Category Archives: Crime

Jack the Ripper: the wanted poster

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Have you seen this man?

Jack the Ripper, reconstituted

The Scotsman reports that police have reconstructed the face of that most infamous London serial killer. Unfortunately, they don’t report it in such a way as to explain on what basis they reconstructed it, so there is really no way of knowing how accurate this portrait is. “Profiling” is mentioned, but that, unfortunately, wouldn’t give you any more than the information he was a man in his thirties or forties, a loner, white, and probably a Vietnam vet with a fondness for Catcher in the Rye. Useful.

In any case, leather gays and Whitechapel whores are advised to stay indoors for the next few days, just in case.

the sermon of the tasers on the mount

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via Jesus’ General, and relating to our posts about the tastering of a UCLA student here and here.

Republican Jesus Speaks!

quote o’ the day: Thomas Jefferson, on power

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from Vivian Paige.

“I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

–Thomas Jefferson, 1820

handy Pete Doherty arrest report template

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Pete, you're looking rode hard and put away wet! 

With a little tweaking this could work for George Michael, too. From commenter Gabe over on Gawker’s post about Doherty’s latest drug bust. Seriously, I think it must be some other dude who got Kate Moss pregnant; surely by now his body is incapable of producing anything but crack-flavoured vomit.

FROM NME.COM
POST DATE __/__/__ __:__ GMT

PETE DOHERTY ARRESTED ON DRUGS CHARGES FOR ________

Pete Doherty was arrested yesterday (______ __) for ________ possession.

Police stopped the Babyshambles singer as he was driving a _______ at __.__am in London’s _______ district

Doherty was arrested on suspicion of possession ______.

There were ____ other passengers in the car who were also arrested and later bailed, reports ____.

All ____ were released from _______ police station pending analysis of “substances recovered”, a spokesman said.

Doherty was released on police bail until ______.

The singer is due in court later this month over a previous drugs sentencing.

UCLA protest over tasering

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I'm a student; don't taser me!

Today at high noon, UCLA students staged a protest of the November 14th tasering of fellow student Mostafa Tabatabainejad by University Campus Police officers. As reported by pretty much every media outlet in the world, Tabatabainejad was using a library computer and failed to produce his student card for police, whereupon they tasered him repeatedly, an event which was captured on video.

As he was dragged away, he was heard to cry, “I’m not fighting you” and “I said I would leave.”

Let’s remind ourselves that one is under no legal obligation whatsoever to identify one’s self to police officers if one is not under arrest.

None.

There’s a large serving of “Blame the Victim” going on around the blogosphere, but let’s reduce this to the key issues:

  • Tabatabainejad was a bit of a jerkoff

  • that is not illegal

  • Tabatabainejad was within his rights to refuse to produce his ID

  • no crime was being committed, nor did the police have any reason to believe a crime was being committed or was going to be committed

  • the function of the police, in the absence of an actual crime, is to maintain the peace and public order

  • these particular officers could not be said to have done so in anything like an effective manner

  • unquestioning obedience to the arbitrary demands of armed authority is the hallmark of a police state and contrary to the goals of the Founding Fathers of the United States; it is inherently and perfectly un-American.

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