You need to divide your BAC numbers by 10. If he had truly had been at 1.6% he wouldn’t have been blowing anything at all.

#34 | UCrawford | August 25th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

Shropshire and Parker-Loan’s lawyer said in court records that the internal affairs investigation was part of their confidential personnel records and the officers would suffer “irreparable harm” if they were released to Dagley.

Yeah, they’d get fired…which is the point of having internal investigations, to fire corrupt officers who don’t do their jobs.

Not to mention that they would be severely mocked.

/Monty Python

Shropshire and Parker-Loan’s lawyer said in court records that the internal affairs investigation was part of their confidential personnel records and the officers would suffer “irreparable harm” if they were released to Dagley.

Yeah, they’d get fired…which is the point of having internal investigations, to fire corrupt officers who don’t do their jobs.

#27 | MDGuy | August 25th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

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For all we know, Police Departments nationwide could be spending their Internal Affairs budgets on strippers and kegs while dutifully releasing a statement every few months and no one would be the wiser.

At least if they blew it on strippers, they’d be supporting a local industry with nothing to hide.

Not to mention, one that provides a “stimulus.”

Lucky for him it wasn’t a police raid, huh?

Uhh, Fluffy, did you just say you have an addiction to dick?

Maybe we can write a law that gets all the cops to beat each other up. :) Almost seems recursive.

You know, you’d think that if the Internal Affairs board cleared them of wrongdoing in a legit manner, they’d be happy to open up the process and prove to everyone they didn’t do anything wrong.

The truth, which their suit proves, is that the IA investigation was dirty, and was fixed in their favor. I think everyone who reads The Agitator is predisposed to that opinion anyway, but nice of them to show us.

Pablo:

I think that an office of the government that’s assigned to fight for people *against* government prosecution is one of the better uses of government money, and that most libertarians would agree. The problem is how do you make sure that it’s above board and not compromised.

#16 | Aresen | August 25th, 2009 at 11:29 am
From the Montgomery County link:

But the police department’s investigation found that the officers did nothing wrong, police spokesman Lt. Paul Starks said.

*sigh*

They really all have the same script don’t they? Makes you wonder if they even conduct investigations at all. I mean, they always say they do, and eventually they release a statement (with predictable, scripted results), but we never really see anything about the investigation. For all we know, Police Departments nationwide could be spending their Internal Affairs budgets on strippers and kegs while dutifully releasing a statement every few months and no one would be the wiser.

(Blue Öyster Cult — “Baby Ice Dog”, 1973)

#24 Pablo

#17 Dave–good for your daughter. Federal PD’s are generally better paid and have more resources to work with than state PD’s.

And they sometimes get to argue Constitutional issues. I flew out to CA when my daughter argued an interesting child porn case in the Ninth Circuit. That case was subsequently cited as a precedent in the opinion of the Ninth Circuit when they threw out a federal medical marijuana conviction in Raich v. Ashcroft as summarized in this Cato Institute article.

I might also mention that McCoy was the beginning of my personal crusade against America’s destructive and insane child porn/abuse hysteria and other mindless torch-wielding-mob-like American cultural cancers.

“You see allegations of Swiss bank accounts in divorce proceedings all the time,” says Felder, whose clients have included Rudy Giuliani and Robin Givens. “A lot of divorces are going to get opened up.”

The IRS and attorneys hired by ex-wives. I almost have sympathy for the tax evaders.

Maybe it’s just me, but if I had evidence an ex lied in court about her assets in order to stiff me in divorce proceedings, I’d be back in court with a smile on my face and vengeance in my heart.

I would assuredly encourage that perjury charges also be filed.

Jim Fixx is dead
Keith Richards is still alive

On running as an addiction:
“DEA agents raid ten gyms, arrest ‘runners’ and confiscate ‘running’ paraphernalia including 100 treadmills with and estimated street value of $250,000.”

This is not like the cops looking the other way when someone blows 0.7 (the DWI limit in Maryland): this guy was speeding in an SUV while drunk, and caused an accident. His only “luck” was hitting a police cruiser and not a family of children.

#12 Pablo

May be heresy to say this here but a full time public defender office, with salaried attorneys who represent only indigent clients, is a better system that paying private attorneys such a pittance that they have to take hundreds of cases to make ends meet.

My daughter has been a federal and state public defender for years and would probably agree with you. She takes her work very seriously and revels in the cases she wins at trial with an almost “David and Goliath” sense of satisfaction. She has also seen a lot of prosecutorial misconduct up close and personal. It might be true that she gets her paycheck from the same state treasury that pays state prosecutors, but that’s the only thing they have in common. She can be a rabidly aggressive advocate for her clients, especially if she thinks they’re being railroaded.

TLC, I just wrote your next show for you. Get on it.