Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said over 500 medical marijuana dispensaries have been shut down over 20 months, some close to schools and day care centers
By Asher Klein
NBC Los Angeles
April 9, 2015
Los Angeles law enforcement has closed hundreds of shops illegally selling medical marijuana in under two years, according to City Attorney Mike Feuer.
Feuer announced Thursday that that the city has closed 503 shops since July 2013, nearly half of them in the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Bureau.
"Many were close to schools, child care centers and other sensitive sites. Others were disrupting the quality of life in our neighborhoods," Feuer said in a press release.
In 2013, LA voters allowed medical marijuana to be sold at a set number of shops. But many shops that weren't approved under the law have sprung up anyway, along with a farmer's market that Feuer's office cracked down on as well.
Feuer said "several hundred" medical marijuana shops remain open around the city and urged the public to report any illegal medical marijuana shops to atty.medicalmarijuana@lacity.org.
EDITOR’S NOTE: They should shut down all the pot shops. Medical marijuana is a hoax. Where are the feds? Medical pot is a violation of federal law. Jim Beam and Jack Daniel’s work just as well, and they’re legal. So does Four Roses, and it’s cheaper.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
BUSTED FOR VOWING ‘I DO’ 10 TIMES
NY woman married 10 different men without bothering to get a single divorce
It has just come to light that a New York woman was busted last November for marrying 10 different men in 11 years without bothering to get a single divorce.
Liana Barrientos, 39, a native of the Dominican Republic, may have broken the record for serial brides. Six of her 10 wedding ceremonies were held within a span of six months. Her latest marriage, which occurred in March 2010, was to a man named Salle Keita.
From the April 9 New York Daily News:
A Bronx detective uncovered nine previous marriage licenses for Barrientos, including a half-dozen issued in the span of six busy months, the court documents filed last November charged.
The first license was dated Nov. 5, 1999, to husband Mohamed Gerbril, and the last on Aug. 3, 2002, to groom Kakhaber Khorbaladze — her sixth marriage that year.
Liana was scheduled to appear in Bronx Supreme Court today to be arraigned on two charges of filing a false instrument. She faces a maximum term of four years in prison on each count.
No motive was given for the bogus marriages. But looking at the names of her ‘husbands,’ I suspect that they were part of a citizenship scam.
It has just come to light that a New York woman was busted last November for marrying 10 different men in 11 years without bothering to get a single divorce.
Liana Barrientos, 39, a native of the Dominican Republic, may have broken the record for serial brides. Six of her 10 wedding ceremonies were held within a span of six months. Her latest marriage, which occurred in March 2010, was to a man named Salle Keita.
From the April 9 New York Daily News:
A Bronx detective uncovered nine previous marriage licenses for Barrientos, including a half-dozen issued in the span of six busy months, the court documents filed last November charged.
The first license was dated Nov. 5, 1999, to husband Mohamed Gerbril, and the last on Aug. 3, 2002, to groom Kakhaber Khorbaladze — her sixth marriage that year.
Liana was scheduled to appear in Bronx Supreme Court today to be arraigned on two charges of filing a false instrument. She faces a maximum term of four years in prison on each count.
No motive was given for the bogus marriages. But looking at the names of her ‘husbands,’ I suspect that they were part of a citizenship scam.
INSTANT MURDER CHARGE AND FIRING
A South Carolina cop who shot a fleeing man multiple times in the back is charged with murder and fired several hours after a video of the shooting surfaced
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 8, 2015
Michael Thomas Slager is a North Charleston, S.C. police officer. He is white. He made a traffic stop of a man who happened to be black. The situation went sideways and it ended up with the motorist, Walter Lammer Scott, 50, dead and Slager facing a flat-out murder charge for his actions.
A video of the shooting (but not the lead-in to the shooting) surfaced yesterday. It showed Scott running away from Slager. Scott’s hands were pretty obviously empty. Slager shot Scott five times in the back as he was running away. It also shows Slager picking up something on the ground, carrying it over to Scott’s body and dropping it on the ground. The speculation is that this object was the Taser.
Within hours of the video being released Slager was arrested for murder.
Slager stated that Scott tried to grab his Taser and he felt threatened. Slager’s lawyer dropped him after he made that statement. The state is handling the investigation at the request of the local authorities. The FBI has invited themselves in.
I am inclined to say that Officer Slager is in very deep doodoo on this one.
The officer’s wife is eight months pregnant. The city has agreed to continue her medical insurance until after the baby is born. The laws in S.C. must be very much different than those in CA as they fired Officer Slager in less than one day.
EDITOR’S COMMENT: I viewed the dash-cam video. There was no physical altercation. After making a traffic stop, Slager walks up to Scott’s car. After a couple of moments, Slager walks back to his cop car and Scott bails out of his car and beat feet. There was a gap between then and the start of the smartphone video which appears to show Scott getting up – probably after having been tased - with Slager standing next to him, then running away again. That’s when the officer opened fire.
SCOTUS long ago ruled that the police do not have the right to shoot a fleeing suspect unless he poses an imminent threat to the officer or if his escape would put the public at serious risk. The video taken by a witness clearly shows the officer violating that SCOTUS ruling.
Slager’s mother said what her son did was so out of character that she could not understand it.
I believe that Slager’s actions were out of character. Accordingly, it is important to ascertain why he shot Scott. Did the victim piss him off? Or was Slager pissed-off for some reason before he started his shift, thereby taking his anger out on the fleeing man? If so, why didn’t Slager's supervisor observe a change in his usual mood when he came to work? It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to see that someone is in a foul mood.
A cop who shows up for work pissed-off is a dangerous cop!
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 8, 2015
Michael Thomas Slager is a North Charleston, S.C. police officer. He is white. He made a traffic stop of a man who happened to be black. The situation went sideways and it ended up with the motorist, Walter Lammer Scott, 50, dead and Slager facing a flat-out murder charge for his actions.
A video of the shooting (but not the lead-in to the shooting) surfaced yesterday. It showed Scott running away from Slager. Scott’s hands were pretty obviously empty. Slager shot Scott five times in the back as he was running away. It also shows Slager picking up something on the ground, carrying it over to Scott’s body and dropping it on the ground. The speculation is that this object was the Taser.
Within hours of the video being released Slager was arrested for murder.
Slager stated that Scott tried to grab his Taser and he felt threatened. Slager’s lawyer dropped him after he made that statement. The state is handling the investigation at the request of the local authorities. The FBI has invited themselves in.
I am inclined to say that Officer Slager is in very deep doodoo on this one.
The officer’s wife is eight months pregnant. The city has agreed to continue her medical insurance until after the baby is born. The laws in S.C. must be very much different than those in CA as they fired Officer Slager in less than one day.
EDITOR’S COMMENT: I viewed the dash-cam video. There was no physical altercation. After making a traffic stop, Slager walks up to Scott’s car. After a couple of moments, Slager walks back to his cop car and Scott bails out of his car and beat feet. There was a gap between then and the start of the smartphone video which appears to show Scott getting up – probably after having been tased - with Slager standing next to him, then running away again. That’s when the officer opened fire.
SCOTUS long ago ruled that the police do not have the right to shoot a fleeing suspect unless he poses an imminent threat to the officer or if his escape would put the public at serious risk. The video taken by a witness clearly shows the officer violating that SCOTUS ruling.
Slager’s mother said what her son did was so out of character that she could not understand it.
I believe that Slager’s actions were out of character. Accordingly, it is important to ascertain why he shot Scott. Did the victim piss him off? Or was Slager pissed-off for some reason before he started his shift, thereby taking his anger out on the fleeing man? If so, why didn’t Slager's supervisor observe a change in his usual mood when he came to work? It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to see that someone is in a foul mood.
A cop who shows up for work pissed-off is a dangerous cop!
Thursday, April 09, 2015
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
WHAT DOES THE WORD ‘FIGHT’ REALLY MEAN?
Social crusaders like to say they “fight” for change, justice, equality, peace, etc., but moist, if not all, have never fought an enemy that is shooting at them, dropping mortar rounds on them and planting IEDs in their path
By Lee Lawrence
Ideological zealots, social crusaders, left-wing radicals, political activists – call them what you will – all love to use the word “fight.” They like to say “fight for change, fight for justice, fight for equality, fight for peace, fight for transparency, fight for ______” – you fill in the blank. The reality is none of them have any concept whatsoever what it truly means to “fight.”
Most, if not all, have never fought for anything in their life, neither metaphorically nor actually, having never been in any semblance of a physical confrontation or even anything resembling a struggle. Nor have they had to “fight” for an education, a place to live, their next meal, their next paycheck, most of them being pampered, wealthy, highly-educated intellectual elitists who, maybe once, had to “fight” for a parking spot near their next class on campus.
