Cop Threatens Feminist Blogger December 29, 2008 Jill It’s laid out in this YouTube video: Five Before Midnight has more. And it looks like the cop, Ira Peskowitz, has a history of this kind of behavior. Thanks to Amp for the links.
Hey, call us if he kills you! That is literally, word for word, what my sister-in-law was told, at age 16, about her ex, who had, by age 18, already been to prison for aggravated assault and attempted murder. That night, he showed up at my apartment, with a gun, looking for her. Unless you’re a pretty, young blonde disappearing on a class trip, nobody gives a shit.
how did this start? how did this cop find her to send her this evilness? i am not asking so i can say to her “hey, see, it’s really YOUR fault”, but so that i can look at the police department and say that. there ARE good cops. i have met them. the tend to have their hands by the bad cops who make all the paperwork, and i have met them too. there are evilevilevilevil fuckers who wear cop uniforms. this guy is one of those and i DO NOT WANT TO MEET HIM. no one should
that seems unclear. i was trying to say that i am not victim blaming, not wanting info TO victim blame. this is the fault of the evil cop and the police departments that give him a badge. period.
Looks like the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department may need several thousand emails from the blogosphere to let them know that their unbalanced golden boy is now an internet sensation.
DrunkBunny: Do you really think they don’t know? Do you really think they care? As long as he fills his quota of parking tickets, puts the requisite number of black kids in prison each year, and doesn’t do anything that ends in a successful lawsuit he won’t be bothered. Why? Because the only problem his superiors likely have with his behavior was that he was too dumb to properly cover his tracks. After all, he was only threatening a woman who had the audacity to question the behavior of their fellow brothers in blue. They probably think she deserved it.
Wouldn’t his threats against the blogger constitute terroristic threats (as opposed to garden variety threats)? If so, could thi be bumped up from the jurisdiction of local law enforcement to the FBI?
Thanks for writing about this! The woman involved is an amazing and tireless force for exposure of the all too common problem of LE related domestic violence which is pretty common. In fact, I heard a story about an unnamed officer in my own city’s agency that had a situation like this one with alleged DV. It’s very much under the radar even though there’s correlation between DV violence and use of force violence against the public. This needs to be treated seriously by the department of the suspected deputy and it’s alarming that someone with this history was hired by a fourth agency despite multiple restraining orders by employees. But it’s not being taken seriously as the threat. Unfortunately, if you blog on police issues, often the police don’t like it and they lash out in different ways. I know that from experience. And it can be hard. There’s very little accountability from their agencies. My blog was dragged into an IA investigation due to conduct by employees and when it was done, I got retaliated against for months. One reason why comments on my site are disabled. Wouldn’t his threats against the blogger constitute terroristic threats (as opposed to garden variety threats)? If so, could thi be bumped up from the jurisdiction of local law enforcement to the FBI? What bumps it up is if it’s out of state harassers or using ISPs based in different states. Been there, done this. The FBI’s ability to uncover IP addresses belonging to computer users seems to be excellent unless they are used by police. or they have to apprehend police. I was told the FBI believed one officer in my case made threats. Guess what, wait six months, he gets a civic award. That’s why it’s hard to be impressed.
