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In depth reference material is cited after this article:
"Roid a cops" and police brutality, on a bad judgment call
By the The Toxic Reverend
We as tax payers put out a lot of cash to train a policeman.
They join the force, wanting to do good,help people and try to
make a difference in a very screwed up world.
Some times, I have to wonder what changes ? How do some
of them become "bad apples" and give their entire profession a
bad name ?
For a few years, I have been doing research on the effects of
the "low dose cumulative effects of toxic chemicals" with violence
and abusive behavior.
Law enforcement is not excempt from such toxic chemical
exposures. But they do maintain a harder "front" than most
classes of society, with the "I am fine" presentation. Their
ego's are just that way, or they probably would not be in that
profession. Think about it. They risk their lives on a daily basis
to "uphold the law". They are heroes. And as such, they are
not to prone to saying, they have a problem, of any kind.
While I was researching this issue, I became acquainted
with Mesha. . Her son had been shot 48 times by 9 San Francisco
policeman. She started The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
with the money from the wrongful death suit of her sons murder.
https://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/...leyfoundation/
Mesha was very kind and patient the times that I have called.
But the other day, she got me. She admitted that yes, the toxic
chemicals could also impact a policeman's decision to use
deadly force. But then she asked what I thought might happen
when a "Toxic Victim" (as I call "mentally ill") that is acting out,
meets up with a policeman on steroids ?
Mesha agreed that everything that I was on about can apply
to such a situation as an unjustified police shooting. But she
also thought that steroid abuse by law enforcement is inducing
some "bad judgment calls", more than anything else. And that
these factors are being protected by the " Blue Wall of Silence".
So being an open minded hippy, after talking to Mesha, I did
a couple of Google searches on the subject.
The results astounded me.
I thought I would find masses of articles about the police busting
people for it. But nooooo, I find massive articles about police
forces around the country being busted.
So I tried posting "Roid-a-cops and police brutality" at
myspace. It would not post. So I sent it to a number of
friends at myspace. They could not get it to post. Though
Ken said a couple of days later that he was able to post it.
Seems there is a tracking program at myspace for censorship.
This report has finally posted at Myspace bulletin's and my blog.
After some serious complaining is rather public ways, across the
Internet.
But you need to be signed into a MySpace account, in many
instances, to follow the links.
Anyway, I became rather frustrated and called Mesha. What
I had decided to do was spread a "true rumor" that did seem
to get "their attention". And not just Mysapce's.
I called the Sonoma County sheriff and a captain answered
the phone. He said that the sheriff was unavailable. So I told
the captain that I had done a Google search that shows police
departments around the country were being busted by the feds
for steroid abuse.
I told him the search terms and I could sense the panic
in his voice. I told him that the searches reveal Boston police
being busted by a federal grand jury investigation. Dallas also
came up with the search and too many others to list.
Now I only went over the first ten results of the first search term
and twenty of the second. When I got to the one about president
Bush talking about steroid abuse in a State of the Union address,
I stopped. After all, Bush was talking about steroid abuse in
sports. Maybe he should have been a bit more specific and
included law enforcement. You know .... the people that enforce
the laws against such things as drug abuse.
Not that I want to snitch out the feds and risk screwing up any
investigation that they might have. I am not aware of Sonoma
County being investigated for steroid abuse. Maybe it isn't. Maybe
it is ? All I know is that I do not want to be charged with
"obstruction of justice", for bringing this to their attention.
After all, more often than not, "no good deed goes unpunished".
What I can point out is what other police departments that
have ignored the abuse of steroids like an ostrich, have found.
While they are so bent over with their heads in the sand,
the feds sneak up and give them an exam that nobody likes.
Regardless of sexual orientation.
Maybe if all of the San Francisco MUNI bus drivers that have
to pee in a bottle for random drug screening became aware of this.
They might be able to break the censorship and warn others of
the impeding steroid exams .... or a, the investigations that have
busted so many police departments around the country ?
One of my psychologists had told me that "the good and the
bad news it that I am not paranoid or delusional".
Now please excuse me .... I need to get back to editing
"Toxic Revelations" and my Myspace profile / blog. It is
my intention to post this at my blog. If I can ......
Blessings,
The Toxic Reverend
Cc
The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
A nonprofit organization created through the settlement
of Idriss Stelley's vs. City & County and SFPD case and its
allocation to his mother Mesha Monge-Irizarry. Her only
child, 23 African American honor student was killed by
SFPD at the SF Sony Metreon on June 13, 2001, 48 shots,
9 officers, as he stood alone in an empty theater.
The Idriss Stelley's case is at the root of the
40-HR mandatory
San Francisco Police Departments
Mental Health Training,https://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/...leyfoundation/
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This is posted in an attempt to prevent police brutality
and improve the safety of our communities.
No copyright is claimed.
