a black helicopter was seen leaving the area!
(the type that don`t exist)
Posted on 11/21/2001 5:02:13 PM PST by expose
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The young lady was a nurse who moved into the trendy (to someone) apartments on Mud Island downtown, in the shadow of the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. The roving mauraders walked over a viaduct-like bridge over the WOLF River (a tributary that joins the Mississippi there), saw the woman parking her car outside her apartment building, and the rest is history.
They carried her somewhere in her own car. In her trunk as I recall. And as I recall when they finished gang raping her they ran over her a few times with her car for jollies.
They were arrested and convicted. Punishment? They get a few years of bulking-up at the gym and watching tv and learning some new skills, with access to all the drugs they want, all at our expense, in a typical prison. Then they're turned loose on us again, like animals were turned loose on gladiators and Christians in Roman games.
Like you, I do naturally wonder about his disappearance in light of who he is and his occupation.
And I wouldn't rule out suicide---so often when that happens those close to the person never would have guessed it possible.
Sometime during the last five years or so, FBI statistics indicated that only 1 in 10 crimes were reported in Memphis. Another analysis showed that only 1 in 10 of those reported to authorities made it into the media.
It isn't unique to Memphis, but the city has successfully figured out how to cook their books to show reduced crime, making the mayor and the Chamber of Commerce look good. Here's how it happens: they "dumb down" each crime by one "level" or so. If someone is busted for assault, they book him for battery. If he is arrested for battery, they put down disorderly conduct. And so forth. By simply dumbing down the charges by one increment, it looks like whopping successes in crime reduction. It's a joke.
Finally, the police in Memphis---probably true in other cities?---are just report takers. They have no mission or function of preventing crime or even apprehending criminals. They are there to be dispatched to go take REPORTS of crimes, so the city and department can comply with federal rules, bookkeeping, etc. My daughter was mugged NEXT DOOR to the police station on Union Avenue, as she walked out of Walgreens. The perps would just hang out in the parking lot and wait for their mark. The cops could not have NOT known. It was NEXT DOOR.
There is a police station on Beale, and there are routinely robberies, rapes, and an occassional murder and once or twice a year RIOT, right there within a hundred yards of the police station.
This story has a distinct similarity to the robbery and murder of Michael Jordan's father, James Jordan, that occurred a few years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if some highway bandits robbed him, murdered him, and threw him into the river. On the other hand, if other experts on infectious diseases start disappearing, then "Houston, we have a problem."
That's it!
Interesting about that anthrax... Last seen in the Dept. of Education bldg. in DC. Just heard that tonight on the radio.
My hunch is that waskally wight wing wadicals will be blamed.
Really, this is getting to be more of a Banana Republic everyday.
Some areas in America are already Banana Republics. Arkansas is a leading example. In fact, Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee recently said "Arkansas is a banana republic." I'm sure he said that only half-seriously, but it gives you an idea of what insiders know about the history of Arkansas.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A letter to Sen. Pat Leahy was laced with billions of anthrax spores,.......
T.V. report said,"...billions of anthrax spores, maybe, TRILLIONS!!
Report further said, U.S.A. and Soviet Union NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE THAT POTENTIAL!!
Tonight's T.V., ABC News reports, FBI says,'Daschle' (sic) letter contains, ONE (1) Trillion spores per gram!! ABC's Brian Ross reports.
IMHO
(whole 'new' ballgame??)(Harvard??)
I don't mean to imply that Memphis does not have a crime problem. It certainly does have one, and on scale, is worse than many other cities in America. However, as a law enforcment officer from a family of law enforcement officers (with over 100 years total law enforcent experience in Memphis), I can assure that Beale Street, Mud Island, and downtown Memphis are for the most part very safe areas. If it weren't, thousands of people would not go to Beale Street, Peabody Place, and other areas downtown every weekend to have a good time. The homes on Mud Island wouldn't have the highest cost per square foot in Memphis if part of the price was the gurantee that your wife would be raped or you would be robbed or murdered. The crime that does occur is very high profile and very highly reported, but much less frequent and severe than in other areas of town. Most crime is strictly black on black and confined to the ghetto areas that border downtown. There is crime in the area, but it is quite inaccurate to say that the area is the most dangerous in Memphis, much less in the whole USA.
As for rape, it does appear to occur at a high rate in Memphis. Most of these rapes are acquaintance rapes that turn out, after investigation, to not be rape at all, but rather a simple way to punish your boyfriend/lover/baby daddy for mistreating you in some other way after consensual sex. Of course, there are violent, sick, disturbing rapes that are perpetrated by thugs, but saying it is a one in three chance for a woman to be raped in Memphis is nonsense. I am thirty one, and I know one woman who was a victim of rape in Memphis. I've lived here my whole life, and if it were truly one in three, then I, or my father, or my brother, or my friends, or someone would know many people who were victims of rape. But like I said, I know one, the others I mention know no rape victims. One is too many, but it certainly doesn't validate your one in three statistic.
All that said, I'm certain the crime statistics are cooked to a degree. However, there is no doubt that the crime rate is lower than it was 10 years ago. More work needs to be done, and it has to start with the minority community. Most crime in this area, and almost all violent crime, is black on black. That doesn't make it okay, but it does somewhat restrict what the white population can do to reduce crime. Additionally, the Memphis metro area has the highest percentange black population in the United States. Higher than D.C., higher than Detroit, higher than Atlanta or Baltimore. This clearly intimidates many white people (and I know, because I work with many people from other places and they are scared to death in most areas of town just because of the black faces they see), which leads them to over state the actual crime, reporting anecdotal evidence versus fact. Everyone knows someone who was a victim, but interestingly, none are victims themselves.
I am sorry to hear about your daughter's mugging, and I don't doubt that laziness/incompetence in the MPD allowed thugs to congregate down the street from a Precinct. However, overstating the crime problem in Memphis in order to explain what is most likely a suicide makes no better sense than those who belive that the good doctor has been taken hostage by terrorists, the UN, or space aliens.
LOL!
Guilt for killing a couple of black postal workers and a Vietnamese refugee?
Probably has nothing to do with anything.
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