"Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County"

Did Sheriff Dupnik know about Jared Loughner?
The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and Bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the Victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda. Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff ...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

Had Arizona shooter made death threats by phone?
Image via Wikipedia The Cholla Jump: ... Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner h...

Expect this info to come out about the Az shooter
WOW! This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday January 8. The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and Bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the...

Supercop: Theres no doubt Dupnik was affected by rhetoric, although I have no evidence of it
Skip ahead to 1:30 for Matthews’s question about “atmospherics,” followed by Dupnik casually asserting that Loughner must have been especially vulnerable to “anger, hate, paranoia, and so forth.” If he has proof of that, he conveniently forgot to mention it. Over to you, Arizona Republic: Was Dupnik unnecessarily inflammatory? It seemed so. But it came mere hours following a horrific, bloody mass Murder. If you weren’t on edge, you weren’t Being Human....

APNewsBreak: More warning signs on day of shooting (AP)
TUCSON, Ariz. – The 22-year-old man accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly shooting rampage wrote "Die, bitch" in a note found at his home, a sheriff's official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Investigators believe Jared Loughner's handwritten message was a reference to Giffords, Pima County Chief Rick Kastigar said. It was found in a safe alongside other ones, including "I planned ahead," "My Assassination" and the name "Giffords." Authorities also re...

Could Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Have Stopped Jarred Loughner?
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has become a bit of a lightning rod for criticism in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting with his blaming the “political atmosphere” and right-wing critics for the attack. But now it comes to light that Law Enforcement in the Tucson area, including the Sheriff’s department, were aware of threats that Loughner had been making. Is the Sheriff expressing an opinion, or is he trying to distract from his department’s dropping the ball? The sheriff has ...

Report: Sheriff Knew About Loughners Actions & Previous Threats Failed to Act
There are now accusations that Dupnik knew about the previous threats by leftwing pothead Jared Loughner and did nothing to protect the Tucson community from this homicidal young man. The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and Bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented i...

There Is No Evidence That Politics In Any Way Contributed To This Atrocity: Arizonas Biggest Newspaper Rips Leftist Political Op
Arizona Republic: On Saturday afternoon, with his friend Gabby Giffords in surgery fighting for her life, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik railed against the tense partisan politics - “the anger, the hatred, the Bigotry” - that prompted the mass Murders outside Tucson, in his view. And, jarring as such claims may be, we understood. Or tried to understand, despite the spectacle of a lawman - an official whose very job it is to dispassionately gather facts and to...

DUPNIK DOUBLES DOWN: Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is now officially the worst cop since Mar
DUPNIK DOUBLES DOWN: “Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is now officially the worst cop since Maryland’s Chief Charles Moose, last seen still waiting for the DC sniper to pull up in his white van.” ...

Zandar's Thought Of The Day
Pima County Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik dared to voice the opinion that eliminationist Rhetoric from the right is a problem in this country. How do the eliminationists respond? 48 hours later, the right is holding Dupnik responsible for the shooting. Hot Air: Any cop can tell you whodunnit but it takes a supercop to tell you What It All Means about our political culture. A nagging question: Should supercop maybe have figured out that Loughner was a menace before he gunned down six people out...

Liberal Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blames Rush Limbaugh, but may have ignored death threats
Jan 8 (Reuters) - The suspect in Saturday's shooting rampage in which a U.S. congresswoman was critically wounded was unstable and had been known to make Death Threats in the past, the local sheriff said.According to this report, there were a lot of Death Threats and Sheriff Clarence Dupnik mostly ignored them. Jared Loughner has been making Death Threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sh...

Budget cuts, stigma cause mentally ill to fall through cracks (The Lookout)
State Budget cuts, as well as a widespread stigma attached to Mental Illness, may have made it easier for the suspect in Saturday's deadly Tucson shootings to slip through the cracks despite clear signs of Mental Illness, according to Mental Health advocates in Arizona and nationally. Cuts to Arizona's Mental Health services wiped out funding for the kind of early detection and intervention programs that might have steered the shooting suspect, Jared Loughner, into treatment, they say. But a b...

Bet on Stupid
With College Football now over, the folks doing online sports gambling at betus.com have one less sport to wager on this time of year. I'd suggest they put together a line on which opportunistic politicians and social commentators will make the dumbest statements or propose the most preposterous laws in the wake of Jared Loughner's 20-victim rampage in Tucson this past Saturday. Peter King's self-serving, dim-witted, and no-doubt Unconstitutional attempt to build a 1,000 foot gun-free zone aro...

