Posted on 09/01/2009 1:49:03 PM PDT by B-Chan
As Jaycee Dugard gets to know her family again after 18 years in depraved captivity, a California sheriff admitted today that his officers booted a chance to rescue Jaycee nearly three years ago.
"We missed an opportunity to bring earlier closure to this situation," Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said in a news conference today.
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"Responsibility" without consequences is just another load of bullshit -- of which, as a Law Enforcement Officer, the sheriff has plenty.
Law Enforcement as it exists today in the U.S. is useless. Why are we paying these losers to tase old ladies and write tickets? The entire "justice system" should be destroyed and rebuilt on a community basis as soon as possible.
PROTIP: If your child is abducted, folks, call a private detective, not the cops.
Have officials apologized to the father for making him a key suspect and destroying his marriage?
Pfffft. That’ll be the day.
It seems they got mind control of her pretty quickly because I do think she had opportunities to escape and by the time they came, she ignored them.
Not her fault, though, since she was 11 when abducted.
I do think the police sincerely feel badly for missing out on what was going on.
Poor stepfather.
Apology is no excuse for incompetence, but in the words of The Eagles:
"she might feel better if you gave her some cash".
what about the judges and parole boards that let the psycho out of jail previously?
You said — Have officials apologized to the father for making him a key suspect and destroying his marriage?
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Officials and the public only know that sort of thing “after the fact” and never before, so there’s not too much to apologize for... unless you want the police to apologize for everyone that they suspect and investigate, which that’s their job to do...
I mean, she disappeared “off the face of the earth” so to speak and it didn’t look good for the father... (i.e., nothing else showed up that verified it was someone else who did this..., until now).
I thought that the father was a witness who reported it to the authorities.
To turn it around on him while a convicted sex offender got free for decades is a shame.
Legal defense should come when there is sufficient evidence. Saying “I think you are a liar” is insufficient to make someone a suspect.
They are good at paperwork. Solving cases only when there is a “break”.
On another thread, someone suggested that after she’d had the first child, she wasn’t leaving without them.
When I see the photographs of that prison compound Garrido called a yard, I saw toys, bikes, and lots of other kid items.
Now I’m not saying these were obviously there 3 years ago when the cops were there, but come on!!!!
Mr Magoo could have seen that as an obvious sign.
Tar and feathers, and a rail-ride out of town.
It's the American Way.
Or was ...
Ummmmm....that’s a stupid question. Cops don’t make mistakes....EVER
Aug. 28, 2009
FReepers lose their minds when discussing police. They bitch from every possible angle.
Public officials take an oath.
Some, like cops and firemen, put more on the line than others.
That said, public officials should start carrying a short sword.
Ritual sepaku does wonders to cleanse the soul.
Just sayin’.
You said — I thought that the father was a witness who reported it to the authorities.
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Yeah, he did, but he was the only one who saw it and there was no one else to confirm it. And he’s not the biological father, but the stepfather. And then, she was never seen from or sighted again. So..., the suspicion was there, for sure...
Now..., if he and his wife got divorced, she must have had some suspicion too — or else the divorce was for completely non-related reasons....
And in regards to them thinking he is a liar, that just comes with the territory with the police and investigators as they’ve heard every lie on earth told to them at one time or another... even from “not-guilty” people (i.e., in the crime they are investigating). So, “lying” is “par for the course”... I would say. That’s not unusual to consider the fact that someone is lying (more likely than not...).
sepaku = seppuku
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