Legal System 'Dropped Ball' on Garrido: Cop

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I have already written an email to the Sheriff of El Dorado County (which includes South Lake Tahoe, CA) regarding this 'snatch and rape' in the 1970s in his jurisdiction, asking whether the Sheriff's investigators followed through on this similar / same modus operandi of Girrardo when he 'snatched' Jaycee in the very same locale just a few years after getting out of a Nevada prison. (For those who don't know the geography, there is a street named 'Stateline' in South Lake Tahoe. On the east side of the street, you are in California. On the west side of the street, you are in Nevada) I asked him whether the Department's investigators set their sights on Jaycee's step-father to the exclusion of possibilities including a similar crime in the same jurisdiction a few years earlier. I suggested that there is a possibility that this kidnapping of Jaycee could have easily been solved within the County where it occurred. I have had no response yet from the Sheriff of El Dorado County. I guess I don't expect one, either. Cops are very good at protecting their own, themselves, and their departments. It's called the blue line of silence. It's always a lie or a coverup. Then we have this apology by the Sheriff of Contra Costa County (CA) where Girrardo lived with his tent city behind fences, with reports from neighbors about children living in the back yard of a sex offender, of Sheriff's Deputies responding to these complaints at the property, of California State parole officers who are physically in the front yard, in the house, anywhere they wanted to be on the property, with the stench of this two-decades-old and ongoing crime rising into the noses of all these legal beagles - and every last one of them misses it? Every last one? Give me a f**king break. In the end, it takes some slueths of the 'rent-a-cop' variety of the Campus Police of the University of California Police at Berkeley to break this 20-year-old case wide open. This, of course, engenders respect for the police function which is much more inclined towards keeping poor people of our country oppressed, suppressed and repressed. We have a barbaric, sadistic incompetent police function in this country which is much better at beating, framing, and lying than they are at protecting, serving and solving. And they defend their rights to be exactly that. Except for a periodic apology when their blue pants have been yanked down around their collective ankles.

From all accounts it seems to me like he has a combination of two serious problems, schizophrenia and sex addiction. He is not so crazy that he can't appear to be sort of rational for periods of time. His own family knew he was crazy and I bet the prison did too. The prison system and law enforcement cannot handle people like this very well. What is missing are simple objective medical tests for common forms of mental illness and some way to adequately manage these people when they are identified. Its amazing that he pulled this off for 18 years while under supervised probation. He must have really pulled a Charlie Manson style svengali act on her.

@feg - you are being REALLY inappropriate. if this is your true comment then you are too sick to be walking the streets, let alone commenting on newser.