How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death

Reporters note.  For anyone who might think that Trayvon Martin was not responsible for his own demise - read this.  I personally think that Zimmerman got a fair trail and Martin got what he ultimately deserved.

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How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death

By Robert Stacy McCain on 7.15.13 @ 1:05AM

The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.

Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, the town north of Orlando where he was shot in 2012 and where a jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges Saturday.

Martin was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away, and had come to Sanford to stay with his father’s girlfriend Brandy Green at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch. Trayvon was staying with Green after he had been suspended for the second time in six months from Krop High School in Miami-Dade County, where both his father, Tracy Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, lived.

Both of Trayvon’s suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criiminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin’s death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for “decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011.” What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions.

In October 2011, after a video surveillance camera caught Martin writing graffiti on a door, MDSPD Office Darryl Dunn searched Martin’s backpack, looking for the marker he had used. Officer Dunn found 12 pieces of women’s jewelry and a man’s watch, along with a flathead screwdriver the officer described as a “burglary tool.”

The jewelry and watch, which Martin claimed he had gotten from a friend he refused to name, matched a description of items stolen during the October 2011 burglary of a house on 204th Terrace, about a half-mile from the school. However, because of Chief Hurley’s policy “to lower the arrest rates,” as one MDSPD sergeant said in an internal investigation, the stolen jewelry was instead listed as “found property” and was never reported to Miami-Dade Police who were investigating the burglary. Similarly, in February 2012 when an MDSPD officer caught Martin with a small plastic bag containing marijuana residue, as well as a marijuana pipe, this was not treated as a crime, and instead Martin was suspended from school.

Either of those incidents could have put Trayvon Martin into the custody of the juvenile justice system. However, because of Chief Hurley’s attempt to reduce the school crime statistics — according to sworn testimony, officers were “basically told to lie and falsify” reports — Martin was never arrested. And if he had been arrested, he might never have been in Sanford the night of his fatal encounter with Zimmerman.

In fact, the reason Zimmerman was patrolling the townhouse community the night of the February 2012 shooting was that there had been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, although there was no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any of those crimes.

As for Chief Hurley’s policy, it was the controversy over Martin’s death that accidentally exposed it. In March 2012, the Miami Herald reported on Martin’s troubled history of disciplinary incidents at Krop High. Chief Hurley then launched the internal affairs investigation in an attempt to find out who had provided information to the reporter. During the course of that investigation, MDSPD officers and supervisors described Chief Hurley’s policy of not reporting crimes by students. Chief Hurley was subsequently accused of sexually harassing two female subordinates. He resigned in February, about a year after Trayvon Martin’s death.

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Actions of the Muslim Brotherhood are comparable to the actions of Brits in Ireland

http://www.meforum.org/3552/muslim-brotherhood-killing-christians

Yikes! The Russians have it right!

Putin’s Speech on Feb. 04, 2013

This is one time our elected leaders should pay attention to the advice of Vladimir Putin....how scary is that?

On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian  Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:

"In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws.

 If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell discrimination'. 

We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.

The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute standing ovation.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

You knew they wouldn't go without a fight. In all probabilty we will notice a cessation of hostilities in the region while their Muslim radical fighters move into Egypt at will.

Psychic that I am, I see the major cities of Egypt being destroyed by war and the deaths of thousands. Unfortunately, like the Third Reich, the Muslim Brotherhood would rather see the nation and thousands killed in the name of Allah. Hitler could've been snubbed out had England not tried the appeasement route.

The only way to snuff these guys out is to, well, snuff 'em out.

Moving to Oklahoma - author unknown

Moving to Oklahoma

MAY  NOT ALL BE AS IT SEEMS, BUT I  LIKE THE PLAN. 

 Oklahoma  may be an option for  relocation..... It is far more  American than the rest of America  .....

 OKLAHOMA  !

 Oklahoma  is the only state that Obama  did not win even one county in
 the last election...

 While  everyone is focusing on  Arizona's new law, look what Oklahoma 
 been doing!!!!

 An update from  Oklahoma :

 Oklahoma  law passed, 37 to 9 an  amendment to place the Ten  Commandments on the front entrance to the state  capitol. The feds in  D.C.,  along with the ACLU, said it would be a  mistake. Hey, this is  a  conservative state based on Christian values...!  HB  1330

 Guess what.......... Oklahoma did it  anyway.

