August 22, 2012 - 12:00 am
Let’s hear again from the crime analyst in the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office.
Analyst: I guess. Cause he’s the one changing everything.
Deputy: Changing the stats?
Analyst: (nods) He’s the one…
Deputy: Well how is he changing them?
Analyst: He reads the reports and fiddles with you if it’s not linking. Like, with a robbery, he redrizzles it down to a simple, like an, if it’s like uh, aggravated assault, (looks away to see if anyone can hear) he orders a downgrade to assault. Or if…
Deputy: It’s real simple to do because most people are gonna, think you’re gonna have more.
(Analyst tilts head skeptically)
Deputy: You can justify it both ways.
Analyst: Yeah, but some of them, no.
One additional victim: The Truth.
Two additional victims:
The truth and integrity.
Yes, but that hasn’t always been the case. Once upon a time, my Father was a Texas Ranger stationed in McAllen, TX. We lived 1/2 way between McAllen and Reynosa. I spent more time in Reynosa than I did in McAllen.
Not only did we work and play with “illegals,” (So-called ‘Wetbacks’ who swam the Rio Grande, pick crops and then get busted/driven “home” by the Border Patrol) I could speak better Spanish than I could English by the time I was 10.
Despite the “Walker, Texas Ranger” mystique, I remember my Dad talking about spending more time filling out paperwork and compiling statistics on “undocumentented entrants” (The PC term for what he did!) than in catching gun-runners, mauraders and, yes, an occasional murderer.
Before the “invasion of America” – not by illegals but by liberalism – border residents knew what was going on. And felt safer from it! Yet, I digress.
Dad would have been drummed out of the TR and likely sent to jail himself if he had falsified a record. Nor would he have ever had to take “diversity training” if someone who shouldn’t have been here in the first place gotten “insulted” by something he said or did.
SO! D*mn the statistics, funding, PC correctness and imported votes! Friends, this Country is in trouble. And the article above is writ small of what we are facing and will face if there isn’t a major change in November!
I live in Cameron county and this goes on in the entire Rio Grande, democrat dictatorship. Lupe is as dirty as they come, and the power he has is even more frightening. This attitude is like a strong stench that permeates this area. And what do you get from the police, you get those 4 men toting back packs going through your guard gated golf community at 5 a.m. in the morning nothing more than “migrants on their way to a better life”. A coast guard members wife front door shot out at 2 am in the morning and the claim by law enforcement, must be just kids. The average age in the golf community must be 68, there are no kids. I have forwarded this to AG Abotts office here in Texas, and although it isn’t his area to fight, as we were told, he said he would give it to the Texas Rangers to look at and the Feds. (the feds?) They are part of the problem. The corruption here in the Valley is as bad as that in Mexico. Thank you for taking the time to write this report, and investigate, but as I have forwarded it to the Brownsville Herald and The Monitor, the two local papers, I have yet to see a “PEEP” out of the cowards.
I agree. I was a border expert for 15 years and, athe subses a contractor in betweent he feds and locals, I know these people well. Your summary is very accurate. While US newspapers take their final reports from the police reports (and
My apologies. I hit back button and posted a draft comment.
I agree. I was a border expert for 15 years and, as a contractor in between the feds and locals, I know these people well. Your summary is very accurate. Payolla, crony, blatant nepotism, looking the other way and shakedowns are pervasive in their control. Elections are freely bought and traded.
Take a drive through McAllen or through the countryside to the bridge in Reynosa or Progresso. Notice the number of homes with thousands of roosters or dogs tied to little white igloo shelters. Notice the number of backyard ‘arenas’ to ‘show’ roosters and dogs. How many busts for animal cruelty and gambling have there been?
How often is it reported that a farmer’s entire fields of crops are stolen, picked, and shipped overnight? How often are gunshots and assaults reported and how are they reported: a family argument and disturbance of peace complaint or a cartel battle?
