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Title: Cops Busted Running Major Steroid Ring—Selling Roids to Other Cops For Years
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co ... roids-to-other-cops-for-years/
Published: Feb 18, 2018
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2018-02-19 08:34:10 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 8010
Comments: 62
Edmonton, CA — Two Edmonton police officers were found guilty this week for running a highly profitable steroid ring—selling anabolic steroids to fellow cops. Edmonton Police officer Greg Lewis was tried and convicted on multiple counts of trafficking a controlled substance while he ostensibly protected the people of Edmonton. “Given (the) convictions on two of those charges, disciplinary proceedings under the Police Service Regulation will now be initiated,” said EPS spokesperson Carolin Maran. In their decision, however, the court somewhat justified the cop’s use and sale of steroids as a means of being fit. While reading his decision, Brooker detailed how Lewis, 36, was a “proponent of fitness” who had a reputation for knowing where to find steroids, reported CBC. Lewis has been on unpaid suspension since he was busted in March of 2015. After a two-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, Lewis was finally charged. During the trial, Lewis admitted to both using steroids and selling them to his colleagues. What’s more, his fellow cops even testified that they bought the drugs from him. The other officer charged with Lewis, Darren French, pleaded guilty in June 2016 to two counts of trafficking Stanozolol and Methyl-1-Testosterone, according to CBC. While Lewis’s sentencing has been delayed until further notice, French received a slap on the wrist for his role in the ring. French was given probation and a $1,500 fine and was allowed to retire with his pension for his 25 years of ‘service.’ While it is certainly the belief of the Free Thought Project that anyone should be able to put anything into their own body without persecution of the state, police officers using anabolic steroids—which included a host of aggressive side effects—is an extremely bad idea. There is no question that many police officers use performance-enhancing drugs. In fact, the problem of police steroid use became so bad, in 2004, the DEA intervened to warn of the “possible psychological disturbances” of roid-raging cops. The DEA said symptoms included: Eventually, a few years later, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, made up of 16,000 members worldwide set a standard that “calls upon state and local law enforcement entities to establish a model policy prohibiting the use of illegally obtained steroids” by officers. However, this policy never happened. Not only do cops vehemently resist being drug tested by their departments, claiming it is a violation of their civil rights, they are also frequently caught selling steroids. “This is one of the dirty little secrets of American law enforcement,” says Gregory Gilbertson, a former Atlanta cop who teaches criminal justice in the Seattle area and works as a legal expert on police standards and practices, according to Alternet. “Steroid testing is declining, and I think there’s an attitude in all these agencies of ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ because they don’t want to know about it. Because if they know about it, then they have to address it.” These Edmonton cops are not alone either. As the Free Thought Project previously reported, Darrion Holiwell, 51, was arrested and charged for not only taking steroids but dealing them to other SWAT deputies on the force, as well as people outside the agency. As Alternet pointed out, the cases of cops using and selling steroids are anything but isolated. These are some of the cases that have made news in the past year, though there likely are others that have not been revealed publicly: The dangers of cops taking steroids are obvious, as the rage associated with their use can become uncontrollable. All too often, we see police officers immediately escalate situations to violence when de-escalation would have been far easier and safer. Steroids could be the reason. “I keep seeing all of these cases where the level of anger and violence shown by officers makes no sense,” Gilbertson says. “And when things don’t make sense, they don’t make sense for a reason…Maybe steroid rage is a reason so many police officers seem so angry and aggressive.” Cops on the juice feel indestructible, as if they have superhuman strength. Or as the DEA puts it, “The idea of enhanced physical strength and endurance provides one with ‘the invincible mentality’ when performing law enforcement duties.” Starting to make sense now? “Reasonable suspicion should be raised if they shoot somebody or beat the living daylights out of somebody,” Dan Handelman, a founding member of Portland Copwatch told Alternet. “In some of these recent cases, the officers seemed to be pumped up and were not necessarily working in a calm and level-headed manner. We wonder how much of this was coming from natural adrenalin and how much coming from other substances.” 