They have certainly never fought for their country or their freedom, never worn a uniform of any kind, never carried a weapon and been willing to give their life or take another’s for a cause greater than their own. During the Vietnam War those social crusaders fled to Canada and Sweden or cursed and spit on the soldiers coming back home. They are thankless and ungrateful, depending on others to fight in their place for the very rights they exercise regularly to promote their chosen cause and to condemn those who disagree.
They have never stood a post in some frozen, god-forsaken place in the middle of the night, crawling with others wanting to kill them, merely because they exist, and fought to stay awake because the lives of thirty or more of their brethren depend on them being ready to fight in the blink of any eye. They’ve never fought to fall asleep at night, wondering if the next rocket or mortar round was going to come through the roof of their tent and land on their cot. They have never walked along a path fearing that their next step will set off an IED. Nor have they gazed out into a crowd and wondered which one is wearing a suicide vest, which one is going to blow themselves and all of us into tiny, unrecognizable pieces?
Nor have they found themselves on the wet, cold, muddy ground beneath another human being, who is many times bigger and stronger than they, bent on taking their weapon and killing them with it, merely because as police officers they represent authority and stand between them and doing what they will. No, they have never experienced that terror, or anything like it.
The truth is, when confronted with a deadly threat, when the wolf’s hot breath is on their face, be it a homicidal-suicidal active shooter who sees them merely as a convenient target and their next victim, or someone willing to take their life for the change in their pocket or those Air Jordan shoes on their feet, they will, most likely, expect the very ones they despise and reject to fight for them, to take the bullet meant for them instead. They will, almost invariably, cry out to the God they also deny and reject to save them. They will be the sheep, and at that moment, will pray for the intervention of a sheep dog.
John Moynihan, a Boston police officer, was shot point-blank in the face on March 27. Shot without provocation, he never had a chance to draw his weapon. Although he is recovering, his life will never be the same.
Moynihan has dedicated his life to service, as have many others, he being an Army Ranger who survived a combat tour of duty in Iraq, only to come home and be critically wounded in an unprovoked attack by a convicted felon, free out on the streets, with a history of violence and weapon violations. Moynihan was also named Police Officer of the Year for his role in the fire fight with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombing terror suspects. Now, he fights again, this time for his life.
Officer John Moynihan happens to be white and Angelo West, who shot Moynihan, happens to be black. I mention this only because had it been reversed with Moynihan shooting West, our President, our Attorney General and the Reverend Al Sharpton would be calling for the officer’s career and his freedom. And yes, some of the above described zealots would join in and call for his very life – and all this before any of the facts are even known, readily passing judgment based on lies and speculations. Barrack, Eric, Al – where are you now??
So, the next time you or someone you know throws the word “fight” out there, take a moment to reflect on what it really means.
__________
Lee Lawrence is a sergeant with the Houston Police Department. Lee is also a U.S. Army Ranger. He took two military leaves of absence from HPD to fight with his Reserve Unit, first in Iraq, and later in Afghanistan.
By Lee Lawrence
Ideological zealots, social crusaders, left-wing radicals, political activists – call them what you will – all love to use the word “fight.” They like to say “fight for change, fight for justice, fight for equality, fight for peace, fight for transparency, fight for ______” – you fill in the blank. The reality is none of them have any concept whatsoever what it truly means to “fight.”
Most, if not all, have never fought for anything in their life, neither metaphorically nor actually, having never been in any semblance of a physical confrontation or even anything resembling a struggle. Nor have they had to “fight” for an education, a place to live, their next meal, their next paycheck, most of them being pampered, wealthy, highly-educated intellectual elitists who, maybe once, had to “fight” for a parking spot near their next class on campus.
They have certainly never fought for their country or their freedom, never worn a uniform of any kind, never carried a weapon and been willing to give their life or take another’s for a cause greater than their own. During the Vietnam War those social crusaders fled to Canada and Sweden or cursed and spit on the soldiers coming back home. They are thankless and ungrateful, depending on others to fight in their place for the very rights they exercise regularly to promote their chosen cause and to condemn those who disagree.
They have never stood a post in some frozen, god-forsaken place in the middle of the night, crawling with others wanting to kill them, merely because they exist, and fought to stay awake because the lives of thirty or more of their brethren depend on them being ready to fight in the blink of any eye. They’ve never fought to fall asleep at night, wondering if the next rocket or mortar round was going to come through the roof of their tent and land on their cot. They have never walked along a path fearing that their next step will set off an IED. Nor have they gazed out into a crowd and wondered which one is wearing a suicide vest, which one is going to blow themselves and all of us into tiny, unrecognizable pieces?
Nor have they found themselves on the wet, cold, muddy ground beneath another human being, who is many times bigger and stronger than they, bent on taking their weapon and killing them with it, merely because as police officers they represent authority and stand between them and doing what they will. No, they have never experienced that terror, or anything like it.
The truth is, when confronted with a deadly threat, when the wolf’s hot breath is on their face, be it a homicidal-suicidal active shooter who sees them merely as a convenient target and their next victim, or someone willing to take their life for the change in their pocket or those Air Jordan shoes on their feet, they will, most likely, expect the very ones they despise and reject to fight for them, to take the bullet meant for them instead. They will, almost invariably, cry out to the God they also deny and reject to save them. They will be the sheep, and at that moment, will pray for the intervention of a sheep dog.
John Moynihan, a Boston police officer, was shot point-blank in the face on March 27. Shot without provocation, he never had a chance to draw his weapon. Although he is recovering, his life will never be the same.
Moynihan has dedicated his life to service, as have many others, he being an Army Ranger who survived a combat tour of duty in Iraq, only to come home and be critically wounded in an unprovoked attack by a convicted felon, free out on the streets, with a history of violence and weapon violations. Moynihan was also named Police Officer of the Year for his role in the fire fight with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombing terror suspects. Now, he fights again, this time for his life.
Officer John Moynihan happens to be white and Angelo West, who shot Moynihan, happens to be black. I mention this only because had it been reversed with Moynihan shooting West, our President, our Attorney General and the Reverend Al Sharpton would be calling for the officer’s career and his freedom. And yes, some of the above described zealots would join in and call for his very life – and all this before any of the facts are even known, readily passing judgment based on lies and speculations. Barrack, Eric, Al – where are you now??
So, the next time you or someone you know throws the word “fight” out there, take a moment to reflect on what it really means.
__________
Lee Lawrence is a sergeant with the Houston Police Department. Lee is also a U.S. Army Ranger. He took two military leaves of absence from HPD to fight with his Reserve Unit, first in Iraq, and later in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT
Brain fart or deliberate lie
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 6, 2015
Michael Berlo, 31, is a cop in Cleveland, Ohio. He is now on trial for two counts of voluntary manslaughter related to an on-duty incident. The situation is somewhat murky.
Berlo was one of the officers involved in the stopping of a car carrying Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in November of 2012. A total of 13 officers fired a total of 146 shots into the car, resulting in the death of both occupants. He is the only one being charged. He fired 49 of those rounds.
The incident started with a police chase in which the car refused to stop. As they blew past a Cleveland P D Headquarters their car backfired leading both cops and civilian bystanders to believe the occupants of the car were armed and shooting. Neither was in fact the case.
The chase eventually involved 104 cops, 60 plus police vehicles and speeds of over 100 mph. It ran more than 20 minutes. The bad guys made a turn in the school parking lot and tried to continue to flee, striking a cop car in the process, which legitimately qualifies as ADW on a peace officer. The shooting then started. Both occupants were hit at least 20 times.
Brelo, however, MIGHT have overdone it. He apparently jumped onto the hood of the car and emptied his gun through the windshield beginning at least 4 second after everybody else stopped shooting. His lawyer is maintaining that the situation was not fully stabilized until Brelo reached into the car and pulled the keys.
Brelo’s foot prints are on the hood of the car and at least one cop has testified that the above description is how it went down. Brelo now asserts he doesn’t remember being up on the hood of the car even though at least one officer has testified that Brelo spoke about if for several days afterwards. He now does not denied it happened that way, he says he doesn’t remember it happening that way.
Eric Holder says the Cleveland P D has a pattern and practice of using excessive force. (Gee, what a surprise that is.)
Brelo could get 25 years if found guilty. The city has already paid out $3 million to the families of the dead people.
EDITOR’S COMMENT: Keystone Cops!
What else can you call a chase by 104 cops in more than 60 cop cars with hundreds of shots fired but a Keystone Cop event.
I don’t like to be an armchair critic where cops are concerned, but this case leaves me flabbergasted. In a highly charged situation like this, the shooting frenzy is explained by one cop opening fire and, like lemmings following their leader, other officer open up with a fusillade of gunfire.
As for Officer Michael Berlo, where did he ever learn police tactics? It could not have been on this planet. Jumping on the hood of the suspect’s car is just plain lunacy. Emptying his gun through the windshield four seconds after all the other cops had stopped firing made this Keystone cop a candidate for murder charges. He more than just ‘overdone’ it.
