In Praise of "Rogue" Cops




“His death was gang-involved, the way I see it,” lamented
former Orange County Sheriff’s Detective Ron Thomas after viewing the mangled
body of his 37-year-old son, Kelly
. “A gang of rogue officers … brutally
beat my son to death.” 
The description of the crime is appropriate: Kelly Thomas
was murdered by a thugscrum of at least six police officers on a sidewalk in
Fullerton. Kelly, who had a criminal record, was a homeless adult who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. On the evening of July 5, police were called to a
street near the Fullerton bus depot by a report that someone was burglarizing
parked cars. 


Kelly was identified as a suspect, and was uncooperative
with the police. He was tasered at least five times and beaten until brain-dead
while pleading with the officers and crying out for his father. Multiple
eyewitness accounts have disclosed that the beating continued – punctuated by
the familiar demand that the victim “stop resisting!” -- long after Kelly was
on his back, motionless and defenseless.

That this was a gang-involved murder is indisputable. With
all proper respect to Ron Thomas, however, the grieving father is desperately
wrong about one detail: The murderers were not “rogue officers.” Once the gang
assault on Kelly began, practically the only thing that could have saved his life would have been the timely intervention of a rogue officer.


As an institution, the police do not exist to defend life,
liberty, and property. That would be the role played by peace officers -- a population that is, for all intents and purposes, extinct. Police
are given the task of “enforcement” – the imposition of rules devised by, and
on behalf of, the wealth-devouring class. That role includes dispensing summary
punishment against people who display anything other than instant, unqualified
submission to them and to the political order they embody. Any material good
that is done by a police officer is a renegade act, given the nature and
purposes of the institution that employs him.
In any situation blighted by the presence of a police
officer, that armed functionary’s first priority is not to “serve” or to
“protect” anybody. Sociologist James Q. Wilson, whose writings became somethingakin to canonical texts for Rudolph Giuliani and other politicians and policy
makers of an authoritarian bent, explains that a police officer’s first priority is to “impose authority on people who are unpredictable, apprehensive,
and often hostile.” 


That apprehension is an understandable reaction to the
presence of an armed stranger of dubious character who demands unqualified
submission. The hostility is predictable, entirely defensible, and generally
commendable. Members of the Costumed Enforcer Class refer to it as “Contempt of Cop,” and regard it as an offense subject to summary punishment through the application of..., frequently of a lethal nature. 
Ron Thomas – who, once again, is a retired law enforcement
officer himself who teaches “arrest and control” techniques – explains that the
officers who murdered his son weren’t attempting to arrest him as a criminal
suspect, but rather “bullying” him “under color of authority” as punishment for
“contempt of cop.”

Incidents of this kind display a standard morphology:
A cop confronts a citizen and encounters brief, trivial, and
often justified resistance. He summons “backup,” and a thugscrum – which is a phenomenon
similar to a criminal “flash mob,” but generally more lethal – quickly coalesces and deals out hideous violence while terrified citizens look on in
horror and apparent helplessness. 


Any officer who doesn’t play a hands-on role
in beating the “suspect” will devote his attention to “crowd control” – that
is, preventing intervention on behalf of the victim, and often confiscating any
recording devices that might be used to gather incriminating video of the
episode. 


Officially sanctioned gang violence
depends on a chain reaction of conformity, and often a single rogue element
would be sufficient to prevent it from reaching critical mass. A “rogue cop” –
that is, a peace officer devoted to protecting life, liberty, and property, rather
than a dutiful law enforcer determined to uphold “authority” – would interpose
on behalf of the victim.
It’s difficult to know how often this happens, but we could
round off that estimate to “never.” This is because “rogue” cops who commit such
renegade acts of lawfulness are never treated with the union-organized
solicitude displayed toward “good” cops who commit acts of criminal violence
against Mundanes. 
Witness the case of former Austin Police Department Officer
Ramon Perez, who joined the force as a 41-year-old rookie cop because of a
sincere desire to protect people from crime. During a January 2005 domestic
violence incident, Perez refused an order by a superior officer, Robert
Paranich, to use his Taser on an elderly man who was not a threat to himself or
anybody else. 

