I DID IT AND I'M PROUD
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/weird/dpgonc-out-of-towners-in-heap-of-trouble-after-freely-admitting-crimes-to-nypd-km-20100320_6669325
Updated: Saturday, 20 Mar 2010, 9:47 AM CDT
Published : Saturday, 20 Mar 2010, 9:47 AM CDT
(NewsCore) - Two men from Tennessee shocked New York police by freely confessing to several crimes upon being pulled over, the New York Post reported Saturday.
Noticing their 1994 Acura Integra's tinted windows and missing license plate, Port Authority (PA) police pulled the men over on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel.
The trouble for the two "good ol' country boys," as one officer described them, began when a cop asked driver Donald Martin West II for his license.
For some reason, West, 41, volunteered a Tennessee gun permit, a PA source said, prompting the officer to ask why.
West told the officer, "I got a gun on me," and cheerfully added, "In the small of my back."
When the officer asked West if he had anything else on him, his honesty got him in deeper.
"Yes," he said, in the spirit of full cooperation. "There's a bag of weed and some pipes."
This made even the cops laugh. "It was so funny. He freely admitted it," the source said.
West could not stop. He allegedly admitted he also had handcuffs, hollow-point bullets and an extra gun magazine.
Passenger Tory Davis, 23, was also given a chance to fess up.
Asked whether he, too, had anything to admit, Davis pointed to the ashtray and said, "There's two (marijuana) blunts in the ashtray," the source said.
Let's cut school and healthcare funding so inmates can fuck their wives!!!
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/gov_david_paterson_earmarks_77.html
By Delen Goldberg / The Post-Standard
March 19, 2010, 2:15PM
Syracuse, NY -- Gov. David Paterson wants to spend almost $800,000 on two double-wide trailers for conjugal and family visits at the Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, Seneca County.
Paterson included the funding in his 2010-11 state budget proposal.
New York currently faces a $9 billion deficit. Paterson has proposed cutting aid to schools and hospitals, closing state parks and historic sites and delaying residents' income tax refunds to plug the hole.
At the same time, Paterson wants to spend $778,000 on two trailers that would enable inmates to host family members for as long as 44 hours once every eight weeks. The trailers would allow Five Points to offer the Family Reunion Program, which nearly every maximum security general confinement prison in the state offers, according to the Finger Lakes Times, which broke news of Paterson's plans Thursday.
Department of Corrections officials say the program helps rehabilitate inmates and allows them to better re-enter society.
The four-unit trailers would be finished by March 2011, the Finger Lakes Times reported.
Twenty facilities across the state, including Auburn Prison, offer the Family Reunion Program. (Editors note: Is this blind motherfucker on crack?)
Just one more lawmaker doing the expedient thing and breaking with constituents
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/us_rep_bill_owens_says_he_will.html
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, saying he feared "dire consequences" if nothing is done to reform the nation's health care system, said today he will vote for President Obama's sweeping plan when it comes to a vote Sunday.
"This has been a difficult decision, one that I have taken very seriously," Owens said in a conference call with reporters this morning.
"One of the questions that weighed very heavily on my mind is: What happens if we do nothing?" Owens said. He said he was convinced there would be "dire consequences" for Americans who would see health insurance premium costs continue to rise out of control.
Owens, D-Plattsburgh, said he believes his decision is "in the best interests of the district and the communities in the district," which includes Oswego and Madison counties.
He becomes the second Democratic congressman representing Central New York to stay with his party in a vote that is expected to be decided by a razor-thin margin. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was still seeking about a dozen votes today.
U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt, announced his support for the legislation earlier this week, but U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, said he would vote "no" because the bill is bad for his constituents.
All three local congressmen voted for the House version of the bill in November, which passed, 220-215. The three came under intense pressure from both sides of the debate because they are in swing districts and face tough re-election campaigns.
Arcuri, who is among only two Democrats nationwide to change their vote from "yes" to "no" on the bill, has already lost the endorsement from labor unions and a progressive political party, the Working Families Party, over his decision.
Owens said he spent the past week questioning White House officials about the legislation, reading independent reports and meeting with opponents and supporters of health care reform.
Among those he met with were Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, an opponent of the reform bill, and representatives of AARP, who have endorsed the legislation.
A week ago, Owens hosted a telephone town hall meeting with more than 3,700 residents of the 23rd Congressional District. He said “job creation” was the top concern (44 percent) raised by those who took a non-scientific poll during the conference call. The second-highest concern (25 percent) was health care reform.