Men carrying big bundles wrapped in black garbage bags are not coming in to pick crops. Drive down FM 1015 at night and notice all the trucks or cars driving slowly? They are picking up their contacts or collecting the bundles. Those same men crossing through your backyard will be back with new bundles in two days.
While US newspapers take their final reports from the police reports and the determined classification, Mexico newspapers are notoriously accurate and report all. Progresso and Reynosa are posting record numbers of murders, crime, disappearances.
Sheriff Trevino needs to be tried and put in prison. Here’s hoping the Texas Rangers will investigate soon.
All of this corruption needs to stop. It is not the true American way and teaches our youth to lie. It appears it goes all the way up the ladder with our government officials. They must learn how to lie when they campaign as we seem to have plenty of them. Doesn’t Oath of Office mean anything anymore? These corrupt people need to be replaced with true patriots. Do some research and vote them all out in November and let’s get this country back to where our founding Fathers meant it to be. We are the example to the rest of the world. Show your true colors and quit the lying.
If you think fudging the numbers is confined to the crime stats I have news for you. The political/government class in this country is fundamentally dishonest. And that will be our ruin.
Of course that poor Sheriff needs more funding. You wouldn’t expect him to use regular old stick pens would you? Those things get uncomfortable if you do a lot of writing with them. He needs the much better more expensive comfort grip pens to make all those changes. /sarc
As with most of our problems in this country it all stems from a lack of control at the lowest level possible. Welfare abuse occurs because the people dishing out the money do not know the people they are enriching. Local charities did a much more efficient job of helping the truly needy because they were members of the same community. The Feds don’t know and don’t care about illegal activity in your local community as long as the money continues to flow. The federal Government HAS GOT to be reigned in and returned to Constitutional levels. If so problems will dissipate and and lessen.
Yeah, Reynosa is a dangerous place. There is a reason why Anglos don’t visit there anymore. You could walk into a restaraunt or a night club or even down the street, if there are cartel members there and they just suspect you’re DEA or border patrol, you’re dead. And that is no joke.
Back in the late 80s a DEA agent was captured, tortured and killed. HBO made a movie about it, because US authorities basically invaded Mexico and illegally captured the cartel members responsible and brought them to Texas for trial.
Even worse there was the case of a Spring Breaker, ironically named Killroy, who was partying in Matamoros, got lured into an alley and subsequently was sacrificed in a Santaria voodoo ceremony. Yeah, they cut out his brain and heart and ate them, because the drug smugglers believed it would make them impervious to bullets. The Mexican newspapers had photos of the gruesome crime scene that would never be published in the US–I saw them. That was in 1988.
More recently there have been incidents when cartels rolled chopped off heads onto the floors of nightclubs in Reynosa. This has been going on for the last 25 years, but it has become increasingly more and more violent. These people, in these drug cartels, are brutal and fearless. They have nothing to worry about from the Mexican police and apparently nothing to worry about from the Texas police. So they act with impunity.
Most of the violence occurs between the cartels. In this case, this guy Hernandez pissed off the wrong people. So the cartel sent some soldiers disguised as US agents, lured him into Mexico and then beat him to death. That’s about par for the course.
If innocent civilians get killed in the cross-fire, well those are just casualties of war. What about the tourists who wandered too far on the wrong side of the Rio Grande to take pictures of a scenic cove, which happened to be controlled by the cartels, and were shot at and killed? Nary a mention of them.
Northern Mexico is out of control. And increasingly so is southern Texas. And New Mexico, and Arizona, and California.
I still don’t think Sheriff Trevino is corrupt. I think he’s overwhelmed. But there is the political side of it, falsifying crime reports to keep federal funds flowing.
Texas is a sea of red with islands of blue. Austin, inner city Dallas and Houston, Laredo and El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley are all solidly Democrat. Republicans don’t even bother to run there.