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#23. To: Tooconservative, tater, Deckard (#21)
Well, tater could have performed improved research about Deckard's article posted as: But instead, he went through a tirade and publickly displayed the same. Unlike you, I have no sympathy for the madman.
Well, that is often the default suggested category. Some people don't pay much attention to Category when posting. And Deckard's article included other instances of cop roiding here in the States. So about half the article did address American cops, not Canadian. Madman? That sounds like some personal animus. Don't attribute malice to what can just as easily be minor factual errors about postal codes and international ISO designations.
There is no official two-letter abbreviation of Edmonton, CA or Edmonton, CN for the city Edmonton that is located in Alberta, Canada....and those two-letter abbreviations should never be used for any reason. The literate American should also know that Matt Agorst does not write for, or have a reading audience of, literate Americans. Matt Argost is no idiot and there should be no question that he knew exactly what he doing with his misuse of the official two-letter abbreviation to place the city of Edmonton in California in his article....it was intentionally meant to be misleading.
It isn't my fault that tater sucks yukon off. It was written all over LP, when Salley allowed yukon to demonstrate his personal problems in publick and eventually tater supported the queer. And, tater carries on to this day but in darker more vivid detail of his lapses of consciousness.
And with the excepting on one Aussie, so far as I know, it is only Americans here on LF who are reading the posted article. Ergo, CA obviously is meant to be “California.” There in no Edmonton, “CA” designation for city of Edmonton located in the province of Alberta in Canada.
I can,but it's not the writers fault,it is the readers fault. It's easy to read something like that,see the abbreviation "CA",and just assume it's California. We all do it,including me. This just means we need to read more carefully and not jump to assumptions. I can too and I believe that everyone who read the article before my post assumed the city of Edmonton named in the article was definitely in California....although I don’t expect anyone to admit that.
Don't be so hard on the old boy - it's just Gatlin being Gatlin. He focuses on some petty minutiae like an abbreviation or some other ridiculousness and then rants about the article being FAKE NEWS. You see - Parsons (Gatlin) is what experts call a disinformation asset - he is here to put the kibosh on anything that disturbs his Pollyanna-ish world view. In his Bizarro World - cops are gods. That's the only thing you have to know about Parsons. His posts reflect that submissive authority fetish. Sounds like a good name for a band. Maybe one doing Rolling Stones covers. For postal and delivery services, yes. Otherwise, "Alberta, CA" is an officially recognized ISO standard for referring to Alberta. FTP and Alternet do cultivate an international following which does include Canada. You can't blame them for using the officially designated abbreviations. This article is somewhat dishonest in that it uses a Canadian case of cops roiding it up and then switch to a bunch of American cop examples, DEA, etc. That is Agorist's real dishonest reporting IMO. Most of his article was a rant about American cops and roids, not about his clickbait opening about cops in Edmonton, CA (Canada, not California).
He did not say that in Canada, they also have these problems....and list them. Once again, Argost was definitely misleading to make readers think he had been talking abut cops in California and not in Canada Agorst knew all the time what he was doing. And I still firmly believe that everyone here on LF who read the article for the first time, Deckard included.....believed that Argost was talking about cops in a city in California. Knowing you, I believe I can safely say that you read the article before you read my posts about the article. I therefore ask you: In reading the article for the first time, did you believe the incident took place in California? Please answer my question.
Argost was never referring to an officially recognized ISO standard. The only way I can see this....is that it was meant to be intentionally misleading.
I didn't. In part because Edmonton is an unusual spelling and would be unlikely to be found in America. It would be typical of spellings from 19th century British Commonwealth countries like Canada and Australia. Edmonton's population is 932,000 as of 2016. Edmonton is a pretty large city in Alberta. It is not some unknown rural village. It is Canada's fifth largest city according to Wiki. The top four are Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Ottawa. And Ottawa only beat Edmonton by a few thousand, both being just under 1 million in population. Edmonton is hardly unknown and is one of North America's major metro areas. And saying that is not just some FTP propaganda. It is a fact, according to the 2016 Canadian census. But then, a Phoenician like yourself knew all that, right? BTW, how many people would even know that a resident of Phoenix is officially known as a Phoenician? Or would assume that that word signifies the ancient people known in the Bible as Phoenicians?
