You’d think a law prof would know about sovereign immunity. He might be able to get a judgement against the department, but he’ll have a hell of a time going after the actual agents involved.

Taxpayer = no win situation

The family lived out on a remote farm. The husband doesn’t want to give up 100 acres to a hog butchery but his wife does, so he kills her and buries her on the property, but reports her as missing. No more spoilers, but the story and the article are pretty close.

Goddamn, juries are motherfucking stupid. Fuck.

I just love his closing quote:

“….and now I’m a victim of this crazy war on drugs,” says Professor Freshman, who pledged to sue until “I see [the agents'] houses sold at auction and their kids’ college tuitions taken away from them. There will not be a better litigated case this century.”

The police finally picked on the wrong patsy.

SFPD and SF Area Taxpayers: Be AFRAID; Be VERY Afraid…..Justice is Coming!

Since Radley has been demonized on every cop website, I wouldn’t offer long odds that Chief Bryden is unaware of The Agitator.

But the Chief has to keep to the party line. I bet he would say the same thing if 90% of the officers in his own PD and in the 10 neighboring counties were arrested for trading drugs for child sex.

Norman Wielsch, commander of California’s Central Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team has been arrested for selling drugs.

From the article:

“Every once in a while (officers) make mistakes, some of them big and some of them small. But when they do they have to pay for it just like everyone else. People should have the utmost confidence in their police officers and department,” said Walnut Creek police Chief Joel Bryden.

This guy must not read The Agitator very much.

Aware of the “Clever Hans” effect, Lisa Lit at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues, wondered whether the beliefs of professional dog handlers might similarly affect the outcomes of searches for drugs and explosives. Remarkably, Dr Lit found, they do.

Funny, I don’t find it remarkable at all.

Dave Krueger | February 18th, 2011 at 4:30 pm

Norman Wielsch, commander of California’s Central Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team has been arrested for selling drugs.

I’m not sure if that comes under kismet or “just desserts”.

I am willing to bet he got all his rights. And 100 – 1 he gets a soft plea bargain based on ‘professional courtesy’.

He’ll probably get a fair-sized pension as well.

Gregory said it appears that Wielsch and Butler were the only ones involved in the alleged operation, and that this is the first time a DOJ narcotics agent has been arrested for selling drugs.

Yeah, drug cops are usually impervious to temptation. LMAO!

The arrests have also spurred sentiments from police around the county urging the public not to distrust law enforcement for the actions of the few.

Yeah, it would be a shame if this single incident of police abuse of power in an otherwise spotless record affected the public’s perception of cops. Buahahahahahahaha!

“Hey Radley, I’m really curious to hear your thoughts on what has been going on in Madison, WI the past few days. “

I’m not Radley, but from what I’ve read so far, it sounds like the governor is technically on the correct side, but has run roughshod over the Wisconsin constitution in pursuing his budget-cutting goals. There’s nothing better than being right, but being such an interminable dick that it makes anyone supporting you feel dirty.

One thing I haven’t seen is an unbiased assessment of the Wisconsin budget. The Dems say that Gov. Walker caused the budget problems intentionally and the GOP say that the budget problem is real. I’m inclined to believe the GOP, just because of the state of the overall economy the last few years, but I don’t really know how Wisconsin has fared.

“Another isolated incident. And this time, a particularly inept one.”

Wow, the SFPD sure picked on the wrong guy that time. He’s not only a law professor, but he’s a consultant for a police procedural TV show, which means he probably really knows his shit.

If nobody gets fired over this incident, then I’m guessing that nothing short of armed revolution could remove incompetent officers from the police force.

“Man convicted of murder despite no body, no physical evidence of a crime, and no proof the alleged victim is actually dead.”

Doesn’t somebody have to be dead for seven years before they can be declared dead? If she died in 2004, this trial must have broken speed records if it wasn’t filed until the wife was officially declared dead.

I have to say that the circumstances in this particular certainly look suspicious, but I’d generally like to see some sort of evidence before sending people off to prison. I’ve seen some divorces that got so ugly it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a family would conspire to fake a death just to stick it to the ex.