{"id":3969,"date":"2013-06-05T16:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:50:45","slug":"law-and-order-or-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-stalkers-running-free-too-tall-an-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Law and Order, or is the Beginning of the End of #Stalkers Running Free too Tall an Order?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Expressions<\/a>

Expressions of Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n

‘Law and Order’ is such a simple phrase, that means so very much when you find yourself a victim.\u00a0 Law is the premise, the nucleus, that brings order.\u00a0 Law is dynamic, very dynamic I\u2019m finding this as I read the Colorado Revised Statutes with all of the year specific repeals, and additions.\u00a0 Keeping pace with the ever altering landscape that is our lives is graphically displayed.\u00a0 How one single word changes everything is just as amazing to me.<\/p>\n

In Morgan\u2019s case I am troubled to no end, because laws existed, but were not enforced, or maybe brought into play is a better way to think of it.\u00a0 For example part of a Colorado Revised Statute (or C.R.S.) says:<\/p>\n

The general assembly hereby recognizes the seriousness posed by\u00a0<\/i>stalking and adopts the provisions of this part 6 with the goal of encouraging\u00a0<\/i>and authorizing effective intervention before stalking can escalate into\u00a0<\/i>behavior that has even more serious consequences.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Then we had a Sheriff, under whom\u2019s direction, his department assigns a Detective on day 58 of Morgan\u2019s Stalking. \u00a0Effective Intervention? \u00a058 days? \u00a0What do you think? \u00a0And remember Deputies did respond during the 58 days before, but, no sirens, no blinking lights, they can’t collect fingerprints, cast shoe prints or effectively collect evidence, the case has no case number, because it has not opened yet, and as I’m also finding, record keeping is completely shaky at the very best. \u00a0The responding Deputies also told me that this was Colorado Law, \u00a0I haven’t been able to find the law they talked about, but as you can see the one I did find is quite the opposite. \u00a0And that the stalking did in fact “escalate into behavior that had even more serious consequences”, is without question.<\/p>\n

And it was not just the nearly 60 days or two months of living hell before there was a Detective, and a case number, along with the hope of a forthcoming plan to catch the stalker(s), and bring about an end to the ensuing nightmare.\u00a0 It was also that once assigned, our detective had to justify the amount of time he spent on Morgan’s case.\u00a0 \u201cHigher ups\u201d within the Sheriff\u2019s department saw fit to allow an hour or two here or there. \u00a0Was he assigned to Morgan’s case only to have his hands tied?<\/p>\n

Our felony stalking detective was angling for an extra hour or two to work her case, and now Morgan is dead, killed by her stalker.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t seem right to me in any way, shape or manner, and I suppose it never will.\u00a0 How could it?\u00a0 In the name of Morgan having every dream she ever had yet to realize taken from her, the stalking case deserved the number of hours it took to solve it.\u00a0 Not the best that can be done in an hour or two a week. \u00a0And if that is not enough, “oh well”, that’s the best we could do. \u00a0We all know how that worked out for Morgan.<\/p>\n

Another section of the same law on stalking that I found to be right to the point, especially in Morgan\u2019s case is:<\/p>\n

Because stalking involves highly inappropriate intensity, persistence, and\u00a0<\/i>possessiveness, it entails great unpredictability and creates great stress and\u00a0<\/i>fear for the victim<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Morgan was stressed, and she was in fear.\u00a0 She also had little hope for the simple pleasures in life, like a \u201cgood nights sleep\u201d.\u00a0 The Colorado General Assembly, which drafted and passed the laws on stalking obviously got it.\u00a0 If you want you can read the entire text of the C.R.S. that was law during Morgan\u2019s stalking here it is,\u00a0STALKING LAW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The General Assembly deserves kudos for understanding the evil serpent so well, and drafting an effective response.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe the Sheriff got it… at all.\u00a0 The response that is spelled out in the Colorado Revised Statutes for stalking never arrived for Morgan.\u00a0 For the sake of all the victims of stalking, \u00a0I sincerely hope that changes in the future. \u00a0Morgan’s stalker(s) are still running free.<\/p>\n

And often I have spoken of another Colorado organization \u2013 the CBI, or Colorado Bureau or Investigation.\u00a0 The big guns of law enforcement here in this state.\u00a0 Many have pointed to the need for a \u201cmicroscopic\u201d investigation of an unattended death under suspicious circumstances as Morgan\u2019s was. \u00a0The CBI could have been and should have been called in the morning we found Morgan dead, but it would have been the Sheriff’s call and they did not make it. \u00a0That would have given Morgan a proper investigation instead of the, \u201cso thoroughly botched,\u201d investigation that unfortunately Morgan did have.<\/p>\n

I bring this up because, just recently right here in the Roaring Fork Valley, the body of a man was found in an irrigation ditch, deceased.\u00a0 Only he was not found in Garfield County, he was found in Pitkin County. \u00a0Different County, different Sheriff, and fact is that the protocol there for an unattended death under suspicious circumstances was to immediately call in the CBI, that\u2019s why we have the CBI is my understanding, not just for deaths, but any investigation that is beyond that capabilities of a smaller Sheriff\u2019s department.\u00a0 The CBI responded, was there within a few hours, and evidently evidence was actually found quite a distance from the death scene, and collected, to be processed.<\/p>\n

There is a difference between that, and reading Morgan’s texts, and a old journal from her room. \u00a0But her PJ’s she wore to bed the night before, completely missing, her panic button gone from its mount, her body posed, redressed, none of that mattered. \u00a0Who were they investigating, really? \u00a0How was that going to ID or catch the intruder? \u00a0A crime scene such as Morgan’s is to be considered a homicide until proven otherwise. \u00a0What gives here, really?<\/p>\n

Complete answers to the possible crime just committed sits at the root of prevention of crime, and isn\u2019t that the goal of law enforcement? \u00a0To Protect and To Serve? \u00a0If a person, usually a woman, is the victim of stalking, doesn’t she deserve adequate protection? \u00a0Or is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n

And though the following was in response to a different post there is a comment I want to share again with you, this is too perfect a place for it not to –\u00a0Guardian Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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