Since when does a County Sheriff get to arbitrarily choose which laws he will or will not enforce?
Dipstik is covering his *** with all of his heated rhetoric and vitriol. I’ve got a feeling that the FBI is going to want to talk to the boy before all of this is over. I hope the boy has his AARP dues caught up.
Obama already called this jerk. That is not distancing the White House from a Hack.
Seems to me that the sheriff may have had good reason to point fingers, because he may have known early on that his office was culpable and that he needed to deflect attention from himself.
Please notice that the Tucson police department have apparently not been involved in the investigation. I’m told that is because Lochner’s home, the crime scene, and Pima County Community College all lie outside the city limits, in the sheriff’s jurisdiction.
In other words, Lochner was likely well-known as a local “crazy” to law enforcement, but rather than documenting his behavior and forcing a mental evaluation, the sheriff’s office looked the other way.
It is very, very hard for families alone to get a mentally ill relative into psychiatric care if the patient is unwilling. But law enforcement can arrest a person and take him before the court for involuntary commitment.
I don’t know what the laws are in Arizona, but the families of the victims may have a good case against the sheriff.
Has anyone considered that Loughner looks like Krugman, but without the hair and beard. Both of them have that spaced-out look in their eyes.
The people of Pima county keep electing Dupnik..time after time.
“Since when does a County Sheriff get to arbitrarily choose which laws he will or will not enforce?”
Since always. We used to have some in North Carolina who ran real fiefdoms.
What a silly supposition.