Please reproduce at will. What might you expect to happen when
"Toxic Victims" are called "mentally ill" and they meet up with a
policeman that is "raging" from steroid abuse (aka roiding) ?
The steroid abuse as a factor in police shootings and
abuse was pointed out to me in correspondences with
The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
https://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/
that was started with the money won in a lawsuit for
the death of IDRISS STELLEY after he was
sshot48 times by 9 San Francisco policemen. He was
called "mentally ill" and it is thought that he was probably
a "Toxic victim". As a "peer reviewed medical journal" on
the effects of the environment with human health has indicated
in an article titled,
Environmental Connections: A Deeper Look into Mental Illness
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 115, Number 8, August 2007
FYI:
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP )
is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the
impact of the environment on human health. EHP
is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences and its content is free online. Print issues are available
by paid subscription. https://www.ehponline.org/
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A CBS Early Show News Investigation Video link
"Police Steroid Abuse",
Steroid Abuse and Police Brutality Oct 26, 2007
https://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?...annel=86259178
The above is short CBS documentary on the recent wave of
police brutality and steroid abuse. Includes an interview with
Harrison Pope, one of the most often quoted psychiatrists of
the last century ... Harrison Pope os atHarvard University.
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Informative articles:
Cops on Steroids
By: Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Illustrations by: Eddie Guy
Mens Health, Health and Fitness,
It's the "other" doping scandal,
and Mens Health Magazine is breaking it wide open.
A policeman that had been convicted of steroid abuse states 20% - 25% of police abuse steroids
Forget ballplayers. More than ever, police officers are juicing up to get an edge on perps, but at what price?
Men's Health magazine investigates.
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Where is Congressional investigation of steroid abuse among law enforcement?
"Grits For Breakfast" blog, by Scott Henson, a former journalist turned opposition researcher/political consultant, public policy researcher and blogger. Excellent research and reference links.
Excerpt from the above blog;
Dr. John Hoberman of UT-Austin in 2005 wrote an informative article on the subject ("Dopers in Uniform," May 22, 2005). The full, footnoted piece is well worth reading, but here's an excerpt that shows the connections between police and steroids has been recognized for quite some time:
One of the remarkable anomalies of the anti-steroid campaign of the past two decades is that it has virtually ignored the many reports of steroid use by police officers in the United States and in other countries. Unknown but clearly significant numbers of policemen have imported, smuggled, sold, and used anabolic steroids over this time period. According to an article that appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin in 1991: "Anabolic steroid abuse by police officers is a serious problem that merits greater awareness by departments across the country." In 2003 another expert offered a similar assessment. Little research has been done on the use of steroids by police, said Larry Gaines, former executive director of the Kentucky Chiefs of Police Association. "But I think it's a larger problem than people think.".
A segment of the CBS-TV program "60 Minutes" had already made that point on November 5, 1989. "Beefing Up the Force" presented interviews with three officers whose use of steroids had apparently caused the hyper-aggressiveness that had gotten them into serious trouble. The worst case involved what one psychiatrist called "a real Jekyll and Hyde change" in the personality of a prison security guard in Oregon who had kidnapped and shot a woman who made a casual remark he didn't like. He got 20 years in prison, and she was paralyzed for life. The personality he presented during his prison interview made it seem utterly improbable that he would have been capable of such an act. But his testosterone level when he committed the crime was 50 times the normal level. This broadcast conveyed the message that steroid problems were lurking in many police departments across the country, and that police officials were turning a blind eye to a significant threat to public safety.
It was no accident that the "60 Minutes" segment paid special attention to a "hard core group" of steroid users on the Miami police force. Two years earlier the Miami Herald had run a long article on steroid-using police officers. The seven notorious Miami "River Cops", who in 1987 were on trial for alleged crimes including cocaine trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder, included Armando "Scarface" Garcia, a weightlifter who had publicly admitted to taking steroids. "There's a great potential for an officer abusing steroids to physically mistreat people," said the police chief of nearby Hollywood, Florida, who had told his investigators to be on the lookout for officers who looked like "small mountains." The Miami Herald article may have been the first of the tiny number of analytical treatments of this subject that have appeared in American newspapers since the 1980s. So the next time you hear someone say that steroid abuse isn't a problem among cops or that there isn't a documented need to investigate the issue compared to professional athletes, you might share Dr. Hoberman's piece with them. (I can't find the referenced 1991 FBI Bulletin online, but I'll see if I can lay my hands on it.)
End of excerpt from;
Where is Congressional investigation of steroid abuse among law enforcement?
"Grits For Breakfast" blog, by Scott Henson
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Spot the Juicer
How to tell if a guy is natural or artificially enhanced
By: Lou Schuler, Illustrations by: Susan Gilbert
Mens Health Magazine
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Oakland California has instituted such a policy that can also be
viewed as "preventative medicine". If your community does not
have a "proven problem", such a policy could prevent it from
having one. For instance, the Boston police department was busted by a Federal Grand Jury, for steroid abuse. A number of other cities have also been busted and more are expected.
