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Report: Inmates using newspaper’s gun-owner map to threaten guards
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.
Robert Riley, an officer with the White Plains Police Department and president of its Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, agreed.
“You have guys who work in New York City who live up here. Now their names and addresses are out there, too,” he said adding that there are 8,000 active and retired NYPD officers currently living in Rockland County.
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Great work liberal media.
rob verdi on January 5, 2013 at 10:57 AM
I’m still waiting for the list of women who have gotten abortions on tax-payer money.
Washington Nearsider on January 5, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Wow. The wizards of smart sure a S-M-R-T!
stvnscott on January 5, 2013 at 10:59 AM
What is the newspaper’s liability when someone is killed or injured due to their interactive map..?
d1carter on January 5, 2013 at 11:01 AM
The “otherization” of gun owners has only just begun.
Kataklysmic on January 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Sequestered juries are prevented from accessing news about the trials they sit on but somehow inmates are free to read where their guards live? Makes sense.
Kataklysmic on January 5, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Typically such information is public records due to the fact that such licenses issued by a state are required to be available. I doubt they would have any liability …though I think they are no doubt wrongheaded. A smart inmate could have found out this information in other ways.
CW on January 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Yeah, well, just wait until obama and Feinstein create the publicly accessible national database of gun owners (as an interim measure until the confiscation program begins).
Pork-Chop on January 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Very low, because the information is public information, they just consolidated it. Any ambitious crook could have gotten the information on their own. At least, that is how it will work out in a court of law. In reality though, their souls will have a very large level of liability.
astonerii on January 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM
That paper’s building should be bulldozed.
blatantblue on January 5, 2013 at 11:11 AM
I wonder how many non-gun owners feel about this? Especially those that work for the paper. I suspect the NRA or some other group could access a phone book and list all people that likely do not have a gun….I wonder how that would go over.
CW on January 5, 2013 at 11:12 AM
This.
Still a stupid stunt.
CorporatePiggy on January 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Post the names/addresses/phone numbers of ALL politicians that support this public information. Local, state and federal.
artist on January 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Well, we know how the paper would react to their home addresses being made public. They hire some of the people they were trying to ostracize to provide them with security.
Rip Ford on January 5, 2013 at 11:24 AM
They all have access to publicly paid for protection services. You sure that is what you want?
astonerii on January 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM
LEO’s should be provided a list of addresses for all the media wonks in the state, and when a dispatch sends an officer to a report of a problem at one of those addresses it should be a signal to slow your run.
Come to think of it, THAT map should be made public too, just to show the crooks where it is more safe to rape, pillage and burn.
MikeA on January 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM
pipl, zabasearch, and others can easily be used to locate someone. If the prisoners know the guards name, I can’t see how the paper has made the guards any less safe.
Aplombed on January 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM
astonerii on January 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Yep.
artist on January 5, 2013 at 11:28 AM
This comes straight from the Department of Intended Consequences. The entire point of running that map was to create a chilling effect on gun ownership.
dczombie on January 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM
I never heard of those places. The fact that they made it widely known in the newspaper and available easily and free makes it more likely some prisoner or even friend or family member of a prisoner will think to hunt down and attack a police officer or his family.
astonerii on January 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM
What about judges, surely the crew of the gangbanger who just got sentenced to 20 years should be allowed to know the address of the judge who handed that down and whether or not the judge owns a gun, right?
VegasRick on January 5, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Fighting fire with fire.
justltl on January 5, 2013 at 11:35 AM
There is a cost or barrier to entry for everything that we do (monetary, time, effort, ability/intelligence). Previously, the barrier was high enough that relatively few inmates/criminals would put in the requisite effort to figure out where the guards/cops lived. Now the barrier is quite low, so there will be a lot more of it going on.
besser tot als rot on January 5, 2013 at 11:56 AM
The First Amendment is outdated. Our Founding Fathers could have never envisioned such reckless and destructive forms of journalism. We MUST repeal the First Amendment for the greater good. Now, let me be clear, NOBODY is coming for your free speech rights. Don’t let anyone tell you that. America has a great tradition of stand-up comedy, freestyle poetry, and country songs about drinkin’ fightin’ and lovin’… and nobody wants that to go away, but what we need is reasonable, common sense regulations on the press. For example, we should regulate the kind of speech that people engage in, as well as the amount of free speech they have. We could limit journalists to one article a month. I mean, who *needs* to write more that 12 newspaper articles a year? Who *needs* to write a 10,000 word essay? Reasonable fees of $200 per incidence of free speech could be implemented as well. This charge would help finance the Federal Department of Censorship, where journalists would send their articles to be sure that they are in accordance with Federal law. All journalists would be listed in a Federal database, so they could be kept track of as well. Do it for the children.
Glenn Jericho on January 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM