To Harry Reid,

I am sorry to hear about your blindness. I am concerned about your perception of depth. Would a Disability Dog help prevent such potential to harm?

We care, Harry because you have cared for so long.

The dogs help people of all ages and any type of disability. A dog may help perception of distance so walking is a secure faculty.  

The dogs maintain freedom, Harry.

There is a vortex that formed in the usa. The weather is bizarre, including tornadoes.

April 17, 2015
1130.20z
UNISYS Water Vapor North and East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

It formed in the past 12 hours. This is caused by Human Induced Global Warming.

And the political opposition states, "Everything can't be caused by global warming." Yes, it can. 

In all instances where 'human error' enters the landscape there are remedies decided.

In the case of medicine when a patient dies due to human error it is either called negligence or malpractice, never is it called an "oops." Medical professionals can be jailed for such problems. The entire medical professional has built in guards against such problems. It is not an excuse, it a warning.

Obviously, law enforcement practices haven't addressed any of their 'oops' in a meaningful way. "I shot him, I'm sorry." is not a final product, it is a huge problem for others calling themselves citizens.

I can think of a dozen different things that can be done to mitigate this ERROR in the practice of law enforcement. The man paid the police department plenty money, becomes a part of the department, is armed as if a police officer and now he has killed a man in a very inappropriate sting operation. "Oops" is not even in the picture. 

April 10, 2015
By Burt Mummolo

An accident (click here) is how the shooting has been described in general. But now, a more detailed term is being used to explain the shooting by a Tulsa Reserve Deputy; slip and capture.
"These are mistakes that are made when you think you are doing one thing but you actually are doing another, and the result often is directly opposite of what you intended," said consultant Jim Clark.And law enforcement isn't the only field to be devastated by a fatal mix-up.
"It's happened in the aviation industry," he said.
When flight 3407 began to stall in February of 2009, officials say the pilot should have lowered the nose and increased power, but instead pulled up, making matters worse and leading to disaster.
"It happens in the medical community," said Clark.
An example being when a new IV pump is programmed by a nurse familiar with an older model, inadvertently administering either too little or too much medication.
"Deputy Bates transitioned from his pepper ball gun to what he thought was his Taser," he said.
A split second mix-up with horrible aftermath, a slip on the grip of what's right and a capture of dire consequences.
"Slips and capture can occur in times of extreme stress and in dire emergencies," said Clark....

An attack on the reputation of a long standing news agency is not going to work. The fact they have reported on Tulsa for so long lends credibility and the journalist involved has verified sources of statements from valid authority. A news agency has it's reputation on the line, too. As a rule journalists check and double check facts before they are made public.

I am relieved this has made national news. 

It doesn't matter how the civil dynamics exist, there is a man dead.

This is just an outrageous policy by police departments. I have never heard in my many years a reserve police officer having the power to effect a police sting operations. Everything about this says it is wrong.

April 14, 2015
By Steve Helling

A reserve deputy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (click here) has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a man who was killed during a sting operation.

Bob Bates, a 73-year-old insurance executive who moonlighted as a reserve deputy, is accused of fatally shooting Eric Harris, 44.

It all began on April 2, when the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office began a sting to buy illegal firearms from Harris. During the operation, Harris became suspicious and tried to flee. Officers caught him and tackled him to the ground.... 

An apology to a family may be more than appropriate, but, the loss of a family member carries pain beyond the apology.

"Slip and capture," how convenient. Mr. Bates is confident to his not guilty verdict.

A dead man is a dead man. "Slip and capture" or not, there is a crime committed and there needs to be a jury to determine justice. The fact Mr. Bates plays a determining factor in a police sting operation is simply outrageous. This is not going away. The "Pay to Play" is an entire element that lends itself to this outcome. That will end.

July 22, 2015

Two expert witnesses (click here) with Force Science backgrounds are believed to have been influential in a jury’s recent decision to reject a murder conviction of a former transit officer accused of deliberately shooting an unarmed suspect in the back during a handcuffing scuffle.
The witnesses, Dr. Bill Lewinski, executive director of the Force Science Institute, and retired LAPD captain Greg Meyer, a certified Force Science Analyst, testified in detail how a combination of inadequate training and psychological stress phenomena most likely led to a tragic accident in which the officer mistakenly drew his sidearm instead of his X26 Taser while trying to restrain the struggling suspect. The prosecution had claimed the incident was one of intentional homicide by an out-of-control cop.
“This case,” Lewinski told Force Science News, “is a classic illustration of powerful forces beyond an officer’s conscious awareness that can shape a threatening encounter. These forces may not be readily evident even to unbiased witnesses, but in a matter of seconds they can change the lives of those involved forever.”

