"Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson denies report he is resigning
Ferguson
Police Chief Tom Jackson looks on during a protest of the shooting
death of 18-year-old Michael Brown outside Ferguson Police Department
Headquarters August 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri.
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images
FERGUSON, Mo. - The head of the Ferguson Police
Department in Missouri has denied reports he is going to step down or be
fired for the ongoing fallout from the shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white cop.
CBS affiliate KMOV in St. Louis reports Police Chief Tom Jackson told them the rumors are not true.
"I
have not been told I must resign nor have I been fired. If I do resign
in the future it will be my choice. However, it is not imminent,"
Jackson said.
The rumor of Jackson's removal first appeared on CNN.
Citing anonymous sources, the network claimed Jackson would depart "as
part of the effort by city officials to reform the police department,
according to government officials familiar with the ongoing discussions
between local, state and federal officials."
The St. Louis suburb was rocked by strings of often violent protests following the August 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The cop who shot Brown has allegedly claimed his life was in danger. Many locals, however, have claimed Brown had his hands up when he was shot.
Jackson was not publicly discussed at a meeting of Ferguson's City Council Tuesday."
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L.E.O. Darren Wilson is either a badly trained incompetent cop, a brutal cop who will kill innocent people or a man trying to do his job in difficult circumstances.....like what to do when a violent man attacks the L.E.O.? The video evidence proves Michael Brown to be a violent man, that much is evident.
What is not evident is what really happened before Brown died. The testimony of eyewitnesses conflict and many would like to hang the L.E.O. on the spot regardless.
Racial disharmony continues. A white majority elected a black man to be president yet when things go badly for the president it is because whites do not like having a black president....WTF??? You can't have it both ways. If whites were/are so racially biased then how did the president get elected?....TWICE.....
Just so... the L.E.O. is white and the dead citizen is black therefore the white L.E.O. purposely "murdered" the black man....and deserves prison without a trial perhaps?
I so hoped our country was recovering from a long history of racism.
Apparently not.
I would think any white person thinking of Law Enforcement as a vocation might reconsider the dangers of doing such.
Above is interesting.
Many blacks might want the t shirt on the left which is about twice the price of what a white would pay for the t shirt on the right. Racism in pricing?
Granted neither t shirt should belong to any one race or group.
They are both preposterous. Standing with "Justice" would be more appropriate.
Tomorrow or soon thereafter I am going into the heart of this matter. Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel is a very good example of prosecutor misconduct that should have been prosecuted but was immune as discussed in the USA-today article and will be discussed by me...when I get back to this computer.
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I am back....and I am disgusted.
The article from the link is this;
"Our criminal justice system has become a crime: Column
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
4:07 p.m. EDT March 19, 2014
Here's
how it's supposed to work: Upon evidence that a crime has been
committed — Professor Plum, found dead in the conservatory with a lead
pipe on the floor next to him, say — the police commence an
investigation. When they have probable cause to believe that someone is
guilty, the case is taken to a prosecutor, who (in the federal system,
and many states) puts it before a grand jury. If the grand jury agrees
that there's probable cause, it indicts. The case goes to trial, where a
jury of 12 ordinary citizens hears the evidence. If they judge the
accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they convict. If they think
the accused not guilty — or even simply believe that a conviction would
be unjust — they acquit.
Here's how things all-too-often work
today: Law enforcement decides that a person is suspicious (or,
possibly, just a political enemy). Upon investigation into every aspect
of his/her life, they find possible violations of the law, often
involving obscure, technical statutes that no one really knows. They
then file a "kitchen-sink" indictment involving dozens, or even hundreds
of charges, which the grand jury rubber stamps. The accused then must
choose between a plea bargain, or the risk of a trial in which a jury
might convict on one or two felony counts simply on a "where there's
smoke there must be fire" theory even if the evidence seems less than
compelling.
This is why, in our current system, the vast majority
of cases never go to trial, but end in plea bargains. And if being
charged with a crime ultimately leads to a plea bargain, then it follows
that the real action in the criminal justice system doesn't happen at
trial, as it does in most legal TV shows, but way before, at the time
when prosecutors decide to bring charges. Because usually, once charges
are brought, the defendant will wind up doing time for something.
The
problem is that, although there's lots of due process at trial — right
to cross-examine, right to counsel, rules of evidence, and, of course,
the jury itself, which the Framers of our Constitution
thought the most important protection in criminal cases — there's
basically no due process at the stage when prosecutors decide to bring
charges. Prosecutors who are out to "get" people have a free hand;
prosecutors who want to give favored groups or individuals a pass have a
free hand, too.
