(SOUTH TULSA, Okla.) July 20 - You might need to call the police more often than you think. Officers say what you think may not be worth a call truly is.
Police say if something looks suspicious, it probably is.
If something looks strange, it could be the beginning of something really bad. That's why detectives are urging you to call them more often.
Tulsa Police Sgt. Gary Stansill says parents should call about anything suspicious.
“When they get the icky feeling,” he said. He says an officer will show up and take a report. It could prevent a crime, or help with an arrest later.
Stansill says when you make a call, report anything unique about the person's appearance and their car, like a tag number.
Police say reporting something odd could make a big difference.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
IBC: Robbery BAIT
What is it about IBC banks that seems to be attracting wise guys intent on making withdrawls without even bothering to open an account FIRST? The NERVE.
Ok, people, Santa and I are on the lookout for some skinny white guy, who now has a white compact car now. On the first job, the perp left on foot at the 51st/Harvard location. If Santa sees anything, he'll be sure to flag down the Santa Task Force.
Hmmmm....skinny white guy, eh? Either the dude need meth money or he's behind on his college tuition.
Ok, people, Santa and I are on the lookout for some skinny white guy, who now has a white compact car now. On the first job, the perp left on foot at the 51st/Harvard location. If Santa sees anything, he'll be sure to flag down the Santa Task Force.
Hmmmm....skinny white guy, eh? Either the dude need meth money or he's behind on his college tuition.
Friday, July 20, 2007
DAMMIT. I shoulda dumped the three dead bodies when I had the CHANCE
KOTV - 7/20/2007 12:09 PM - Updated 7/20/2007 12:42 PM
Tulsa’s waste to energy plant will close for good on Monday. Officials with the Walter B. Hall Resource Recovery Facility in west Tulsa announced Friday morning, the center will stop accepting trash Friday and will permanently close on Monday.
WBH president Thomas Simpson says he will explain the decision at a news conference Friday afternoon.
Under a 2004 agreement, the city of Tulsa was to deliver trash to the plant until 2007. The agreement also called for Sunoco to continue to purchase the steam generated from the plant's operations. The facility shut down in September 2003, when Covanta Energy said its contracts with the plant's owner were not profitable.
A federal bankruptcy judge transferred those contracts back to the plant's owner and another firm began managing the facility, located at 2122 South Yukon, just west of U.S. Highway 75 in Tulsa.
Tulsa’s waste to energy plant will close for good on Monday. Officials with the Walter B. Hall Resource Recovery Facility in west Tulsa announced Friday morning, the center will stop accepting trash Friday and will permanently close on Monday.
WBH president Thomas Simpson says he will explain the decision at a news conference Friday afternoon.
Under a 2004 agreement, the city of Tulsa was to deliver trash to the plant until 2007. The agreement also called for Sunoco to continue to purchase the steam generated from the plant's operations. The facility shut down in September 2003, when Covanta Energy said its contracts with the plant's owner were not profitable.
A federal bankruptcy judge transferred those contracts back to the plant's owner and another firm began managing the facility, located at 2122 South Yukon, just west of U.S. Highway 75 in Tulsa.
I like MIKE
Ok, people, I'm gonna kick in 10 clams to the Mike Gravel 4 Prez campaign. I hope you guys will match me. This is the MAN who's gonna get our guys outta Iraq, for sure.
Busted while BLACK
By DAVID PITT, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 18, 3:01 PM ET
DES MOINES, Iowa - Blacks in the United States are imprisoned at more than five times the rate of whites, and Hispanics are locked up at nearly double the white rate, according to a study released Wednesday by a criminal justice policy group.
The report by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based think tank, found that states in the Midwest and Northeast have the greatest black-to-white disparity in incarceration. Iowa had the widest disparity in the nation, imprisoning blacks at more than 13 times the rate of whites.
Such figures "reflect a failure of social and economic interventions to address crime effectively," as well as racial bias in the justice system, said Marc Mauer, the group's executive director.
Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin incarcerated blacks at more than 10 times the rate of whites, the group said, citing Justice Department statistics from 2005. Vermont had a ratio of 12.5, followed by New Jersey with 12.4 and Connecticut with 12.
