State Police Attack Motorcycling Benefit

OFF THE WIRE
The Massachusetts State Police attacked a motorcycling benefit for a Hull, Massachusetts Firefighter who was permanently injured on the job and will never walk again. The benefit was to buy the fireman a special transportation device that transformed from a wheelchair into an uptight ambulatory device The MSP wrote approximately 160 tickets for "improper helmets" 100 feet away from the entrance to the benefit. Many riders were so disgusted that they turned around and just left the town of Hull. The benefit barely broke even. The Hull Firefighter did not get his device.

That was the incarnation of the first Massachusetts Riders for Justice Committee. Too many complaints about the MSP brought us to the point where we knew a committee of concerned motorcyclists needed to use our experience to wage a legal fight with the Massachusetts State Police. These riders that were ticketed that afternoon were not used to activism but they were pissed over what happened. We needed to help those people in the courtroom to fight their tickets. Some riders, so impressed by our selflessness, decided to sign on and join our team.

I could go on & on about said recruitment methods because of the incident, how we discovered MSP were using helmets that failed DOT Testing, an MSP officer so pissed at his Sergeant that he became my snitch, a MSP colonel sending a memo to field officers to back off of aggressive techniques and the number of thickets we won including taking one all the way to the appellate court. It's an interesting part of our history in MA that went from 1999 through 2002 where we disbanded because MSP decided to back off of writing tickets.

Yet, you don't need to know all that shit at the moment. What you need to at this moment know is that we uncovered (quite by accident) information that a MSP Sergeant, a MSP Patrolman and a Clerk Magistrate for the courthouse in Hull were all in cahoots with each other on an overtime scam where the Clerk Magistrate would make sure the ticket was moved to the second level in order to get these two cops to log in overtime. Even if they only spend 10 minutes on a case, they get a minimum of 4 hours court time paid to them--- paid time & a/half.

Thus, I would suggest that, with the case of this Officer Love, perhaps you may wish to do a bit of research on Officer Love and see if there is a genuine overtime scam in then works with this guy, or if can even be spun a bit to make it look like he was using the court system to get a more generous share of the taxpayer's financial resources. The guy is down at the moment, he is of weaker authority at the moment. If he has been an enemy of riders, then while he's already down take him down even further if you can by looking more in to this new intell about his excessive overtime. I know that the MSP back here decided they wanted to try to get along with us a little better after they knew we uncovered the overtime scam that was going to affect their public relations and the public trust. There may be the same opportunity for you all out west with just a little bit of research.

Bill Gannon
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