if NBC and other left-leaning national media outlets start to airbrush him from the screen and news pages. I thought he was just a shameless demagogue with fascist tendencies, but this blog report rings true even if it hasn’t been confirmed yet.

When is the media going to pick up this thread. I coulda swore that I heard Dupnik mention in a CNN (?) interview this weekend that “Loughner was on their radar”. I was amazed that this never elicited a follow up question. I have been trying to find that comment in video clips and can’t so far, but I bet that if Joe Arpaio was the Sherriff, the media would be all over it!

When is the media going to pick up this thread. I coulda swore that I heard Dupnik mention in a CNN (?) interview this weekend that “Loughner was on their radar”. I was amazed that this never elicited a follow up question. I have been trying to find that comment in video clips and can’t so far, but I bet that if Joe Arpaio was the Sherriff, the media would be all over it!

When other dogs come in your backyard and start sniffin’ where you burried your bones, point across the street and bark, “SQUIRREL!”

according to what I’ve heard. He was arrested once for a drug charge, but the penalty was lessened, supposedly because of his mother. There was another arrest, for unknown charges, but again, no penalty, because of the mother. I’ll try and track down an article to back up what I’m saying.

Laughner’s parent’s knew, knew, knew that their son had some very serious mental issues, yet, apparently they did nothing about them.

AoSHQ banner proves the right wing is in on it.

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the poor spelling and lack of citations on the blog linked, it is an intriguing story. This Sheriff has some explaining to do.

Try to remember any other federal case in which when a law enforcement officer shared his opinion as to motive so openly — I doubt you can think of any. Demonstrating motive is the prosecuting attorneys’ job. The Sheriff’s public speculation about motive is extremely unwise and taints the potential jury pool. Regardless of how we feel about the suspect, he is entitled to due process, so why on earth would a law enforcement officer hand the defense the tools they need to ask for a change of venue, or even a mistrial?

It is possible that this Sheriff is simply poorly trained and a few crayons short of a box, but this is LENF 101.

Really troubling.

Ok, this stuff happens in seconds, but take a few of scenarios. A sheriff’s deputy is standing near the Congresswoman. The suspect approaches and points the pistol at the Reps head. He fires hitting the Congresswoman, but the deputy is tackling as the shot is fired and the shooter is knocked off his feet dislodging the weapon. A nine year girl survives, a Federal Judge survives and others are not dead or wounded.

Another scenario, a sheriff’s deputy is standing near the Congresswoman. He notices a young man moving quickly forward. He moves in the way and blocks the movement of the young man. The young man says he wants to talk to the Congresswoman. The deputy says that the young man needs to back up a little and wait his turn. The young man turns around and leaves the scene.

Number three, a sheriff’s deputy is standing next to the Congresswoman, he sees the young man moving quickly and spots the pistol. The deputy lunges with arms raised to take the bullet. The bullet hits the deputy in the upper arm, as he knocks the weapon to the ground and tackles the shooter. The deputy cuffs the suspect and is treated for his wound by a doctor in the crowd. No one else is hurt.

The only problem here we can’t speculate on these scenarios because the Sheriff chose not to send any deputies to protect his supposed friends.

and knowing that every congressperson can’t have a secret service detail, is it unreasonable to expect someone, say the SHERIFF, to dispatch a cruiser to public events? I mean, since he KNOWS how dangerous talk radio is and all….

but could it be that the whole reason Sheriff Dupnick started lobbing bombs at Beck, Limbaugh, Fox News etc is to distract attention from his failure to deal with Mr.Loughner because he knew he’d dropped the ball leading up to this

Maybe now he’s pointing fingers in such a loud and public way to cover his own inadequate performance leading up to this tragedy?

Again, I wouldn’t want to be accused of overheated rhetoric here but…inquiring minds want to know.

Some info about this sherriff are leaking into more of the main stream media.
Good.

Some info about this sherriff are leaking into more of the main stream media.
Good.

figure this Sheriff out. In my Congressional District, I’ve never been to a townhall type meeting without a couple of officers there.

This Sheriff didn’t send any deputies to this public gathering. Plus, his office was well aware of this wacko and had dealt with him in the past. The media is not asking this Sheriff the right questions.

