CopBlaster.com received a threatening letter from someone claiming to be Russell J. Grover Jr. in Wichita, Kansas. The letter arrived at our post office box this past week. It was post marked 4-20-20, stated that former Meade Police officer Russell Grover has been receiving threats over his listing in the National Decertification Index section of this website (https://ift.tt/3537wBs), and threatened legal action if his name is not removed. CopBlaster.com had previously received an email requesting removal of the same profile on 2-8-20 stating that the profile was inaccurate but without elaborating as to how. The body of the threatening letter from someone claiming to be one Russell J. Grover Jr. of Wichita, Kansas mailed on 4/20 read as follows: "I am asking that Copblaster.Com remove my name from your website ASAP. I am receiving threats; I have had my reputation ruined by this damm site and my two kids have been harassed over my name being on Google with this site. If anything happens to myself or my two kids, there will be a heavy price of one hell of a lawsuit filed against this company. I never lived in Meade, Kansas. I have filed police reports on being stalked, harassed and threatened. I was told to write this company and request my name be removed ASAP. So now this is a letter that will be filed on behalf of myself. If my name is not removed, then I will retain legal advice in case something happens to myself or family. This is not a joke when I have been through hell over this. I live in Wichita, Kansas, not Meade, Kansas. This is sad that a person must be harassed and my kids because of this kind of publicity. If legal action is needed, then please write me back and I will then seek it. I can only pray to God that nothing happens to my kids over this because people out there hate Police and others. There are reports made with Police and now I am writing this company to ask that my name be removed for my safety, my reputation, and welfare." - Russell J. Grover Jr. The email exchange with someone claiming to be Mr. Grover was as follows: -----Original Message----- From: Cop Blaster webmaster[at]copblaster.com Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:22 PM To: 'mcfly011' mcfly011[at]protonmail.com Subject: RE: advise Not accurate in what way? Cyrus Sullivan Owner CopBlaster.com P.O. Box 86653 Portland, OR 97286 webmaster[at]copblaster.com -----Original Message----- From: mcfly011 mcfly011[at]protonmail.com Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:55 AM To: webmaster[at]copblaster.com Subject: RE: advise This is not accurate information, that's the problem I'm okay with other sites as they don't appear in the search results but your site appears Please remove it Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. Original Message On Saturday, February 8, 2020 12:27 AM, Cop Blaster webmaster[at]copblaster.com wrote: Hi, All the posts in the /cop/ directory are from the decertification data released by USA Today last year. Even if I were to remove that page the information would still be available online in places like: https://ift.tt/3bBSyow https://ift.tt/3aAjYJX https://ift.tt/3eSNaiT .html https://ift.tt/2W44WqS Is there a reason why you want that page specifically removed and why? Cyrus Sullivan Owner CopBlaster.com P.O. Box 86653 Portland, OR 97286 webmaster[at]copblaster.com -----Original Message----- From: noreply[at]copblaster.com noreply[at]copblaster.com Sent: Friday, February 7, 2020 7:19 AM To: webmaster[at]copblaster.com Subject: advise https://ift.tt/3cRNpc9 i need this to be removed what are the options? mcfly011[at]protonmail.com -----End of Messages----- It appears obvious from both the letter and the email that this individual is primarily angry because when people Google the name Russell Grover they learn that one Russell Grover had been an officer with the Meade Police Department and at some point lost his certification. The Decertification Index was originally compiled by USA Today in 2019. The list of Kansas Decertifications can be found at https://ift.tt/3bBSyow. USA Today made that data available to the general public and gave permission for the public to use that data. CopBlaster.com is the first website to present that data in a search engine friendly format. That is why this individual does not have a problem with USA Today, but does have a problem with this website. This individual has never provided an explanation for his claim that the record is not accurate beyond saying via email "This is not accurate information" and via regular mail "I never lived in Meade, Kansas." The problem with this is that the report never accuses anyone of living in Meade, Kansas. It says that someone worked for the Meade Police Department and was subject to an "Order of Revocation." Officer Grover never had to live in Meade, Kansas to work for the Meade Police Department or be subject to an Order of Revocation from that agency. It is entirely possible for someone to live in Wichita and work in Meade. It is a bit of a commute, but one that is doable. It is also entirely possible and common for police officers not to live in the same city in which they work. They usually live in neighboring townships. This author has never been to Kansas, but according to various maps it appears that someone could live in Wichita and work in Meade. It is a bit of a drive, but an entirely possible living arrangement. It is also possible that Mr. Grover moved to Wichita from the Meade area after losing his certification in 2016. If he was as ashamed of that then as he is now it would