Students Rally To Free Cop Killer www.privateofficer.com

KIRKWOOD, MO Jan 31 2008 – A group of over 40 current and former Kirkwood, Missouri, high school students have created a Facebook page called “Free Kevin” in an effort to rally support to free convicted cop killer Kevin Johnson.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, on July 5, 2005, Johnson brutally, and without provocation, gunned down Sergeant William McEntee of the Kirkwood Police Department as he spoke with a 13-year-old boy while on a call. Johnson, who had nothing to do with the call, approached Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car from the passenger side and opened fire, striking him several times. After Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car traveled a short distance and hit a tree, Johnson again approached the patrol car and shot him several more times.
Johnson’s first trial ended in a mistrial. In November 2007 Johnson was finally convicted of murder and was sentenced to death.
The “Free Kevin” Facebook campaign is reminiscent of the absurd, but seemingly undying, “Free Mumia” efforts underway across the country to portray convicted cop killer Wesley Cook (aka Mumia Abu-Jamal) – whom we’ll refer to as Pennsylvania DOC inmate #AM8335 – as some sort of victim of a corrupt justice system. For those who don’t recall, #AM8335 has been on death row since murdering Philadelphia Policeman Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. In one of the most sickening displays of anti-cop liberalism ever displayed, #AM8335 was even honored by the Evergeen State University as the keynote speaker for their graduating Class of 1999.

The father of three former Kirkwood High School students, who asked that his name not be used, was outraged when he learned about the “Free Kevin” group from one of his sons – one of whom is now a police officer: “It blows my mind that they can support a convicted cop killer. The facts of the case overwhelmingly prove it was cold blooded murder, yet they are defending him despite the overwhelming murder conviction. I don’t understand it.”
An officer from a neighboring agency who was one of the first officers on the scene following Sergeant McEntee’s murder, had this to say: “I’m all for the death penalty, and I think we should send this scum to hell as soon as possible. To want to free a confessed and convicted cop killer is total ignorance on the part of every one of the 42 “group members.”
It has been reported that Dr. Dave Holley, principal of the Kirkwood High School, has intervened to curtail students’ Facebook activity in the past, however, he did not respond to requests for comment on this article.
Another Kirkwood-area officer familiar with the situation commented: “I am incredibly offended and disgusted by the material these students have posted. What is most disturbing about this whole thing is not just the fact that a group of teenagers wants to free a convicted murder; the administration at Kirkwood High School would rather ignore the situation than deal with a serious issue. Dr. Holley needs to take a moral stand.”

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Police Training May Go Private www.privateofficer.com

Edmonton Canada Jan 31 2008

The government is open to the idea of a private company training future Edmonton police officers.
Earlier this month, the province issued an appeal to the private sector to find out whether businesses are interested in buying into a $100-million police training centre to be built in Fort Macleod.
“The Government of Alberta will not own, lease or operate the new facilities,” the document says. “Respondents are asked to provide ideas and approaches aimed at establishing self-sustaining, commercially viable facilities where the departments of the Government of Alberta … are users of the facilities and purchasers of services along with city police services and other law enforcement agencies.”

Companies answering the appeal are asked to outline the nature of their “high-level financial and economic options” — for example, whether ownership of the facility should be private or shared.
The college is expected to train about 400 Alberta police recruits a year and as many as 1,000 peace officer recruits. It will also provide professional development to the province’s current officers.
Since plans for the training centre were announced by former solicitor general Harvey Cenaiko in 2005, government officials have always described the project as a “P3,” a public-private partnership. The invitation to the private sector, available on Service Alberta’s government website, appears to change the nature of the college’s financing.
“I think in this day and age, with Alberta being the province that it is, it’s a great opportunity for them to take the lead on training public police officers,” said Edmonton police association president Peter Ratcliff.
“The question that I would have is, who’s going to do the training?”
Additionally, Ratcliff questioned who would pay for trainees to get to the Fort Macleod college, and who would benefit.
“Who gets that money? Where does that money rightfully belong?”
But Solicitor General spokeswoman Christine Wronko said Wednesday it’s too early to say whether the centre will be privately run.
“The decision to build the training centre as a P3 is still an option,” she said. “Basically the (expression of interest) that we put out on the 14th of January is the first step in the process in order to move this project forward.
“So we just want to go out there and we want to sort of gauge that interest from the private sector to build the facility.”
Wronko could not say what kind of company the government wants, but said it is looking for someone interested in more than just putting up a building in Fort Macleod. The Alberta government will set the curriculum, she said. But who will teach the classes has not yet been determined. “We’re just so early on in the process that we’re just looking for what kind of interest is even out there from the private sector,” Wronko said. “We’re just going to wait and see the kind of submissions that come in.”
Having private companies weigh in on how the college will be financed, built and managed will provide “out-of-the-box thinking,” she said.

