Blue Byline » sex offenders http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Life sentence a rebuke for the vigilante http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/09/20/killers-life-sentence-a-repudiation-of-the-vigilante/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/09/20/killers-life-sentence-a-repudiation-of-the-vigilante/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:07:27 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=2135

(this is an update from a June 12 column)

For the record, it didn’t have to be done.

The “it” I refer to are the vigilante killings of two sex offenders, Gary Blanton and Jerry Ray, carried out by one Patrick Drum. The two shootings on the Olympic Peninsula, which occurred on June 2 and June 3 of this year (Trib 6/4), were the result of Drum’s violent frame of mind and his decision that, “it” in his words, “had to be done.”

If that is true, then we have truly made no progress as a civilized …

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First in a series on sex offenders.

After several knocks on the front door, a lean man in his 20s opened it and squinted at us through thick glasses.

“Who is it?” he asked.

“It’s the police.” My partner answered.

The man shrugged, sighed and opened the door. We walked past him into the stale-smelling studio unit and saw a young lady sitting on a sofa with a small child on her lap. I looked down at the sex offender bulletin in my hand. Front and center was a picture of the now very guilty looking man with glasses. I …

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