Grim reality for LEO's

Officer killed by illegal

http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/14/open-borders-dead-cops/


OPEN BORDERS, DEAD COPS
By Michelle Malkin • November 14, 2005 04:36 PM
More bloody consequences of lax immigration enforcement…from Dallas, Tx., via the Dallas Morning News:
Marta Cruz had told police that her ex-boyfriend had been threatening her for weeks.
But as he emptied his handgun in an act of rage early Sunday, police say, his last bullet found another victim.
Dallas police Officer Brian Jackson died of a gunshot wound to his right underarm suffered in a gunfight on Madera Street near North Henderson Avenue in Old East Dallas.
Dallas police officers help secure the scene in the 2400 block of Madera in the area where a police pursuit turned deadly.
“He was proud to be a cop. He did his job with a lot of emotion and passion,” Police Chief David Kunkle said.
Officer Jackson was the 76th Dallas police officer to die in the line of duty and the first officer slain since November 2001.
Officer Jackson came to the department in January 2001 from Rhode Island. He married JoAnn DeMello Jackson in August.
Juan Lizcano, a 28-year-old Mexican immigrant, was being held at Lew Sterrett Justice Center on charges of capital murder and aggravated assault. Bail was set at $1 million and $25,000, respectively.
The Dallas Morning News does not mention in the above-linked story that Lizcano has been here illegally for the past two years, and had at least two prior run-ins with the law. According to WFAA, he was “first booked in September for threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend with a knife. Six days later, he posed again for a mug shot for a charge of driving while intoxicated.”
Officer Jackson was a Rhode Island native. His hometown paper has background here. An excerpt:
“(Brian) was killed in the line of duty, doing the job he loved, helping to secure the safety of the citizens of Dallas,” Jackson’s parents wrote in a prepared statement released on Sunday. “He will be remembered for his good sense of humor, his sense of duty and his love for his family.”
Jackson was a Kingston Fire Department volunteer and member of the University of Rhode Island Ambulance Corps. A graduate of Portsmouth High School and URI, he had been married only two months to former Charlestown Ambulance member JoAnn DeMello - who works as a pediatric respiratory therapist in the Dallas area.
The couple had just returned from a delayed honeymoon trip to Hawaii, according to Jackson’s family.
Jackson joined Charlestown Ambulance as an EMT volunteer in 1995, and later became a part-time reserve officer in 1998 following his completion of the department’s training program, McMahon said.
McMahon described Jackson as “a very dedicated, public service-oriented person.”
“It’s a shame, it’s awful,” he said on Sunday night. “His life is over, and her (DeMello’s) life has been turned upside down.”
Officer Brian Jackson, R.I.P.
I’m checking out reports that Lizcano was yet another beneficiary of catch-and-release immigration loopholes. Will pass on anything I learn.
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Law abiding illegals????

Get this




http://michellemalkin.com/2007/01/09/how-often-are-illegal-aliens-repeat-offenders/




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010800285.html

The Justice findings by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine examined the criminal histories of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and then released by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. Of the sample group of 100, according to the audit, 73 immigrants were later arrested a collective 429 times _ on charges ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.
The data suggest "the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted.

illegal murders NY Actress

Murder victim's photo

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072006/news/regionalnews/stars_suicide_was_killer_cover_up_regionalnews_larry_celona__murray_weiss_and_dan_mangan.htm

STAR'S SUICIDE WAS KILLER COVER-UP
WORKER ADMITS SLAY: COPS
By LARRY CELONA, MURRAY WEISS and DAN MANGAN


SHOCK: Cops say Adrienne Shelly, initially thought to have killed herself, was slain by laborer Diego Pillco, who allegedly struck the actress and hanged her to make it look like a suicide.