The president of the Alberta Federation of Police Associations, which represents the province’s police unions, said Wednesday he understood the project will be a public-private partnership.
“My understanding was that they would be bringing people in from different agencies,” said Edmonton police Det. Bob Walsh. “I’m certainly hoping it doesn’t go the other way into the private sector.” Information sessions for business applicants are expected to be held in Calgary and Fort Macleod next week. The deadline for applications is April 3.

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NYPD Detective Charged With “Pimping” Underage Girls www.privateofficer.com

NYPD Detective Accussed Of”Pimping” Minor Girls www.privateofficer.com

New York City NY Jan 31 2008

A veteran New York police officer has been charged with pimping out two underage girls into prostitution.
Detective Wayne Taylor was arrested alongside his girlfriend after a girl aged just 13 said they were making her have sex with men.
They were then arrested as the allegedly drove another underage girl to a hotel for a strip party and sex with several men, police said.
“This case is every parent and every child’s worst nightmare made even more frightening by the fact that one of the defendants is a police officer who swore to uphold the law and protect the community he serves,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
The 13-year-old girl who first went to police had been a runaway when she met a madam named ‘Drama’ who started her dancing for money, according to the charges.
Drama took the girl to a madam named “Mommy Z” who allegedly “bought” the teen for $500. Officers say Mommy Z is Taylor’s girlfriend, Zelika Brown, 28.
Taylor, 35, a cop since 1994, and Brown, began bringing her to strip and bachelor parties, and the officer told her to say she was 19 if anyone asked, the DA said.
Prices at the sordid soirees ran from $40 for oral sex to $80 for intercourse. Brown, who has a tattoo on her back that reads “Wayne”, allegedly told police she was running the prostitution business and Taylor would “watch out” for her while her girls were working.
Taylor told cops that Brown just ran an “exotic dance” business. The alleged madam at least once chastised the 13-year-old for not earning enough money and slammed her head into the floor, prosecutors said.
Taylor allegedly told the victim that if she failed to earn more money or tried to leave his home he would force her to work on the streets. It was only after the pair allegedly sold the teen to another pimp that she ran away and eventually spoke to police. She described Taylor’s van, in which she’d been driven from party to party, and when cops spotted it they made the arrest.
Sources said Taylorhad long been a target of Internal Affairs which was probing allegations he was involved in drug activity.
His girlfriend was also already under investigation – by the FBI for “human trafficking,” law-enforcement sources said. Taylor and Brown are charged with promoting prostitution, endangering the welfare of a child, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment. They were held last night in lieu of $250,000 bail each. Lawyers for both denied the charges.

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Jury Convicts Two for Murder Of Security Officer www.privateofficer.com

