Inmates use gun map to threaten guards

[SunnySlopes]

Yeah, like that paper didn't know this would happen.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/01/05/Inmates-threaten-guards-using-newspaper-gun-map

Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, who spoke at a news conference flanked by other county officials, said the Journal News' decision to post an online map of names and addresses of handgun owners Dec. 23 has put law enforcement officers in danger.

"They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That's not acceptable to me," Falco said, according to Newsday.

 

[bikerdoc]

Sounds like a good atty could make some people rich if anything happens.

 

[Carter]

I used to work in a prison and its already a highly stressful unthankful job. The added pressure of that is something I could not imagine. I'm sure a lot violence in and out of the jails/prisons will occur.

 

[SunnySlopes]

I used to work in a prison

A college classmate was a guard in a california prison. The garbage he put up with? I'd have to be really hungry to work that job.

 

[Carter]

A college classmate was a guard in a california prison. The garbage he put up with? I'd have to be really hungry to work that job.

It was a stepping stone. Luckily NC isn't as bad as California, but prison is prison.

 

[THe Dove]

They (the inmates) know more about the staff than most people realize. They see staff and study them daily.

The other issue (probably even more scary) is their family members. The inmate family members can access all kinds of information about staff via the www.

Staff fight these and more battles daily throughout their career in corrections.

The Dove

 

[Zardaia]

My dad used to be a co in ny. Not only is it a <deleted> job, but they start u right out of academy in sing sing. I did Camp Bucca detention facility and that was more than enough for me tyvm. I'd be seriosly pissed as a guard to find that violent felons who'd love to nail a guard had been given my home address.

 

[Deanimator]

<sarcasm>Uh, oh! Lives with VALUE are now at risk!</sarcasm>

Unfortunately, this is probably the most likely path to perdition for the perpetrators of this terrorist operation.

When some guard's or cop's family gets attacked, the paper will get shut down cold.

Too bad nobody else's life matters...

 

[Deanimator]

Sounds like a good atty could make some people rich if anything happens.

A corpse sitting on top of $10,000,000 is still a corpse.

The paper doesn't care who dies. They've already proved that.

 

[docsleepy]

Oh just go ahead and sue for pain and suffering! Let the paper have to defend against hundreds, thousands of suits!

 

[Buck Kramer]

Wow, disgusting.

 

[4D5]

If only the prisons were run like Cool Hand Luke

 

[Twiki357]

I don't know about the individuals (Reporter, editor, etc.), but from what I have heard on the news, the paper itself is on the verge of bankruptcy so I doubt that any law suit would accomplish much more than throwing dirt on the coffin.

 

[caribou]

25 years ago, one of my first jobs, as a teen, was working for a 'skip tracer', who got into business back on the east Coast selling info to Cops/bondsmen/collection agentcys as to where someone was.

He told me the bigger $$ was telling those who paid better where the Cops was........

 

[gunNoob]

Crazy.

My friend's dad used to work at a prison. He said there was a guy who molded his poo to look like Bart Simpson

 

[223man]

Twiki357 Quote:
I don't know about the individuals (Reporter, editor, etc.), but from what I have heard on the news, the paper itself is on the verge of bankruptcy so I doubt that any law suit would accomplish much more than throwing dirt on the coffin. /unq.

It might serve as a lesson to other newspapers. I say "might", but the "fourth estate" seems to have a remarkable lack of self awareness or introspection these days.

 

[SunnySlopes]

the paper itself is on the verge of bankruptcy

The dinosaur media discovering that since the dawn of the internet, people won't blindly accept left wing lies anymore.

I can't remember the last time I read a newspaper or watched the evening news.

 

[PATH]

At the press conference last Friday the Journal News did not attend. They sent reporters from a sister Gannett Newspaper in Poughkeepsie NY.

The police and corrections unions are are really upset with the list.

I felt bad for the woman who was a victim of domestic abuse who was at Fridays Press conference. She was upset because now her deranged husband can find her due to her name being publicly posted. The husband has tried to kill her and she got a pistol for protection.

 

[gossamer]

At the press conference last Friday the Journal News did not attend. They sent reporters from a sister Gannett Newspaper in Poughkeepsie NY.

The police and corrections unions are are really upset with the list.

I felt bad for the woman who was a victim of domestic abuse who was at Fridays Press conference. She was upset because now her deranged husband can find her due to her name being publicly posted. The husband has tried to kill her and she got a pistol for protection.

To be fair to the Media industry in general, a member of a group who reports on Media was interviewed on NPR last week and she was pretty fair minded about this situation and talked specifically about this issue. She said that while the Press has a right to the publicly-held information on gun permit holders per the 1st Amendment, they do not have a right to publish this information recklessly.

She said she questioned the intent of what the Journal News sought to accomplish with this. The NPR interviewer specifically mentioned the domestic abuse victims angle and the LEO angle.

It was clear from the tone of the interviews that respectable journalists and Media critics didn't think very highly of what the JN did.

 

[Neo-Luddite]

Convicts have all the time in the world to grasp on and use crap like this.

 

[larry_minn]

I worked corrections yrs ago. Just for a yr. I always gave my college town as my home. To everyone. (told director during hiring that I was using it as my home address)
I knew area, even locals couldn't tell I wasn't from there... Lots of threats. I did have another yr there. But I figured I could deal with issues much easier there alone then at my real home with family to worry about.
Plus the Police there knew me, was in part time program.....

 

[horsemen61]

This is just ridiculous .