The United Nations will change leadership on December 31, 2015.

There is a front runner to replace Ban Ki-moom.

April 17, 2015

...Bulgarian Irina Bokova, (click here) the current head of the UN's largest agency UNESCO, announced her candidacy for the post of secretary-general earlier this year....
...The UN started in 1945, there have been eight secretary-generals, none have been women and none have come from the eastern European section.
"The general view, globally, is that it's their turn."
Experts said Ms Bokova was an extremely strong performer who met the UN stipulation of fluency in French....

Nancy Pelosi on the Iraq War vote.

I haven't check the votes, but, my best guess is that any legislator from New York City and New York State would vote for the war. There were Bush officials and himself stating there was a threat. 

The responsibility for the impetus to war into Iraq really belongs to Bush. He took advantage of a traumatized country to push through his own agenda. Bush was leading into disaster and it was his responsibility to carry out police based in the best intelligence, not his own agenda. But, Bush never bothered to lead on the CIA's assessment of al Qaeda either. He was on a tangent no one knew about until it was launched.

April 16, 2015


...I was top Democrat on the intelligence committee at the time. (click here) As such I was required to receive all of the intelligence. I said at the time, the intelligence does not support the threat. I had better access than everybody. I couldn’t really say what I saw.
They said are you calling the president a liar. I said I’m stating a fact; the intelligence does not support the threat. My members had confidence this me. On the strength of that many of them voted against it. Some of them were never going to vote for the war any way. They did thank me afterward.
I was very, it was a few leaders. I wasn't a leader then but I was few of the persons that had all these years of experience on intelligence and national security. They trusted my judgment…
I can say of that a message was given to the American people by the White House that was not true, misrepresented the concern that was out there and created an atmosphere where unless you really studied this carefully, and I’m not saying everybody had access to that material, and they didn't. I was in a special place.
But I don't think a vote on a war 13 years ago, 14 years ago; the vote was '02, right now…
Again, Hillary Clinton has been a strong -- she comes to this, yes, as a woman. That happens to be that she's a woman. She’s so qualified. She has had great national security experience as a member of the armed services committee and secretary of state.
For these and so many reasons she'll be one of the strongest, best prepared people to enter the oval office in a long time. There are some others but she will be among the best prepared to serve as president.
A war vote is a vote that everybody makes on the basis of what think know, what they believe, who they trust. There’s large number of people who supported the war. The consequences have been terrible in terms of what it meant to our veterans and the rest of that, but no. the answer is no. I don't think it should disqualify her…

This is going to be a very tough sell.

The need is legitimate. The West is going to need reassurance the immigrants are not leaning to radical views. There has to be a process to discern the loyalties of the immigrants. 

April 17, 2015

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

...Not since the wave of people fleeing (click here) war in Vietnam a quarter-century ago have the world’s industrialized countries been under such intense pressure to share the burden of taking in refugees, experts say. Nor has the task of offering sanctuary been so politically fraught.

The United Nations high commissioner for refugees, António Guterres, has stepped up calls for industrialized countries, including the United States, to shelter 130,000 Syrian refugees over the next two years.

 The figure is a fraction of the nearly four million refugees who have poured into the countries bordering Syria — chiefly Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey — straining their resources and plunging scores of displaced people into poverty....

I would think the process used with Iraqis could apply to those coming from Syria.

Some of the immigrants from Iraq actually went back when the fighting was over. They probably are sorry they did today.

Immigration has become a four letter word in the USA because of extremist politics. 

March 5, 2009
By Aaron Terrazas 

The number of Iraqi immigrants (click here) in the United States tripled between 1980 and 2007, from 32,121 to 102,000. Most of this growth occurred during the 1990s. However, Iraqis still constitute less than 0.5 percent of all immigrants in the United States.
Although the United States has committed to accepting increasing numbers of Iraqi refugees, the number admitted from Iraq was still below 2000 levels until 2008.
The Iraqi born tend to have a similar demographic and socioeconomic profile to the overall foreign-born population, but they are much more concentrated in certain states and metropolitan areas. Over half of all Iraqi immigrants in 2007 lived in Michigan and California (for more information on immigrants by state, please see the 2006 ACS/Census Data tool on the MPI Data Hub)....

A populous view is the numbers. The numbers aren't good arguments. For women (click here) entering the USA as immigrants they soon and easily learn a vast shift in culture. They usually flourish and are proud of their educated children.
 
