“I Just Love Kicking Doors In….”

http://www.wibc.com/news/Story.aspx?id=1457512

When I was a young cop, I, along with a couple other officers, caught a burglar after a foot chase. Back then I was still trying to figure out why certain people do things and didn’t realize that there were those that are just plain evil out there. I asked this burglar, who we caught kicking in the door of an old woman’s house, why he did it? I knew who he was and this was not his first burglary. I can still see his face telling me, “I just love kicking doors in.”  He also told me that it didn’t matter if it was an old woman’s house or not.

Fast forward about twenty years. This same person kicked in a old man’s door and killed him. Later he would be chased by police again but this time he shot Officer Jason Fishburn in the head forever changing his life. When I heard who did it, it didn’t surprise me. It was the same burglar Brian Reese that I had chased twenty years before. I had spoke to Officer Fishburn but did not know him well. Sadly, since he was such a piece of dung that the system continued to set free, I know Brian Reese better. I realized that I’m one of a handful of cops that know both.

Reese gets to rot in prison for the next 60 years for this action which means he will probably get to die with a bunch of other wonderful men around and I will be retired or even gone myself before ever having to hear his name again. The punishment did not fit the crime here but it never could.

Officer Jason Fishburn has been denied a full pension by the State PERF board when it was recommended that he receive 90 percent of it. Officer Fishburn is going to have difficulty living day to day for the rest of his life due to being shot in the head. The board never even met Officer Fishburn in person.  This a where people like the  Baptist Ministers Alliance of Indianapolis should prove that they are concerned about God’s children and make noise for this child of God who is in need right now. Instead they want to be loud mouths about how bad the police are because they have a captive audience in town at this time of the year and it’s almost election time. They supposedly are serving One that has given his life for them. Well Officer Jason Fishburn is still here but believe me, he gave his life for his community which included the loud mouths and even the waste that shot him.

Retired Sergeant Bowswer sent an E-mail to the Indiana PERF and I am reposting it here with an E-mail address which to send it. Please feel free to copy and send it also:

Please know that the citizens of Indiana are very displeased with your arbitrary and capricious decision to deny Officer Jason Fishburn his full medical pension. Officer Fishburn was gravely wounded in the course of his duties; he was shot several times, including in the head, by a fleeing felon.

Officer Fishburn will never recover to full function of his body and mind after this grievous injury. His only desire was to return to his duties as a police officer, but that will never be possible.

Yet, without even meeting Officer Fishburn, you cut his pension to the lowest amount possible. I know you would hide behind political answers if I asked you to explain why you made this decision, so I won’t bother.

Just remember, people are watching to see if you are going to correct this extreme miscarriage of justice.

Thank you for your attention

questions@inprs.in.gov

 

 

Caylee Anthony Is Still Dead

October 3rd, 1995 I was in my apartment with my future wife and another good friend. After only a couple of hours of deliberating, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murdering Nicole Brown  and Ron Goldman. I remember the feeling that the system failed and let us down. I was one of those that hoped that O.J. Simpson early on in the investigation did not do it. He was one of my favorite ball players growing up and everybody liked him. Still as the evidence grew then, as I still am, became convinced he was guilty.

Yesterday that same feeling came back when they found Casey Anthony not guilty of murder. Weird dynamics happen with juries and I’m sure they were exhausted from listening to all the testimony. Still they found Casey Anthony not guilty and there is a dead girl that she didn’t report missing that is still dead. Everybody wanted DNA and fingerprints. Well that isn’t going to be found on a rotting girls body especially in a swamp. People have been found guilty with a lot less evidence than they had in this trial. Circumstantially Casey did it. That’s all they needed to prove. These television shows like CSI are causing people (like the jurors) to expect miracles with these cases to prove the accused guilty.

The defense showed the jury that the family was dysfunctional. Every family, including mine, has some dysfunction in it. That was probably the easiest thing to find to play on the jury’s doubts. I don’t believe the father molested Casey Anthony. Another problem with trials is lawyers get to bear false witness as they did by throwing this out to the court. This was never proved but the poison statements still were floated around the court room.

