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June 26, 2009 04:37 PM UTC
39 Comments
I find this news extremely disturbing. Good to see the Post is on it. Does Aurora have an independent review board or commission that oversees complaints regarding police abuse? Does anyone know?
When I forgot to put my new stickers on, Denver wrote me a $30 ticket because the tags showed to be expired.
If the lawyer’s car tags showed to be current (i.e., no visible evidence of expiration) then what “possessed” the Aurora PD to run a check on them? Otherwise, how did they come across the “bad” record?
Are the Aurora PD’s dispatching records subject to CORA?
though they’d be foolish to do anything like this through dispatch. Officers carry cell phones.
What the Post didn’t note, though, was the APD’s initial explanation for why Cole’s car was towed: During a struggle for a parking space, the attorney towed himself in the head.
Great line, RedGreen.
Cell phone records are also subject to CORA.
That’s a good point and could be a fruitful inquiry.
Please call the Aurora Police department and give us your work and home address. We need it to send you a “thank you card” for this fine article.
Sincerely,
Chief Dan Oates
Nothing left to say
What the hell does that have to do with anything, retread?
when your sign line quote and your actual comment are pretty much the same thing.
Maybe I can’t read between the lines, but it sounds like a criticism of fellow councilors. Is that right? I don’t know any of the people involved. Or is the commission a different group? Anyway, this quote sounds to me like he is saying the incident happened because the city doesn’t have a positive enough relationship with the police department. Either there is a lot of backstory or that quote is mindless drivel.
Didn’t come from the article, and I don’t think it has anything to do with this specific case. Since Libertine didn’t provide a link there’s really no way to know. Care to explain what this has to do with the post, Libertine?
But I’ll say again: the right’s stupid charge that everything posted by this blog as somehow “Dem Party Spokespeople,” especially on a post like this, gets really fucking old.
Frazier is talking about has to do with civil service hiring policies, not police review. Frazer ran the public safety committee for a long time and has plenty of quotes over the years. This one has nothing to do with what we’re talking about.
Pols knows there is more spin left in this dog … time to go hunting JeffcoBlue. Even Pols has expectations and one of them is to not have to hand feed you.
hint for JeffcoBlue: oversight
Too bad for Pols, Voltaire probably has the right read on this caper. Plus, where the hell has Pam “a candidate” Bennett been on this issue?
Thanks for the post and I want to add that the point of politics is the creation and articulation of community concerns. Water, sewer? Basic health and safety. Police and fire protection? Same thing. This is true rubber hitting the road politics. If the elected officials in Aurora don’t respond to this, what will they respond to?
This issue isn’t about political parties, it’s about basic fairness and community protection. If I contact the local police with a safety concern and they retaliate, I will be less likely to contact them in hazardous situations. (Don’t go all hyperbolic on me here, I’m saying less likely, not absolutely.)
I hope this issue is being discussed at city hall today and for the next several weeks. Of course, what are the proper procedures that can be put in place to prevent this apparent abuse? Is that a no-brainer question?
Suppose you’re an Aurora police officer, who enjoys abusing your powers. You choose to victimize an attorney, who has specific expertise in prosecuting police abuse of powers? Is there some kind of IQ test to be an Aurora police officer?
It isn’t uncommon for a car that doesn’t put stickers on the plate but actually has a current registration to get a ticket.
Getting a tow truck guy to tow a car for bad registration when the stickers are right there on the plate (and the stickers have anti-counterfeiting features no less) is practically impossible.
Dan Oates needs to be investigated by the public integrity section of the FBI, or perhaps brought before the judge in the Murray case on suspicion of contempt of court and obstructing justice.
Site says there are 22 comments in this thread, but I only count 18.
Yeah, that’s right, I count things sometimes, wanna fight about it?
How insider do you have to be to see them?
you’d have received your VIP clearance already, sxp. Maybe one of the former front-page editors has put a “hold” on your elevation?
Mwahaahahaha!
Never would have expected the Reds to team up with Libertad and try to make me more paranoid.
This lawyer dude, or did the PO-lice confirm this? Jus’wondering.
I just thought the article was a tad ambiguous on this point.
Crazy Aurora.
They asked for his address? They almost certainly had his work address as he has filed a lawsuit against the city. And they could look up his home address on their computers.
Why did they need to ask?
Cole hasn’t “filed a lawsuit against the city,” he’s representing the family of a man shot by police just over a month ago.
Also, why would Aurora police “computers” have Cole’s home address? If he’s not in the phone book (he’s not), there’s no reason the police would have his address listed. Remember, that’s Denver cops who kept extensive files on troublemakers, but they’ve apparently stopped doing that.
They can pull up his home address from his name. When I was in college I would occasionally ride along with the cops up here and it’s amazing what info they could pull up on people.
in the metro area. The cops didn’t want to tow the wrong Volvo.
…is a lawsuit against a city typically delivered to the police? I would think the city or county attorney would be the more appropriate recipient.
He probably could have called over to ask – but he might not have had it at hand.
though the Aurora city attorney who handles cop lawsuits has an office near the chief’s.
Another question is what possible reason Oates could have had to ask Cole’s home address. Other than a whiff of intimidation.
Normally, one does not ask an attorney representing someone who is suing you for a home address. Why would you need to know it? And, business addresses for every lawyer in the state are a matter of public record — almost every lawyer in the state has a copy of the statewide bar directory, and it is listed on every document that a lawyer files in court.