The Police Hit Us Close To Home: Neighbors And The Sudden Disappearance Of Centre County Pennsylvania District Attorney Ray F. Gricar Poem by Dennis Ryan

Tuesday morning, June 20, 2023 at 7: 02 a.m. and 7: 38 a.m.; Wednesday morning, June 21, 2023 at 10: 10 a.m. and 10: 30 a.m.; Thursday morning, June 22, 2023 at 6: 28 a.m. and 6: 38 a.m.

The police use anyone and everyone—neighbors, yours
and mine—to lie, to harass, to spy, to inform, to cover up
police crimes. Ask the disappeared Ray F. Gricar, former District Attorney of Centre County Pennsylvania, his corpse,
if you can find it—well gone to worms by now, his bones
alone, his skull our lone reminder, testament to the man,
his steadfast honesty in the face of police corruption, that
of the then governor of Pennsylvania. Yes, the police, FBI
hit us close to home—always have, always will until reforms
are enacted, state legislatures forced to stop passing laws
that always protect the police, allow them to act with force
and impunity, rarely being held accountable as bad actors,
the criminals they sometimes are—most, almost all policing
is political. Take the Raleigh PD as example—they refused
to investigate the assault on my person during the evening
of September 17, 2014, when I was attacked from behind,
my head slammed into the sidewalk one block from home,
my wife driving me to the Emergency Room of Duke Raleigh
Hospital where the emergency room MD stitched me up,
helped put me back together again, no thanks to the police.
How explain the Raleigh PD's curious failure to protect and
serve in this instance? The answer is 'selective policing',
that is 'political policing'—they choose when and where
and who to serve and protect—clearly, I am not one of the chosen, no, not one of them. (I am the target.) The police
keep me a victim twofold—first, I was viciously attacked;
and, second, Raleigh police, select officers, fail to help—
hinder me—give no service. I am the target— the polices'.