When juries decide not to convict because doing so would be unjust, it's called "jury nullification,"
and although everyone admits that it's a power juries have, many
disapprove of it. But when prosecutors decide not to bring charges,
it's called "prosecutorial discretion,"
and it's subject to far less criticism, if it's even noticed. As for
prosecutorial targeting of disfavored groups or individuals, the general
attitude is "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime."
The problem with that attitude is that, with today's broad and vague criminal statutes at both the state and federal level, everyone is guilty of some sort of crime, a point that Harvey Silverglate underscores with the title of his recent book, Three Felonies A Day: How The Feds Target The Innocent, that being the number of felonies that the average American, usually unknowingly, commits.
Such
crimes can be manufactured from violations of obscure federal
regulations that can turn pocketing a feather or taking home a rusted
bit of metal from a wilderness area into a crime. In other cases, issues
almost always dealt with in civil court, disagreements over taxes for
instance, can be turned into a criminal case.
The combination of vague and pervasive criminal laws — the federal government literally doesn't know
how many federal criminal laws there are — and prosecutorial
discretion, plus easy overcharging and coercive plea-bargaining, means
that where criminal law is concerned we don't really have a judicial
system as most people imagine it. Instead, we have a criminal justice
bureaucracy that assesses guilt and imposes penalties with only modest
supervision from the judiciary, and with very little actual
accountability. (When a South Carolina judge suggested earlier this
year that prosecutors should follow the law, prosecutors revolted.)
In a recent Columbia Law Review essay,
I suggest some remedies to this problem: First, prosecutors should
have "skin in the game" — if someone's charged with 100 crimes but
convicted of only one, the state should have to pay 99% of his legal
fees. This would discourage overcharging. (So would judicial
oversight, but we've seen little enough of that.) Second, plea-bargain
offers should be disclosed at trial, so that judges and juries can
understand just how serious the state really thinks the offense is.
Empowering juries and grand juries (a standard joke is that any
competent prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich)
would also provide more supervision. And finally, I think that
prosecutors should be stripped of their absolute immunity to suit — an
immunity created by judicial activism, not by statute — and should be
subject to civil damages for misconduct such as withholding evidence.
If
our criminal justice system is to be a true justice system, then due
process must attach at all stages. Right now, prosecutors run riot.
That needs to change. Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, is the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself." ______________
From above " (When a South Carolina judge suggested earlier this
year that prosecutors should follow the law, prosecutors revolted.)"
When one is victimized by criminals and then by the criminal justice system....injury to injury to injury ad nauseam one might just waste one's time with getting a Master's in Crim Justice and writing a blog and then who knows what...
The author of the article I am using has a link to this book of interest.
Related link http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/22/two-videos-demonstrate-the-immense-power-of-prosecutors/
I am finding more of these interesting links.
My experience with the Warren County Criminal Justice System was a nightmare.
BTW being found "Not Guilty" is not a bed of Roses without many very long sharp thorns which will pierce your essence and soul and likely never come out.
The prosecutor Leslie Meyer knew I was innocent but had Judge James Heath keep relevant evidence out of the trial.
Let me give you a peek into the psychopathy of Judge James Heath (Suicide) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqd_u6fZ65g
May he rot in hell along with the deceased head prosecutor Rachel Hutzel ...hmm...first time I saw this article on the criminal minded prosecutor Rachel Hutzel http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/06/23/loc_hutzel23.html These are the folks who were operating the Warren Country Ohio criminal Justice system in the 2000s. It is my opinion and that of others that Hutzel railroaded Ryan Widmer into a murder conviction. I believe Ryan still rots in prison.
To be clear about speaking of "the dead"...both were alive when I had another blog and skewered them as much as possible as often as possible. These personalities rot the justice system. See "Evil Genes" for an extraordinarily excellent description of "the Successful Narcissistic, Malevolent Machiavellian Sociopath"
"the Successful Narcissistic, Malevolent Machiavellian Sociopath"
find their ways into offices of power. They often become justice officials.
The not successful ones might end up in jail.
I have a medium successful Narcissistic, Malevolent Machiavellian Sociopath doing business too close to me.
One in 25 people are sociopaths.
We all know several but we do not know who they are, neccessarily.
Read this book to I.D. the Sociopaths next door to you.
The one most meaningful in my life is this one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqd_u6fZ65g
He knew about the fabrication of evidence, the perjury and did what he could so prosecutor Leslie Meyer could get a conviction for her conviction rate count...she failed despite the sociopath judge James Heath.The jury was too smart.