Women are immigrating to the USA to reunite families. They comprise over fifty percent of the immigrants in the USA.

The USA should lead and carry out immigration to the refugees beginning with those in camps the longest.

February 26, 2015 
By Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova 

...In 2013, approximately 41.3 million immigrants (click here) lived in the United States, an all-time high for a nation historically built on immigration. The United States remains a popular destination attracting about 20 percent of the world's international migrants, even as it represents less than 5 percent of the global population. Immigrants accounted for 13 percent of the total 316 million U.S. residents; adding the U.S.-born children (of all ages) of immigrants means that approximately 80 million people, or one-quarter of the overall U.S. population, is either of the first or second generation.

The charismatic movement spawned by Daesh is worldwide.

There are very real reasons for the export of jihadists from Great Britain. They have been without a homeland for at least the last decade.

October 23, 2014  
The 46-year-old hate preacher (click here) made the extraordinary statement when asked if jihadist fighters returning from Syria should have their passports confiscated and be charged under anti-terror laws.
Choudary blasted: "I don't accept British law. If you have a law, you need to apply it universally. These laws are only being applied against Muslims.
"This [anti-terror legislation] is purely being hyped-up to support the bombing campaign that is taking place in Iraq and Syria."
He also spoke of his support for Islamic State (ISIS) and claimed a ban on jihadists returning to Britain would 'alienate' the Muslim community.
He added: "If these guys have actually not committed any crime in England, then why are we stopping them returning?...

What Choudary has in mind is treason. He is part of Daesh even if only implied.

Russia media stated yesterday there are Russian citizens entering Syria as well. 

13 April, 2015

Scotland Yard (click here) was today urged to launch a fresh crackdown on extremist preachers and stop their “right to protest” being put before the interests of ordinary Londoners.

In a letter to Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, seen by the Standard, he is urged to beef up the force’s response to disruptive rallies led by extremists and “prevent these demonstrations happening in the first place”.
It comes after firebrand cleric Anjem Choudary led a rally outside the gates of Regent’s Park Mosque to promote his “Stay Muslim, Don’t Vote” campaign.
The Met today said it cannot “impose unreasonable restrictions” on Choudary and his followers because of their human rights.
The rally on April 3, which also featured Mizanur Rahman and Trevor Brooks — both convicted for glorifying terror attacks in 2006 and 2008 — led to clashes with far-Right groups the English Defence League and Britain First....

The world is safe once again.

This is going to be all in with Lucas until Christmas. R2-D2 lives!

Yes, that Dreamliner (click here) is painted like the R2-D2 character from Star Wars.

Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) unveiled plans to paint one of its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners in a Star Wars livery that features the likeness of R2-D2. The R2-D2 livery will begin flying on one of the carrier's Dreamliners this fall, though ANA has not yet determined the routes of schedule for its Star Wars plane.

Is Lucas Films a private company? It probably won't be by Christmas.
 

January 14, 2015

(Bloomberg) -- The first thing oilfield geophysicist Emmanuel Osakwe noticed when he arrived back at work before 8 a.m. last month after a short vacation was all the darkened offices.

By that time of morning, the West Houston building of his oilfield services company was usually bustling with workers. A couple hours later, after a surprise call from Human Resources, Osakwe was adding to the emptiness: one of thousands of energy industry workers getting their pink slips as crude prices have plunged to less than $50 a barrel. 

“For the oil and gas industry, it’s scary,” Osakwe said in an interview after he was laid off last month from a unit of Halliburton Co., which he joined in September 2013. “I was blind to the ups and downs associated with the industry.” 

It’s hard to blame him. The oil industry has been on a tear for most of the past decade, with just a brief timeout for the financial crisis. As of November, oil and gas companies employed 543,000 people across the U.S., a number that’s more than doubled from a decade ago, according to data kept by Rigzone, an employment company servicing the energy industry....

Regardless of all the happy talk about and in the petroleum industry, there is stark reality to face.

PARIS/LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - French oil major Total and British rival BP are under no pressure to make acquisitions after the recent takeover of BG Group by Anglo-Dutch rival Shell, they said on Thursday.
Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans last week to buy BG Group in the first oil super-merger in more than a decade, seeking to extend its lead in gas production and close the gap with the world's biggest oil major, U.S. ExxonMobil .
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Total's chief executive said Shell's acquisition "made sense" but that there were other ways to grow in a falling oil price environment.
- See more at: http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/138144/Total_BP_Feel_No_Pressure_To_Make_Acquisitions_After_Shell#sthash.dKhMESk1.dpuf..