Latest news reports say that other officers are refusing to cooperate with prosecutors. By trying to protect Berlo under these circumstances, his fellow officers will be seen like the dipshit he is.
I’d say Berlo is both a brain fart and a liar!
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 6, 2015
Michael Berlo, 31, is a cop in Cleveland, Ohio. He is now on trial for two counts of voluntary manslaughter related to an on-duty incident. The situation is somewhat murky.
Berlo was one of the officers involved in the stopping of a car carrying Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in November of 2012. A total of 13 officers fired a total of 146 shots into the car, resulting in the death of both occupants. He is the only one being charged. He fired 49 of those rounds.
The incident started with a police chase in which the car refused to stop. As they blew past a Cleveland P D Headquarters their car backfired leading both cops and civilian bystanders to believe the occupants of the car were armed and shooting. Neither was in fact the case.
The chase eventually involved 104 cops, 60 plus police vehicles and speeds of over 100 mph. It ran more than 20 minutes. The bad guys made a turn in the school parking lot and tried to continue to flee, striking a cop car in the process, which legitimately qualifies as ADW on a peace officer. The shooting then started. Both occupants were hit at least 20 times.
Brelo, however, MIGHT have overdone it. He apparently jumped onto the hood of the car and emptied his gun through the windshield beginning at least 4 second after everybody else stopped shooting. His lawyer is maintaining that the situation was not fully stabilized until Brelo reached into the car and pulled the keys.
Brelo’s foot prints are on the hood of the car and at least one cop has testified that the above description is how it went down. Brelo now asserts he doesn’t remember being up on the hood of the car even though at least one officer has testified that Brelo spoke about if for several days afterwards. He now does not denied it happened that way, he says he doesn’t remember it happening that way.
Eric Holder says the Cleveland P D has a pattern and practice of using excessive force. (Gee, what a surprise that is.)
Brelo could get 25 years if found guilty. The city has already paid out $3 million to the families of the dead people.
EDITOR’S COMMENT: Keystone Cops!
What else can you call a chase by 104 cops in more than 60 cop cars with hundreds of shots fired but a Keystone Cop event.
I don’t like to be an armchair critic where cops are concerned, but this case leaves me flabbergasted. In a highly charged situation like this, the shooting frenzy is explained by one cop opening fire and, like lemmings following their leader, other officer open up with a fusillade of gunfire.
As for Officer Michael Berlo, where did he ever learn police tactics? It could not have been on this planet. Jumping on the hood of the suspect’s car is just plain lunacy. Emptying his gun through the windshield four seconds after all the other cops had stopped firing made this Keystone cop a candidate for murder charges. He more than just ‘overdone’ it.
Latest news reports say that other officers are refusing to cooperate with prosecutors. By trying to protect Berlo under these circumstances, his fellow officers will be seen like the dipshit he is.
I’d say Berlo is both a brain fart and a liar!
POLICE AGENCIES TESTING BULLET SHELL CASINGS FASTER IN TEAM EFFORT TO NAB ACTIVE SHOOTERS
The National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, or NIBIN helps investigators link cartridge casings found at different crime scenes using a national database
By Sadie Gurman
Associated Press
April 6, 2015
DENVER -- Detectives in Denver were on the hunt for an increasingly brazen shooter.
A burglar fired through a woman's dining room window when she threatened to call police. Ten minutes later and a mile away, someone broke into another home and shot a Bernese Mountain Dog.
Officers scooped up the spent shell casings and wondered where he would strike next.
Their break came when a witness said he was fired upon in a street fight two days later. Police gathered six more casings that were quickly entered into a national ballistics database and matched all three crimes. The evidence helped put Anthony Dennis in jail and keep him there.
In many U.S. police departments, that evidence might have been shelved in an overworked crime lab, where analysts would only run it through the database to prepare a case for trial.
But authorities in Denver are leading a national trend to put ballistics evidence into the hands of investigators much more quickly — before leads dry up and suspects disappear.
"Police are beginning to understand that if you don't quickly respond and address gun violence it can spread over space, and it can escalate much like a measles outbreak," said Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, which is studying whether these efforts create sustained reductions in gun violence.
Matched shell casings have helped lead to at least 35 arrests in more than 50 shootings in the two years since Denver began operating its Crime Gun Intelligence Center. At least 13 other suspects were charged with federal gun crimes, and five more had their parole revoked, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The goal is to stop "active shooters," people who "have already proven they have no qualms about pulling the trigger multiple times," said Jeff Russell, supervisory special agent in the Denver ATF office. "The urgency is there to stop that person before they commit the next shooting."
In Denver, Chicago, Milwaukee, New Orleans and other cities, shell casings are now loaded into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network within days of a crime. A machine takes images of the unique, microscopic markings at the base of each casing. Computer software then produces potential matches, and detectives and ATF agents study the linked cases for other similarities, such as suspect or vehicle descriptions.
"You've got to be timely," said Greggory LaBerge, who directs the Denver Police crime lab. "If even a week or two goes by, you may lose the advantage of having those connections."
Russell and LaBerge agreed to move two ATF investigators into Denver's crime lab to enter recovered shells into the database, using $150,000 in ATF equipment. Baltimore, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities are now developing similar programs.
Agencies using the national database have entered nearly 2.4 million cartridge cases recovered from crime scenes, producing more than 67,000 "hits" as of February.
But there are as many as 400 million guns in circulation in the United States, and by law, the federal database was constrained from the start to include only ballistics evidence that comes from crimes. By law, test-fired shells of newly manufactured guns cannot be entered before they are sold.
Still, with every new entry of a shell left behind by a criminal, the database becomes more robust. And when officers gather shell casings from shooting scenes as often as they can, they increase the likelihood of finding matches that provide clues to a shooter's identity.
"It's like the computer you have at home. If you feed it a little, it will do a little work for you. If you don't feed it at all, it's not going to do any work for you," said Pete Gagliardi, a former ATF agent who is now senior vice president of Forensic Technology Inc., a private company that studies ballistics evidence.
Unlike with DNA or fingerprints that link people to crimes, this system catalogues the distinct characteristics of a firearm, not the person who used it. And the software only suggests potential hits, leaving it to analysts to verify any matches.
Denver's early results are mixed, but promising, said Webster. The homicide rate dropped for at least five months in places where police made arrests as a result of the program, he said, although he wouldn't provide details, since the study hasn't been published.
Even so, it can take some convincing to put crime lab ballistics machines at the service of detectives, said George Lauder, a resident agent in charge of the ATF in Milwaukee. But soon after that city started using the technology in the immediate aftermath of shootings, investigators discovered a pattern of armed robberies based on their locations and times, he said.
"We've been successful in homicides where we've been able to identify a lead within 45 minutes," said Lauder's partner, Alex Kopeck. "In the past, it could have taken us months and sometimes never to identify these leads."
New Orleans authorities credit ballistics analysis by their Multi-Agency Gang Unit for helping them solve a 2013 gang-related shooting at a Mother's Day parade that wounded 19 people, said Phillip Durham, special agent in charge of the New Orleans ATF office.
"Our murder rate is the lowest it has been in 30 years," he said. "Most of the credit is going to the MAG Unit. We're targeting the shooters."
EDITOR'S NOTE: This looks very good, but some previous ballistic work has been deemed as junk science after many years of acceptance by the courts. Will the same fate befall shell casing comparisons?
By Sadie Gurman
Associated Press
April 6, 2015
DENVER -- Detectives in Denver were on the hunt for an increasingly brazen shooter.
A burglar fired through a woman's dining room window when she threatened to call police. Ten minutes later and a mile away, someone broke into another home and shot a Bernese Mountain Dog.
Officers scooped up the spent shell casings and wondered where he would strike next.
Their break came when a witness said he was fired upon in a street fight two days later. Police gathered six more casings that were quickly entered into a national ballistics database and matched all three crimes. The evidence helped put Anthony Dennis in jail and keep him there.
In many U.S. police departments, that evidence might have been shelved in an overworked crime lab, where analysts would only run it through the database to prepare a case for trial.
But authorities in Denver are leading a national trend to put ballistics evidence into the hands of investigators much more quickly — before leads dry up and suspects disappear.
"Police are beginning to understand that if you don't quickly respond and address gun violence it can spread over space, and it can escalate much like a measles outbreak," said Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, which is studying whether these efforts create sustained reductions in gun violence.
Matched shell casings have helped lead to at least 35 arrests in more than 50 shootings in the two years since Denver began operating its Crime Gun Intelligence Center. At least 13 other suspects were charged with federal gun crimes, and five more had their parole revoked, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The goal is to stop "active shooters," people who "have already proven they have no qualms about pulling the trigger multiple times," said Jeff Russell, supervisory special agent in the Denver ATF office. "The urgency is there to stop that person before they commit the next shooting."
