The mail: MySpace and the school officer
Utterly ridiculous. A travesty of justice, and a waste of taxpayer time and money. This is the kind of crap that kills careers, ruins lives, and destroys initiatives taken on by forward thinking progressives to reach kids where they live and play.... Please focus on this, even briefly. -- Chris Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins refers to the story of a school resource officer who is in hot water because he set up a MySpace page for kids, and one of the "friends" listed on his page in turn had links to porn. Hence we have the claim that the guy was making porn available "just a few clicks away." Since porn is available from ANY web page "just a few clicks away," unless it turns out this guy did something deliberately, I agree with Mr. Jenkins.
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People get so wound up about "protect the children!" that they make stupid decisions and stupid actions, and sometimes carelessly hurt innocent people. Good luck Officer John!
Posted by: Mikey | February 02, 2008 at 02:41 PM
Thank you, Howard. I hope there is enough public support for this officer that it vanishes from his record.
Posted by: Chris Jenkins | February 02, 2008 at 02:48 PM
I worked for DCF for many years. Trust me, if the shoe were on the foot of a civilian this cop would crucify him for exactly the same thing.
Any kind of non-violent collar is red-meat to a cop.
Posted by: Jim Johnson | February 05, 2008 at 02:29 PM