PARIS/LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - French oil major Total and British rival BP are under no pressure to make acquisitions after the recent takeover of BG Group by Anglo-Dutch rival Shell, they said on Thursday.
Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans last week to buy BG Group in the first oil super-merger in more than a decade, seeking to extend its lead in gas production and close the gap with the world's biggest oil major, U.S. ExxonMobil .
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Total's chief executive said Shell's acquisition "made sense" but that there were other ways to grow in a falling oil price environment.
- See more at: http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/138144/Total_BP_Feel_No_Pressure_To_Make_Acquisitions_After_Shell#sthash.dKhMESk1.dpuf

PARIS/LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - French oil major Total and British rival BP are under no pressure to make acquisitions after the recent takeover of BG Group by Anglo-Dutch rival Shell, they said on Thursday.
Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans last week to buy BG Group in the first oil super-merger in more than a decade, seeking to extend its lead in gas production and close the gap with the world's biggest oil major, U.S. ExxonMobil .
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Total's chief executive said Shell's acquisition "made sense" but that there were other ways to grow in a falling oil price environment.
- See more at: http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/138144/Total_BP_Feel_No_Pressure_To_Make_Acquisitions_After_Shell#sthash.dKhMESk1.dpuf

PARIS/LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - French oil major Total (click here) and British rival BP are under no pressure to make acquisitions after the recent takeover of BG Group by Anglo-Dutch rival Shell, they said on Thursday.

Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans last week to buy BG Group in the first oil super-merger in more than a decade, seeking to extend its lead in gas production and close the gap with the world's biggest oil major, U.S. ExxonMobil.

Speaking at a conference in Paris, Total's chief executive said Shell's acquisition "made sense" but that there were other ways to grow in a falling oil price environment....

...Dudley said he did not expect companies would rush to emulate Shell's mega deal immediately but said that the longer oil prices stayed low the more companies would come under financial stress and become acquisition targets....

Well, lookey thar, the bill for the "Medicare Fix" was signed.

It actually made it through Congress. Now it has to be checked for unconstitutional content, especially in the amendments.

April 16, 2015
 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama (click here) signed a bill into law on Thursday that repairs the formula for reimbursing Medicare physicians after Congress, in rare bipartisan fashion, passed a fix earlier this week to prevent a 21 percent cut in doctors' pay.

Sitting outside in the White House Rose Garden in his shirt sleeves, Obama said he was signing the bill now rather than waiting for a formal ceremony so it could go into force right away.

"This was a bipartisan effort," Obama said, adding he hoped the practice of Republicans and Democrats working together would become a habit on Capitol Hill.

"Because we wanted to make sure doctors' payments didn't get cut off, I'm signing it now."...

"Bomb Trains"

Stop the incentive for shipping highly volatile energy products 1000s of miles to international tax free zones.

Either the oil product is reduced in volatility before shipping to an established safe level or they will not receive the benefits of the tax free shipping zones in Texas. 

Make it retroactive to at least a week ago to end the practice today. That means the trains arriving in Texas today will not receive their tax free sales.

This is not going to lead to a more open discussion of Russian politics.

April 17, 2015

MOSCOW (AP) " Masked police have raided (click here) the Moscow offices of a civil society organization funded by former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Police said they suspected the group, Open Russia, was preparing banners, leaflets and posters that contained calls for "extremist activity" and planned to distribute them at an opposition protest Sunday.

Khodorkovsky spokeswoman Olga Pispanen said on Facebook that the group was not planning to take part in Sunday's protest and noted that in any case it has been canceled.

Open Russia posted photographs on Twitter of the raid, which took place Thursday during President Vladimir Putin's call-in show.
Khodorkovsky spent 10 years in prison on charges widely seen as punishment for challenging Putin's power. Since his release in late 2013, Khodorkovsky has become a strong opposition voice from exile in Switzerland.

There was no such proof to any extremist agenda when the police stormed the office. So, Russia knows how to conduct pre-emptive investigation to prevent harm, except, when it is about negligence in Siberia.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The theme of the remembering is victory over violence (click here).

There was a moment of silence on the House floor today. There were several speakers and Rep. Cole thanked all those that came to support the city that day, including President Clinton and First Lady Clinton.

This is absolutely outrageous.

There is no justification of this. A terrorist now has a new model for attacks called ' a protest.' This is so outrageous by a bored American there are no words. The premise to THE PROTEST is that the government is stupid and such stupid things can occur without warning. 

