Posted on 09/07/2002 12:33:26 AM PDT by Houmatt
I remember an article you posted that said he was planning to decide in the next few weeks. I don't know if he is compelled to make a decision by then.
I don't know why he's taking so long to decide what is obvious to 99.9% of us.
I think they completed interviews of all of the officers (that participated in the operation) last week. It's reasonable to give him some time to sift through all of it and follow-up if necessary. I'd also like to see the outcome of the investigation concerning the origin of the "no trespassing" signs and the authority under which they were posted.
Also, I'm still concerned about the reports of officers waving guns around during the operation. These days, the mere sight of a gun turns some people wild-eyed, so I'm not convinced it wasn't blown out of proportion. But, it needs to be checked out -- if sustantiated, I think it's a more serious matter than false arrest.
I'm old enough to remember my son saying his high school football coach used profanity..... OH HORRORS!!!!!!!
Lying about the use of profanity on the job (in an investigation over a botched dragnet to arrest drag racers) is a heinous offense, free speech be damned.
I'm old enough to remember my son saying his high school football coach used profanity..... OH HORRORS!!!!!!!
Yeah, but it ain't the cussin' that got Bradford in trouble -- it was the coverup. If he had testified "$#@$!, yeah, I called that little snake a %$#$*#( #$#$er, it would have been no harm, no foul. But unless you can collect the number of spearcatchers, hitmen, and smear artists that the Clintons did, you are toast if you perjure yourself.
Perhaps he should have blamed the corrupting influence of television. After all, isn't there profanity on NYPD Blue? He could have brought this up as a defense and then dropped his pants and shown his butt to the judge. Gritty police realism with problems wrapped up in under an hour.
mORE pc BS !
tHE PERSON WHO HASN'T USED PROFANITY IS A VERY RARE BIRD!
I pity these officers,etc when dealing with criminals who speak in profanities constantly.
I agree with your comments, dix. Expecially about how being a policeman is gritty. Oftentimes, it's also an unrewarding profession. They put their lives on the line, every day. They are a target, every time they put on their uniform. They are willing to do what many of us are not. We call them to protect us, help us, or help others who are in situations that are dangerous (drunks loaded with guns or anger, or domestic violence, for example), where emotions run rampant and sanity does not. They see death, if not daily, then weekly. Like ER docs, they have to remove their feelings from tragedy, from the sight of death. Many deal with that by joking about it with their comrades. This is not done with disrespect toward the badly injured or dead, but to keep their own sanity and ability to "do their job." What good is a policeman, or doctor, who cries at every injured/dead person? I couldn't do this. And so, they are oftentimes perceived as uncaring or tactless. (I am not defending anyone who is unkind to the family/relatives of the injured/dead.....I'm just saying those kinds of jobs force one to act in ways that keep them from crumbling. Along with that, I suppose, the language they use becomes less than "proper." I have been around a lot of cops. They routinely swear---all of them. When they are around women, however, they try to refrain from this talk, but it's difficult to do because, when they're just around the guys, that's the way it is: "f this, f that," etc. I could care less about how my superior would talk if I worked in that environment, it's much different than the environment of, say, a bank or law firm, where I can expect the language used to be "proper." Just my two cents here on the language subject.
"But... but... they weren't names! they were terms of affection! I use the 'motherf-----' word with my best friends!"
Our government has reduced itself to PC idiocy.Let us all take a silent moment to thank former(at last) President,Mr. W.J. Clinton for this.
That being said, let the loose cannons of LEO be hoisted high on their own petards.
I have wiped the sleep from my eyes, and seen the harm done to this country by the "left", alternative to common sense, and any non-comotose citizen left standing.
The debacle in Houston was not right(moral, legal, correct), defensable by law, nor even conceivable as possible by the many men and women who are currently putting themselves in harms way to defend their sorry @sses.
It is indeed sad that the only way to rid ourselves of such insanity, is to resort to the same repulsive, banal,legal "niceties" they entrap themselves in.
Whatever....works.
This is well worth repeating. Our country has so much to offer, to so many......how it breaks my heart that the little people of the U.S., those with small brains and no hearts such as the likes of Daschle and the Clintons, have gained such power and used it to destroy the excellence our nation could otherwise have achieved.
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