States with the lowest black-to-white ratio were Hawaii, with 1.9, Georgia with 3.3 and Mississippi with 3.5.
In Iowa, blacks are imprisoned at a rate more than double the national average. For every 100,000 people, Iowa incarcerates 309 whites and 4,200 blacks, the study said.
Paul Stageberg, administrator of the Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, said the results are not surprising, but the causes are subject to interpretation.
He said the state's disproportionately high black arrest rates are likely linked to high poverty rates among blacks and lower educational achievement.
In 2001, a governor's task force released a report that said 24 percent of Iowa prison beds were occupied by black inmates even though blacks comprised just over 2 percent of the state's population.
The group that compiled Wednesday's report made several recommendations such as reviewing federal drug laws and giving judges more discretion to decide sentences rather than imposing mandatory minimum prison terms.
DES MOINES, Iowa - Blacks in the United States are imprisoned at more than five times the rate of whites, and Hispanics are locked up at nearly double the white rate, according to a study released Wednesday by a criminal justice policy group.
The report by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based think tank, found that states in the Midwest and Northeast have the greatest black-to-white disparity in incarceration. Iowa had the widest disparity in the nation, imprisoning blacks at more than 13 times the rate of whites.
Such figures "reflect a failure of social and economic interventions to address crime effectively," as well as racial bias in the justice system, said Marc Mauer, the group's executive director.
Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin incarcerated blacks at more than 10 times the rate of whites, the group said, citing Justice Department statistics from 2005. Vermont had a ratio of 12.5, followed by New Jersey with 12.4 and Connecticut with 12.
States with the lowest black-to-white ratio were Hawaii, with 1.9, Georgia with 3.3 and Mississippi with 3.5.
In Iowa, blacks are imprisoned at a rate more than double the national average. For every 100,000 people, Iowa incarcerates 309 whites and 4,200 blacks, the study said.
Paul Stageberg, administrator of the Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, said the results are not surprising, but the causes are subject to interpretation.
He said the state's disproportionately high black arrest rates are likely linked to high poverty rates among blacks and lower educational achievement.
In 2001, a governor's task force released a report that said 24 percent of Iowa prison beds were occupied by black inmates even though blacks comprised just over 2 percent of the state's population.
The group that compiled Wednesday's report made several recommendations such as reviewing federal drug laws and giving judges more discretion to decide sentences rather than imposing mandatory minimum prison terms.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Stuff you NEED to know
I'm gonna update this post regularly when I think I've found Stuff you NEED to know.
Tulsa Restaurant Inspections!
Tulsa Restaurant Inspections!
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
FAULK this town
Recent Mayoral candidate, Ben Faulk, recently wrote an op-ed piece, another in a long line of his long history of op-ed pieces detailing THE solution to the illegal immigration "problem." Secure the border, deport the undocumented workers, and so on.
To which I would add, GAS is BEST. Worked great for Hitler. EVERYBODY wanted OUT.
Perhaps you, my fine readers, may think I joke. But, I do take Ben Faulk seriously, very seriously. Someone who prowls around late at night, freezing his ass off, playing the 300 signatures game to get on the ballot MUST be taken as seriously as someone who pines for ethnic cleansing in smoke-filed beer halls in early 1920's Germany.
To which I would add, GAS is BEST. Worked great for Hitler. EVERYBODY wanted OUT.
Perhaps you, my fine readers, may think I joke. But, I do take Ben Faulk seriously, very seriously. Someone who prowls around late at night, freezing his ass off, playing the 300 signatures game to get on the ballot MUST be taken as seriously as someone who pines for ethnic cleansing in smoke-filed beer halls in early 1920's Germany.
NYC preacher arrested for reciting the 1st Amendment
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 2, 9:56 PM ET
NEW YORK - Reverend Billy says he wants the New York Police Department to get right with the Constitution.
The performance artist — a cross between a street-corner preacher and an Elvis impersonator (but blond) — was arrested on harassment charges last week while reciting the First Amendment through a megaphone in Manhattan's Union Square. On Monday, he donned his trademark white suit and returned to the scene of his alleged sin to demand that police repent.
"It feels so good to be back on the very spot where I was denied my First Amendment rights by reciting the First Amendment," he told reporters over the din of an NYPD helicopter hovering overhead.
