Giuliani Takes Job As Security Consultant For Rio Olympics

damm you beat me to it...

sounds like RIO is ghouliani's kind of town!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/6765724/Brazil-police-kill-11000-in-six-years.html

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.

Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labeled in police reports as the deaths of suspects who resisted arrest, the report said.

The 122-page declaration echoes a 2008 United Nations' finding that police throughout Brazil were responsible for a "significant portion" of 48,000 slayings the year before.

what a douche bag

we already have alcohol, what lesson was learned from alcohol when it was prohibited? criminal gangs made millions, rumrunners made $, no tax was collected.

skip the revenue stream, skip the tax, make 2 plants per household legal, grow your own, make it illegal to sell to any adult or give to children, or drive stoned, make possesion of your own stash legal in any quantity that equals the output of a two plant crop.

thats a simple drug plan that will solve alot of problems and take $ out of the prison industrial complex and give a plant back to the people who want it.

sorry, marijuana is a plant that requires no processing,

growing a poppy isnt that simple and making opium or heroin isnt exactly easy to do.

processing legal chemicals to make dangerous drugs is illegal for a reason,

legalizing pot will get rid of profit incentive for alot of criminal gangs, just because someone smokes pot doesnt mean they would buy meth or crack.

drinking yourself to a stupor is not the same as a few puff of pot, your kidding right, the immediate health effects and no hangover makes pot a better choice for the average recreational drug user. i can leave work, puff and i wont be sick or hungover, later or the next day, theres no wiothdrawl and you can walk down the street and nobody needs to know anything, drunk, people know.

why am i even responding, theres not many crimes committed under the influence of weed. what planet are you from?

Is there any chance Giuliani could be induced to move there and stay? Learn Portuguese, pick up a spectrum of hot babes, drive around in a big SUV and shoot leaders of rival gangs -- it could be a fitting capstone to a notable career, and much more fun than being defeated by Mrs. Gillibrand.

So, how about a photo credit, Ben?

shitbucket

legalizing marijuana is a popular view.

its a plant.

all problems are due to the fact that its illegal,

that doesnt stop yuppies from supporting criinal enterprises to smoke some bud at home.

make it legal to grow and the criminal control of our streets would disappear.

I'm quite certain legalizing marijuana use is definitely NOT a majority view. Opium poppies is also a plant.

We already have alcohol. Why don't you drink yourself to a stupor instead of smoking marijuana to do the exact same thing?

criminal control of our streets would disappear.

This is a joke right? What about cocaine or meth? Those are next for legalization. Great, a bunch of addicts pushing legalization of drugs onto everyone. I wonder how much bigger prisons will get with crimes commited while under the influence of a drug.

um possesion of less than ONE OUNCE is a VIOLATION.(aka not a crime)

possesion in the open is a misdemeanor.

emptying your pockets or showing the cops your stash moves the violation to a misdemeanor. whats complicated about that?

its racially based, stop & frisks are aggressive and intrusive in minority hoods, go there an see.

The arrests are expensive, but state and local governments do not have to pay for them all. Arrests for possessing even tiny amounts of marijuana and other drugs are subsidized by the U.S. government. Up to a billion dollars a year has been going to states, prosecutors and police departments through the Byrne Grant Program to “fight” drugs and crime. Many Democrats in Congress have been strong supporters of Byrne Grants, including Senators Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

In 2009, the economic stimulus package enacted by Congress added two billion dollars more to the Byrne Grant Program. This tripled Byrne Grant funding raising it to the highest level ever. As a result, this epidemic of racially-biased and stigmatizing marijuana possession arrests in New York City and elsewhere will grow even larger.

Byrne Grant fund isn't just for arresting people on possessing illicit drugs. It is a fund available for all state and local police in fighting crime: any crime.

"racially-biased"? How do you know it is racially biased?

"stigmatizing marijuana possession"? It is illegal you know that right? You want to make it legal? You ask your state and local representatives ok? Let's see how popular your views are.

bummer, Obama is not about change at all, it's more of the same.

