Pasco (FL) sheriff created program that monitors and harasses families.
[FAC NOTE: Yesterday’s Tampa Bay Times ran a story that sent chills down my spine. Having experience with the registry, I know what it’s like to live with a microscope up my ass, but having a mainstream news outlet publish the details of a police program designed to harass and entrap others feels almost vindicating. I’ve been describing this exact life for years – few believe it can happen]
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.
What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.
Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.
They swarm homes in the middle of the night, waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors. They write tickets for missing mailbox numbers and overgrown grass, saddling residents with court dates and fines. They come again and again, making arrests for any reason they can.
One former deputy described the directive like this: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”
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Wow! There are no words. How is this even constitutional? This seems like something the ACLU should get involved in and sue this sheriff. Very scary.
“Instead of being reactive,” he said, “we are going to be proactive.”
Just like the preeminent and anticipatory nature of the registry.
This sheriff’s flawed ideology and group think is what makes their ignorance so dangerous.
It just goes to show the POS society for which we live in today.
Only a matter of time until every county does this. They increase restrictions to see who can get away with the most. It wouldn’t surprise me if they tried to round up people and put them on closed military bases. I for one will not live like this for another 20 years. Things need to change.
I have trained people to do what I do. No charge bc I too am on the registry. I harness salons and barber shops in the name of candidates that challenge elective positions like this sheriff. It works! We need to engage and help others to engage. My name is Robert Curtis YouTube “Sharp-N-Go mini” I will equip and train those interested free of charge to support our cause.
Wish I could say I was surprised to read this. Florida… Just saying.
This Pasco Co Sheriff is just ridiculous!