This is typical of an American with too much money and too much time on his hands. GO VOLUNTEER and teach young people how to fly! Start a 4-H Club for gyrocopter enthusiasts. This is ridiculous. 

IT COSTS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY DANGER AND EXPENSE. Do people not hear the President when he states, "We are working on regulation regarding these new commercial drones..."? 

JERK!

The 15th Marathon public forum by President Putin

April 16, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) is holding his 13th marathon Q&A on Thursday. According to the Kremlin press service, at least 2 million people sent in questions, touching mainly on the economy and the situation in eastern Ukraine.

He talked about Ukraine, military equipment contract with France, the Russian economy and questions as to whether he would intervene with a stubborn husband that does not like dogs.

Russia needs to do better with emergency response. I am quite confident there would be volunteers to inform the President about dangerous wildfires if they have the equipment. Simply having a hotline isn't an answer for the distant residents of Russia.

Russia needs to have a plan to save Russian lives within Russia.

April 14, 2015

“Seventeen people have been killed (click here) and more than 460 required medical treatment after wildfires blamed on adults who had “played with matches” swept through Siberia, authorities say. More than 5,000 rescue workers battled through the night to contain the blazes in the region of Khakassia in south-eastern Siberia where 15 people died.”

Siberia, a place of salt mines where those who said the wrong words were banished forever to a barren and frozen landscape, to survive on rats and cockroaches, sucking icicles for moisture, never to see loved ones again. That’s what some of us were taught.

Australian firefighters might never have imagined that bushfires could rage in a place like Siberia. But it does....

The outcome is immensely better than 2010, but, it needs a better post emergency response. There are issues of being exposed to the natural world/elements when fire takes a home or a village.  

Authorities said the region sustained “huge damage” as a result of the blazes.
At least 700 cattle and some 3,000 sheep had perished, they said in a statement.
Authorities added that they were concerned that the cattle that survived had nowhere to graze now.
“Tens of square kilometres of land have been burned,” the statement said.
Moscow-based investigators opened five criminal probes into the Khakassia fires over negligence.

That is no way to treat people filled with hopelessness. 

What Russia should have done is offer to purchase the cows with enough money to rebuild a home and return pasture and cows when the pasture returned. Shame on anyone willing to oppress people so badly effected by wildfire.  Making people quiet is not going to solve the problems. I thought marathon public forums were to solve problems not cause them. The time for investigations is BEFORE the tragedy, not after.

I thought the response about Iran was good. It made an impression to withhold the missiles in 2010. It may have been the deciding factor when Iran came to the table this time. Well done. 

The marathon lasted 3 hours. The content was questions and comments by Russia citizens. I wish there was more talk about political freedom and the campaigns to come and the need for opportunity and openness. Transparency. Such discussions would bring about a clearer understanding of Russian politics and the complexity of the Russian government.  

When President Putin was re-elected one of the comments by his rival was the complexity of the Russia government almost prevents anyone other than mainstream elites to be successful in elections. That is very old world and I would think President Putin, on his third term, would find a priority in understanding how the government is difficult to understand and navigate. The old world structure doesn't invite young people to embark on a political career.

President Putin might find a real legacy issue if he found ways to improve the political outcomes in Russia. I would think such forums also invites anonymous questions when it comes to political questions. Russians still worry about retaliation. There needs to be a way to openness that may have to begin with an anonymous status.

This is what bothers me more than I can say.

Discovery (click here) is the process through which defendants find out about the prosecution’s case. For example, through standard discovery procedure, they can:

• get copies of the arresting officers’ reports and statements made by prosecution witnesses, and
• examine evidence that the prosecution proposes to introduce at trial.

Traditionally, the prosecutor wasn’t entitled to information about a defendant’s case. But in recent years, discovery has become more of a two-way street. Just as defendants can discover information from prosecutors, so too can prosecutors examine certain evidence in the hands of defendants.

I could go through case after case beginning with Trayvon Martin. And maybe I should and do that this weekend, but, the evidence held against a suspect/defendant begins with the officer's report.

There is every indication the police force across the USA files false reports. Let's take it one step further. Let's just say police officers are tuned to what the prosecutors will look for in their reports. How will that be weighted in the report? Will the observations and words of the officer written be true and only relate what is fact?  There is every indication that prosecution in the USA is manipulated by the police officers. I know for a fact officers complain about not guilty verdicts and sentencing. What happens to a defendant when an officer decides he wants the facts to be more weighty than they should be.