explain the move perfectly. Then of course it is entirely possible that the Russell Grover that lost his certification in Meade is not the same Russell Grover contacting us now. That is not likely since this author's only explanation of inaccuracies beyond a generalized statement that the information is not accurate, is that he has never lived in Meade. The most likely explanation for this is that former officer Russell Grover moved to Wichita looking for a fresh start only to find out three to four years later that his past has caught up with him. His claims of receiving threats are most likely a smoke screen being put up to distract CopBlaster.com from the fact that Mr. Grover can't disprove his status as a decertified officer. Threatening frivolous lawsuits is another desperate attempt to get us to remove something we have every right not to remove. This tactic may work on lesser websites that balk at the mere threat of legal action and decide to remove whatever they are being threatened over. This website is not one of those. This website has proven itself capable of operating in the face of some of the most serious legal threats imaginable. At one point the owner of CopBlaster.com was ordered by a federal judge not to operate the site as a pre-trial detention condition. That order did nothing to stop the site from operating, that judge recused himself like a little bitch after receiving a letter at his house asking him to do just that, and the owner was freed once it became obvious that the alleged victims (all of which were law enforcement officers) were lying. CopBlaster.com is battle tested and here to stay.#russelljosephgrover #threats #publicrecords
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5434/threatening-letter-received-from-russell-joseph-grover-jr
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
Cop Blaster to Launch Anti-Snitch Initiative for the Month of May 2020
Cop Blaster is proud to announce that we will be launching an Anti-Snitch Initiative next month to discourage snitching nation wide in the interest of public health. For the first time in recent history, snitching has become a public health menace and modern information technology has made that menace more life threatening than ever. The Coronavirus a.k.a. COVID-19 has pushed the likelihood of jail sentences becoming death sentences to an all time high. It is almost impossible to contain the virus once it enters a correctional facility. Jails and prisons are lucky to contain outbreaks to individual housing units and all the inmates in those units are absolutely 100% completely screwed. Inmates in infected units will have to depend on their own immune systems to survive. County jails are at greatest risk because they take in people right off the street. When someone decides to call the police or cooperate with an investigation, they are now endangering the lives of those they are snitching on. There is no way around that, the stakes have never been higher and things are to a point where it is hard to justify incarcerating anyone that is no a homicidal maniac. The risk to their lives far out-weight any benefit society receives from a cessation of their criminal activities. When someone calls the police they are not just endangering the life of the person they are telling on. They are also endangering the lives of the officers that answer the call. There is a reason why probation officers avoid doing home visits right now. The fewer people they come into contact with the safer it is. Cop callers have no way of knowing if the person they are snitching out has the Coronavirus. Wearing masks does more to protect people that come into contact with mask wearers than it does to protect the mask wearers themselves. People that do wear masks usually put them on before leaving their homes. They don't wear masks at home, so when a police officer comes knocking they probably are not going to find someone wearing a mask. Then if anything gets out of hands the likelihood of transmission goes up. When booking a person into jail, a strip search is commonly done, and that endangers jail staff on top of the dangers typically faced when incarcerating potentially infected persons. Every arrest endangers the lives of law enforcement now. When a snitch causes an officer to contact someone or causes a jury to convict someone, they are endangering the lives of law enforcement. Any way you look at it, snitching has become a clear and present danger to the health and safety of the public. It endangers law enforcement, it endangers suspects, and it makes a jail outbreak more likely. Snitching must be discouraged now more than ever. What are we doing to help? The Anti-Snitch Initiative is a month long dedication to raising awareness. During that month we plan to research and add a notable snitch to the website every day. We also plan to reach out to at risk communities and encourage people to post snitches on our website. the more people know to keep their mouths shut around known snitches the safer the world becomes. The more people can be discouraged from snitching the safer the world becomes. We will do all we can to make the world safer.#copblaster #antisnitchinitiative #coronavirus
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5433/cop-blaster-to-launch-anti-snitch-initiative-for-the-month-of-may-2020
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5433/cop-blaster-to-launch-anti-snitch-initiative-for-the-month-of-may-2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
FCI Sheridan on Lockdown Due to Coronavirus
The Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon (FCI Sheridan) is on lockdown due to Coronavirus fears. No inmates or staff members are known to actually have COVID-19, but obviously Warden Josias Salazar does not want to take chances. Putting the prison on lockdown at a time like this is obviously the right decision, but if or when Coronavirus infects its first inmate that lockdown will do little to stop the spread of the disease. By the time they find out that anyone has the virus countless other inmates would have already been exposed anyway. The lockdown might contain something like Coronavirus to one housing unit temporarily, but that is it. Still, the staff would have exposed each other by the time anyone finds out there is an outbreak. Despite this bleak outlook the lockdown is still the right choice, but even this decision leads to new criticism for the BOP. Inmates have been harming themselves and at least one inmate has committed suicide. Federal Public Defender Lisa Hay is using this to highlight the impact that lockdowns have on the mental health of inmates. She has a good point. Mentally ill inmates are more likely to become worse on lockdown. It happens in solitary confinement, in the hole where you usually have a celly, and in general population if left on lockdown spending all your time in a bathroom with another man. Hay has been trying to get people at higher risk compassionate release, but there is a procedural barrier of 30 days that the warden has to respond to institutional requests before the court can do anything. It is not known exactly how long it takes Salazar to respond to inmate requests so that they can challenge his denial in court, but he probably takes somewhere between 29 and 30 days. That time frame reduces the likelihood of the court overturning him. One would think that during a global pandemic that Warden Salazar would make an exception or at least process the denials fast enough for the court to make a decision as soon as possible, but obviously Warden Salazar is in no interest in allowing the court to correct his mistakes fast enough for it to matter. Warden Salazar is not known to have recommended anyone at high risk for release due to Coronavirus and probably never will. BOP staff members are either incompetent, sadistic, or both. The incompetent ones don't know how to process a compassionate release request properly and the sadistic ones deny them to feed their own twisted desires. Either way, the BOP does not care about inmates and Coronavirus will not change that. They can all die and the BOP would just view that as less work for them in the long run.#fcisheridan #coronavirus #lisahay #josiassalazar
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5432/fci-sheridan-on-lockdown-due-to-coronavirus
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5432/fci-sheridan-on-lockdown-due-to-coronavirus
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Deputy Carolyn Townsend Named in Medical Indifference Suit
Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Carolyn Townsend was recently named in a lawsuit filed by former Columbia County Jail inmate Taylor Warren Self. Self alleges that after he was booked into CCJ a month after having surgery to repair a broken jay. He was given a medical isolation cell and eventually a cell mate until his jaw was broken again by his cellmate. According to media reports Townsend is accused of ignoring requests from Self to give him a different cell mate or just leave him alone like the doctor ordered. Self's cell mate was not moved and eventually punched him. Medical staff believed that Self's jaw had been re-broken, but they did not have resources to treat him. Instead of taking him to a hospital the jail released him even though he was not supposed to get out for another week. Because the jail is in the middle of nowhere there is no emergency medical services within 30 miles and Self was homeless, so he was basically stranded with excruciating pain.#carolyntownsend #columbiacountyjail #taylorwarrenself
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5431/deputy-carolyn-townsend-named-in-medical-indifference-suit
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5431/deputy-carolyn-townsend-named-in-medical-indifference-suit
AUSA Donna Maddux Calls Washington More Dangerous Than Prison
Assistant United States Attorney Donna Maddux called Washington more dangerous than prison when an inmate at FCI Sheridan sought compassionate release due to the Coronavirus. 79 year old Jack Holden argued through counsel that due to his age, medical conditions, and the fact that social distancing is not possible in prison, he should be released a few months early. He did not seek to be free entirely, he agreed to do the rest of his time on house arrest at his daughter's house in Washington, and he would be on supervision after that. Donna Maddux argued that because the State of Washington is an epicenter of the outbreak in the United States that Holden might be at greater risk at his daughter's house than in prison. Anyone with any common knowledge of infection diseases should know that a crowded living place like a prison is the worst place to be during an outbreak of something like Coronavirus. Especially if you are living in a crowded open dorm like Holden is in. Holden is an inmate at the Federal Prison Camp in Sheridan, which is across the street from the FCI. An open dorm is what it sounds like. It is a bunch of guys living in something resembling a military barracks. Military barracks' were to worst incubators for the influenza of 1918. If one inmate at FPC Sheridan gets COVID-19 the others will be screwed. Especially older inmates with medical problems like Holden. The fact that the Coronavirus has not hit FPC Sheridan yet is besides the point. It probably will hit Sheridan and when it does it will be too late to release Holden. For that reason his daughter's house in Washington state is a much safer place for him and sending him there would have been a much better way to protect him just in case of a Coronavirus outbreak at Sheridan. This is the kind of thinker that might become the next District Attorney for Multnomah County. According to several media outlets she has stated her intention to run after Rod Underhill retires.#donnamaddux #fcisheridan #jackholden #coronavirus #fpcsheridan
