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CA: In the Crowe case, this cop ignored the politics while pursuing justice
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"Some friends warned sheriff's detective Vic Caloca not to dig too deeply into the Stephanie Crowe killing. You'll have to step on people's toes, they told him. You'll ruin your career." ...
"The 12-year-old girl was stabbed to death in her Escondido bedroom in January of 1998. Police arrested three teens, including her brother, after two of them confessed."
"But on the eve of trial ... lab tests found drops of Stephanie's blood on a shirt worn by a mentally ill transient roaming the Crowe neighborhood the night of the slaying." ...
"'I'm too dumb to know what I was getting myself into,' Caloca said. 'I thought that the people who worked the case in the beginning had the same ideals that I had, which was to get justice for this little girl. But it didn't happen that way.'"
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But a system which is perfectly happy to railroad some teenagers for a murder they didn't commit, and which fights a member's efforts to find the truth, this is a system which Sarah Brady says should have a monopoly on force. |
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pedrop357@cox.net
(7/12/2004)
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Always remember these types of stories when you read a story about a teen being convicted of something and you feel the urge to quickly assign blame/guilt/anger to all teens because of one of them.
Too many people, even gun rights supporters here don't use apply the same level of skepticism to stories of teen confessions that they do to stories where suspects strangely commit suicide or fall down while in police/ATF/FBI custody.
Many adults are truly and deeply prejudiced against teens. This comes out when some express their view that teens who are accused of crime are just little thugs more likely to be guilty. Contrast this with stories of adults where the bar of suspicion is raised and questions of police impropriety are raised. |
| Comment by:
arnoldTkanes@yahoo.com
(7/12/2004)
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| "Commies 'n Nazis 'n nare'do'well cads, drink up me hearties, yo ho!" |
| Comment by:
skslover
(7/12/2004)
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"Turn in your guns, the gov't will protect you. What are you afraid of? It can't happen here."
Uh, Ms. Fienstein, it HAS happened here, and if I am not mistaken, it HAS happened "in your backyard." |
| Comment by:
gangleri2000@yahoo.com
(7/12/2004)
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"I've never been any good at politics," he said. "I learned a lot about politics in this case, though. And what I saw disgusted me." -Vic Caloca
I've felt the same about office politics, where the only harm was to the bottom line. How much worse when innocents are hounded and the guilty get off because the incompetent want to defend their actions?
Vic Caloca sounds like one of the best. I hope he enjoys his well-earned retirement. |
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