Meet Jared Loughner
This is the rather bizarre mugshot of Jared Loughner that was released yesterday afternoon. He has been assigned lawyer Judy Clarke, who defended the Unabomber. One of the more interesting facts to emerge is that Loughner was expelled from his community college after complaints from classmates that he seemed on the edge of violence. In the meantime, the Sheriff is being attacked for criticizing right-wing commentators for their over-the-top Rhetoric, including conservative icon, Rush Limbaugh. ...

Tighter Gun-control Laws A Long Shot
(NewsCore) - The Tucson shootings have renewed an effort among Northeast lawmakers to strengthen federal gun-control laws, but a partisan climate and an influential gun lobby mean that talk may be as far as it gets, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. On Tuesday, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was killed by a lone gunman in a 1993 Shooting Spree, said she would introduce Legislation to reinstate a ban on high-capacity magazines like the one used by the Tucson shooter. Rep. P...

Picture Of Suspect's Troubled Life Comes Into Focus
In his own way, Jared Loughner did try to fit in. Before everything fell apart, the 22-year-old did what a lot of people his age do these days: Lived at home with his parents, went to community college, worked low-wage jobs at big-box stores and volunteered his time for a cause he believed in. None of it worked. His relationship with his parents was strained. He struggled at school and eventually got kicked out. He clashed with co-workers and police. And he couldn't follow the rules at an animal...

Nearly 50 Percent Of Mental Health Services Recipients In Giffords' County Were Dropped In 2010
Source: Huffington Post Nearly 50 Percent Of Mental Health Services Recipients In Giffords' County Were Dropped In 2010 WASHINGTON -- In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post. The deep cuts in treatment were protested strongly at the time, with opponents warning that they would resul...

Jared Loughner release Statement
Jared Loughner's family releases statement: Just released! "This is a very difficult time for us. We ask the media to respect our Privacy. There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don't understand why this happened. It may not make any difference, but we wish that we could change the heinous events Saturday. We care very deeply about the Victims and their families. We are so very sorry for their loss. Examiner.com is...

Jared Loughner's Parents Express Sorrow
The parents of Jared Loughner, accused of the Arizona shootings, have released a statement. There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don’t understand why this happened. It may not make any difference, but we wish that we could change the heinous events of Saturday. We care very deeply about the Victims and their families. We are so sorry for their loss.” More former friends of Loughner are coming forwar...

Second-guessing red flags, action taken in Tucson case
The colleges are 2,000 miles apart, but the scenarios are eerily similar: a troubled Student triggers red flags in the classroom, bringing Campus Police and university administrators in to deal with bizarre behavior. Some action is taken, but the Student nevertheless unravels and ends up on a slow path to an alleged murderous rampage. Those are among the parallels between accused Arizona gunman Jared Loughner and Virginia Tech assassin Seung Hui Cho, who killed 32 people in a day of horror in a ...

Pima County Dem Chair: Time Will Prove Loughner To Be A Right-Winger
Source: Talking Points Memo TUCSON, AZ -- Conservatives gloating about the biography of the suspected shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) will eat their words in the end, according to the chair of the Pima County Democratic Party. "Here's what I think you're going to find," Jeff Rogers told me in an interview today. "I think you're going to find that he was (a conservative)." "I think we'll find a treasure trove of stuff from his computer," he told me. "How much of that we're going to get...

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Isn't Who You Think He Is
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has become something of a liberal hero in the last few days, speaking out against the "vitriol" of today's political climate and dubbing Arizona "the Mecca for prejudice and Bigotry." As the left accuses the right of inflaming the political debate, Dupnik has been a prominent voice blaming heated Rhetoric for Jared Lee Loughner's attack, which left six dead. But, as Slate's Christopher Beam finds, the sheriff is a bit more complicated: But a look through Dupn...

OBAMA PHONES SHERIFF DUPNIK Thanks Him
Obama called the dishonorable Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik today to thank him. This was after the sheriff made a fool of himself by blaming Rush Limbaugh for the acts of a crazy man. President Obama spoke today with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, families of some of the Victims, Rep. Giffords’ Rabbi and two of the heroes that helped in the Arizona tragedy on Saturday. In a phone call this afternoon with Sheriff Dupnik, according to White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro, the ...

On CBS 'Evening News,' Tucson Sheriff Dupnik Doubles Down
On Monday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric announced that Democratic Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik had "been thrust into the national spotlight for some remarks he made," adding, "he's not backing down." In the interview that followed, Dupnik asserted: "If you're in Law Enforcement and you're not a right-winger you get all kinds of heat from the right-wing nuts." Couric noted how Dupnik "blamed the rampage in part on overheated poli...