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Bill Scott, father of Erik Scott, leaves the courtroom after a verdict in a coroner’s inquest for Erik Scott at the Regional Justice Center Tuesday, September 28, 2010. The jury found that the shooting of Erik Scott was justified. Scott was shot and killed by Metro Police Officers at the Summerlin Costco store on July 10.
Published Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Updated Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 | 9:31 a.m.
The book cover design for "The Permit" written by William B. Scott.
A new book by the father of Erik Scott, the 38-year-old shot to death by three Metro Police officers in July 2010, describes a corrupt power structure in Las Vegas — much of it within the police department — few care to imagine.
In "The Permit," author William Scott's fictionalized account, police here routinely dump bodies of young women into mine shafts for extra cash from the casinos.
It's so ugly that when one of the nation’s secretive three-letter agencies is enlisted by the president to cleanse the nation’s police agencies of bad cops — deemed domestic terrorists — it begins in Las Vegas.
Scott, a 66-year-old former writer for Aviation Week & Space Technology, admits the book became an outlet for the pain, still evident in his voice almost three years later, of enduring the burial of a son and what he believes was a bad shooting coverup orchestrated by Metro brass.
He is quick to add that while facts and figures about police shootings around the nation, as well as some of the technologies used by the espionage agency, are real, the characters in the book are composites of several people he has known over many years.
Even so, the book helped him deal with life without his son.
Here’s how he describes “Officer Krupa,” who fired the first shots at "Erik Steele":
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Olek Krupa, a two-time killer, was one of Metro's "crazies," yet another blight on the department's seriously tarnished image. The jerk didn’t deserve to wear a Metro badge, but he was going to get away with killing an upstanding American patriot.
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“It was cathartic for sure,” Scott said Wednesday by phone. “But there was a purpose to it, too — to assure the ‘cartel of corruption’ in Las Vegas that there is no escaping justice. They are incredibly smug in Vegas. Look at Captain Cover-Up, whom I will not identify, and see how cocky and smug he is on camera because they know Metro controls every officer and public official in Vegas.”
The “cartel” in the book consists of the sheriff’s department, the district attorney, the county public administrator, casino chiefs and, to some degree, the police union. Dialogue between officers is entertaining, if mostly dark. Here’s an exchange between officers involved in the Steele shooting days later:
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“Hey, you look like hell, rookie!” Krupa said, smacking Malovic’s upper arm.
“Old lady holding out on ya?” Malovic shot the guy a withering glance. The comment was too close to painful truth.
“I … haven’t slept much.”
Krupa laughed, a cross between a rasp and giggle. “Awwww! Boo-hoo! Rookie got a spell of guilty conscience, and mama’s bitchin' about her darlin’ killing a perp?”
Malovic left the closet, ignoring Krupa's taunts.
“What’s keepin’ ya awake, rookie? First time ya ever shot somebody?”
Malovic crossed his arms and looked down at the pot-bellied officer. “Yeah, it is. Of course, you hosed that dude in oh-six, so no big deal. Kill once, and the next time's a piece of cake, right?”
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Most of the real people from agencies mentioned in the book hadn’t heard about it when contacted earlier this week.
Sgt. John Sheahan, of Metro’s Office of Public Information, said Tuesday afternoon, “The sheriff had nothing but empathy for William Scott when (the shooting) happened; we’re not going to revisit this issue anymore or engage in a tit-for-tat.”
Chris Collins, Police Protective Association executive director, chuckled when told of the Scott's book.
“I don’t have any comment other than to say he certainly has a right to write a book,” Collins added. “If he gets some kind of solace and closure out of that, because I know he dropped his litigation because he wasn’t going to win — if this is his way of getting closure and eases the pain of his family, so be it.”
Scott dropped a civil lawsuit against Metro but one against Costco is still pending.
David Roger, who was Clark County district attorney at the time of the Erik Scott shooting and who now works for the police union, could not be reached for comment.
"The Permit" talks not only of the “Steele” shooting but includes a shooting death three weeks earlier of "Lashawn Miles," who was unarmed but shot in the head by an officer in his bathroom. In the book, both Steele and Miles were part of the federal spy agency.
In real life, three weeks before the Erik Scott shooting, a Metro officer shot to death Trevon Cole in his bathroom while flushing marijuana.
Before getting to the vengeance part of the book — some of the high-tech methods used to kill police and others, Scott writes in a beginning note, “do exist” — characters in the book lay out the reasons why rogue officers are considered terrorist threats.
It goes something like this: Bad cops erode the trust of the citizenry; when that trust erodes, the criminal element moves in, knowing people won’t call police for help. So crime grows. Now throw in a weak economy and large unemployment. Here’s how a character in the book describes what might happen next:
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When the big-money honchos flush it, a hundred thousand folks will suddenly be out of work, on the streets, and royally pissed off. A spark like young Steele’s murder-by-cop, at precisely the right time and place, will blow Vegas to smither-frickin’-reens.
