But I seriously doubt in my lifetime. I fear it’s only in its infancy.

*Pilfered from an agitator from a previous post. Please feel free to take credit.

I made a second call to the copshop this afternoon to enquire when the name of “Inspector Clousseau” will be made public; got stonewalled again.

I’m shocked…shocked I tell you.

How many of you have your addresses CLEARLY marked on your house or on your curb right in front of your house? My guess is: darn few of you. This is something I have noticed over the years: address numbers are hardly posted on businesses anymore, and houses are not too much better.

Clearly mark your house, ladies and gentlemen. The house I spent my childhood in had a light-up address sign. My present place has some stylized numbers clearly visible by the sunset-to-sunrise porch light. If nothing else, it will be one less excuse for the city-sanctioned thugs to use.

I want to see the family sue the department and the officers involved in their individual capacities. There is no excuse for this.

I say it ends when lawyers get HUGE settlements against government (taxpayers). No way anyone moves out of principle.

I live within walking distance of Lawrenceville. Meth is the new tool of fear, the excuse the cops around here have used for the last decade to justify just about everything from “no-knock” raids to their apparent favorite, the “stop-n-search.” They’re always sure to correlate meth with the large Latino population in the Gwinnett Daily Post – it really adds to the manufactured fear that make such tactics “OK” with many people. Duluth PD is just as bad, if not worse. You know the cops are doing something right when they have a “f*** the Duluth PD” MySpace Page with over 500 members!

Even if there is a FOIA request for the surveillance report and the warrant, both will most likely be so heavily redacted as to render them completely useless, especially if an informant was used.
That would include the officer applying for the warrant and the judge who signed it.

It’s all a big secret.

@Bill #6, Every home I’ve ever seen in Lawrenceville has a mailbox at the end of a driveway. House numbers are on the mailbox and on the front door.

I went to Gwinnett county public schools. We all learned to read numbers before we were old enough to carry guns. You’d think that was a requirement on the local civil service exam. I guess from reading this blog though, even normal people of normal intelligence and education do colossaly stupid things when given perverse incentives and unnecessary circumstances.

The parts that jump out at me are they way the two different views are presented….

Police version: “Once the officers forced entry to the house, they briefly detained a male and female resident before determining they were in the wrong place.
The search was immediately halted and no intrusive search was ever executed, said police spokeswoman Cpl. Illana Spellman.”

That was all nice and sweet… sounds like a pleasant day for all.

Victims version: “They came in here and put guns to us. The house was full of police,” Louis said. “I’ve never had a gun in my face before. I’ve never even held a gun.”
He said that he and James, who was in a nightgown, were ordered at gunpoint to lie on the floor. When he tried to ask what they wanted, Louis said, he was told to “shut up.”
After the officers roamed through the house for a few minutes, they spotted the baby and realized their mistake, Louis said.”

That didn’t have the same sweet scent to it… sounds like a terrifying beginning to a day for the victims, but I’m sure it was still the beginning of a pleasant day for the police.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-arrest-10-dec10,0,3457227.story

Just minutes before 6 a.m. Tuesday, a pair of black sedans and an SUV raced toward the personal residence of Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Chicago’s Northwest Side.

Grant asked the governor to quietly open the door “without the media finding out about it, without waking the children,” he said. “He was very cooperative.”