NOTES 1 News/History/Letters

IN THIS SECTION Select News Clips, History, Books, Letters, etc. • Steroids, the police and public (2020/01/20-21,26) • Iran Issues: Soleimani, downed commercial liner, British ambassador Iran, Iran’s history of attacks on American soldiers in Iraq (2020/01/12,21) • “Black Lives Smatter”-Article-2017/02/20- Santa Fe white officer Troy Baker investigated for racial and gender smears on Face Book (2020/01/06) • Book Black LIES Matter (2020/01/05) • Strange drones Eastern Colorado (2020/01/04)   History Border Patrol History - Early Air/Cavalry     Why Early Border History Important  (2019/09/25) SECTION NOTES BY DATE May 25, 2026 Happy Memorial Day! Reviving an old website for Police Factor today. 2020/01/20-21, 26 2020/01/26-Steroids section added formally to this website Steroid usage: watch for weightlifting hangouts for dealers; check criminal backgrounds for signs of domestic violence and violence against others; identify rings;  follow trails of long-term friendships; watch for concomitant addictions off the charts like glue, paint, aerosol paint sniffing; watch for trails of thefts; needle usage; follow trail of testosterone enanthate (test e) through pharmacies, both prescription and non-prescription;  identify split mind/personality issues of He Man/She Man - men with hidden male lovers in an abusive sexual context - it might be a cult-like network; mood swings.  Identify officers resistant to investigating possible criminality involving steroids; that is, identify blocked cases by police who do not appropriately investigate steroid usage in both their departments and in the public properly, with hedging possible; follow links between job, job type, weightlifting, etc.  Track past criminal records.  Identify purchase/spending habits.  Identify friends who might be fellow users and/or dealers.  Longer term steroid users might have a cluster of addictions.  Strange fixations.  Illusions/Delusions. Calm one moment, angry the next. 2017-2018 The Hidden World of Police on Steroids. Professor John Hoberman turns his attention to cops. Peter C. Baker, UPDATED: SEP 8, 2018ORIGINAL:DEC 11, 2017 https://psmag.com/magazine/the-hidden-world-of-police-on-steroids Book listed in this article Doper in Uniform, by John Hoberman Excerpt: There is no definitive proof that steroids cause violent, erratic behavior, but the two are definitely correlated, and this fact alone, in Hoberman's view, is reason enough for police forces to implement zero-tolerance policies on steroid use. Easier said than done, of course: Hoberman notes that, while the U.S. military has such a policy, steroid use remains a barely concealed fixture of military life. 2019 (2019/02/08) Illegally Secret Cop Drug Policy Released.  By Christopher Peakhttps://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/police_drug_policy_foi/ 2017 (2017/02/24) Cops and Steroids: What happens if officers are caught using? By Erik Flack https://www.wave3.com/story/34598169/tonight-at-11-cops-and-steroids/ 2013 Arlington officer accused of buying steroids and helping supplier spot police https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2013/06/13/arlington-officer-accused-of-buying-steroids-and-helping-supplier- spot-police-surveillance/ 2011 New Mexico’s stand on steroids https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2011/chapter30/article31/section30-31-41/ 2009 https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3745740&page=1 2009 Federal Register  shows earlier definitive classification of Schedule III anabolic steroids https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/12/04/E9-28572/classification-of-three-steroids-as-schedule-iii- anabolic-steroids-under-the-controlled-substances 2020/01/12 For more on Iran issues Go to https://rivergold.net/notes_current-commentary.html Americans execute Soeimani; Iranians admit shooting down Ukrainian liner; British ambassador taken into custody For brief input on: the recent killing of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian self-admitted shooting of the Ukrainian commercial liner, and more on Iran’s corrosive history against the Americans in Iraq; the taking into custody of the British ambassador to Iran. The Military Times (2015) article below shows Iran linked to deaths of 500 US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at that point.  It shows clearly that EFPs - a type of bomb with a curved copper plate which helps make the blast more directed (like an arrow) but also more force-backed (penetrating power) - most likely were from Iran, and were killing and maiming our people in large number.  Such bombs were often placed on roadsides.  