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Officer Clocked at 99 MPH and Smelling of Alcohol Not Ticketed or Checked for Sobriety
Posted on 03/05/2006 12:37:27 PM PST by Mean Daddy
Since you can't post anything from the Des Moines Register, here's a link to the article. Unbelievable!!!
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/NEWS01/603030387&SearchID=73237551850783
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; alcohol; desmoines; donutwatch; doublestandard; drunk; drunkdriving; iowa; lawenforcment; leo; madd; professionalcourtesy; sobrietycheckpoints; sop; warondrugs; zeropointeight
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Would your police department treat you as nice?
To: Mean Daddy
From WHO-TV of Des Moines:
DES MOINES, Iowa The chief of police in Des Moines is questioning a decision to not ticket an officer stopped for speeding.
Last September, drug investigator Stewart Drake was stopped on Interstate 235 in West Des Moines for driving 99 miles-per-hour.
Officer Troy Shelley thought he smelled alcohol, but he didn't test Drake or issue a speeding ticket. Drake was given a warning and a supervisor was asked to pick him up.
Chief Bill McCarthy says he regrets the perception that Drake got preferential treatment.
A West Des Moines police spokesman says Shelley acted appropriately because Drake would face punished from his department.
Drake was suspended without pay for two days. He avoided a 300-dollar speeding fine and possible license suspension.
To: Mean Daddy
I've heard rumors about some local LEO's having some wild partys at some cabin in the woods around here and they basically get -faced and laid and then come tearing *ss out of there on the backroads all the while covering each other's butts.
Just a rumor AFAIK.
File under 'I wouldn't doubt it.'
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:40:55 PM PST
by
Looking4Truth
(The U.S. knows the rest of the world is damn near useless and we're sick of carrying their asses!)
To: Mean Daddy
hmmmmm....ya think one of us peasants would've gotten the full monty????!!!!!
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:41:26 PM PST
by
mo
To: Mean Daddy
Happens Everyday in every city across the nation.
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:43:09 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( I love Scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch)
To: Mean Daddy
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:43:13 PM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Hey liberals, you be straight trippin. I get paid to get in your business.)
To: Mean Daddy
was given a warning and a supervisor was asked to pick him up. Never heard of a suspected drunk driver being given the option of getting a ride home after the fact.
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:46:01 PM PST
by
weegee
("Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.")
To: Mean Daddy
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:49:13 PM PST
by
M203M4
To: weegee; All
laws are for the common peasants not the knights doing the kings bidding
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:50:21 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
To: elkfersupper
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:52:57 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Smoke gnatzies: small minds buzzing in you business........SWAT'EM)
To: Mean Daddy
Anyone that believes cops don't look after their own are fooling themselves....
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:53:13 PM PST
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: M203M4
IBTBLThat's a new one to me....In Before The....Balogna Lines
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:54:37 PM PST
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: cmsgop
Hey!I was thinking the same thing.Thats been happening forever!Nothing new there.
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:56:36 PM PST
by
xarmydog
To: ScreamingFist; SandfleaCSC
IBTBL
In before the boot lick.
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:57:09 PM PST
by
M203M4
To: M203M4
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posted on
03/05/2006 12:57:59 PM PST
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: Mean Daddy
These cops are just busy poisoning the jury pool. It'll come back to haunt when the jurors become fed up.
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
No blood, no foul right Bro? ;-)
To: Mean Daddy
Laws aren't for members of the gang.
To: Navy Patriot
You are so right! Jurors with any experience or knowledge now know to disbelieve any self-serving police testimony.
To: Cap'n Crunch
Depends on who did the pulling over. They may think this is their chance to get back a someone. Or even more likely, their chance to get ahead.
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posted on
03/05/2006 1:08:21 PM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Hey liberals, you be straight trippin. I get paid to get in your business.)
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