Monday, April 24, 2006

We're the Only Ones Avuncular Enough

A 5-year-old boy was recovering Sunday after accidentally shooting himself with a gun he that belonged to his uncle, who is also a San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy, police said.
Just "the deputy" or "the uncle"?

Why is it that when non-LEOs are involved in such negligence, the papers have no problem telling us their names?

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Being an LEO, of course, he won't be charged with any sort of negligence, as we peons would be, under PDRK law.

Ken said...

Or even not involved in anything at all...here in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is at pains to protect the public by publishing the names of law-abiding citizens who have chosen to get CCW permits. And our mighty governor, Robert Taft, has threatened to veto the bill that just passed the Ohio House cleaning up CCW in cars and eliminating the ability to publish the names of permit holders.