I was surprised by the verdict as was the defense team in this case as they were in the O.J. case. Being declared not guilty by a jury does not mean a person did not commit the crime. As I said to my future wife and friend after the O.J. verdict, this story will not end well. Casey Anthony will get out soon and enjoy some stardom. She may even get a book deal. However, she is going to end up in a bad place ultimately since she has chosen to walk that path. She can now party as much as she wants since she does not have the burden of raising that little, dead girl anymore. I guess her plan worked.

 

Why Policing Is A Warrior Profession

Recently the word “Warrior” has been used to accurately describe the officers near and far that have fallen in the line of of duty. There are those that still don’t understand why police are considered warriors. After talking to a friend about it, I decided to post something that I wrote up a couple of years ago with reference to Lt. Colonel Forrest Morgan and Lt. Colonel David Grossman. William Westfall touched on this during the service. This is the best way that I can tell people why police do what they do.

Jon Daggy

The Police  Officer Warrior

Policing is a warrior profession. Along with other warrior professions of courage, it’s a call to valor. As radical as it sounds, it shouldn’t. True warriors have protected right from wrong and fought for justice all through history. Warriors have always lived by a code: an honor code. In saying this, one does not have to be a member of the military or a police officer to be a warrior. There are many people who train hard as in martial arts or some type of self defense and live life by a personal honor code. They may go through life never having to defend themselves or their honor; yet, they are prepared. Also some police officers don’t follow any honor code and don’t live life as a warrior even though they are in a warrior profession.

Professional athletes are called warriors by the media; however, most of them have no honor code and do not train for true combat. Firemen may be referred to as warriors since they do train for combat against fire. Many have battled people in the line of their work, and most of them live by an honor code. They are definitely heroes.

Police take an oath when they join the police department, but most don’t remember the oath even though it’s usually on a signed certificate that’s hung on a wall, filed away, or put in a scrap book. This is not a problem if the officer has a personal honor code. If a personal honor code is followed, the oath will be followed.

Police officers make mistakes since they are human. Nobody is perfect, and nobody is a saint. They are hard working humans doing a very challenging and rewarding job. If a police officer follows a personal honor code, he will likely make fewer mistakes since his intention will always be the correct or honorable one. When done properly there is no more honorable profession than police work. Not many other professions require a person to wear body armor, carry a gun, and solve other people’s problems on a daily basis.

Colonel Forrest E. Morgan (a retired Major in the United States Air Force and a martial artist) states that honor is made up of three basic tenets; Obligation, Justice, and Courage (Morgan, 142).

Obligation is answering the call to serve. As a police officer you have many obligations. First is an obligation to your self to do the right thing. Second is your obligation to make it home safe to your other obligation— your family. There’s an obligation to the community, department, and the country. Police are the first line soldiers in the war on domestic terrorism. It is that huge, very serious commitment that police make when they decide to go into the warrior profession. Officers should avoid being obligated to dishonorable people. These are people such as part-time employers that will pay an officer well; however, want the officer to look the other way for “minor things”.

Justice simply means to know the difference between right and wrong (Morgan, 144). This can include making the right decision over the popular one. Police have to make decisions in a split second or at least in a short amount of time. The responsibility of justice is an awesome one. Police fight for overall justice by enforcing the law fairly, equally, with impartiality. However, as humans, officers sometimes lose sight when it’s time to see justice done. This happens at the hands of a small number of corrupt officers that tarnish the profession and they ultimately get discovered. Most police officers do the right thing. You never hear about it because it’s the few that cover up wrong doings that make the news. They don’t stand for justice and obviously have no personal honor code.

Courage is being brave and facing the danger involved with the job. It does not mean there will be no fear. Moral courage is the fortitude to do what is right, no matter what the personal cost (Morgan, 148). This goes along with justice and doing the right thing for the right reasons.

Coming into the profession with a personal honor code is a great way mentally to start. It is never too late to start following a personal honor code. Hopefully, a personal honor code will be established and prevent something bad from happening via a bad choice.  A personal honor code is stronger than any oath a police officer will take since it comes from the officer’s heart.

