tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57501088035877030942024-03-20T06:08:08.332-04:00BaldBlogGETTING POLICE AND CITIZENS ON THE SAME PAGEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-89754057552015477542010-05-06T13:07:00.002-04:002010-05-06T13:07:57.983-04:00Again, Britain Shows America How To Handle Criminal Cops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ8ekflcx4uJBZEEsi3fkzjWBsvTanb75ntpnLNyFVSKSOpDmHB8l5r6kyur3SdXzJ0KMDcBN6_0zhag415yRYHFIv1nfM6YG5_zbXMx8upqy9Lzkl0c8DILiCxXdBgVswlmJc5Ob16sZs/s1600/USAvsUK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ8ekflcx4uJBZEEsi3fkzjWBsvTanb75ntpnLNyFVSKSOpDmHB8l5r6kyur3SdXzJ0KMDcBN6_0zhag415yRYHFIv1nfM6YG5_zbXMx8upqy9Lzkl0c8DILiCxXdBgVswlmJc5Ob16sZs/s200/USAvsUK.jpg" width="200" /></a><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span id="goog_801819750"></span><span id="goog_801819751"></span>Police are committing crimes all over the globe. When Police get away with their crimes it is because we let them. WE LET THEM. Compare these two stories---<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24716322-41/lewis-arms-klinko-outside-police.csp"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This Country</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">--<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Synopsis</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">--An American woman, 62, was visited by two Eugene, Oregon cops at 11:30AM and told her house would be searched to locate a stabbing victim, (it was an anonymous tip). She was asked to go outside during the search but the request was refused because she was wearing a see-through gown and didn’t want to go out in public. She asked police if she could go only to the porch or to change clothes, but the cops forced her out to the yard immediately. Two adult male cops used a “pain compliance” hold on a woman double their age, injuring her arms and shoulders, as well as exposing her to public ridicule outside her home with the see-thru gown. No stabbing victim was discovered in the home. She sued for $150K but received only $21K along with a police statement that her settlement payment was “not an admission of liability or disputed facts”. It is the old “no wrongdoing” routine again. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8643040.stm">Now Jump to the UK--</a>-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Synopsis-- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A 57 year old man from Chatham, UK, was visited by Kent police on suspicion of robbery. He was the wrong man. He was forced into arrest with a knife brandished by one of the cops. The citizen was never charged or injured, and later sued the PD for assault. Both cops were found guilty and fired, (one went to prison), and the citizen received a letter of apology from the PD.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Comparison<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Who’s rear-hole do American cops have their heads shoved up? Over and over, British cops keep showing America it’s possible to admit when they are wrong and make a public apology for it, including restitution. Truly, admitting wrong doing, (forget restitution), goes a million miles in making a positive connection between the police department and the citizen, just like it does in any relationship. But in America?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the US, a lack of positive connection from the citizen is interpreted as disrespect for cops, so it’s met with additional smart-mouthed arrogance, threats and physical force, objection to which is then met with even more abuse and accusation of crimes committed. It is all the wrong things combined and totally wrong-headed, (but we know where they keep their heads). The <i>worst</i> way to handle anything is to repeat the mistakes that caused the problem, but that is exactly what cops do, every day, everywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We are totally far behind the rest of the English-speaking world in our relationship with the police force we fund. Try Australia, where a judge told the cops they should grow up and take it if <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/judge-condones-abuse-of-police/story-e6freuzi-1225861773410">a citizen calls them a “prick”.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But not in America. Our cops find a citizen’s mere existence to be a threat to their life and breath, and then they stupidly arrest, injure and/or offend pretty much everybody they contact for any violation they can dream up, no matter how stretched or convoluted, including calling them a “name”. Awwww…..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The UK has their problems as well when it comes to bad cops, (remember, the personality type that gives cops a bad name is attracted to the job in ALL countries), but time after time, the Brits show us how to take a cop screw-up and make it right. For cops, it’s a quick “halt when at fault”, followed by punishment equal to what a citizen could expect, followed then by a public letter of apology to the victim of the police abuse. That is the only, repeat the ONLY, way for a police department to retain any credibility with their fellow countrymen. Could a CRB in America accomplish this?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When a department refuses or avoids owning up to their mistakes, (USA), cops become the criminals they are sworn to arrest. Insult is added to that injury when the same cops demand a form of respect that amounts to bowing down. All that while expecting the citizen to pay them their salary and buy them toys like tasers. Barf bag, anyone?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A Citizens Review Board is the only solution to this deficit. How our cops treat us is up to us to decide, and we are only getting worse in our decision making. We can’t count on the police department to see the light and clean up their act. Of course, if you like being beaten while providing the beater’s income, just stay quiet. If not, get a CRB, will ya? Before we are completely owned?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-72035582876646348692010-04-29T10:41:00.007-04:002010-04-30T14:08:55.065-04:00Cop-Proof Citizen Review Board Part 7<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/cop-proof-citizen-review-boards-pt-1.html">Cop Proof Citizen Review Board Part 1</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/cop-proof-citizen-review-board-part-2.html">2</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/cop-proof-citizen-review-board-part-3.html">3</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2009/12/cop-proof-crb-part-4.html">4</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2009/12/cop-proof-citizen-review-board-part-5.html">5</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/cop-proof-crb-part-6-ride-alongs.html">6</a></span> </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">How They Hire and Fire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Evidently, this needs to be spelled out</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">They hire. They fire. What part of that does a cop not understand? It is like what police departments have always done, but with a couple changes to benefit the citizen. Covering up what cops do wrong is gone, and the expectation of doing the job the citizen’s way is inserted. It is in line with the purpose of the police department, as created by the people of the city, to protect and serve the public. Nothing to panic about. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Why is the hiring (forget firing for a moment) done only by non-citizens? Is there a rule saying “only that who hires it, fires it”? I can hear police explanations pouring in already, with the #1 answer being “Only police know a good cop when they see one”, or “the Academy certifies only the best, so it doesn’t require a screening process. If there is an opening, we can fill it.” This is a production line mentality that works for cops even less than it worked for Toyota. Every citizen has the right to limit their employees to whom they prefer, especially when it comes to a department entrusted with the ability to destroy a person’s life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Every cop has his own reasons for joining the force. Some of them are spoken by the cop himself, (“My daddy was a cop and his daddy before him, so I’m gonna be a cop”, or “I want to be a hero”), but most are never spoken, because they are NEVER known to him. They are too deeply emotional. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After being drawn in by an inability to make the grade on his own in this world, coupled with promises from the Academy, his unspoken reasons for becoming a cop speak loudly while on duty, but he doesn’t notice it due to the insulation a gun and badge and his fellow cops give him. A cop wears his inner mind on the outside, especially in the eyes, clear to all but himself. The psychological reasoning used by a cop is sad at least, and criminal at most, but currently, we pay them every day to stay that way. Maybe a CRB can set this straight. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How To Do It<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How it is done is simplicity and common sense combined, and free of cost. When a CRB finds a cop not cooperative with the wants and needs of the very people he gets paid from, or not having ideas and work ethic that conform to the preferences of the people, he will be shown the door by the review board, BUT, on his way out that door, he will be given something few other jobs would provide: an envelope of information and applications to become a cop. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The offer is good forever, whenever he wants to use it. Granted, he would have to update his resumé to say he was fired from his last job, but on the good side, he has plenty of first hand experience to bring to any position he applies for. This is a Reaganesque Trickle-Down theory that actually works. Through firings and re-hirings, every cop will trickle his way down into the position that he is best suited for, along with his workload, his tolerance for the nature of the work, his payrate, everything he deserves in a public service job, but without abusing the public’s rights. Most important to the citizen however, will be not having to pay the guy while he finds himself. This is how a Citizen Review Board hires and fires.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Advantages To The Citizen Taxpayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">None of the Internal Affairs (a taxpaid department), lying or covering up mistakes, none of the Chief (who is paid by the taxpayers), hiring defectives or looking the other way when those defectives screw up, (another burden to the taxpayer when lawsuit settlements come) will occur when the CRB hires and fires. Eventually, Trickle Down will have another positive effect: no more Academy misfits making their way into the PDs of America. Remember, the police academy is a business for profit. They are at the mercy of supply and demand, and if we the people stop demanding what they are currently supplying, things will change. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When every cop knows he will be held <i>immediately accountable</i> for his mistakes by the people, he will suddenly become much more dedicated to the job of doing the people’s business. Eventually, the Academy will become more dedicated to cranking out trained cops that actually do what we the people want them to do. The two will have no choice but to work hand-in-hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This approach is not a deterrent to becoming a cop, it is an invitation to becoming the cop who earns his pay, which is a nuance cops don’t seem to get these days. When any town in this country builds a legion of police that truly serves them as described here, we will have a town that stands out and glows on the pages of Rand McNally, and all other cities in the USA will know its success.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let’s Face the Known Facts<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You gotta catch the dog in the act of leaking on the rug to train him out of it. It is the immediacy of the catch that makes it work, right? Well, there is no better time to fire somebody than right after he acts in a way that is not in keeping with the employer’s desires. Bad analogy? Well….<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The owner is responsible for the behavior of his dog. The employer is responsible for the behavior of his employees, right? Citizens, we must own up to a few facts---<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">we created (adopted) police and police departments <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We pay (feed) them to do what they do, good or bad<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If we don’t like cop behavior, it is our fault for not training them properly<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Nobody can fix our mistakes but us; cops will never re-train themselves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We must catch them in the act of doing it wrong and correct it immediately<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If you see similarities between the above list and having problems with your new puppy, you are getting the idea. If you don’t see any similarities, sit back and be ready for the police department in your city or town to own, use and abuse you, (leak on the rug). That’s not good. You need, for your own protection, as well as your flooring, the ability to say “enough is enough” and fire the errant cop on the spot when needed. Only then will he be re-trained.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Who can you count on for this service? Police Chief Friendly? Internal Affairs Assigned To Assuage Citizen Unrest? Call the Mayor? Face it, you’ve got nobody but your fellow townies at the CRB. This is a job ONLY for the Citizen Review Boards of America, and never for the police departments themselves. It will insure the sculpting process the CRB is meant to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And let’s not forget the motto of the Cop-Proof CRB--“<b>Do It For Free”.</b> Just think of all the millions in settlement money, straight out of the taxpayer’s pockets, that will not be needed in lawsuits against police crimes. Believe it, much more money is awarded in settlements than it would ever cost to run a city-funded CRB, and the Cop-Proof CRB as described on this blog would cost the city absolutely nothing. No calculator necessary. Shall we get started? <o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-37532939790364868772010-04-22T15:45:00.005-04:002010-04-22T16:18:57.144-04:00An Addition To The Police Uniform…Alcohol Detecting Ankle Bracelets<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.alcoholmonitoring.com/">Ankle Bracelet</a><br />