Metro’s killer cops will be hunted down by pickup-loads of armed-and-furious folks, and all-out war will erupt. The first casualties will be hundreds of Metro's brown-shirts, including a hell of a lot of good ones.”
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Fiction?
Scott thinks it could happen.
“My message is, they cannot escape the fury of honest citizens and God himself; these guys are not going to get away with it,” Scott said. “You kill, you lie, you die. Now that’s not a threat to anybody. I wouldn’t want anyone to die. It is just an assurance that once citizens have had enough of their killer cops and their corrupt coverups, they will rise up and put these guys out of business.”
Sheriff Doug Gillespie reported in early January a 9 percent increase in crime in 2012 versus 2011.
Meanwhile, however, police shootings have decreased markedly in Las Vegas in just one year. After 17 Metro Police shootings resulted in 12 deaths in 2011, five police shootings resulted in four deaths in 2012.
The U.S. Justice Department also released a study of Metro in late 2012 recommending dozens of changes aimed at reducing police shootings. Before that study’s release, Metro had already begun undertaking several of the same or similar changes.
Scott said there was some interest in his book as a screenplay. He also plans to write a nonfiction book about his son’s death, which he said would prove a coverup.
He wrote the fictional account first, he said, because of an experience he had in the mid-2000s while writing for Aviation Week. At the time, various defense agency operatives were expressing their worries that in the event of war, a strike on military satellites would be devastating to U.S. defense capabilities.
Scott wrote about it in Aviation Week, but it barely registered with the nation’s powerbrokers, congressional leaders.
So he co-authored the book "Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III." In 2009, the authors wrote a followup "Counter-Space: The Next Hours of World War III." The books drew so much attention in Washington, D.C., Scott said, he was asked to address a congressional committee and later was asked to talk to people within the Central Intelligence Agency about some of the technologies at work in the books.
The experience taught Scott that “fiction is a very powerful tool for shaping perceptions.”
With such a lesson in mind, he stressed that though varying degrees of harm come to some characters in "The Permit," he doesn’t wish harm on anyone in reality; he simply wants justice.
“There are some things worse than death,” he added.
Asked what that means, Scott declined to answer.
("The Permit" is available electronically on Amazon.com and other websites; it is also going to be available in hardcover.)
Here is a book by a retired LA cop who outlines problems with their organization:
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Former-LAPD...
more LA police stuff:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/20...
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_pho...
"fiction is a very powerful tool for shaping perceptions."
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And a great way to grift for cash. Nevada Grifter Respect..
Chunky says:
It is no surprise Mr. Scott's father would write such a book. He was delusional about his late son's fictional life and subsequent shooting all along.
"The experience taught Scott that "fiction is a very powerful tool for shaping perceptions.""
Like father like son. Unfortunately for the prescription addicted son he lost sight of the line between fiction and reality and it cost him his life and the taxpayers $100's of thousands of dollars if not more.
Where was Mr. Scott Sr. when his son needed help with his drug addiction and subsequent mental problems?
That's what Chunky thinks!
The Scott family made a big deal of how they wanted the truth to come out in their civil case. How it wasn't about money, winning or losing the case but rather to bring out their side. In the end they withdrew their lawsuit without a single one of their so called witnesses testifying. What a sham after all the grandstanding.
My father was a test pilot. I'd routinely read Aviation Week & Space Technology. He was even on the cover once. I only feel sorry for the magazine now.
I understand the man's grief, but his writing, if the bits exhibited here are any indication, is reminiscent of the snippets I've read in Hustler. Catharsis is all it's good for.
What a great idea Metro has to clean up our city. Have cops ambush drug users from behind pillars and corners and shoot them numerous times to make sure they're dead. This would ease prison over population and court gridlock as well as giving metro a chance to take the place of the guy in Texas that used to be America's number one sniper.
Prime hunting area's could include outside pharmacies and doctors officies. Four man teams could include three snipers and one man to erase all security tapes. It's obvious that Metro has grown soft lately as evident from their kill count that has dropped to 4 in 2012 compared to 12 in 2011. You've earned that license to kill, now use it.
From 2/05 to 1/09 I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a police officer in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the streets of LA. It was in the confounds of LAPD police stations and shops (cruisers). The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you (LAPD) utilize a fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing, omitting, and obscuring is your forte.
Citizens/non-combatants, do not render medical aid to downed officers/enemy combatants. They would not do the same for you. They will let you bleed out just so they can brag to other officers that they had a 187 caper the other day and can't wait to accrue the overtime in future court subpoenas. As they always say, "that's the paramedics job"not mine". Let the balance of loss of life take place. Sometimes a reset needs to occur.
