. If they get enough email, they may be forced to confront the liability ramifications

Tell that to the dozens of innocent people who die every year as a result of police negligence. Tell that to the hundreds of families whose homes have been invaded in no-knock raids. Tell that to the thousands of people who were literally tortured by detectives in Chicago. Tell that to the tens of thousands of people who will be threatened, robbed, beaten, raped, or falsely imprisoned by police officers who know that no one gives a shit. Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of people in prison today who were thrown into a cage to be raped and beaten for smoking a little dope or mouthing off to the wrong asshole with a badge or being the wrong color in the wrong neighborhood.

Maybe were you live people might care, but where I live the police behave like animals because they are only disciplined when they commit a particularly shocking atrocity against someone they don’t manage to menace into silence and the story happens to break on a slow news day. Look at the public outcry over a bunch of white cops beating the hell out of a handcuffed black man on the side of an LA freeway on fucking video tape. Look at the national attention, look at the outcry. Then look at what happened. Do you really think a couple of feminists sending an e-mail about a brother-in-blue harassing is going to have any effect?

Police don’t care about misconduct, not at any level in the chain of command. They do not care. Sure, its ugly and cynical, but its also the truth. After all, most cops have the good sense to abuse women, teenagers, and people for whom there are colorful ethnic slurs to trade over a beer after a shift. Sociopaths are very good at figuring out who the rest of society doesn’t care about.

And William’s words though cynical aren’t far off at all and I can speak from personal experience on that. It’s all about weighing the so-called “greater good” that the officers do over any on and/or off-duty misconduct that they engage in. You are simply collateral damage when it happens to you and you’re looked at as the trouble maker. I mean, if an officer harasses you, gets caught and then gets a civic award (and I can tell you what’s it like sitting and watching get awarded) and then back that up, and count more who fall in the same category, then what they’re saying is they don’t care about the misconduct.

Never mind about justice and righteousness. If they get enough email, they may be forced to confront the liability ramifications. For this reason I suggest contacting the Mayor and other city officials as well-they’re the ones who will have to deal with the costs of any civil suit, should this guy ever follow through, god forbid.

you are very brave.

BLOG: BEHIND THE BLUE WALL
http://BEHINDTHEBLUEWALL.blogspot.com/

Whoever sent me these email threats from Ira Peskowitz’s (confirmed) personal email address didn’t like a post I did about tracking oidv in Florida – a post that included a couple of excerpts from articles about Ira.

So what made him mad is item #15 in this post:

“Following Officer-Involved DV in Florida”
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2008/11/following-officer-invoved-dv-in-florida.html

The intro to the post says the officers are not convicted just because they are in the list – that the titles are just a copy of my list of folders on my computer…

His second message to me was telling me I better take it down or he would make me a blog. The next day while talking to police on the phone I found the second email that said he is on his way to me – that he knows where I am – and God help me and my family.
I have a a case number with Palm Beach FL, Tacoma WA, and an FBI complaint number.

My sis Renee’ started this blog, and I joined in:
“MICHIGAN OIDV RESPONSE TO THE THREATENING OF A SISTER OIDV BLOGGER:
http://mioidvresponsetopeskowitzemailthreat.blogspot.com/

I posted the related WA and FL state laws involved here:
“[FL] Interstate threatening communication emails received from the personal email address of Palm Beach Sheriff’s Deputy Ira Peskowitz”
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2008/12/fl-interstate-threatening-communication.html

If he killed me and the fam, would Tacoma or PBSO speak up? I had no indication so far that they would. I felt the only other course of action was to go out loud.
I keep shaking mah head. Who would threaten a blogger and expect for it to stay low key?
Kill MAH KIDZ? (What is this he has about wanting to erase families?)
If we die we want to leave crumbs through the forest so someone could find the killa, and we have. I take the threats seriously.

MUCH LOVE!
Cloud

The two available articles about Ira’s past threats etc. are hosted here on Google Docs:
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dg67w3pj_124g2b859t8

This needs to be treated seriously by the department of the suspected deputy and it’s alarming that someone with this history was hired by a fourth agency despite multiple restraining orders by employees. But it’s not being taken seriously as the threat.

Unfortunately, if you blog on police issues, often the police don’t like it and they lash out in different ways. I know that from experience. And it can be hard. There’s very little accountability from their agencies. My blog was dragged into an IA investigation due to conduct by employees and when it was done, I got retaliated against for months. One reason why comments on my site are disabled.

Wouldn’t his threats against the blogger constitute terroristic threats (as opposed to garden variety threats)? If so, could thi be bumped up from the jurisdiction of local law enforcement to the FBI?

What bumps it up is if it’s out of state harassers or using ISPs based in different states.

Been there, done this. The FBI’s ability to uncover IP addresses belonging to computer users seems to be excellent unless they are used by police. or they have to apprehend police. I was told the FBI believed one officer in my case made threats. Guess what, wait six months, he gets a civic award. That’s why it’s hard to be impressed.