abuse of power by berkley police chief

[Don Quixote]

i guess that this proves the old adage about rank has its privileges

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...ssigns-10-officers-son-missing-202417152.html

 

[SmarterthanYou]

nothing that an apology and a promise of policy reform won't fix so that the idiot sheeple feel better about their police

 

[Don Quixote]

nothing that an apology and a promise of policy reform won't fix so that the idiot sheeple feel better about their police

not quite so sure about that, after all we are talking about berkley...

 

[SmarterthanYou]

not quite so sure about that, after all we are talking about berkley...

meaning that they won't even need the apology?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

well THIS explains it all.

Embattled Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan said Wednesday that having 10 police officers search for his son’s stolen iPhone on January 11 was not “some kind of preferential treatment,” but is something the department “would do for anybody in the city.”

“This is being cast as some kind of preferential treatment, but it was not,” said Meehan in a telephone interview. “It is not unusual for us to respond to a live track of stolen property with the resources we have available. We have done it in other cases. In this case, my son was the victim of a crime at the high school. My personal phone was linked to his and was able to track it. I showed that to a detective-sergeant and said ‘what can we do with this?’ He said we can work cases like this. He took his team to track the signal and they weren’t able to find anybody.”

The reason so many officers investigated the theft so quickly was because it was a crime in progress, said Meehan.

I'm sure you and I would get that same kind of response if our phone had been stolen. LOL, NOT!!!!!