<a href="http://www.housearrestbracelet.com/">Ankle Bracelet</a></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCB65XLIdBeBJ_FcdCGBEfHd6TAsgB2CbVQk0k5pKGjBuPvUEM0gP1OP7MHlqXbMhJoE_uL_93Gca55ZSz3k423JHOH0f3QVSepex_j1J2_5xWj9YCdNrrTwXnoVN9TkbB7oSxQMvgniSi/s1600/anklebraceletJPeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCB65XLIdBeBJ_FcdCGBEfHd6TAsgB2CbVQk0k5pKGjBuPvUEM0gP1OP7MHlqXbMhJoE_uL_93Gca55ZSz3k423JHOH0f3QVSepex_j1J2_5xWj9YCdNrrTwXnoVN9TkbB7oSxQMvgniSi/s200/anklebraceletJPeg.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>The ankle bracelet is a device that has been embraced by cops all over America for its accuracy and dependability in measuring latent alcohol content in the blood stream, implying recent alcohol consumption. I suggest this device embrace cop <i>ankles </i>all over America. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Too much liquor, too few hours in a cop’s day, it seems. We the people need the protection and assurance the ankle bracelet gives. The citizen needs to know a cop screaming “freeze” isn’t calling for a frozen daiquiri. We deserve to know the cop is dealing from a sober mind. It may be a misguided one, but we can work on that later. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b>Consider This Scenario<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">A driver who had been out late the night before, but woke up with a hangover, is on his way to work. That driver may not signal before changing lanes, or come to a full stop before turning right on red. While it is not debated whether that driver should be stopped, it is clear that alcohol played a part in the quality of his driving, even if all the alcohol was completely metabolized by that time. While not drunk, he is still, in essence, driving under the influence. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b>What If The Driver Is A Cop?<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Well, they have a few routes they like to take, all of which are designed to exempt them from accountability. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The first is The Claim. “I have a private life off-duty and should be able to pursue it in the same way a citizen does.” Wrong. A cop is the first to remind the citizen that they are a cop 24/7, something they always declare with a phony, long-suffering heroic tone in their voice. The “<i>private</i>” life to which they refer went away when they took the job of <i>public</i> servant.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Second is The Beg. “Hey, get off my case. We are all human and we all make mistakes.” Yeah, right. That one only works if it goes both ways, and we all know that cops look for any reason to heap on, exaggerate and fabricate everything in their favor that comes their way, especially while on duty. Cop beats in the head of the arrestee and it is necessary office safety. That same arrestee coughs on a cop, and it is attempted murder against the whole police profession. Can they spell hypocrite? </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Third is The Coverup. Cops help cops, no matter what and against the citizen, and they do so to prevent the public from knowing what screw-ups they can be. Once again, sheer lying is employed here, and at the taxpayer’s expense. So, Cop #1 crashes into a tree while drunk and flees the scene. When caught up with, Cop #2 provides a police-friendly tow truck to deliver the crashed car to a repair shop and a free ride home for Cop #1. No report is filed and no evidence is recovered or documented. The event didn’t happen.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b>“We’re All Human”<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">OK, let’s go with that for a moment. We humans all get hangovers when we stay out drinking till 2AM, and we definitely notice it at 6AM the next morning when we try to get up and go to work. Too much alcohol and too little sleep is a one-two punch. We humans haven’t reached peak form when we start our shift, and won’t for hours, no matter how much coffee is consumed to neutralize the last night’s abuse. Blurred mind, slow reactions, poor judgment and faulty memory would bring anybody’s job performance down to the level of dangerous and destructive, no matter what their profession. Cops are human, though, by their own admission.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Cops are quick to describe the intelligence required to perform their job as very high, with lofty training at all levels being necessary to deliver the services the PD is dedicated to. Physically, tip-top condition is the only condition that will do. How many hangovers can a cop put up with when faced with the constant split-second judgment calls they must make, the high-speed chases they are engaged in, and the finely honed talent of discerning a perp’s gun from a Pittsburgh viola player’s soda bottle? Cops love to cry and squeal “I am human, just like everybody else”, and now, that cry comes back to bite them. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">A quick example: If a crime occurs first thing in the morning, a business or bank maybe, and cops are summoned, but their minds are clouded by last night’s revelry and debauchery, might they misread a harmless object for a weapon and open fire on an innocent person? Could a car horn be mistaken for a gunshot? How about a man who only looks similar to someone the cop doesn’t like, maybe a wise guy in the bar last night? Mistaken identity for sure, but an unwarranted arrest or worse can take place. And their mouths, oh boy. Capt Smartmouth will never be able to think first, speak second when under the after-influence. Here is a fact: Cops cannot be trusted when sober. How can they be trusted when hung over? </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">I’m glad you asked. They can’t be trusted. So, what do we do? We make an addition to the standard uniform. The alcohol detecting ankle bracelet. If some police unions actually have the audacity to demand an hourly paycheck to don and doff, (and they do), it only makes sense to make an ankle bracelet part of the equipment cops wear when they prepare to make contact with citizens. Any police uniform acts as an identifier, so when we see a cop, any cop, we know exactly what we are dealing with. The uniform must include some visual cues, like the badge for proof of authority and legitimacy, the Batman Utility Belt, (sorry), for preparedness, and of course, the weapons like flashlight, baton and gun for defense. We need to add the ankle bracelet to insure citizens the cop is prepared mentally and physically to carry out the duties we expect of him, and do it in a sober and respectful manner.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">As long as a cop is allowed to drink to the point of impairment (0.08 or more) when he is off work, but still expected to operate in a high-intensity, fast-paced, split-second decision making environment after only a few hours of sleep when returning to work, we are begging for disaster. Only the ankle bracelet will restore the confidence the public deserves.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">If a cop is hung over, he is actually more impaired than when he was .08 or over. His response rate is much slower, his physical abilities are dramatically reduced, and his speed of going from calm to pissed off goes through the roof. Worse, an impaired cop still is allowed to drive his tax money purchased police car at any speed he chooses, write tickets, make arrests, and let’s not forget, shoot and tase people. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Cops’ ability to accurately understand what he sees is bad enough when sobriety prevails, (Gun vs Soda Bottle in Pittsburgh), but vision and reaction compromised by a hangover become a recipe for disaster. The recent incident in MD with the cops beating a student for “assaulting” the police horse points out what cops do when supposedly sober. They lied and lied and lied, until the video showed up. How many of the cops involved in this situation were drunk or hung over will probably never be known, but alcohol impairment can account for the total stab-in-the-back the citizen took on this one. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">(BTW, one cop lie to account for the student’s injuries was “the horse did it”. Uh-huh. My dog ate my homework once.)</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b>MD Student Beaten By Cops Accused of Assaulting Horses <o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> Why should we put up with this? An alcohol detecting ankle bracelet on every cop can be called a start. At least we will know they are sober. Meanwhile, we need to double down on our efforts to establish a Hire and Fire CRB everywhere, unless you are happy with the police department you have now. If so, best of luck to your city or town. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-77402831910081242602010-04-13T11:03:00.010-04:002010-04-21T14:14:44.588-04:00Cops Say Citizen Oversight Won't Work Part 7<a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html"><b><span style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 1</o:p></span></b></a><b> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html">2</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-3.html"> 3</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">4</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-citizen-oversight-will-not.html">5</a> <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-oversight-wont-work-part-6.html">6</a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">#7--It is Too Time and Money Consuming</span><br />
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What? For whom do they speak? The citizen or themselves? Both are equally wrong. Excuse #7 is a rookie attempt to move the focus of myriad cop screw-ups off themselves and onto pretty much anything else they can find. This excuse is professional dodging and weaving at its most transparent. It even shames the practiced liars that cops are. Once again, they are blinded by their own balls. OK, now we break down the already obvious----<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">TIME</span>--The wasteful time they speak of isn’t their own, it’s that of the citizen. Cops are either hourly or salaried, and get paid accordingly no matter what they do, including nothing. They have no concept of wasted time. And since cops are not good stewards of the citizen’s time, (remember, it is cops who put people in jail for as long as it takes to decide how to make their spurious accusations stick), they are not experts on how citizens should best employ their time.<br />
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Yet somehow, looking at a CRB that will spend time learning the fallacies and downfalls of that city’s police department and is dedicated to the improvement of that department as desired by the very people that pay for it, is somehow a top concern of the PD itself. The longer we think about that logic, the dumber it gets. Highway road signs in Braille make more sense.<br />
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Maybe they are thinking of the time cops will have to spend dealing with the review board. Well, there may be the time dedicated to supplying police reports and dash cam videos to the CRB when requested, but the Chief should be archiving those things anyway. There also may be the time for a cop to explain himself to the CRB when an incident is reported, but a cop can mitigate that time by learning how not to screw up. A CRB is devoted to the sculpting process, and just as sculpting marble goes, the specifics of the vision slowly become more clear as the sculptor progresses, until all that is needed is regular, minor polishing of the finished product. The closer a cop acts to what the citizen wants, the less time it will take to keep things that way, and the more time the oversight board can spend on bigger and better refinements.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">MONEY</span>--The money they speak of is again not theirs, and if everything is done well, not even existent. A well produced CRB will run with very little or no funds at all. When a cop says money is being wasted, he should think about bogus charges to justify an arrest and the law suits that follow, not to mention the cost to the citizen in legal fees that were never necessary. He should think about the huge settlements cities are forced to pay out to citizens that were wrongfully approached and treated because the cop didn’t bother to handle himself as the citizens of his town want him to. They should think about the paycheck they earn, no….receive…no….make that <span style="font-style: italic;">steal</span>, from the taxpayer every week when they don’t have a clue as to what the citizen wants, (assuming they are willing to providing such a thing). Cops who mention the citizen’s money or time are only providing another proof of police arrogance.<br />
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Regular readers of this blog who have clicked on my Cop-Proof CRB series already know that a working CRB needs diligent preparation and dedicated staff, but little money, and surprisingly little time to get up and running. Any cop who doesn’t get that is deep in denial.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How About Some Top-Notch Cop Arrogance</span><br />
The idea that we the people need financial guidance from our PD is not a new one. Get a load of this example from a few years ago, 1994. In Boston, cops broke down the door of an apartment in a drug raid. They had the wrong address. The elderly minister living there was chased and terrorized by police and within about 45 minutes, died of a heart attack. His widow sued the police department and was awarded $1M out of the $18M she sued for. (The cop settlement offer was $600K.) The PD appealed the case, not because they believed the cops who caused Rev Accelyne Williams’ heart attack were not guilty, (both Chief Paul Evans and Mayor Menino of Boston apologized), but because they believed the widow, Mary Williams, <span style="font-style: italic;">was too elderly to “handle that much money”,</span> and a request was made to appoint a guardian for her. They wanted the award reduced. Is that arrogance beyond all ability to measure it or what? And cops worry that citizens may find the expense of an oversight panel excessive. Thinking like that is reminiscent of the stink on day-old trout.<br />
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No Mr Policeman, we little boys and girls out here who pay your bar tab with our tax money can handle the burden, and probably with more accuracy than PDs handle their annual budget. And we won’t even have to worry our pretty little heads about it, because a smoothly operating CRB has little or no budget to start with, and works on donations from citizens and local businesses that enjoy the quality of the police department citizen control insures.<br />
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A CRB would dramatically reduce if not eliminate the lawsuit payouts to citizens who were abused or cheated out of their rights by cops. Millions of dollars go to settle lawsuits like that every month across the USA, and the taxpayer has to foot that bill. Cops cause insurmountable financial cost on a citizen with charges which are later dropped, or Constitutional violations, or physical injuries during arrests. But they think a CRB that runs on a shoestring or less is too expensive for us. 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style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://wduqnews.blogspot.com/2010/04/jordan-miles-bills-debated-in-council.html"><o:p>Ricky Burgess Introduces </o:p>The Jordan Miles Package of Bills</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >They still don’t get it! Jordan Miles is the viola player that was beaten into pulp by Pittsburgh police last January while on his way to orchestra practice because he was thought to be carrying a gun. It was a bottle of Mountain Dew.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >We have cops on every street in America who are equally clueless. When anybody cannot tell the difference between a sidearm and a soda bottle, they can’t be trusted with a license to kill. So, why does Pittsburgh hand out such licenses to a police force of about 850?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Councilman Ricky Burgess, above, without claiming guilt on the part of the cops in question, was reported as saying in the WDUQ report, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><blockquote>"What I have said is that this incident allows us the opportunity to go beyond it and begin to heal the relationship. What I want to do is to embark on a process, not a single piece of legislation or five pieces of legislation, but a process." Burgess says the bills are all aimed at helping to build trust between police and the community. Dowd counters that there is nothing in the legislation that would have prevented the confrontation between police and Miles. The bills deal with getting the police department accredited, putting video cameras in police cars, placing officers on administrative leave, requiring yearly reports from the chief of police and forcing the Citizens Police Review Board to investigate any case where a suspect is seriously injured or killed.
