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Positive Examples in Law Enforcement

 

Seems like a weekly blotter should be available once a week?

 

US Border Patrol, Port Angeles, WA-

Aug 2010-

A US Border Patrol spokesperson tells the press:

“Border Patrol spokeswoman Jenny Burke said Monday that the agency will not release any information on the number of arrests made by agents who work out of the Port Angeles station, the names of those arrested, what they were arrested for and the disposition of their cases”

“The number of arrests for Port Angeles’ or any other station is “law enforcement-sensitive,” Burke said.”

“The names of those arrested and other facts about them are not available for release under the 1974 Privacy Act, she said.”

Sort of like a news blackout on local Border Patrol arrests?

 

Nov 2011- “The report is always limited to one page regardless of the number of arrests made, includes only those arrests selected by the agency for public release and does not include apprehensions that result in ongoing investigations.”

Sounds like something out of the Soviet Union.

A free and independent press plays no role here in questioning public policy- simply passing down dictates from above.

So, if this guy is arrested it might be done in secret if the one page report is already full, the arrest is not selected by the agency for public release or is an apprehension that results in an ongoing investigation?

Is the US Border Patrol the only law enforcement agency making use of these bizarre and arbitrary reporting procedures?

 

JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society-

 

March 2012- Weekly US Border Patrol arrest reports posted here.

For an extended period of time the weekly blotter was posted at the link above. No weekly blotter since Jan 18th, 2013.

Found one here:

U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter, Blaine Sector, January 10 – January 30, 2013

 

Related-

Secret arrest statistics are un-American

Local whistleblower steps forward-

A Very Effective Information Suppression Campaign

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Olympic Peninsula Border Patrol timeline here.

 

 

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