“I have heard the word used all the time but never as that euphemism. Freeh will have to do better than that.”
It’s got nothing to do with Freeh. The emails, which were released before the Freeh report, and which contain no comment from Freeh, show that Paterno et al used that as their own euphemism.
“By “all” you mean Curley, Spanier, and Schultz who he handed the ball off to, right???”
No, I mean Paterno, Curley, Spanier, Schultz, etc. All of the people at Penn State who were involved in the decision to cover-up, Paterno INCLUDED.
“The fact that no record of such a report exists doesn’t mean that the report was never made to the Chief of the University Police. That’s Freeh’s euphemism for “they were made but we can’t find them”. See the darkened area above for proof.”
The “darkened area” contains no such proof, that I can see, unless you are conflating the 1998 and 2001 incidents. Why would people assume the report wasn’t made when there is no report to be found? Maybe it’s because we have their emails where they are engaged in a criminal conspiracy not to make that report? That might have something to do with it.
Let me assist you:
"The victim's mother reported the 1998 incident to campus police. According to the Freeh report, then-Police Chief Thomas Harmon told University Vice President Gary Schultz: "We're going to hold off on making any crime log entry. At this point in time I can justify that decision because of the lack of clear evidence of a crime."
Did the mother contact the university police???
Yes.
Did Schultz meet with the Chief of the University Police??
Yes
Did the Chief of the University Police say that he was not going to make a record of the incident even after being notified by the mother and meeting with Schultz???
Yes
A report to and a meeting with the university police and still no record down on paper. Just because a record wasn't made BY the Chief of the University Police didn't mean that a report wan't made TO the Chief of the University Police, does it???
So what's to say the same thing didn't happen in 2001 ???
Freeh's words "No record exists" do not mean that "No report was made".
What evidence is there that the Chief of the University Police was not contacted in 2001??? Is the only evidence of "no contact" that "No record exists" or was the Chief contacted in 2001 as he was in 1998 and simply made no record of it in 2001 as he made no record of it in 1998 even after a report was made and a meeting was held???