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After being pressed by reporters on why police did not act when Neal was in clear violation of his court order, [Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil] Johnston obliquely replied: "The law is only for people who obey it."
Wow! And, the police wonder why they have an image problem.
followed by their second favorite law: "Don't try to protect yourselves, leave that to the professionals".
Seems like in other jurisdictions they might have went and got a search warrant due to a strong suspicion that he was still in possession of firearms due to neighbor reports. The sheriff says poverty is part of the problem, but it sort of feels (no doubt unfairly) that the "poverty problem" was that they didn't give a crap about these mostly poor neighbors. Don't know why this incident in particular is pissing me off so much.