November 7, 2006 -- In a stunning turnaround, a construction worker yesterday confessed to killing indie actress Adrienne Shelly, whose death in a Greenwich Village apartment last week was first thought to be suicide, cops said.
"I was having a bad day," illegal immigrant Diego Pillco, 19, allegedly told cops. "I didn't mean to kill her. But I did kill her."
Pillco told detectives that he punched Shelly, 40, last Wednesday afternoon outside the Abingdon Square apartment she was using as an office after she yelled at him about the noise he was making while working in a vacant apartment below.
Pillco, who is from Ecuador and speaks only Spanish, also claimed that Shelly slapped him first.
After seeing she was unconscious and believing she was dead, Pillco claimed, he dragged Shelly into her apartment, wrapped a bed sheet around her neck and attached it to a shower rod in the bathroom to make it appear she had hanged herself, sources said. The medical examiner has not yet released autopsy results.
Shelly's marketing-exec husband, Andrew Ostroy, found her body just before 6 that evening.
Pillco was nabbed early yesterday at his Brooklyn apartment after detectives matched several Reebok sneaker prints from the toilet seat in Shelly's bathroom to a print they found in the apartment downstairs.
Pillco's boss told detectives the laborer had been wearing sneakers while working.
Reebok Allen Iverson-model sneakers found at Pillco's home matched the prints, sources said.
The suspect's stunned boss, contractor Louis Hernandez, called his employee "a good kid."
"I don't know what happened. I don't think he did it," he said.
But investigators said Pillco was sly enough to try to mask his deadly deed.
"He tried to cover his tracks, but he ended up leaving his tracks," one police source said of Pillco, who entered the United States from Ecuador on July 7, and who now is charged with second-degree murder. "It was the tenacity of the investigators that led to an arrest. It had all the appearances of a suicide, but they didn't give up."
Shelly's family and friends had insisted all along that the loving wife and mother had no reason to kill herself.
"The entire family knew this was a murder from the outset," one relative said yesterday.
Shelly's family had been so convinced that they had hired renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who performed a second autopsy on her Saturday at a funeral home, under the watch of two detectives.
After yesterday's development, Ostroy said in a statement: "We are incredibly grateful to the New York City Police Department for their dedication, professionalism and tenacity in following up on every lead in this case. We hope everyone will respect that this is a difficult and private time for our families."
Ostroy and Shelly, a TriBeCa resident who first gained notice for her performances in two classic independent films - "The Unbelievable Truth" and "Trust" - have a 3-year-old daughter, Sophie.
Earlier this year, Shelly, a Long Island native, appeared in the film "Factotum" with Matt Dillon, and at the time of her death was on the verge of releasing a movie called "Waitress," which she directed and wrote.

illegal kills one in Seattle

Murdered girl's photo

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003648679_uwshooting03m.html

Months of stalking end with 2 dead at UW
By Jim Brunner and Nick Perry
Seattle Times staff reporters

Rebecca Griego was the victim of a shooting at UW.


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Excerpts from Rebecca Griego's petition for an order of protection
Griego's petition for protection order (PDF)
Description poster of ex-boyfriend Griego emailed colleagues (PDF)
Letter from UW President Mark A. Emmert
Rebecca Griego called her ex-boyfriend Jonathan Rowan "a psycho from the past." He wouldn't stop calling her office at the University of Washington. When she no longer would answer the phone, he harassed her sister and threatened to kidnap her dogs.
Griego, 26, did what she could to avoid her 41-year-old stalker, whom she described as a suicidal alcoholic who had grown increasingly menacing. She obtained a domestic-violence protection order March 6, changed addresses and phone numbers and asked co-workers to watch out for him.
On Monday morning, Rowan found Griego alone in her fourth-floor office in Gould Hall and fatally shot her before killing himself.
Griego was a program coordinator at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and recently had shepherded a design team to victory in a regional competition.
But for months she had lived in fear of Rowan, who was angry over her efforts to break off contact.
In police reports and court papers, Griego said she dated Rowan for four years starting in 2000. Although the relationship ended in 2004, they shared a home until earlier this year.
Rowan is described in court documents as a British immigrant who had lived in the United States for 10 years, telling friends he couldn't go back to England. According to the documents, he wore tinted glasses, stuttered when nervous and had a pot belly. He sometimes went by the names Robert Richardson and Nathan Rowan.
He was an alcoholic, according to Griego, and police reports say he was arrested last June for drunken driving after ignoring a stop sign and trying to run from police. His blood-alcohol content was measured at more than three times the legal limit.
In January, Griego said, she came home to find Rowan drunk. Rowan threw candlesticks at her and tackled her to the floor, punching her, according to documents she filed seeking a protection order.
"I forgave him because he was drunk, but now I see that was wrong and he has threatened to hurt me again," she said, according to the court papers filed in King County Superior Court. She also reported that he had hurt her in a fight more than a year earlier, shoving her and slamming her ankle in a door.


