Where did all the good cops go ?

[softail-joanie]

. http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/04/officer-regina-tasca-goes-rogue.html

Heres a clue- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LClXj3XGuRM . . . . . . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdgIxJNlG_Y

Tasca instinctively did what any legitimate peace officer should do: She intervened to protect the victim, pulling Rella off the helpless and battered young man. Tasca’s act was one of instinctive decency, genuine principle, and no small amount of courage. It was also the action dictated by her department’s use-of-force policy, the first page of which specifies that it is “the responsibility of law enforcement to take steps possible to prevent or stop the illegal or inappropriate use of force by other officers.”

In his report on the case, Judge Donohue acknowledged that Tasca acted in compliance with the use-of-force policy – but he dismissed that fact on the preposterous grounds that “no evidence was presented to establish that Officer Tasca even knew about the document.”

The judge dismissed the fact that Tasca acted according to the law because there was no proof that she knew the law? This judge is the so-called independent expert that the Bogota mayor and his cohorts hired. He’s now retired. I wonder when that happened. The New Jersey article provides this quote about the judge from the mayor:

“She had the hearing. He turned around and said she should be fired. We did the right thing by her I think. We did what we were supposed to do. It certainly wasn’t political.”

Earlier in the same month, Tasca had prompted criticism for failing to rush to the aid of her partner, Officer Jay Fowler, during a brief confrontation with a tiny, drunken woman at a hospital. The woman, who was not a criminal suspect, was taken to the hospital for medical attention. She decided to leave, and when Fowler – who had already surrendered custody to the hospital – tried to stop her, the young woman “flailed” her arms, inflicting a small scratch on one of Fowler’s hands that tore open an old scab.

As a result of this “altercation” with a woman whom he outweighed by about 100 pounds, Fowler spent a week on paid medical leave, according to Donohue’s report.

“Nobody had said anything to me about the earlier case until after the incident with the Ridgefield officers,” Tasca pointed out to me. Her refusal to gang-tackle a tiny, confused woman in a hospital, coupled with her active intervention to stop a criminal assault on an unarmed, mentally unbalanced man who was not a criminal suspect, supposedly established a “pattern” of behavior that made Tasca a danger to her fellow officers.

The “good old boy” cop suffers a scratch on his hand and gets a week off with pay, while Tasca gets fired and worse. This is what happens when good officers don’t go along:

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[softail-joanie]

May I politely enquire softtail ? How many arrests ? Surely there had to be cause, you can not simply be arrested on grounds of suspicion, you can be detained, questioned, but the arrest usually comes later, once the DA considers there is eviidence sufficient enough to indict and go to trial.

I haven't been keeping track, I guess after the first few, I just wanted to forget and put that mess behind me, shoulda known better I guess. Your ideal idea of the way things work is fine, but no one told the sheriffs who seem to enjoy doing what they darn well please and why not? , they have judges to back them up in it.

And for what ? If you are repeatedly being accused or detained for the same alledged crime that you have not been convicted for on m,any past occasions, you can demand the court shows cause, you can also demand a public defender to represent you.

The offical charges as i recall, criminal tresspass twice, two counts of assualt and domestic violence, violation of protection orders coupled wit breaking and entering and resisting arrest, obstruct offical bussiness, then theres the things they never arrested me for, Breaking into cars, driving a stolen car, then it gets blured to I don't know what their problem with me is.  Theres the times I was abducted without arrest beaten and thrown into a state run place held against my will with no due process. the times sheriffs would bust into my bedroom, have their fun and leave later denying ever being there.

i've posted about this stuff in the past and can pretty much guess that your not gonna believe me eather. Therefore, why ask? better to just focus on the topic at hand.

[softail-joanie]

Agreed, but it's not me. I'm not the best spoksperson for the cummunity. There are transwomen much smarter with much better standing.

[jean2579]

joannie,

I know from long personal experience that there is a huge gap between justice and law.

I also know that sometimes it seems that you are living in a parallel universe to the people that you walk past in the street, that although they are only feet from you they may as well be in another planet.

I also know that the only person that can help you is you.

To have survived, and you are a survivor, somewhere in you is a determination and steel strong enough to decide that enough is enough and that you are going to take back full control of your life.

How you do that is up to you.

However you choose to do it, believe in your own strength and character.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

I was aware of Joani's sex............have been since the Soapbox days..........I have a feeling that the local LEO's take advantage of that.