http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=6aa1514b964f0da3

I vote for worse. Should not they have known the age of the daughter?! As a reasonable person, I would have to think the drug charges had nothing at all to do with the bogus “prostitution” claim, unless, of course, it was, all, intentional!

GALVESTON — A traffic stop turned into a felony drug arrest late Tuesday night.

Galveston resident Wilfred Louis Milburn Jr., 42, was in jail Wednesday, under a $250,000 bond. He faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance, which carries a possible prison term of five to 99 years, or life, as well as a fine of up to $50,000.
Police News for July 22, 2004: Traffic Stop Turns Into Arrest

[...]
“NCIS had contacted us and asked if we’d work an operation before the ship docked on Friday,” Braun said.

Attorney Anthony Griffin was not so sure. Griffin, a lawyer who has taken on many civil liberties cases in his legal career, said military involvement made for potentially murky legal issues.
[...]
Charged were:
…
• Wilford Milburn, 43 … Milburn also faces a marijuana charge.
Navy, DPS, GPD net 12 in drug sweep

Eight misdemeanor cases listed (place Milburn Wilfred in “Party Name:” box and click search):

Misdemeanor Records – Search

That was my first thought too! But look at the departments… one ‘Officer of the year’ from each department. So Galveston police gets one, the Galveston Sheriff dept. gets one… etc. They broke it down so they could pass out as many of these ‘awards’ as possible.

Obviously, it’s just a publicity stunt from the ’50 Club’ to boost membership.

Right there, you can see how sick ‘Police Culture’ has become. It’s a bunch of mutual admiration societies fawning over each other, vying to see who can best point out how awesome police are at the expense of the rest of the world.

IMO, his main point is why use a “throw down” weapon when the chances are, you, as an officer of the law, will likely be cleared of any wrongdoing regarding the shooting regardless of the circumstances.

IOW, Sgt. Foster is less concerned about the criminality of “throw down” weapons than he is with their utility, given the likelihood that the officer will be cleared anyway, whether is suspect is armed or unarmed.

Sadly, Sgt. Foster is correct. We all know that a few well worn phrases along the lines of “I feared for my life” or “I was certain I saw a weapon” uttered by the LEO will usually do the trick 99% of the time for most questionable shooting incidents.

And 12yo girls do not look like women. Sorry.

As for the story… is anyone really surprised? C’mon.

Just an award? No raise and promotion? Man, the economy really is starting to hit everyone hard. Looks like cops in that area r gonna have to ramp it up a bit if they want the full package. Pre-schoolers take note. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

When that specific cop struck the suspect
in the head with his pistol it bent
the aluminum trigger guard and accidently
discharged.

If that were true, then suspect would already by dead from having a pistol smashed from one side to the other through his skull based on the amount of force it’d take to bend a trigger guard back to cause a discharge.

Galveston Police Chief Charles Wiley also declined to comment specifically about the case, citing a law that keeps some information about juvenile crimes out of the public’s view.

…

Wiley said the facts of the case as he knew them and as related in police reports differed with a version of the event reported by a Houston newspaper.

So, the police report didn’t admit to 3 or 4 guys getting their pathetic donut-eating asses kicked by a 12-year-old girl? Why, knock me over with a feather!

This is the part that always gets me. I’m probably more “manly” than these guys (well, no “probably” about it – I don’t beat up young girls for fun), but I would be *ashamed* to arrest a 12-year-old girl for “assaulting” me if I were a cop. Seriously. Especially at school. You’d think they would be embarrassed to admit that she was arrested for assaulting them in front of a bunch of other kids her age.

“From the book More Homicidal Humor by
Sgt. Brian Foster, Houston Homicide, Copy-
right 2008. Reprint with permission.
Available online at http://www.homicidalhumor.com”

Interesting. It is supposed to be some form of morbid humor, apparently.

That’s story 2.0; any reason to believe it’s more truthful than story 1.0?

Read the article about “Throw downs”. Heh.

This newsletter is a joke, right? Like “The Onion”?

Yowzer. Not only advocating a criminal act, but instructing on how best to set it up.

Excerpt: Both shootings
took place in southeast Houston
and the fact that the weapons were
‘throw downs’ was discovered during
the course of follow-up investigations.
Several officers lives were ruined over
two pieces of human garbage that
were not really worth the effort. The
cost to the officer’s families can never
be tabulated. Children grew up without
fathers and without adequate financial
support, and all of it for no good reason.
In fact, both of the aforementioned
cases were justifiable shootings,…

The stolen van spun out and
the officer approached the driver’s
door with his duty weapon drawn. The
suspect bailed out of the van and the
closest officer to him grabbed the
unarmed suspect with one hand and
struck him once in the head with his
pistol while trying to subdue him.

When that specific cop struck the suspect
in the head with his pistol it bent
the aluminum trigger guard and accidently
discharged. The young suspect died immediately from an unintended
gunshot wound to his head.