In Denver, Chicago, Milwaukee, New Orleans and other cities, shell casings are now loaded into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network within days of a crime. A machine takes images of the unique, microscopic markings at the base of each casing. Computer software then produces potential matches, and detectives and ATF agents study the linked cases for other similarities, such as suspect or vehicle descriptions.
"You've got to be timely," said Greggory LaBerge, who directs the Denver Police crime lab. "If even a week or two goes by, you may lose the advantage of having those connections."
Russell and LaBerge agreed to move two ATF investigators into Denver's crime lab to enter recovered shells into the database, using $150,000 in ATF equipment. Baltimore, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities are now developing similar programs.
Agencies using the national database have entered nearly 2.4 million cartridge cases recovered from crime scenes, producing more than 67,000 "hits" as of February.
But there are as many as 400 million guns in circulation in the United States, and by law, the federal database was constrained from the start to include only ballistics evidence that comes from crimes. By law, test-fired shells of newly manufactured guns cannot be entered before they are sold.
Still, with every new entry of a shell left behind by a criminal, the database becomes more robust. And when officers gather shell casings from shooting scenes as often as they can, they increase the likelihood of finding matches that provide clues to a shooter's identity.
"It's like the computer you have at home. If you feed it a little, it will do a little work for you. If you don't feed it at all, it's not going to do any work for you," said Pete Gagliardi, a former ATF agent who is now senior vice president of Forensic Technology Inc., a private company that studies ballistics evidence.
Unlike with DNA or fingerprints that link people to crimes, this system catalogues the distinct characteristics of a firearm, not the person who used it. And the software only suggests potential hits, leaving it to analysts to verify any matches.
Denver's early results are mixed, but promising, said Webster. The homicide rate dropped for at least five months in places where police made arrests as a result of the program, he said, although he wouldn't provide details, since the study hasn't been published.
Even so, it can take some convincing to put crime lab ballistics machines at the service of detectives, said George Lauder, a resident agent in charge of the ATF in Milwaukee. But soon after that city started using the technology in the immediate aftermath of shootings, investigators discovered a pattern of armed robberies based on their locations and times, he said.
"We've been successful in homicides where we've been able to identify a lead within 45 minutes," said Lauder's partner, Alex Kopeck. "In the past, it could have taken us months and sometimes never to identify these leads."
New Orleans authorities credit ballistics analysis by their Multi-Agency Gang Unit for helping them solve a 2013 gang-related shooting at a Mother's Day parade that wounded 19 people, said Phillip Durham, special agent in charge of the New Orleans ATF office.
"Our murder rate is the lowest it has been in 30 years," he said. "Most of the credit is going to the MAG Unit. We're targeting the shooters."
EDITOR'S NOTE: This looks very good, but some previous ballistic work has been deemed as junk science after many years of acceptance by the courts. Will the same fate befall shell casing comparisons?
Monday, April 06, 2015
CAR THIEF OR NUT?
Patton State Hospital inmates who escaped by stealing cars from the hospital parking lot were returned as nuts, but not by me!
In today’s PACOVILLA Corrections blog Spotlight, Bob Walsh had an interesting post about the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation getting ready to give “nutters” a free pass for misbehavior, such as assaulting a correctional officer. No more doing time in the ‘hole’ or other disciplinary measures. It will be counseling from now on.
This begs the question: What do we mean by “mentally ill?” Some would have us believe that the mentally ill do not know right from wrong. Horseshit!
Back when I was a cop, there wasn’t a month that went by without one or more inmates – Oops, I think I’m supposed to say patients – escaping from Patton State Hospital. They simply left through a hospital door, leisurely walked over to the parking lot, and stole a hospital staff member’s or visitor’s car.
When the cops caught these escapees, they were taken directly back to Patton, unless they committed another crime after their escape. Not by me!
It took me only a couple of minutes to determine that they knew they were breaking the law by stealing a car. Being the asshole that I was, I took them directly to the San Bernardino County Jail and booked them for car theft. Of the five escapees I caught, everyone was prosecuted and convicted for car theft. And instead of being returned to Patton as patients, they were imprisoned.
There is a big difference between the “mentally ill” and out-and-out psychopaths. I don’t think I have to be a psychiatrist to know the difference. To treat all of the mentally ill in prison as if they were psychopaths is a travesty. It will give many inmates a free pass to assault correctional officers and to commit other serious violations. Counseling? What a Joke!
Do you want to know who is really mentally ill? It’s U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton whose ruling forced CDCR to institute its new free pass policy.
In today’s PACOVILLA Corrections blog Spotlight, Bob Walsh had an interesting post about the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation getting ready to give “nutters” a free pass for misbehavior, such as assaulting a correctional officer. No more doing time in the ‘hole’ or other disciplinary measures. It will be counseling from now on.
This begs the question: What do we mean by “mentally ill?” Some would have us believe that the mentally ill do not know right from wrong. Horseshit!
Back when I was a cop, there wasn’t a month that went by without one or more inmates – Oops, I think I’m supposed to say patients – escaping from Patton State Hospital. They simply left through a hospital door, leisurely walked over to the parking lot, and stole a hospital staff member’s or visitor’s car.
When the cops caught these escapees, they were taken directly back to Patton, unless they committed another crime after their escape. Not by me!
It took me only a couple of minutes to determine that they knew they were breaking the law by stealing a car. Being the asshole that I was, I took them directly to the San Bernardino County Jail and booked them for car theft. Of the five escapees I caught, everyone was prosecuted and convicted for car theft. And instead of being returned to Patton as patients, they were imprisoned.
There is a big difference between the “mentally ill” and out-and-out psychopaths. I don’t think I have to be a psychiatrist to know the difference. To treat all of the mentally ill in prison as if they were psychopaths is a travesty. It will give many inmates a free pass to assault correctional officers and to commit other serious violations. Counseling? What a Joke!
Do you want to know who is really mentally ill? It’s U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton whose ruling forced CDCR to institute its new free pass policy.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO IS GORING THE OX
At a final-four postgame press conference, a Kentucky player directed a racial slur at a Wisconsin player
Even if you are not a basketball fan, unless you live under a rock, by now you know that Wisconsin trounced undefeated and heavily favored Kentucky in college basketball’s final-four playoff game on Saturday.
The Kentucky players were so pissed–off at the end of the game that they stormed off the court without shaking hands with the winning team. But the best was yet to come during a postgame press conference.
With several Kentucky players lined up at a table, a reporter asked a question about Wisconsin’s star white player Frank Kaminsky. Andrew Harrison, who is black and whose microphone was hot, was heard saying, “Fuck that nigger.”
That remark started a shitstorm of comments on social media, with most defending Harrison. And most sports reporters gave the racial slur a pass, saying that when blacks use the ‘N’ word, it does not have the same meaning as when whites use it.
Harrison made several apologies, including one to Kaminsky who believes the apology was sincere.
Just imagine what the reaction would have been if Kaminsky had directed that remark at Harrison. First of all, he would not have been allowed to play in the championship game against Duke. There would have been boisterous protest demonstrations on the Wisconsin campus. Then he would be expelled from the university with a blast from the university’s president. And he would have been so poisoned that no NBA team would ever pick him up.
The moral of this story is that it all depends on who is goring the ox. Harrison got a pass, whereas Kaminsky would have been dead meat.
Even if you are not a basketball fan, unless you live under a rock, by now you know that Wisconsin trounced undefeated and heavily favored Kentucky in college basketball’s final-four playoff game on Saturday.
The Kentucky players were so pissed–off at the end of the game that they stormed off the court without shaking hands with the winning team. But the best was yet to come during a postgame press conference.
With several Kentucky players lined up at a table, a reporter asked a question about Wisconsin’s star white player Frank Kaminsky. Andrew Harrison, who is black and whose microphone was hot, was heard saying, “Fuck that nigger.”
That remark started a shitstorm of comments on social media, with most defending Harrison. And most sports reporters gave the racial slur a pass, saying that when blacks use the ‘N’ word, it does not have the same meaning as when whites use it.
Harrison made several apologies, including one to Kaminsky who believes the apology was sincere.
Just imagine what the reaction would have been if Kaminsky had directed that remark at Harrison. First of all, he would not have been allowed to play in the championship game against Duke. There would have been boisterous protest demonstrations on the Wisconsin campus. Then he would be expelled from the university with a blast from the university’s president. And he would have been so poisoned that no NBA team would ever pick him up.
The moral of this story is that it all depends on who is goring the ox. Harrison got a pass, whereas Kaminsky would have been dead meat.
Sunday, April 05, 2015
PUT PETE ROSE IN BASEBALL’S HALL OF FAME!
Banned from baseball for life in 1989 for betting on games, one of the greatest baseball players of all times deserves a place in Baseball’s Hall of Fame
On this Easter Sunday, when Christians are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, it is way past time for the resurrection of Peter ….. former baseball great Pete Rose that is.