No. Because Alberta automatically means Canada to me.
Most of us will probably agree. But did you notice tater, crawling on his knees humbling himself to you begging for your take on his stupid interpretation? I did. This is what is so wrong with the poster about his own dirty deeds. He REACTS as opposed to any preventive research. He is a complete babbling, lunatic that has lost his mind in his elder years.
He's not being all that humble. He's fighting a retreat under fire and doing so fairly well. Defeated for now but not exactly leaving the field of battle or conceding the war. : )
Alberta is mentioned in the article - did you bother to read the entire story? After a two-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, Lewis was finally charged. Also, I noticed that Agorst only referred to a Justice in his article simply as “Brooker.” There was no tie-in as to who “booker” was. In the original article Booker was named “Court of Queen's Bench Justice Scott Brooker.” But Argost decided not to use that title, because then everyone would have known that no judge in California was ever called “Queen's Bench Justice.” The man has the art of deception down pat and that is why he and his partner are making so much money “click-baiting” on the TFTP Website....but it is still so easy to see though his deception, if you only look closely.
You are insane; perhaps that is why he crawled over to you. He has no capability of understanding a rational discussion for the purposes of education; instead he leashes out on TIRADES of irrational behaviour.
When you read the first line of his article: Did you think he was talking about a city in Canada?
It made a question mark mentally as I know how many people do get confused over CA referring to Canada or California (or both, depending on context). It was settled when I found the word "Alberta" in the text. I suppose I could flip your accusations around to demand that you recount when you first understood the article was about Canada and not California. But perhaps the topic is getting tiresome and I should retire, victorious.
Hmmm ...
You owe an apology to Deckard as opposed to asking more stupid questions over your own mental confusion. Move on it!
All you did was repost excepts of the original article. You could have easily answered the “Edmonton” in not in California....it is in Alberta, Canada. For me, there is no doubt you believed at that point Argost was talking about California. That is all I can possibly see to believe. I will leave you with that and I will continue to watch you like a hawk....so, don’t screw up again.
You are such a kind Phoenician, almost to a fault. LOL
Thanks for asking. I believe that is an important point and I will address it....although it will be a long defining post. When I read the first line of the article, I like you, though it happened in the town of Edmonton, California. That thought was firmly embedded in my mind at that point....which I believe was the deliberate intention of Argost. He reinforced that belief by specifically, and I believe intentionally, mentioning Edmonton two more times with no association to Alberta in the next paragraph. With the idea of Edmonton now embedded in my mind three times, I read the next paragraph when he mentioned the “Police Service Regulation” which I believed is how the Edmonton, California PD referred to their “directives.” And he mentioned “EPS” which I took to mean Edmonton Police “something” and then though it must a section where the spokesperson for the Edmonton, California police department worked. All this time I am still being channeled in my mind that Edmond is a town in California. Then I learned, “While reading his decision, Brooker detailed ...” With no explanation of who Booker was, I had to assume he was a Judge, naturally because he rendered a “decision.” It was only later when reading the original article from a local news source in Canada that I learned that “Brooker” was Court of Queen's Bench Justice Scott Brooker. Now, there can be no question that Argost definitely knew the full title of the person who rendered the decision from his research. It was printed everywhere. And had Argost written “while reading his decision, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Scott Brooker” I would have immediately thought “BINGO” he is talking about Edmonton in Alberta. I firmly believe that Argost intentionally left out the full title of the “judge” to continue misleading readers. While I am on this point, the original source in Alberta referred more that once to the police officer involved as “Edmonton Police Service Det. Greg Lewis.” Had I also read that title, then “BINGO” I would have also immediately know the Edmonton was in Alberta and not California. In his article, Argost specifically referred to Lewis as “Edmonton Police officer Greg Lewis” which is the way one would refer to any American sity police