News Apr 23, 2014 at 1:00 pm

Jail Audio Recordings Have Proven Useful. Why Scrap Them?

Illustration by Alex DeSpain

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1
The phone lines for talking to your attorney at Multnomah County Jail, are still tapped and recorded.
2
We seem to be creeping closer and closer to the Brazil of the 80s, where the cops were nothing more than savage thugs for drug lords and big-money interests, greeting the dawn by terrorizing and murdering street people, people who couldn't bribe them and had no hope of rising out of the shanties and into respectable slums.

This sort of thing should be cause for popular uproar, even violent citizen uprising, because it flies in the face of the freedom and dignity we claim to cherish (but which has been supplanted by comfort and convenience) and is a reversal of the progress we've made from the halcyon days of god emperors and robber barons.

Maybe when cities like Clackamas and Beaverton become shanty towns and everyone's ladled out Soylent Green in church meals lines once a day, maybe then we'll wake up to the diligence and accountability that democracy and justice require. Me, I'm under a freeway wallowing in combat fatigue beneath a tarp, waiting for the cops.
3
Remember that Humphreys is now the elected sheriff of Wheeler County, and consider the chances of death if your travel plans take you through central Oregon. Avoid doing business in Wheeler County at all cost.
4
@Trainwreck seriously? At least he's off PPD. Where has Friendly ended up?
5
Oh, good! I'm so glad that our venerable police force is following the rest of its brotherhood to less and less accountability and increased violence against its constituency.

I was afraid we might take a stand and do the right thing. Cuz, you know. Money.

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