Probably, if he had just had one deputy there, this whole thing could have been averted or at least lives would have been saved. One of the eyewitnesses said that the shooter was running through the parking lot and the crowd. I’m not a law enforcement expert, but I think a deputy might find that a bit odd?

I would just shoot myself and get it over with.

Under AZ law, the state must provide, at taxpayer coat mental health treatment. This can be as simple as counseling services to court required involuntary in-treatment. Magellan Health Services is the specified provider and they do a fairly decent job of managing those who need help. It takes some pretty Herculean efforts to get into “the system” but someone who has presented by making threats will get the proverbial 72-Hour mental health hold.

At this point we do not yet know if Laughner was in the system. If he was it would be HIS responsibility to take his medications. I can’t tell you how many times I have been dispatched to triage a “crazy person” who is off their meds. Unless the police (Pima County Sheriff) take the effort to contact TERROS (the quick response mental health folks) to hand off care to acual mental health professionals, then he would likely just be let go.

Mental Health in AZ, while offered to those who need it is largely voluntary, often the patients are non-compliant and almost always reactionary to those that purportrate heinous crimes.

I had to deliver to the mother of this case the official death notification that her 14 year old son was murdered by her brother and stuffed in a trash can.
It was me, sitting on the living room floor with all the family around, who had to explain to Loggan’s 8 year old sister that her beloved brother was not coming home.

The only difference is that Loughner used a gun. Mental health, specifically Schizophrenia is a scary and often volatile problem. People with this problem are most always fine, don;t cause any undue problems and while suffering, do not lash out. But when they do it’s often very violent.

So answer me this: If mental health patients are required to take their meds, how do we as a society ensure compliance?

Arizona has the most gun owner friendly laws in the country. You don’t even need a permit for concealed carry. Yet, with all that, there was not a single “armed citizen” at that gathering. Never mind no police presence – where were the “armed citizens?”
I would have thought that, in Arizona, there would be one or two “armed citizens” in a group that big. Even one “armed citizen” would have been able to stop the killing. As it were, the unarmed citizens had to wait until the shooter was reloading before they could act.

Gutted?

Careful now or this word will have to be deleted from the lexicon.

Along with phrases such as “Kill the Obamacare legislation” and “Target Markets” and the like.

Still accusing Rush specifically and those on the right are inflaming things. Dupnik offered no evidence when asked, but just says that is what he believes.

the media is using Dupnik as a sacrificial stooge to get out their agenda but when the facts prove him wrong he’ll be thrown under the bus.

This Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer for Pima County. He intimated on one of the numerous tv shows that he has appeared on that he doesn’t get involved in the townhalls etc.

I guess he thinks he isn’t charged with protecting the elderly people who were gunned down or the 9 year old girl that was gunned down. Maybe he feels that he isn’t charged with protecting a Congresswoman or a Federal Judge, but just common sense tells me that the buck has to stop somewhere. He can play the jurisdiction game all he wants, but how come we haven’t heard from the Chief of Police of Tucson, if that is his jurisdiction? It must be the Sheriff’s responsibility since he is the one fighting to get in front of every microphone on the planet.

Dupnik needs to go down…..

http://www.azsos.gov/election/IRR/Initiative_Referendum_and_Recall.pdf

ARTICLE VIII. REMOVAL FROM
OFFICE
PART 1. RECALL OF PUBLIC OFFICERS
§ 1. Officers subject to recall;
petitioners
Section 1. Every public officer in the state
of Arizona, holding an elective office, either by
election or appointment, is subject to recall from
such office by the qualified electors of the
electoral district from which candidates are
elected to such office. Such electoral district may
include the whole state. Such number of said
electors as shall equal twenty-five per centum of
the number of votes cast at the last preceding
general election for all of the candidates for the
office held by such officer, may by petition, which
shall be known as a recall petition, demand his
recall.

How is it that this Sheriff…DUPNIK…keep his job when he has said he will not enforce the laws of the State of AZ? WHO elected him…HOW does HE get to pick and chose what HE will enforce…like AZ’s Illegal Immigration laws…and get away with it! I think Gov. Brewer should start looking into this man and his law enforcement record!

How is it that this Sheriff…DUPNIK…keep his job when he has said he will not enforce the laws of the State of AZ? WHO elected him…HOW does HE get to pick and chose what HE will enforce…like AZ’s Illegal Immigration laws…and get away with it! I think Gov. Brewer should start looking into this man and his law enforcement record!

