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Jackie Juntti
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Date Posted: 09:08:39 04/25/09 Sat
Here is an outstanding example of how the Constitutional parts of government are diluted and misdirected. I have pasted in some information following the news item. It pertains to the actual duties of an elected Sheriff. I didn't see where handing out CRIBS was a part of that job.
When the legislature is making CUTS to the Constitutional basic of government they love to hit law enforcement as they know the voters will scream about that. What they don't mention is all the jobs they have mandated or placed upon law enforcement that have NOTHING to do with the legal duties of Law Enforcement. Eliminate all the frills and pretties and return to the actual duties of law enforcement and then you will see what it costs.
We have far more *social agencies* and churches who can do this kind of stuff - The Sheriffs office has a job that needs to be done without handing out cribs along the way.
Insanity not only is running amok - it has shifted into HIGH GEAR and picking up speed as it heads this country to the pit of hell. What we need is a very large supply of those long sleeved white coats, sleeves that wrap around and end with that silvery Bling at the cuffs. Then we need to place those nice long sleeved coats on every politician we encounter.
Jackie Juntti
WGEN idzrus@earthlink.net
"Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule."
... Friedrich Nietzsche
"In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence." ......Kurt Nimmo
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009119563_sidscribs25m.html
Originally published April 25, 2009 at 12:00 AM | Page modified April 25, 2009 at 12:03 AM
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Sheriff's Office distributes safe, free cribs to families in need
Medical and forensic research and the experience of law-enforcement officers called to investigate the deaths of infants or young children have validated that a good crib can save a baby's life. To that end, the King County Sheriff's Office is partnering with the Northwest Infant Survival Alliance to distribute safe, simple cribs to families that lack a protected place for a sleeping baby.
By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
A good crib can save a baby's life.
That's a simple truth that's validated by medical and forensic research and the experience of law-enforcement officers called to investigate the deaths of infants or children.
To that end, the King County Sheriff's Office is partnering with the Northwest Infant Survival Alliance to distribute safe, simple and free cribs to families that lack an appropriate, protected place for a sleeping baby.
The partnership and launch of the new program, Cribs for Kids, was announced at a news conference in the sheriff's office Friday.
According to Metropolitan King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert, the infant mortality rate in the county is on the rise, with 26 sudden unexpected crib deaths in 2008; there were 13 such deaths in 2007.
Statewide, 400 infants died last year and in one-quarter of those cases, the cause and manner of death were never determined, said Deborah Robinson, of the Northwest Infant Survival Alliance.
Nevertheless, King County Sheriff Sue Rahr said some of those deaths almost certainly could have been prevented.
She said there are risk factors, including the lack of a simple, separate sleeping space, that increase a child's chance of an early death.
Years of research show that the best and safest way for a baby to sleep is on his or her back in a blanket sleeper in a completely empty crib, according to Robinson.
Couches, floors, beanbag chairs, cluttered surfaces, adult beds and family beds are not safe places for babies to sleep, Robinson said. Neither, it turns out, are the beautifully appointed cribs with bumper pads and a cache of stuffed animals.
In announcing the program on National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Day, Rahr said it makes sense for the Sheriff's Office to distribute the cribs.
Deputies called in on other matters may see an infant in an unsafe sleeping arrangement.
Rahr recalled serving a search warrant on alleged gang members years ago and walking into a house where a baby had been put down to sleep on a feces-covered floor next to a rabbit hutch.
Had the program to provide cribs been available then, she said, she would have made sure that family got one.
Christine Clarridge: 206-464-8983 or cclarridge@seattletimes.com
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