officer. So, Argost continues to be intentionally misleading. The omissions and deception continue all the way through the paragraphs when suddenly in the sixth paragraph, Argost mentions the “Alberta Serious Incident Response Team.” I did wonder why “Alberta” was mention in passing and thought of a couple possible reasons why, before moving on. That was the only time “Alberta” was mentioned in passing and, again, it was never mentioned that Lewis was an “Edmonton Police Service Detective” (again, at which time I would have definitely known he was Canadian)....and it was never mentioned that Brooker was a “Court of Queen’s Bench Justice” (again, at which time I would also have know that we are talking about a case in Canada). I believe that Argost intentionally left those titles out of his article in order to mislead. At this point, Argost moves quickly to the DEA, the DEA again, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, violation of civil rights, the dirty little secrets of American law enforcement....tying everything “American” to the Edmonton cops. Then Argost misleadingly and directly ties “these Edmonton cops” to “American SWAT deputies” Now, we must notice that hyperlinks start appearing everywhere to all kinds of things that may support his position...while in the first 12 paragraphs of the article when talking exclusively about the Edmonton police, he hyperlinked to not ONE Canadian source to shed any light on the situation. I have no doubt that this was intentional because following his propensity and pattern to show hyperlink to all sorts of things,....there were a number of times he could have used reference souces in Canada when discussing the police officers, but Intentionally did not so in order to be misleading. Argost continues by discussing “some of the cases [American cases with American cops] that have made news in the past year” and he has never divorced those from the subject of the Edmonton cops...he actually tied them in as support for his position. He then starts with his suggestive close: “Starting to make sense now?” I thought to myself: Hell, NO...it doesn’t. And I immediately copied from the article: “Edmonton, CA — Edmonton Police officer Greg Lewis” and pasted that in Google Search where I came upon the article I posted here on this forum. To answer your question, that was the first time “I understood the article was about Alberta and not California.” And that was when I said out loud: Matt Agorst, you are a conniving, deceiving and misleading Son-of-a-Bitch. You never once in your 30-paragraph article identified ANYWHERE that Lewis and French were Edmonton, Alberta, polices officers. As I now depart from this thread, I will be left to wonder when it was that others realized the cops were from Edmonton, Alberta and not Edmonton, California. Having said all of this, I will still classify the article as “Yellow Journalism” and Deckard as an “ignorant asshole” for posting such stupid and meaningless shit about something that happened in Alberta, Canada. After heading deep into Canada in pursuit of his agenda, the question now is....how far outside the States will Deckard go next to pursue his agenda: Maybe to where Ten Limpopo traffic cops arrested for taking bribes? ...maybe. Thank you for your attention.
Did you see tater's long winded post, just above? It isn't worthy of a comment but it is worthy of ROTFL.
Obviously, failing to connect Alberta to Canada or to research further was the problem. And Alberta was only mentioned once and Canada never mentioned at all. We'll never know. But you didn't need to spend so many keystrokes really. Roar on! LOL
It is also worthy of study by a mental health professional. I fear old gatlin has some problems, and should get help..
I was musing over this a bit. Both Toronto and Calgary are in Ontario province in Canada. And there is a Windsor, Ontario as well (307,000). And we do know there is an Ontario, California and a Windsor, California, both fairly well known West Coast towns. So this same story might have been even more confusing if that were its opening byline: Windsor, CA or Ontario, CA for instance. It does seem that this writer pretty pointedly avoided ever using the word Canada to make it clear to readers that the main theme of his article was a Canadian cop-roid ring, not an American one. He avoided the word Canada pretty assiduously. What, he couldn't type those extra six keystrokes to put the word 'Canada' in there? C'mon. So I wouldn't agree with Gatlin that this is classic yellow journalism (of the sort that famously built up the Hearst newspaper chain). But it is at best poor writing and can be plausibly suspected of trying to lead people to think that a Canucki roid-ring was somehow an American roid-ring. FTP does have a steady pattern of clickbaitery that hurts their credibility as a news source. And this writer citing AlterNet to boot makes it even more suspicious.