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Commentary;
A National Epidemic that could be stopped with
cost effective ,"Random Testing For Steroids".
Oakland California has instituted such a policy that can also be
viewed as "preventative medicine". If your community does not
have a "proven problem", such a policy could prevent it from
having one. For instance, the Boston police department was
busted by a Federal Grand Jury, for steroid abuse. A number of
other cities have also been busted and more are expected.
From the Department of Justice:
Steroid Abuse By Law Enforcement Personnel
A Guide For Understanding The Dangers Of Anabolic Steroids
March 2004
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/p...awenforcement/
The above web page is at the DEA's Office of Diversion Control.
Google search term:
"Big Guns: When Cops Use Steroids Steroid Abuse Can Contribute to Police Brutality Even Murder ABC'Marc Lallanilla May, 2005"
By ABC' News Marc Lallanilla (May, 2005)
ABC News: Big Guns: When Cops Use Steroids
Steroid Abuse Can Contribute to Police Brutality -- Even Murder ... is quietly unfolding in small towns and big cities across America -- cops on steroids. ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/story?id=775659&page=1
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Note:
End Steroids Use By CopS
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/E_SUCKS/
About the Yahoo Group "E_SUCKS"
It is meant as a forum, to share relevant articles, news, statistics,
and testimonies to impact legislation about Cops on steroids, and
its murderous effect on our community.
It is particularly crucial that we track down cities and counties
were cops must now be submitted to :
* Testing after use of Excessive Force
* Random Testing.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Iolmisha@
Date: Aug 19, 2007 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: ? Fwd: Re: Police Shootings Fwd: Violence & Toxic Chemical Exposures Fwd:...
To: toxicreverend@
Well...
I am not sure how to relay it back to my son Idriss' murder by PD,
you'll be the judge of what is relevant or appropriate to forward.
I know that my son got much sicker with his already severe asthma
since I purchased a house for him in SF Bayview Hunters Point in 1997,
a mile from the shipyard, and a block from Candlestick park.
Besides filtering his apartment air, drinking and cooking water, he
would routinely pass out in the shower....until he intalled a filter on
his shower head.
Idriss was in therapy since the age of 7 for chronic
depression, and had never developped other signs
of mental illness, but in the last 4 years of his life in Bayview, I helplessly saw
him rapidly develop signs of hypomania, alternating periods of intense
activity, sleep deprivation and very low tolerance to frustration, with
periods of deep depression, withdrawal and isolation.
Idriss never took drugs.
He tried to transcend his symptoms through
organic nutrition,
amino acids,
listening to music (eclectic taste, not only Tupac but Eric Sati,
Narcisso Yepes, Bartok and the great classics!), reading the Coran and
MalcomX,
praying,
tutoring in Spanish, French and advanced Maths (City College, Wallenberg
High School and Day Labor Program),
Art work (graphs, welding, airbrush)
Poetry writing
and lastly long debriefing sessions with Mom when time allowed for both of us,
Although my son did not develop violent tendencies, it is
undebatable that our kids in Bayview's concentration span, tolerance to
frustration, and overall emotional health, beside lethal asthma,
lymphoma, arsenic poisoning, is deeply affected by the mortal chimicals
that they are exposed to on a daily basis.
I would recommend that you get in touch with Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai
Porter, current Mayor Candidate in SF, if you want stats, and facts,
she is the authority and has documented environmental toxicity in
Bayview for decades.
She is horribly busy right now... have patience !
I can send you her email address.
You might want to rent at a library or purchase
the movie "Straight outta Hunters Point" by Kevin Epps.
Now Cops and toxic exposure ? If they work routinely in highly
toxic neighborhoods, I am certain that they are not exempt from the
lethal affects of the chemicals they breathe, eat and drink on a daily
basis right ?
Flights of rage ?
Impaired judgment in crisis situations ?
Lowered inhibitions level?
Low concentration span that leads to lethal decisions/ shoot to kill?
That makes total sense....
I am more concerned by the chimicals that they deliberately chose
to shoot up to increase muscle mass and reduce their level of fear as
"Beat Cops", leading to so many casualties, for the cops themselves
(heart attacks, suicides, domestic violence )andfor their victims...