Owens said most of the thousands of people who contacted his office in recent weeks expressed their opinions on health care reform in a civil manner, but he also received “physical and verbal threats” from people living outside of the congressional district.
Owens received a phone call from President Obama asking for his support. But the congressman said he never felt pressured by the president or any other members of his party.
"It would be foolish to say that this does not have political implications to it, but I did not listen to the political pressure from any source," Owens said.
Women are helpless against these predators and pigs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100319/od_nm/us_women_catcalls
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Men who harass women with cat calls and sexual comments are actually harming their whole gender, a study has found.
The research, by Stephenie Chaudoir and Diane Quinn of the University of Connecticut in the United States, looked into the feelings and reactions of women who saw and heard men making derogatory remarks to other women.
The researchers asked 114 undergraduate female students to watch a video and imagine themselves as bystanders to a situation where a man made either a sexist remark at another woman or simply greeted her.
The students were then asked to rate their levels of anxiety and depression as well as their anger and fear toward men and their desire to move against or away from men.
The study showed that in addition to feeling upset, women were more likely to take the sexist remark as an insult to their gender, and feel greater anger and motivation to take direct action toward men in general.
"Women are obviously implicated because they suffer direct negative consequences as targets of prejudice and, as the current work demonstrates, indirect consequences as bystanders," the researchers said in the study.
"But sexism also harms men as well. Whenever a single man's prejudiced actions are attributed to his gender identity, male perpetrators impact how women view and react to men generally."
The study was published in the journal Sex Roles. (Editors note: Paid for with tax dollars I presume.)
THIS IS WHY NEW YORK COPS SUCK...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_re_us/us_police_wrong_address;_ylt=AvybEmYWypYMJd62tLf6Z0ntiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJvcWZiNm5kBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzIwL3VzX3BvbGljZV93cm9uZ19hZGRyZXNzBGNwb3MDMwRwb3MDNQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNueWNjb3Bzc29ycnk-
NEW YORK – Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years.
It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin's modest home in the Marine Park neighborhood, about 7 miles southeast of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The most recent intrusion came Tuesday, with officers pounding on both the front and back doors, yelling "Police, open up!"
On Thursday, detectives from the NYPD's Identity Theft Squad went to see the Martins again — this time to apologize. "And we wanted to be sure perps weren't using that address for identity theft," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told The Associated Press on Friday.
The detectives told 82-year-old Rose and 83-year-old Walter that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had ordered them to solve the problem, which started eight years ago and was first reported this week in the New York Daily News.
To bring home the sincerity of the NYPD's contrition, Kelly showed up Friday at the Martin's house with a gift: New York cheesecake.
The commissioner rolled into the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood at midday, stopping in front of the Martins' small, neatly kept house, a large American flag fluttering by the front door.
Kelly "went to apologize — and to explain," Browne said. "They expressed appreciation that the police commissioner came and they showed him pictures of their grandchildren."
The snafu started in 2002, when police used the Brooklyn address as part of what Browne called "random material" to test an automated computer system that tracks crime complaints and records of other internal police information. Before that, the work was done manually.
The couple first complained about the harrowing police visits in 2007, when Rose Martin wrote a letter to Kelly. "And we identified the problem then," Browne said. "It was a mistake by the police department."
Police wiped the Martins' address from the system.
Or so they thought, Browne said. Instead, the visits continued, and some computer files bearing the Martins' address stayed in the system.
"We thought all the test data had been purged, but apparently it had not," Browne said. "The Martins' address ended up migrating to various complaint forms and warrant information."
Most of the visits came in 2006 and 2007, he said. After the latest, "We realized we still had a problem and went back and further purged the records," the deputy commissioner conceded.
To make sure it will never happen again, Browne said the address has been flagged with alerts, so if there's any record indicating officers should question the Martins, "they're barred from doing it."
Rose Martin has asked the department to write her an official letter to that effect.
"It seems like too simple a correction for something that has been going on for eight years," she told the New York Daily News, which first reported the story.
"I'm not feeling well today," she told the AP after the commissioner's visit, adding that neither she nor her husband could comment.
But they did their best to carry on their business. Walter Martin left the house briefly to walk the dog, with a young man helping him.
(Editor's note: Yea, we're sorry we terrorized you like, 200 times, here's a cheesecake to make it all go away, please don't sue us...)
