St. Louis is making Florida look very good these days as a professional police tester makes his rounds there. The Holy Grail as always is the citizen's complaint form, but who knew you could end up in a jail cell for asking for one?
Posted by floridacracker at February 15, 2007 06:11 AMMan, all this St. Louis stuff you are posting is starting to make me uncomfortable. Devlin and the kidnappings, the wife who shot her husband over the warm Stag beer,the illegal killed at the sawmill, the Mt. Vernon, IL (city of my birth) man who trashed Albuquerque, and now the police.
This has been an interesting feature to watch as various police departments properly react or over-react to this person's request for a form to file a complaint on a police officer. One officer (approached at 3:00 am in his squad car) even offered to lead the tester back to the station for the form.
I've got to go now and make sure I don't have a floridacracker hiding in my basement stealing my newspaper.
Posted by: Willard at February 15, 2007 10:28 AMI knew it, but I wished I hadn't seen it.
In this clip and the one from S. FL., I get the impression that the cops wanted to know the gossip on the cop being complained about, in addition to making it difficult to complain.
Would they want a complaining citizen to discuss their problem with one of their peers ?
I would think that police officers themselves would want a complaint form available.
What's your name and where do you live? (#@*!#%!)
-huh
Please tell me how I can donatate to the Police Tester organization.
Willard, I've been reading the news out there while following the kidnapping case. Y'all have your own set of odd goings-on out that way.
Nancy, a lot of times the police just hand out the forms like they're supposed to and tell the guy to have a nice day. Then you get some real creeps, with this guy being the worst of the bunch. Telling the tester to get out of his city, then arresting him for failure to comply -- that really takes the cake.
Posted by: Donnah at February 16, 2007 05:12 AMSlightly offtopic, but it comes from our cracker-jack paper and is related to the kidnapping case:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9B831273BF9860EA8625728400115C80?OpenDocument
Bill O'Reilly managed to get himself disinvited to be a keynote speaker at a missing child organization's conference. Why they invited him in the first place is beyond me, but he talked himself out of a gig.
(sorry for the long url. Post-Dispatch just sucks)
Posted by: marc at February 16, 2007 09:52 AMThanks, Marc. I saw that in the STL. The news has been out for several days and they're just getting around to it. I signed the petition that got sent to the chapter that was going to have him. It was probably my signature that did the trick actually.
Posted by: Donnah at February 16, 2007 10:17 AM