http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2012/05/george_hitcho_appeals_murder_c.html

and, no, I don’t believe for a second that it was really a stun gun in Lasso’s hand.

That’s the point, gang. Sherff Taylor an’ Deppitty Fife have morphed into doggie-shootin’, perjury-slingin’, blood-crazed killing machines. And it gets worse every year. And we accept it.

> I recommend extremely thick doors, super bright lights for interior and
> exterior (use reflective paint for your house number-wrong address
> raid?), and recording equipment. While they batter down your 4″ thick
> hard maple door, get your dog into its crate and call the fire
> department. Get your wife and kids into the living room and assume the
> position (at this point everything should be getting recorded and
> uploading to remote servers).

All good advice, though you can take it a bit further. A 1/2″ thick steel door with tasteful wood veneer is a good bit sturdier than a 4″ maple door, and probably cheaper too.

Better still would be the same door as a pocket door, rather than a hinged one. Most police entry methods rely on the vulnerabilities of a standard door, and a pocket door eliminates all of them.

There’s a company in Florida that sells an armored window for resisting storm damage (their ads involve high speed bowling balls), but that would also keep someone from launching a CS canister or flash/bang through the window pane. If the window is set up to only open a little way (smaller than the diameter of a grenade) you can get air flow and security.

Aluminum siding doesn’t just reduce your need to paint, it also toughens the outer walls of the house.

Build a fence out of prison-spec or mil-spec chain link. Install a locked gate in it. Rig the fence poles to collapse under a man’s weight if anyone tries to climb it. Weave the fence with fragile wires connected to line break sensors. Nobody can climb it, and forcing your way past it turns on the lights, the audio recorders and the video cameras.

You can also disguise a tank trap as an ornamental pond, install slate roof tiles, and have a hidden backup recorder imbedded in the foundation for if they cut off your internet/phones. Depends on how security conscious you are, and your available budget.

In my heart I agree with you, but for this to work there needs to be reliable and severe non-violent consequences. Intentional, arrogant wrongdoers who violate the public trust need to personally suffer. It can be financial destitution, it can be imprisonment, it can be disqualification from ever working in that field again (I’m thinking here about disbarment of rogue prosecutors), it can be public humiliation, but it has to be something, or else the message is that you will get away with it. None of those things happen with any reliability, and they all depend on the diligence and honor of third parties. Violent retribution, though, the victimized individual can control. I may not be able to see to it that the guy who terrorized my family, shot my dog, trashed my house, beat me up, framed me, etc. gets fired, declares bankruptcy, is shunned by those closest to him, but I can probably fill him full of holes if I am patient and strategic.
This, by the way, is a really great reason why the average person’s legal means of redress against those who betray the public trust should be made more reliable and more severe.

I don’t think that case dealt with “chill rooms.” Even moving beyond that, I don’t think the case counts for qi purposes because it was not decided at the time.

MORE IMPORTANTLY:

(i) Wamble was not admitted to gen pop, making Florence categorically inapplicable; and

(ii) they tried to cavity search Wamble, again making Florence inapplicable.

C’mon, even in good ol’ boy Jo-gia there have to be some
charges, and bond …no?

Last September the Atlanta, GA PD stopped me, arrested me for no reason (wasn’t DUI, nothing in the car,) and sent me to jail. Innocent. Spent a month there, lost my job. On the ride over, they told me they’d have me sent to prison, where they’d make sure I was murdered. I can’t find an attorney who will take the case, so as of now, I’m stuck with the Public Defender, whom I really trust…

The cops in this country are now officially and completely out of control, crazed dog-murderers. I really think it would be reasonable to assume that 80% are crooked, comitting crimes worse than those they arrrest. People with bad character typically want to be surrounded by people like themselves. It started with a few bad cops hiring a few more, etc. etc. Soon there will be no honest cops left, and we’ll be in a very bad situation.

Seriously! How don’t more people realize how quickly we’re sinking into tyranny?

Guppycide!

#9 | Roho | June 11th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Wow. I can *definitely* see some consequences from this one. Specifically:

“She said she then met with Minneapolis police Sgt. Jerry Wallerich to complain. According to the lawsuit, he told her that the police action was done out of revenge due to the police officers’ mistaken assumption that someone in the house had fired at them and advised her to sue the department to recover her losses.”

And:

“Anderson then called Wallerich, who told her to hand her phone to one of the officers. Anderson claims in her suit that she could overhear Wallerich telling the officers that they didn’t have a warrant and should leave the home immediately.”

Sgt. Wallerich is clearly in need of punishment and/or re-training for not immediately joining the blue wall in their harassment and obfuscation efforts.

Heh, I dunno. It didn’t say he punished anyone yet, and the tax-payers foot the bill for the lawsuit, so what do they care?

http://police4aqi.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/jones-county-police-strips-arrestee-and-then-chills-him/