Pete Rose was without question one of the greatest players ever to put on a baseball uniform. And he achieved his many records without resorting to the use of steroids.
From Wikipedia:
Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053), singles (3,215), and outs (10,328). He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, the Rookie of the Year Award, and also made 17 All-Star appearances at an unequaled five different positions.
In 1989, Rose was banned from baseball for life because he gambled on baseball games. Rose admitted he bet on games, but he adamantly denied that he ever bet on games involving his own team. There has never been one shred of evidence that Rose ever bet on a game in which he played.
Baseball’s longtime Commissioner Bud Selig rejected numerous requests by Rose and others to lift that lifetime ban. To this day, Selig insists that Rose must never be reinstated.
Now baseball has a new commissioner. Rob Manfred has received a formal reinstatement request from Rose. Last month he told reporters that he would speak with Rose. “I'm prepared to deal with that request on its merits,” Manfred said.
The new commissioner has also said that Rose could still be elected to the Hall of Fame without being reinstated because the Hall is not operated by MLB.
It has been my opinion for many years that Pete Rose deserves to be in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. His many records cannot be erased by his sins. Even though Rose has been a premier asshole on many occasions, being an asshole should not disqualify him from membership in the Hall. As for betting on games, a one or two year suspension would have been an adequate punishment. A lifetime ban was way out of line.
On this Easter Sunday, when Christians are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, it is way past time for the resurrection of Peter ….. former baseball great Pete Rose that is.
Pete Rose was without question one of the greatest players ever to put on a baseball uniform. And he achieved his many records without resorting to the use of steroids.
From Wikipedia:
Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053), singles (3,215), and outs (10,328). He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, the Rookie of the Year Award, and also made 17 All-Star appearances at an unequaled five different positions.
In 1989, Rose was banned from baseball for life because he gambled on baseball games. Rose admitted he bet on games, but he adamantly denied that he ever bet on games involving his own team. There has never been one shred of evidence that Rose ever bet on a game in which he played.
Baseball’s longtime Commissioner Bud Selig rejected numerous requests by Rose and others to lift that lifetime ban. To this day, Selig insists that Rose must never be reinstated.
Now baseball has a new commissioner. Rob Manfred has received a formal reinstatement request from Rose. Last month he told reporters that he would speak with Rose. “I'm prepared to deal with that request on its merits,” Manfred said.
The new commissioner has also said that Rose could still be elected to the Hall of Fame without being reinstated because the Hall is not operated by MLB.
It has been my opinion for many years that Pete Rose deserves to be in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. His many records cannot be erased by his sins. Even though Rose has been a premier asshole on many occasions, being an asshole should not disqualify him from membership in the Hall. As for betting on games, a one or two year suspension would have been an adequate punishment. A lifetime ban was way out of line.
Saturday, April 04, 2015
CALIFORNIA TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2015
A federal judge has just ordered CDCr to spend a buttload of money for sexual reassignment surgery for one of the guests of the state
U. S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar has ordered that Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy, 51, be given surgery to make him into Michelle Lael Norsworthy.
The department is actually contemplating appealing the ruling. I am not sure why they are bothering, it will only cost us about $100,000. Maybe they think the precedent is dangerous. You never know, it is barely possible that there are enough people high up in the department that think this is a stretch to make a point.
Convicted of murder, Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987.
I’ve seen Jeff’s mug shot and I don’t think changing him to Michelle will help.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The appeal will cost more than the operation. The 9th Circuit will probably uphold the District Court Ruling. And if CDCR wants to take the appeal to SCOTUS, that court will probably refuse to accept the case.
Those appeals are lengthy and costly. Maybe CDCR thinks that, because it will take years for the appeal to run its course, Norsworthy will croak before it’s rejected by SCOTUS.
Judge Tigar’s ruling is outrageous! The state should never be burdened with the sex change operation of a convict. Let his family, the ACLU and the human rights groups pay for that operation – not the taxpayers! What’s next – nose jobs and boob jobs? How about penile implants?
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2015
A federal judge has just ordered CDCr to spend a buttload of money for sexual reassignment surgery for one of the guests of the state
U. S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar has ordered that Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy, 51, be given surgery to make him into Michelle Lael Norsworthy.
The department is actually contemplating appealing the ruling. I am not sure why they are bothering, it will only cost us about $100,000. Maybe they think the precedent is dangerous. You never know, it is barely possible that there are enough people high up in the department that think this is a stretch to make a point.
Convicted of murder, Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987.
I’ve seen Jeff’s mug shot and I don’t think changing him to Michelle will help.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The appeal will cost more than the operation. The 9th Circuit will probably uphold the District Court Ruling. And if CDCR wants to take the appeal to SCOTUS, that court will probably refuse to accept the case.
Those appeals are lengthy and costly. Maybe CDCR thinks that, because it will take years for the appeal to run its course, Norsworthy will croak before it’s rejected by SCOTUS.
Judge Tigar’s ruling is outrageous! The state should never be burdened with the sex change operation of a convict. Let his family, the ACLU and the human rights groups pay for that operation – not the taxpayers! What’s next – nose jobs and boob jobs? How about penile implants?
SERIOUSLY STUPID ROAD-RAGE INCIDENT
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2015
In the realm of seriously stupid, wacked-out and pointless this one is up for the record books.
Two days ago Denise Berry, 36, and her 12-year old son were driving along in their Mercedes in Hawthorne, CA. minding their own business. The boy pointed at, and laughed at, a man in a nearby Cadillac who had his feet hanging out of the car. That apparently really pissed off somebody in the Caddy. They started after her.
Ms. Berry stopped her car right next to a marked Hawthorne P D cruiser. She reported to the officer that a car was following. At that moment the Caddy pulled up and a man in the car opened fire, killing the woman and wounding her son. The officer returned fire, killing the shooter from the Caddy. The shooter has been identified as Robert Washington, 38. Two other men in the Caddy were arrested.
How messed up do you have to be to either not see the police car right there, or not care that the police car is right there?
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2015
In the realm of seriously stupid, wacked-out and pointless this one is up for the record books.
Two days ago Denise Berry, 36, and her 12-year old son were driving along in their Mercedes in Hawthorne, CA. minding their own business. The boy pointed at, and laughed at, a man in a nearby Cadillac who had his feet hanging out of the car. That apparently really pissed off somebody in the Caddy. They started after her.
Ms. Berry stopped her car right next to a marked Hawthorne P D cruiser. She reported to the officer that a car was following. At that moment the Caddy pulled up and a man in the car opened fire, killing the woman and wounding her son. The officer returned fire, killing the shooter from the Caddy. The shooter has been identified as Robert Washington, 38. Two other men in the Caddy were arrested.
How messed up do you have to be to either not see the police car right there, or not care that the police car is right there?
Friday, April 03, 2015
ANTI-VIOLENCE PROGRAM WORKERS ARRESTED FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2015
Two men who were employed in San Francisco’s anti-violence program were arrested for a double homicide at a parking lot near Amazon Playground.
Davante Robinson and Gregory Morton III were charged with the March 9 deaths of Kenyatta Butler Jr., 18, of San Leandro and Donzel Gaines, 19, of S.F. The cops believe that the two anti-violence program workers committed the murders on behalf of a street gang.
The program is called Interrupt, Predict and Organize. The program is supposedly intended to give work experience to at-risk youth. The two men had been working for about six months with the Parks and Rec Department doing maintenance in city parks.
Trent Rhoer, the executive director of the agency that oversees the funding of the program, has said, “We feel that, so far, it has been a successful diversion in keeping people off the streets.”
I can think of at least four people Interrupt, Predict and Organize has been successful with by keeping them off the streets - the two dead guys and the two now locked up guys.
The two suspects are being held pending a $5 million bond.
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2015
Two men who were employed in San Francisco’s anti-violence program were arrested for a double homicide at a parking lot near Amazon Playground.
Davante Robinson and Gregory Morton III were charged with the March 9 deaths of Kenyatta Butler Jr., 18, of San Leandro and Donzel Gaines, 19, of S.F. The cops believe that the two anti-violence program workers committed the murders on behalf of a street gang.
The program is called Interrupt, Predict and Organize. The program is supposedly intended to give work experience to at-risk youth. The two men had been working for about six months with the Parks and Rec Department doing maintenance in city parks.
Trent Rhoer, the executive director of the agency that oversees the funding of the program, has said, “We feel that, so far, it has been a successful diversion in keeping people off the streets.”
I can think of at least four people Interrupt, Predict and Organize has been successful with by keeping them off the streets - the two dead guys and the two now locked up guys.
The two suspects are being held pending a $5 million bond.