Jury convicts 2 for murder of security officer www.privateofficer.com

Miami Fla. Jan 31 2008

Security guard Luis Brito was killed by a shot to the heart, fired as he tried to protect a Coral Gables jewelry store from masked robbers in 2003.
A Miami-Dade jury decided Wednesday that two men who didn’t shoot Brito, and weren’t even in the Merrick Park Mayor’s jewelry store when Brito was killed, should be held responsible for his murder.
Prosecutors said Shird Myrick and Andre Williams took part in the robbery and therefore should be convicted of the murder that resulted. Two other men, Ehren Witt and Milton Hall, also are charged in the case and will be tried at a later date.
Police say Witt is the man who shot Brito.
They also say Williams was the getaway driver, and Myrick and Hall had intended to help with the robbery, but Myrick ran away when he saw Brito had a gun. Hall stayed to help Witt grab Rolex watches, police say.
The two-week trial was complicated by claims of witness tampering and allegations of perjury. Two witnesses testified they were threatened. One was arrested after police said she lied on the stand. A third witness was also arrested on perjury charges after she claimed she forgot everything she had told police and prosecutors earlier. A fourth also said he had forgotten his earlier testimony.
Assistant State Attorney Gail Levine spent much of her closing arguments Wednesday trying to help the jury sort out the conflicting testimony from those witnesses.
Two were scared, she said.
Both women felt ”so scared, they didn’t think they could go home that night, or any night afterward,” Levine said.
One decided to testify truthfully; the other lied on the stand the first time she testified, Levine said. The second woman was arrested.
In a holding cell, the witness changed her mind and was brought back into court. At that point, she told the jury her original story: she saw the defendants in a silver BMW in Coconut Grove shortly before the robbery. They asked her about security at the Merrick Park mall, she said. A little while later, she saw them ditch the BMW in the Grove.
A third witness was different, Levine said.
Marquita Wilcox also claimed to have forgotten everything.
She wasn’t threatened, Levine said. Wilcox just didn’t want to help send Myrick, her ex-boyfriend, to prison.
Wilcox has a tattoo of Myrick’s nickname on her ankle.
The other witness with memory problems is Wilcox’s brother, also a friend of Myrick’s, Levine noted.
Levine presented evidence that Myrick’s and William’s DNA was found in or near the silver BMW. And she noted both fled the area right after Brito was killed.
”That screams guilty,” she said.
Myrick’s attorney, John Weinberg, countered that his client’s DNA could have ended up on a towel police found in a bag of burglary tools at any time, and that it didn’t prove Myrick was involved in the robbery.
Levine also showed a frame-grab from a surveillance video that she said shows Myrick; Weinberg argued that the man doesn’t look like his client.
Williams’ attorney, Terry Lenamon, argued that crime-scene analysts may have mishandled the latex gloves found in the silver BMW, putting his client’s DNA inside them. He pointed out that Williams never even went inside the jewelry store and questioned whether prosecutors had proved that he drove the car.
Jurors didn’t buy it and convicted Williams and Myrick of murder and burglary.

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Woman gives birth after crash, dies www.privateofficer.com

BOISE ID. Jan 31 2008- A pregnant mother of six is dead after her car hit a semi-truck head-on near her home.
It happened in South Boise on West Lake Hazel near the Charter Pointe subdivision shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday night.
Deputies say extremely icy road conditions led to the crash that killed Jennifer Storch, 30. She was driving her Cadillac SUV when several cars ahead of her began sliding. To avoid the crash, police say Storch swerved – running into oncoming traffic and hit the semi-truck hauling dry wall.
“She was alive at the time and was not restrained by a seatbelt. She was taken to a hospital where she later died of her injuries,” said Sgt Tom Briggs, with the Ada County Sheriffs Office.
The woman’s baby was at 35 weeks – near full term. Doctors at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center delivered the baby via emergency caesarian section before the mother died.
The baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit – and Briggs says it appears the baby will survive.
The people in the semi-truck were not injured.
Deputies say speed may have been a factor in the crash.

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Woman holds up hotel with pen www.privateofficer.com

Woman tries to hold up hotel with pen www.privateofficer.com

Appleton Wi. Jan 31 2008
Appleton police say a 24-year-old woman tried to rob the Paper Valley Hotel and take hostages at the downtown hotel Wednesday night. Police say that the woman went to the front desk and told the clerk that she was robbing the place.
According to police, the woman’s weapon was a pen, and she wanted the money to post bail for her boyfriend.
Hotel security quickly apprehended her, and took her into custody until officers arrived and they turned her over to police.
This was not her first arrest for attempted robbery at the hotel. Police say she tried to rob the Paper Valley Hotel’s front desk on January 17. Her weapon that time was a bar glass.

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Man Lures 12 Yr. Old girl Via Myspace www.privateofficer.com

Man Lures 12 Yr Old Via MySpace www.privateofficer.com

BRISTOL CT. Jan 31 2008 — – A 21-year-old city man used MySpace to lure a 12-year-old girl into sex, state police said.Christopher Griswold turned himself in at the Litchfield barracks late Tuesday morning. He was charged with two counts each of first-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor and enticing a minor via computer.Troopers would not say where or when the encounters took place. The girl attends a Region 10 school, but no other details about her were disclosed.

