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The bad apples are spoiling the whole bunch
I was talking with one of our reporters, Tony Fioriglio, this morning about the Christmas day murder in Norristown when he said if they would arrest about 40 people all of the recent violence would probably just go away. He's written about several of the recent shootings and it is becoming clear that they're connected. Revenge is a dirty business.
I agreed with him and went on to say if they would round up about 80 or so bad apples they could probably clean the whole town up.
What would it take to actually get this done?
I'm thinking a little targeted enforcement along Green Street would be a great place to start.
What do you think?
posted by Stan at
10:56 AM
5 Comments:
Let's just harass everyone without any legal precedent. That's what you're saying. Police can question, but when they label people as bad, they are just as wrong as you are. Just like there are bad cops, let's round the bad cops up and lock them up. I know of a few cops that abuse the system in good old Norristown.
Here is another bad cop. An Eastern Kentucky sheriff says he will refuse to enforce any new gun laws, claiming it is his duty to protect the U.S. Constitution.
“I consider this a moral obligation,” Jackson County Sheriff Denny Peyman told The Lexington Herald-Leader. He is a member of the National Rifle Association and has served as sheriff for two years.
“The sheriff has more power than the federal people,” Peyman said Saturday at a press conference. “They need to go back and study that. We’re a commonwealth, I can ask the federal people to leave and they have to leave. I can ask state people to leave and they have to leave.”
The sheriff emotionally said he would be ashamed to have to explain to the Founding Fathers why the United States was currently debating gun control. He insisted everyone had the right to own a firearm, and that everyone would be prudent to carry a firearm to defend themselves against criminals.
Peyman said he was even open to allowing people to own hand grenades “if it was necessary for self protection.”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1ys6d)
An Upper Merion man and former 28-year veteran of the Norristown Police Department was arrested Tuesday afternoon on charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine and illegal bookmaking, the Montgomery County District Attorney's office announced Thursday.
Jack Pennington, who retired from the police department in 1995, was taken into custody at the Plymouth Meeting Mall after an alleged exchange that included three ounces of crystal methamphetamine and almost $7,000 in cash, according to the criminal complaint filed by county detective James Vinter.
When he was arrested, Pennington was allegedly found to be in possession of his "retired" Norristown Police badge and $9,470 in cash.
"He kept using his badge" as he conducted criminal activities, District Attorney Risa Ferman said.
Authorities said they began investigating Pennington following an anonymous tip in late March.
Pennington allegedly used Steppy's bar and restaurant at the Facenda-Whitaker Lanes bowling alley in East Norriton as his base of operations.
Reading comprehension is a really important skill. The REPUBLICANS admit that they cut the funding for security at the embassies. No one is accusing them unjustly, they freely admit that this is what they did. Now, follow that easy line of progression... you cut the funding for security, security details get cut, terrorists attack the now weakened embassy that they know has very little security... and if you are a republican, you now blame the President of the United States for the security being lax and unable to resist the attack.. Republicans - there are no words to describe the hypocrisy of their positions.
They create a problem, the problem escalates, they blame it on the President... rinse, repeat..
I read your two cents stuff sometimes and I am amazed at the racism that I see expounded there. It should be deleted, but I guess your paper is aligned with people like that GOP guy in Maine who was reported as follows: Contrary to claims made by state GOP Chairman Charlie Webster, black people do in fact live in Maine.
Webster, who hails from one of the whitest states in the nation, this week accused “dozens and dozens” of black people of voter fraud for showing up at polling places in rural Maine where “nobody in town knows anybody that’s black.”
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry invited a “real life black person from Maine” to her show Saturday, Shay Stewart-Bouley, who said she was “stunned” by the Republican leader’s remarks.
“I was deeply, deeply offended by Webster’s comments,” she said.
Webster later apologized for his comments, telling Talking Points Memo that he regrets saying the word “black.” Webster emphasized that he was not racist in his apology because, “I know black people. I play basketball every Sunday with a black guy.”
Harris-Perry laughed at Webster’s remarks, saying they sounded like a comedy sketch out of a Dave Chappelle skit.
“I thought really? Really? You have a black friend who you play basketball with yet you don’t think there are any black people in Maine who would actually show up to vote?” Stewart-Bouley added. “That really doesn’t make sense.”
YEP, there are a lot of bad apples out there, and you should be showing that your paper is not with them, i.e., deleting the racist stuff. I saw a guy from KOP remarking on a Black captain being promoted to the Chief of Police, temporarily, and that KOP post was as racist as it gets, and if he is from KOP, he shows that he is a fool for posting about a Norristown position.
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