Police Abuse

First, this is not a bash the police blog. It never will be. Let me say that again THIS IS NOT A BASH THE POLICE BLOG NOR IS THIS POST IN ANY WAY MEANT TO BE COP-BASHING. There. Now I want to hear no complaints. This week's Gazette reported a story that I first heard about when living in Takoma Park. Not to go in to too much detail (I would prefer the few people that read this blog to also read the news. Don't just take my word for it.) but a Takoma Park Police Officer is on trial in PGCO on charges of assault stemming from an incident in which said officer kneed a suspect in the back so hard that this suspect suffered broken ribs. What's very interesting here is not that a cop beat the hell out of a suspect while handcuffing him. What's interesting is that the suspect never brought up any allegations of abuse. In fact, the investigation was prompted by concerns and complaints from his FELLOW OFFICERS AT THE SCENE. This officer is still listed as a police officer on the Takoma Park Police website. Thus leading me to believe he still has a badge and an issued firearm and certainly is still on the payroll. This behavior is wrong and this officer needs to be punished, however, so does every higher ranking officer that allows him to hide behind the cover of being a police officer and not face these charges as a normal everyday citizen. This is becoming a serious issue with Police in MoCo. They (for the most part this is not to say all) seem to have a bit of a "Frat boy" mentality. How can we even expect to control crime when the ones we trust to do so are criminals themselves?


Anyone that reads this blog (and Gods bless you --it should be noted that I do not believe in a "God" so that's a lot coming from me) please read this Gazette article. You may feel free to post your comments here or email them to me at cava.steve@gmail.com if for some reason you do not want your comments shared with the rest of cyberspace. This is not to say that I won't post your emailed comments anyway......

Coming along

It's been a while since my last post. I know I promised that I would address some real issues this time. However, I would like to first draw your attention to the new links on the left side and the bottom of the page. I will add other links but for now, links at the bottom will direct you to websites with important information, like the National Weather Service during severe weather events. Emergency preparedness is a bit of a passion of mine and as an Amateur Radio Operator and an active Sky Warn member, I can promise you that you will experience a weather emergency at some point. Being prepared and knowing the location of a storm and what to expect from it can and does save property damage and lives.

Okay, I will try not to be so serious for a while.

Editor

Okay as I am a total idiot and cannot spell ( damned years of Catholic school) my fiancée has been kind enough to be my official blog editor. This way the few people that read this will not think that I am mentally retarded.

More to come on real issues in a bit.

Oops

Thanks to my fiancée I have corrected my blog profile. She mentioned that for some unknown reason I was listed as a girl. This led to a rather interesting discussion that I will not share all of — but let it be said that I am not a girl.

WOW glad that's fixed. In other news, not that anyone is yet reading this blog nor gives a shit, I have a new job. This will, I hope, afford me more time to blog.

Okay more to come as I am trying to come up with a witty topic. I will possibly address crime in east county later today. Please check back and tell your friends (assuming you have any) to check out my blog.

Peace out for now

All about this blog

HI There:

Somehow you found this blog. Whether by actively searching for blogs or while randomly typing different URL's into your browser while in a drunken stupor it matters not, YOU ARE HERE.

This is my blog. First, a bit about me. I'm 22. I live near the Burtonsville-Silver Spring line (ok, that would imply that Silver Spring is an incorporated city. It is not. However if you are in the least bit familiar with eastern Montgomery County (AKA East County) you know the area I'm talking about.) I hope that I am able to use this a a bit of a "fill in" blog...for lack of a better term...for this rather forgotten area of east county. While others (namely Just Up the Pike) do a wonderful job of covering this area, I felt that the perspective of someone living in the RT29/Briggs Chaney Road area is missing and, thus, needed. This blog will ( I hope) cover a myriad of topics from crime (a topic all to familiar to this area it seems) to politics to development to the ICC to totally off-topic rants by me (mainly about traffic). I hope you read it, enjoy it, and please email me or post here if I've said something totally off the mark. This is my first blog so I will try to update it as often as possible, but there will be times that I am trying to come up with something witty to say or times that I am just too damned busy to mess with it.

Anyway please check back often and feel free to leave tips, words of encouragement, suggestions, etc.