The one doing business nearby ...not so meaningful....the one living next door....just annoying...it is when they become prosecutors and judges that society is in very deep trouble.
There are few police officers who experience a traumatic killing and then become professors and based on their own and their police colleagues' experiences ...writes a book that puts you in the sights of a perpetrator and the decision making an officer must make before pulling the trigger when he must put his sights on the perpetrator..
"Into the Kill Zone" is such a book by a professor, an ex officer.
"FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri
police have been brushing up on constitutional rights and stocking up on
riot gear to prepare for a grand jury's decision about whether to
charge a white police officer who fatally shot a black 18-year-old in
suburban St. Louis.
The
preparations are aimed at avoiding a renewed outbreak of violence during
the potentially large demonstrations that could follow an announcement
of whether Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will face a criminal
trial for the Aug. 9 death of Michael Brown."
This situation is a good cop's worst nightmare.
A "bad cop" would likely not break the law and murder someone in front of so many witnesses.
This will soon play out ...it will likely not go well regardless of its outcome.
What's it
like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and
often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the
oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers.
Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of
officers who have shot people in the course of their duties, Into the Kill Zone
presents firsthand accounts of the role that deadly force plays in
American police work. This brilliantly written book tells how novice
officers are trained to think about and use the power they have over
life and death, explains how cops live with the awesome responsibility
that comes from the barrels of their guns, reports how officers often
hold their fire when they clearly could have shot, presents hair-raising
accounts of what it's like to be involved in shoot-outs, and details
how shooting someone affects officers who pull the trigger. From academy
training to post-shooting reactions, this book tells the compelling
story of the role that extreme violence plays in the lives of America's
cops."
I am recommending this book to all who have an interest in police, self defense and survival.
This book will shed light on the perpetrator's frame of mind, the frame of mind of the armed police or citizen and has actually happened to the L.E.O.s as reported by L.E.O.s to the author of this book, in confidence and trust because he used to be L.E.O. himself... or to the average legally armed citizen. It is a must to the legally licensed citizen who has a Concealed Carry Weapon who usually has no idea that saving one's own life by "stopping the threat" in a lethal situation is just the beginning of the "nightmare". Being "right" is not enough. The justice system can grind innocent people down.
As you know, two longtime supporters of the Innocence Project are
generously matching all donations to this campaign, up to $20,000! We're
almost there but we still need your help.
If you haven't already, I urge you to donate today. Your gift will go TWICE as far to help free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and reform the criminal justice system.
Thank you for your support,
Maddy deLone
Executive Director
P.S.Watch
this interview we recently did with our client Randy Mills. Though
Randy was released in 2011 after serving over a decade for a crime he
did not commit, he had been legally barred from seeing his grandsons.
We're thrilled to have played a part in reuniting him with his family.
The
Innocence Project provides pro-bono post-conviction legal assistance to
individuals who are seeking to prove their innocence with DNA testing
and works to enact the reforms needed to protect innocent Americans from
wrongful prosecution and incarceration. www.innocenceproject.org
However given our porous borders and that the government seems to prefer it that way, the article is, in my opinion, a means to support an agenda which takes attention off the many other paths which the virus can pass through into this country.
From the above link; "Bestseller" "Written while Michael was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain
Vogue Magazine, September 1970.
caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in
his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most
people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the
cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story. Many people wrote
to ask if the book was true. The author became a celebrity."
This was one of the most powerful books I have read.
Note:
There is one chapter of this school system, a particular, specific Waldorf school, I will not mention.
I will however, from time to time, bring other Waldorf Schools to the attention of the public from time to time. It fits in with the general theme of this blog.
For now; "Don't let your neighbor enroll their child in such a school...IMO only. I rue the day a so called "friend" talked me into doing such because she thought she would get brownie points from the school, but rarely received, from what I understand, anything but scorn.
One may look up in Yahoo Groups that which is associated with this system some describe as a cult. Please see waldorf-critics@yahoogroups.com also there is a private group for "survivors only"
For full disclosure IMO the pre-grade levels are good for such young children. Then it goes IMO very astray. Examples from around the world will be posted at a later time when I can get myself in the emotional frame of mind to deal with such atrocities and keep from heaving. They can be searched out by anyone who has a mind to do such.
* "Sham" as used in the title is a very generalized term referring to a collection of what the author believes to be "anti-social" behaviors...some of which he is certain are anti-social if not bordering on criminal.
They say it is better to let 10 guilty people go free than convict 1 innocent person.
