ZG and Buffalo Springfield: "....somethin happening here...what it is ain't exactly clear....there's a man with a gun over there...telling me I got to be aware...stop, children....watch that sound...everybody look what's goin down..."
Jeremy Madden:
"....My interest was particularly piqued because of the commonalties occurring in both cases. Not only were the busts both in February, they were both initiated by an anonymous source who dropped a dime on the suspected local dopeman. These connections could be pure coincidence, and if they were the only details linking the cases it might not seem so special. However, there is also another common thread connecting the cases that has made me even more curious.
That common thread is the level of investigation that each unnamed source undertook to tackle these dopemen. The information provided in each case went way beyond the average accusation. In fact, you might even call the work that these do gooders have done as undercover....."
(whisper...whisper...lordy, lordy...madden's getting suspicious...whisper..stop now...keep the shadow community alive and well...whisper...whisper...maybe jeremy should run against di salvo next...whisper...whisper...)
Jeremy Madden:
"..In the curious case of the Bentley’s bust, Basalt police reportedly received still images and video from an unnamed source showing cocaine being packaged for sale in the kitchen area of Bentley’s. The Basalt authorities then passed this info onto Aspen’s finest who executed an excellent bust on the restaurant and some suspects’ homes.
To obtain the still and moving images the dime dropper must have been very close and trusted by the drug dealers to be able to capture the images so surreptitiously. However, what initially attracted my attention to the case was why the information was passed first to Basalt officials and not directly to those in Aspen...."
(whisper...whisper....they'll never be able to figure it out...it's all good...here's to 'anonymous' and the little guy....let freedom ring....whisper...whisper...)
Jeremy Madden:
"...In the second and most recent case we have an anonymous letter delivered to the Aspen Police Department allegedly written by the father of a teenage girl who was understandably unhappy that his daughter got some drugs from the alleged drug dealer. This dime dropper delivered information about where the drugs were hidden, scales for weighing, pot plants in the apartment, all the way down to details about the ingredients the drugs were cut with.
It is an amazing amount of detail. Even the letter admits it is. In a story by Rick Carroll in the Aspen Times about the bust, the letter writer is quoted as, “After a thorough investigation I have found out the following about the drug dealer.” Darn right it was thorough. Once again, we have an anonymous source getting extremely close to a suspected drug dealer and passing that info onto police...."
(whisper...whisper...here's to the quiet anonymous tipster(s) who don't want to lose life as they know it by being socially brutalized and ganged up on by certain social sectors of the valley....whisper...whisper...moms, dads, common folks....whisper...whisper...who're fed up with elected officials not doing their jobs...whisper...whisper...the commons are looking for a hero and until one gets here they'll step up as much as they can....whisper...whisper...the crazy part isn't how close the anonymous source(s) can get...whisper...the craziness is how easy it is to do...whisper...makes you wonder why it's not getting done by those who should be doing the job...whisper...whisper....wonder if madden, abraham or the boyd will pick up on that tidbit tip and run with finding out why....whisper...whisper...sure would be safer for the common folks...whisper...whisper...)
Jeremy Madden:
"...The amount of undercover work done in each case was no easy task and those who did it put themselves in considerable danger in obtaining the information. Perhaps it is the result of my over active imagination, along with reading one too many comic books, but I cannot help but wonder if there is more than meets the eye when considering these cases.
It is no secret that there is a vocal group of valley residents who do not agree with the upper valley’s stance when it comes to undercover operations in downing drug dealers. They are not happy that Aspen and Pitkin County employ only certain tools when it comes to combating the scourge of illegal drugs. I cannot wonder if there is a person or group of people out there who, at considerable risk to themselves, are aiding local law enforcement officials in an effort to clean up Aspen? Just like Superman and Batman hid their identities with masks, the dime droppers hide their identities with an abundance of information that cannot be ignored...."
(whisper...whisper...he's sort of, kind of like becoming a 'hero writer' isn't he....jeremy madden....whisper... whisper...tellin ya...nothing gets past him...everybody waits for his columns...whisper...whisper...)
Jeremy Madden:
"...An active imagination is tough to rein in and it can move from the heroic to the horrible in the blink of an eye. Perhaps the dime dropper does not have the best intentions at heart and there is a sinister scandal afoot. Despite the sunny, clear blue skies and clouds that are whiter than rice, Aspen can be a pretty dark place. Although improbable, it is not impossible that another dopeman has purloined a page from the playbook of Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger and is taking out the competition with a little help from the law....." (whisper...whisper.......lol.....oh, how we love Madden...and they all wonder where we get our schtick...whisper...whisper...)
("....someone is droppin dimes on the dopeman....")
Here's to the hearts, the courage and the creativity of the little guy.
Let freedom ring.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
2 comments:
Best place in the world to hide something that needs protecting is right out in plain sight.
The job at hand for law enforcement is to win back trust of those that they are sworn to serve and protect.
That is not going to happen in the current atmosphere of the 9th judicial district. Until that change comes individual agencies and individual cops really do care and can only stand where they can be found and wait.
When the people can't get their most basic right to safety and physical security met by their leaders and authorities; they have an obligation to themselves, their family and loved ones and their fellow man to do the best they can in that absence.
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