The girl’s mother approached Trooper Mike Burke on Jan. 18 to report a possible Internet relationship involving her daughter. Burke, the school resource officer in Region 10, brought in troopers from the computer crimes unit. Investigators obtained a search warrant for Griswold’s home at 45 Ferraro Drive and seized evidence, according to a statement by Lt. J. Paul Vance.”The investigation determined that the accused was involved in an inappropriate relationship with the 12-year-old,” Vance said.Troopers did say how Griswold used MySpace, a social networking site that has been linked to scores of cases of adults drawing minors into sex. Region 10 Superintendent Alan Beitman said the school system will make counseling available to the girl and may hold a workshop for parents and students about the risks of Internet abuse. Region 10′s computers block MySpace, and none of the communications between the girl and the man occurred in the schools, he said. “Parents need to be sure their computer is in a place that’s visible” so they can keep some control over their children’s activities online, Beitman said. “They don’t have to sit with their children — just walk by the computer once in a while.” Beitman said he was encouraged that the girl’s mother brought the case to the school resource officer. Griswold was released after posting $150,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned today in Superior Court in Litchfield.

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Adult Internet Safety Tips by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

Adult Internet Safety Tips www.privateofficer.com

By;Rick McCann MS.CPSO. CPO

Executive Director

The National Association of Private Officers

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For thirty five years I have been involved in every sort of theft, burglary and fraud investigation imaginable. I have worked check scam and burglary cases that were extemely creative and tracked organized gangs, shoplifters and burglars across the country. I thought that I’d seen it all until computers and social networking began to grow by leaps and bounds.

MySpace, Facebook and other social networking websites are increasingly becoming a dangerous and violent place to be! Like any other activity or location that you choose to go, you always have to keep your guard up and be on the look-out for what lurks in the dark and the internet is a dark place. A place of unknowns and pretends and not to scare you, but of very dangerous people!

This week, 2 people were charged with luring minors from the MySpace website for sex crimes.Three people were arrested for threatening and stalking school teachers and a burglary in Arkansas resulted from someone tracking an online “friend”‘s every moves!We know that on line can be dangerous for children, but it can also be dangerous for adults.

Here are some tips:

1. Don’t give your name in your bio or anywheres on your site! If you say that your name is Susie White, even with an unlisted phone number, people can get your address and phone number by using search engines,information pay sites and friends in the phone company or police business.

2. When posting a picture of your house or vehicle, don’t show identifying locators such as a shopping mall in the background of your picture or your license tag or even your place of employment building, sign or street location.

3. People love to show off their family and pets but this is a mistake! Have you ever noticed identifiers in your friends pictures? Kids wearing the school logo on a t-shirt or sweater or the name of your employer on your jersey or polo or baseball cap. Be careful not to list your kids full names, school locations, grades etc. This is very usable information to track someone down. Even pet pictures can give your location away! For instance if you have pictures of a great Dane and someone pinpoints your neighborhood, they could ride around the area looking for a Great Dane or asking neighbors about such a dog. Be careful what you show and who you show it too!

4. Never send a resume or an invitation to a dance, block party or social event to someone that you don’t know and have never met!

5. Don’t get in the habit of telling “friends” who are total strangers that you work out everyday at Gold’s gym or shop at Krogers or stop by your neighborhood Starbucks every morning on the way to work. People are creatures of habit and this information in the wrong hands could lead to someone following, stalking or raping you! It could also lead to an abuduction of your child. someone could see your children, learn about you and then come after the child.

6. Friend’s Status is also dangerous. If you put a status that you are at work, an internet predator or an oppurtunist may decide to see what’s there and break in. You could be putting your children’s safety at risk! At the very least, you could become a victim of burglary as happened in Arkansas this week.If your status is asleep, this might give someone the idea to take advantage of the situation and it might turn out very bad for you.

These are just a few on-line safety tips for grown ups.

I hope that you’ll take them to heart and pass them on!

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