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<br /></blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Read the report for yourself, but get the disconnect between the City Council and the real problem. Burgess says--<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span> </span></span></span><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Get departments accredited<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span> </span></span></span><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Require yearly report from the Chief<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Require CRB to investigate killings and injuries<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Put video cameras in police cars<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Administrative leave for accused cops</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left">
<br /><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >His own additional words only make it worse. Burgess wants to “embark on a process” and “heal the relationship”. He wants to build trust between the police and the community. He doesn’t get it. The citizens are currently dealing with the schoolyard bully and the classroom cheat in cop uniforms. What kind of relationship can we expect with that?
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >There is nothing to heal, there is no process to embark on. Cops do not act in good faith, and consider deception a tool of their trade. As any citizen who has tried to converse with a cop will report, if you <i style="">ask</i> a cop something, he will lie to you, if you <i style="">tell</i> a cop something, he will argue with you. Verbal communication with a cop is useless. Bringing a police representative to a negotiation is like pointing your finger at a piranha. There is virtually no respect in them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Dealing with police on a level playing field is not the way to control cops, and control is what citizens need to apply. It must be remembered that cops are in the business of not listening to learn; they only listen to argue. (Blame the Academy.) Want proof? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Anything you say WILL BE used against you in a court of law”</span>.
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<br /></blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >“Will be”. Sound familiar? A police department cannot be molded into the extension of the citizenry they are supposed to be if cops are given an inch of wiggle room. The leash must be short, but the Pittsburgh City Council is giving them enough leash to wrap around every citizen’s neck by simply allowing the PD a place at the negotiation table.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Councilman’s 5-Part Plan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Why do any of the five pieces of legislation being offered by Ricky Burgess require any legislation anyway? These are things a Hire and Fire Citizen Review Board could do in one meeting. Let’s look at them--</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Get accredited</span></b><span style=";font-family:";" >. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >For what? It is the will of the people the PD is hired to serve that matters. The CRB can accredit whomever they want, or not. They don’t need to be accredited.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Require a yearly report from the Chief.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >If Chief Nate Harper isn’t doing that now, he is an organizational slob. Reports should be compiled daily and published weekly at least. Turning them over to the CRB is a simple formality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Require the CRB to investigate all injuries and killings by cops</span></b><span style=";font-family:";" >.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Automatic and assumed. That is what a Hire & Fire CRB is for.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Put video cameras in all police cars</span></b><span style=";font-family:";" >.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Video cameras in every police vehicle with both forward and backward views are already in the works in Pittsburgh, so no problem there, unless the cops don’t turn them on when they start their shift. (Connecting them to the ignition may help that. Penalties of up to a day’s pay for the cop who doesn’t activate his video may help that too.)
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Administrative leave for cops in question.</span></b><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Well, that one leaves some room for improvement. The best way to tell a cop he has “done wrong” is to fire him, and not to give him a desk job at full pay. His firing, however, can amount to administrative leave <i style="">without</i> pay by simply providing all the proper forms to that cop to apply for a job with the PD on his way out the door. If this method is used, his work record and educational background would be reviewed and updated, his experience would be considered, and if rehired, he would be more accurately placed in a position suited to his strengths, eliminating paid downtime. Police employees need to be utilized to the best advantage for the citizens, just like all other jobs citizens hold, and it isn’t hard to do if we use citizen oversight.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >It is for sure that no cop will assist in the application of any of Councilman Burgess’s legislative suggestions. It is the police department’s goal to take forever to accomplish police control. We must leave them out of the decision making.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >When will the City Council get that message? When will Ricky Burgess lead the Council as well as the citizens of Pittsburgh in a direction that will solve the problem, as opposed to simply prolonging it? This is a situation for the people to determine and solve, not for the employees of the Pittsburgh Police department to judge. Empower the CRB with Hire & Fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Forget “Protect and Serve”, meaning the citizen. Forget “Protect and Serve” meaning the police department itself. Cops have entered into a third realm of thinking about how to carry out the job of law enforcement.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sample Schedule of a Sample Cop in a Sample City</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >6:00AM-Wake up, and SSS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >7:00AM-Drive to precinct in PD vehicle<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >7:30AM-Don & Doff (a paid procedure, BTW)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >8:00AM-Begin shift looking for citizens to disagree with and arrest those found<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >12:00PM-Have lunch someplace where it will be comped<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >1:00PM-Continue looking for citizens to disagree with and arrest those found<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >5:00PM-Feel satisfied at the number of citizens with whom disagreement was established.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >5:30PM-De-uniform and drive home in PD vehicle<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >6:00PM-Go to a bar and drink, hoping to find more citizens with whom to disagree<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >(Screaming “freeze”, calling for backup, pulling and aiming weapons, and intermittent smart-mouthing are all omitted from the above list, and assumed to take place constantly.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Consider This Example<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >A few months back, man was chased by police and caught up with in the street. He knew the chase was over, and gave up. He also knew the drill. Down on the ground, hands out where I can see them. Then comes the cuff and stuff. The perp had no problem with any of that, and in a spirit of <i style="">cooperation</i>, he went face down and extended his arms. Cops approached with guns drawn, but instead of proceeding with the cuffs, they “ordered” the man to his feet. When he remained on his stomach on the ground with arms extended, shouting “I give up”, the cop tasered him. Even more unable to comply with the “order”, the man twitched and burned until the taser was shut off, at which time the cops raised him to his feet, patted him down, and cuffed him. What is the problem with this story?
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >That it is untrue? No way. Improper use of a TASER? Nope. That it makes the cops look like the boneheads they are? Well, that is just an unfortunate truth. This story points out that cops don’t know compliance when they see it, that <b style="">CO</b>-operation doesn’t exist for them, and they resent anybody who understands them better than they understand themselves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Different Words, Same Meaning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Exceeding a cop in thinking speed is perceived as non-compliance, justifying cop-determined punishment, even when the compliance given is <i style="">EXACTLY what the cop would have “ordered” anyway</i>. Why does this upset a cop? It robs them. Living in the World of The Narrow Mind, cops injure if they can, kill if they feel like it, but without a doubt, find what a person doesn’t want to do, and then FORCE them to do it, no matter how irrational or contradictory. <span style=""> </span>The man in the above story didn’t let the cop “order” him down to the ground, so the cop “ordered” him to stand up, something cops never want an arrestee to do anyway until he is cuffed. The man’s ability to know the procedure in advance, and then beat them to it, rendering a cop’s “orders” needless, is an act of aggression in the World of the Narrow Mind. So out came the punishment. Tasing.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >These cops were faced with the fact they didn’t force the man to act against his will, which according to Academy training, must happen to qualify as compliance. Their need to feel powerful was robbed, so they were not happy. It destroyed the reason for being there. THE COP DIDN’T “WIN”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >What Comes Next<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >So now what? When a cop isn’t happy, they have no choice but to make a citizen unhappy. They tased him. It’s doubtful a cop can go home at the end of his shift unhappy without violating a domestic law when he gets there. Take it out on the wife, kid, dog, anything. That may calm him down. As <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100402_Elmer_Smith__Can_we_afford_to_keep_this_cop_on_the_force_.html">Tom Schaffling</a><o:p></o:p> of the Philadelphia department proved, cops will beat anything including mothers and children at a baby shower when they are unhappy, so when Mr. Toughguy cop comes home from a bad day at work, everybody would do well to hide until he can make an unrelated citizen unhappy. Somebody has to suffer or the job isn’t complete. That is the attitude living in the World of the Narrow Mind, and the only one that gets a cop job.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >And cops can’t figure out why citizens want oversight to control their police department. They are bears of very little brain, it seems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-14208722678759996072010-04-03T15:21:00.004-04:002010-04-03T15:55:05.305-04:00Serial Screw-Up Cop Strikes Again In Philadelphia<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Thomas Schaffling is a cop with the Philadelphia police department, and “a perennial problem child for the Philadelphia police”, as worded in the above article. This guy lives up to his street cred too. While the article describes Tom’s numerous bad judgment calls, and the Philadelphia PD’s apparent attempt to facilitate his actions by not bringing his career to an immediate halt in the name of the people of Philadelphia, (Tom is on desk duty now), the article as linked above got attention for another reason.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Tom Schaffling’s latest run-in with the boss at work was connected to a visit he made to the Yik Yak Club. That’s right, it is a bar room. Anyway, Tom’s gun ended up being fired a couple times by Tom after what Tom said was an unprovoked attack against him by other bar patrons. No injuries, but here’s the problem with it:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Once again, we have a cop carrying a gun at his side and an alcoholic drink in his hand at the same time and place. Tom seems to be ready, willing and waiting to beat and mace people, anywhere, including a baby shower where women and children were injured by him, (see the article), without the assistance of alcohol. No, this is not just one incident, Tom’s exploits go back to 2008 in the record, but any prior greatest hits were not revealed. This story clarifies the education cops need to insure top-quality job performance, as demanded by, but not delivered to, the citizens of Philadelphia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >The Only Solution A Cop Can Understand<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Cops need alcohol-detecting ankle bracelets as a universal and permanent part of every police uniform in the United States. As Tom Schaffling recently showed, cops have this odd habit of wanting to say they are off duty but still act like an on-duty cop when it comes to shooting people they disagree with. We must remember that a cop gets his balls from his gun, so if we let him be off duty and still pack, he WILL abuse the use of that weapon. But----if you add a few drinks and a tavern setting to a cop’s firearm, you have a guarantee of some bullets flying. America cannot allow a cop’s gun and alcohol to combine any more than MADD wants drinking and driving to mix.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Cops are quick to accuse a citizen of being “impaired”, therefore guilty of some form of disturbing the peace or threatening danger to others, especially all cops, when alcohol is present, but that same cop walks into an alcohol-induced scenario <i style="">while armed</i>, and we are all still safe and sound, right? No.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >We need ankle bracelets for all cops all the time. If a cop doesn’t want to give up his drinking for the sake of the job, as well and the safety and security of the citizens of his town, county, state, or anywhere else he may find alcohol, he has not properly sworn himself to uphold the law. It is bad enough to understand that a cop has no clue when it come to combining alcohol with crashing a vehicle into a citizen’s car, or a pedestrian at a cross walk, or a tax-paid utility pole, or even another police vehicle. With all the above happening regularly, how can we allow a cop to tank up while carrying a weapon he is authorized to use against us and at <i style="">his discretion</i>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Possible Alternate<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >You know, it might be a bit more understandable if we all, EVERY ONE OF US, carried. I heard of a small town in Texas that <i style="">required</i> the purchase and carrying of a sidearm for all citizens, but I can find no information on it. If anybody can send me a link, please do. With that solution nowhere in sight however, we have to attack this from the other end. Stop cops from drinking. We do it with an ankle bracelet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know the purpose of it is to establish a Citizen Review Board with Hire and Fire in every city and town in every state in America. Without H&F, we are just taking a leak into a low pressure system, as so many attempts at a meaningful CRB have already shown. Look at Portland OR, Springfield MA, Philadelphia, NYC, San Francisco, any city with a history of a review board. How many cities are happy with the effectiveness of their CRB? None. How many of those CRBs can hire and fire? Zero. That’s math anybody can do.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Effective police oversight would put Thomas Schaffling in his place, (or should I say bar stool), with quick efficiency and he would be replaced with a dedicated cop who accepts the importance of an ankle bracelet for the sake of the uniform, the integrity of the police department, and the effective performance of his job in the eyes of the citizens. BTW, Tom is only in his mid-twenties. He’ll find something else to do.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Cop pride grows from The Badge and The Gun. We need to raise a generation of cops who will proudly add The Bracelet. Let’s trade in “Protect and Serve” for “Clean & Sober-24/7”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-31659621175200712882010-03-28T11:35:00.003-04:002010-03-28T11:49:15.546-04:00British Cops Show American Cops How It’s Done---Again!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWF3Ubxcenmp6S48yxOtvS7aa_wHUqh3huiVXGAFyQx3zxqNOojKHltjvwsnkbFXvSJ4u6P88M1LHqtTeqarpfmz5qjtvIPeOaTS6D9uYOshmgR23LUuXbZiDRJaos_WPWTM7R4ypotmYr/s1600/FlowersBeer.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWF3Ubxcenmp6S48yxOtvS7aa_wHUqh3huiVXGAFyQx3zxqNOojKHltjvwsnkbFXvSJ4u6P88M1LHqtTeqarpfmz5qjtvIPeOaTS6D9uYOshmgR23LUuXbZiDRJaos_WPWTM7R4ypotmYr/s200/FlowersBeer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453710117569989058" border="0" /></a>
