No one is accountable. And nothing is anyone's fault!

Speaking of police accountability, check this out (from the Wiki entry for Jeffrey Dahmer):

In the early morning hours of May 30, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (by chance, the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum. Two young women from the neighborhood found the dazed boy and called 911. Dahmer chased his victim down and tried to take him away, but the women stopped him.[29] Dahmer told police that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking. Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, police turned him over to Dahmer. They later reported smelling a strange scent while inside Dahmer's apartment, but did not investigate it. The smell was the body of Tony Hughes, Dahmer's previous victim, decomposing in the bedroom. The two policemen failed to run a background check that would have revealed that Dahmer was a convicted child molester still under probation.[30] The officers laughed about the incident, one joking that his partner was "going to get deloused."[31] Later that night, Dahmer killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone, keeping his skull as a souvenir.

John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, two of the three police officers who returned Sinthasomphone to Dahmer, were fired from the Milwaukee Police Department after their actions were widely publicized, including an audiotape of the officers making homophobic statements to their dispatcher and cracking jokes about having reunited the "lovers". The two officers appealed their termination and were reinstated with back pay. They were named officers of the year by the police union for fighting a "righteous" battle to regain their jobs. Balcerzak was later elected president of the Milwaukee Police Association in May 2005.

I hate it when outrageous stories in Wiki are correct, but unless people are making up wild tales, it's true.

John Balcerzak is in fact the president of the Milwaukee Police Association, and a movement to recall him failed 312-397. On the bright side, it's reassuring to know that 312 Milwaukee officers have enough of a sense of decency that they don't want as their president a guy who bragged about "reuniting" Dahmer with his victim.*

Just goes to show you, it's hard to discipline people these days.

Not even Bush and Ashcroft could fire the government employees who gave visas to Mohammad Atta and company.

And if President Bush couldn't fire government employees, that means I couldn't do it either, not even if I had real power.

So.... if I couldn't remedy the problems of which I complain, perhaps I shouldn't sit in judgment of those who can't.

Democracy is humbling.

And disillusioning.

*It may not have been his fault. And the issuance of visas to Atta and company might not have been the fault of the people who issued them. And what about the failure of the Army to discharge Major Hasan?

MORE: Just for tonight, may I please at least be allowed to sit in judgment of those who apparently think that complaints about "homophobic statements" have any place in the discussion of the torture murder of a fourteen year old boy?

This trivializes something absolutely horrific.... Whatever "homophobia" the officers may have engaged in pales in comparison to the monstrousness of the underlying crime.

Political correctness does function as a diversion, doesn't it?

posted by Eric on 11.10.09 at 09:44 PM





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Why would consular officers be fired for following the law in force at the time? Congress wrote the regulations concerning the issuance of visas. Those laws were followed--each an every officer who issued a visa to the 9/11 killers was hauled before Congress to defend his/her granting of the visas.

John Burgess   ·  November 11, 2009 09:15 AM

Like I posted yesterday, the web has abundant stories of bad cops and DAs.

via instapundit.

As he wrote:

WHAT THE FBI WAS DOING INSTEAD OF STOPPING NIDAL HASSAN:

http://reason.com/blog/2009/11/10/mississippi-cardiologist-wont


Just like in St.Louis. The DA is an obamanite and since he is the one who decides whether or not to prosecute, he will not go after the SEIU although there is physical evidence to justify.

hoss   ·  November 11, 2009 09:18 AM

Following the law was not the problem. They were fired for utterly failing in their duty. Even 2 strange women knew something was horribly wrong, and did a better job tyring to protect that kid, than 2 police officers who supposedly are good at reading people and seeing through lies. Dahmer's lies didn't work on those women.

If they officers gave a crap, they would hav asked more questions, they would not have smelled a dead body then walked away.

Who knows what motivated one of the worst cases of negligence ever, but surely cops that bad should not be cops. They should go do something that does not require investigation or decison making.

plutosdad   ·  November 11, 2009 12:28 PM

Oops sorry john got the 2 mixed up.

Actually they gave visas AFTER 9/11. That was what got them in trouble. That was the sorry state of affairs.

plutosdad   ·  November 11, 2009 12:32 PM

I heard from someone else this evening the details of the cleveland case (the bloody woman screaming for help) and thought of this immediately. Midwest city, outrageously indifferent police officers, an incredible stink and basically the whole neighborhood knows something horrible is amiss with each of the guys.

If I didn't know better, I might think certain entities were actually working to keep these psychopaths in business, so to speak.

The fractal nature of evil revealing itself, in sloppy repetition with cosmetic changes.

What are we to make of this in view of the fact that the officers in the dahmer case were later rehired, and the chief in the current case is "confident" his underlings acted properly?

Further to that, the fri noticia dump dump provided all kinds of goodies re hood. someone up high defdept knew about communications to known alqaida and $ xfers to or from paki. unnamed peep decided not to conduct any interviews with anyone that either worked under, along side, or above, the curious major who had been extremely vocal in his desire to leave the army entirely, in addition to espousal of violence against us peeps and soldiers. Why was a nutjob like that [i]not[/i] allowed to leave? Who in their right mind could look at what was known and not at least make inquiries or just boot the guy out, as he wanted? They will tale it is, take your pic;, bumbling, miscommunication, chinese (egyptian-sumerian?) walls, agency competition, lack of imagination (only they mean yours), and anything else they can throw.

Why for, all this po po state and surveylance? can we get a refund since it dont work?

^WizeUp   ·  November 14, 2009 10:25 PM

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