Griego and her sister, Rachel, both sought protection orders against Rowan last month. They called him "very dangerous," citing his past violence, and said he left phone messages threatening to kill himself. Griego described him as "on the run" after he stole from his roommates.
In her March 6 plea for a protective order, Griego said, "Rowan called me to tell me I cannot find him but he can find me ... and to look over my shoulder because I would see him again."
UW police were notified that Rowan had left threatening messages for Griego on March 6 and March 14, said Assistant UW Police Chief Ray Wittmier. Officers were told about the threats but did not place Griego under surveillance or provide an escort.
Wittmier said Griego did not wish to press charges at the time. If she had, UW police might have been able to arrest Rowan for violating the protection order, he said.
Co-workers said Griego had taken steps to avoid Rowan, who called the office so often that she would no longer answer the phone. He then left messages including threats to kill her, one co-worker said.
Police had not been able to serve the protection order because they couldn't find Rowan. The paperwork was left at Griego's office in case he showed up there.
She described him as "a psycho from the past" and asked co-workers to watch out for him, said Lance Nguyen, who worked in the office.
Griego was so frightened of Rowan that she moved a couple of times, changed her phone number and worked from home for a month so he couldn't find her at work, Nguyen said.
Nguyen was in the building at the time of the shooting, in a first-floor class. He heard the shots but didn't realize it was gunfire at first. When he heard someone had been killed, he said, "I pretty much knew right away. I feel terrible."
Meghan Pinch, a graduate student in the Urban Planning department, had heard that Griego had been having relationship troubles. But, she said, Griego always maintained a smile and cheerful demeanor.
"She didn't have a mean bone in her body," Pinch said. "She had a lot of friends; she was well-liked."
Griego, who had helped launch a real-estate program in the department, helped students understand the technical details of mortgages and finance in real-estate courses, Pinch said. She said Griego was sometimes a guest lecturer.
The shooting occurred Monday as morning classes were under way. A witness saw a man fumbling with something in a bag before entering Griego's fourth-floor office, police said.
At about 9:30 a.m., police received reports of six shots fired in Gould Hall, according to Wittmier. When police arrived, they found a man and a woman dead, and a six-shot revolver nearby.
About 300 students were in the building at the time.
Wittmier said he did not expect to see changes in campus security procedures after the shooting. "It's a public building. You can't protect everybody from everything," he said.
The UW has about 65,000 students, faculty and staff on campus and about 200 buildings. About four or five officers are on patrol on a given weekday, Wittmier said. Police receive numerous reports of death threats on campus.
"Part of the situation on campus is that you have a number of students who are moving in and out of relationships and it can be very emotional, and so such threats and emotional situations are not uncommon," Wittmier said.
"We're looking at this as a tragic event, an isolated domestic situation not involving anyone [else] on campus."
Seattle Times staff reporters Jonathan Martin, Mike Lindblom, Sanjay Bhatt, Susan Gilmore, Jennifer Sullivan, Alex Fryer, Sara Jean Green, Brian Alexander and Natalie Singer and news researchers Miyoko Wolf, Gene Balk and David Turim contributed to this report.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003819520_illegalimmigrants03m.html

Police toughening stand on illegal immigrants
By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter


KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Jose Luis Diaz, 25, an illegal immigrant, was arrested by Pacific police in May after a traffic stop. He's now in the process of gaining legal status. His wife, Erika Marysol Diaz, 21, is a U.S. citizen.
When police in the small Southeast King County town of Pacific stopped Jose Luis Diaz for speeding in May, officers joked about a flier for an immigration rally on his front seat.
Up in Seattle they may tolerate that sort of thing, Diaz recalls the officers grousing, but not so down here.
Across the Puget Sound, local law-enforcement agencies use various approaches — from written and unwritten policies to individual officer discretion — when dealing with illegal immigrants.

