Judge McCann is no friend of honest cops

Avitaminosis is defined as a disease resulting from a deficiency of one or more vitamins. It is here I must confess it a good thing I am not a medical practitioner – for I would have initially misdiagnosed Worcester, Mass., Superior Court Judge John S. McCann's condition to be attributable to the aforementioned.

In actuality "his high, holy, most all-knowledgeable Associate Justice John S. McCann" suffers from "acute liberal judicial activist disease – generally associated with social liberals who view all but the academic elite as proletariat – brought on by oxygen deprivation to their collective brains, i.e., a total absence of common sense.

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How else does one explain the decision of McCann? As WorldNetDaily ("'Race bias' could free alleged drug dealer," Sept. 18, 2003) and the Boston Globe reported, McCann is considering releasing an alleged dope dealer apprehended with two pounds of cocaine. This after he threw out the evidence of both the cocaine and the confession of the alleged dealer that he planned to distribute, i.e. deal the cocaine. While the charges have not been dropped, the entire case is predicated upon the evidence and the admission of intent to distribute.

McCann's rationale for the unprecedented judicial intervention was simply put: Andres Lora, a Dominican immigrant, was one too many minorities who had their cars searched by the arresting officers. But hold that thought. Allow me to point out something that has not been noted.

Understand that I am a writer of opinion, not a mathematician, but Lora was arrested with 1,000 grams of cocaine he planned to sell. One thousand grams of cocaine, even if mediocre in quality, can be cut at least two and one-half times. That means one can dilute the product using mannitol (a baby laxative), caffeine, ephedrine or glucose powder – to mention but a few – and in so doing increase proportionately the amount of product.

Taken to the extreme if 1,000 grams is cut two and one-half times, it becomes 2,500 grams. Unlike in the suburbs where money is not the issue, it is in the inner city, where cocaine is purchased in dime bags, i.e., $10 amounts.

Accordingly, one gram yields 10 dime bags. Thus 2,500 grams becomes 25,000 dime bags. Multiply by $10 per bag and you arrive at $250,000. That becomes the equivalent of one individual person per dime bag. Crack cocaine is sold in nickel bags or $5 bags. You do the math. But make sure you multiply those numbers by the hundreds and thousands of vermin like Lora.

We can see the yield from one dealer – who probably was lying through his teeth (allowing he has any) – when he said he was re-selling the entire amount for $30,000.

People like Lora don't sell product in bulk. He claimed to have paid $26,000 for cocaine – that would have made his profit $4,000. Why would he give away money? (Dealers may be dumb, but they understand profit.) And if he was a mule – a transporter – at best he would realize $500 for his effort plus a "taste."

Who in their right mind would be concerned about legitimate, legal stops and searches by law enforcement? Should they make traffic stops and write tickets, but not bust the minorities for illegal contraband?

The Loras of this world are not nuclear scientists – what cognitive abilities they once possessed have been measurably reduced by drugs. How difficult is it to understand or believe that the arresting officers did not have to be "Starsky and Hutch" to collar criminals?

As a law-enforcement officer friend told me, "The most important factor in this whole case is if [this] ruling is upheld; then, whenever a minority is arrested, it will be out there." He added: "Is there profiling? Yes, but you profile against crime not race." He lamented that it was at once both funny and sad. "The system today is built for the criminal."

A writer /educator friend wrote me, "As Thomas Sowell would surely point out, the people who make these decisions live in neighborhoods unaffected by crime – so others will pay the price for their stupidity, and they get to feel self-righteous." Of course, the American Civil Liberties Union is on the sidelines gleefully cheering the decision.

Obviously, McCann in his rush to make other rulings that favor criminals – the Robert Peluso and Rev. Teczar cases come to mind – missed the commercials our children are supposed to watch and absorb. You know, the ones that point out how dope users and dealers support terrorist networks. You can now add Associate Justice McCann to that supporter network.