People in society can be broken into three separate groups; Sheep (people), Wolves (the criminals), and Sheep Dogs which are the protectors (Grossman, 2004).  In this setting, the sheep dogs are the police officer warrior.

People do not always appreciate the police until they need them. A true warrior acknowledges this but will still do his job of protecting society from the deviants that prey on people. At times the police officer warrior’s job will necessitate violence. If a person has no capacity for violence, then he should not become a police officer; rather, they should stay in society and allow the police to do the job without casting judgment.

Even the most liberal of people that do not care for the police warriors will change their attitude should they become a victim of violence. They will want something done pronto. Ironically, even if their situation is resolved, they will go back to not accepting or respecting the police warrior. They live in denial and believe that as along as nothing is happening to them; criminals should be treated as misled individuals who are committing crimes for being “wronged” in life. They look at the police with more disdain than they do the criminals until they are the prey. These are the same type of people that know that a tragic event happened on September 11, 2001 but want to continue to live in a September 10, 2001 world.

As a police officer warrior, it is not easy to keep an open mind with people that think the way of the sheep, but the true warrior does not worry about negative perceptions against him and his fellow warriors, he does the job he was called to do. He protects the flock to the best of his ability even though he can not be everywhere at once. Crime will always exist, but the police officer warriors that work every hour, every day, and every night keep total anarchy from happening. No matter how technologically advanced society becomes, the human element will always be involved in the protection of citizens. There will always be a need for the police officer warrior, and he will always show up and take care of business even if that entails using violence against a violent predator. The attitude of the warrior with an honorable mission and the commitment to serve people is what separates his use of violence from unacceptable uses of violence from the criminal predator. The true police officer warrior uses violence as a tool to stop the predator. He never uses it to punish.

References

Morgan, F. E. Living the Martial Way. Fort Lee, New Jersey: Barricade Books Inc., 1992.

Grossman, D. and Christensen, L.W. On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace. Illinois: PPCT Research Publications, 2004.

A Friend, A Brother, A Tribute

I was blessed to meet this young man when he was in high school. David Moore’s father Lieutenant Spencer Moore dropped him off to take martial arts from me and a couple other officers that trained at the police academy throughout the week and on the weekends. David, a football player and wrestler was in great physical shape and caught on very quickly to his training. Immediately noticed was his great character and that he was as tough as nails. I remember thinking even back then that I hope my kids, when I have them,  would be like this guy. He was a sophomore at the time and he knew that he wanted to do both military and college. He had already started walking his path to becoming a warrior.

After David left high school I lost touch with him but would get occasional updates from his parents. Both police officers and positive people, Jo and Spencer Moore are very proud and loving parents. More time passed and David ended up in the police academy. He became a police officer! I remember personally being very proud of him and we had been out of touch for a couple of years.

We would run into each other mostly at court and we would talk about what a great job this was. We both came from police families and he knew that the job is filled with ups and downs. Still we both agreed that no matter how bad things seem, we were doing what we loved. Every time I would see him, I would think how cool it was that this young man that used to come in the academy as a teenager to learn martial arts was now an officer working with me.

I ran into him twice in the last couple of months. The conversation was quick and as usual very cordial. David, as always, with his big smile and would go out of the way to say hi and see how everybody was doing.

What now will always be a terrible Sunday in my memory happened. Officer David Moore was doing what he loved and protecting people in the community he served. Sadly, it was his last day at work.

David is and always will be a warrior. He is now serving God and watching over all of us. Leave all your worries behind. We will be there for your families. We will all see you again one day and you can greet each one of us with that smile and strong handshake.

I am honored to have worked with you Officer David Moore. Even more, I am honored to know you. Until we see you again; God bless you.

Our friend, our brother.