We saw Officer Wilson handle his own evidence. Like, what?

In the USA the prisons are packed full of people I have to wonder about now as to what their sentences are and if there are people who are not guilty and in prison anyway. I am not as concerned about those facing the death penalty, there are wonderful organizations that seek the truth. But, what about everyone else. 

If Officers are willing to kill African Americans and lie; they'll be willing to do a lot more. The prison population in the USA has a disproportionate number of minorities. Why?

We need cameras that record video and audio at the very least. But, the police need better training and FAR BETTER ETHICS. I want to see police officers dismissed on ethics as well. 

And, how do we go about shifting through cases to find those falsely guilty in prison? I know there are probably many cases, not just a few. 

Senator Sanders states he will run for President if there is a movement stating "We need a political revolution in this country." 

What do you say?

Sen. Bernie Sanders (click here) on Tuesday introduced a bill to stop profitable corporations from sheltering income overseas in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens to avoid paying U.S. taxes. The legislation also would end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs and factories overseas.
Sanders spoke at a Capitol news conference in front of a photo of the notorious Ugland House, the building in the Cayman Islands that is the registered address of more than 18,000 companies. The building has become the symbol of all that is wrong with offshore tax havens.
“At a time when we have a $18.2 trillion national debt and an unsustainable federal deficit; at a time when many of the largest corporations in America are paying no federal income taxes; and at a time when corporate profits are at an all-time high, it is past time for corporate America to pay their fair share in taxes so that we can create the millions of jobs this country needs,” Sanders said.
Eighty-three of the Fortune 100 companies in the United States have used offshore tax havens to lower their taxes, according to the most recent Government Accountability Office study.
Sanders’ bill and a companion measure introduced today in the House by Rep. Jan Schakowsky would yield more than $590 billion in revenue over the next decade, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation....

I don't believe what they say.

We have witnessed police department after police department lie and deceive the public to the events of their officers. At the very least they posture legally to protect themselves.

Does anyone actually believe being run over by a car at high speed is going to save a life? No. The fact Mr. Valencia is alive is nothing short of chance. 

It is so obvious the police department is posturing. They don't even discuss the car and the police officer driving the car. Now, why wouldn't they discuss the officer or the car; because they have to protect themselves legally. Do I believe a word this police department states? No. 

We have police officers in some of the poorest practices in this country. We have witnessed it over and over. This is outrageous behavior for a police officer. He endangered his life, the property of a civilian or a business (whatever is there), potentially a civilian, the property of the city, the life of the suspect and potentially the lives of other officers. 

Mr. Valencia was alive, wasn't he? What if he still had the gun? What if the officer in the car was dead because of the crash or the broken glass of the window? 

What if the other officers, who had a better line of sight, found a weakness in the suspect and decided to act to move in on him at the same time the extremist officer decided to act on his own? Then what happens? The suspect gets away and officers and their cars are disabled. 

This defense of such actions by an officer that acted without any notification to the other TEAM, is as irresponsible as the officer that carried out the outrageous act of violence.

If this suspect was as dangerous as they say with a militarized weapon where was back up called a SWAT Team. They don't respond to individuals with militarized weapons? But, they respond to remove the homeless of parks in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Please. This is so outrageous and the defense of it even more so. I am getting the clear picture that police forces are about the police and not the public at all. If police departments have to lie and posture themselves in order to be a police department, what good are they?

April 14, 2015

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -  Police released dash cam video (click here) showing how a police officer used his cruiser to put an end to a crime spree in February that stretched from Tucson to Marana.

In the video, an apparent gunshot is heard as the suspect, Mario Valencia, is seen walking down a street.

Then, in a decision that Marana police Chief Terry Rozema says probably saved Valencia's life, officer Michael Rapiejko drives his cruiser onto the sidewalk and rams Valencia....

I congratulate the jury.

April 15, 2015

The guilty verdict in the murder trial (click here) against ex-Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez caps off a tumultuous year for the NFL. The league has been forced to defend itself against off-the-field scandals — and a barrage of bad press. 

While it was widely anticipated Hernandez would be found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder, his continuing legal saga is certain to leave a black mark on the league in the months to come, said David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California.... 

If Mr. Hernandez actually believes he did not commit the murder than I strongly suggest he hire a private detective to find the weapon. Otherwise, live your conscience. I take it he didn't bother to stop the assault.

This decision is very important. It comes when the USA fights to reclaim their communities from thugs. Too many witnesses succumb to threats by gangs and otherwise.