Let’s face it it is the Congress, PC Police, ACLU and the Liberals who are to blame for tying the Chief’s hands behind his back with anti-profiling. A woman can get death treats from an X report the threat and the police will not do a thing. NO Crime was committed yet. People are afraid to report stuff because if police intercede with that information the the person reporting the incident can be sued. So we get Tucon.

employee in a 2001 Pima County enivomental report, page 2, midway through paragraph, and wrote a report on page 19
http://www.pagnet.org/wq/reports/exotic_aquatics.pdf
unverified authenticity

Dubnik does need to blame himself and his office and not anyone else. The warning signs were there. He admits this murderer had made previous threats. He admits that this murderer was thrown out of college for other threats. What more do you need?

Dubnik needs to be voted out of office by the voters of Pima County. Does Sheriff Arpaio have a chief deputy who lives in Pima County? Maybe this deputy would like to sheriff? We hope so. We are tired of hearing Sheriff Dubnik advance his philosophy on border and national security and fight the fight he is elected to fight, to depend the fine citizens of the United States who live in Pima County.

I live in Florida and we have almost 3 times the population of Arizona, so that means we have about 3 times the wackjobs. People used to say that God would pick up the USA from time to time and shake it and all the garbage would fall into FL. FL is the resting place of Ted Bundy, the residences of Henry Lee Lucas, Aliene Wuornos, and Otis Toole. My daughter who is now grown used to ask if she could go here or go there. I always had the same reply, “Hey, this is Florida.”

I guess my point is that if something like this had happened in my county, the sheriff, the chiefs of police would be just devastated that it could have happened on their watch. This “sheriff” in Pima County is an embarrassment to you.

The commie sheriff has taken a page from Obama’s playbook,
Raising incompetence to an Artform is no easy task. Obama takes a trillion, unemployment goes up, his popularity stays the same—that is art. (As well, a testament to the stupidity of modern Americans.)
Sheriff Dipsh– is surrounded by real lawmen who recognize the rising flood of illegals and drugs– he say Napolitano is doing a wonderful job— and gets re elected –That is art, and a testament to the stupidity of modern Americans. Repeal the nineteenth Amendment. Make abortion mandatory for liberals.

If he wants to pursue real ties between terrorists and highest levels of government.

Obama’s buddy Bill ayers dedicated a freakin book to none other than Sirhan, Sirhan. Assassin. The sirhan sirhan dedication is written in Ayer’s book, Prairie Fire.

Obama lied about ayers saying he’s just a guy in the neighborhood and the MSM let him off. We know that is not true, but America doesn’t.

Here’s an Obama endorsement of one of Ayer’s books

http://bokertov.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/30/obama_blurb_on_ayers_book.jpg

I am wondering if the sheriff of Pima Cty. is related to the Loughner Family?
As soon as i heard the sheriff blame the right i knew something smelled
rotten. He wants to deflect the blame from himself. The mother is also an
employee of the county and i’m sure they know each other from their job.
He is a disgrace to all lawmen.

On January 10, 2011, in an interview with George Stephanopolis, Sheriff Dupnik was asked twice whether his office ever had any contact with Jared Loughner before the shootings and both times the Sheriff answered no, that his county office never had any contact with Jared Loughner.

Quote: Sheriff’s deputies had been to the Loughner home at least once before the attack, spokesman Jason Ogan said. He didn’t know why or when the visit occurred, and said department lawyers were reviewing the paperwork and expected to release it Wednesday.

The reports detailed nine contacts officers had with Loughner or one of his parents, from May 1994 to March 2010. The first with Jared Loughner came in September 2004, when he reported that a fellow student pricked him with a needle.

Once he made the statements that he will not enforce the laws of AZ then he is not qualified to be Sheriff any longer. His office does not allow him to pick and choose which laws he wants to enforce. what if he chose to not enforce speed limits through the town and people started driving through at 80 mph. He just can’t decide which laws to enforce. If he doesn’t like a law he needs to get out of law enforcement and work to get it changed. Gov. Brewer it is your duty and obligation to see that Dupnik is fired or possibility arrested for his refusal to enforce the laws of AZ.

Sheriff Dupnik? Rosco was a funny buffoon.