Owing to the fact that the subject was a frail man of
advanced years, Perez was understandably concerned that the portable
electro-shock torture device would kill him. Furthermore, using the Taser in
that situation would have violated the explicit provisions of the Austin PD’s
Taser Policy. Perez was able to resolve the situation through de-escalation,
rather than by using potentially lethal force to “impose authority.”
Two days later, Perez was given what could only be
considered a punitive transfer to the night shift. Two months later, following
a second incident in which Perez chose de-escalation over armed compulsion, he
was invited to what he was told would be a “counseling” session with the APD’s
staff psychologist, Carol Logan. The purpose of that meeting, Perez was told,
was to help him develop better “communication skills” with his fellow officers.
In fact, it was a disguised “fit-for-duty review” convened to find a pretext to
purge the probationary officer from the force before the “rogue cop” could
infect others with his respect for individual rights.
 As the Austin
Chronicle
reported
, Ms.
Logan’s four-page report focused “entirely on Perez's moral and religious
beliefs, which Logan concludes are so strong they are an `impairment' to his
ability to be a police officer.” 

Perez, a self-described non-denominational
fundamentalist Christian, an ordained minister, and home-schooling parent, was
not as morally ductile as the typical police recruit. He saw protection of
civil liberties as the paramount duty of a police officer, an obligation he
viewed as a literal religious vocation. For this reason Perez was seen as
unsuitable for a ministry in the State’s punitive priesthood. 
Perez was given an ultimatum by his superiors: He could
resign and retain his peace officer’s license, or be terminated and lose it.
This was done, once again, as punishment for Perez’s “rogue” conduct – which
consisted of his refusal to break the law and violate department policy. 
If a “rogue” cop had intervened on behalf of Barron
Bowling
on July 10, 2003, the one-time cement worker from Kansas City,
Kansas wouldn’t be a functional invalid at the age of 37. It was Bowling’s
life-changing misfortune that day to be involved
in a minor non-injury crash with an automobile carrying three undercover DEA
agents
.  In a fit of juvenile
impatience, the driver, DEA agent Timothy McCue, attempted to pass Bowling’s
car illegally on the right side of a single lane.

After the vehicles pulled over, agent McCue came boiling out
of his car with a drawn gun. With help from one of his fellow heroes, McCue forced
Bowling lie face-down on the pavement, despite the fact that the 98 degree heat
had turned it into a frying pan. When Bowling attempted to push himself up,
McCue began to punch and pistol-whip him while taunting his victim for
supposedly being an “inbred hillbilly” and “system-dodging white trash.” One
witness to the crime reported that McCue threatened to murder Bowling. With the
help of his comrades, McCue handcuffed the victim and continued to beat and
kick him after he was shackled and completely helpless.
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As I said once before, maybe twice before.

If there is a Cop in the situation.  Any Situation, "Be Afaid, Be Very Afraid".

When I was 12 I had nightmares, every night for weeks. The same one.

In them I was sentanced by a Judge of some sort for some crime or other, and taken to a field were the corn had already

been harvested, by four men in a uniform I did not recognize and they shot me dead.

That's when I woke up screaming "NO no don't kill me".

My mother finally took me to a Army Hospital in Rochester were they made the nightmares stop. How they did this I don't know, I do remember lying on a white table with electrods attached to my head, and going to sleep, .... but they stopped the nightmears.

I do not know if this was in a past life or in my future.

 

Larry

The word 'rouge' needs to be clareified.

A 'Rouge Cop' in this case means a COP who does not do what he is told to do, by his captain, or sargent, or even his buddy cops.

He is not a cop gone mad wild like the often noted "Rouge Elephent" who tares into a villige and tramples  and even kills anyone in sight, often destroying anything in its path and continues until it is either killed by the 'Great White Hunter' or there is nothing left to trample and destroy.

