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Thread (Discussion): [TheNewsTribune.com] Vigilantism threatens community notification
Message 161346
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Posted by admin
on Sep 12, 2005 03:55 PM | Also by admin
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Discuss the article Vigilantism threatens community notification, which appeared on TheNewsTribune.com on September 11, 2005.
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Message 161358 (In Reply to Message 161346)
Posted by orolan
on Sep 12, 2005 10:19 PM | Also by orolan
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But for a nation of a quarter-billion people, there have been surprisingly few instances of extralegal “justice.”
"Overt" anyway. No telling how much vigilante action happened that the police turned their backs on....or were responsible for in the first place. And while outright illegal activities like arson and murder may be the exception, wholesale harassment is the norm, by both the public and LEA.
Obviously, this kind of vigilantism could discourage offenders from registering their whereabouts with law enforcement.
Conspiracy theorists will say the FBI, on the instruction of the Attorney General who is seeking a Federal offense of FTR, gave Mullen his hat, shirt, gun and information to facilitate that exact thing. Massive FTR's around the country out of fear.
And if these two murders spawn copycat killings, there’s a decent chance the whole community-notification system could come crashing down.
It will also spawn a large number of dead copycats, who will die without benefit of the due process Mullen will get before he does:-))
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Message 161361 (In Reply to Message 161358)
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Hello Orlan, Did you by any chance click on the link to the comments section? The very first one the has what the poster calls a short list of acts vigilantism. The legend below the list makes it a bit easier to understand and then easier to find the ones that LE themselves had to declare acts of vigilantism.
youtoo
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Message 161386 (In Reply to Message 161361)
Posted by orolan
on Sep 13, 2005 01:59 PM | Also by orolan
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No I didn't. But I'll check it out:-))
Thanks.
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161346, admin, Sep 12, 2005 03:55 PM [Introduction]
161358, orolan, Sep 12, 2005 10:19 PM
161361, youtoo, Sep 12, 2005 11:38 PM
161386, orolan, Sep 13, 2005 01:59 PM
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