Skirmishes in the War on Drugs: Letters - Comments
Posted by
Rohin, New Zealand on June 9, 2009:
One example of this is the case of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo:
After coming home and retrieving a package that had been delivered to his house, he was startled by a special weapons team and county narcotics officers who burst in and immediately killed both his dogs, one of whom was running away at the time. He was tied up and questioned for 90 minutes in his underwear, along with his mother in law. The box contained 30 pounds of marijuana. No connection has been found between the delivery and the Mayor, and police say that it is common for people to move drugs by delivering them via courier, then having the real recipient come to the house to claim the 'misdelivered' box.
'Berwyn Heights Police Chief Patrick Murphy said county police and the Sheriff's Office had not notified his department of the raid. He said town police could have conducted the search without a SWAT team.
"You can't tell me the chief of police of a municipality wouldn't have been able to knock on the door of the mayor of that municipality, gain his confidence and enter the residence," Murphy said. "It would not have been a necessity to shoot and kill this man's dogs." '
Posted by
Lenny, Hialeah Fl. on February 20, 2010:
The Florida man who was killed in a police raid was not the last to die the very same way. It has been a few years since this happened in Pembroke Pines, Fl. Almost all things mentioned happened again.
Neighbors told the police that there had been quite a few people seen coming and going to the house. The police thought there was enough reason to get a warrant, which they executed, in a similar manner. The police said they did it that way because they knew the man had a concealed weapons permit. So, they executed him.
Police later found drugs. There had been a young lady sleeping over, and she had about half an ounce (misdemeanor amount) in her purse. I think, later on, that charges against her were dropped.
People wrote in and demanded a good reason for this happening. It was felt that the police could have stopped the man as he left his home, and nobody would die.
After a few days, the story dropped from the news. I tried to contact the newspaper reporter, by phone and email, to find out what the outcome of this story was, but there was no reply. I have heard nothing since.
In my opinion, like other posters here, is that the police keep this up because if they do not, they will lose funding. So, those billions of dollars keep coming. Jails and prison space are overcrowded, therefore, many more billions of dollars are spent. The third way we lose additional billions, is that those dollars go out of the country.
I for one, do not think this is worthwhile. You can't legislate morals. It is estimated that 3/4 of adults, people like Schwarzenegger, Clinton, and Obama as well, have at least tried marijuana. No, I do not want any impaired drivers out there on the road with me.
Skirmishes in the War on Drugs: Letters - Comments
Posted by Rohin, New Zealand on June 9, 2009:
One example of this is the case of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo:
After coming home and retrieving a package that had been delivered to his house, he was startled by a special weapons team and county narcotics officers who burst in and immediately killed both his dogs, one of whom was running away at the time. He was tied up and questioned for 90 minutes in his underwear, along with his mother in law. The box contained 30 pounds of marijuana. No connection has been found between the delivery and the Mayor, and police say that it is common for people to move drugs by delivering them via courier, then having the real recipient come to the house to claim the 'misdelivered' box.
'Berwyn Heights Police Chief Patrick Murphy said county police and the Sheriff's Office had not notified his department of the raid. He said town police could have conducted the search without a SWAT team.
"You can't tell me the chief of police of a municipality wouldn't have been able to knock on the door of the mayor of that municipality, gain his confidence and enter the residence," Murphy said. "It would not have been a necessity to shoot and kill this man's dogs." '
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-mayoremail0808,0,4607054.story
Posted by Lenny, Hialeah Fl. on February 20, 2010:
The Florida man who was killed in a police raid was not the last to die the very same way. It has been a few years since this happened in Pembroke Pines, Fl. Almost all things mentioned happened again.
Neighbors told the police that there had been quite a few people seen coming and going to the house. The police thought there was enough reason to get a warrant, which they executed, in a similar manner. The police said they did it that way because they knew the man had a concealed weapons permit. So, they executed him.
Police later found drugs. There had been a young lady sleeping over, and she had about half an ounce (misdemeanor amount) in her purse. I think, later on, that charges against her were dropped.
People wrote in and demanded a good reason for this happening. It was felt that the police could have stopped the man as he left his home, and nobody would die.
After a few days, the story dropped from the news. I tried to contact the newspaper reporter, by phone and email, to find out what the outcome of this story was, but there was no reply. I have heard nothing since.
In my opinion, like other posters here, is that the police keep this up because if they do not, they will lose funding. So, those billions of dollars keep coming. Jails and prison space are overcrowded, therefore, many more billions of dollars are spent. The third way we lose additional billions, is that those dollars go out of the country.
I for one, do not think this is worthwhile. You can't legislate morals. It is estimated that 3/4 of adults, people like Schwarzenegger, Clinton, and Obama as well, have at least tried marijuana. No, I do not want any impaired drivers out there on the road with me.
Read the article that everyone's commenting on, or post a comment about it.