IT’’S NOT THIEVES THAT ARE STUPID
Stupid is leaving purses, wallets, cellphones, GPS and car registration/insurance cards in a parked car
Here are some examples of the consequences experienced by stupid theft victims:
1. LONG-TERM PARKING:
Some people left their car in the long-term parking at San Jose while away, and someone broke into the car. Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the people's home in Pebble Beach and robbed it. So I guess if we are going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener. This gives us something to think about with all our new electronic technology.
Even leaving a purse and other valuables in a car momentarily while the driver picks up a child from a day care facility or a six-pack from a convenience store is an invitation for thievery.
2. GPS:
Someone had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents. Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it... Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.
3. CELLPHONES:
I never thought of this....... This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her cell phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc., was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says, "I received your text asking about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago." When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.
Some Cellphone Dos and Don’ts:
a. Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc....
b. And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
c. Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet "family and friends" who text you.
4. PURSE IN THE GROCERY CART:
A lady went grocery-shopping at a local mall and left her purse sitting in the children's seat of the cart while she reached something off a shelf... wait till you read the WHOLE story! Her wallet was stolen, and she reported it to the store personnel. After returning home, she received a phone call from the Mall Security to say that they had her wallet and that although there was no money in it, it did still hold her personal papers. She immediately went to pick up her wallet, only to be told by Mall Security that they had not called her. By the time she returned home again, her house had been broken into and burglarized. The thieves knew that by calling and saying they were Mall Security, they could lure her out of her house long enough for them to burglarize it.
Here are some examples of the consequences experienced by stupid theft victims:
1. LONG-TERM PARKING:
Some people left their car in the long-term parking at San Jose while away, and someone broke into the car. Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the people's home in Pebble Beach and robbed it. So I guess if we are going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener. This gives us something to think about with all our new electronic technology.
Even leaving a purse and other valuables in a car momentarily while the driver picks up a child from a day care facility or a six-pack from a convenience store is an invitation for thievery.
2. GPS:
Someone had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents. Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it... Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.
3. CELLPHONES:
I never thought of this....... This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her cell phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc., was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says, "I received your text asking about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago." When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.
Some Cellphone Dos and Don’ts:
a. Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc....
b. And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
c. Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet "family and friends" who text you.
4. PURSE IN THE GROCERY CART:
A lady went grocery-shopping at a local mall and left her purse sitting in the children's seat of the cart while she reached something off a shelf... wait till you read the WHOLE story! Her wallet was stolen, and she reported it to the store personnel. After returning home, she received a phone call from the Mall Security to say that they had her wallet and that although there was no money in it, it did still hold her personal papers. She immediately went to pick up her wallet, only to be told by Mall Security that they had not called her. By the time she returned home again, her house had been broken into and burglarized. The thieves knew that by calling and saying they were Mall Security, they could lure her out of her house long enough for them to burglarize it.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN RAMPANT
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 2, 2015
A group of hard-core liberal idiot teachers are pressing CalSTRS, the California state teachers pension fund, to divest from a profitable investment because the company makes guns that are illegal to sell in the formerly great state of California.
Cerberus Capital Management is a private equity firm. They own the Freedom Group, which owns Bushmaster. A Bushmaster rifle was used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and that investment really pisses off the liberals. They are holding a teach-in with video presentation (after all, what is a teach-in without visual aids) at the CalSTRS building and at the Cerberus office in Brentwood today.
So far CalSTRS has expressed sympathy, but pointed out they can not force Cerberus to sell the gun maker and can not at this time unload its investment in Cerberus.
EDITOR’S NOTE: If CalSTRS has invested in Boeing and Lockheed Martin, will the protesters demand that CalSTRS divest these two companies because their fighter jets are bombing civilians in Iraq and Syria? Boeing makes the F/A 18 and Lockheed Martin makes the F 16.
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 2, 2015
A group of hard-core liberal idiot teachers are pressing CalSTRS, the California state teachers pension fund, to divest from a profitable investment because the company makes guns that are illegal to sell in the formerly great state of California.
Cerberus Capital Management is a private equity firm. They own the Freedom Group, which owns Bushmaster. A Bushmaster rifle was used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and that investment really pisses off the liberals. They are holding a teach-in with video presentation (after all, what is a teach-in without visual aids) at the CalSTRS building and at the Cerberus office in Brentwood today.
So far CalSTRS has expressed sympathy, but pointed out they can not force Cerberus to sell the gun maker and can not at this time unload its investment in Cerberus.
EDITOR’S NOTE: If CalSTRS has invested in Boeing and Lockheed Martin, will the protesters demand that CalSTRS divest these two companies because their fighter jets are bombing civilians in Iraq and Syria? Boeing makes the F/A 18 and Lockheed Martin makes the F 16.
Thursday, April 02, 2015
NO MORE ROOM ON SAN QUENTIN’S DEATH ROW
It’s essentially full, governor warns
By Jenn Gidman
Newser
March 31, 2015
California Gov. Jerry Brown has submitted his $113 billion budget proposal, and in it he notes that, on average, 20 new felons are expected to show up per year on death row in San Quentin State Prison, the Los Angeles Times reports.
One problem: There's no more room. With executions at a standstill for almost 10 years and each of the 715 death-row vacancies more or less accounted for, Brown is asking for $3.2 million out of the budget to expand the facility by opening up almost 100 more cells that have been recently vacated by lower-level criminals in the prison's South Block.
Although the 20 women on California's death row are housed in a separate maximum-security facility, 708 of the 731 men waiting for their day of reckoning are housed at San Quentin; the other 23 are currently in other California prisons for court dates, jailed in other states, or in medical facilities, the Times notes.
No one's been put to death in California since Clarence Ray Allen in 2006, when the state halted all executions. Sentenced convicts keep filtering in, though, as the state hashes out its capital punishment issues in the courts.
A 2010 planned execution was blocked by both state and federal courts due to lethal injection concerns, and a federal judge ruled in 2014 that California's death penalty was "unconstitutional," often leaving inmates languishing for decades, CNN has noted; the CDCR says the average time spent on Cali's death row is 17.5 years.
The money Brown's seeking would go toward staffing, security, and revamping South Block facilities, such as making showers shackle-friendly, the Times notes. "Until the litigation is resolved, this cost-effective proposal allows [the state corrections department] to safely house condemned inmates going forward," a corrections department spokesman said last week, per the Times. (A Japanese death row inmate was set free after 48 years.)
EDITOR’S NOTE: According to the Los Angeles Times, since the last execution in 2006, forty-nine inmates have died of natural causes, cancer, drug overdose, suicide or other causes, including two last month. Teofilo Medina Jr., 70, who murdered three store clerks for petty cash during a robbery spree in 1984, died of cancer March 22. Leon Cooper, 54, convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of his stepdaughter, died March 18 at a Marin County hospital. Officials have not said what caused his death.
By Jenn Gidman
Newser
March 31, 2015
California Gov. Jerry Brown has submitted his $113 billion budget proposal, and in it he notes that, on average, 20 new felons are expected to show up per year on death row in San Quentin State Prison, the Los Angeles Times reports.
One problem: There's no more room. With executions at a standstill for almost 10 years and each of the 715 death-row vacancies more or less accounted for, Brown is asking for $3.2 million out of the budget to expand the facility by opening up almost 100 more cells that have been recently vacated by lower-level criminals in the prison's South Block.
Although the 20 women on California's death row are housed in a separate maximum-security facility, 708 of the 731 men waiting for their day of reckoning are housed at San Quentin; the other 23 are currently in other California prisons for court dates, jailed in other states, or in medical facilities, the Times notes.
No one's been put to death in California since Clarence Ray Allen in 2006, when the state halted all executions. Sentenced convicts keep filtering in, though, as the state hashes out its capital punishment issues in the courts.
A 2010 planned execution was blocked by both state and federal courts due to lethal injection concerns, and a federal judge ruled in 2014 that California's death penalty was "unconstitutional," often leaving inmates languishing for decades, CNN has noted; the CDCR says the average time spent on Cali's death row is 17.5 years.
The money Brown's seeking would go toward staffing, security, and revamping South Block facilities, such as making showers shackle-friendly, the Times notes. "Until the litigation is resolved, this cost-effective proposal allows [the state corrections department] to safely house condemned inmates going forward," a corrections department spokesman said last week, per the Times. (A Japanese death row inmate was set free after 48 years.)
EDITOR’S NOTE: According to the Los Angeles Times, since the last execution in 2006, forty-nine inmates have died of natural causes, cancer, drug overdose, suicide or other causes, including two last month. Teofilo Medina Jr., 70, who murdered three store clerks for petty cash during a robbery spree in 1984, died of cancer March 22. Leon Cooper, 54, convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of his stepdaughter, died March 18 at a Marin County hospital. Officials have not said what caused his death.
DEALING WITH CALIFORNIA’S PRISON OVERCROWDING
A parole board panel has approved Chowchilla school bus kidnapper James Schoenfeld for parole
In 1976, James Schoenfeld, now 63, his brother and another man kidnapped a busload of Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver, and buried them alive.
