Cities trying to figure out what to do over increasing problem of squatters.
I frequently take advantage of the option to buy used goods on Amazon. But there are some products were it’s probably just not a very good idea.
Cop with 20-years of service and named cop-of-the-year in 2004 begins to discover some disturbing problems within his department. So he tries to do something about them. You can probably guess what happens next.
CNN edits medical marijuana segment out of D.L Hughley’s show, apparently due to “editorial standards.”
The New York Times has a round up of cases in New York City where video footage has directly contradicted the testimony or reports of police officers.
Lawsuits says man was improperly booted off of a grand jury. Money quote: “Back in 2001, fellow grand jurors quickly became irritated with Atherton, saying he was disruptive and was holding up the process with all of his questions about probable cause and burden of proof, according to court records.” The nerve!
Here’s a nice story about a young girl whose life was likely saved by press coverage of the Natasha Richardson tragedy.
Jim Backstrom, the Minnesota prosecutor I mentioned in my forensics piece this week, is being investigated by the state’s legal disciplinary committee. The people I’ve spoken with expect little more than a slap on the wrist, and even then, whatever the committee determines is unlikely to be made public.
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But would you buy a condom in a nut?
*waves hand in air
I know the answer to this one! I know! I know! Let me answer it!
He gets booted out of the force.
(And I didn’t peek, either.)
They should fire the entire force and put the sacked officer in charge to rebuild it.
Detective Eager pleaded not guilty to the charges, said her lawyer, Peter E. Brill, who pointed out that she had 15 years’ experience on the force and no disciplinary history.
Translation: She’d never been caught on video before, so the department could always sweep it under the rug.
Mr. Brill said Detective Eager had no incentive to lie. “What did she have invested in lying?” he said on Tuesday, recounting his remarks in court the day before. “She has made 1,300 arrests.”
“The fact that my client has arrested a lot of people is proof that she never lied about any of those arrests!”
Does the cloud have a silver lining? If cameras implicate police, will the state’s demand for them wane?
The Midvale cop kinda creeps me out when he copied the vacation photos, though. About 80% of the cops creep me out, anyway…
From the Squatter article”
Squatting can be dangerous for squatters and can, depending on the circumstances, harm neighboring property owners by driving down property values, as neighbors of the Sacramento tent city have complained.
You know what else drives down property values? A crashing housing market that was a bubble bound to burst at some point. Sorry, neighbors, squatters or not, your raised ranch you paid $450k for is not worth that, it’s worth more like $200k.
Also:
You can probably guess what happens next.
“He fixes the cable?”
Obscure here?
The grand jury story requires registration.
DNA issues:
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/03/26/phantom-killer-a-myth/police-track-DNA-of-cotton-bud-maker-for-two-years.html
Don’t be fatuous Jefferey.. er Ben. :)
Thanks for not leaving me hanging JS.
I have a friend who bought used cloth diapers for their child. I know they can be washed, but really?
JS
You should have said “Don’t be fatuous, Dude”.
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I agree with the chief saying that the 20 year cop can longer be trusted. Said Mason. “I had simply lost all trust and confidence in him as an officer.”
All the criminal types turn on the snitches, that’s how you run a criminal organization.
I’m not saying I agree that officer Guenon was a bad policeman. I’m agreeing this Police Chief Tony Mason could no longer trust him to hold the thin blue line.
Wait a sec. CNN has “editorial standards”? Did that just happen? I thought they left that behind long ago when they stopped being a news network and reinvented themselves as an entertainment channel for the highly uneducated.
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Midvale?
As in, Midvale School For the Gifted?
/Ok, I’ll go RTFA, now
I like how ‘POST’ (Police Officer Standards and Training) found no problems with the other officer, but is now investigating the whistleblower. Of course, he didn’t follow the standards and training – No officer should ever rat out or say a bad thing about his fellow officers.
When a cop arrests someone and lies about what happened, he shouldn’t just be fired or charged with perjury. He should be given the sentence the defendant could have received if he’d been convicted.
What Dave says. That is the Biblical way, after all.
You should have said “Don’t be fatuous, Dude”.
No, he was exactly right. Maude uses the name Jeffery with the Dude throughout the whole movie.
Huh, “nice story” indeed, so not trying to pee on the parade here – though I was expecting the lesson learned to be Wear A Helmet. Which of course is optional and this was obviously one of those really against-the-odds cases, but you can see it coming – mandatory laws for wearing a helmet when you play ball with your kids (woulda happened had this girl died instead). For that matter, I’m really surprised helmets aren’t already mandatory for skiing, not really sure why to be honest – maybe lack of statistical correlation of head vs other injuries.
RE: Midvale, Utah cop of the year
The cop in question sounds like he didn’t get the promotion he felt he was entitled to when the new administration came in. I’m sure storing explosives in a freakin closet is a bad idea, but to run to the feds with that and another officers vacation photos because you don’t like the outfits they were wearing, or that they were dancing?
He insinuated other officers were molesterers, he’s lucky he was only fired and not shot.
“#22 | Larry Y | March 27th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
What Dave says. That is the Biblical way, after all.”
Actually it goes back to some guy named Hammurabi, ~1760 BC.
But yeah, what Dave said works for me too.
I actually read the whole cop story all the way thru.
Did anyone else get to the part where he turn to the Utah Attorney General’s Office because he found vacation pictures he did not approve of?
I’m sure there were problems in the police department, this guy is coming across more like an asshole than anything.
#27
Those pictures should never be taken, in this day and age. Potential sex offense cases? It is hard to say, what was going through the guy’s head. He still was a cop, you know!
One might get imprisoned as a sex offender, for having pictures of your kid in the tub, if they were made public! The pendulum has swung so far the other way. Normal behavior could be prosecuted as illegal. Like minors having sex with each other!
And, if I understand correctly, not reporting possible sex offense cases, involving children, is punishable by law. At least, with one of the, many, laws that I don’t, clearly, understand anymore.
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