 Oklahoma  recently passed a law in the  state to incarcerate all  illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where  they came from unless   they want to get a green card and become an American  citizen.  They  all scattered. HB 1804. This was against the advice  of the Federal  Government, and the ACLU, they said it would  be a  mistake. 
 Guess  what.......... Oklahoma did it  anyway.

 Recently  we passed a law to include  DNA samples from any and all  illegal's to the Oklahoma database, for  criminal investigative   purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional SB  1102

 Guess  what......... Oklahoma did it  anyway.

 Several  weeks ago, we passed a law,  declaring Oklahoma a Sovereign  state, not under the Federal Government  directives.  Joining Texas,  Montana and Utah as the only states to do  so.

 More  states are likely to follow:  Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia,  Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,  Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Florida. Save your confederate  money,  it  appears the South is about to rise up once again. HJR  1003

 The  federal Government has made bold  steps to take away our guns.   Oklahoma , a week ago, passed a law  confirming people in this  state  have the right to bear arms and transport  them in their  vehicles.  I'm sure that was a setback for the  criminals.  The Liberals didn't  like it -- But..... Guess what........... Oklahoma did it anyway.

 Just  this month, the state has voted  and passed a law that ALL  drivers'  license exams will be printed in  English, and only  English, and no  other language. They have been called  racist for  doing this, but the  fact is that ALL of the road signs are in  English only. If you want  to drive in Oklahoma , you must read  and write  English. Really simple.

 By  the way, Progressives don't like  any of this either. 

 Guess  what...who cares... Oklahoma is  doing it anyway.

"Sending in their people..."

Northfield.  The abortion fight in Texas has been described as the forces of pro-abortionists and anti-abortionists. Throw in pro-choice folks too.

I heard a news reporter calling it a time when the pro-abortion forces will be sending in their own people. I get the feeling that Florida is readying for the same. If George Zimmerman is acquited of 2nd degree murder of Trayvon Martin will blacks there "riot?" Or will it be a case of having sent in "their own people?"

The Left in this nation has the power and financial resources to gather their own and send them wherever they want. And its generally in front of cameras.

If Zimmerman is acquitted by a jury, and blacks riot, I cannot help but think I can't trust blacks. And that, unfortunately, means not voting for any of them.

Egypt - Is it real?

Northfield.  It appears that moderate muslims are making their voice heard and throwing out the islamist thugs of the so-called "Muslim Brotherhood." I hope I'm right and the good people of the nation are taking back power. If it's true then it will, hopefully, be an inspiration to other Muslim moderates throughout that part of the world. As I see it, it's not an anti-muslim thing but the voice of the good people there.

I hope I'm right.

Anybody listening?

Author unknown California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, New York and Maine now have More People on Welfare than they do Employed! Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reported that in fiscal year 2012, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. Household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. What's the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000,which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $20.00 an hour.                 Furthermore: There are actually two messages here.  The first is very interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.              A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.              Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:               U.S.                    65%               England              46%               Canada               42%               Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:               U.S.                     93%               England              15%               Canada               43%               Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:               U.S.                     90%               England              15%               Canada               43%               Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:               U.S.                     77%               England              40%               Canada               43%               Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:               U.S.                     71               England             14               Canada              18                 Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":               U.S.                    12%               England               2%               Canada               6%                 And now for the last statistic:               National Health Insurance?               U.S.                     NO               England            YES               Canada             YES              Check this last set of statistics!!              The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is; a real-life business, not a government job.  Here are the percentages.                T. Roosevelt.................... 38%              Taft................................ 40%               Wilson ........................... 52%              Harding........................... 49%              Coolidge......................... 48%              Hoover............................ 42%              F. Roosevelt..................... 50%              Truman........................... 50%              Eisenhower................ .... 57%              Kennedy......................... 30%              Johnson.......................... 47%              Nixon.............................. 53%              Ford................................ 42%              Carter............................. 32%              Reagan............................ 56%              GH Bush.......................... 51%               Clinton .......................... 39%              GW Bush........................ 55%              Obama............................. 8%                This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!              That's right!  Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!  And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?              How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?  Or about jobs when he has never really had one?  And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?  They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."  They should have been in an employment line.              Conclusion? We need to make the U.S. a place where businesses can MAKE A PROFIT and employ people. We have to stop the bleed of capital, i.e. jobs, from the U.S. to overseas destinations. In other words, change the current government from one of giving our money away to keeping our money and making investment in America a profitable venture. "What's in your wallet?"