Here's how the police do it. NYPD commanders direct officers to stop and question many young people and make arrests for possessing "contraband." In 2008, the NYPD made more than half a million recorded stop and frisks and an unknown number of unrecorded stops, disproportionately in black, Latino and low-income neighborhoods. By far, the most common contraband young people might possess is a small amount of marijuana.

According to U.S. Supreme Court decisions, police are allowed to thoroughly pat down the outside of someone's clothing looking for a gun, which is bulky and easy to detect. But police cannot legally search inside a person's pockets and belongings without permission or probable cause.

However, police officers can legally make false statements to people they stop, and officers can trick people into revealing things. So in a stern, authoritative voice, NYPD officers will say to the young people they stop:

"We're going to have to search you. If you have anything illegal you should show it to us now. If we find something when we search you, you'll have to spend the night in jail. But if you show us what you have now, maybe we can just give you a ticket. And if it’s nothing but a little weed, maybe we can let you go. So if you’ve got anything you’re not supposed to have, take it out and show it now.”

When police say this, the young people usually take out their small amount of marijuana and hand it over. Their marijuana is now "open to public view." And that – having a bit of pot out and open to be seen – technically makes it a crime, a fingerprintable offense. And for cooperating with the police, the young people are handcuffed and jailed.

Crime in Rio is worse than crime was in NYC back in the 70's.

I think Rudy is way over his head.

they're hiring him to consult for security over the games and surrounding areas, not the entire city.

and given that, he probably has relatively more resources at his disposal.

in any case, all he's going to do is bulldoze the favelas and put a barbed-wire fence around the area. possibly set up a colorful tent over the camps for NBC's helicopters. i guarantee this is almost exactly what's going to happen.

"D'oh!"

Would you take security advice from the same guy who put the city's Emergency Operations Center in the Trade Towers after the 1993 attack??

"D'oh!"

There's worldwide plague of American ex-public service, experts hired to run election campaigns, The London Underground, rebuild economies, etc. Rudy's just one of the most famous ones.

Most of them will eventually fail as they succeeded with an established organization (usually failing) where they at least could speak the language, understood the rules and understand the culture. Good luck applying that experience in Kabul, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, etc.

do you really need to hire him? it's an easy formula: outlaw poverty, throw everybody who breaks the law in jail.

Rudy's firm had a contract with the Mexico City police force a few years ago and FAILED. To be fair, that force is underfunded, corrupt and incompetent and the perfect example why Rio isn't going to work out, if it was just up to him.

However, it's clear most Americans have no idea how important this event is to Brazil nor how hard they will try to make it successful.

THANK YOU!

the pot smoking "crime" was a major Rudy thing and still a major Bloomberg thing!

but in the hood its a 24 hours a day / 7 days a week sweep, using trickery to target ignorant disenfranchised people to upgrade a Violation to a Misdemeanor.

ask me how.

how?

BTW Rudy is grinning because he's the second biggest con man in recent times - and he hasn't had to serve any prison time....

They bribed the Committee with a lot of hot chicks - Duh!

What a joke. Rio's municipality must be doing this for publicity. He doesn't speak the language nor understand the culture and he is going to make a difference? Give me a break!

He doesn't speak Ebonics nor understand ghetto culture but he did a pretty good job cleaning up NYC.

You used the word "Ebonics". Obviously, you're a middle-aged white guy who considers himself "conservative". I bet you hate stuff that is "PC", too. How far off am I from the mark?

Perhaps if we stop looking at the world through our prejudiced and racist eyes we would understand it better. Can you imagine what Americans would say if a foreigner was contracted to handle security at a major event in this country.

Rudy is nothing but publicity seeking hound who badly wants to be president. His firm did nothing in Mexico and will do nothing but fail in Brazil but hey he'll get a lot of publicity and will seen as tough hombre(hommen).

well said, Brasilnut58, exactly.

So you're saying Brazilians are too stupid to know better? That's not racist at all.

