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Cynthetiq · 05-27-2008, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Seer666

The news get's it hands on a lot of information. They are some sneeky bastards. The thing here is though, this is not releasing court documents under the freedom of information act, it's putting out names of people that have not even been tried yet. Untill that trial goes through, it is NOONES busines. Let's say someone get's busted on a DUI, there boss reads about it before they go to trail and fires them, then, in the trial, the person is found not guilty. That person just had their life trashed because of a very stupid idea. No trial, no info. Pretty damn simple. Until that trial is done, it is a private matter, unless it's an ABP on a suspect that has run to ground.

happens EVERY day... people are accused of lots of things.

The thing is that if they do lose their job becuase of it, and they are not convicted, they can go and ask for their job back. Sometimes they even sue for back wages. They can even sue the mediagroup who published it for libel.

Steven Pagones comes to mind, where Al Sharpton media fucked someone because of Tawana Brawley

Read the paper carefully, listen to that news report carefully... people are alleged perpurtrators and suspects all the time.

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Originally Posted by The_Jazz

If anyone's ever read a police blotter report in a newspaper, you'd realize that they rarely post anyone's name. It's generally a description of the person, but rarely their name.

I don't have a problem if someone publishes the names of those accused of notable crimes, but since when have papers been required to publish anything by the government?

Notable crimes, yes agreed, I don't know what level that is, but generally the police blotter does only have basic descriptors, but somehow press people find out the rest of the information and put it the public eye.

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newsday.com/news/local/ny-lislas0528,0,7590500.story

Newsday.com
Woman, 31, arrested in Hempstead slashing
BY JOHN VALENTI

john.valenti@newsday.com

8:36 AM EDT, May 27, 2008

Police arrested a 31-year-old woman Monday night in the brutal slashing of another woman Friday in Hempstead.

Sandra Appiah, 31, of Hempstead, confronted a 25-year-old woman who was sitting in her car at the corner of Rutland Road and Jerusalem Avenue in Hempstead on Friday, slashing her in the face and left breast, Nassau police said.

Appiah, of Seabury Street, then fled to another vehicle, police said. When the slashing victim reached into Appiah's car in an attempt to stop her from fleeing, police said Appiah drove away "at a high rate of speed" -- dragging the woman for about 125 feet, before the victim fell to the pavement.

The victim was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where police said she required 40 stitches to close the wound to her face and 15 more to close the wound to her breast.

Police have not said what they believe led to the confrontation and slashing -- or whether the two women knew each other.

Appiah was arrested Monday night in Williston Park. She was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault and fourth-degree possession of a dangerous weapon and was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in First District Court, Hempstead.

I was looking up to see if they even published the names of the DUI collection from this weekend and I found this example. No conviction, just accusation as a suspect.

as far as the LI police that stated they would publish their DUI catch...

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Nassau arrests 109 in drunken-driving crackdown
BY MATTHEW CHAYES

3:39 PM EDT, May 27, 2008

Flaunting photographs from a drunken-driving "wall of shame" -- as County Executive Thomas Suozzi called the mug shots displayed behind him -- Nassau officials announced that police had charged 109 people with intoxicated driving during the Memorial Day weekend.

Stepped up enforcement of drunken driving came after officials had promised that twice as many police as last year would patrol the county's roadways over the holiday weekend. Sixteen of the arrests came after car accidents, including one that resulted in a serious injury.

The arrests marked a 51 percent increase over roughly the same period last year, when 72 people were arrested, officials said.

And in an unabashed effort to shame those charged, the names and addresses of the suspects were itemized and distributed to the media; the mugshots of the 81 people charged with driving while intoxicated were to be posted on the county government's Web site, Suozzi and police said. Twenty-eight of those arrested were charged with driving while ability impaired, a lesser offense.

"If the fear of killing somebody," Suozzi explained, "or the fear of ruining your life by getting arrested or injuring yourself is not enough, we're going to try and add other techniques, like embarrassing you."

Meanwhile, Nassau Police Officer Kenneth Baribault, the cop who had pulled over a suspected drunken driver on the Long Island Expressway last Sunday in Plainview only to be hit by a second one, is "doing a little bit better," Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said, adding that Baribault is almost breathing on his own.

The critical injury of Baribault May 18 has been repeatedly cited by Suozzi and Mulvey as a driving force behind their anti-intoxicated-driving efforts.

Eight of the 109 were repeat offenders and charged with felonies, authorities said. Most of the 109 were in their 20s, though the youngest arrested was 17, the oldest, 74.

The arrests were made starting just before midnight Thursday through 5 a.m. Tuesday. Suffolk police made 57 DWI arrests from 3 p.m. Friday until 11:59 p.m. Monday.

Among the most serious cases in Nassau: Juan F. Cardoza, of Baldwin, who police say was driving along Sunrise Highway westbound in eastbound lanes; Eric F. Flores, of Kings Park, whose blood-alcohol level police say was three times the legal limit; Karen A. Armata, of East Meadow, who police say was driving drunk with her children aboard; and, Samir Nayee of Winter Park, Fla., who police say had two previous arrests for drunken driving, authorities said.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said she hopes the extended weekend's 109 arrests would serve as a warning to people as they enjoy the summer.

"Please think before you drink this summer," Rice said.

I can't seem to find them online tho...