GERALD, Missouri, May 24, 2009
How A Phony Fed Fooled A Small Town
Fraudulent Law Enforcer Tells Katie Couric Illegal Arrests He Made Gave Him Adrenaline Rush, Sense Of Purpose
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Play CBS Video Video Sergeant Bill Waving a badge he bought online and claiming to belong to the "Multi-jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force," Bill Jakob fooled a small town's officials into granting him the authority of a law enforcement officer. Katie Couric reports.
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"He had information on things and people that we didn't have," McCrary says.
Asked how he thinks Jakob got this information McCrary tells Couric, "To this day, I have no idea. I mean, he was on the phone constantly. We don't know who he was talking to."
McCrary now believes Jakob actually made up evidence, like wiretaps and federal informants, something Jakob now denies. But police say those claims bolstered their case against one suspect: Tyson Williams.
"Threw me down on the ground. They had their assault rifles, and their pistols to my head. They told me that if I moved, they'd blow my brains out. That they had a lot of evidence against me," Williams remembers.
Williams was taken to the tiny police station. With no jail cell, it was soon overrun with suspects, some handcuffed to a bench. Jakob, who told 60 Minutes he did everything by the book, conducted his interrogations in the mayor's office.
Williams says neither Jakob, nor anyone else, read him his rights.
He also says he asked "numerous times" to call his lawyer, but that they wouldn't let him; he also says they refused his request to call his father.
"What if the suspect said, 'I'd like to have a lawyer present?'" Couric asks Jakob.
"Fine. I'm done talking to you," Jakob says.
He says he didn't allow a lawyer to be called. Asked why, Jakob says, "You have the right to an attorney present while I'm questioning you. I'm done questioning you."
Jakob also admits he didn't always have a search warrant when he went into somebody's home. Why not?
"One was, we walked up to a guy's house, pulled it the driveway, he runs out the front door carrying a bucket full of marijuana and pipes, yells, 'Cops,' turns around and runs back into the house. I don't think you have to have a warrant to go back in the house after him," Jakob says.
"I think you do," Couric remarks.
"Well, maybe you do. I'm not a cop," Jakob replies.
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See all 85 CommentsFor a person who READS a teleprompter, she did a wonderful job in the Palin interview, and people have really placed a lot of expectations on her shoulders given that. At this time however, I am really surprised that she is on 60 Minutes. I did not know that she was promoted to such a show. I work from 2:30 to 11PM CST and really don't watch much TV any more...I watch like 30 minutes a day totally. I gave up when all the shows promoted Obama and did no investigative reporting on Obama and did not push the socialist on his positions. The major networks GAVE Obama the presidency. I will never watch TV that much again in my life and I am 49 years old. I will never again be that manipulated by any media.
In any case 60 Minutes used to carry quite a bit of weight. 60 Minutes is supposed to be about hard hitting investigative reporting and interviewing.
How does meek, liberal, Katie Couric fit into that program? Well, she is a liberal, produced the resuts that NOBODY else could and earned her stripes that is how.
Now kids. If you want to get ahead, then is just one way. You have to stay true to your ideology and work hard. Curic did just that. If there is one other thing you can learn from all of this is that liberals OWN and OPERATE many different TV stations, and programs, including 60 Minutes. I never knew this very fact before today because 60 Minutes was not based on politics. But the evidence is there now given Katie Curic's promotion to the show....and NO I am, not an investigative reporter, but it sure looks like I could do a better job than Katie or those who remain at 60 Minutes.
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Yeeeaaaahhhh...
However, in this interview with Mr. Jakob, I am finding it hard to understand what Ms. Couric said or did that was so off-putting. Obviously the issue is a relevant one---despite some comments that declare that the issue is nonsense since the fraudulent cop "cleaned up the town", Gerald MO now faces 17 lawsuits for false arrest and violations of civil rights and could be bankrupted. And Ms. Couric's questions to Mr. Jakob were nowhere near as confrontational as the "What do you read" question she posed to the Vice Presidental candidate. In fact, Ms. Couric was about as deferential to Mr. Jakob as you can get, merely pointing out that seeing someone with drug paraphernalia may not be enough for a warrantless search, or that Mr. Jakob's self-pity was misplaced as he was going to jail for more than what he claimed was merely locking up drug dealers.
How can people say that Bill Jakob is a hero for "getting drug dealers off the streets?" Does no one appreciate the concept of individual rights anymore? Have we abandoned the mottos, "Live free or die" and "Give me liberty or give me death" and replaced them with "do whatever you want as long as you claim it's keeping me safe?" Even accused drug dealers have rights. And Bill Jakob violated those rights---he admitted that he refused people the right to have a lawyer (not merely during questioning). We cannot be a nation of laws, not of men, and allow people like Bill Jakob to run loose, regardless of their claims that they are helping us get bad people off the streets (not that I believe that that was his true motive, rather than feeling important and being able to bully people around).
And please, commenters, stop with the unclever declarations that Bill Jakob is as much of a fraudulent policeman as Katie Couric is a fraudulent reporter---that's irrelevant.
I thought the Sgt Bill segment deserved a big WHOGAS
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