On a routine traffic stop, the first clue to a motorist's immigration status may come when an officer runs a driver's license and gets all zeros in place of a Social Security number.

What they do after that depends largely on the jurisdiction.
Seattle police and King County deputies would likely just ignore it, operating as they do under an official policy of not asking a person's legal status.
But not so in tiny Pacific, where Latinos now represent 6 percent of the town's 6,000 or so residents and where illegal immigrants, like Diaz, are increasingly finding themselves in deportation proceedings following an encounter with local police.
Pacific Police Chief John Calkins says he has a duty to enforce the law. Period.
"I'm proud of my officers and the job they're doing," Calkins said. "I told them if there's a violation, whether federal, state, whatever, they're not to just turn their backs on it."
Growing trend, confusion
Nationwide, state and local law-enforcement agencies are grappling with this very thing — how to deal with a growing population of illegal immigrants and some of the potential local problems that arise, ranging from overcrowded housing to day-labor-site complaints.

There's a growing inclination among local police to take a tougher stand in the wake of well-publicized crimes by deportable immigrants — including a few in the Puget Sound region, such as Jonathan Rowan who fatally shot his former girlfriend at the University of Washington.


Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials report a marked increase in information relayed to them by local law enforcement.
"There's a lot of confusion about what the appropriate role for state and local law enforcement is, what their actual authority is," said Gene Voegtlin, legislative counsel for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
"It's a volatile issue in a lot of places. It's complex and not an area local police are trained ... in."

Many larger jurisdictions, including King County and the city of Seattle, have policies against any employee, including police, asking about a person's immigration status.

Voegtlin said police chiefs have become so overwhelmed by the problems posed by illegal immigration that the association recently issued a guide on basic immigration laws and issues.
"You'd be hard-pressed to find a chief anywhere who's not dealing with some aspect of this," Voegtlin said.
A Washington, D.C.-based research organization, the Pew Hispanic Center, has estimated 200,000 to 250,000 Washington state residents are in this country illegally.
Before local police can enforce immigration law, they must first contact ICE to check the background and immigration status of an individual. ICE spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said ICE works closely with local law-enforcement agencies and "always stands ready to respond."
But some advocates, particularly in South King County, where a growing number of illegal immigrants live, are worried this relationship may lead some immigrants not to report crime. These groups are trying to sound the alarm with mayors and chiefs of police to raise this concern.
Patchwork system
There's a quiltlike approach across the Puget Sound area to handling illegal immigration — from written policies that bar inquiries into a person's immigration status to unwritten policies that may encourage them. Some departments leave it to the discretion of individual officers, and often immigration officers are contacted only in cases of serious offenses.
Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan said, in practice, officers generally don't ask about immigration status unless it is relevant. "We want people who are undocumented and are victims of crime to report it and not to feel that out of fear they can't report crimes," Strachan said.
Other jurisdictions, like Lynnwood police, say they have a close relationship with immigration authorities and provide courtesy space in their offices for an ICE agent, who, in turn, works with local police throughout King County.
It's a convenient arrangement, spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said, and "has been helpful for educating our officers."
Bothell enjoys a similar relationship, working "hand in hand with ICE agents," Capt. Denise Langford said. Often, attorney Adolfo Ojeda-Casimiro said, immigrants are being turned over to ICE even in cases where local police aren't prepared to bring criminal charges against them.
In Lynnwood, some clients who showed up to pay parking tickets ended up being detained by ICE.
Calkins, the Pacific chief, said his officers know not to proceed with immigration enforcement until they've contacted ICE. And every case, he said, started with either criminal behavior or a traffic violation by the illegal immigrant.
Diaz lives in Lakewood, Pierce County, and is married to an U.S. citizen. He was in the process of obtaining legal status when he was pulled over in Pacific in May. But he said the officers didn't believe him and, after contacting an ICE agent, drove him to the detention center in Tacoma.
He was released on bond eight days later after presenting his paperwork to an immigration judge. But he said he lost a good-paying job as a granite installer because "the police scared my boss."

