I in no way wish to trivialize an investigation of which I know nothing about…

but…

In a quick glance I misread the above as “the New York City subway sodomy case from a couple of _mouths_ ago?”

So the Duke Lacrosse players required 400 grand EACH because they might have what? Some bonifide whore accused them of raping her?

Outlawing information is a pretty good description of North Korea. India’s reaction (as well as the restrictions put on thousands of “dangerous” things in the US and across the world) stands side-by-side with N.Korean philosophy.

A relatively anonymous drug criminal, on the other hand, would be a much greater flight risk, so a higher bail might well be called for.

My place got broken into last month. It’s obvious that it’s the fault of the crowbar companies. When will the US government reign in these criminal enablers? Sorry, your attempts to re-label these devices built to enable B&E criminals as “building tools” just shows your lack of seriousness on the War on Crime. Only criminal-enablers don’t support banning “crowbars”, or as right-thinking Americans call them, Tools of Terror.

And don’t even get me started on matches and lighters.

Perhaps. But this is really the least the officers could do in this situation. If this scenario played out the way Mineo has testified, an officer on scene should have physically stopped the assault, drawn down on the offending officer(s), and taken him into custody. That’s how you would stop any other rape in progress. If no one on scene lifted a finger, everyone should go to prison (looks like a gang rape to me!).

Frank Serpico said that when he became a police officer, he was called upon to enforce the law, no matter who the law breakers were (I’m paraphrasing). He also stated that we must get to the point where the corrupt officer fears the ethical officer, and not the other way around. Obviously, we have a long way to go.

I intitially voiced skepticism about this case, due to what I thought were inconsistencies in Mineo’s statements (I read that he was hesitant to release his medical records to the court). I also didn’t want to think that officers of the NYPD would be stupid enough, or savage enough, to engage in this kind of activity AGAIN. Well, its looking like Mineo’s story may be truthful, and I am disgusted. If they are guilty, they should go where rapists go. Its as simple as that. As for NYPD, I’m almost at the point where I’m tempted to say, scrap it and start the whole damn thing over.

When can America officially kill that damn “home of the free” slogan? I’ve never been less free in all my life.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/sick-and-sicker-by-digby-it-looks-like.html

In Oklahoma, a driver goes into severe diabetic shock, but instead of getting help, he’s tasered and then handcuffed.

The tape is here. The officers feel bad about what they did, but I have to wonder how police handled situations like this before tasers? Did they shoot them with a gun?

I think it goes to show that Cops are looking to use their toys independent of whether the situation really requires them. What’s the point of this gun if I don’t get to occasionally shoot something? Ohhhh!! A dog. He lunged at me. Shoot!!

Or their tasers. Oh he’s flopping around and resisting arrest. He’s got to be on drugs. Tase him!!

Thomas Frank: Free markets lead to low-income women consensual renting out their wombs to barren upper-income women. He find that icky. Let’s ban it! The free market stinks! Better the rich woman stay childless and the poor woman not get the extra income, lest we offend Thomas Frank’s sensibilities. But what do I know. I’m just a “regular feeder at D.C.’s subsidized libertarian troughs.”

What seems to elude most anti-market people is that market transactions are voluntary whereas their preferred solutions are not only not voluntary they are coercive and even violent. But their preferred solutions are better…go figure.

How noble the law is that it equally forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.