 

 

 

Fake Teen Prostitute

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http://austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2011-01-14/29782/Fake_teen_on_trial_over_lies_to_newspaper

In 2008 there was a documentary on CNN and other stations about teen prostitution on Romania. They actually had a teen that they followed named Monica Ghinga. She was 14 years old. Well that’s what she told the news. She was actually 25 at the time but the journalist Chris Rogers did not do his homework. He still ran the story and it was very popular and moving. I can only assume that Chris Rogers just wanted to believe her to make a really cool documentary. He brought the problem of children on prostitution but he also may have hurt it. The Romanian authorities did not like how this made the country look. The Romanian police did the right thing an opened a human trafficking investigation since apparently the rest of the world knew something that they did not. During the investigation they ended up arresting Monica Ghinga for prostitution. They also revealed that she was 25 years old and not the 14 year old she claimed she was to the rest of the world.

My guess is the Romanian police probably already knew she was an adult but needed to find her to prove it. The lesson for the journalist is that prostitutes lie. The whole nature of their work is about deceit. This does not always make them terrible people but what they tell you what you want to hear. If you are a client, they will tell you and make you feel like you are they only person in the world that matters to them. They will say anything to get the job done and over with quickly. They will also tell you that they are a child if you are a sick freak and into that kind of thing. I’m curious of this girl Monica was paid for the story. She had to receive something in return for her story. They do not do anything for free.

I’m sure that there is human trafficking in Romania. This story by Chris Rogers brought attention to it which is good. Sadly, it also may have set back human trafficking investigations in Romania. It has given the Romanian lawyers something to reference when they are defending a client in a human trafficking case. The girl Monica Ghinga should have been charged with fraud. Chris Rogers also has some accountability.

I’m not a journalist and don’t claim to be. As you can see with this blog, it’s not always grammatically correct and sometimes my sentences are too long. I do know something about investigating and you should always verify a source. Dan Rather learned this the hard way.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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I truly believe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the greatest men in history. He seemed very tall to me when I would see film of him giving speeches. Throughout the years I have read up on his works and the more I got to know him, the more I realized what a great human being he was and he wasn’t very tall at all (in height only). I do remember people in my own family calling him a trouble maker when I was a little kid. That’s why I started reading and learning all about the great man.

I learned also that Dr. King was  Republican. There’s something that both the right and left media never mention. I have also read that he did not care a whole lot for Reverend Jesse Jackson. It has been said by Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson wiped Dr. King’s blood on his shirt right after Dr. King got shot, jumping on the opportunity to take Dr. King’s place as a civil rights leader. Jackson saw fame and ultimately money as a result of that fateful day. He is not and never will be close to the caliber of a man that Dr. King was; neither will Al Sharpton.

Every community has their local “concerned” preachers. Some of them actually have a calling and are teaching the word of God and spreading peace in the community. Others are money mongers that cause problems in the community.  Because of their political associations, they get to use federal monies for businesses or programs. From these they skim off money and launder illegal money from local organized crime.

Many of these preachers play politician from the pulpit when they aren’t supposed to by law. They are far left and liberal except when it comes to the topic of homosexuality. Homosexuals are on their own for the most part.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been around as long as I have been a police officer. What I have always found disrespectful is when I had to arrest a young African American on that day. They couldn’t use ignorance most of the time since the holiday was the reason they were out of school. When I asked a young man (sometimes young woman) if they realized that they were disrespecting one of the greatest men in history that died fighting for civil rights? I usually got an, “Oh well”, or, “He don’t mean sh*t to me.”  Most of the time I got a blank stare.

To those local concerned ministers; instead of getting your face on T.V. as often as you can, why don’t a few of you get stationed at your local juvenile center and have a heart to heart with these kids on why today is so important? Pull yourself away from your daily money making activities and get to these kids. It won’t change things a whole lot but at least you will be actually trying to better the community on this special day.

I Will Be Back In 2011

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I have a lot of work to do before the new year and must take a break from the blog. Thank-you all for looking at the blog since June.

Merry Christmas!

 

Jon Daggy

Thank-you Veterans!

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We live the lives we do because of the sacrifice and service you made. You are my heroes! God bless.