It is endless the amount of times per week officers arrest an individual, label him a suspect-arrestee-defendant and then before arraignment or trial realize that he is innocent based on evidence. You know what they say when they realize an innocent man just had his life turned upside down?. "I guess he should have stayed at home that day he was discovered walking down the street and matching the suspects description. Oh well, he appeared to be a dirtbag anyways". Meanwhile the falsely accused is left to pick up his life, get a new, family, friends, and sense of self worth.
Don't honor these fallen officers/dirtbags. When your family members die, they just see you as extra overtime at a crime scene and at a perimeter. Why would you value their lives when they clearly don't value yours or your family members lives? I've heard many officers who state they see dead victims as ATV's, Waverunners, RV's and new clothes for their kids. Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will accrue. They take photos of your loved ones recently deceased bodies with their cellphones and play a game of who has the most graphic dead body of the night with officers from other divisions. This isn't just the 20 something year old officers, this is the 50 year old officers with significant time on the job as well who participate.
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How do you know when a police officer is lying??? When he begins his sentence with, "based on my experience and training".
Those of you who "go along to get along" have no backbone and destroy the foundation of courage. You are the enablers of those who are guilty of misconduct. You are just as guilty as those who break the code of ethics and oath you swore. -- Christopher Dorner
FACT:
There is no single group in the Clark County Nevada community which violates more laws, terrorizes, brutalizes and kills more citizens as a matter of routine than those employed by Metro.
Eric Scott was murdered while attempting to surrender his cased firearm to three Metro Officers receiving five fatal bullet entry wounds to the back torso region.
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Extremely productive and worthwhile means of redirecting frustrations. Congratulations to Mr. Scott. Much fiction is "based" on actual events where many of the details are unknown and/or unproven.
It is one thing to break and enter someone's home versus walking outside, even outside a discount store. One should be relatively safe from gunfire outside a store versus uninvited intrusion on private property. Many people, much of the public, has various "infirmities" such as hearing issues, attention disorders, RX interactions and many are outright sick. Does that authorize Metro to shoot after yelling an incoherent "warning?" Sure, tis best to "err" on the side of caution and when in doubt stop and then move very slowly to the ground. But what if you didn't hear or didn't see?
Denial is sad.
I have always shopped at Costco packing my concealed weapon on my belt; And Cabelas, Bass Pro Shops, Walmarts, K-Marts, etc.And I still do;my Costco has no signs forbidding the carrying of lawful concealed weapons. Except for a hysterical and fraudulent 911 call by somebody at Costco having a hyssie fit, I believe Eric Scott would still be alive and well. As for the Costco not having its many, many cameras working that day, I say horseplop.If Scott was causing a ruckus inside that store that day, we would have seen the films of it three years ago.
I love how Mr. Chunky n others have so much to say about a man they never knew n about events they never witnessed. Chunky says/thinks too much without having actual proof or footage of the events that happened inside Costco or outside.
Cmon now you seem like a pretty intelligent person based on the pages of remarks I read that you have posted in the past on various articles.
That's why I'm so puzzled as to why you're so 1 sided on this incident w/o having proof as to what really happened.
I may not be as smart as you are Mr. Chunky but I do have enough sense to know Costco should have some footage from that day when Mr. Scott entered the store until he was ordered out w/ the rest of the customers w/ no explaination.
Like I said, I believe you are a smart man but even Einstein couldn't tie his own shoes but at least he had sense to wear them.
As a fellow citizen of this city, I would prefer to see you question the whereabouts of the survelance tapes which would clear up once n for all who's really at fault for Mr. Scott's murder.
Had those tapes been available then or even now I bet you'd rethink this part of your post, "it cost him his life and the taxpayers $100's of thousands of dollars if not more".
It seems so simple really, doesn't it? Just 1 camera angle/view of Mr. Scott's behaviour to clear up the reputation of the officers involved that day shouldn't be so much to ask for as concerned citizens of this city.
First off, I would like to send my heartfelt condolences to you and your family. I completely understand where you are coming from and what better way to bring justice to your son than to expose them without naming names. Although I'm pretty sure they know who they are and there is not a darn thing they can do about it, because, they would have devulge that it is them and this is something that they simply will not do. So take pleasure in it and that you will have the final word. WELL DONE! Our book "To Prove His Innocence" is non fictional and yes we do name names. Names that nearly everybody in the State will recognize. We are in the process of updating the book now that the truth has finally been exposed. The truth is the prosecuting attorney, Ron Rachow, who is now a US Attorney, withheld the exculaptory evidence that exonerated and innocent man nearly 25 years ago. It'll be a hard dose of reality for anyone reading the book to learn just how corrupt our judicial system really is. Especially, when it comes to protecting their own, Right Washoe County DA Dick Gammick? Google UTube Ron Rachow Tonja Brown and watch the video and see the evidence that was hidden for 21 years. People need to wise up because if they think it can't happen to them, think about the Scott family, or the Nolan Klein family.