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>Article</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/5086383.Police_smash_down_front_door___and_say_sorry_with_a_bottle_of_beer/">Article</a>
<br /><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7527918/Police-who-smashed-wrong-door-in-bungled-raid-apologised-with-beer.html">
<br /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">In England---</span>
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >OK, the cops screwed up. But they admitted it! And right away too! Then, in a truly shocking move, they repaired the damage they had done. I really enjoyed this story.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >British police got a tip on the whereabouts of a drug dealer. They surrounded the home and smashed through the door in true “dynamic entry” fashion. They screamed, they pointed weapons, they captured, they cuffed, they questioned, etc. Problem was, the guy they were looking for moved out months before and an innocent couple and their kids had moved in. Quite a bungle, to be sure, just like cops from around here are famous for. But was the British followup just like cops from around here? No way! These guys stepped up and made amends.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >First, they arranged to have the door they obliterated replaced at the police department’s expense. Good start. Then, they went back to the couple’s home and personally apologized to them both, explaining the situation about the drug dealer that had lived there previously. And then they gave the lady a bouquet of flowers and the man a bottle of beer, all on the local PD’s tab.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Expensive gifts? No, not really. But as we all know, it’s the thought that counts. And for a change, a cop actually had a kind and remorseful thought! I’m lovin’ it! Hey Britain….could you export a load of that over here??</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">In America---</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Cops-Blame-Computer-Glitch-for-50-Raids-on-Elderly-Couple-88547847.html">Article</a>
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p>New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had the embarrassment of the 50<sup>th</sup> raid on the wrong house, make that the SAME wrong house, a few days back. It seems when NYC cops need a house to raid, for anything or anybody, they go to Walter Martin’s residence, and have been doing so for 8 years. Some kind of Mapquest screwup seems to be to blame. Anyway, Kelly’s cops wouldn’t apologize, so Kelly did it for the whole department. He went to the house in Brooklyn and presented the law-abiding victims there with a New York cheesecake.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >So, let’s get this straight---in the USA, it takes 50 botched raids to qualify for a cheesecake. What you get on the 75<sup>th</sup>? 100<sup>th</sup>? Hopefully the prizes get better as you go like an exciting round of The Price Is Right. Kelly promised that the mistake has been fixed, once and for all, which is good, but I think a bit more than a cheesecake should be awarded for being terrorized by the NYC cops 50 times. Hey, in England, your first time gets you a new front door, a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of beer. I’d say Anthony and Kayleigh are in for some major league prizes by the time they hit number 50!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ></span></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >"What do we have for them, Johnny? "<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >"Well, how about free college tuition for the two kids, and a brand new Toyota, Bob!"</span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ></span></i><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >No, wait, better make that a Ford.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Once again, the British cops show the American cops just how it’s done.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-25797475876221857802010-03-26T14:53:00.003-04:002010-03-26T15:06:02.256-04:00Huntsville Still Takes Orders From Police, Allows Typical Stall Tactics<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNpBUMBT7Vt2NfhdaKTjZJpnm20HRQTQdMNLE0sa9Y5inttfXgZJPZhdAk0qixVP0wAk-2cwwTIy0QrvXB5omy9XUqLRCCpg6yx0uPqcQSknFc9S3fnMlT4gBIV8HEHbzuBni5f9-BADY/s1600/RichardShowers.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNpBUMBT7Vt2NfhdaKTjZJpnm20HRQTQdMNLE0sa9Y5inttfXgZJPZhdAk0qixVP0wAk-2cwwTIy0QrvXB5omy9XUqLRCCpg6yx0uPqcQSknFc9S3fnMlT4gBIV8HEHbzuBni5f9-BADY/s200/RichardShowers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453018527126627618" border="0" /></a>
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Does that sentence drive you nuts? How about indecision? Does total lack of action when action is needed make you want to scream?
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Evidently, it is a pastime of the City Council of Huntsville. The people have made enough noise to get a forum with the City Councilman Richard Showers on the subject of forming a Citizen Review Board, but then caved when it was time to make some progress. The city must like their cops as they are. If so, be they good or bad, they deserve them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >The first sign of foot-dragging came when councilman Showers asked the ad hoc committee to decide if a CRB <i style="">is needed</i>. Big mistake. Police are police are police, and for that reason, every city and town needs a review board, just like electricity and phone service. There must be a constant and consistent input from the citizens to the police department as to what their needs are, and if the PD is meeting those needs. Without daily direction, cops are guaranteed to slowly warp out of alignment and become progressively more destructive to the citizens they serve, as today’s news shows us. By asking if a CRB is needed, councilman Showers proves he doesn’t know what a CRB is for.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Showers said he was only seeking “information”. Councilman, you don’t need information, you need a CRB; they will get all the information required. He said the town meeting was for introduction. Councilman, it isn’t an introduction you need, it is a Citizen Review Board. Police antics as we all know them has introduced America to what needs to be done, and it is police department control.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Councilman Bill Kling suggested a meeting between citizens and law enforcement officials to “satisfy the needs of both sides”. Really? No. The formation of a CRB with teeth is started by citizens that don’t ask the child if he would like to eat his vegetables, the meal is simply served and expected to be eaten. There is no bargaining. The satisfaction comes if the townspeople like the cops and if the cops want the job.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >A serious-minded CRB is fueled by a citizenry that understands a PD is the result of an original community request, and is funded by the community itself. We are not here to be judged by our employees. An effective CRB calls the shots to bring the citizen’s vision of the community to reality, and it does so by sculpting the PD. How? <b style="">Hire and Fire</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Huntsville, go with <b style="">Hire and Fire</b> or go home. No police department in America will listen to a word you say without it. Cops are a problem because they think they can do whatever they want. If you give them an inch of negotiating room, they will take every mile the rest of us will ever travel. It is the nature of the personality types the police academy attracts and nurtures. The academy problem can be addressed in due time, but the police problem must be solved now, and with a Citizen Review Board. Call City Councilman Richard Showers and exert your power as a voter and a citizen by telling him to stop the foot dragging and stall tactics. None of us has forever. Put the CRB with <b style="">Hire & Fire</b> in motion today. <o:p></o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-21925323696011595892010-03-23T10:30:00.011-04:002010-03-23T15:01:53.417-04:00Drunk New Rochelle Cop Proves Need For Citizen Control<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAn8HZItKO0hi9S___CLIPiyu35lxeFr7WWqrOiRaKdwWvHSnZEruW9Z__b2WSMUbUjqQV11yAaFiewvd3gMCvcakPh9FU3PwP-LdkbNd6_b9uS0D3y8wNdqVAfdGSZtb6nv0OFwnWCaX9/s1600-h/jamillahblair.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAn8HZItKO0hi9S___CLIPiyu35lxeFr7WWqrOiRaKdwWvHSnZEruW9Z__b2WSMUbUjqQV11yAaFiewvd3gMCvcakPh9FU3PwP-LdkbNd6_b9uS0D3y8wNdqVAfdGSZtb6nv0OFwnWCaX9/s200/jamillahblair.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451843211723080802" border="0" /></a>
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{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Casual";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Jamillah Blair of New Rochelle, New York</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Now here’s what I’m talking about. Requirements to become a cop are falling into the cellar, and there isn’t a police agency in the country that will step up to correct it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Jamillah, who may or may not be a good citizen, was desperate to become a cop. She is 5 ft tall and under 100 lbs, not exactly the person you would call on to do any heavy lifting, be it literal or figurative. She is a cop in the city of New Rochelle, NY. She wanted it very much, (I always wanted to sing like Pavarotti, but didn’t have the pipes for it), and finally squeezed herself into the department somehow. The Commissioner, Patrick Carroll, went out of his way to accommodate Jamillah’s <span style=""> </span>obvious physical shortcomings, not to mention her past brushes with the law including drug association and domestic violence with a roommate. <a href="http://www.newrochelletalk.com/node/1597">Article</a><span style=""></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >None of those screaming red flags prevented the Chief from hiring Jamillah, not the undersize or underweight, not the shady history. Then, once hired, what did she do? She LOST her badge. Yes, lost it, meaning forgot where she put it, along with the police ID that accompanied it. The items were never found and had to be replaced. Maybe they are on eBay.
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<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: </span></span>Thanks to Robert Cox from <a href="http://www.newrochelletalk.com/">Talk of the Sound</a> for this--Jamillah lost not one, but two badges and police ID's. I suppose that will drive down the bids on eBay for the first one, now that there are two out there.
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Jamillah Blair first lost her police badge, and then she lost her ability to drive only when sober. She got into a bit of a scrape because of drunk driving and then leaving the scene of a head-on crash with a Yonkers man. While she may have been viewed as a great public relations tool for a police force, couldn’t Chief Carroll hire one that doesn’t drink? I mean, c’mon Chief, she caused a head-on collision with an innocent driver and then had the nerve to flee the scene. Cops know not to flee scenes, don’t they? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Jamillah Blair is the SIXTH cop in Westchester County to be found drunk driving in the last 4 months. The statistics don’t look too good for New Rochelle, nor does the success rate for Commissioner Carroll’s hiring methods.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Look At It This Way</span>
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >The population of the city is just under 75K, and the police department employs 250. Understanding that cops like to chirp “We are human too, sometimes we make mistakes”, how many cops should the people of New Rochelle allow to be drunk? 10%? That would be 25. 1%? That’s only 2½ cops at any one time. Maybe citizens should learn to have at least that much tolerance for diversity. After all, cops are only human, right? So they say.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >How about this for an idea…..NO DRUNK COPS, EVER. Here’s a policy for your consideration: A drunk cop equals an unemployed cop. Simple. We need to clear our streets of law-breaking law enforcers, and a great place to start is with how they abuse alcohol.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >One way to accomplish this is to require all cops to add an <a href="http://www.bi.com/tad?gclid=CMKf1qmVz6ACFSZo5QodcWeL5Q">alcohol-detecting ankle bracelet</a> to the uniform, and a similar device to their personal vehicle. In addition, liquor stores and bars can be instructed to refuse to sell to cops, in or out of uniform. This isn't just for cops caught drunk, this is for all cops beginning on the date of hire. Jamillah has proven, along with so many more examples as listed on the sidebar of this blog, that cops just can’t handle it. <span style="">How do we accomplish this? A Citizen Oversight Panel with Hire & Fire.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Employment Practice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >How many things can one police commissioner in one PD screw up at one time? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";" >Refuse others the job because of insufficient height, weight, or record, but hire Jamillah.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:180%;" ><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";" >Allow drunk cops to operate on or off the job, including driving<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";" >When a cop is caught drunk driving, crashing into a citizen and fleeing the scene, continue to pay them the taxpayer’s money, without termination, like Jamillah.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style=""><span style="font-size:180%;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";" >Refuse the townspeople of New Rochelle input as to what level of quality they get in a tax-supported PD. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >This is the sixth time in 4 months in Westchester, New Rochelle! Your cops are failing to earn your tax dollars, and have no respect for their job, or the profession in general. When sober, they are stealing your money, and when drunk, they are crashing into your cars and running from the scene to cover it up.<span style=""> </span>Do you condone this level of ethics? Or honesty? Or sobriety?