Just A Note To Indiana Gun Owners

 

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http://ingunowners.com/forums/carry_issues_and_self_defense/34140-where_did_you_oc_today-203.html

I am a second amendment guy and so are those officers that stopped you at the city market here in Indianapolis. Carrying a gun in plain sight is not illegal in Indiana. Still, when they get a call to check on three guys with guns, they have to respond. It is suspicious activity. They need to find out if you are legitimate or not. If an armed person walked into your kid’s school, I hope you would want the same response. Police protect second amendment rights every day. They know that if guns were banned, poor people would be victimized even more. If the officers walked in the city market and looked at you guys with your guns and said, “Well they must be licensed if they are carrying the guns out in the open,” then walked away, they wouldn’t be doing there jobs.

Say the three individuals with their guns out in the open weren’t responsible law abiding individuals like you and they were planning on doing something illegal like shoot up the place when they got up the nerve. I hope you would want the officers to stop them and thwart the attack.

Remember that your gun is a tool to protect you and keep others safe. One of the reasons you carry a gun is to equalize an attack on you and that is your God given right. Still, if you purposely did that in the city market to get a reaction and take the police away from other things, you picked the wrong group. You are putting the police in a position to react or get complained on for not reacting to weapons being brought in a public place. We are in a war with terror and that was probably the first thing that went through those officers’ minds that soft targets were getting ready to be hit. I know you want the cops to be aggressive. They predict a school or a public place is going to be hit next since historically that’s what happened over seas with terrorism.

Most of us police in Indiana do not want our second amendment rights messed with but we have to react to calls of suspicious activity. If a person had wires hanging out of the top of his shirt, I know you would want the police to stop him to see if that was a bomb strapped to him. A wire isn’t a weapon but they don’t know what it’s connected to. That handgun is a weapon that’s ready to go and they have to check you to make sure if you are legit or not. I’m sorry if any of your feelings got hurt but the local police are not your enemy. That incident wasted your time and the cops’ time. I would keep the guns covered. If I were intent on causing harm, I would go for the people with the obvious weapons first. If you have it hidden, you have the element of surprise and a better chance of protecting yourself and the people around you should something bad happen.

We are not your enemy but we have a job to do. Don’t make yourself a target. Be safe.

Baby Dead Due To Human Trafficking Daddy

 

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/10/14/Couple-charged-in-babys-death-entombment/UPI-20661287063250/

Every once in a while, I read an article that puts me in attack and fight mode. I try not to be this way but when children are not protected, I want somebody to pay big time.

Two illegal aliens Illegal aliens Domingo Salazar and his wife, Norma Mendez were running a prostitution ring out of their New York apartment. They had been charged in July with smuggling and forcing women into prostitution. Don’t forget that date. Domingo, over a year ago, got one of the prostitutes pregnant. He and his wife were supposed to be raising the baby, bit decided to abuse it instead. Well the two illegal, trafficking, alien slugs ended up killing the baby at three months. The baby’s name was Carlos. Carlos’s body was placed in a plastic tub and sealed it with concrete. The tub was kept in the apartment and the couple would leave their own kids at home with this tub and a decomposing baby’s body.

People are wondering why they weren’t in jail for being charged in July. They probably bonded out but there are crimes in the federal system that aren’t considered heinous and smuggling, prostitution, and trafficking are a couple of them. Disregard the fact that while the illegal couple were being indicted in July, there was a dead baby in a cement grave back in their apartment.

The people that are pushing to legalize prostitution will say that if it was regulated, this type of stuff wouldn’t happen. Not true. It will be harder to catch these traffickers since there will be laws protecting them. The police probably never would have gotten into that house early on if it wasn’t for the fact that an illegal act of prostitution and promoting prostitution was occurring. By the way, I noticed that when something like this dead baby happens and is another victim of human trafficking, the pro-legalization people are curiously silent.

This illegal alien couple came to America for a better life, They knew they could make a lot of dirty money by smuggling girls into this country and forcing them to sell their bodies for sex. They had to. Smuggling costs money and this couple needed to be paid back. Carlos’s birth mother, wherever she is, will have to deal with not only the trauma of losing a baby but the effects of being trafficked. She might be the only one feeling any guilt of that poor dead baby.

For those scholars that think prostitution is a victim-less crime, I think baby Carlos would disagree.