Derb and Mac Donald

Read the City Journal Article linked by the Derb.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Yjg3ZGFmNjliMDAwNzUwNTI5MWQ1NjY5NGE4MDI3Njg=


Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Heather Mac Donald On Illegal Aliens [John Derbyshire]
Simply devastating report by Heather Mac Donald in the current CityJournal on illegal-alien crimeNormally when I post a link like this I extract a sentence or two to giveyou the flavor. I simply couldn't do that with Heather's piece. It is toouniformly good — and horrifying. There is something quotable in everyparagraph. You must just read the whole thing.And I mean "must." If you are an American who loves your country, youmust read Heather's article.

comming crime wave??

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWVjN2Q1NDhkYmM3NzA3MTUwNTQyMjIwNjAyM2U4NDQ=

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Crime & Immigration [Mark Krikorian]
The DC Examiner opines today on what it calls "competing studies" on immigrant crime. The hawkish Family Security Matters site recently released an analysis finding that illegal aliens annually kill more Americans than the Iraq War. Meanwhile, the research wing of the open-borders American Immigration Lawyers Association (headed by "Jihad Jeannie" Butterfield, former head of a political arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — see here and here) has released a report finding that immigrants are less likely to be in prison than the native-born.
Despite problems with the data (the second study is based on census data that even people in the Census Bureau acknowledge is worthless and unusable), these aren't really competing studies at all, since both tell us things that we've long known: immigrants as a group have a lower crime rate than the native-born (other than the multiple federal crimes committed by illegal aliens), but even at a lower crime rate, if you let in millions of immigrants, they're going to commit thousands of crimes.
For policymakers, the real story is the one the immigration lawyers study downplays: There is a massive increase in criminality from the first to the second generation. The study may exaggerate the shift due to its amateurish mistakes, but it found that native-born Hispanic male high-school dropouts are 11 times more likely to be incarcerated than their foreign-born counterparts. This suggests that as the sons of the current immigration wave (which is mostly Hispanic — a lack of diversity unprecedented in American history) reach the peak ages for criminality, we may well see a reversal of the past decade's decline in crime.

Denver's mayor in on it too?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWE3NmY2N2Y1YTBhZWZlZjA5NTY1ZDY5YjQwMDVkYzc=

Thursday, May 19, 2005



Deadly Sanctuary [Mark Krikorian]


Illegal alien murders Denver police officer. Said illegal was protected by the city’s “sanctuary” policy that prohibits officers from using immigration offenses without some other major crime being involved. Said illegal also worked at a restaurant owned by the mayor, which had been informed that the worker’s Social Security number was fake. So what does the mayor do? He defends the city’s sanctuary policy!




05/19 02:35 PM

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGQwY2ExMzNhNjQwNWY3M2E2MDVhY2Y2ZDJhM2Q3MmE=

Thursday, May 12, 2005
Is Illegal Immigration a “Victimless” Crime? [Mark Krikorian]

Denver’s “sanctuary” policy, which prohibits cops from using immigration law to fight crime, has claimed the life of a Denver cop. Detective Donnie Williams was murdered early Sunday morning by an illegal alien whom the police had encountered at least three times before. The city government is furiously spinning, but the facts speak for themselves — the (alleged) murderer presented a Mexican driver’s license three times as the result of traffic stops, but was never asked for an immigration document. Any legal Mexican driver in the U.S. has to carry with him at all times either a Border Crossing Card, a U.S. visa attached to the inside of his Mexican passport, or a green card. And it gets worse: the (alleged) murderer worked illegally in a restaurant owned by — wait for it – the mayor. And the restaurant had been notified by the government that the employee’s Social Security number was invalid. Even if the various levels of government were to enforce the immigration law and protect the citizenry, some illegal immigrants are going to get through and some of them will commit crimes –but responsibility for this murder is clearly shared by federal and local officials.