Probably this ring was run by the same Russians that stole victory from Hillary Clinton and doped Alina Zagitova.
Edmonton, Kentucky.
A sleepy village of 1600 in south central Kentucky that no one's ever heard of? Well, okay. If it makes you feel better. : )
Yeah, sure did - I'm just wondering who this "Argost" guy is that he keeps mentioning. All you did was repost excepts of the original article. Do you really need to keep lying there Parsons? I posted excerpts from a completely different article. I figured that facts contained in that article would make you stop your incessant whining - but alas, I was wrong. Why wouldn't anyone assume it's KOOKIFONIA... after all, who gives a flying fuk what Canadian cops do from an American blog? That's a LOT of cop rage, DickTard must have... and at least one of the pictures (the dude on the right) is an American body builder and a cop, Ron Coleman. How yella is that? I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
You may have a point, GI. Reading some of the related detail offered on the thread mentions, "the Queen's Court" and as most people know, there are a lot of queers in KOOKIFORNIA. Good catch and perhaps that is why tater was so engaged on the thread.
I could give a shit if Canadian cops waterboard suspects for confessions. That's CANADA's problem. Maybe they should have drafted a bill of rights. When talking about any place OUTSIDE of my great republic, I give ZERO fuks. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I am curious about your indifference. Are you aware the USA is ~21Trillion green-backs in debt because of your same indifference?
My lack of empathy for anything NOT American, isn't what ran our debt up, dipshit. Quite the opposite
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Well, to an American, "CA" is California, as it obviously is to Gatlin.
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#24. To: buckeroo (#23)
Well, tater could have performed improved research about Deckard's article posted as:
But instead, he went through a tirade and publickly displayed the same. Unlike you, I have no sympathy for the madman.
#25. To: Tooconservative (#15)
No literate American believes that the Edmonton being referenced was anywhere except Canada.
The literate American should know that “AB” is the official two-letter abbreviations that must be used for the city of Edmonton located in the province of Alberta in Canada. One must always use Edmonton, AB when referring to the city of Edmonton in the province of Alberta in Canada.
#26. To: Tooconservative, tater, yukon (#24)
Madman? That sounds like some personal animus.
#27. To: Tooconservative (#21)
Well, to an American, "CA" is California, as it obviously is to Gatlin.
#28. To: sneakypete, Tooconsrvative (#22)
I can't see any reason why any literate American would think the article was about anything except Canadian cops in a steroid ring.
#29. To: buckeroo (#20)
(Edited)
I hate to break it to you but you are full of shit. "CA" isn't California and Deckard never said that it was.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#30. To: Tooconservative, buckeroo (#24)
sympathy for the madman
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#31. To: Gatlin (#25)
The literate American should know that “AB” is the official two-letter abbreviations that must be used for the city of Edmonton located in the province of Alberta in Canada. One must always use Edmonton, AB when referring to the city of Edmonton in the province of Alberta in Canada.
Matt Argost is no idiot and there should be no question that he knew exactly what he doing with his misuse of the official two-letter abbreviation to place the city of Edmonton in California in his article....it was intentionally meant to be misleading.
#32. To: Tooconservative (#24)
And Deckard's article included other instances of cop roiding here in the States. So about half the article did address American cops, not Canadian.
He made no distinctive transition and continue to address the point like he was still talking about cops in the States.
#33. To: Tooconservative (#31)
Otherwise, "Alberta, CA" is an officially recognized ISO standard for referring to Alberta.
This article is somewhat dishonest in that it uses a Canadian case of cops roiding it up and then switch to a bunch of American cop examples, DEA, etc.
#34. To: Gatlin, Deckard (#28)
I can too and I believe that everyone who read the article before my post assumed the city of Edmonton named in the article was definitely in California....although I don’t expect anyone to admit that.