Boy Scouts Second only to Catholic Church
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_scouts_sex_abuse
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.
The "perversion files," a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom.
The lawyer for a man who was molested in the 1980s by a Scout leader has obtained about 1,000 Boy Scouts sex files and is expected to release some of them at a trial that began Wednesday. The lawyer says the files show how the Boy Scouts have covered up abuse for decades.
On Friday, testimony from a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responsible for a Scout troop of church members suggested the Scouts never provided training about spotting abuse or preventing it.
The trial is significant because the files could offer a rare window into how the Boy Scouts have responded to sex abuse by Scout leaders. The only other time the documents are believed to have been presented at a trial was in the 1980s in Virginia.
At the start of the Oregon trial, attorney Kelly Clark recited the Boy Scout oath and the promise to obey Scout law to be "trustworthy." Then he presented six boxes of documents that he said will show "how the Boy Scouts of America broke that oath."
He held up file folder after file folder he said contained reports of abuse from around the country, telling the jury the efforts to keep them secret may have actually set back efforts to prevent child abuse nationally.
"The Boy Scouts of America ignored clear warning signs that Boy Scouts were being abused," Clark said.
Charles Smith, attorney for the national Boy Scouts, said in his own opening statement the files were kept under wraps because they "were replete with confidential information."
Smith told the jury the files helped national scouting leaders weed out sex offenders, especially repeat offenders who may have changed names or moved in order to join another local scouting organization.
"They were trying to do the right thing by trying to track these folks," Smith said.
Clark is seeking $14 million in damages on behalf of a 37-year-old man who was sexually molested in the early 1980s in Portland by an assistant Scoutmaster, Timur Dykes.
Clark said the victim suffered mental health problems, bad grades in school, drug use, anxiety, difficulty maintaining relationships and lost several jobs over the years because of the abuse.
Dykes was convicted three times between 1983 and 1994 of sexually abusing boys, most of them Scouts.
Although there have been dozens of lawsuits against the organization over sex abuse allegations, judges for the most part have either denied requests for the files or the lawsuits have been settled before they went to trial.
The Boy Scouts had fought to keep the files being used in the Portland trial confidential. But they lost a pretrial legal battle when the Oregon Supreme Court rejected their argument that opening the files could damage the lives and reputations of people not a party to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also named the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because the Mormons acted as a charter organization, or sponsor, for the local Boy Scouts troop that included the victim. But the church has settled its portion of the case.
The Portland trial comes as the Boy Scouts are marking their 100th anniversary.
"They spent a century building the Boy Scout brand," said Patrick Boyle, author of a book about sex abuse in the Boy Scouts. "It's one of the most respected organizations in the world."
The trial "can only erode what they have been doing for 100 years," he said.
The Portland case centers on whether the Boy Scouts of America did enough to protect boys from Dykes.
The Mormon bishop who also served as head of the Scout troop, Gordon McEwen, confronted Dykes after receiving a report of abuse by the mother of one boy in the troop in January 1983.
In a video deposition played Friday for the jury, the bishop said Dykes admitted abusing 17 boys and provided a written list of names.
But a retired police officer who investigated the abuse report testified Friday that McEwen never told police about the list.
Charles Shipley, who was a Multnomah County sheriff's detective at the time, said he interviewed a pair of victims before calling Dykes in for questioning.
Shipley said Dykes admitted molesting the two boys and was arrested. Shipley was concerned there were additional victims and asked McEwen to talk to other parents of the 30 Scouts in the troop.
Two other potential victims were identified but Shipley said their parents did not want their sons involved with the investigation.
In his deposition, McEwen admitted he never turned over the written list and had only vague recollections of his conversations with police.
McEwen said he personally contacted the parents of all 17 boys on the list before calling a state meeting of the church to "disallow" Dykes, or limit his church involvement, and counsel him to "repent of his errors."
Dykes pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse, received probation and was ordered to stay away from children.
Clark told the jury Dykes continued with his scouting activities until he was arrested again in July 1984 during a routine traffic stop while he was driving a van full of Scouts on a camping trip.
A spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America at its headquarters in Irving, Texas, said in a statement the organization cannot comment on details of the case, but has worked hard on awareness and prevention efforts, including background checks.
"Unfortunately, child abuse is a societal problem and there is no fail-safe method for screening out abusers," Deron Smith said. (Editor's note: its called one strike and your out)
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