EVERY 48 HOURS

An Analysis Of Assault Rifles An Analysis Of Assault Rifles

Traced To Crime In Maryland

September 2006

authored by CeaseFire Maryland Inc. Board Member Susan Peschin

 

7th comment on Ceasefire's "EVERY 48 HOURS"

Phil Lee1

Jan 17, 2007 (rev. 3/8/08)


[ Testimony ]


 

Ms. Peschin quotes (page 8) Montgomery [Alabama] Police Chief John Wilson as saying "It would take body protection something like our troops are wearing in Iraq to protect against such weapons, and even then they are not perfect" and references note 20 which identifies the source as the 2002 Society of Law Enforcement Training Conference.  Given the Iraq war didn't start until March 20, 2003 it is unlikely that Chief Wilson would have made a statement attributed to him at this conference at a time no ground soldiers were in Iraq.  

 

There is evidence that Chief Wilson said something similar, so I don't suspect Ms. Peschin.   of lying about the quote.  What I do suspect is that Ms. Peschin is sloppy about her facts, about documenting her facts and her thought processes.  This is an illustration of her sloppiness.

 

Chief Wilson is not a man of sterling character since he was forced to retire after an incident where he was charged with "reckless endangerment".  You can read the story from the Montgomery Advertiser saved at:

http://www.al.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/syr_fearfollypolitics/archives/print027830.html
or the Law Enforcement News link:

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=15384&siteSection=1

 

The link:

http://www.al.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/syr_fearfollypolitics/archives/print027080.html
makes clear that this is not the first case of Wilson's bad judgment concerning alcohol and driving.

 

So, Ms. Peschin quotes a police chief with a history of bad judgments.  And, in making the quote, she misattributes it to a time and place it couldn't have happened.

 

BTW -- it appears Ms. Peschin has warmed left-overs from 2004 in her 2006 “Every 48 Hours” report and is passing these left-overs as a new meal.  Her document "BACK IN BUSINE$$" at is very similar to her CeaseFireMD report.


1  Phil Lee has a PhD in Mathematics.