More Motorcycle Gang Follies

For those who are just catching on,  I am running a campaign against the mismanagement of resources in the Colorado Springs Police Department.  The mismanagement is so bad that the 1/2 percent sales tax granted to the city by the voters for public safety should be rescinded and given to the county.

The city government has so twisted the police department priorities that the police no longer try to investigate or deter crime, they just write traffic tickets.

Need proof?  Check out today's Gazette.  It seems that a motorcycle cop was so intent on writing a ticket that he ignored a woman's report that she had been the victim of a rape:

Police in Colorado Springs are investigating a woman's complaint that she was ignored by a motorcycle officer when she told him she was speeding to get help after being bound, beaten and raped by an acquaintance.

According to the 28-year-old, she was crying, bleeding from her swollen lip and clad in a T-shirt and underwear when she described the ordeal to officer Jon Gustafson during a July 8 traffic stop at Platte and Nevada avenues.

She said she told Gustafson that she was on her way to Pikes Peak Mental Health Center to seek help.

Without asking questions or requesting medical assistance, the woman said, Gustafson ticketed her for going 45 mph in a 25 mph zone and for failing to wear a seat belt.

She said that he told her: "The bad news is you have to go to court. Good luck."

After he let her go, she did go to a clinic.  Her condition as reported in the medical records:

In a series of signed evaluations, clinicians noted obvious injuries, including a swollen face, a "half-closed eye" and blood on her wrists and legs.

One documented that she was pulled over on the way to the clinic, and another mentioned that she was wearing "what appeared to be pajamas."

"(The client) was crying, and her lips and face were visibly swollen," her therapist, Darla Slicton, wrote in her report, adding that the woman said that she would not identify her rapist because he threatened to kill her.

And now the county wants more money.  Let them get it from the city.

Comments

[Fred]

Actually, the Public Safety Sales Tax (PSST) is .4 percent, not .5 percent. However, you are wise to question why the voters would want to send additional tax dollars to Colorado Springs when they already get $25 million per year from the PSST.