Dallas PD's Investigating Yet Another Cat Mutilation in Northwest Dallas

people like white meat?

Easier to see at night, easier to catch.

When in God's name will someone do a story on the string of cat murders?  I keep hearing teases on the radio, but never any real investigation.  I blame JWP.

Saturday night is when the remains were discovered, around 7.

Was it last week?

Merrill, near Baroness.

I live in NW Dallas and I found the top part of a mangled cat carcass in a neighbors yard early last week. Would be interested to know where in NW Dallas this story took place. I live just inside the LBJ loop barely west of Midway.

No but neither should police abuse the civil rights, and probable cause to search without cause.  The judge's decision to defer adjudication should rest with the judge, not some lege's mandatory sentencing rules.  Further, in po-dunk towns where the cop running a speed trap is the nephew of the judge that requires two futile appeals to get a case heard in a fair jurisdiction.  This becomes a legal sinkhole, that amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.  The lege also give vast seizure powers to police depts, creating perverse incentives. 

You might like this get tough policy, but there is also something called the Bill of Rights.  Unless someone is independently wealthy, often plea bargains are the only pragmatic solution.  Though those plea bargains aren't negotiable nor do the prosecutors offer full disclosure.  Maybe this is funny, but it marginalizes many for essentially nothing.  While Laura Bush kills a kid and walks away.  Maybe people should kill people and get less punishment than someone who is in the same vehicle with someone who has some pot in their pocket.

nor was I, but it was in the car, though no one had used it in the car. 

well then maybe people should do drugs?

so you know from experience huh?  I aint gonna get popped for something little, bc I dont do drugs so POW!!

we r talking about pot here, not an opressed group of people.  You can keep smoking all the weed you want to protest but its not going to help your cause.

small minded?  You just said follow the law no matter how stupid it is.

That's exactly how how the civil rights thing went down and women rights too...everyone just sat around and waited twiddling their thumbs so the peace was kept...and then BAM one day we have affirmative action and Susan B. Anthony dollars.  Just like that.  Amazing really.

I'll laugh when you get popped for something and it affects you for the rest of your life.  Half the shit on the books no one even knows about.  Its out of fucking control.

Its stupid, and the only diatribe I see is your response.

If you can't use correct English (having to use a vulgarity to get your thoughts across) who cares what you say.  It immediately speaks to your being ignorant and uneducated.

Really, it's a tenet of faith among the Catholic Church.  If you haven't reflected on that, perhaps you should.  I respect the Catholic Church, but it's doctrine and hierarchical nature are such that the Pope is infallible and all are supposed to follow his teachings. 

If you like the trappings of the church but don't like all judgment to come from on high, there's always the Episcopals.  To quibble with me on this is to fail to understand your own faith.  I know your catechism, evidently, you do not.

spare me your ridiculousness, its illegal, and until its not, abide by the laws, even as dumb as they may be.  And its great to see how small minded you are to lump all Catholics into your statement, like we are all cut from the same mold, thats about the stupidist shit Ive seen you post here.  You're better than that scott. 

Catholics are authoritarians, so the point holds.  The same punishment holds for simple possession, coupled with illegal searches which can't be fought in po-dunk towns without two appeals, it's hard to justify.  So, your authoritarian position has abetted the destruction of our civil liberties coupled with cruel and unusual punishment.  So glad you never broke any laws, even if you were discrete, and you'd better be glad you're career wasn't fucked by some nimrod who's stripped judges of their ability to judge.

save your diatribe for someon who gives a shit.  I dont care who smokes pot. That is their choice, but do it in your house or in private. dont get caught out in public when you KNOW its against the law, but hey if you choose to blantantly break the law in public, then I'll assume you probably wouldnt make a very good employee and probably dont deserve the benefit of the doubt.  Maybe his parents should have raised him better, telling him that hey, if you get popped by the law, it can affect you many years down the road.  Lastly it wasnt cavalier of me, it was the truth, and no I dont go to Jeffries' (sp) church, I more of a Catholic, thanks.

Ending the war on drugs is something that a wide swath of us can agree on.  Please don't conflate it with other policies and give the prohibitionists something to hang their hat on, like "It's just a stealth socialized medicine plot."

Remember, there are a lot of right-wingers like me who are ready to surrender the drug war and release the prisoners.  Don't give someone who is on the fence a bad taste about it.

Some jackass in the lege passed a law that on that young man's driving record it would state, in all Caps, for 10 years, "DRUG ARREST."  Even for possession, even if he's given deferred adjudication.  That is really a harmful policy and can destroy the earning potential of a young man for the rest of his life.  He's guilty of a class B misdemeanor at worst, but will suffer for a lifetime.  That's cruel and unusual punishment.

Now if we had national health care, if they had access to doctors and medicine for psychological needs, I might feel differently.  As is, marijuana is a legitimate treatment for manic depression, depression, psychosis and neurosis and a slew of other issues.  And, it has fewer side effects.  So, I have a hard time telling someone that some, more harmful drugs are good while another with fewer complications is worthy of a lifetime of punishment, irrespective of the judgment of the court judge. 

Mighty cavalier of you.  You go to Jeffries' Church do you?

so is stupidity and ignorance as far as I am concerned....hence we are taking you straight to jail.