Okay so I will admit new on here (don't roll yours eyes at me ) lol what does LE stand for.
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Okay so I will admit new on here (don't roll yours eyes at me ) lol what does LE stand for.
Okay so I will admit new on here (don't roll yours eyes at me ) lol what does LE stand for.
Okay so I will admit new on here (don't roll yours eyes at me ) lol what does LE stand for.
Arlene got the text from the police on 5-30-11. 30 days after Gail went missing when she was in another state looking for Gail.
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OK, I am frustrated. Let me start off with this so you understand my post-LE is in the middle of an active investigation. They are processing leads and evidence and trying to put the pieces of all of this together.
And yet, people have started dumping info from inside of the investigation to the media presumably because they dont see any signs of action from PD....? How does this make any sense?
Everything is at stake here. Everything. The integrity of the investigation, telegraphing the focus of the investigation, the locations that might be searched...I mean everything is out there. I have never seen anything like it.
This, fwiw, will infinitely hurt Gail's case in the long term....that is my belief. I know people are doing it from a place of caring, but please please please let PD do their job.
They have to be allowed to do their job. This is not TV. This is real life. A case like this is not solved in 60 minutes with commercials. ARGH.
This is a plea here-cooperation and encouragement will keep LE focused and interested. And every material witness who is taking to the airways is flushing their credibility right down the toilet.
Peace to Gail, peace to her crushed and angry family, and peace to her friends.
:truce:
OK, I am frustrated. Let me start off with this so you understand my post-LE is in the middle of an active investigation. They are processing leads and evidence and trying to put the pieces of all of this together.
And yet, people have started dumping info from inside of the investigation to the media presumably because they dont see any signs of action from PD....? How does this make any sense?
Everything is at stake here. Everything. The integrity of the investigation, telegraphing the focus of the investigation, the locations that might be searched...I mean everything is out there. I have never seen anything like it.
This, fwiw, will infinitely hurt Gail's case in the long term....that is my belief. I know people are doing it from a place of caring, but please please please let PD do their job.
They have to be allowed to do their job. This is not TV. This is real life. A case like this is not solved in 60 minutes with commercials. ARGH.
This is a plea here-cooperation and encouragement will keep LE focused and interested. And every material witness who is taking to the airways is flushing their credibility right down the toilet.
Peace to Gail, peace to her crushed and angry family, and peace to her friends.
I passed a vehicle exactly like Gails yesterday, only it had a different spare tire cover on it. (It also had different plates.)
Which got me to wondering- the description of the vehicle has been very specific using both the tire cover, the hitch, and the plate.
All of which can very easily be changed. Kwim?
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Do we have an EXCELLENT, 100% accurate post icon? If not, I want one.
Do not waste LE's time, people. These are real people- not just Gail, but ALL of the missing. They ALL have someone who loves them and is hurting tremendously, and wants them found. In most cases LE works their butt off 24/7 to try and help find these people.
The media is only working for themselves- which is fine, it's a free country.
BUT.
Keep in mind that your freedom to swing a fist at someone, ends when it makes contact with anothers' face.
As believe09 said, this is real life. Not TV.
Ok, I am off rant now and moving on to my next post which is something I thought about earlier.
Was it red or crimson? Yes those things could be changed. From what I have read the crimson color is very rare. correct me if I am wrong. Gail's is crimson.
I also agree with Believe's sentiments, but at the same time, RWB is correct. The SMPD is not your typical police department, and in this instance, I have a feeling that Arlene has learned this, or she wouldn't have come out and stated as much.
I believe what you are saying is true but I have to say the SMPD IS not your typical police department. I have witnessed Soccer Moms going up to the police and tell them how to run the department and they know that keeping bad light of the community is the number one thing. IMO I believe the police wanted this to stay a closed family matter and it would all go away. There is alot that goes on up on the mountain that is totally brushed under the rug. Remember their are alot of Chattanooga movers and shakers on the mountain actually on both of the mountains. I have even told a friend who lives on the mountain about a registered sex offender living in her neighborhood and would not believe me and came up with excuses (wrong data in system, etc., etc.) It is the mountain way. I hope and pray for continued comfort for Gail, her family, children and her friends.
I'm frustrated with certain particulars regarding the case as well, and I think some of the criticisms of community politics are valid, but I am very concerned about the developing negative portrayal of our local LE in various media outlets, including WS. If we want them to eventually be successful in supporting a prosecution of this case against the appropriate party, we are not helping the cause by portraying them as incompetent and unconcerned. After all, they are what we've got, and maybe they'll do a better job if we can support and encourage them now. Just possibly they are doing a better job than they are getting credit for--just behind the scenes.
I think the game plan has changed in a huge way, since the initial stages of the case where the goal was to bring the case to the spotlight quickly. At that time, it was a "search and rescue" mission. Now that most people believe that is no longer realistic, techniques need to change.
In my opinion, this is just not the time and place for pointing out all the flaws with our town government. That can all happen in a different forum, perhaps within the community and through our elected officials. :twocents:
Okay so I will admit new on here (don't roll yours eyes at me ) lol what does LE stand for.