Reverend Billy, whose real name is Bill Talen, was joined by women in red choir robes who sang a hymn version of the amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech. Other activists distributed an amateur videotape of his arrest.
Eyes closed and hands raised, the pretend pastor whooped, "Bill of Rights-elujah!"
Talen, 57, has spent years using his mock persona as a fire-and-brimstone evangelist to rail against consumer culture — what he portrays as the Disneyfication of Manhattan. He was arrested this year on misdemeanor trespassing charges for protesting at a Starbucks; that case is pending.
His latest run-in with the law began after he turned up to support people gathering in Union Square last Friday for the monthly Critical Mass bike ride asserting cyclists' rights.
The NYPD has aggressively policed the rides, arguing that they can interfere with traffic and threaten public safety. Advocates for Critical Mass have accused police of infringing on the riders' constitutional rights to free speech and free assembly.
The video shows Talen preaching the "44 beautiful words of the First Amendment" to a visibly annoyed congregation of police commanders huddled a few feet away. At one point, an officer approaches and warns him that his sermon is breaking the law.
"What's the law?" Talen asks.
"Harassment," the officer answers.
When Talen persists, another officer comes up behind him and slaps on handcuffs. When being put in a police van, the satirist shouts, "We have a right to peaceful assembly!"
Talen was held overnight before being released without bail. A criminal complaint alleges he harassed police officers by approaching them and "repeatedly shouting at such officers through a non-electric bullhorn."
Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, appearing with Talen on Monday, called on prosecutors to drop the charges.
"The arrest was a false arrest," Siegel said. "What Reverend Billy did last Friday night does not constitute illegal conduct."
Prosecutors declined to comment. The New York Police Department, contacted Monday evening, said it had no comment.
NEW YORK - Reverend Billy says he wants the New York Police Department to get right with the Constitution.
The performance artist — a cross between a street-corner preacher and an Elvis impersonator (but blond) — was arrested on harassment charges last week while reciting the First Amendment through a megaphone in Manhattan's Union Square. On Monday, he donned his trademark white suit and returned to the scene of his alleged sin to demand that police repent.
"It feels so good to be back on the very spot where I was denied my First Amendment rights by reciting the First Amendment," he told reporters over the din of an NYPD helicopter hovering overhead.
Reverend Billy, whose real name is Bill Talen, was joined by women in red choir robes who sang a hymn version of the amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech. Other activists distributed an amateur videotape of his arrest.
Eyes closed and hands raised, the pretend pastor whooped, "Bill of Rights-elujah!"
Talen, 57, has spent years using his mock persona as a fire-and-brimstone evangelist to rail against consumer culture — what he portrays as the Disneyfication of Manhattan. He was arrested this year on misdemeanor trespassing charges for protesting at a Starbucks; that case is pending.
His latest run-in with the law began after he turned up to support people gathering in Union Square last Friday for the monthly Critical Mass bike ride asserting cyclists' rights.
The NYPD has aggressively policed the rides, arguing that they can interfere with traffic and threaten public safety. Advocates for Critical Mass have accused police of infringing on the riders' constitutional rights to free speech and free assembly.
The video shows Talen preaching the "44 beautiful words of the First Amendment" to a visibly annoyed congregation of police commanders huddled a few feet away. At one point, an officer approaches and warns him that his sermon is breaking the law.
"What's the law?" Talen asks.
"Harassment," the officer answers.
When Talen persists, another officer comes up behind him and slaps on handcuffs. When being put in a police van, the satirist shouts, "We have a right to peaceful assembly!"
Talen was held overnight before being released without bail. A criminal complaint alleges he harassed police officers by approaching them and "repeatedly shouting at such officers through a non-electric bullhorn."
Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, appearing with Talen on Monday, called on prosecutors to drop the charges.
"The arrest was a false arrest," Siegel said. "What Reverend Billy did last Friday night does not constitute illegal conduct."
Prosecutors declined to comment. The New York Police Department, contacted Monday evening, said it had no comment.
Must be nice to have friends in HIGH places
Dubya commutes Libby's prison sentence, as expected. So, I just made 50 clams off Guido, my fav Vegas bookie! Yay! Let's PAR-Taaaaaaaaaaaay!
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