Late at night our publisher, Sandra Feigley, was awakened by a phone call from one of our volunteers. A small riot was going on in front of our properties in the dilapidated Alison Hill district of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, the Alabama of the North. A gang of drunken people had left a nearby nuisance bar trying to kill a small Hispanic man. They threw bricks and bottles at the man who was trying to hide behind a tree. A crowd had gathered to support the victim. Mrs. Feigley did the obvious thing; she phoned 9-1-1 and asked for the cops. The cops didn't show up. All the city's cops were in downtown Harrisburg patrolling the strip of gin-joints. Harrisburg's crackpot mayor has two fetishes: building silly unwanted museums and importing droves of young people from the suburbs to get drunk in his pet project: Gin-Joint-Junction. As I say, Mayor Steven Reed leaves a lot to be desired. Harrisburg has gone to hell since he's been in charge. Mrs. Feigley phoned the cops again. They weren't much interested. It was only a small riot, after all, and the victim was only a Hispanic man. The cops wanted to stay close to Mayor Reed's booze-bars. With considerable effort, Mrs. Feigley convinced the 9-1-1 dispatcher to pry a couple cops loose from the bars. Eventually the cops reluctantly arrived. The assailants fled leaving the street and the lawns of our properties littered with spent missiles and refuse. The terrified victim fled toward his home. True to form, the cops went crazy. Three power-crazed cops opened fire, spraying the street with about 40 bullets. They were shooting at the victim of the riot, not at the assailants. There was no apparent provocation for the cops to shoot. They just like playing with their guns. The numerous people who'd responded to the commotion, including Mrs. Feigley, dashed for cover. Their lives and property were endangered by the cop's irresponsible gun-play. Fortunately, all the cops were remarkably bad shots. Nobody was hit, not even the little Hispanic fellow. Later, the cops tried to excuse their recklessness by claiming that the Hispanic man had had a gun. That was clearly a lie. If he'd had a gun, he would have defended himself from the gang that was trying to kill him. Nothing about the incident appeared in the news. Harrisburg Mayor Steven Reed strictly censors the news about crime in the city. The local newspaper, The Patriot-News cooperates in the cover-up. It reports crimes from all the surrounding areas, but not from Harrisburg. Stevie Reed wouldn't like the truth to get out. The Alison Hill district of Harrisburg is notorious for it's crime. Recently wolf-packs of hooded young blacks have been savagely mugging Hispanics with bricks and bats. The Hispanics work hard and carry their pay with them. They seldom report the vicious assaults because of their terror of the cops and immigration officials. Cops do nothing to protect the victims and The Patriot-News turns a blind-eye to the victimizations. Mayor Stevie Reed wouldn't like the truth to get out. Since there was clear police misconduct, what would pass for an investigation of the shootings was turned over to the Dauphin County detectives, a group well known for its ineptness and bullying. You want a lie? Go to the Dauphin County detectives! Mrs. Feigley, a white, middle-aged woman who would make a good witness againts the cops, was the only real obstacle to a successful cover-up. The rest of the witnesses, mostly Hispanics and blacks, were unlikely to give evidence against the cops. They knew that retaliation would follow. The Dauphin County detectives had their work cutout for them. They had to shut Mrs. Feigley up. After all, she was the one who'd called the cops in the first place. For months she'd been lobbying to have video surveillance cameras installed at the intersection where they would deter crime. The chief of police simply ignored the requests. She complained repeatedly about the violence on the streets. Mrs. Feigley voluntarily told both the cops and the Dauphin County detectives what little she knew. She hadn't actually seen the shooting, just heard the fusillade and the hail of slugs ricocheting around the street. She'd heard no shooting except from the cops and seen no provocation. That would never do! The Dauphin County detectives required Mrs. Feigley, but nobody else, to report to the courthouse. There they subjected her to intimidation and terror, recording her statements. Their goal was to make her afraid so she wouldn't report anything against the cops. They wanted to cover-up the truth. These real-life examples of cops at work reflect what we've often said; cops are by far the most dangerous gang (or gangs) of thugs in the state. The gun-happy Harrisburg cops could easily have killed a dozen innocent bystanders. The corrupt Dauphin County detectives actively subverted justice and intentionally intimidated a good citizen who'd done her duty. Cops may be a necessary evil, but never forget that they are an evil. Don't ever trust or believe them. and, above all, avoid Pennsylvania and especially Harrisburg!