And it grew and grew while our backs were turned.
How did It's For The Kids come about?
The founder was formerly an ardent supporter of police/DA and still realizes that the vast majority of these people are truly dedicated to the concept of law enforcement and the law. There are a number, however, that have fallen to the “Dark side”, where they realize the power they have is "Fun" and wield it against their innocent victims just out of meanness or to cover their own misconduct; these are the ones addressed here.
The founder has suffered multiple instances of police abuse (yea, lets throw in the district attorney also and introduce the term "police/prosecutor"). We will also take the credit for coining the term "Pinstripe wall of silence" to identify the district attorney and staff.
In one case the founder was awakened out of a sound sleep at 11:30 p.m. on a moonless night by his dogs barking at something outside. In the ensuing events he encountered a Sheriff Deputy sneaking around on his property refusing to identify himself subsequently being joined by another deputy, he was held at gunpoint by one deputy while the other squirted him in the face with a chemical weapon. The deputies turned and ran off the founder's property. 4 months later the Sheriff and DA accused the founder of attacking the deputies. See the pseudo press story in the Sheriff section of this site for some further details.
Attack with a caustic chemical agent is a felony in California, California Penal Code 244.
The story goes into the 50+ crimes committed by the Sheriff and DA in framing the founder for crimes that never occurred, the official citizen's complaints that the San Diego County Sheriff refused to investigate, the reports given to state and federal legislators, the San Diego Grand Jury, the San Diego District Attorney, the California and United States Departments of Justice, all the major California newspapers, talk show hosts. But if you are reading this page, you probably understand the frustrations.
This also goes into the flow of filing a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit (see the section of this site on filing a civil rights lawsuit) as an individual and seeing the counsel for the Sheriff argue successfully that it was quite acceptable behavior for the Sheriff and DA to commit crimes (including perjury and getting someone else to commit perjury) against the founder if they could get a criminal conviction. A lot of technical stuff, but scary. This case was lost in the Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on this argument.
In another case, the founder complained to a pair of San Diego Police (SDPD, "To protect and serve") about their hanging around in a private parking lot for no apparent reason except to harass patrons of a bar in the small strip mall. The cops refused to leave so the founder called in a complaint. A SDPD Sgt responded and the founder stated his complaint twice, the SDPD sgt appeared to be on some type of drugs: dialated eyes, trouble focusing, exceptionally hostile. When it appeared the conversation was complete, the founder turned and started to walk away. The Sgt grabbed the founder from behind and slammed his head against a patrol car knocking him unconscious. He awoke on the ground with a number of SDPD officers kicking and punching him from behind and injuring his previously injured back. The founder was refused access to medical care and was left handcuffed wedged in the back of the police car for several hours calling out in pain, demanding medical attention, and subsequently thrown in jail never being allowed access to medical care. Of course, as in all these cases, citizen's complaints just trigger a cover-up in the police/prosecutor organizations and the founder was, again, compelled to seek redress in Federal Court in San Diego by filing another civil rights lawsuit. This suit is currently active and heading for trial (and looking for a real attorney with a pit bull attitude). See the San Diego Police Department link from the home page. Stephen Yagman, where are you when I need you?