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >The fact that Commissioner Carroll had to bend the rules to get Jamillah in is bad enough for all those who had similar size problems and were refused, but to keep paying a drunk driver who flees the scene is just too much. Dishonesty, questionable character, prior record problems, all overlooked. Then there’s the physical inadequacy, and now a PD that needs to shop around for a wholesale price on detoxing. Where is your Citizen Review Board, New Rochelle? I mean the one with Hire & Fire?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >This particular chapter in the peoples’ fight to get control of their PD takes things to a whole new level. It isn’t just a bad judgment during an adrenalin-fueled chase and arrest that makes a bad cop, and it isn’t just a jaw-jutting jerk of a human that makes a bad cop. This time it is a woefully inadequate cop, hired by a Chief who seems to have more respect for favoring a political viewpoint than desire to provide the people of New Rochelle quality policing. New Rochelle's citizens must provide it instead, and only a CRB will accomplish that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" > What are you waiting for?<span style=""> </span>Call the Mayor, and all other office-holders in your city, county and state. Remind them all that November 2 will be here before we know it, and those that agree with a CRB that can Hire & Fire get elected.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/03/deputy-coroner-busted-for-dui-dont-you-know-who-i-am.html">Bonus Drunk!</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deputy Coroners Do It Too!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEziFBrulmKhtLVdGEkdZqvCPR1RFytx_CxY0pmgmllSc0zBv0hGtOtXDH9tr1RYzjnnFx-LPIE-QE9ZOL7Cy9HE_IP5bXNANnfHN70QKknlrGWq0MFf-V7WRmBmTDJC5RiMz7GWUIl4U/s1600-h/ErynGray.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEziFBrulmKhtLVdGEkdZqvCPR1RFytx_CxY0pmgmllSc0zBv0hGtOtXDH9tr1RYzjnnFx-LPIE-QE9ZOL7Cy9HE_IP5bXNANnfHN70QKknlrGWq0MFf-V7WRmBmTDJC5RiMz7GWUIl4U/s200/ErynGray.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451843897579452226" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";" >Chicago-land comes through again. No fleeing the scene this time, but jumping the curb and mowing down a stop sign is still fair play for a sheriff department employee. Add a heapin’ helpin’ of attitude and what do you get? Eryn Gray. She is quite the handful. Read her story, but lock your liquor cabinet. <o:p></o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-46744860318365968412010-03-19T14:31:00.006-04:002010-03-19T14:51:35.769-04:00Cops Say Citizen Oversight Won’t Work Part 6<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-citizen-oversight-will-not.html">Why It Won't Work Part 5</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Why It Won't Work Part 4</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">Why It Won't Work Part 3</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 2</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 1</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >#6--Citizens will try to control all aspects of the PD</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Another piece of evidence that cops are paranoid and have PLENTY to hide. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >There is no cop out there who understands what the citizen wants in a police department because they have always had the mindset of working for themselves with no regard for any citizen preference. For cops, the job is and always will be <b style=""><i style="">Us Versus Them</i>.</b> That is the arrogance the Academy looks for and nurtures, leading to every cop thinking that way.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Nobody who is living a public life, AND PAID TO DO IT WITH PUBLIC FUNDS, has anything to fear by being audited, expedited, reviewed or critiqued by that same <span style=""> </span>public, right? Somehow, cops disagree, and the smell of suspicion seeps in……</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Another Hypocrisy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >There is a subtext here that should not be missed. Cops don’t want their “professional privacy” invaded. (They say it would degrade the quality of their work.) Cops know they are another <b style="">public </b>utility, like water and sewer, but still want to play the privacy card during work hours or anything else work related, which they interpret as 24/7. This is much more than just hypocrisy. It is screaming ego.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >There is an old joke about a high profile night club that is very, very exclusive. In fact, it is so exclusive, absolutely nobody knows where the club is and no one has ever been there. That night club is the cop’s business model. We should all hear and know of police, and hear about how fantastic they are, but not know anything about who they are or how they do things. While such a goal is an out-of-reach ultimate, cops drool over the possibility of being that anonymous. The freedom to do and say anything to anybody and never see a repercussion is what all PDs aspire to. Oh, and get paid. And be called a hero. What a Nirvana. What a Xanadu. What an unrealistic thought.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >We Didn’t Want The Job, So We Hired People<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >This cop-created criticism of a CRB is the one that comes closest to reality, in that when a CRB finds a problem, they will repair or replace it with a method that reflects the citizen’s needs. But to operate every aspect of the PD is not what a taxpayer is interested in doing, any more than operating the water or sewer facilities. The citizen hires police to do that work FOR us, and cops don’t seem to get it. They forget who the real boss is. Arrogance will do that to a fellow.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >As stated before, the people invented the police. We invited cops into our communities to do a particular job FOR us, and we offered a fair compensation for their work. We do not hire and pay a workforce, only to do the job ourselves. We expect and demand the paid employees to deliver. We also, however, expect the job to be performed to our satisfaction, and that occasionally includes <span style=""> </span>an explanation to an employee the specifics of their failings. As with any other job, they must measure up or ship out. <i style="">That bears repeating---as with any other job.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Reviewing and repairing police failure doesn’t constitute the nit-picking, arbitrary method police departments try to predict with their warning that a CRB will try to run all aspects of a PD. We have no interest in doing such a thing, which is why we issue paychecks to the police. Cops just don’t get it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Clarity On Both Sides Is Needed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >What we never offered our cops is jurisdiction over all citizens whenever and however they find them, regardless of what citizens want. <span style=""> </span>We the People are the deciders of who gets arrested locally, who gets ticketed, or searched, or pretext stopped, or detained, or anything else at the local level, including how a citizen is spoken to by a police employee. We can and are supposed to tell our cops how to act, <b style="">but we don’t</b>. The result is the child telling the parent how to run the household. The animals are running the zoo. <span style=""> </span>We Citizens don’t do our jobs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >The Citizen Review Board is the only solution to what has gotten completely out of control. I do not mean some figurehead style entity that meets now and then just to vote on when their next meeting will be, and then go home. I don’t mean a body that will decide what the people want and submit it to the police chief, only to have their recommendations instantly and permanently ignored. And I definitely DO NOT mean a board of people who still feel they must take orders from cops or police unions. A Hire & Fire CRB is the only one with any real authority, and after convincing the citizen of that, the police department will have no choice but to fall into line.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Folks, police departments around the country are playing us for fools. Cops know that without Hire & Fire, no CRB can do anything constructive. Forming a CRB without Hire & Fire is like installing a fire hydrant without water. All cops need to do is toss in an irrelevant “objection” here and there to prolong the debate, complain to the Mayor, and claim the CRB only wants to fire everybody, they don’t understand intricate police work, they already have one within the PD. Yadda Yadda. A successful and working CRB isn’t one that debates with cops, it is one that sculpts a police department.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Let’s Settle This</span></b><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Cops will never understand that it isn’t about what <i style="">they</i> think, it is about what the <i style="">citizen wants</i>. Unless a Citizen Review Board attracts and fosters a whole new breed of law enforcement, we will be fed a never ending diet of twisted police garbage thinking, and told it makes perfect sense, even if we can’t understand it. We must do our own hiring.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Any sense makes good sense if citizens agree to it, at least for their town, or state, or country. That’s why we have voting as a deciding mechanism. But when we are told something makes sense that doesn’t make ANY sense to us<i style="">,</i> it is tantamount to treason. Today’s cops don’t understand they serve at our pleasure, not their own. We must do our own firing.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Demand a Citizen Review Board with Hire & Fire in your city or town today, and don’t rest until your police force is brought into line. <o:p></o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-78006031565671926112010-03-06T14:53:00.010-05:002010-03-06T15:13:11.161-05:00Cops Say Citizen Oversight Won't Work Part 5<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CLCB%7E1.LCB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> 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<br /></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >We have all heard it before----every jail in the country is full of innocent people. Don’t believe it? Just ask them. Well, before we laugh ourselves silly, I have one name to mention. Barry Scheck. But shall we proceed?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:130%;">There Is No Axe In Sight</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >To think that everybody has a personal axe to grind with the police is to say nobody wants a police department and that subject has already been covered on this blog. If you missed it, I’ll sum it up: Wrong. We citizens thought up the concept of a local police department. We are willing to fork over the cash to finance it. Now all of a sudden, we don’t want police? Let’s get some realism.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >The only way a citizen could come close to having an axe to grind is if he has been obviously abused, mistreated, or worse, lied about by a cop. Even the least educated among us has been known to quote the words “innocent until proven guilty”. If a citizen has been treated in a way that violates that ethic, <b style="">they don’t like it</b>. The wound goes very, very deep.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Police, hear this</span></i></b><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >----Before there were cops, there was a desire for justice, and all of us know it. You’re existence is the RESULT of that desire, and your paychecks are the proof of it. We don’t hate police, we hate inappropriate and destructive workmanship, <b style="">like every other employer in the world</b>.</span></i></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><span style=""> </span>No axe there.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >Even in an extreme case, the abused citizen only has interest in the specific cop who cheated him out of his rights and justice. It only spreads beyond that if the citizen is ignored and the bad cop is believed by IA and the Chief and continues to collect more victims. <span style=""> </span>At that point, we start to think in terms of corruption, but not axes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Corrupt Cops See The Fictitious Axe</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >Corruption is a systemic problem that only a Citizen Review Board can address. It is understandable by anyone, and does not take on the personal attribute required to wield an axe. As an analogy, we know the difference between getting a bad meal at a restaurant and thinking the chef is “out to get us”. <span style=""> </span>Cops, however, seem more prone to the reversed and paranoid pattern of thinking. Why is this? Guilty conscience?<span style=""> </span>Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >Having suspicion or proof of corruption is the genesis for axe grinding against any PD. It is the point where all faith is lost and the worst becomes the expected. <i style="">Cop, ask yourself, what would make that happen?</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >Cops who lie, cheat, steal, murder, extort, rape, blackmail, and so on? <span style=""> </span>(Just read the papers; it’s all there.) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >THAT’S what causes anyone to grind his axe. If a cop ever wonders where a particular citizen gets it, he can just look in the mirror for the explanation.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Once Again, The CRB To The Rescue</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >But wait! We are talking a Citizen Review Board here, not a guy who may have a case to bring. No oversight board is made up of one person or decision maker. Citizens who serve on any CRB have only one thing on their minds, and that is getting the PD of their choice, a group decision, determined by public vote. No oversight panel is there to sentence every cop to eternal damnation. <span style=""> </span>They know what isn’t proper cop material and behavior according to their wishes for their city, and they are there to accomplish that. With hire & fire, the sculpting would take effect for more accurate police department service. There is no axe to grind in a functioning CRB with teeth, just progress toward public satisfaction and appreciation of police work as performed. Both sides win, because they are finally on the same page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >(Hey….could it be…..that a cop has an axe to grind against anyone who wants a CRB? No, no, never mind. They are sworn and dedicated to the job of working for ALL of us, right?)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Cops, don’t worry, just <i style="">do what we want you to do</i>, and all will be fine.</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Why It Won't Work Part 4</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">Why It Won't Work Part 3</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 2</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 1</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >
