That's Your Mayor: Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake
You know that you should tell your parents that you voted for her, but it just hasn't seemed like the right time. It's not that you're scared of what they'll say, your parents have always supported you, but you don't want to see that quiet disappointment in their eyes. "But she makes ridiculous, unsustainable policies without the logical reasoning skills to back them up. She has attempted to literally cut the legs out from under our police department without clearly understanding what that would mean for the safety of the town. And she is saucy and combative with the press," they will say. "I mean, a 'no running' policy?" your mother will say. "What is that?" You will shake your head. "It's a no chasing policy, mom." She will look down. "All the same." There will be a pregnant pause. "Well, she's mine, and I love her," you will say. And then everyone will push the food around their plates in stone silence until someone, probably your dad, changes the subject.
Soon! You'll tell them soon. Just not tonight. (Thanks for the tip, Octavis.)
Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in Justice, Politics
Tags: Crime | Justice | Mayors | Running
Oh, thank god. This is a relief, because for a while I was thinking this was my mayor. I'm moving up in the world! I think.
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I was convinced that that woman was the East Cleveland mayor in drag. Today is That's Your Mayor Day.
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sexually explicit statements about relatives: that's my wisconsin, that's my wisconsin
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I think she's being sarcastic when she keeps repeating "May God bless you". She doesn't really want God to bless that reporter. Probably.
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I mean what I said, and I said what I meant. A dummy's a dummy, 100%
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She's rescinded the policy now. And lost my vote in the process. When I put down my porkboiled peanuts and left my grease-smeared mark on the Spartanburg County ballots, I chose to support a candidate who would go batshit and stay batshit.
God bless you Sallie Peake, you've shamed us. God bless you to hell.
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The real victim here is the Annual Police Officers' Picnic game of Tag.
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Sallie Peake is clearly in the pocket of Big Segway
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Which state is Wellford in? I need to start planning my bank robberies.
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Wellford is a small town in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It's close to the city, Greenville, where we got the infamous squirrel with its head in a yogurt cup footage. I used to live there. This is how I keep up with home.
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Didn't Spartanburg County just have a serial killer? I'm at Myrtle Beach myself.
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If clapping and making sarcastic, exaggerated statements in a creepily high voice is what gets you ahead in politics.. my sister should have a throne on the sun.
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I predict lassoes will make quite a comeback.
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All these comments of full of ZING!
The Videogum Commenter Community is in top form this Friday morning.
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After Kwame Kilpatrick resigned last year I was afraid I'd never have another mayor. God bless you, Sallie Peake, for upholding the dignity of that office.
OK, I also really love to hear my local TV news reporter sum it all up with a smug, condescending pun.
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Shoddy journalist didn't do a story about the companion policy... "As of this date, criminals are to no longer RUN away from pursuing officers of the law. A brisk walk is acceptable."
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i have a feeling that all the crimes in wellford up to this point are perpetrated by one really fast dude who's been wreaking havoc on the police squad. "will this dude ever slow down?" "no, well then let's just quit chasing him."
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i'm wondering if it's maybe just a sort of fast criminal with pockets full of ball-bearings and banana peels, because it seems like the police are having an awful lot of accidents in their foot chases. when i run to/from things, i almost never fall down.
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I am speechless... WOW!
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from this point forward, when someone says something I don't like to me, I will invoke God's blessings repeatedly.
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While all of you pick apart and parse Mayor Peake's comment regarding the nature of law enforcement in the greater Wellburg area, you're missing a larger point that forces me to conclude that most of the comments stem from, frankly, a narrow-minded viewpoint. Recent studies by researchers at Brown University had cast doubt on the utility of chasing after criminals, citing the fact that, feeling threatened, a felon may indeed commit more crimes of an even more serious nature than the event that provoked the chase. Take the example of a bank robber making off with, say 30,000 USD after pistol-whippin' a teller. If chased this bank robber may also:
1. violate pedestrian laws (jaywalking, not waiting for signal changes, etc.)
2. violate motor vehicle laws (speeding, close following, trying to jump over gorges, ravines, unfinished bridges)
3. violate public decency laws (changing one's clothing in public in an effort to evade/confuse law enforcement officers)
Let's also not forget that SOME CHASES DO NOT RESULT IN THE APPREHENSION OF THE SUSPECTED CRIMINAL. So what's the point of engaging in them?
Also, by chasing a suspect, the police are making a de facto DETERMINATION OF GUILT upon the person being chased. Last time I picked up the Constitution, it did not include any rules or regulations that allowed police to have this kind of power, deciding whom to chase, for what reason, how quickly, and when. I know here in the city of Atlanta, I would not want to live amongst a police force that acts as chaser, juror, and executioner of my fellow citizens. Is that what any of us want? Best for the police to collect facts, present them to a DIVERSE and UNBIASED grand jury, and have that body decide if a chase is in fact warranted against the person or persons of interest. I mean, would anyone want the police to chase anyone they felt like, just a SUSPICION or HUNTCH that they committed a crime? Think of the possibilities of abuse, people!
In short, police chases violate our civil rights as they (1) by nature discriminate between those suspected of crimes (stress on suspected) and those who are not at that given moment suspected of anything (2) fail to involve other members of the law enforcement community (I for one would like to see more non-profit and counselor involvement prior to the start of any chase, as well as grand jury approval prior to pursuing a criminal) (3) lead to cost overruns due to the possible risk of bodily harm to officers (they're not out there to risk their lives, people!) and finally (4) are not even a 100% effective approach to catching a criminal.
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"Chaser, juror and executioner"? I repeat: ?
You are silly.
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I don't any body else really got your joke, but I loled. Congratulations.
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HaHA! I see now what it is to be! Not even a mere sentence of constructive criticism and out come the ad hominem attacks! Silly, am I? Well would a silly person pen the following:
"Velocius quam asparagi coquantur!"
I think not! Again, pick up your pen to match wits with my impassioned defense of Mayor Peake's law enforcement reform, but let's keep it friendly and refrain from the personal attacks. Calling someone silly has no place on the internet.
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sadly, this really IS my major.
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