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5430/ausa-donna-maddux-calls-washington-more-dangerous-than-prison
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5430/ausa-donna-maddux-calls-washington-more-dangerous-than-prison
Hand Sanitizer Found on FCI Sheridan Commissary Sheet
The FCI Sheridan Commissary Sheet features hand sanitizer despite reports in the media indicating that hand sanitizer is contraband at the Federal Correctional Institution due to alcohol content. Alcohol based santizer is not sold or otherwise available to inmates, but AJAX Antibacterial Dish Soap is sold to inmates. Now, if something is strong enough to be used as dish soap in mainstream society and that soap is sold to inmates then that qualifies as hand sanitizer. It was surprising to read media reports indicating that Federal Public Defender Lisa Hay was arguing that hand sanitizer is contraband at FCI Sheridan. This argument was made to support a compassionate release motion filed on behalf of an elderly inmate due to the Coronavirus. Her other arguments were quite valid, but not the one about hand sanitizer.#bopdocuments #fcisheridan #lisahay #coronavirus
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5429/hand-sanitizer-found-on-fci-sheridan-commissary-sheet
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5429/hand-sanitizer-found-on-fci-sheridan-commissary-sheet
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Can't ID a Suspect? Use Photoshop to Make Him Look Like the Guy
Last year we noticed a case in which Portland Police Photoshop'd a suspect's picture to make him look more like the bank robber described by witnesses (https://ift.tt/2ZoR5em). We didn't keep a close eye on the case, but today noticed that United States District Judge Marco Hernandez ruled in favor of the practice. The case involved alleged serial bank robber Tyrone Allen. Allen was accused of robbing banks, but the witnesses from the banks described a suspect without tattoos. So, Portland Police detectives Photoshop'd Allen's mugshot to make it look like he had no tattoos when in fact his face and head were covered in them. Prosecutor Paul Maloney argued that the police were merely trying to counteract Allen's efforts to disguise his identity. A ridiculous claim since having tattoos usually makes people easier to identify. Hernandez ruled that this practice is not unnecessarily suggestive. Witnesses claimed that the robber may have been wearing makeup, so the police said they wanted to be able to show people pictures of what Allen would look like without tattoos or with flesh colored makeup covering the tattoos. Keep in mind that none of the witnesses were sure he was wearing makeup. So, according to Hernandez it is not unnecessarily suggestive to alter an mugshot to make a suspect look like he is wearing makeup if someone thinks he may have been wearing makeup. By that logic anyone looking for the Joker could alter anyone's mugshot to look like they are wearing clown makeup and ask people if that is the guy.#marcohernandez #portlandpolice #paulmaloney #tyroneallen #evidence
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5428/cant-id-a-suspect-use-photoshop-to-make-him-look-like-the-guy
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5428/cant-id-a-suspect-use-photoshop-to-make-him-look-like-the-guy
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Brian Chaney cap. Of Middletown new informant crew
He has been working as a informant in Athens ohio, and now has gotten transferred to middletown ohio. He drives a 98' jeep Cherokee that's red. He also works with david allan fondren been an informant for middletown for 7 years help set jason cundiff up plus danielle carr, amy shane mathews she been working for middletown for 4 years she has gotten 4 doors knocked, Bobby Mathews snitch on his plug in Drexel dude has gotten raded an now is sentenced for 8 years. Angila Weybright has been a informant for 3 years when her apartment in freedom court got knocked they found 3 pounds of cocaine. Cant forget heather combs whom acts like brian Chaney's sister she drives a white Chrysler 300 black tinted windows she pretends to be a dope fiend to take pictures an record conversations#settingupmainplugswithmiddletowndetectives
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5427/brian-chaney-cap-of-middletown-new-informant-crew
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5427/brian-chaney-cap-of-middletown-new-informant-crew
Heather fultz informant
On home surveillance setting up a meet with detectives along with Whop Gotti, Megan Carr, Roland Taylor, and Ronald Douglas Emerick who is a childmolester.#setupanoutlaw
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5426/heather-fultz-informant
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5426/heather-fultz-informant
