The Minuteman

Did you catch that important little detail?  See the video here if it doesn’t appear above.

Hoolihan’s was just one of 12 disturbing complaints filed against Hobbs
over the last five years at the Clayton County Police Department. 

At that rate he must have been going for Officer Roid Rage’s record.  That’s 2 and a half complaints a year and no one thought that maybe this was a clue?

Excessive force is the norm for this guy and he is more than willing to hide behind the law.  The internal affairs department is the watchers watching themselves.  Don’t think that’s really the case?

CBS Atlanta confirmed there has been no disciplinary action taken against Hobbs, and not a single day of suspension for an officer with 58 incidents of use of force. That’s nearly 20 times more often than an average Clayton County police officer had in the same time period.

A man who was in a diabetic coma was beaten by the officer and the internal affairs office ruled it justified.  Harless, the officers from LaGrange, San Antonio, and this guy obviously fit right at home together.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 119 Officer Michael Hobbs

Because the proper behavior is to beat the hell out of someone when they’re passed out.  Who care’s about the actual medical reason, it’s an excuse to beat someone right?

h/t SayUncle

In September, a former Deacon of Lakeland Church in Florida killed
his wife then shot a couple clergymen at the church.  Parishioners tackled
the man after he started shooting and subdued him until the authorities
arrived.  What makes this an It
Can’t Happen Here type of story is the following:

“I’ve
never heard of any problems there,” said Bryan Neely, who owns a motorcycle shop
about two blocks away.

Just because you haven’t heard of problems doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

“We’re
trying to find out exactly what forced him to go into this killing rage on a
Sunday morning,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. “It’s sad because of all
the places you should be safe, you should be safe in your house of worship. And
you should be safe in your house of worship on a Sunday morning.”

[…]

“If
we can’t feel safe in the church, where can we feel safe?” Johnson
asked.

One should be able to feel safe in their own home too.  Doesn’t mean that is
going to be the case all the time. 

Crime does not discriminate.  Just because it is a place of worship does
not mean it is exempt.

When you have the excess man power, facilities, and equipment to do the following.  Your budget is too big.

In a city that hosts its fair share of murders and terror plots,
Washington, D.C., police are cracking down on another threat to the
nation’s capital — expired vehicle registrations. 

To the frustration of forgetful drivers, Metropolitan Police
Department officers are throwing people in jail for letting their tag
renewals lapse. The practice provoked somewhat of a backlash last year
after a local mother from Maryland was jailed for what in many places
would be a routine traffic offense punishable by fine. But the
department continues to reserve and exercise the right to throw drivers
in the clink for missing the DMV deadline, no matter where they’re
from. 

Sending people to jail for expired tags is necessary because of what reason?  A fine is reasonable, but what benefit does jail time serve?  It is often touted how over taxed the jail and prison systems are.  Well it’s no freaking wonder if they’re tossing anyone and everyone under the sun into jail.

Here’s a new set of rules:

• If you have the excess man power for something like this
• If you have the excess jail space for something like this
• If you can continue to perform all your other functions as well

If you match those conditions, your budget should be shrunk.  By how much, enough that the first two are completely unsatisfied, and your officers are doing free overtime to keep up on bullet 3.

A Gardner police officer already facing charges of child rape, and another man who was his roommate, are facing charges of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman who was their roommate.

Larry J. Landry, 35, and Tyler Hartley, 20, have been charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over age 14. They were arraigned Sept. 27, and pretrial hearings are scheduled for Oct. 18.

That right there has all the signatures of upright and honest all over it doesn’t it?  The guy looks like the guys I saw dealing drugs in high school tats and all.  There’s some questionable items in the article.  Such as why she remained in the living arrangement after the first incident.  However I do know that sometimes people end up in a tight spot and don’t think they have any other option.  Especially when you see the following:

She said she was afraid to turn them in because she worked for Mr. Landry and his father doing security and did not want to lose her job.

In this economic environment loosing your job can easily mean loosing your ability to eat.  Fear for her was well placed and is certainly understandable.  Hopefully bubba on cell block D makes this former cop feel the same discomfort he put this woman through.  Not to mention how much child molesters are loved in prison.

Because being a cop and the son of a woman’s boss means you’re free to do whatever you want.

Timmy, can you say narcissistic personality disorder?

via Drudge

Apparently beat cops now joining their jack booted brethren in shooting dogs anytime they get the chance.

That dog was not a threat, it was not aggressive, it was on a leash pole to boot. Do you expect any animal to be happy about being captured like that? What the hell is wrong Lagrange Police department?  Is this standard operating procedure to catch a dog and then execute it?

In the words of Jack Swager, “I don’t think you understand, they killed my dog.” 

Jay’s rage meter doesn’t even go high enough to display my level of pissed off.  There is no doubt these men are still on the force.  After all it was just a dog right.  No matter that one of the characteristics of a budding serial killer is someone who tortures and kills animals, especially those placed in a defenseless state.  I see no reason to have shot that animal, it just wanted to be left alone.  If anything that police officer was the aggressive animal in that situation and should have been shot*.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 117 Doug Howell and his Partner

Because why should the swat team be the only ones to get to kill puppies?  Especially since the beat cops catch them first before shooting them.

h/t Uncle

*I don’t normally wish harm amongst other people, but I wouldn’t shed a tear if either of these asshats house burned down with them in it.  Seriously, I find value in human life, and I find it despicable when the anti-rights folks wish harm upon others.  This situation though I think is an exception to my rule.

What he said.

All I can say is very well put Robb.  My father growing up was a contractor and paid all the insurance for the family out of pocket.  We had 0 debt other than the mortgage.

Moving forward to now.  My wife has been working any extra overtime she can.  I’ve been working on trying to find a way to have a second job that I can work from home.  We both have debt but we’re working on a snowball to clear it.

We spend most of our free time trying to figure out how we can earn more money.  Both by means of fire and forget, and good old fashioned labor.  We have a few ideas, it’s a matter of solving the implementation now.  Many of our ideas are outside our immediate area of expertise and we’re having to self educate.

The idea that you can quit your job to go protest the people working their asses off just boggles the mind.

So much for “Life, Liberty, and Property”.  I knew about civil forfeiture, however I was not aware of extreme circumstances such as this.

This is a prime example of redistribution of wealth.  No trial, no jury, no crime, no conviction, just the seizure of all assets as a gigantic tax.  This is they type of incident you would expect to hear about in some socialist hell.  Instead this wonderful example is in the birthplace of Liberty; where blood was spilt on Lexington Green.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 115

Because when you have a budget deficit, you solve it by stealing from hardworking American’s.  Due processes is only necessary for criminals, not the law abiding.