or not, if they say you assaulted them with your face against their knuckles, you did; if they say you interfered with their duties because you asked a question as to why they were beating someone senseless, then you did. At least to people like you.

Ron, cops are people not symbols, not constant heroes. People are good, not so good, and bad. Cops are people.

Do you really believe all cops never ever violate the law? Never act unlawfully? Never use excessive force, never violate your rights, never beat people bloody just because they can? You enable the bad ones, Ron, you help make them bad. People like you.

Mr.Ben, LOL that was my thought as well. The police and the prosecutors if they live in the area covered by that fire dept. had best practice fire saftey and pray they do not have a fire. I belong to a vol. fire dept. and I would be tempted to sit on my hands if that call came in.

But you would go anyway, wouldn’t you? The temptation would fade quickly.

One of the reasons that “officer safety” bothers me is not that I want officers not to be safe but that I realize they use it to justify cowardice. “I didn’t hire on to get hurt” is something a fireman realizes to be an excuse for cowardice.

Yes, most likely I would go, I do not ask who the house or land belongs to. I joined to help protect our little community and everybody in it. But Darn, I would enjoy that moment of thought of turn about.

I have a friend in law enforcement who believes just like Ron does. No matter how many stories I show this friend, he always takes the cop’s side and insists that I “don’t understand” because I’m just a silly civilian.