Police Focus on Little Guy

Police Focus on Little Guy

Hi Janie,
You are correct in your analysis. There is a book called, "Peroff," about a man named Robert Peroff, who did the Secret Service a favor and they destroyed his life, forcing him to report on a drug gang in Montreal.
In Boston MA the police have difficulty getting young people, even victims of crime to cooperate with their investigations. The politicians wonder why. I tell them over and over again, that they are the problem.
They avoid accountability and refuse to talk about police abuses. Young people know what is going on. The FBI in Boston was killing people who were reporting on criminal enterprises of FBI informants. That happened also in NYC.
So it is a problem that will only get worse until enough people stand up and throw out the current crop of spineless politicians. I would like to publish your comments in response to this article on my blog. Do I have your permission?
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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
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Posted March 02, 2007 18:35
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Why don't the cops bust the "big dogs", the suppliers, you ask? Just like in the medical field "There aint no money in curing an illness, just in treating it" If cops busted the dealers instead of the users, they would stem the flow. As long as they bust the "middle men" and the casual users, they keep the funds rolling in. As far as rolling over or being a CI, try it once. If you inform, first of all, that means that whoever you informed on and their friends/bosses/etc. are after you. Beyond that, even if the deal gets you off, the cops are never going to leave you alone, you become an expendable pawn in their game. Used whenever they need a rat. See, you might just get probation or diversion, but everytime the cops send you to buy drugs, you're violating that. So, you can get hit with your initial time and more whenever they choose. If the dealers don't "deal" with you first. I'm not saying anyone in this case is innocent, but, know how the system works. The "war on drugs" is nothing but an money-making scheme. And a very good one, at that. Fill the prisons with non-violent drug offenders, let the rapists out, keep the $$$ rolling in. My sympathy to the families of these kids, and my...well...fear?...for the kids themselves.

Organized-crime indictments delivered
By SHARON DODSON, Staff Writer
Commonwealth Journal (Somerset, KY)
February 24, 2007
Somerset— Four men have been indicted on drug-related charges they were behind a criminal syndicate that operated here for nearly a year.Floyd Cowan, 30, Issac Leon Sanders, 31, Ameer Miller, 28, and James David Cook, 29, are accused of being part of an organized crime ring with ties to illegal drug trafficking.
UNITE prosecutor David Dalton said the latest indictments are the final charges to be filed in a multi-agency probe into the sell of crack cocaine in Pulaski County. The investigation wrapped up last year and covered a 12-month period, beginning in 2005.Last October, Dalton said, several individuals were arrested and charged with drug trafficking as a result of the investigation.
“Based on information we received during the course of those prosecutions,” he said, “we were able to build our syndicate case.”The four suspects are charged with “working with other people,” Dalton said, the basis for what Kentucky statutes consider to be a criminal syndicate in a drug-trafficking case.In the indictments, they are charged with one count each of “engaging in organized crime by, with the purpose to establish or maintain a criminal syndicate, or to facilitate any of its activities, collaborating to promote or engage in the trafficking of controlled substances as prohibited in KRS Chapter 218A with at least four other persons.”
Indictments were returned last week by a Pulaski County grand jury. Cook and Miller face additional charges of being first-degree persistent felony offenders for previously being convicted of at least two prior felonies.All four have been in trouble with the law in the past.
According to Pulaski County Sheriff Todd Wood, Miller is wanted on four outstanding warrants. Cook pleaded guilty to first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance and is serving a seven-year sentence on that charge. Sanders and Cowan also face multiple charges of trafficking in a controlled substance.
Dalton prosecutes drug cases for the commonwealth’s attorney’s office and UNITE, a non-profit agency that serves Pulaski and other counties in the 5th Congressional District.Copyright © 1999-2006 cnhi, inc.
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