this is scary and i'm not quite sure

i want to visit the phoenix area at all (although i'd LOVE to see the american southwest).

shame on the dishonest and vengeful ones (i don't believe they are ALL like that by any means)


Phoenix cops raid the home of an online critic
J.D. Tuccille

Perhaps the best publicity a critic of the powers-that-be can ever get for his cause is to be the target of over-the-top official retaliation. That automatically validates what the critic is saying while at the same time massively expanding the audience for his message. So, in an odd way, Jeff Pataky owes a "thank you" to the Phoenix Police Department for raiding his home and hauling away computers and other material related to a Website and blog he maintains that focus attention on misdeeds involving the Phoenix PD.

Pataky's crusade against Phoenix cops apparently started as a personal vendetta in response to a since-dropped harassment prosecution resulting from a bitter divorce. Since then, though, his project has turned into a public service and he has apparently cultivated informants inside the department and broken stories about official misconduct. He told Carlos Miller of the Photography is Not a Crime blog, “We have about 50 to 100 retired and active cops who provide us information.”............

Phoenix police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of them

Carlos Miller
In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.

Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging.

The 41-year-old software engineer said they also confiscated numerous personal files and documents relating to a pending lawsuit he has against the department alleging harassment - which he says makes it obvious the raid was an act of retaliation.

Maricopa County Judge Gary Donahoe signed the search warrant that allowed at least ten cops to raid his home in North Phoenix on March 12 while handcuffing his female roommate for three hours as they tore the place apart.................

bad phoenix cops

and the blog bad phoenix cops