Commercial Liner downing; 5 other times https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-shoot-down-ukrainian-airliner-joins-shoot-downs-in-history-2020-1 Ambassador British [added 1/21/20] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/14/iran-calls-expulsion-british-ambassador-tehran-alleged-role/ Soleimani CBS (2020/01/10)  Iran: Mike Pompeo on attack of Qassem Soleimani https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-news-mike-pompeo-attack-qassem-soleimani-imminent-dont- know-when-where-today- Iran’s Link to Deaths and Injries US troops Military Times (2015/0/14)  Iran linked to deaths of 500 US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan \https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2015/07/14/iran-linked-to-deaths-of-500-u-s-troops-in 2020/01-06-07 2019 listings that were here have been moved to Backlog 4 2020/01/06 “Black Lives Smatter” Santa Fe white officer Troy Baker investigated for racial and gender smears on Face Book  (2020/01/06) Facebook incident SF Reporter 2017/02/20  To protect and troll https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2017/02/20/to-protect-and-troll/ Note from PF: Please notice at least two of the people investigating him are Hispanic. Excerpt: Baker's view: "I don't have anti-Muslim views. I have anti-radical Islam views. I have friends that are Muslim. It's not against a religion. It's against radical Muslims. The people in that photo are from ISIS." Baker says personal views expressed on his Facebook post do not affect his on-duty behavior. "I'm not bringing it to work," he tells SFR. "You find one person I am not giving appropriate community service to due to their gender, race or ethnicity. Find one." Baker briefly lost his job after a 2010 incident in which a man claimed he and four other officers used excessive force when arresting him for disorderly conduct in a Walmart parking lot. An external review board reinstated Baker and another officer, Steve Cosban. (We asked the police department for additional complaints filed against Baker. We'll keep you updated with any responses.) Baker, a 22-year veteran of Santa Fe city police, was elected president of the Santa Fe Police Officers Association about a year ago. The union represents roughly 150 sworn officers and civilian employees, according to Baker. Not every one of Baker's Facebook posts expresses his political views. For example, he routinely posts memorials for fallen officers. He also occasionally shares personal news, including a photograph of the trophy he received after the Santa Fe Police Department awarded him 2016 Supervisor of the Year. https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2017/02/20/to-protect-and-troll/ 2020/01/05 Here is an excellent portrayal of false media using racial tensions as the backdrop: From (2016) Black LIES Matter, by Taleeb Starkes. Excerpt from one of the first parts of this  book: Have you noticed the persistent pattern of outrage that manifests from the black community whenever a black life is taken from a white person, especially a white cop?  Also, have you noticed the same culture-vultures arrive without hesitation to gluttonously feast during these incidents? They figuratively pick apart the black body until it is a carcass - leaving nothing for bacteria to compose.   These opportunists are arsonists, and their mission is to start racial infernos.  In other words, they racialize, not harmonize. Undoubtedly, you’ve noticed this trend - even if you are a bleeding-heart liberal.  One must understand that these “call to action’ reactions are not spontaneous.  They’re calculated maneuvers by an ever-present Race Grievance Industry (RGI) an industry whose only product is victimhood - and it’s manufactured without pause.  The RGI’s sole purpose is to profit from racial strife under the guise of pursuing racial peace.  Its modus operandi is rooted in a lie that refuses to die: blacks are permanent victims of racism, and no amount of effort will overcome it.  The lie is rinsed and repeated in different ways, but the message remains unchanged - America is a racist labyrinth specifically designed to stifle black advancement. From Amazon book information: In Chicago a.k.a “Chiraq," the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore’s 2015 ended as its bloodiest and deadliest year — on a per-capita basis. In 2014, Detroit’s police chief called upon law-abiding citizens to take arms against its burgeoning, violent, criminal subculture. Unfortunately, these cities aren’t anomalies. Year after year, a seemingly unshakable reality of violence plagues black communities nationwide. In fact, since 1980, blacks have routinely accounted for almost half of America’s annual homicide victims, and more than half of the perpetrators — all while being a minor thirteen percent of the national populace. Yet, a certain black-based industry — which specializes in nurturing comfortable lies while burying uncomfortable truths — propagates a notion that “racism” is the foremost issue facing black Americans, and white cops are blood-thirsty enforcers. Moreover, this cunning, race-peddling entity knows that it's easier to lie to blacks than to convince blacks that they've been lied to. Thus, black "lies" are good for business... black "lives" are good for nothing (except exploitation). 