See website ISF set up on the topic:
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/E_SUCKS/
END STEROIDS USE BY CKopS
In Unity & Respect
mesha
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The Implicit examples that support the above
statements :>
This Mother Jones article states that over 100,000
people die every year from legally prescribed
drugs :>
I.E. #1
The Other Drug War | Mother Jones
Issue Date: November/December 1998 Issue Dek:
The FDA is wasting its time impeding harmless rice
imports while ignoring what may be the fourth-leading
cause ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/11/other-drug-war
- 64k -
I.E. #2
Mentally ill die 25 years earlier, on average - USATODAY.com
5/3/2007 USA TODAY,
By Marilyn Eliasmelias@usatoday.com
USA Today Editor [email protected],
Adults with serious mental illness treated in public
systems die about 25 years earlier than Americans
overall, a gap that's widened since the early '90s ..
https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-05-03-mental-illness_N.htm
But the facts are deeply buried in big money.
I.E. #3
Psychiatrists Top List in Drug Maker Gifts By GARDINER HARRIS
1-202-862-0443 [email protected]
If you need to reach The Times immediately,
please call 212-556-1234.
Published: June 27, 2007 New York Times
ental Health & Behavior <(section) https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/health/psychology/27doctors.html?_r=1&ex=1183608000&en=9e3ddc820866893b&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERFEATURESI.E # 4
This next reference is titled the same as
the Mother Jones, but from Public Citizen and a
very different report. It tracks the money trail
that keeps this "situation" going.
The Other Drug War
Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists
Report from Public Citizen attached as:
otherdrugwar.pdf
Posted at:
https://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=6537
I.E. # 5
Book title: Antidepressant on Trial
by
Alison Bass, an award-winning journalist and
Pulitzer Prize nominee, writes about why the
system of drug research and development in the
United States is seriously flawed and what reforms
are needed. Bass is the author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial; The book tells the true story of two remarkable women who exposed the deception behind the marketing of bestselling antidepressant Paxil.
Bass’s blog is a great source of information on the problems associated with today’s model of pharmaceutical marketing. For instance, check out her posts on the fraud case of anesthesiologist Dr. Scott Reuben; the DOJ lawsuit against Forest Labs over their marketing of antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro; and Emory University’s treatment of psychiatrist Dr. Charles Nemeroff, who had failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal payments from Paxil maker GlaxoSmith Kline.
5a : Drug Awareness, Ann Blake Tracy PhD
https://www.drugawareness.org/
5b: Mind Freedom International, David Oaks
https://www.mindfreedom.org/
5c:
Treatment Advocacy Center
200 N. Glebe Road, Suite 730, Arlington, VA 22203
703 294 6001/6002 (phone) | 703 294 6010 (fax) |
www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org
5d:
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (or CCHR)
https://www.cchr.org
I.E. # 6
"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"
Exposes who "they" are, withverifiable reference
material
6a: One of my blogs; also gives an "Action Link"
to the Union of Concerned Scientists and their
"Integrity In Science Campaign"
The blog of mine in reference is
Monday, October 20, 2008
POISON FOR PROFIT and Toxic Revelations
Excerpts from the above blog:
157 :POISON FOR PROFIT CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz May 15, 2002
The huge transnational companies that produce toxic
chemicals found in pesticides, herbicides and industrial
and household products profit not only from the sale of
these products, but also from the symptoms and chronic illnesses that they can trigger.
This report has been censored from the Internet
and removed from the Archives Wayback
Machine. But a number of advocates have been
re-posting the report and copies can be found
with a simple Google search on the title and
author:>
"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"
I.E. # 7:
Michael Moore's movie titles "Sicko"
Observation: did not delve info into enough detail
on the above factors. Though it did cover the "denial
of care" to the insured with the sworn testimony of
Linda Peeno MD in a Congressional Hearing.
I do have a copy of her testimony, but have not attached it. The movie "Sicko" has a web page at :>
https://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/dvd/
I.E. # 8:
A peer reviewed medical journal on the effects
of the environment on human health has declared
that the majority of mental illnesses are caused by
exposures to toxic chemicals.
In reference:
Environmental Connections: A Deeper Look into Mental Illness
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP )
a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and its content is free online. Print issues are available by paid subscription. https://www.ehponline.org/
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 115, Number 8, August 2007
https://www.ehponline.org/cgi-bin/findtoc2.pl?tocinfo=Environmental%20Health%20Perspectives@115@8@2007
I.E. # 9:
PRISON ISN'T A PRESCRIPTION FOR MENTAL ILLNESS,
March 10, 2004 Press Democrat newspaper.
Byline, Ann Dubay. www.pressdemocrat.com
I.E. # 10
Antipsychotics and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
By Sabine M. J. M. Straus, MD; Gyse`le S. Bleumink, MD; Jeanne P. Dieleman, PhD;
Johan van der Lei, MD, PhD; Geert W. ‘t Jong, PhD; J. Herre Kingma, MD, PhD;
Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom, PhD; Bruno H. C. Stricker, PhD
ARCH INTERN MED/VOL 164, JUNE 28, 2004 WWW.ARCHINTERNMED.COM
American Medical Association
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