Friday, April 10, 2020
Known Snitch 50 Cent Calls Jim Jones a Rat
It takes one to know one according to Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson whose now accusing rapper Jim Jones of also being a snitch. According to 50 Cent, the only way Jim Jones could have avoided prison after being caught on the phone telling an associates of the Nine Trey Bloods to "super violate" former Nine Trey Bloods associate Daniel Hernandez a.k.a. Tekashi69 a.k.a. 6ix9ine would have been to become a rat. Tekashi69 was recently released from federal prison after ratting on several Nine Trey Bloods members that are no doubt serving decades in prison because of Hernandez. Someone was nice enough to upload a copy of 50 Cent's paperwork to this website last year https://ift.tt/2SUHlXj that was originally posted online by Irv Gotti showing that 50 Cent snitched in the year 2000. Obviously 50 Cent knows a think or two about cooperating with the police. As an ex-con, this author also suspects anyone caught on FBI surveillance telling gang members to harm a high profile FBI informant would most likely be prosecuted, so 50 Cent has a point. The feds obviously know about the directive Jones gave to the Bloods, so why was he not prosecuted? There are only two possible explanations. First, that the feds didn't feel that Jones was worth prosecuting. Second, that Jones became a confidential informant (CI). As a CI, Jones would avoid prosecution and would never be named in court papers as an informant unless his testimony is needed or the government tries to use any information from Jones in court. At that point anyone the information is used against has a Constitutional right to know who it came from. #50cent #jimjones #tekashi69 #curtisjackson #ninetreybloods
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5425/known-snitch-50-cent-calls-jim-jones-a-rat
source https://copblaster.com/blast/5425/known-snitch-50-cent-calls-jim-jones-a-rat
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Bail Reform Act Puts Federal Pre-Trial Detainees in Mortal Danger
The New York Times quoted CopBlaster.com in their headline "Jails are Petri Dishes" on March 30th, 2020. Well, not really, but they might as well have. CopBlaster.com published a story on March 9, 2020 before the Coronavirus got bad in the United States. In that article we said that jails were not ready for the Coronavirus because the best thing jails can really do is put inmates on lockdown, but "Locking down a jail dorm just turns that dorm into a petri dish." - https://ift.tt/337xZMZ The Times talked about how some jails are releasing people to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. That is good news, but they can only release people that can post bail, qualify for release on their own recognizance, are serving short sentences for petty crimes, or are nearing the end of their sentence for serious crimes. Anyone detained as a pre-trial detainee either due to allegedly being dangerous or a flight risk cannot be released. In most districts federal pre-trial detainees have no option for bail. If they don't qualify for recognizance they cannot post bail, they are detained. This is due to the Bail Reform Act of 1984 and 18 U.S. Code 3142. Congress passed the bail reform act primarily to give courts a way to hold rich defendants capable of posting any bail. Unfortunately, a law intended to protect the public from wealthy and dangerous defendants has been extended to everyone. That is because the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has held that denial of bail does not violate the Eight Amendment's prohibition on excessive bail. Courts have since decided that rather than implement a bail system that could face an excessive bail challenge if high bails are imposed to keep rich people from fleeing or violating release conditions that eliminating bail altogether is the most efficient option. Now if they think a defendant may flee or violate release conditions they order them detained. Even though the law says clear and convincing evidence of the likelihood to flee or violate release conditions must be provided, courts have been using remote possibilities as enough evidence to call the likelihood of flight or violations clear and convincing. This abuse of the Bail Reform Act has been a death sentence for some for decades. Until now the only people that have been killed by the Bail Reform Act have been people murdered by fellow inmates, guards, or incompetent doctors. In those cases people that would have been able to post bail if they were facing the same allegations in state court were detained by federal courts and suffered violent attacks or caught a serious illness that the jail staff was not competent to treat. Now every federal detainee is in mortal danger and most of them are in danger because of the Bail Reform Act.#coronavirus #bailreformact #scotus #congress
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4425/bail-reform-act-puts-federal-pre-trial-detainees-in-mortal-danger
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4425/bail-reform-act-puts-federal-pre-trial-detainees-in-mortal-danger
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Kate Brown Betrays Oregon by Giving Away Ventilators