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mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></a><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html"></a><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-citizen-oversight-will-not.html">Why It Won't Work Part 5</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">Why It Won't Work Part 3</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 2</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 1</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">#4-A Review Board Will Just Fire Everybody, Leaving Us All Totally Unprotected.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
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<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >The Fallacy <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Well, we have to go back to the Academy’s attitude training again. Part of the brainwashing new recruits get daily says “Your city is DEPENDING on you. The dimwit citizens are helpless against the sophisticated 21<sup>st</sup> century criminals at work out there. You…..Officer, must risk your life and limb to save the helpless and restore order to a city on the verge of chaos. You…..are…..their….Savior!”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >OK, ok, ok…..take a breath for a second. The only criminals that rise to the level being alluded to are in comic books, and the only people ready to stop arch-criminals like that are your Batmans, your Supermans, your Aquamans, (in the unlikely event that your fishtank is threatened). Let’s go back to the real world, police departments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >The Reality<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Societies have always had their legal and moral B-lists, those who don’t see the financial advantages of an honest day’s work, or the moral advantages of live and let live. While a free society grants and encourages freedom of thought and movement, that same society doesn’t condone physical harm or destruction of property. This is a universal understanding among all people in all societies. So tell me cops…any cops….CALLING ALL COPS….please explain why the citizen’s review board would fire all police? No sense being made there…..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >The Details<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Many cops bolster their own existence and that of their fellows by constantly pushing the “without us you will all die” point of view, something out of the Republican-created, Fox News-fueled rulebook.<span style=""> </span>It’s a self serving, self preserving idea, meant to keep the cop in business. While always ready for another helping of company kool-aid, they tend to underestimate their audience and over-sell their product.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >A cop will say, “The citizen must accept any misconduct the police department decides to engage in, because it’s done for <u>their</u> own good. It is all in the name of justice.” On the surface, such a decision-making platform sounds like something a citizen would reject due to the strong probability of corruption, but no organized <span style=""> </span>oversight group would respond in such a knee-jerk manner, when the oversight board’s first obligation is truly with the citizenry. Such determinations of police misconduct would be made by the people and for the people, as represented by a functioning CRB with teeth. We would require cops to become sensitive and obedient to our needs, as we are of theirs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >The Cop’s Misconception<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Cops are trained to provide each other with backup and cross backup while in the field, to the point of redundancy, and it is one of the few strategies cops employ that actually deserves applause. Protecting our own is a concept we all understand, but do cops think they are the only intellects that can conceive such a plan? Well, here’s a bulletin, police---a CRB is no stranger to it. We will do just fine. The PD need only worry about providing the services the citizen demands, and in the form they demand it. We will not let our police force run dry just because some cops don’t make the cut. As this blog has advocated from the first day, we don’t hire a PD, we sculpt one. It is a stepwise process. There will be successes and failures among cops, but it will be the citizen who determines them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Are there people who don’t like cops? Sure. Are there people who don’t need cops? No way. That is why <i style="">we created</i> police departments, and <i style="">we pay them</i> for their work. However, we did not hire a bunch of independent contractors to formulate a job of their choice, after their own image, and then perpetrate it on the very people who pay them. The citizens have allowed the PD to acquire more than 51% of the stock, and now the PD is abusing it. That must stop.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >The Remedy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Civilian oversight authority to hire and fire will assure us that only employees of whom we approve will continue to represent the wants, needs, and reputation of the town in which they work. How do we make that happen? Sculpting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Every incorporated city and town has a PD now. Some consist of a Chief and a canine, (not a bad idea). Others are a bloated, out-of-control mess of thousands of employees who don’t have a clue what their city wants. Those cops are paycheck-seeking, mindless misfits who believe that if they don’t beat/shoot/tase people, they are not taken seriously, if they don’t write tickets, they are letting criminality slip through their fingers, and if they don’t “win” court cases, they “lose” in the public’s eye. In Detroit, there is a minimum performance level for their cops, as spelled out by Chief <a href="http://detnews.com/article/20100303/METRO01/3030374">Warren Evans</a>.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >This mindset must be purged. The last thing any city needs is a reactionary cop response to members of society, armed only with their ability to read, write and comprehend, who are looking to uphold their rights against a PD who has been given a free right to kill based on his unfounded, split-second assumption.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Don’t Panic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Even when the citizen is up against such a sanctioned and tax-funded person in uniform, it STILL doesn’t mean a CRB would fire everybody. It only means it would get rid of the unwanted, and keep/train/develop the wanted, as it is with every other job the citizens hold.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >If a PD Chief says a CRB would fire everybody, he is revealing a guilty conscience and his own fear of unemployment. He knows he is failing to quell crime in his city, and he thinks a high number of tickets and arrests equal doing a good job. While neither makes for the quality police work the citizen envisioned when their PD was started, the currently practiced inefficiency and disconnect with local townspeople will not get the whole department fired either. It will only sculpt each cop into a product the citizen wants, thanks to a Citizen Review Board.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Cops…calm down. Just do the job <i style="">we want you to do</i> and there will be no problem.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></a><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html"></a><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-citizen-oversight-will-not.html">Why It Won't Work Part 5</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">Why It Won't Work Part 3</a>
<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 2</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p>Why It Won't Work Part 1</o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
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align="left"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></a><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Why It Won't Work Part 4</a>
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<br /></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >#3-Police Say Citizens Don’t Understand The Intricacies Of Police Work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Some pro-cop thinkers believe that cops are “scientists” and such scientific work should be left to the experts, like brain surgeons and NASA guys. <span style=""> </span>Let’s get it straight. Forensics, and specialties like blood spatter and fingerprinting, require a bachelor of science degree, and those people are called as experts in murder cases, but they are not cops. In fact, the degree doesn’t guarantee them to be scientists any more than they are guaranteed to be bachelors. It is just a formal name differentiating them from those who hold a bachelor of arts degree. The cop uniform, badge, gun, and all accouterments does not a scientist make. Let’s forgo the moniker “scientist”, and get over it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >So, with that said---- what are they, actually? Entry requirements for the Academy include being a legal citizen with a high school diploma or equivalent, standard physical capabilities, no criminal record and an IQ of 104 or less. (That’s right, it is <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/09/news/mn-8141"><i style="">less</i>.</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Lately, the criminal record requirements have been watered down from demanding no record at all to allowing a few minor indiscretions. A little drug use, maybe a stolen car, (just for a joy ride), even a domestic beating or two can be overlooked. <span style=""> </span>Not exactly fertile ground in which to grow intricate thinkers.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Cops are under the constant influence of the idiotic police policy manual as well as the hangover from the police academy training. This toxic mix of delusion will never produce intricacy in any form. Look at what active cops are famous for doing--</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Screaming “freeze”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Pointing a gun<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Screaming “freeze” WHILE pointing a gun, (multitasking)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Lying both in and out of court<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Beating people while delivering a fusillade of verbal insults<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Lecturing an arrestee after he is cuffed <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Holding grudges and carrying out retribution, even against fellow cops <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="">·<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Intimidating people with unconstitutional threats and actions like, but not restricted to, <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/springfield-police-unions-twisted.html">beating a head in with a flashlight</a>, <a href="http://www.fox12idaho.com/Global/story.asp?S=11961475">applying a taser specifically to the rectum and genitals</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >
<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >It is not exactly brimming with finesse, to be sure. But let’s assume this is all intricate police work. What part of it do we “non 104s” not understand? The screaming? The beating? The tasing? Oh, wait….maybe it’s the lying. Whatever it is, we non-104s can’t seem to get the intricacy, <b style="">but police can</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Citizen</span>:<span style=""> <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">“But…but…but …Ossifer, whah am Ih bein’ ‘rested? Ih didn’t doo nuttin’.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Cop</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">“Shut up and obey me. I am cruel, but fair. I am always right. You deserve what I give you. You will learn that someday, and you will thank me. You have the right to respect my every word and move, and thank me summore.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >
<br /></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" > <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >While the standard issue cop would see nothing wrong with the above, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >it is a scenario the Citizen Review Board will bring to a halt and fast. That attitude can and will be eliminated because cops can be replaced, and with each replacement, the PD gets one step closer to being what the taxpayer pays for and expects. Hiring and firing is all it takes. Call it “sculpting”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >That phony superhero garbage from the academy that says “always win” has got to go. With it, the citizen will always come last, but with a CRB, the rule for the job of police employee would be: “Nobody is always right, but when you are, it’s because you did what the citizen expects of you.” Cop behavior, in the reality of the citizen, has nothing to do with arbitrary policy manuals we the people had no hand in writing. With citizen oversight, it is only about what the citizens want to see play out on their streets and within their PD, and that’s all that matters if the citizens are paying the cops to work for them.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >A CRB Will Make It As Intricate As The Citizen Needs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >When cops say citizens don’t understand the intricacies of police work, it is clear those intricacies were created by police departments only to elevate and protect them <i style="">from</i> citizens. “Keep your friends close, and your enemies stupid” is the current cop philosophy, with all cops being the friends, and all else the enemies. When the citizen creates the intricacies of police work, police work won’t be all that intricate anymore, and will fulfill the citizen’s wishes for what their PD should be through principles and rules of transparency and accountability. <i style="">Simple</i> can replace <i style="">intricate</i> if the CRB demands it, but we cannot make demands if we don’t have a CRB. When it is simple, it is understood, and understanding simplifies honesty, and honesty is what the citizens want in their cops. Candidates who disagree need not apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Urgent Request<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >I ask any and all cops in the USA---what are the intricacies? Post them! Anybody in law enforcement out there, email an intricacy that you have to deal with everyday that the average citizen cannot understand. All of us 104’s and up would like to know what you have going for you that we cannot grasp. Send an intricacy, any intricacy. Don’t overestimate the citizen’s ability to not understand.