So there is that angle to it. But this story goes much higher than the county level. It goes to the state and federal level. When the American people start demanding accountability from the elected representatives, maybe things will change for the better. Until such time, I don’t think so.
Sorry, Trevino is corrupt as was his predecesor and as will be his replacement. Recent years of verified ballot stuffing and nepotism, Weslaco investigations, judicial corruption in Brownsville, Cameron county corruption indictments convictions cannot be overlooked
I sorely miss going to Reynosa, Progresso and Matamoros for shopping, dinner and a few cheap drinks. It used to be you needed to be crossing back across the bridge right before sundown. At that time, the military police (kids with machine guns)would show up, the street vendors would take cover, local families and the would show up, would rapidly leave and the flavor of activities would rapidly change in a manner of minutes.
Not anymore. As you say, it is a mistake to go outside the three blocks of shopping, a mistake to look like anything more than a retire coming in for cheap medical/dental care, a mistake to look like anything other than a family tourist day trip.
The locals hate it. They love American and German tourists. The local businesses protect the tourists as best they can. Twice I have been in Garcias and the mgt asked everyone to stay in the store for a little while as something outside went along its dark way. Military police safeguard the tourists. Business is a good thing.
Could we expect the same protection from our own on the States side? No so.
So, where is the vaunted TX Mmilitia? Are they silent on this issue? If the authorities refuse to fax the problem, then it IS the right of the people to fix it for them, and then remove the cowardly pukes from office…BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
Corrupt gov’t officials…you don’t like it. Tough! Go read the Declaration of Independence, and see what that document says about the people’s right to remove your sorry asses from office! The people are at the point where we don’t care about the bullcrap laws you have caused to be enacted to protect your system gaming exercises. it is about time for this crap to stop TX Militia members!
What are you going to do about it? Are you going to continue to tell the rest of the natiuon how tough you are, and do nothing? Or, are you going to formulate a plan to free the people along the border who are victims of this unholy alliance between corrupt local LE, and their masters in the Mexican Drug Cartels? Are you willing to stand up to the corrupt politicians on their payroll in the state legislature who have been doing their level best to keep a lid on the knowledge of crime, in order to serve their masters?
When you do, the rest of the militia across the country will regain our respect for you!
AZRanger
Oh, and if you need help from the rest of us, why not ask!
I know what you are saying, but the narcos do live in fear.
The low level guys are disposable. They fear ambushes, kidnappings, assassinations,…
The Mexican Government eventually locks up the bosses and sometimes extradites them to the United States.
Most of all they fear God, because they know what awaits them. These guys do not come from University towns where they listen to guys like Richard Dawkins and his fashionable atheism. They believe in God and they fear him.
They only appear fearless because they are terrified of their bosses and know the consequences of not following orders.
Gwain’s Ghost said “Texas is a sea of red with islands of blue. Austin, inner city Dallas and Houston, Laredo and El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley are all solidly Democrat. Republicans don’t even bother to run there.”
That may have been true in the past in Hidalgo County but not anymore. Robert Caples, a Marine, former Sheriff’s Deputy and life-long Republican is running against Sheriff Trevino for the first time.
If the people of Hidalgo County are fed up and tired of the corruption and would like their communities to be safe again they should vote for Caples.
The man WILL straighten out this mess and CANNOT be bought. Support Caples and boot that crooked Trevino Out!
Robert Caples for Hidalgo County Sheriff:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Caples-for-Hidalgo-County-Sheriff-2012/278732105542842
Bio:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Caples-for-Hidalgo-County-Sheriff-2012/278732105542842?sk=info
Well, Caples may run but I doubt he’ll win. Republicans just don’t win down here. The Democrat machine is far too powerful. Believe me, I know. I’m on a first name basis with the state district judge. I’ve known him since the third grade.
As to the previous comment, yeah, Nuevo Progresso used to be a great place for shopping and dining. Until the mall was shot up by the cartels a few years ago.
