Posted on 01/24/2010 3:43:51 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
How many mistaken-identity arrests does it take to make you angry? For me, one was enough — a mom snatched from her home in Sterling and jailed in Denver because the city figured she was someone she isn't. Then came another case, and another and another. Victim after victim has told how they were arrested and thrown behind bars because of sloppy police work. A former city worker was mistaken for a man who was long dead. A student was held for a week without a court appearance and forced to answer to another man's name. And a 21-year-old was jailed more than four months on a warrant for a suspect with a discernibly different physical description. In the two years since Christina FourHorn, the Sterling mom, went public about her ordeal, the city has tried to shrug off its screw-ups as anomalies. Officials estimate only a few ID errors have been made among thousands of inmates.
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14256402#ixzz0dZnouxlo
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Put a few of the idiot cops who do this into prison under 18USC242 for the rest of their lives and this crap will stop really quickly.
Fuel against the current rat mayor of Denver, who is running for Governor.
Agreed, but it won’t happen though it should.
Sounds like “And Justice For All,” classic 1979 Al Pacino movie.
Yeah normally, statistically speaking, that might be acceptable, but when you got the guy in hand screaming at the top of his lungs, "no it's not me! I'm not even the same race as he is, here, look at my Driver's License!" and somehow you can gin up an excuse to haul him in anyway, then the Rules Of Probability no longer apply.
We need more prisons and to get “tough on crime.” That will fix everything. The rich feminists in the licensed corporate-government-academic families can feel safe then. ...need to get rid of the rest of those liberal substantial corpus delicti requirements, too. All that should be necessary, is for our superiors to point at the guilty. Then they’d be safe. ...need new social programs and more spending to instigate more crime, too. ...and stronger gates and cheap, third-world guards with automatic rifles patrolling around HOA developments. ...and more police, with anti-tank weapons. ;-)
...and immunities for public officials. Oh...they already have those.
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