#35. To: Gatlin (#32)
In reading the article for the first time, did you believe the incident took place in California? Please answer my question.
#36. To: Tooconservative, tater, Deckard (#35)
No. Because Alberta automatically means Canada to me.
#37. To: buckeroo (#36)
#38. To: Gatlin (#25)
...misuse of the official two-letter abbreviation to place the city of Edmonton in California
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#39. To: Tooconservative (#21)
CanadaPost: Addressing Guidelines, the official Canadian postal service
Right....Edmonton, AB and not Edmonton, CA.
#40. To: Tooconservative (#37)
... and doing so fairly well.
Defeated for now but not exactly leaving the field of battle or conceding the war.
#41. To: Tooconservative (#35)
Edmonton, CA — Two Edmonton police officers were found guilty this week for running a highly profitable steroid ring—selling anabolic steroids to fellow cops.
#42. To: Gatlin (#41)
Did you think he was talking about a city in Canada?
#43. To: Deckard (#38)
Alberta is mentioned in the article - did you bother to read the entire story?
Yea, he did mention that. After he mentioned Edmonton, CA and just before mentioning “other cases” of police officers in American and the DEA.
#44. To: Gatlin, the wisdom of tater, Deckard (#43)
Hmmm ...
#45. To: Deckard, All (#43)
In my first post to you, I specifically asked: Hey Deckard....exactly where is Edmonton, California?
You never answered that question or even addressed the point later.
#46. To: Gatlin, Deckard (#45)
(Edited)
I will leave you with that and I will continue to watch you like a hawk....so, don’t screw up again.
#47. To: Tooconservative (#42)
(Edited)
I suppose I could flip your accusations around to demand that you recount when you first understood the article was about Canada and not California.
“These Edmonton cops are not alone either. As the Free Thought Project previously reported, Darrion Holiwell, 51, was arrested and charged for not only taking steroids but dealing them to other SWAT deputies on the force, as well as people outside the agency.”
#48. To: tater, Deckard (#47)
#49. To: Gatlin (#47)
(Edited)
The omissions and deception continue all the way through the paragraphs when suddenly in the sixth paragraph, Argost mentions the “Alberta Serious Incident Response Team.” I did wonder why “Alberta” was mention in passing and thought of a couple possible reasons why, before moving on.
As I now depart from this thread, I will be left to wonder when it was that others realized the cops were from Edmonton, Alberta and not Edmonton, California.
Having said all of this, I will still classify the article as “Yellow Journalism” and Deckard as an “ignorant asshole” for posting such stupid and meaningless shit about something that happened in Alberta, Canada.
#50. To: buckeroo, Y'ALL (#48)
Did you see tater's long winded post, just above? It isn't worthy of a comment but it is worthy of ROTFL. ----- buckeroo
#51. To: Gatlin, Edmonton California Kids (#45)
#52. To: All, Gatlin, Deckard (#34)
(Edited)
The top four are Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Ottawa. And Ottawa only beat Edmonton by a few thousand, both being just under 1 million in population.
#53. To: Tooconservative (#52)
the main theme of his article was a Canadian cop-roid ring, not an American one. He avoided the word Canada pretty assiduously.
#54. To: Tooconservative (#34)
unusual spelling and would be unlikely to be found in America
#55. To: Gatlin (#54)
Edmonton, Kentucky.
#56. To: buckeroo (#48)
(Edited)
Did you see tater's long winded post, just above?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#57. To: Gatlin (#45)
Hey Deckard....exactly where is Edmonton, California?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#58. To: buckeroo (#20)
#59. To: GrandIsland, Deckard (#58)
Why wouldn't anyone assume it's KOOKIFONIA... after all, who gives a flying fuk what Canadian cops do from an American blog?
#60. To: buckeroo (#59)
#61. To: GrandIsland (#60)
Maybe they should have drafted a bill of rights. When talking about any place OUTSIDE of my great republic, I give ZERO fuks.
#62. To: buckeroo (#61)
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