In Warren County Ohio during the 2000s and likely before, this was not the case.
Prosecutor conviction rates are important...and sometimes even if a criminal justice system in a county KNOWS the charged person is innocent they may want to up their conviction rate ...it helps promotions and elections and it is evil as sin.
There was not enough PROOF beyond a reasonable doubt that Ryan in any way intended to or actually killed his wife. Yet his life is destroyed by a prosecutor who was running for ...I believe appellate court in Warren County. Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel won her seat but lost her own case to cancer. Because of this ambitious prosecutor Ryan Widmer sits in prison. This is far from being only my opinion as research into the case will show. I have also talked to some of the players in this case.
Also had a very un-pleasurable meeting with Rachel Hutzel in her office which forged my impression of her as one of the sociopaths Dr Barbara Oakley describes in her book..."Evil Genes" Linked further down this page.
"Any profession which needs a written code of ethics is an inherently
unethical profession."
Robert Canup
I touched upon Barbara Oakley's significant work "Evil Genes", an important education for professionals and laymen. Especially spouses who are being emotionally abused...and believe it is all their fault.
Here is another related book of note.
I have this book as I also have "Evil Genes"
This section is dedicated to M. _. D.
I believe the figure in The Sociopath Nest Door is one in twenty five people are sociopaths.
We all know them but most of us respect the wolf hiding under sheep's clothing or we look upon some as the kindly lion who would never hurt us, just protect us.
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door,
you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a
sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths
too.
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door,
Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of
ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental
disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no
conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or
remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a
sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family.
And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.
How
do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is
a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or
interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous,
more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making
them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally,
sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn
early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to
others’ suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.
The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door
is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone
we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But
what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr.
Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the
pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not
join the game.
It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know."
Apparently Ryan Widmer (Warren County) is still in Prison.
ourcriminaljusticesystem.blogspot.com is meant to reflect all sides of our criminal justice system.
The good the bad and the very ugly
From above link;
Ryan's Story
"Ryan Widmer, a 27 year old man, was charged with murder just 2 days
after he found his wife unresponsive in their bathtub, on August 11,
2008. Ryan was downstairs watching TV, when his wife of only 114 days
kissed him goodnight and told him she was going upstairs to take a bath.
This was part of Sarah Widmer’s regular routine as she loved to take
long baths. Ryan went upstairs about ½ hour to 45 minutes later to walk
into their bathroom and find Sarah unresponsive in the tub. Ryan tried
as best he could to perform CPR. The 911 operator didn’t provide any
help whatsoever."
http://tinyurl.com/n32bau
One
of the area's most talked-about courtroom dramas received national
attention Friday, when "Dateline NBC" aired its coverage of the Ryan
Widmer trial.The 28-year-old Warren County man was convicted in April of
murder in the drowning death of his wife, 24-year-old Sarah Widmer, but
a judge overturned that verdict in July due to jury misconduct and
ordered a new trial.Prosecutors said earlier this week that they would
not appeal the decision to Ohio's Supreme Court, clearing the way for a
new trial that likely will be held in January.Some Key Figures
Interviewed On Widmer Program"We have been in consultation with Sarah
Widmer's family, (and) we have determined that we will be going back to
trial " Hutzel said. "The uncertainty is very, very difficult for the
family, and if we were to go through the supreme court we could be
talking about another couple of years before they would have any
finality or closure."Where it will be held is another matter.The case
has received intense coverage since Aug. 11, 2008, when Widmer called
911 to report that he'd found his wife floating face down in the
couple's bathtub.All four local television stations and two area
newspapers covered each day of the two-week trial, and an editor from
WLWT.com provided minute-by-minute coverage of all testimony in a live
blog from inside the courtroom.And crews from "Dateline NBC" filmed the
proceedings from start to finish and conducted interviews with family
members and other witnesses afterward, some of which aired Friday night
on WLWT.
Prosecutors have said they intend to retry the case in Warren County.
"I
would still very much prefer to have this case tried in Warren County,
in front of Warren County jurors," said Warren County Prosecutor Rachel
Hutzel. "I have great faith in Warren County jurors, that would
definitely be my preference."Widmer's new defense team agrees with
Hutzel, and said they did not plan to ask for a change of venue.
"I
think we'd like to have a local community make this decision, but again,
it's a decision that may be made for us as we try to pick the jury,"
said atrorney Hal Arenstein. "As we're picking a jury, it may become
apparent to both sides that people's opinions are so intransigent we
can't pick a fair jury."
"Written while Michael was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain
