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    Wayward ApologyAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:21am

    He says he lifted the Palm Beach names and addresses from a database maintained by the county property appraiser.

    Hold on, “lifted”, is this part of the hacking he is being accused of? Because almost every major property appraisal district in the country has such a database that is publically accessible and searchable by name to obtain a street address of the home they own, no hacking required. Admittedly it would be tedious to compile a list of officers and agents and then cross reference it to the appraisal district but the names of officers and agents are routinely published in the media, agency publications, phone directories and public court records and the appraisal district information again is public record and easily searchable online, I don’t see how combining the two becomes illegal.

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      Andy CushWayward Apology
      3/16/16 11:24am

      Law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, etc. in Palm Beach have the ability to redact their names/addresses from the appraiser’s public-facing records. From what I understand he took the unredacted versions of these, which the appraiser maintains but doesn’t make public, and publicized them.

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      HomerSanoAndy Cush
      3/16/16 11:31am

      I still don’t see an issue. If someone wanted to harm these guys it is just as easy to follow them home.

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    FreeRonAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:11am

    As a Broward county resident who works in West Palm Beach, I honestly don’t know what to make of this story...but the police are, in no uncertain terms, incredibly racist and corrupt here.

    http://gawker.com/dashcam-video-…

    Trump’s FL HQ are in West Palm Beach, for whatever that’s worth. I can’t go very far without hearing or seeing something amazingly backwards, despite WPB being one of the wealthiest counties in the state, if not country. I don’t even know where I’m going with this, shit just sucks and I implore everybody to vote, especially in your local elections.

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      heisrightyahFreeRon
      3/16/16 11:50am

      The Broward Sheriff went to federal prison and it is the largest Sheriff’s organization in the world. Hell, they own Sheriff.org. The amount of insanity that goes on there, from one time making crack in the jails to entrap black people, to banning 2 Live Crew’s music and getting shut down by the Supreme Court, there’s just an endless number of assholes there, and I can’t be boethered with grammar or syntax to explain it.

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      DolemiteFreeRon
      3/16/16 12:34pm

      Yeah, funny how the police have apparently been doing a lot of illegal things like intimidation or just straight up murdering/beating suspects, with no repercussions, but these hacker guys have the wrath of the entire US government coming down on them and will probably end up locked in prison for life.

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    Major Lazer Power BlazerAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:22am

    this is kind of an incorrect description of palm beach county. yes, palm beach island is where rich people have mansions. palm beach gardens and boca raton are also very nice. but the rest of the county is pretty solidly middle class with lots of very, very run down lower income areas

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      DunkCityFinMajor Lazer Power Blazer
      3/16/16 11:35am

      So the Collier County of the East

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      Mo-Major Lazer Power Blazer
      3/16/16 11:54am

      Indeed. Outside of Clamatis (sp) and places like Wellington, PBC is really, really nothing to proclaim.

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    spatoolaAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:05am

    i wish that they would also go after the Sheriff of Malibu, fucking fascist.

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      GoneGonzospatoola
      3/16/16 11:15am

      Deadbeat!

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      Red GuardGoneGonzo
      3/16/16 11:36am

      Get out of my town!

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:24am

    What an utterly gossipy little shit-show. What the fuck did I just read?

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      3/16/16 10:40pm

      What’s not clear about what I said? Of course the actual abuses are serious, but they are certainly not unique. The rest of this is gossipy, back-biting local bullshit.

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    AsomughatoMouthAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:07am

    What’s truly disheartening here is there’s no way this is the only sheriff’s office or police department in the country that does things similar to this so that their boys can ride around like Road Warriors and shoot anything that moves.

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      snausagepigAsomughatoMouth
      3/16/16 12:55pm

      Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County Arizona has been playing this tune for over 20 years. Trying to get dirt and intimidate everyone from county commissioners to federal judges.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesAndy Cush
    3/16/16 11:14am

    He did this shit, here, because he knows Putin would have offed his ass if he tried that shit over there.

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      Burger-LordGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      3/16/16 12:11pm

      I don’t doubt there are issues withing WPB sherrif’s department, but I wonder if Badwolf feels the need to out the corruption in his home country of Russia.

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      LebronsJackedUpHairLineBurger-Lord
      3/16/16 2:57pm

      He acknowledes all this in his first statment, stakes are a little higher there as people have been killed for being even agitators.

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    wellsAndy Cush
    3/16/16 12:17pm

    I commend Andy Cush and Gawker for this story. By its very nature and definition, corruption comes from the “state” side of the criminal justice system. Judges, prosecutors, police probation officers, contractors and prison guards and staff. (Do I really have to insert that many/most are good public servants? ) More despicable because of it is theft under the color of law, and it ruins lives—whether by a shooting or imprisonment, or by a 16 black kid with a clean record spending a year in a juvenile facility for a small amount (personal use) of marijuana, or the 18 year old that carries it on his jacket forever. Perhaps journalism isn’t dead. Ask a public defender. If you can peel the truth from the disillusionment and cynicism of the unfortunate reality of this “Age of the Prosecutor”. If not for wealthy defendanta, Mike Nifong would still be prosecuting.

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      Chain-Chomp2wells
      3/16/16 12:37pm

      I’ve seen this shit first hand. I know cops who think this shit is ok. Let me preface what I’m about to say with I’m law abiding all my life with the exception of a lead foot. Whenever I hear of a cop, judge, prosecutor, etc, etc... who was killed I ponder this: what did you do to bring this on yourself?

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    BrianDAndy Cush
    3/16/16 12:27pm

    Bad Wolf. Bad Woooolf. Bad Wooolf. BAD WOOOOOOOOLLLF.
    He hacks around the mother land, the Canidae of truth
    He knows your department’s as corrupt
    As the family Bluth!

    He has more dirty info,
    so let the cyberwar begin
    A sultry affair, a show of (undue)force
    A murder would be nice of course

    Bad Wolf
    Bad WOOOLF
    Bad Wolf
    He’s Bad.

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      Sharaz JekBrianD
      3/16/16 1:10pm

      If this is a Dr. Horrible reference, then bravo, sir.

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    HibbityJibbityAndy Cush
    3/16/16 12:12pm

    My former apartment complex formally petitioned the Post Office to have the address designation as Palm Beach Gardens, even though it was 4000 feet south of the city line, and therefore in Riviera Beach. The front office...I hesitate to say “lady,” said “A Riviera Beach address sends the wrong message.”

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