A civilized society cannot exist without laws to protect its citizens from unlawful crimes. We have a police force to keep the peace, to prevent each of us from having to protect ourselves, and to ensure equal enforcement and equal prosecution for all.

For the system to work, the police force must be unbiased and be simple law enforcers, not law choosers and not law makers. It is not their place to choose which citizen to enforce laws on, and which laws they will enforce.

Justice must be blind to be effective

Many laws have been broken as the neighborhood dispute unfolded in 2004.

Yet for reasons I can only guess at, the Jeffco police have refused to fully investigate and prosecute the crimes committed against me and my property by those who seem to have taken it upon themselves to threaten, stalk, harass and attack my home.

The events leading up to these unlawful crimes against me are detailed in other parts of this website and links will be provided in this text for those readers interested in the facts and the full story.

This page documents the failures of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the Jefferson County District Attorney's office to enforce all their laws for/on all the citizens equally. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

I am not an attorney and am not legally trained. I have only the published Law and reason and logic to make the following conclusions. However, I don't need to be an auto mechanic to know if my car is not running right or a dairy farmer to know if the milk is sour or a rocket scientist to know if the Space Shuttle crashed. The Jefferson County Government is not basing its enforcement and prosecution decisions on sound values, instead personal opinions and political considerations are in control.

If any existing law is wrong, then it should be changed, but until that time, it should be enforced, the police and District Attorney do not have the right to impose their own opinions and fears on their law enforcement decisions.

The reason well documented laws exist is to prevent the police and District Attorney from having to impose their own opinions and fears on their law enforcement decisions and to ensure equal protection, equal law enforcement and equal prosecution decisions for all.

Once a police force or a District Attorney begins to impose their fears and opinions of the law on their protection and enforcement activities, no one anywhere knows what the law is and which laws they must obey.

Is the law enforcement based on the day of the week? On our skin color? On our sexual orientation? On the number of children we have? Based on what?

The readers may or may not agree with the law, they are entitled to that opinion. No one has the right to choose which laws will be enforced against which citizens. If someone does not like the existing law, change it, but obey it and enforce it in the meantime.

Unless the Sheriff and his employees are willing to "Serve and Protect" as they were elected and hired to do, then the entire sheriff's department is little more than a glorified "make-work" welfare program. We either get our taxpayer money's worth or it's welfare...

Case 04-15814 was opened by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department in mid-June, 2004. This case was assigned to an Investigator, to tie all of the harassment cases together, the attempted arson and the obscene threatening email messages, and all the future events as they took place over the following months.

Over the next 4 months the obscene harassment and threats continued, and all evidence was turned over to the Jefferson County Sheriff Investigators. However, I saw no activity or progress by the Investigators on the case and the harassment continued. When I asked the Investigators about the lack of visible progress, I was told over and over again that they were "investigating", and that the physical evidence had been sent to the "lab". Both Investigators INSISTED the case was being worked (See where the Investigator now says there was "no case"). But the obscene harassment and threats and thefts continued.

I began to investigate on my own. I learned how to trace "anonymous" Hotmail email messages to the source computer. A subpoena was issued to the internet provider to obtain the user account for the first hateful threatening message. It was traced to Woody747, a friend of the Mercers.

The remaining obscene harassing and threatening emails were traced to "public" computers and Woody747 was placed at these locations on the dates and times all the messages were sent. All of this information was turned over to the Jefferson County Sheriff Investigators assigned to the case.

I was asked to stop investigating by the Jefferson County Sheriff Investigators. They said it might impede or compromise their investigation.

I stopped my investigation and waited for the police to finish theirs. The obscene harassment and threats and thefts continued.

In the meantime, I used my investigation results to obtain a Temporary Restraining Order against Woody747 and then a permanent Protection Order in the Jefferson County Courts.

After the first 10-08-2004 hearing to obtain the permanent Protection Order against Woody747, I was informed by a Jefferson County Deputy that their case was being dropped "since you're investigating on your own".

I have left a phone message for a Jeffco Sheriff's Department Captain and sent 2 email messages to the Investigator asking about the incomplete report. No response.... Messages left days ago and counting ... UPDATE 02-01-2005: See Protect and Serve: Prosecutorial Discretion

I can only conclude that I was right, that the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department was not doing any investigation at all, or they are withholding information from me. One or the other...

I believe that without my investigation, that the Jefferson County Sheriff Department case would still be open. That nothing would have been investigated or accomplished, and that the obscene harassment and threats and thefts would still be happening to this day.

Under oath at the permanent Protection Order Hearing, Woody747 admitted to writing all of the hateful, harassing and threatening email messages and also said that he considers them to be "obscene".

Meanwhile, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department will not file charges against Woody747 for his obvious violations of the clear and well written Colorado 18-9-111 Harassment and Stalking law.

They will not provide police reports detailing their investigation and they will not provide a logical and meaningful explanation for their failure to investigate or prosecute. UPDATE 02-01-2005: They now claim there was no "case"... See Protect and Serve: Prosecutorial Discretion

It's easy to paint "To Protect and Serve" on all their police cars, actually living it does not appear to be policy.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department has spent time in my neighborhood (at my request) to help resolve the neighborhood dispute.

Their written report contains very many inaccurate facts that are easily proven wrong. However, they will not listen to anything about the bad data, and even throw out more incorrect information.

One Captain even said I brought most of this on myself since "you had a live video feed on your webpage" from your security cameras. I patiently explained that there has NEVER been a live video feed on this website, I don't think he was interested. Even so, even if I did have a live video feed, that does not make the crimes that have been committed against me acceptable.

This Captain made commitments to check something out with the District Attorney and inform me of the results. I was never informed of the results, until I called weeks later.

Those who have committed these crimes must now believe the have a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

We pass children on from grade to grade who can't read, and then we wonder why they can't fill out a job application. We choose to ignore more and more violations of the law, and then we wonder why there is no respect for ANY laws or ANY law enforcement agency.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.