I’m her. I’ve been blogging on officer-involved domestic violence [oidv] and co-mingling with cop dv victims behind the scenes for awhile now. BLOG: BEHIND THE BLUE WALL http://BEHINDTHEBLUEWALL.blogspot.com/ Whoever sent me these email threats from Ira Peskowitz’s (confirmed) personal email address didn’t like a post I did about tracking oidv in Florida – a post that included a couple of excerpts from articles about Ira. So what made him mad is item #15 in this post: “Following Officer-Involved DV in Florida” http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2008/11/following-officer-invoved-dv-in-florida.html The intro to the post says the officers are not convicted just because they are in the list – that the titles are just a copy of my list of folders on my computer… His second message to me was telling me I better take it down or he would make me a blog. The next day while talking to police on the phone I found the second email that said he is on his way to me – that he knows where I am – and God help me and my family. I have a a case number with Palm Beach FL, Tacoma WA, and an FBI complaint number. My sis Renee’ started this blog, and I joined in: “MICHIGAN OIDV RESPONSE TO THE THREATENING OF A SISTER OIDV BLOGGER: http://mioidvresponsetopeskowitzemailthreat.blogspot.com/ I posted the related WA and FL state laws involved here: “[FL] Interstate threatening communication emails received from the personal email address of Palm Beach Sheriff’s Deputy Ira Peskowitz” http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2008/12/fl-interstate-threatening-communication.html If he killed me and the fam, would Tacoma or PBSO speak up? I had no indication so far that they would. I felt the only other course of action was to go out loud. I keep shaking mah head. Who would threaten a blogger and expect for it to stay low key? Kill MAH KIDZ? (What is this he has about wanting to erase families?) If we die we want to leave crumbs through the forest so someone could find the killa, and we have. I take the threats seriously. MUCH LOVE! Cloud The two available articles about Ira’s past threats etc. are hosted here on Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dg67w3pj_124g2b859t8
First I’ve heard of this, this should be on the national news. It’s like a Lifetime movie were you ‘oh that could never happen’…
“Do you really think they care?” Never mind about justice and righteousness. If they get enough email, they may be forced to confront the liability ramifications. For this reason I suggest contacting the Mayor and other city officials as well-they’re the ones who will have to deal with the costs of any civil suit, should this guy ever follow through, god forbid.
The agency hired an officer with a hideous record that already put him or should have put him at an incalculable financial risk. He was a proven bad officer, before he got to Florida. They still embraced him. Maybe they did it proudly like a little police agency in California known as Maywood Police Department and I urge you to read the Maywood link to find out just how bad a so-called “second chance” agency can become, with the apparent blessing of a city council and mayor. I was fortunate enough to talk to someone looking into Maywood’s department and that was helpful in understanding its pathway to what it became. And William’s words though cynical aren’t far off at all and I can speak from personal experience on that. It’s all about weighing the so-called “greater good” that the officers do over any on and/or off-duty misconduct that they engage in. You are simply collateral damage when it happens to you and you’re looked at as the trouble maker. I mean, if an officer harasses you, gets caught and then gets a civic award (and I can tell you what’s it like sitting and watching get awarded) and then back that up, and count more who fall in the same category, then what they’re saying is they don’t care about the misconduct.
. If they get enough email, they may be forced to confront the liability ramifications Tell that to the dozens of innocent people who die every year as a result of police negligence. Tell that to the hundreds of families whose homes have been invaded in no-knock raids. Tell that to the thousands of people who were literally tortured by detectives in Chicago. Tell that to the tens of thousands of people who will be threatened, robbed, beaten, raped, or falsely imprisoned by police officers who know that no one gives a shit. Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of people in prison today who were thrown into a cage to be raped and beaten for smoking a little dope or mouthing off to the wrong asshole with a badge or being the wrong color in the wrong neighborhood. Maybe were you live people might care, but where I live the police behave like animals because they are only disciplined when they commit a particularly shocking atrocity against someone they don’t manage to menace into silence and the story happens to break on a slow news day. Look at the public outcry over a bunch of white cops beating the hell out of a handcuffed black man on the side of an LA freeway on fucking video tape. Look at the national attention, look at the outcry. Then look at what happened. Do you really think a couple of feminists sending an e-mail about a brother-in-blue harassing is going to have any effect? Police don’t care about misconduct, not at any level in the chain of command. They do not care. Sure, its ugly and cynical, but its also the truth. After all, most cops have the good sense to abuse women, teenagers, and people for whom there are colorful ethnic slurs to trade over a beer after a shift. Sociopaths are very good at figuring out who the rest of society doesn’t care about.