Oregon Governor Kate Brown betrayed her constituents by giving our ventilators to another state while at the same time urging Oregonians to do all they can to combat Coronavirus in Oregon. The media, the White House, and of course every New Yorker including their governor have been praising her all day as an example of how Americans should stick together and what a difference this will make in New York. So, what is the problem? The problem is that Kate Brown was not elected to serve the rest of the country. She was elected to serve Oregon and lookout for Oregonians first and foremost. At a time when Oregon is lucky not to be in the same situation as New York, California, or Washington yet, her job is to keep it that way and make sure that if thing get worse, Oregonians will have as many resources available as possible. Her job is not to give away life saving medical equipment that Oregonians will likely need to other states before we will probably need them. How will this decision look when Oregon runs out of ventilators and New York is still short of ventilators despite not being as short as they were before? Do you really think New York will send those ventilators back? If they agree to send back the ventilators, how long will it take them to get here and how many Oregonians will die after Governor Brown asks for them back and before they get here? If that number is greater than zero then Kate Brown has made the wrong decision. Now, some people might say that the number of lives she saves by letting New York have the ventilators for now will easily exceed the number of Oregonians that could die waiting later, so it is the right choice. Even if New York keeps the ventilator, the total death tool nation wide will probably be less if New York has those ventilators now even if Oregon needs them later. That would be true if Kate Brown were the President of the United States and her job was to lookout for all Americans equally, but she is not the President. She is a governor of a state and like all governors of all states her job is to lookout for her own people first. As such the correct formula to use when deciding whether or not sharing resources is a good idea does not weigh every American equally. It assigns a value of one to every person of your state and a value of zero to all other persons. When using that formula the correct decision can be reached by crunching the numbers and deciding that if the result is greater than or equal to one do not choose that course of action. Does that mean the right choice for Governor Brown to make could cost New York hundreds or thousands of their people in order to save one of her people? The cold hard correct answer to that is yes because her job is to serve Oregon. The people of Oregon are her people. The people of New York are not her people. The correct answer is that simple. This is sure to anger Marxists both cultural and traditional. After all, Marxists tend to value every person on the planet equally and seek to redistribute wealth and resources until no one person has more than another. Many if not most of Governor Brown's supporters in Oregon are Marxists, so she is surely to become more popular in Oregon as a result of this decision. Her supporters pride themselves on giving away what they think they can afford to give away in times like these and forcing their neighbors to do the same, even if there is a risk that they will suffer serious consequences later. Some may not regret that later because they are so convinced that people can live in a society of equality. Now, equality is not a bad idea or goal to strive for, but it is not a realistic goal due to human nature. It is human nature to compete and compete in groups that seek to better themselves and their group at the expense of others and other groups. Now, some might say that sacrificing one's self or ordering that one's group sacrifice themselves is the right choice if most of the people in their group support such sacrifices, that is how democracy works. The problem with that is that America is not and has never been a democracy in the true sense of the word. America is and has always been a democratic republic. A democratic republic has a lot in common with a democracy because it is a collection of democratic communities where issues between the communities are settled in a democratic way by a vote of representatives from each community. Each representative is supposed to vote in the interest of their community. When a representative chooses to vote in the interest of another community that representative betrays their own community. That is the case even if most of the representative's community supports working against their own interest because often doing the right thing is not popular. Sometimes a representative needs to do what is best for their community because most people in their community are not mentally competent to do what is in their own interest. Governors are the same way. When the majority of a community is not competent to make the cold hard decisions necessary for their own survival. It is up to leaders to say that despite the opinion of the majority, that opinion does not reflect the math that must be done to decide what decision is best. That is rarely a popular answer. I hope that Oregon is lucky enough not to need those ventilators back, but whether we need them or not, this decision shows that Kate Brown does not have what it takes to lead this state in a time of crisis and therefore is not competent to govern at all. When Donald Trump faced impeachment for using his position and national resources to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden on behalf of his campaign, democrats were quick to call him a traitor. They said he was serving the interests of Ukraine instead of those of the American people in exchange for personal benefits in the form of future votes. Personal benefits directly related to his own re-election. Today Kate Brown chose to serve the interests of New York in exchange for personal benefits in the form of future votes. Personal benefits directly related to her own re-election. If Donald Trump is a traitor to the American people then Kate Brown is a traitor to Oregonians.#katebrown #coronavirus #treason #impeachment
