Gonzalez: Heading Massive Sweeps
National Ledger – Operation Falcon III — This story from last week is floating around the net and is incredibly baffling. It’s baffling because so little was said about it. No analysis. Just rah-rah coverage. Bad guys off the street, hooray!
Alberto Gonzalez apparently has headed up these sweeps of fugitive sex offenders and miscellaneous “worst felons” for the third time. I’m not getting why, if these people are so dangerous and their whereabouts are apparently known, they are not picked up right away as opposed to being picked up in a nationwide sweep by US Marshalls. This just does not sound right. And where is the major media when 11,000 people are being arrested at once? I’m am not close to believing that hundreds of people were not misidentified and arrested falsely. Let’s be realisitc. Where are those tales of woe? Instead we get zilch except what appears to be a press release.
Operation Falcon III is the codename for a joint effort to round up sex offenders and gang members on the East Coast. Operation Falcon III combined deputy United States Marshals that teamed up with thousands of fellow federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to conduct the largest ever round up of criminals.
Nearly 11,000 fugitives, including 1,659 sex offenders, were swept up in what Attorney General Alberto Gonzales described Thursday as a record-breaking law enforcement operation targeting some of the nation’s “worst” felons.
Most of the coverage for this event seems to be isolated in small town newspapers and local TV stations.
related links:
Mass. Arrests outlined here
And then there is this press release that ran in Findlaw about the whole event with emphasis on finding one guy in particular. I found this quote unusual:
…bail has been set at $500,000.00 on the charge of being a Fugitive from Justice. Berlo is currently awaiting rendition to N.H.
“What is impressive about the Brian Berlo investigation is the speed at which the investigation proceeded once handed over to the United States Marshals Service,” said Acting United States Marshal William Fallon. “With little information to go on, a U.S. Marshals led team of officers, were able to track down and arrest Berlo within a matter of a few hours
First I thought the use of the term “rendition” a bit odd in this because of its implications. Also there seems to be a not-so-subtle message here that local police are incompetent and the feds with “little information to go on” can do what the locals cannot do. And they do it faster!
So what gives?
Nobody is reading this thread anymore anyway. Blah blah blah.
Yeah, its 15-minutes is up. 🙂
This has nothing to do with ethnicity.
Then why the concern over maternal ancestry vice paternal?
Maybe “ethnicity” is the wrong word for it, but it seems like a distinction is made by Jews as to who is “Jewish from birth” rather than just Jewish by faith.
With catholics, either, (or I suppose neither) may be Catholic, as long as they both agree to raise the children as Catholics.
What? If neither parent was Catholic, why would they be agreeing to raise the children as Catholics??
Say Goodnight, Gracie.
Goodnight Gracie
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??? REALLY, you saw that??
Its like what they did in Florida, JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION..
I will send a few representives of our Gov to your home.
Expect them in about 4-6 hours.
Whether it’s election time or not this needs to ongoing. Arrests that size don’t happen overnight, it takes lots of time and planning. This round up got the man that has been victimizing my daughter. And my husband and I thought he was a decent man, raising his child on his own, not someone who was submitting child porn on the web and having sex with children that are 10 yrs old. What about his own child that will never be the same? Put yourselves in the shoes of the victims and stop worrying about someone getting elected because they planned this whole thing out. What if it was YOUR child involoved?
I’m a local cop on a Federal Task Force here in Fort Worth. As a rule, the Federal law enforcement agencies like these big “sweep” operations. The way it works is all of the investigations are completed, mass indictments are obtained and then large numbers of officers convene to make all of the arrests. It does create a housing problem since it swamps the local jails because the Federal government has to lease out jail space from the locals. I’m not ruling out politics being involved in the sweep but it is standard operating procedure.
Regarding the Brian Berlo arrest. I question the quote about the Marshall’s having “very little information” to go on. He was out on bail at the time and the jail he made bond from would have had quite a lot of info on him. Plus, if the Marshall’s have your cell phone number, they can “ping” your phone and track you down with it. It works real well.
Lesson to the wise, be the Best of the worst and you’ll be just fine.
How you define that is up to you (I prefer corrupt businessmen/politician)
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And you wonder WHY, I dont like current cellphones…