And there was this little incident of a local bakery being blown up.
But to the larger point, I don’t think Sheriff Trevino is corrupt. I think he’s in a situation where he doesn’t have any choice. Falsify police reports and receive federal funds, or accurately report and don’t receive federal funds. It seems to me that places the onus on the federal level. I mean, if more crimes were reported there should be more funds. Instead, the less crimes are reported the more funds. It really doesn’t make any sense.
Is anyone from government going to conduct an investigation into this epic disaster or they going to just let it slide? They’re going to continue to let people die and hold no one accountable?
Both parties are responsible for letting this continue.
you call this reporting? where’s the other side of the story? legitimate reporters always get reaction from both sides of any story. otherwise its just a biased account of what you think is going on. and these vidoes?!? .that can be any office and that can be any person. just because the guy is wearing a uniform doesnt make him a deputy. the interviewer was putting more words in the guys mouth than he was actually saying. this is all a political attack orchestrated by the republican candidate running for sheriff of hidalgo county. im sure he’s the one who contacted this reporter. the republican candidate is a veteran and so is this reporter. not too difficult to see where the connection came from. i didnt see one fact in this entire “article”. there’s no actual proof numbers were altered.
You just might have a point. You could hold a nice discussion about the aforementioned journalistic traits at a nice bar in the Pharr, San Juan or Alamo areas. I’m sure that you could get a nice reception there, especially after dark.
A “political attack orchestrated by the Republican candidate”? I see you ask Bryan for some evidence this issue is authentic, but you don’t hold yourself to the same standard you demand of others. Where’s your evidence? Not even a link to the alleged GOP candidate in your post. Nice try, Alinsky.
@howard i don’t need to put a link. if you actually read this post you’d see someone else already posted a link to the candidates page. why don’t you ask your colleague bryan about him? i’m sure they’re good friends. and i’m still waiting for the so called “proof”. but i won’t hold my breath on that one.
There are no longer any legitimate journalists in the U.S. Where have you been fot the last 20 years.
@mile since there aren’t any legitimate journalist then this whole series by bryan preston isn’t legitimate, correct? glad you cleared that up. the reason mainstream media would never run a story like this is because there isn’t any actual evidence to back up the claims. show me documents where the numbers were changed. show me video of the sheriff saying he changed the numbers on purpose. you got nothing? that’s why bryan works for a blog and not a real news outlet.
BP, How many seconds after you posted this do you think it would take for someone to recognize that shirt and thus set up that deputy for abuse?
In the classic scenario it was the criminals who corrupted the government officials. As Washington increasingly dictates the way money is spent in all areas of life, creative minds have developed a new version. Government has become self-corrupting, though old school corruption never goes away.
There are at least two necessary components: the application of statistics to law enforcement as pioneered in New York City’s CompStat and the increasing Federalization of law enforcement. As the source of the money spent on law enforcement shifts from local (whether drawn from honest citizens in the form of taxes or from criminals in the form of bribes) to federal, new possibilities have emerged and the scope of rent seeking possibilities has increased.
Recent news – seen from a street cop’s vantage point at the following link http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/search/label/stats – has shown how that works in CompStat’s city of origin and elsewhere.
This is a subcategory of another increasing problem: administrative decisions at any level of a bureaucracy can subvert representative government, and there are new incentives to do so.
You’re assuming “criminals” and “government officials” hail from two different population groups. It’s not corruption if it’s all part of the same organization. At least, I wonder sometimes… Why else do DC pols never send one of their own to prison? At least since Watergate? All the ethics charges: Waters, Frank, Rangel, etc. Nothing beyond a slap on the wrist.
As I noted previously, knowling entering false information in to a federal law enforcement database is a crime – Sheriff & Staff GUILTY. The paying of federal grant money to local officials to cause them to do the same, is a crime – Napalitano & Obummer GUILTY. High time for some prosecutions and impeachments!!