No the use of the term "Rouge cop" means somrthing different.

Perhaps a Cop who still loves people and will NOT be persuaded to Taser a child or a old man, or jump in help beat the man already down and handcufted on the road, even when he is told he is breaking the code of the cops by refusing to harm thoes he once swore to "Serve and Protect."

Always ...Beware a Cop ...  and if you can't, hope to God he is one that IS a real "Rouge Cop" if you are lucky enough to have one around when you need one.

 

I hope there are many many "Rouge Cops" out there where you live.

 

Have I explained the term Rouge correctly?

 

Larry

It  seems  like  there  is  a  'double  standard'  going  on  here!!  There  is  only  ONE  oath  not  two  and  someone  must  be  held  accountable  for  this.  To  "Serve  and  Protect"  is  part  of  that  oath  taken  at  the  academy.  As  for 'Rogue'  cops:  the  word  rougue:  an  individual  varying,  very much  from  the  standard;  in  other  words,  makeing  up  his / her  own  rules  as  they  go  along.  Not  done!!!  Not  following  an  order  from  a  Officer  of  a  higher  grade  should  have  been  reported  to  a  Tribunal  at  once.  No  one  has  the  power  to  take  a  life  -  NO  ONE.  I  voted  'Liked'  when  in  fact  I  very  much  did  not  like  the  way  those  Officers  were  acting;  it  was  Murder,  pure  and  simple.   There  will  be  a  'Judgement  Day'  for  those  Officers  because  of  the  video  footage  caught  on  cell  phones  and  the  press  will  (and  they  have)  have  a  great  time  with  with  this.  My  heart  goes  out  to  the  Father  for  being  brave  enough  to  speak  out  in  public.  His  son  had  a  Mental  Illness  and  he  died  for  it.  How  terribly  wrong  that  is.  Living  on  the  streets  -  he  probably  couldn't  afford  his  medication  which  he  must  have.  This  whole  situation  just  makes  me  sick!!!

FROM:  LYNN  SHEDLER    

THORAXE:   Thank  you  for  the  very  informative  Video.  That  was  an  extremelly  emotional  time  and  to  witness  this  it  would  have  made  people  sick  with  emotion.  Also  of  fear.  If  Police  could  do  that  to  kelly  -  would  they  do  that  to  you  or  me  or  a  younger  person,  like  a  teenager??

It  is  definately  something  to  think  about.  If  I  go  into  a  coffee  shop  and  police  are  there  I  turn  around  and  walk  out.  Right  in  front  on  them!!  That's  right  -  I'll  have  no  part  of  them.  Perhaps  it  is  time  for  the  Officers  to  be  retested  for  violence  to  the  public.  I  mean  all  of  them.  Because  it  is  only  going  to  get  worse  before  it  gets  better.  This  incident  has  defently  'Cross  the  Line'.  Remember  Rodney  King?

 

FROM  YOUR  FRIEND:  LYNN  SHEDLER

This saddens me to no END! Then it really angers me! When I joined the military in 1992 I took an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies both foriegn and domestic.......The next time I see this happening I am going to intervine and I am going to use force if nesecery. This kind of excessive force can and WILL NOT be tolerated by the people of this nation!!! The oath that I took never just goes away, it never looses its meanning to me, and I will always uphold my end of the oath! For your loss I am sorry...and for this countries peace officers I am ashamed!

In the National Guard (Army or Air)

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the State of (STATE NAME) against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the Governor of (STATE NAME) and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to law and regulations. So help me God.

Timothy:   You  just  hit  the  nail  on  it's  head  -  "To  protect  the  COUNTRY  by  being  in  the  military."   Not  to  bare  arms  to  take  the  law  into  your  own  hands  like  what  is  happening  now.  That  is  a  huge  difference.  People  are  stepping  all  over  that  Part  of  the  Constitution  -  Big  Time.   It  has  to  be  changed;  NOW!!!!!

Today, I wouldn't trust any of my ex 'brothers' with a used tooth brush.

Adios.

 

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