Isabella County Tenants Beware! Sheriff's Department Can & Will Evict You Without Due Process!

Who is a "Victim"?

Here is a link to another Michigan.gov website with some excerpts from the same site quoted below.

What are the Rights of Victims?
The Crime Victim's Rights Act, P.A. 87 of 1985, as amended, provides certain rights to victims of crimes. The prosecuting attorney is required by law to inform the victim of his or her rights under the terms of the Crime Victim's Rights Act during the pre-conviction process.

Who Is a Crime Victim?
An individual who suffers direct or threatened physical, financial or emotional harm as a result of the commission of a crime is considered a "victim." Other persons such as the spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent or guardian may also qualify as a victim if the victim is deceased or is physically unable to exercise the privileges and rights of the victim under the Crime Victim's Rights Act.

Crime Victim?
Deputy Steinert's police report will be linked here as soon as I can get it scanned in. What a joke it is though. Deputy Steinert's police report was only written because he arrested me. After several hours at the property administering curbside due process and claiming this was a major waste of his time, his report is 99% about my arrest when his time at the scene for abuse of 9-1-1 was probably less than 15 min. I honestly believed that there was a very good chance that I was going to be making a one way trip down a dirt road in the back of that patrol car. This isn't funny! 99.8% of the people reading this will think this is funny! It wasn't! This altered me! Deputy Steinert could have written me a citation! Instead, he had to teach me a lesson! He had to use that awesome power he possessed to haul me off to jail handcuffed behind my back sitting on that hard plastic bench in the back of a patrol car while the entire trip he accelerated and stopped harshly so that I would feel and appreciate the discomfort of sitting on handcuffs binding my wrists behind my back. Then he had to stop and fuel his patrol car before going to the police station causing more embarrassment and humiliation and discomfort. I did take some comfort in the fact that we did enter town and were away from the dirt roads and the two tracks!

Deputy Steinert lists himself (the county of Isabella) as the "victim" on our police report...

***Note to Self***
If you are going to get arrested or think you might get arrested either be sure and eat during the day or get arrested before 6:00pm so you can eat at the jail. I was arrested at 7:00 something and hadn't eaten all day and of course missed supper in jail.

Where does this leave my family? When law enforcement does not properly identify crime and or downgrades crime to something other than crime it takes away or deprives people of "Victim Status". My family never wanted the status of "victim" but it has been really hard to be a victim without the status of being recognized as a victim.

My entire family suffered direct physical, financial and emotional harm as the result of the commission of crimes but we are not considered victims because the crimes were enforced by a cop and later justified by the cop's superiors. Crimes participated in by law enforcement themselves acting as agent for the landlord. Not just an agent, but an armed agent of the state.

Disputes over rent are definitely a civil matter. Cops really don't have time for this nor are they qualified to address these civil matters. This is why they call them "Civil" and usually advise both parties to take it up in court. When a family is locked out of their house though, this is one party exacting justice on another party by taking the "LAW" into their own hands and administering justice as they see fit. This distinguishes itself from the civil component of the rent dispute. To lump them together is wrong. To say that crime is justifiable or is not a crime at all due to a different and unresolved civil issue is simply asinine.

What else could the landlords have done to us? Could they also beat us up? Could the murder us because they claimed we were late on the rent? We didn't call 9-1-1 requesting resolution to our dispute over rent. We called 9-1-1 because our home was being taken away unlawfully! Four people were loosing their home. This is not a civil issue! This is a crime! Michigan law has statutes specifically for this topic and this issue. (MCL 600.2918) Kicking people out of their house without due process of law is a crime! Home invasion is a crime! Theft of property is a crime even if it is the police that take it or allow it to be taken it is still a crime!

A real CRIME with real VICTIMS and real PERPETRATORS!

This is completely off topic kinda but thought I should post it here. Here is a funny I found when researching "Taking the law into your own hands".

Here is another interesting link that I found. This guy suggests that it is everyones responsibility to take the law into their own hands. It is a very interesting read and I tend to agree with him.

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