Comments on: Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Department Clears Its Own Officers of Wrongdoing in Cheye Calvo Raid

By: no third solution » Monsters on Patrol: Prince George County Maryland

no third solution » Monsters on Patrol: Prince George County Maryland — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:25:11 +0000

[...] They killed their own mayor’s dog during a botched “drug raid”. How they didn’t know it was they mayor’s house is beyond me. Those officers involved in the raid were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing. [...]

By: A Friend

A Friend — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:23:20 +0000

And just think, if marijuana were legalized, or at least de-criminalized then none of this would have happened.

I guess that’s too much to ask here in the “land of the free”.

By: A Friend

A Friend — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:21:16 +0000

The deputies, that is…not the dogs.

By: A Friend

A Friend — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:20:22 +0000

What’s the deal with these assholes shooting dogs?

They should all go to a vet’s office and be euthanized.

By: Dear PG County: You Don’t Shoot Puppies « Olde Frothingblog

Dear PG County: You Don’t Shoot Puppies « Olde Frothingblog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:28:08 +0000

[...] Balko, who was indispensable when the story first broke, provided an update last week. The county sheriff’s department cleared its officers of any wrongdoing. Balko writes, [...]

By: MD : Police Applaud Themselves For Raiding Innocent People and Killing Dogs | WeedPlay.com Marijuana News Magazine

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:03:33 +0000

[...] the drugs and it’s just supremely dishonest to equate those two outcomes. Radley Balko has more on the fundamental incoherence underlying these latest claims from the PG County Sheriff’s [...]

By: MD : Police Applaud Themselves For Raiding Innocent People and Killing Dogs - Marijuana.com

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:42:49 +0000

[...] intercepting the drugs and it’s just supremely dishonest to equate those two outcomes. Radley Balko has more on the fundamental incoherence underlying these latest claims from the PG County Sheriff’s Office. [...]

By: Jerry Alexander

Jerry Alexander — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:18:55 +0000

I don`t think these NAZI like cop`s are real people.
America is full of them,what ever they are.
Things like this give concordance to the Hanger 51,Roswell incident.
One can also look at the US Congress and see striking similarities in their emptiness.
Some are also looking into the possibilities that these NAZI like cops do not have families like real people do.Where are the families?
What do the wives and children think of their Father,Mother,or,what ever these things are….why dosn`t someone ask them,the families?
Hell!! just try to find a family member of these Robot`s.
Put these guys on TV,Post their pic`s anywhere you can..take off their mask..show them to the public,their neighbors,their church,ect,ect.

By: Puppy Power - In The Agora

Puppy Power - In The Agora — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:56:40 +0000

[...] Balko, who was indispensable when the story first broke, provided an update last week. The county sheriff’s department cleared its officers of any wrongdoing. Balko writes, [...]

By: joe

joe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:35 +0000

The guys that shot those dogs are sissys. How can anyone justify shooting a couple dogs that will at the most bite your leg. I am assamed of whoever pulled the triger. Keep telling yourself it was justifyed you pussy.

By: Cynical in CA

Cynical in CA — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:34:45 +0000

“… how do we define a decent cop versus a bad cop?”

There are no decent cops. They are all paid with tax money, which is stolen at gunpoint from citizens.

By: Cynical in CA

Cynical in CA — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:33:17 +0000

Jim Bell

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:59:08 +0000

Calvo should forget the mayor’s job and run for sheriff against this clown. Then he can really clean house at the thug (I refuse to call them ‘police’) department!

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:46:50 +0000

“…it’s the result of a bumbling, overly aggressive, wholly incompetent police department. And it’s the result of a drug warrior mentality that believes invading someone’s home with guns and filling their pets with bullets is an appopriate response to a possible violation of state marijuana laws.”

Radley — don’t ever stop. The militarization of U.S. law enforcement is so way far out of control that it defies description.

By: nemo

nemo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:33:50 +0000

How many more lawsuits can Prince George’s County taxpayers afford thanks to a rogue police force? Considering the ever-contracting nature of the economy, the question will begin to sink into the dimmest citizen’s awareness, particularly if those citizens have gotten pink slips lately, and could use that money.

Oh, and that goes double for the entire country and drug prohibition; the same dynamics are at work. The DrugWar gravy train was always fueled under the false impression the money would always be there because drug prohibition was a ‘sacred cow’ (all the prohibitionists had to do was bellow hysterically “SAVE THE CHIL-DRENNNNN!) and the money would could flowing in with almost Pavlovian regularity).

But now, with the recession/depression, that money is needed for other things…like that poor mug with the pink slip needs it for unemployment insurance so he can keep a roof over his kid’s heads and food on the table. He’ll be a lot more worried about that than any any fictional drug dealers chasing his kids down the street with a syringe in one hand and a bag ‘o blow in the other. That particular boogeyman doesn’t spook anyone, anymore.

So, keep it up, DrugWarriors. You’re digging drug prohibition’s fiscal grave, one botched no-knock, dead pets (and dead innocent people!) raid lawsuit at a time.

By: fwb

fwb — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:34:23 +0000

Looks like the Prince George Sheriff’s dept just pulled a circle jerk and a daisy chain.

Any bets on whether they already KNEW who lived there? I don’t believe for a nanosecond that the cops didn’t know.

They WILL get theirs in the next life.

Tiocfaidh ar la!

By: Nick T

Nick T — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:36:42 +0000

Why is the sherrif opining on what happened before the investigation was concluded.

Not that there was a question of whether these things are illegitimate on their face (clearly they are), but when the head honcho starts out thinking or “feeling” conclusion X, what chance does the investigation have of concluding Y?

I would like to invite Sherriff Michael Jackson to kindly go and start his own country.

By: OneByTheCee

OneByTheCee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:23:10 +0000

#38 | John_P

Excellent post. Would give you more karma points if I could.

By: OneByTheCee

OneByTheCee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:41:24 +0000

“Finally, Jackson’s comment that “[m]y deputies did their job to the fullest extent of their abilities” may actually be the only accurate thing he said yesterday. Just not in the way he intended.”

Truer words could not have been spoken!!!

By: chris

chris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:26:39 +0000

what bothers me the most is that the police are the ones that put the drugs on the mans door step in the first damn place…

an undercover sheriff placed a box known to hold drugs on the doorstep and then the swat team raided the house after that…

how is that not entrapment?