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Why%20It%20Won%27t%20Work%20Part%201"><b><span><b><span><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Why It Won't Work Part 1</span></b></span></b></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><span><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Why It Won't Work Part 2</span></b></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><span><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ></span></b></a><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Why It Won't Work Part 4</a>
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that of the defense. The cop defense brought out the points that Michael Mineo was a member of a street gang and smoked pot regularly. They also accentuated the facts that Richard Kern and his two fellows, Andrew Morales and Alex Cruz, accused of covering the wrongdoings of Kern, were brought up in catholic schools, were outstanding family men, and were generally good-doobees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >That caused the jury to find reasonable doubt in Mineo’s story and they decided against him. A civil suit is still pending, and will not be affected by the outcome of this trial, but even with a victory at the civil level, Richard Kern will have his life go on without change, except to say he “won”. He has been in at least two other lawsuits, one of which was dismissed, and the other settled for $50K.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" >Tell me, did Michael Mineo injure his own anus, resulting in an internal infection and requiring a 2-3 day stay in hospital? (Cops said Mineo had a pre-existing condition.) Did Michael Mineo secretly plant his rectum’s DNA on Richard Kern’s nightstick to make the cop look guilty of sodomy? (Cops say it isn’t explainable.) And what explains the hole in the anal area of the boxer shorts? Did Michael Mineo put it there before going out in expectation of an encounter with the police baton? (Cops say it must have been there before.) With that, the jury found reasonable doubt in Michael Mineo’s case.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>There is a cloud hanging over the heads of otherwise well-meaning citizens when they enter the jury box to hear a case. Is it cop retribution?<span style=""> </span>Simple gullibility in court? Could it be that cops never lie, or a belief that if citizens don’t lie for cops, the cops won’t lie for a citizen when needed? Something in jury instructions? Or is it the total failure of the citizen’s lawyer to choose from the jury pool to his client’s advantage? All wrong-headed, but all very possible.</p> <p>When these cases continue to favor the police, (Louima, Bell, and others), they don’t just undermine the confidence in the police department, they don’t just undermine the confidence in the judicial system, they undermine the citizen’s confidence in fellow citizens. Cops meanwhile, further divide us from our sense of justice and the desire for equal freedom in our country. <i style="">This fallout must be brought to a stop with a citizen-controlled, decision-making body with singular authority to hire and fire.</i> </p> <p>Richard Kern said he wants to </p><blockquote>“get back on the street and do what I love to do: protect the people of Brooklyn.”</blockquote><span style=""> </span><p></p> <p>He doesn’t get any wrongdoing. It is one thing for a judge to not find wrongdoing in a legal sense, but this guy thinks there was actually nothing wrong with shoving a nightstick into Michael Mineo sufficient to cause anal injury and collect identifiable DNA on it. Does he expect to reap applause from passersby when patrolling the streets of Brooklyn from now on? “Horray Kern! You really showed that guy!” Oh, please…. </p> <p>His buddy, Andrew Morales, is no more in touch than he is:</p> <p></p><blockquote>“Morales, one of the officers acquitted of hindering prosecution, thanked his family for supporting him during the trial."It was very hard sitting there listening to all the lies," Morales said.””</blockquote><p></p> <p>This, coming from a person in a profession that relies heavily on lying to do daily business. <span style=""> </span>Hmmm…<span style=""> </span></p> <p>Out of touch. Out of contact with reality. Thinking police are above the law. </p> <p>This happened because of Academy training, <span style="font-style: italic;">(“You are always right, so you must always win”)</span>, police union support, <span style="font-style: italic;">(“We are behind you, Brother, no matter what, so don’t worry”)</span>, and previous jury decisions, <span style="font-style: italic;">(“Cop lawyers will do everything to convince those fools to convict their own again. You are as good as exonerated.”)</span>. That is the cop’s explanation. What’s ours?</p> <p><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-34518332592589264452010-02-20T13:15:00.005-05:002010-02-20T14:43:40.165-05:00Will NYC Kelly’s Cops Finally Meet Hire And Fire?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7YpKHBNNz8NM-vEkg-EqR-57qEJfk1jY6gaa7FDfPiH8aFsSI_bdhZKDHZgveJoh8N33h3VwMGwkx_fily56gDxRy7jqllzxt-QzwfTEXh9Zimr_Vxh3NAaKEyLQ7ET6Jq2qmZp5IpKf2/s1600-h/RayKelly.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7YpKHBNNz8NM-vEkg-EqR-57qEJfk1jY6gaa7FDfPiH8aFsSI_bdhZKDHZgveJoh8N33h3VwMGwkx_fily56gDxRy7jqllzxt-QzwfTEXh9Zimr_Vxh3NAaKEyLQ7ET6Jq2qmZp5IpKf2/s200/RayKelly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440393250100636594" border="0" /></a>
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div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >In a change of policy that is truly shocking on the surface, the Police Commissioner in New York City in has decided to allow the civilian review board to charge and prosecute <i style="">some</i> cases of police misconduct, those where the cop was <i style="">deemed to have committed</i> misconduct. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/nyregion/19civilian.html">Read It Here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >“Deemed To Have Committed”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Magic words, aren’t they? While encouraged by the announced change, this is another “throw ‘em a bone” move by Commissioner Raymond Kelly. So, let’s see here…. the citizens won’t just investigate, they won’t just recommend, they will prosecute as well. OK, as long as that means carrying out the discipline, up to and including termination <i style="">if the board</i> deems it necessary to protect the public from the misconduct the cop perpetrated against a citizen. But “deemed to have committed”? Deemed by whom? Commissioner Kelly? Another non-citizen body? Let’s leave the deeming to the citizens. Only then will Kelly’s promise be worth his expelled breath.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Mayor Domenic Sarno of Springfield MA blew this same smoke, so did Baltimore Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld III. Second-hand smoke is offensive, but we’re up to third-hand now, and the air is definitely getting funky.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Neither Sarno or Bealefeld have gotten anywhere with the smoke trick. Why should Kelly?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Why?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >The whole reason for a review board is to shield the public from the effects of the lies and delusions cops suffer from every day, (cops are always right, cops own us, cops <i style="">are</i> the law, etc). Case in point, the Atlanta woman who was arrested for asking why she was being told to move along. Cop answer? “Because I said so.”<a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-61-arrested-for-309285.html"> Read About It</a>. <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/50776.html">And Here's More</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >This crap isn’t just in Atlanta, it is everywhere there is a cop working the streets. Cops get away with anything they are allowed to get away with, just like a young child with absentee parents. The Atlanta review board is no better than the NYC board because they do not have hire & fire, and it shows in daily cop antics, as displayed by Brandy Dolson of the Atlanta PD. <b style="">With H&F</b>, a cop would save the smart mouth for friends and relatives, or lose employment. The decision to get courteous and stay there would be easy and swift.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >With Commissioner Kelly implying power to the review board for the purpose of determining the outcome of police misconduct is a good promise, but the real proof will be when a guilty cop is totally adjudicated by the civilian board from start to finish, found guilty of misconduct, and fired. Not to make him a sacrificial lamb, but to prove to the people of NYC that a civilian board’s decisions are real and will stick.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" > Commissioner Kelly, go big or go home. Don’t throw a bone to the citizens, give them the solution they deserve, and start today with cases you have on the books today. Hire and Fire in a Civilian Review Board is the answer, and you need to step up. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-8775284355607219892010-02-17T15:46:00.011-05:002010-03-05T13:41:34.984-05:00Cops Say Citizen Oversight Won't Work Part 2<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html">Why Cops Say It Won't Work Part 1</a><br /><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-3.html">Why Cops Say It Won't Work Part 3</a><br /><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Why Cops Say It Won't Work Part 4</a><br /><br />#2-A Citizen Review Board With Teeth Violate Police Policy</span><br />Cops love their policy. It comforts them when challenged. It protects them in time of need. Or malfeasance. Or misconduct. Or dishonesty. But what the hell is it?<br /><br />It is a manifesto of sorts. Self-conceived, self-declared, self-applied, and self-insured. To put it another way, it is a personally created quasi-reality that puts cops in the position of “winner”, and citizen “loser”. Show me a police policy where the arrestee is right and I will show you a typo. What is mystifying about the declared policy is how it can say one thing, and be interpreted as the opposite.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What Are The Cop Policies, Really?</span><br />Police policy, as we have come to know it, has featured cop-heavy advantages and citizen-light rights, all wrapped in language that serves to prove the lofty intentions and goals of the department. They read very well, if you can go through hundreds of pages, and they say everything the citizen would like to believe their tax-funded police department is about. Problem is, cops can assert that every move they make is within those policies. They always claim they are right, even when policy says doing it is wrong. Then cops arrest citizens for the very crimes they commit themselves. It is a one-sided force majeure.<br /><br />But every cop, every Chief, every police union will swear that we citizens cannot understand policy, so cannot make any decisions about whether policy was followed during any cop activity. But magically, other cops can, and with unerring perfection. It’s all in the interpretation.<br /><br />Let’s use their p<span style="font-style: italic;">hilosophical foundation</span> as an example, from two cities:<br /><br />Lawrence, Kansas --- “The officer is committed to the welfare of the public through the rule of law and professional service, places high value on objectivity and integrity, and maintains the highest standard in providing service.”<br /><br />Madison, Wisconsin --- “Law Enforcement Code Of Ethics-- As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property, to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence and disorder, and to respect the Constitutional rights of all persons to liberty, equality, and justice.”<br /><br />Madison and many other cities adapted their ethics policy from the International Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, 1957.<br /><br />With these attributes stated, a phony sense of righteousness takes hold as soon as the cop is sworn in, right up there with mom and apple pie. This sort of statement always begins the policy manual, and functions as an extension and reinforcement of the Academy’s message that cops are always right, must always win, and with the added layer of belief that cops always stand for justice, and they have been trained to insure the delivery of it. So, for a cop to be convinced that he is serving mankind and protecting the weak is to believe being wrong is a physical and mental impossibility for him, and losing is for citizens.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now What?</span><br />With that psychology in place and a recruit’s ego at full speed, the rest comes automatically. If a cop stops an innocent motorist on a pretext, (a lie), it is all in the name of public safety, the very thing the code of ethics requires him to uphold. If evidence is gathered on a ruse, (lie), instead of a search warrant which leads to a legitimate arrest, the end justified the means and the Constitution can take a hike. Public safety takes precedence. If one cop gets into a possible legal bind, other cops must rescue him (alter evidence, falsify a report), because they may need the favor returned some day, and a unified front is the most effective crime fighting method. And if a cop mistakes a bottle of Mountain Dew for a weapon, and beats an 18-year-old viola player’s face in, it was all done in the name of “officer safety”, while they are keeping the citizens of the city free of crime. Jordan Miles of Pittsburgh would appreciate that. I am sure he feels “free” of crime with a beat-in face. But the cop is fulfilling the stated philosophical foundation of his profession, because his can’t be wrong. That leaves those non-cops out there, (citizens), to be wrong. It is all in the interpretation.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clarity Is Needed</span><br />This moves us to the problem with Police Policy. So, what is it again? It is not the law as written and passed by the state legislature, it is not the word of the people who instructed their PD to carry it out, and it is not part of any federal or state Constitution. It is just a manifesto, conceived by cops who want a getouttajailfree card. While the reading of the manual makes the PD sound like the distillation of every positive character trait ever possessed, the execution of the police policy confirms the <span style="font-style: italic;">real foundation</span> of cop training: “There are only two kinds of people, cops and assholes.”<br /><br />An effective CRB will dissolve this policy façade in short order. When the manual is understood and practiced in the literal terms with which it was written, all is well. When the seeds of perfection from the Academy and the oath cops take are dismantled and replaced, we will start to get somewhere.<br /><br />How? When the literal terms are violated, that cop is off-duty and his case is reviewed by the CRB, and discipline is handed out. It won’t take many episodes like that for the manual to be revised by the PD. With each revision, it will look more like what the citizens want their PD to be, and that is the only goal. Good for the people, good for honest cops whose hearts and minds are responding to an honest calling. All it takes to achieve this is a willing public. Form a Citizen Review Board, and we can put some perfume on this stinker.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/cops-say-citizen-oversight-wont-work.html">Why Cops Say It Won't Work Part 1</a><br /><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-3.html">Why Cops Say It Won't Work Part 3</a><br /><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Why Cops Say It Won't Work Part 4</a><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-12600409890929919452010-02-11T14:30:00.008-05:002010-03-05T13:38:58.990-05:00Cops Say Citizen Oversight Won't Work Part 1<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" 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After the Academy training is over, one of the first things a green cop learns at his first precinct is that gray cops will teach him all he “really” needs to know. There is absolutely no attempt at honesty in that tradition. When a cop speaks a true fact, it is just a coincidence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >With that said, the following will point out some of the reasons why cops think a Civilian Review Board will never work. Remember, a cop will lie about anything he can get his thoughts around. Lying is a tool of his trade, and here is the first on the list---</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >#1-A CRB Isn’t Needed Because Oversight Already Exists In The PD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Oh, Brother. This excuse is Sarah Palin stupid. What oversight entity is being sited?