Denver Police officer under investigation for reported threat over bumper sticker

Denver NBC 9 News | 1/26/2005 | Paul Johnson

[MileHi]

it took that village to raise her! LOL!!!

A deciple of Patsy Schroeder no doubt>

[Joe 6-pack]

Meet Shasta Bates...

[MileHi]

Well the expo is once a year to meet outfitters, arrange hunting and fishing trips, see the lates hunting and fishing gear and such. Cool show, but I ain't going.

[KC_Conspirator]

That sounds like a funny t-shirt.

I would throw her in jail for language. I would throw her in for hating-America.

[Wiggins]

Were the cops that died at the world trade center on September 11th, 2001 those who've been caught in their lies or those who have yet to be caught? How about all the other cops across our nation who had made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the public? Are they officers who've been caught in their lies or those who yet to be caught? The next time you need help from a police officer why don't you instead call the woman in the car that has the F*** Bush bumper sticker.

[bird4four4]

If you say her name five times fast, its a vulgar word... MissShastaBates MissShastaBates MissShastaBates MissShastaBates MissShastaBates

[Auntie Dem]

The police officer was wrong and the woman has a right to express her obscenity on her bumper. There have been numerous court cases about this type of thing and the constitution does protect offensive speech.

So if I go up to a demonrat mayor and say "F**k you you commie rat bastard!" They can't arrest me? Yeah right.

Send me $10,000 for up front bail money, then I'll try that experiment.

[OldFriend]

LOLOLOL.......oh that was perfect!!!!!

Sheila Jackson Lee was voted the most stupid politician in an anonymous poll a few years ago.

I believe Patrick Kennedy ws the male counterpart.

[Glacier Honey]

You are right - Drive around Denver / Boulder and you see more Kerry signs - Everywhere else is Bush Country

Proud to be a redstater

[Graycliff]

My apologies for my ignorance, Please forgive.

[Graycliff]

Just a suggestion.
Don't try that experiment in TX.

[Double Tap]

Why are you moving back to Minnesota? Too bad, Texas needs guys like you.

[Jonah Johansen]

Why is it that a minimum standard of public decency is such a hard concept to grasp.

On one hand family oriented people, religious conservatives make this timid request that a half dozen words, nudity and sex acts are not allowed were children will see them. On the other hand the liberals have an 8 page single spaced list of words or ideas that they forbid.

[ActionNewsBill]

I would throw her in for hating-America.

Where did she say that?

So somebody doesn't like Bush, that means they "hate" America?

Nice logic.

[Dead Corpse]

Why are you moving back to Minnesota?

Family reasons. We want to raise our daughter around the rest of her relatives. Down here, it's just us. We tried talking them in to retiring down here. No dice...

[beezdotcom]

I am stunned that some jurisdictions have no laws that restrict public display of profanity. Basically if I am driving in one of these areas with my young children and there is a sign that broadcasts the crude words for male and female genitalia, and for sex acts, I have no legal recourse?

Sounds like the rappers and rock stars should stay off of the airwaves and just perform live in the town square, then...

[ChevyZ28]

There are many states that do in fact have public obscenity laws on the books. However, they are almost never enforced due to First Amendment Protections. I am a law enforcement officer, and have been for almost 2 years now. North Carolina, the state where I am employed has such a law, but I have never seen it charged. I have spoken to the assistant DA in our county about this subject, and he has told me that getting a conviction on such a charge would be so close to impossible, it does not merit the time necessary to charge some one with such a crime.

Our society has finally reached the point, that obscenity is now relative. What is obscene to one person is not to another. This is just another profound piece of evidence pointing to the obvious moral decay slowly but surely destroying our society. Which brings me to the following point. In short, I would not waste my time charging some one with this crime. The DAs, the judges, and even the reasonable citizens (would say off the record they would love and support it) if I and other officers did charge this crime, however, convictions for this would almost never occur because obscenity is viewed as relative to the individual and the conviction would almost certainly be over turned.

[digger48]

How many kids are gonna get 'soap..........poisoning' for innocently reading the word aloud when they see it in a parking lot? My only experience with the Principal in 1st grade was reading it off the restroom wall outloud. I had no idea what it meant.

[ChevyZ28]

"There's two types of cops in the world --Those who've been caught in their lies and those who have yet to be caught."

What you said applies to every person, not just cops. Cops are people also, and are subject to the same failings and weaknesses as private citizens. This a fact NO ONE can deny.

In the course of performing my duty on any given night, I probably get lied to 100 or more by private citizens who have no idea how they came to be in possession of the marijuana I caught them smoking in their car, because heaven knows it is not their's, they are only holding it for a friend.

[colorado tanker]

Denver is a home rule city, but it has no ordinance against obscene bumper stickers, contrary to what the cop thought.

I can't believe the Police Department is "investigating" this. This is a "go to bed without your dessert" kind of issue. But the PC brigade in Denver has been on a jihad against the Police Department and our weak-kneed wine and cheese liberal mayor lets them roll him on every issue.