A Web Site Causes Unease in Police

The New York Times to My Yahoo! ^ | Sat Jul 12 | ADAM LIPTAK

[ecurbh]

Already posted

[CanisRex]

no complaints here about Mr. S. Hope he keeps on keeping on.

[dighton]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

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[7DayRepo]

Yes, in a free country it's important for the police to remain secret -- secret police, that is.

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[7DayRepo]

What's your take on John Ashcroft and the USAPA?

[Ford Fairlane]

The state of Illinois has my personal information posted on at least 3 public web pages.

If states can post this kind of info because you have to have a state issued license to do business, i suppose it is only fair to be able to post the same info about the state's employees (in this case police officers)

[Prodigal Son]

Yes, welcome to FR.

[youknow]

thanks

[copwife]

How about your and your family's personal info out there for all the loonies in the world to see? I'm sure that you'd be screaming about it!! Better think about this. Maybe someone somewhere will not like the work you do and you'll be placed in this danger. Who will you call to keep you safe?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Why is it we can't get the exact address of sex offenders in our area but scum losers can get SSNs and exact addresses for LEOs?

[Tamzee]

Anyone who would support this a**hole is sick.

[Jeff Gordon]

The data base sounds like a good idea to me.

It will help greatful citizens send Thank You cards, Christmas presents, etc to LEOs who have been a genuine help to them. It will help police groupies and supporters to show their appreciation but doing little things like cutting their lawn, painting their houses, washing their cars and even shining their boots. It will allow citizens that really appreciate all the help they have had from the police to look out for their families while they are on duty.

Sheehan should consider making up playing cards or trading cards with pictures, names, addresses, phone numbers etc of these hard working, fearless and helpful boys and girls in blue.

[coloradan]

Police have no duty to protect individuals, something you must know given your screen name. So, what do you mean by "Who will you call to keep you safe?" It isn't the police!

[coloradan]

It will help greatful citizens send Thank You cards, Christmas presents, etc to LEOs who have been a genuine help to them.

I think that's a great idea.

Unfortunately, I haven't met one in my life: I've certainly received parking and traffic tickets, gotten my car ticketed and/or towed a couple times, and I've called them to report a mugging once, no perps found, and a burglary twice, no property recovered. I called the FBI once about a case of mail fraud, they said it wasn't their jurisdiction, and the postal inspector declined to prosecute, there are more important things. And of course I've been hassled by airport security I don't know how many times. It must be nice to have had an LEO be helpful to you once, but I can't say I know the feeling. The feeling I know is one of intimidation when cops who come to city council meetings when the subject of gun control comes up, or having cops videotape me and other protestors in Denver when we protested the million morons, even though the million morons have assaulted us and we haven't assaulted them. I also called the Denver ATF once to report a teen felon David Winkler, who openly confessed to going to the Tanner gun show right after Columbine, to buy a TEC-9 for cash, even though he was a teen at the time, making the handgun purchase a felony. (He is the son of a local gun grabber, and his purpose in the gun buy was to drum up support to "close" the so-called gun show "loophole," by showing how easy it was for him to criminally purchase a gun, ergo, more laws are needed.) The ATF had no interest in that prosecution either; they just wanted to know who sold the gun to a teen.

[Tamzee]

No need to waste bandwidth telling me you support this vile fellow, I knew you would.

My original opinion stands.

[Freedom4US]

Our state allows this. We publish their photos in the daily newspaper, they get updated everytime they move.

That newspaper article is missing one crucial bit of information. If they had one ounce of journalistic integrity they would have at MINIMUM listed his phone #, address, social security number, etc.

[CanisRex]

What's your take on John Ashcroft and the USAPA?

I don't find that the USAPA offensive; if that's what you mean. Now granted, this guy has an axe to grind, but the result is a one stop collection of public information about public employees. Not only is it not illegal, I think it's a great public service.

[CanisRex]

Why is it we can't get the exact address of sex offenders in our area but scum losers can get SSNs and exact addresses for LEOs?

Oh, I don't know... Could it be these things called the American Legal System and Public Records of Civil Servants? I don't trust SO's to keep the peace, be of good moral fiber, avoid corruption, protect the civilian populace, etc. All Sheehan did was aggregate public information. Good for him. Accountability goes a long way to keeping noses clean. As others have said here before; they took the job as public employees. I like knowing who works for me and how many times he/she has been arrested and how many bankruptcy's he/she has.