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4424/kate-brown-betrays-oregon-by-giving-away-ventilators
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4424/kate-brown-betrays-oregon-by-giving-away-ventilators
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Inmates and Staff Test Positive for Coronavirus in Oregon Prisons
The first known case of an inmate in Oregon testing positive for the Coronavirus was announced today by the Oregon Department of Corrections. They did not release much information. They said the inmate was at Santiam Correctional Institution and that the inmate has since been moved to a medical facility. ODOC spokesperson Colette S. Peters claims the ODOC has been preparing for Coronavirus, but that sounds more like just trying to avoid a panic. No jail, prison, or other type of correctional institution is prepared for Coronavirus. An employee at the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) in Salem tested positive yesterday.#santiamcorrectionalinstitution #oregonstatepenitentiary
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4423/inmates-and-staff-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-oregon-prisons
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4423/inmates-and-staff-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-oregon-prisons
Judith Lucke: The Legend of Incompetence That was Fired Too Late
When I spotted this picture of former Multnomah County deputy Judith Lucke I instantly remembered the most incompetent guard I ever heard of. I had been researching the history of the culture and customs within the county when I learned of her case. I never personally dealt with her, but her history is legendary. Her problems included being held hostage by an inmate during a hospital visit with a knife and fork; failing to back up deputies during physical encounters; and finally leaving a loaded gun in a locker room where an inmate could have found it. I included some of her issues in my lawsuit against Multnomah County. The part about Lucke is as follows: Another victim of this culture is the general public, as was the case with former deputy Judith Locke whose epic tale of incompetence demonstrates what kinds of people can get hired as corrections deputies by MCSO and what it takes for them to get fired, Lucke v. Multnomah County, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71861 (2008) (case no cv-06-1149-ST). Her troubles began when she was stalked and sexually harassed by male deputies in 2002, Both Lucke and [Laurie] Kimmell [another former deputy] testify that male deputies were treated more favorably than female deputies with respect to the terms and conditions of their employment including in the allotment of break time, shift assignments, and duties. The following year she was the subject of her first of six investigations by the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) after an inmate she escorted to the hospital acquired a set of metal silverware from his hospital dinner tray which Lucke had failed to inspect before hospital staff gave it to him. After Lucke removed [inmate]'s restraints so he could change his pants, [inmate] brandished the knife and fork, held Lucke hostage, stole several of her personal effects, and escaped. Lucke was presumably armed with pepper spray, a taser, and a gun (like Bull was when he escorted me to the hospital), but was so poorly trained that she was no match for a hospitalized inmate with silverware. The Chief Deputy at the time ordered that she receive additional training because he agreed that the escape was due in part to shortcomings in MSCO policies and procedures which included a failure to properly train deputies. Her second and fifth IAU investigations took place after she failed to engage inmates in support of fellow deputies during altercations at the jail. Her third IAU investigation took place after she encouraged an inmate to fight another inmate by saying in response to a complaint from one inmate about another to patch it up, or have it out. When she was disciplined she said there was never a legitimate basis for her discipline as she had heard others make similar statements during her training. Her fourth IAU incident took place for failing to maintain logbooks after an inmate was injured and she was ordered to rewrite her report of the incident. Finally, her sixth IAU investigation led to her termination in 2007 when she left her personal weapon loaded and unattended in the women's locker room in the MCIJ. Where it could be accessed by deputies, civilian staff, staff family members, contractors and inmates who are assigned to clean the area. So, after a long period of continued incompetence that endangered inmates, the public, and fellow deputies she still had not done enough to be terminated until the higher ups realized that keeping her on their staff might get them killed. #judithlucke #multnomahcountyjail
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4422/judith-lucke-the-legend-of-incompetence-that-was-fired-too-late
source https://copblaster.com/blast/4422/judith-lucke-the-legend-of-incompetence-that-was-fired-too-late
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