Democracy In Albany

Do not go to a meeting with the police to complain about dropping the ball WITHOUT representation from a crime victims advocate and/or an attorney.

It is human nature to push back, and institutions do that too, when you've pushed them.

I was reminded about this recently by security people.  I was told by pros when the goons see you push back (security system, watching cars), they will push back harder.

People in our institutions do the same thing.

They all wanted to come with me for the next meeting, but each wanted to know why I would go to another meeting.  Why?  

And I couldn't answer, except it was "planned".

So I contacted A/C Bruno and Inv. D'Alessandro and Det. Lt. Tremblay and said no meeting.  

They all wanted to come with me for the next meeting, but each wanted to know why I would go to another meeting.  Why?  

And I couldn't answer, except it was "planned".

So I contacted A/C Bruno and Inv. D'Alessandro and Det. Lt. Tremblay and said no meeting.  

In earlier exchanges with you, I like many, have difficulty in understanding your postings.  You ramble and ramble about a conspiracy directed against you.  Your charges lack specificity and exhibit paranoid delusional behavior.

I salute Chris for attempting to address your concerns.  Now I agree with him and all others involved in that meeting that the problems are not real.  You reference the FBI, the police, the DA and the courts as failing you.  Could it be that all of these organizations recognize you as being unstable?

For those of you who link crime to paranoia, again, thanks for the lesson to record, record, record, document, document, document.  I would not have done half of it without you.

FBI investigation:  false arrest of Mark Lyman, witness intimidation along the way.  It's a public corruption case.

APD:  criminal activity of political goons, likely suspects already known for some time.

courts:  after arrests are made.

DA:  asked to be kept in the loop, dropped the ball on investigating something it said it would.

Apparently no one in the DA's office finds any merit to your accusations.  Is the FBI being polite because they have not launched an investigation into your allegations?  You bemoaned the court order against you.  You berate any cop who refuses to dedicate their entire career to listening to your rants.  That's what I am being told. Without exception Kate, that's the universal opinion.

With more freedom about my life than most people (many blessings), I just asked why this.  I mean, c'mon, what value is there in chronicling crap?  I have so many opportunities to do what on the face of it really seems more rewarding.

Here's what happened.  As the criminal political goons kept up, and law enforcement went up and down and unreliable, with new layers and unexpected things EVERY WEEK, I finally got it:

just tell the story.

The story matters more than anything else.  Investigation, prosecution, litigation are nasty processes.

Skip reading it if you don't like it.

And some day I'll tell it cohesively, not as it's happening, and really get it out there.  It will happen.  I'll write the book if no one else has.

Thanks again for the docs.

No one understands better what it's like to be a crime victim than crime victims and counselors.

No one experiences the horridness of our criminal justice system more deeply than crime victims and counselors.

No one knows better than crime victims and counselors how bad it is when one month turns into ten months.

No one gets it better than crime victims and counselors when people in law enforcement don't do what they promised to do, or become unreliable or untrustworthy.

No one appreciates the sacredness of telling your story more than crime victims and counselors.

If you have not walked the walk, you won't know what I mean.   But at the right time, perhaps the next election, I will explain if it does not improve.

I'd say the same about the police, but we don't elect them.  The DA is elected to serve on our behalf.

Kate, I accepted your challenge and did more checking.  Chris D., Lt Bruno and the others were concerned about your mental well being.  They and the others debunked your allegations. Shootings, people stalking you, political goons, Catholic hit squads, threatening to use a shotgun, tape recordings, etc., all reduce your creditabilty to zero.

Did you threaten NO to attend the meeting if your parents were invited?  Do your parents believe that you have serious mental problems? Was your own brother at the meeting?

Major faux pas of law enforcement at the meeting was reversed today.   Success in asking for that, getting it accomplished.

We're back on track.

What law enforcement, even the most experienced cops, need to remember is contact with crime victims is different than contact with criminals.   They've got to switch from scrutinizing to understanding.

I learned before I got my shotgun that it is extremely common for people to call the APD about someone lawfully having a gun, even when you're just putting it in your trunk. (Tremblay told me that.)  People and guns are... you know.  I took D'Alessandro and Tremblay's advice on what to buy and where, got the head's up on people and guns, and got it, and never even took the lock off.   It's not for Albany.  It's for away places.

In the meantime, my family did one of those "people and gun" things, and contacted the DA.  That makes a little sense, where they'd go, because my family has three decades of ties to the office of the DA.

Did the DA do the smart thing and call me?  No.

Instead there was a fiasco of a meeting.

But I got the gun back.  (Give it to us voluntarily or else!) (them)  (Give it back to me by __) (me)

Tremblay took responsiblity for Bruno's goofs.  It happens.

D'Alessandro isn't returning calls.  

That counseling card everyone keeps putting on the table.  I'm good on that.  

But God, this gauntlet.

I just can't help feeling it has got to be worse for so many other people who deal with our systems.  And it's no wonder chronic political criminal goons continue.

I learned before I got my shotgun that it is extremely common for people to call the APD about someone lawfully having a gun, even when you're just putting it in your trunk. (Tremblay told me that.)  People and guns are... you know.  I took D'Alessandro and Tremblay's advice on what to buy and where, got the head's up on people and guns, and got it, and never even took the lock off.   It's not for Albany.  It's for away places.

In the meantime, my family did one of those "people and gun" things, and contacted the DA.  That makes a little sense, where they'd go, because my family has three decades of ties to the office of the DA.

Did the DA do the smart thing and call me?  No.

Instead there was a fiasco of a meeting.

But I got the gun back.  (Give it to us voluntarily or else!) (them)  (Give it back to me by __) (me)

Tremblay took responsiblity for Bruno's goofs.  It happens.

D'Alessandro isn't returning calls.  

That counseling card everyone keeps putting on the table.  I'm good on that.  

But God, this gauntlet.

I just can't help feeling it has got to be worse for so many other people who deal with our systems.  And it's no wonder chronic political criminal goons continue.

I used to think...... it was a poverty thing, an education thing, a lack of choices thing, some very good reason other people made their choices.

They seemed so different from me.  

Me?  Nothing noble about it, but you got to do what you have to do to work with the system.  Call 911..... cooperate.... tell what happened.... stay on it.  Over and over again.

But you know, I'm keenly aware it's too much to deal with criminals and this system at the same time.

Just me, or the crowd that wants to come.

And I'll videotape it, in case the court needs it.

DA Soares, for example, is not as new and different as you might think.  Sounded right out of the box when we spoke recently, and he had a lot of leeway not to.