The DPD also said about the Duke Students, at some point, that they have a zero tolerance policy.
If that's your policy - it has to apply to everyone.
The thing that many people don't understand is that Durham is overwhelmed with crime and this guy is arresting 20 year olds for underage drinking and noise violations.
It may have been the party that the N&O mentions in their article - but at one point they pulled up to a Duke party with basically a swat truck and a paddy wagon. They burst into the party and arrested everyone under 21 and those 21 or over got hit with noise violations.
At that point, the assignment of resources is absurd.
Just like Nifong moving the DNA tests for this case to the highest priority in the state - and letting DNA in cases of mass murders languish.
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THe picture is coming together clearly. Simultaneously, there was a DA with an upcoming election and police with a track history of (at best) grossly exaggerating incidents involving Duke students. Those incidents were disgusting and worthy of citations, but nowhere near what Gottlieb charged (sound familiar?). From my experience, neighbors of Duke students who were sick of the public urination, noise violations, drunken behavior, etc. were pressuring Durham to do something, really anything, and Gottlieb served as their personal hero by making life miserable enough for the Duke students to leave.
The flag incident noted in the article is revealing because it shows his willingness to concoct a charge to make life more painful for Duke students when he had to know there was no way that charge would ever be sustained. Gottlieb will be destroyed when he testifies, and now there is a sound evidentiary basis for suggesting his report is a pack of lies -- he's done it before.
The documents requested by the defense, including Gottlieb's timeline he prepared in early April for Patrick Baker, will be important because he prepared it before he got his story straight. Combine a rogue cop with a dingbat DA, and you get phony rape charges.
It is the trend. Why wouldn't you make your arrests from the pool of people who won't blow you brains out, or be inclined to fight you? Most underaged drinkers SHOULD be picked up and put in jail with a call to the parents to come and get 'em. I would tend to let them spend the night and then come and take them home and ground them for ETERNITY. However, the police have now decided to give permanent records to kids and leave it to the courts to sort out. Now THERE's some good news.