The president of San Francisco’s gay pride celebration retracted an offer Friday night for jailed Wikileaks source Bradley Manning to serve as the event’s grand marshal in absentia, calling it a mistake. SFist reported on Friday that Lisa Williams, president of the event’s board…
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ‘moved to prison’: CNN
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from a hospital to a prison medical center in Massachusetts, a US marshal’s spokesman told CNN Friday. Tsarnaev was sent to the Federal Medical Center Devens, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northwest of the Boston-area hospital where he…
U.S., U.K. Chiefs To Hold Historic Strategy Meeting
In what is believed to be the first time since the 1940s, the entire British defense staff will be here March 25 to discuss long-range strategy and the impact of budget cuts with their U.S. counterparts, according to U.S. and British sources. … Read More
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FOP Executive Director Says No One in Law Enforcement Supports Legalizing Pot
Jim Pasco, executive director of the
Fraternal Order of Police,
claims in a recent ABC News story that “the law enforcement
community is universally consistent in its opposition to legalizing
pot.” Which is true, if you don’t count Indiana State Police
Superintendent
Paul Whitesell, former San Jose Police Chief Joe
McNamara, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet,
former Orange County, California, Superior Court Judge
James P. Gray, or the members of
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. ;You’d also have to
overlook King County Sheriff ;Steve Strachan, ;former
Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, former Seattle FBI Special Agent
in Charge Charles Mandigo, and former U.S. attorneys John McKay and
Katrina C. Pflaumer, all of whom publicly supported
legalizing pot in Washington. Plus former Colorado Assistant
Attorney General Sean McAllister, former Denver police Lt. Tony
Ryan, former ; ;Deputy Town Marshal Jason Thomas, former
Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Lynda Carter, former Travis County
Senior Patrol Deputy Griffin Lott, former Municipal Judge Leonard
Frieling, ;former Denver Senior Deputy District
Attorney ;Lauren Davis, and former deputy district
attorneys ;Ann Toney, ;Titus Peterson, and ;Robert
Knepel, all of whom publicly supported
legalizing pot in Colorado. Not to mention the National
Black Police Organization ;and the National
Latino Officers Association, both of which endorsed legalizing
pot in California, Colorado, and Washington.
It’s true there are a lot of former ;law
enforcement officials on those lists, and maybe Jim Pasco does not
consider them members of “the law enforcement community.” But
criticizing the drug laws can be risky
for judges, prosecutors, and police officers whose jobs still
include enforcing those laws, and it is safe to assume that for
every open dissenter there are many other quiet ones.
How many? In a 2011
online survey by Police One, more than two-fifths of
the 1,700 respondents said pot should be legal. The sample is not
necessarily representative, but active-duty cops who support
marijuana legalization clearly do exist in significant numbers.
Even among top police officials, there are dissenters, as a 2005
survey of
police chiefs and sheriffs indicates. Sixty-two percent of the
respondents opposed legalizing marijuana for medical use, while 69
percent did not think that “the decriminalization of ‘soft drugs’
would allow more resources for violent and property crime
management.” Assuming that “no opinion” does not account for all of
the rest (the survey report does not say), that suggests
significant minorities of people running police
departments ;support medical marijuana and think pot busts
are a waste of resources. Furthermore, 82 percent of the sheriffs
and police chiefs said the war on drugs has not been
“successful in reducing the use of illegal drugs,” which makes you
wonder what the point is. It seems like there may be a bit more
diversity of opinion about drug policy within the law enforcement
community than Jim Pasco allows.
[Thanks to Richard Cowan for the tip.]
‘Justified’ Season 4 Premiere Date: FX Also Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Anger Management,’ ‘Archer’ And ‘Legit’
FX has officially rolled out its winter premiere dates. The first series to return will be FX’s “Justified” on Jan. 8 at 10 p.m. EST. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) will be back for an action-packed Season 4.”Anger Management” will launch the second-half of its season on Thurs., Jan 17 with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m. EST. The series, loosely based on star Charlie Sheen’s life, centers on a baseball player turned therapist. Read More…
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‘How I Met Your Mother’: Marshal And Lily Try To Pick Who Should Be Marvin’s Guardian If They Die (VIDEO)
Marshal and Lily faced a hard truth about what new parenthood had done to them on the latest “How I Met Your Mother.” After agreeing to let Lily’s dad keep an eye on Marvin, they tried to reconnect with the gang. But they didn’t get much information out of them as everyone was respecting their previous edict. If whatever was happening in their live wasn’t an 8 out of 10 then don’t both Marshal and Lily with it.After a near-death scare, the couple decided they needed to find a guardian for Marvin in the event anything did happen to them. This culminated in a hilarious game show in their apartment that saw Barney, Robin and Ted competing for the coveted position.The bit had them answering open-ended questions about how they would deal with certain situations that would come up in Marvin’s life. But as it progressed, the gang’s true feelings came out. They missed being able to talk to their friends. Marshal and Lily tried to defend their stance that Marvin was their only priority, but it only hurt the others.Read More…
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