Memorial Outrage II

We've been in correspondence with the original letter writer. Extensively. He stands by his story and further states that the offending individual was in fact urinating on the memorial grounds, he identified himself as CPD and he mouthed off as stated.

The on-duty officer is a long time fan of the blog and has read the comments put forth by readers. He has taken the comments to heart and will be filing a formal complaint with the Department shortly. We've asked him to update us.

We've taken out quite a few comments these past 24 hours, most of them threatening physical violence and harm upon the offender, some accusing us all sorts of garbage (but that's normal) and some off-topic posts. We will not be posting any accusations of this officer being a "rat" or other attacks upon him. He has agonized over his actions and frankly, we don't envy his position in the least. We have no idea how we would have reacted if faced with this occurrence. On one hand, you want to inflict the maximum amount of punishment possible. On another hand, there are cameras around and should you act on your initial instincts, you might lose your job for a quasi-criminal offense or serve heavy suspension time. All bets are off in the current political climate.

To all who commented, you have been a useful sounding board. While our path might not be the one you would have chosen, we're the ones who have to live with it. At the moment, we aren't losing sleep over it. Our outrage is your outrage, make no mistake. We've buried more than a few names on that wall, too. But acting rashly serves little purpose and could end a few deserving careers along with the undeserving asshole who masquerades as one of us while pissing on our dead.