On Wednesday, at the California Men’s colony in San Luis Obispo, a two member panel of the parole board approved Schoenfeld for parole. It was his 20th parole hearing.
Richard Schoenfeld, his younger brother, was paroled in 2012. Fred Woods, the third kidnapper, is scheduled for a parole hearing this fall.
In 1976, James Schoenfeld, now 63, his brother and another man kidnapped a busload of Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver, and buried them alive.
On Wednesday, at the California Men’s colony in San Luis Obispo, a two member panel of the parole board approved Schoenfeld for parole. It was his 20th parole hearing.
Richard Schoenfeld, his younger brother, was paroled in 2012. Fred Woods, the third kidnapper, is scheduled for a parole hearing this fall.
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY: TEEN DISTRACTED DRIVING
By Jerry Reynolds
CAR PRO
April 2, 2015
The most comprehensive research ever conducted into crash videos of teen drivers has found significant evidence that distracted driving is likely much more serious a problem than previously known, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The unprecedented video analysis finds that distraction was a factor in nearly 6 out of 10 moderate-to-severe teen crashes, which is four times as many as official estimates based on police reports.
Researchers analyzed the six seconds leading up to a crash in nearly 1,700 videos of teen drivers taken from in-vehicle event recorders. The results showed that distraction was a factor in 58 percent of all crashes studied, including 89 percent of road-departure crashes and 76 percent of rear-end crashes. NHTSA previously has estimated that distraction is a factor in only 14 percent of all teen driver crashes.
"Access to crash videos has allowed us to better understand the moments leading up to a vehicle impact in a way that was previously impossible," said Peter Kissinger, President and CEO of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. "The in-depth analysis provides indisputable evidence that teen drivers are distracted in a much greater percentage of crashes than we previously realized."
The most common forms of distraction leading up to a crash by a teen driver included:
* Interacting with one or more passengers: 15 percent of crashes
* Cell phone use: 12 percent of crashes
* Looking at something in the vehicle: 10 percent of crashes
* Looking at something outside the vehicle: 9 percent of crashes
* Singing/moving to music: 8 percent of crashes
* Grooming: 6 percent of crashes
* Reaching for an object: 6 percent of crashes
"It is troubling that passengers and cell phones were the most common forms of distraction given that these factors can increase crash risks for teen drivers," said AAA CEO Bob Darbelnet. "The situation is made worse by the fact that young drivers have spent less time behind the wheel and cannot draw upon their previous experience to manage unsafe conditions."
Researchers found that drivers manipulating their cell phone (includes calling, texting or other uses), had their eyes off the road for an average of 4.1 out of the final six seconds leading up to a crash. The researchers also measured reaction times in rear-end crashes and found that teen drivers using a cell phone failed to react more than half of the time before the impact, meaning they crashed without braking or steering.
"This study shows how important it is for states to review their graduated driver licensing and distracted driving laws to ensure they provide as much protection as possible for teens," continued Darbelnet. "AAA recommends that state laws prohibit cell phone use by teen drivers and restrict passengers to one non-family member for the first six months of driving."
Graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws allow new drivers to gain practical experience in a relatively safe environment by restricting their exposure to risky situations. Thirty-three states have laws that prevent cell phone use for teens and 18 states have passenger restrictions meeting AAA's recommendations.
Parents play a critical role in preventing distracted driving. AAA recommends that parents teach teens about the dangers of cell phone use and restrict passengers during the learning-to-drive process. Before parents begin practice driving with teens, they should create a parent-teen driving agreement that includes strict ground rules related to distraction. AAA offers a comprehensive driver education program, where teens can learn specifically how using a cell phone affects driving abilities and increases their crash risk. For more information, visitTeenDriving.AAA.com.
Teens have the highest crash rate of any group in the United States. About 963,000 drivers age 16-19 were involved in police-reported crashes in 2013, which is the most recent year of available data. These crashes resulted in 383,000 injuries and 2,865 deaths.
CAR PRO
April 2, 2015
The most comprehensive research ever conducted into crash videos of teen drivers has found significant evidence that distracted driving is likely much more serious a problem than previously known, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The unprecedented video analysis finds that distraction was a factor in nearly 6 out of 10 moderate-to-severe teen crashes, which is four times as many as official estimates based on police reports.
Researchers analyzed the six seconds leading up to a crash in nearly 1,700 videos of teen drivers taken from in-vehicle event recorders. The results showed that distraction was a factor in 58 percent of all crashes studied, including 89 percent of road-departure crashes and 76 percent of rear-end crashes. NHTSA previously has estimated that distraction is a factor in only 14 percent of all teen driver crashes.
"Access to crash videos has allowed us to better understand the moments leading up to a vehicle impact in a way that was previously impossible," said Peter Kissinger, President and CEO of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. "The in-depth analysis provides indisputable evidence that teen drivers are distracted in a much greater percentage of crashes than we previously realized."
The most common forms of distraction leading up to a crash by a teen driver included:
* Interacting with one or more passengers: 15 percent of crashes
* Cell phone use: 12 percent of crashes
* Looking at something in the vehicle: 10 percent of crashes
* Looking at something outside the vehicle: 9 percent of crashes
* Singing/moving to music: 8 percent of crashes
* Grooming: 6 percent of crashes
* Reaching for an object: 6 percent of crashes
"It is troubling that passengers and cell phones were the most common forms of distraction given that these factors can increase crash risks for teen drivers," said AAA CEO Bob Darbelnet. "The situation is made worse by the fact that young drivers have spent less time behind the wheel and cannot draw upon their previous experience to manage unsafe conditions."
Researchers found that drivers manipulating their cell phone (includes calling, texting or other uses), had their eyes off the road for an average of 4.1 out of the final six seconds leading up to a crash. The researchers also measured reaction times in rear-end crashes and found that teen drivers using a cell phone failed to react more than half of the time before the impact, meaning they crashed without braking or steering.
"This study shows how important it is for states to review their graduated driver licensing and distracted driving laws to ensure they provide as much protection as possible for teens," continued Darbelnet. "AAA recommends that state laws prohibit cell phone use by teen drivers and restrict passengers to one non-family member for the first six months of driving."
Graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws allow new drivers to gain practical experience in a relatively safe environment by restricting their exposure to risky situations. Thirty-three states have laws that prevent cell phone use for teens and 18 states have passenger restrictions meeting AAA's recommendations.
Parents play a critical role in preventing distracted driving. AAA recommends that parents teach teens about the dangers of cell phone use and restrict passengers during the learning-to-drive process. Before parents begin practice driving with teens, they should create a parent-teen driving agreement that includes strict ground rules related to distraction. AAA offers a comprehensive driver education program, where teens can learn specifically how using a cell phone affects driving abilities and increases their crash risk. For more information, visitTeenDriving.AAA.com.
Teens have the highest crash rate of any group in the United States. About 963,000 drivers age 16-19 were involved in police-reported crashes in 2013, which is the most recent year of available data. These crashes resulted in 383,000 injuries and 2,865 deaths.
ANOTHER HOV LANE SCAMMER BUSTED
A Washington State Patrol trooper says it’s by far the best carpool scam he’s seen, but it didn’t work
By Jerry Reynolds
CAR PRO
April 2, 2015
As KOMO-TV put it, “Troopers don’t always stop people in the HOV lanes, but when they do, they prefer ‘dos’ passengers.”
A motorcycle trooper parked along Interstate 5 near Tacoma on Monday afternoon spotted a driver and a rather unusual “passenger” pass by him in the carpool lane. When the trooper stopped the car, he discovered the “passenger” was a cardboard cutout of the actor who portrays “The Most Interesting Man in the World” in Dos Equis beer ads.
The driver’s response? “He’s my best friend.”
The Most Interesting Man was not confiscated, but the driver was told not to use him again.
Channeling the cardboard cutout, the State Patrol tweeted: “I don’t always violate the HOV lane law … but when I do, I get a $124 ticket.”
By Jerry Reynolds
CAR PRO
April 2, 2015
As KOMO-TV put it, “Troopers don’t always stop people in the HOV lanes, but when they do, they prefer ‘dos’ passengers.”
A motorcycle trooper parked along Interstate 5 near Tacoma on Monday afternoon spotted a driver and a rather unusual “passenger” pass by him in the carpool lane. When the trooper stopped the car, he discovered the “passenger” was a cardboard cutout of the actor who portrays “The Most Interesting Man in the World” in Dos Equis beer ads.
The driver’s response? “He’s my best friend.”
The Most Interesting Man was not confiscated, but the driver was told not to use him again.
Channeling the cardboard cutout, the State Patrol tweeted: “I don’t always violate the HOV lane law … but when I do, I get a $124 ticket.”