As for the often-cited drop in crime, people who have actually studied this (as opposed to some of the posters on this site) know that there was a similar drop in crime nationwide. There was also a much better and effective use of the Police, thanks to Chief William Bratton (whom Rudy fired because HE wanted the credit for everything good happening in NYC) and his strong right hand man, Jack Maple. There were more Police on the streets of NYC because Bill Clinton, along with balancing the Federal Budget, allocated funds for more than 100,000 more cops in America. (One of dozens of campaign promises he either met or exceeded... as opposed to the last few repug presidents, who have never kept a promise. George W. refused to renew the funding for those policeman, which is why new recruits to the Police Department had to accept a $10,000 per year cut in their starting salaries... but, of course, to repugs, it's more important to give tax cuts to the oil companies and billionaires than it is to pay policeman, isn't it?) It was David Dinkins who went after these funds and put them into the NYPD... but, of course, Rudy claimed that it was HE who got that funding. Check the timeline and you'll see that Rudy is, as usual, lying about his accomplishments. Besides... exactly what do you think that Rudy did that "cleaned up" the city?

Here's what Rudy concentrated million of our tax dollars on while he was doing a lousy job of being our mayor:

In New York City, arrests for marijuana possession and use had risen from less than 2,000 in 1992 to more than 52,000 in 2000. Minor marijuana offenses now comprise 15% of all arrests in the city of New York.

Possession of small amounts of marijuana had already been decriminalized by the laws of New York State, but Rudy decided to lock up smokers... even though most of them had no prior arrest record and were the same middle class people whom he claimed to be making the city safer for. Thousands of people were routinely busted on Friday night, held over the weekend in lockup, brought before a judge on Monday and sentenced to time served... even though the law would have allowed for the police to write an appearance ticket and a fine could have been paid. Yep... plenty of you pot-smoking hypocrites from the right would also have been locked up and now have an arrest record if you lived in NYC during Rudy's reign.

As for Rudy being such a good prosecutor: Yeah, good for getting headlines. The gangsters he had perpwalked on the 6 o'clock news were brought to court before solid cases had been built against them, and almost every one of them walked... until Rudy's sucessor acted like a real prosecutor and actually made a solid case. Even Republican judges were constantlt criticizing the half-assed cases he had his underlings bring to court. The conviction rate of mobsters in the New York area more than tripled after Rudy left the prosecutor's job.

The only reason that Rudy even had a chance to get on television on & after Sept. 11 and act like a leader was because Bush was nowhere to be found until days later.

NYC's problems went far beyond crime when Rudy took office. I agree that he had a lot of shortcomings, but you have to recognize that he somehow got the city's bumbling bureaucracy to run more effectively than anyone in the past 150 years. Large swaths of the city went from being No Man's Lands to safe, developable areas. Times Square went from being an abscess in the center of the city to the greatest tourist destination in the world. And you mention that he fired Bratton because he was an asshole...but you don't credit him for hiring Bratton in the first place.

+1. Well done, Jedi Master.

True.

So, why do you think they actually hired Rudy?

Does he have a crack staff of project managers and actual security experts, and he's just the figurehead of the firm? He loves the sound of the words "9/11;" perhaps, he really does receive a royalty, insofar to the extent that increasingly linking his name to 9/11, enhances his "security" branding, and drives up more business for his actual security experts?

But really, what special knowledge does Rudy possess as a result of 9/11 that enhances his security bona-fides? It would be one thing if he prevented the collapse of the towers. I wonder which part of Rudy's experience of attending funerals will Rio expect to use in protecting the Olympics.

Gee whiz, I would have thought David Dinkins would have been their first choice.

I don't hold much hope for the Rio Olympics. Sure china had pollution and stuff, but they could easily take care of it. What Rio does have is rampant crime and corruption, and that's not something that you can clean up for the Olympics. Powerful move on the Olympic committee's part, but Rio will have to prove that they have the follow through, and appointing Giuliani as Security Consultant doesn't really bode well in my eyes. Maybe they tapped him for the broken windows policy he stole from the police commissioner at the time? Not like the plan caused NYC to be cleaned up, rather it was a movement that was started by his predecessors.

Rio got it because they have a lot of hot chicks.

No, they got it because they bribed many of the Third World Olympic Committee members.

Can someone tell me what makes this guy a security expert? Does he have Bernie Kerik on his staff to advise him? And why is he laughing? This is a serious situation he is undertaking.

Forget about the last question. I realize he is laughing all the way to the bank.

his security firm,

Giuliani Security & Safety,

holds the Rio contract.

duh!