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Originally Posted by macallan25
Yeah, you are right about the Sheriff/Chief of Police thing....I dunno what I was typing.
I never said I would treat an officer or public servant with disrespect, of course I wouldn't. Do I think, in my own experiences, that cops are tremendous assholes? Yeah.....especially in Austin and my hometown.
....I am going to take advantage of my resources though if it can get me out of trouble. I really have not ever been in a bad situation....but there have been a couple times where knowing people has helped out and helped others out.
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Just found this story on my home page. Shows what can happen when one tries to throw ones weight around:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/ny...=1&oref=slogin
Police Official Again Rebuked for Altercation at a Rest Stop
By
JONATHAN MILLER
Published: September 20, 2006
HACKENSACK, N.J., Sept. 19 — For Garry F. McCarthy, the nominee for Newark police director, the trouble began last year with a parking infraction at a rest stop on the Palisades Interstate Parkway. It spiraled into a wrangle — part wrestling match and part shouting match — that led to his arrest and handcuffing.
On Tuesday, a Superior Court judge here added another chapter in this tale of officer versus officer when he rejected Mr. McCarthy’s attempt to dismiss his conviction on the parking matter. He instead scolded Mr. McCarthy — a deputy police commissioner in New York City — with “extraordinarily poor judgment.”
In a stinging rebuke, the judge, Patrick J. Roma, in Superior Court in Bergen County, also wrote that Mr. McCarthy’s objective in confronting the officers was to “throw his weight around” and to try to win “special consideration” for his 18-year-old daughter, who had been given a ticket at the rest stop.
Neither Mr. McCarthy, 47, nor his lawyer returned calls for comment on Tuesday. But last week, outside the court here, Mr. McCarthy said: “I’m concerned about nothing. If you do nothing wrong, or unethical, you should not worry.”
Earlier this month, Mr. McCarthy was nominated by Mayor
Cory Booker of Newark to become the next director of police there. Last week, Mr. McCarthy dismissed any concerns, saying, “It will not affect my job performance.”
In a statement, Mr. Booker said: “I stand firmly behind my decision to appoint Mr. Garry McCarthy as the police director. I have faith and confidence in McCarthy and his ability to effectively carry out the duties of his job.”
The incident, in February 2005, came after a night in which the McCarthy family had been to a restaurant in Manhattan and had been heading to their home in West Nyack, N.Y., with Mr. McCarthy and his wife in one car and their two daughters in another. The two teenage daughters pulled into a rest stop on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in
New Jersey. After the police gave them a ticket for parking in a spot for the handicapped, one of the daughters called her father.
Mr. McCarthy headed straight for the rest stop, got out of his car and confronted the parkway police. A shouting match ensued between Mr. McCarthy and the officers. One officer handcuffed Mr. McCarthy, and another grabbed the 9 millimeter handgun from his waistband and put it on the passenger seat of the officers’ car. (Mr. McCarthy says the gun was thrown.)
The officers later said that they had smelled alcohol on his breath. Mr. McCarthy said he had had two glasses of wine.
As this was happening, the police said, Mr. McCarthy’s wife, Regina, began shouting obscenities, got out of her car and grabbed the gun in the officers’ car. She was wrestled to the ground by one of the officers and was eventually handcuffed.
In the end, Mr. McCarthy was charged with illegally obstructing traffic and his wife with “unreasonable noise.” In March, a judge in Hackensack found both guilty and ordered them each to pay a $200 fine for their offenses, plus a $30 court cost, which the couple appealed.
Mr. McCarthy had criticized the parkway police for their actions that night, telling The Star-Ledger earlier this month that he learned a lesson from that night on “how not to run a police agency.” When asked about that statement, Mr. McCarthy responded tersely: “It’s not what I believe. It’s a fact.”
Mr. McCarthy and his lawyer have accused the officers of lying about the case and producing identical incident reports. The chief of the parkway police was not available for comment on Tuesday.
But in his written opinion, Judge Roma dismissed Mr. McCarthy’s claims about the credibility of the officers, writing that “it appears clear to this Court that Mr. McCarthy’s sole purpose in confronting PIPC officers was to ‘throw his weight around’ and to obtain special consideration for a high ranking police official. In summary, he turned a garden variety parking ticket into a melee.”
The judge concluded that Mr. McCarthy had initiated the confrontation and that “Mr. McCarthy showed extraordinarily poor judgment in the situation.
“This matter could have been avoided, especially by someone who is expected to lead a law enforcement agency.”
...no fear there.
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