Heaven forbid you inform the public of corrupt officers within your department.
State Sponsored Criminal #372: Sgt. Arnold Davis
Because when you respond to a criminal robbing an establishment, you’re free to take cash from the drawer, it’s a reward for doing your job right?
Remember this is New York City where only the anointed are worthy of carrying firearms and even then ownership is difficult. Given these facts and he was obviously supplying arms to criminals to prey upon those disarmed by the state, it counts.
State Sponsored Criminal #370: Nicholas Mina
Because when you have a drug habit and are a cop, that just means you have a ready supply of stuff to sell on the black market.
Unfortunately private party sales aren’t legal in the state of California like they are here in free America. However the following is worth a note:
It also takes all of about three seconds to determine it’s airsoft and further he could have asked permission prior to touching. If it had been a real firearm cop or not I would yell at him to put it down. You NEVER touch someone else’s firearm without permission.
Once he was told to leave, he needed to immediately. If he has “the right by law”, I want the cite.
He’s on the count because not a damn thing will happen to him. There were much more civil ways to deal with that call than the way he did which was the Cartman method.
State Sponsored Criminal #368: Officer Tom Tiphayachan
Because a garage sale means that you can do as much digging as you want and you can’t be trespassed if you’re a cop right!?
h/t Uncle
Now why would I emphasize a thing like that?
That right there is one upright officer of the law. She knew it was wrong to begin with then she tried to flee the scene of an accident.
State Sponsored Criminal #368: Erica Montanez
Because really, shouldn’t everyone just yield to the drunk cop trying to go straight in a left turn only lane?
via Bob S
This is going into the count because the deputies were ultimately responsible. They went to the wrong house. It was their job to verify they were at the proper address prior to initiating contact. Further it was their job to properly identify themselves. Not that it would really help much because I’m not going to believe someone at OH ‘Dark Thirty when they’re claiming to be the cops.
Further the only people we have left to tell what happened are the officers themselves. It is only their side of the story we are hearing and it could be they embellished it specifically to ensure they would remain “justified”.
The fact is as long as we have qualified immunity, innocent people will continue to die from deputies half-assing their police work. Why should they do the job proper and right when Qualified Immunity will shield them from their gross negligence.
Let this be a serious lesson in NOT opening the door at bum fuck thirty in the morning. I find it interesting though that the victim supposedly had his gun pointed at them and neither of them was shot as the victim returned fire. I think this is a classic case of the victim armed himself and the officers felt that made them justified in shooting him.
State Sponsored Criminal Count #367: Officer John Doe
Because doing your job right is too much work when you don’t have consequences if you screw up.
via Robb – His discussion on it is here.
Emily Miller gives us a nicely detailed guide on what it takes to exercise a Constitutionally guaranteed right in our nations capital. Here’s a nice excerpt, I would highly suggest reading the whole thing.
I’ve been writing this guide bit by bit from the day in Oct. 2011 when I first went to the District’s firearm registration office and said, “I want a gun.” Back then, I expected it to take a few weeks and cost $60 to have a firearm at home. I was off by a few months and $375. Also, I believed that documenting the process for the newspaper would mean a few stories about long lines and frustrating bureaucrats. I was far off the mark.
When I started, there were 17 steps to getting a legal gun in Washington. However, as my series exposed the particularly burdensome requirements to gun ownership, the city council moved to remove some of those barriers. Now there are 12 steps that take much less time and the cost has decreased by $262.
Even with the improvements I still say its way too much. Especially considering one should be allowed to vote without showing ID, but look at the barriers to gun ownership.
These barriers are numerous and the biggest is a financial hurdle that many may not be able to overcome. Imagine adding a $125 transfer fee plus an extra $48 dollars in asking the police department for permission to own a firearm.
Not to mention the additional 10 day waiting period which does nothing but make sure that someone who may legally own a firearm isn’t able to purchase one when they really need it.
Name one single other right that has these types of bars against their exercise. There is no waiting period on free speech. If someone says something bad about you, you are not prohibited from writing about them for 10 days while your blog registration application comes through. You are not required to pay a fee to the state for the permission to create a blog or computer, or network connection to run your blog. You are allowed to write freely in defense of your character.