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
PALCOHOL: NO MORE NEED FOR PRUNO
Because jail and prison inmates cannot purchase any booze at the commissary, they have been brewing their own. Once powdered alcohol will be smuggled into prisons, there will be no need for inmates to brew pruno
For the uninitiated, pruno is a concoction of oranges or apples, fruit cocktail, sugar, ketchup and bread, the ingredients needed to make prison wine aka pruno. You can browse the internet and find numerous recipes for prison prunp. The most popular one seems to be one by Jarvis Masters who is currently roosting om California’s death row. Andy Kryza, Associate Senior Editor of Food & Drink, has published this recipe for pruno:
Step 1: First, take as many oranges as you can get from the mess hall... about 6-10 will do. If you still need to stuff them in a pillowcase to beat on your cellmate, don't worry -- they can be bruised. Peel 'em and toss 'em in a giant Ziploc bag.
Step 2: Next, take a gigantic can of fruit cocktail (two, if you can smuggle them) and dump it, juice and all, into the bag. Save a couple grapes to eat though. They're delicious.
Step 3: Next, you're gonna need some sugar to help the fermentation process. Squirrel away about 60 cubes, then about 4tbsp of ketchup, just for a little acidity in the mix. That's about four packets.
Step 4: Yeast is what makes this crap turn into alcohol, so toss whatever bread you can in there so the yeast'll get the juices boozin'. Don't overdo it: a piece or two should suffice.
Step 5: Since your pillowcase is now devoid of oranges, you're gonna need to use your fists to pound the mixture into a pulp. Be sure to seal your bag first, though, or else your cell's gonna look like you took a shotgun to a garbage can you found outside a Jamba Juice.
Step 6: Put the bag somewhere warm and safe -- maybe the toilet, maybe a sink, maybe a bucket you smuggled in -- and pour warm water over it to help the fermentation. Then either cover it or wrap it in a towel. Each day, repeat the process of pouring warm water over the bag. Do this for 5-7 days.
Step 6.5: Oh shit! Yeah, so there's gonna be some gas as this turns into booze. Make sure to leave the bag open a tiny crack or else your Ziploc bag's gonna turn into a tropical time-bomb, which is what got you here in the first place.
Step 7: After about a week, strain the nasty fruit goop. If you can't find a strainer, just shank the bag a bunch of times and... voila! DIY strainer.
The Evil Results: Bada-bing! It looks like Tang. It smells like rotten fruit and booze. So what does the fruit of our cell-block labor taste like?
Imagine brushing your teeth, slamming a glass of grapefruit juice, throwing it all up, then drinking it again, and you're close to the flavor profile of this concoction. Maybe add earwax and a little glue. But hey, it's booze. And it beats the hell out of spending a week in solitary with just water and spork-related fever dreams.
Now why do you suppose I posted Kryza’s recipe? I did it to show that it takes a number of ingredients and about a week to make pruno, and there is always the chance that correctional officers searching for contraband will discover the fermenting concoction. No need to worry anymore. A new product has come along that will eliminate the need for pruno. It’s called Palcohol and it will be easy to smuggle into jails and prisons.
Palcohol, which has been approved by the FDA, is powdered alcohol which when added to water or another beverage, produces vodka, rum, etc. The makers of Palcohol plan to start selling their product this spring and their website describes it as a convenient and lightweight way to make adult beverages more available to everyone from campers to travelers. Oops, they forgot to mention jail and prison inmates.
Each packet of Palcohol weighs about an ounce and, when mixed with five ounces of liquid, the alcohol content is equal to a standard mixed drink. The makers say people won’t snort the product because that would be painful.
The states of Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina and Vermont have already banned the use of powdered alcohol and legislation to outlaw it is pending in other states.
‘txlt44’ gave me a heads-up on Palcohol and wrote:” Just think about this stuff in being smuggled in the correctional facilities. No more Apple-Jack fermenting in the crapper.” [Apple-Jack is the term for pruno in Texas prisons and instead of oranges, it’s made with apples.]
Fear that Palcohol will fall into the hands of teenagers is the main reason why some states have banned powdered alcohol and why legislators in other states have introduced bills to outlaw it. Little or no thought has been given to the smuggling of Palcohol into our penal institutions.
‘txlt44’ is spot on. Once powdered alcohol hits the market, it will find its way into our jails and prisons. In the states that have banned it, Palcohol will find its way into the black market one way or another. It can be ordered on the internet. The same as with meth, it will be produced in clandestine labs. And like with cellphones and drugs, it will be smuggled to inmates by visitors and corrupt correctional officers. Then there will be no need for inmates to brew any pruno .
For the uninitiated, pruno is a concoction of oranges or apples, fruit cocktail, sugar, ketchup and bread, the ingredients needed to make prison wine aka pruno. You can browse the internet and find numerous recipes for prison prunp. The most popular one seems to be one by Jarvis Masters who is currently roosting om California’s death row. Andy Kryza, Associate Senior Editor of Food & Drink, has published this recipe for pruno:
Step 1: First, take as many oranges as you can get from the mess hall... about 6-10 will do. If you still need to stuff them in a pillowcase to beat on your cellmate, don't worry -- they can be bruised. Peel 'em and toss 'em in a giant Ziploc bag.
Step 2: Next, take a gigantic can of fruit cocktail (two, if you can smuggle them) and dump it, juice and all, into the bag. Save a couple grapes to eat though. They're delicious.
Step 3: Next, you're gonna need some sugar to help the fermentation process. Squirrel away about 60 cubes, then about 4tbsp of ketchup, just for a little acidity in the mix. That's about four packets.
Step 4: Yeast is what makes this crap turn into alcohol, so toss whatever bread you can in there so the yeast'll get the juices boozin'. Don't overdo it: a piece or two should suffice.
Step 5: Since your pillowcase is now devoid of oranges, you're gonna need to use your fists to pound the mixture into a pulp. Be sure to seal your bag first, though, or else your cell's gonna look like you took a shotgun to a garbage can you found outside a Jamba Juice.
Step 6: Put the bag somewhere warm and safe -- maybe the toilet, maybe a sink, maybe a bucket you smuggled in -- and pour warm water over it to help the fermentation. Then either cover it or wrap it in a towel. Each day, repeat the process of pouring warm water over the bag. Do this for 5-7 days.
Step 6.5: Oh shit! Yeah, so there's gonna be some gas as this turns into booze. Make sure to leave the bag open a tiny crack or else your Ziploc bag's gonna turn into a tropical time-bomb, which is what got you here in the first place.
Step 7: After about a week, strain the nasty fruit goop. If you can't find a strainer, just shank the bag a bunch of times and... voila! DIY strainer.
The Evil Results: Bada-bing! It looks like Tang. It smells like rotten fruit and booze. So what does the fruit of our cell-block labor taste like?
Imagine brushing your teeth, slamming a glass of grapefruit juice, throwing it all up, then drinking it again, and you're close to the flavor profile of this concoction. Maybe add earwax and a little glue. But hey, it's booze. And it beats the hell out of spending a week in solitary with just water and spork-related fever dreams.
Now why do you suppose I posted Kryza’s recipe? I did it to show that it takes a number of ingredients and about a week to make pruno, and there is always the chance that correctional officers searching for contraband will discover the fermenting concoction. No need to worry anymore. A new product has come along that will eliminate the need for pruno. It’s called Palcohol and it will be easy to smuggle into jails and prisons.
Palcohol, which has been approved by the FDA, is powdered alcohol which when added to water or another beverage, produces vodka, rum, etc. The makers of Palcohol plan to start selling their product this spring and their website describes it as a convenient and lightweight way to make adult beverages more available to everyone from campers to travelers. Oops, they forgot to mention jail and prison inmates.
Each packet of Palcohol weighs about an ounce and, when mixed with five ounces of liquid, the alcohol content is equal to a standard mixed drink. The makers say people won’t snort the product because that would be painful.
The states of Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina and Vermont have already banned the use of powdered alcohol and legislation to outlaw it is pending in other states.
‘txlt44’ gave me a heads-up on Palcohol and wrote:” Just think about this stuff in being smuggled in the correctional facilities. No more Apple-Jack fermenting in the crapper.” [Apple-Jack is the term for pruno in Texas prisons and instead of oranges, it’s made with apples.]
Fear that Palcohol will fall into the hands of teenagers is the main reason why some states have banned powdered alcohol and why legislators in other states have introduced bills to outlaw it. Little or no thought has been given to the smuggling of Palcohol into our penal institutions.
‘txlt44’ is spot on. Once powdered alcohol hits the market, it will find its way into our jails and prisons. In the states that have banned it, Palcohol will find its way into the black market one way or another. It can be ordered on the internet. The same as with meth, it will be produced in clandestine labs. And like with cellphones and drugs, it will be smuggled to inmates by visitors and corrupt correctional officers. Then there will be no need for inmates to brew any pruno .
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