2020/01/04 KDVR (2020/01/03) Experts theory about mysterious drones in Eastern Colorado https://kdvr.com/2020/01/03/experts-theory-about-mysterious-drones-in-eastern-colorado/ 2019/09/25 Why history of border issues added today 9/25 Border Patrol History Early Air Mixed in With Cavalry United States Army Border Air Patrol:  With the end of World War I in 1918, the Air Service, United States Army was largely demobilized. During the demobilization period of 1919, the Regular Army and its air arm answered a call to defend the southern border against raids from Mexico, and to halt smuggling of illegal aliens and narcotics into the United States and weapons from the United States into Mexico.  12th Aero Squadron Dayton-Wright DH-4 flying liaison with US Cavalry on United States/Mexico border patrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Border_Air_Patrol  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pancho-villa-attacks-columbus-new-mexico Excerpt: Pancho Villa and United States Army and early Air Patrol 1916: how things developed to the point of the heightened American presence at the border - it more or less started with Villa attacking Columbus, New Mexico in 1916….Outraged, Villa turned against the United States. In January 1916, he kidnapped 18 Americans from a Mexican train and slaughtered them. A few weeks later, on this day in 1916, Villa led an army of about 1,500 guerillas across the border to stage a brutal raid against the small American town of Columbus, New Mexico…. The background to all this includes the American involvement with three Mexican leaders-Huerta, Carranza and Villa: In 1913, a bloody civil war in Mexico brought the ruthless general Victoriano Huerta to power. American President Woodrow Wilson despised the new regime, referring to it as a “government of butchers,” and provided active military support to a challenger, Venustiano Carranza. Unfortunately, when Carranza won power in 1914, he also proved a disappointment and Wilson supported yet another rebel leader, Pancho Villa. A wily, peasant-born leader, Villa joined with Emiliano Zapata to keep the spirit of rebellion alive in Mexico and harass the Carranza government. A year later, though, Wilson decided Carranza had made enough steps towards democratic reform to merit official American support, and the president abandoned Villa. Outraged, Villa turned against the United States. In January 1916, he kidnapped 18 Americans from a Mexican train and slaughtered them. A few weeks later, on this day in 1916, Villa led an army of about 1,500 guerillas across the border to stage a brutal raid against the small American town of Columbus, New Mexico. Villa and his men killed 19 people and left the town in flames. Now determined to destroy the rebel he had once supported, Wilson ordered General John Pershing to lead 6,000 American troops into Mexico and capture Villa. Reluctantly, Carranza agreed to allow the U.S. to invade Mexican erritory. For nearly two years, Pershing and his soldiers chased the elusive Villa on horseback, in automobiles, and with airplanes. The American troops had several bloody skirmishes with the rebels, but Pershing was never able to find and engage Villa…. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pancho-villa-attacks-columbus-new-mexico First Aero Squadron or First Recon Squadron of the Second Army Division, started 1913: The 1st Reconnaissance Squadron is the United States military's oldest flying unit, first established on 5 March 1913. The squadron has maintained an unbroken heritage of over a century from its founding. Originally organized in anticipation of a potential breach in security along the border between the United States and Mexico, General John J. Pershing directed the 1st Aero Squadron to become the first tactical aviation unit to participate in American military action.[1] The 1st RS has flown 47 different aircraft while being stationed worldwide at 52 locations, including 4 stints at sea.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Reconnaissance_Squadron 12th Aero Squadron Dayton-Wright DH-4 flying liaison with US Cavalry on United States/Mexico border patrol Why this history on border patrol comes up now By understanding we have been dealing with this for over a hundred years, how and with whom, we gain a perspective and key insights.  Understanding Pancho Villa and the mythos still with us today also helps.

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