Contrast that to firearms where an abusive-ex can threaten you, and you are now stuck waiting for 10 days. You have a pile of fees to pay both to a monopolistic FFL and the police department for the permission to have an effective tool of self-defense. A right guaranteed by the US Constitution and stated as applying to the individual in the McDonald decision is subject to fees and limitations of its exercise. The consequences in this latter case though can be lethal for the person whose rights are being violated.
Instead of allowing free exercise, they create a maze of bureaucracy to be followed, which does nothing but ease the government in their efforts to infringe a right while appearing to allow for free exercise.
If your laws need a guide in order explain to people how to exercise a right, there is something grossly wrong with the design of the system. It is obviously designed and engineered with the intent of stopping people from exercising that right. The politicians and people responsible should be run up on 18.242.
I applaud Emily Miller for her efforts in correcting this wrong. While she has made considerable advancement as can be seen, there is still a long way to go. I doubly appreciate that she created that wonderful guide to aid others through the bureaucratic nightmare that are D.C.’s gun laws.
A bereft Henrico County family says its son died near Cool Lane, robbed of his life and $15.
I already hear you asking how this could be a state sponsored criminal, it starts off as an everyday crime. The police weren’t involved and were merely investigating the death.
Let me get this straight. A young man was killed, over the money in his wallet. You travel to the home to inform the family, and then to add insult to injury, you shoot the young man’s dog. You shoot his dog, YOU SHOOT HIS !@#$ING DOG. (Stops and spends 5 minutes saying woosah, remember the pressure points).
What in the name of god were you thinking. Maybe you should back off, yell up to the house, even try calling them on the phone. This is the 21st century, you do have a phone don’t you?
No instead you walk up to the house, invading the dogs territory, you see it running at you, and assume it is going to attack you. You then plug the dog with a couple new holes with a lead slinging instrument and then tell the family, “Your son’s dead. BAM BAM, oh was that his dog? Yeah, you’re gonna need to bury him too.”
If I walk up to someone’s house and someone’s dog runs at me, I don’t just get to shoot it and claim self-defense, neither does the mailman. So why do these people get a sudden free pass to shoot any dog they want.
State Sponsored Criminal #366: Officer John Doe*
Because the correct way to inform someone that their son is dead is by shooting the boy’s dog first. Nothing say’s I’m sorry for your loss than killing the family pet.
*If you find it contact me, I want his name for the count.
Anything I do or say on the internet, despite any internal belief said discussions or pictures are “private”, could be provided to law enforcement to aid in prosecution against me. Just because I don’t have Facebook, Google, or any other company in my friends list doesn’t mean they won’t monitor what I say.
You did repeat it right? If not, go back and repeat it.
What am I talking about I hear you ask. This is what I’m talking about.
First if you’re surprised by this, do not take this the wrong way, you’re a gullible idiot. I have a nasty habit of being blunt and straight forward, and I do not understand how people could think something said on Facebook could be considered “private”.
Here’s the thing, social media predominately relies on servers and infrastructure provided by someone else. Anything you send to that server can be seen by them unless it is encrypted by you before transmission. If you encrypt your data though, only those with the key will be able to read it.
That said, even your friends list should be considered suspect. The digital world is not like the real world. It anonymity, which is a strength I love, can also be used against you. Neither of the two articles linked here should be considered surprising to anyone who is really aware of how the internet works.
I’ve had some friends tell me that Email is less secure than Facebook or other messaging services. Yes I had to pick my jaw up off the floor after that one. The wonderful thing about Email is you can easily add encryption and signatures. You can’t do much about any middle host that stores the email while in transit. They could decide to store a copy indefinitely. What’s to stop Facebook from doing the same? Your message can be stored by any router in between, and their systems can record and permanently store the entire conversation.
Here is my final lesson on the internet for today. The internet is a giant mesh where anyone in the middle of the mesh can see what you wrote. Doubly so when you’re primary point of contact is a service in the middle of that mesh. To think that they wont look at what you’re saying is not just naïve, but stupid. Especially since they can just use software to monitor for conversations that need to be red flagged.
Nothing, I mean NOTHING, you put on the net should ever be considered private. Even if you create a private part of photo-gallery. If someone compromises access, those private pictures are now in the wild, and odds are some will profit off of them.
*Red Team Hat On*: Me thinks I’m going to need to have a bunch of conversations with my friends involving explosives and other “suspect” behavior. I loves me some false positives, quickest way to destroy any system.
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