<span style=""> </span>Internal Affairs? A panel of stooges hand-picked by the department who don’t want the job and rarely show up to do it? The police Chief himself, because he is all the deciding power any city needs? Maybe a group of peers, other cops, who will objectively decide the guilt of one of their own.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Interestingly, entities like this don’t find a cop guilty of much of anything, or if guilty, there is no actual discipline. A cop is put on desk duty with pay, is asked to stay home with pay, or better yet, is given a 10 day suspension that is carried out at the rate of one day per month for 10 months. Cops are also big fans of a finding of “no wrongdoing”. That’s the one pulled out in just about every cop misconduct case that goes to court.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Such cases take years of time and tons of money on the part of the victim, (citizen),<span style=""> </span>while the cop involved spends the time doing the same job he did before, the one that got him into trouble in the first place, and continues to collect the paycheck the citizen signs. What a racket. But the PD’s oversight is sufficient, right?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Don’t Worry, Be Happy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Cops say it is much more than sufficient. They say cops watch each other constantly, and desire oversight more than citizens do to protect their reputation and that of their department. So, citizens can just trundle off to the kiddie table at Thanksgiving and try not to embarrass the adults. Yeah sure, and Jack Bauer really does save the world in 24 hours.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >Reality Strikes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >When a citizen is accused of drunk driving, <i style="">immediate steps are taken</i> to accuse, arrest, breathalyze, and collect evidence on that citizen, (a blood draw, a roadside body search, an impound and search of the car), all of which is “used against you in a court of law”, as Miranda says. Months of financial burden and time-consuming litigation follow, often resulting in the loss of employment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >When a cop is found drunk while driving, the cop is given a ride home with a fellow cop and a “friendly” tow truck company is called to take his car home, safely depositing it in the driveway. <i style="">Weeks or months later, </i>a quick review of the facts by IA or the Chief do not reveal any need for further investigation. No expense or court time follows, and the paycheck continues uninterrupted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >Citizen</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >: arrest, impound, breathalyzer, license suspension, lawyers, court dates, employment loss, one disruptive and costly punishment after another.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Cop</span>:</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" > free ride home.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Internal Affairs calls this sufficient oversight. If the decision-making is left to the Chief, he may water down the offense until he can hand out a punishment that has no real meaning. Either way, nothing happens.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Some PD Chiefs claim they can’t fire or even suspend a cop because the department is short-handed. Better criminals working for the citizen than nobody at all, right?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Cops who are cut breaks after a DUI----(links taken from the BaldArchives)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.lohud.com/article/20101200344">Joe Zepeda, Westchester NY</a><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jan/14/tape-reveals-officers-comments/">Christine Phinney, Charleston SC</a><span style=""><a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jan/14/tape-reveals-officers-comments/"> </a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100112/NEWS/1120307/-1/NEWS01">Jeffrey Peirce, Dennis MA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Meanwhile the jail nearby contains citizens who were over-charged and lied about by the same cops who’s crimes are overlooked and kept out of court. On occasion, a cop will be charged with a crime that has already been decided in favor of the cop, to make it look like the PD oversight is doing the job citizens want to see. They go through all the motions, and collect all their paychecks, <i style="font-weight: bold;">and it is all a sham</i>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Want another one? OK. It’s about advocating harm to someone, but not actually doing anything…..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/02/10/news/doc4b7224d001320577949655.txt">Citizen does it,</a> instant and deep doo-doo.....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/22516072/detail.html">Cop does same thing</a>, and well, it was just a joke, so chill out.....</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Thanks for the above two links, <a href="http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/">Packratt</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >A Citizen Oversight Panel will do something that cops cannot bring themselves to do. The panel with power to hire and fire will find cops responsible and accountable for their actions, and the constant lie factor cops use will cease its effectiveness. We will sculpt our departments, morally, physically, educationally, offensively, defensively, and with the character we want to see cops exhibit daily. We’ll get our money’s worth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >But a side-effect comes along with this in a “trickle up” effect, again good news for the citizen. Cops rely heavily on a security blanket they call their “policy”. What the hell is that, and how will a Citizen Review Board effect it? Part 2 coming.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-will-not-work-pt-2.html">Cops Say Oversight Won't Work Part 2</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-3.html">Cops Say Oversight Won't Work Part 3</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/cops-say-crb-wont-work-part-4.html">Cops Say Oversight Won't Work Part 4</a>
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mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Springfield Massachusetts must be breathing a sigh of disgust with today's anti-climactic announcement from the Mayor’s office that there is now <a href="http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsma/Springfield.announces.creation.2.1466992.html">a new civilian review board to oversee police antics</a> against the citizenry. This board can only recommend discipline to Police Commissioner William Fitchit, but take no action on their own.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Yes, they can subpoena people and evidence to assist in their recommendations, but what good is it if Commissioner Fitchet can ignore what the board concludes? We have all been here before and for far too long. As it has played out across the nation for years, the board makes a recommendation on behalf of the citizens to stop an errant cop from repeatedly biting the hand that feeds him, the Commissioner pats them on the head and thanks them dismissively, and everything stays the same. All the Jeffrey Ashers in Cop-land go out tomorrow to beat more Melvin Jones’s with the very flashlights We The People bought them. Mayor Sarno, unless you have a Chapter Two on this subject to reveal quickly, shame on you for letting us all down.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >It is called TEETH, Mayor. The citizen will hire and fire the police. How much clearer do you need it? Jeffrey Asher has been on the force for years through many occasions of misconduct and he is still there. That means the “hire and fire” guy in the PD was asleep at the switch. Get rid of Jeffrey Asher yourself if you can’t bring a citizen review board into the department to do it. Call Donald Trump to teach you the words, “You’re Fired”. Do something definitive. But please, stop stringing along the citizens of Springfield. <o:p></o:p></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-3344820765748398372010-02-02T15:03:00.006-05:002010-02-02T15:25:38.952-05:00Baltimore Police Are Blowing Commissioner Fitchet's Smoke At Us<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF2nJ2I13RWQnN4Wvf-Ny8iRCoWGywoWfpmoF0LPvoieXYfni_TcZsCpvKGX1TD6xY-zqHWie6D7CoQeqZQ9Wktl-hwOXUH9T0Jwx7FlytLUYRohX92yqXbhgZHqGp_EWjiDANm0Luhr6o/s1600-h/FredBealefeldBaltimore.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF2nJ2I13RWQnN4Wvf-Ny8iRCoWGywoWfpmoF0LPvoieXYfni_TcZsCpvKGX1TD6xY-zqHWie6D7CoQeqZQ9Wktl-hwOXUH9T0Jwx7FlytLUYRohX92yqXbhgZHqGp_EWjiDANm0Luhr6o/s200/FredBealefeldBaltimore.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433739649769144802" border="0" /></a><br />The Baltimore Police Department must have been in contact with Police <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/springfield-commissioner-fitchet-plays.html">Commissioner William Fitchet</a> of Springfield MA with this one.<br /><br />Commissioner Fitchet recently suggested that a citizen overview panel with the power to discipline cops is exactly what his city needs because he is too busy fighting crime to punish his cops himself. Springfield Mayor Sarno called for such a panel. Commissioner Fitchet then defended his cop Jeffrey Asher after <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/springfield-police-unions-twisted.html">the beating of Melvin Jones III</a>, who suffered severe injuries while other cops watched. Now, which one does Fitchet really mean? Is he for or against? Maybe both? Neither? Smoke?<br /><br />Whatever the logic, Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld III (above and left), is now trying the same tactic in his city. <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.ci.shoot30jan30,0,5511064,full.story">Read it here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public Lying, 101</span><br />How do you delude the public?<br /><br />First, promise them something you know they want. (The Baltimore Police Dept will release the names of officers involved in shootings.)<br /><br />Next, call what you are doing the result of an epiphany. (Bealefeld consulted with various members of the community, and saw the light.)<br /><br />Then, explain why you didn’t do this long ago. (“Our concern throughout this entire time has been the personal safety considerations of officers and their families, but we have an obligation as a public safety agency to balance transparency and we feel 48 hours would give us ample time to put things in place for the officer while being transparent enough for the public”.)<br /><br />Smell the smoke? Is Bealefeld doing the Fitchet Shuffle in Baltimore? Sounds like it. First say yes, and then say no. The Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department plans to give his cops a 48 hour window before identifying them to put safeguards in place after one or more cops shoots somebody. Interestingly, absolutely no description of what the safeguards are or why they are needed is ever explained. Only that they would be put in place in 48 hours. After that, the names would be released. It is getting smokier in here.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Reality Of The Promise</span><br />Interestingly, this moment of clarity on Commissioner Bealefeld’s part comes just when Baltimore’s Mayor Sheila Dixon is on the way out and newly-elected Stephanie C Rawlings-Blake is coming in. Is the Commissioner trying to pull a fast one on the new kid in town? What a guy. There is no shortage of smoke now.<br /><br />Stephanie C Rawlings-Blake and her aides revealed “frustration” about not knowing of the policy change before. Maybe that is because the decision has nothing to do with solving citizen complaints against cops in Baltimore and more to do with keeping the pot stirred and the smoke blowing.<br /><br />Cops say they have citizen support for continued secretion of police names, but none of those in agreement with the current, “no name” policy have the ability to explain the protections the Commissioner would put in place in that 48 hour window, or why we are all better off leaving individual cop identity a secret. Does anybody know what this protection would be? Something like the Witness Protection Program? Maybe the cop should hide in a cheap motel on the outskirts of town until the heat is off? Possibly, they could all wear ski masks. Suspicion is, there’s no action to put in place during that 48 hours except for cops to formulate and agree upon the lie they will trot out to the news and the citizens. Just more smoke.<br /><br />Ego is what cops breathe every day. Arrogance is what cops eat for dinner, and they <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> what they<span style="font-style: italic;"> eat</span>. The whole idea of withholding the name of a cop for any reason is an outgrowth of arrogance, especially when the citizen makes the payments on that cop’s whole existence.<br /><br />By bringing this issue to the table, Commissioner Bealefeld is pulling two, worn-out liar’s tricks on us all: the <span style="font-style: italic;">distraction</span> and the <span style="font-style: italic;">delay</span>. Ask any magician or sleight-of-hand performer as to their effectiveness. And to make it worse, he is doing it to the new Mayor on her first week on the job. He has no intention of changing anything, if his comments are any indication.<br /><br />Mayor, get some movement on a citizen Review Board, with the power to hire and fire, in gear and working. While you are at it, get on the Commissioner’s back today, and make the citizen’s right to know the names of who is shooting them a law, possibly through the use of a citizen oversight panel.<br /><br />And Baltimore Police Commissioner Bealefeld, shame on you. 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<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Police Commissioner William Fitchet, (over there, to the left,) is <a href="http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/springfield_police_commissione_6.html">playing both sides</a>. Trying to please everybody all the time, it seems. Didn’t Abe Lincoln disprove that theory? Anyway, he defends the cop who beat <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/springfield-police-unions-twisted.html">Melvin Jones’ head </a>into an inhuman shape during a traffic stop, but he says he wants citizens to handle discipline with an oversight board because he would rather spend his time fighting crime and running the department. He finds discipline of cops to be “tedious”.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Fitchet admits he tried to prevent the public from knowing any details of the Melvin Jones beating, but was forced to come forward after the citizen video surfaced. He said he acted on advice from department lawyers when he held back with the facts. With that in mind, how seriously can we take his words when he claims he wants citizen-powered police discipline?
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >This is typical cop smoke and mirrors at best. We all know cops can’t take orders, and they thrive on lies to accomplish what they need. They pride themselves in their cleverness when devising a ruse. Lying quickly becomes habitual for them. If view of these facts, Commissioner Fitchet’s words sound suspicious. Even worse, the Commissioner expressed concern about public confidence being shaken because of the Jones cover-up.
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Please Commissioner, Jeffrey Asher has been abusing citizens for years, and he is just one cop on the force. Has nothing prior given you a sense that the public was less than happy with you? Your department is regularly bombarded with complaints about Asher and others, and <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html">protests abound</a>. And now, suddenly, you want citizens to be in charge of cop discipline? Sounds good if you mean it, but from here, it just sounds suspicious.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Prove me wrong Commissioner. Get behind Mayor Sarno right away and push the citizen oversight panel, <i style="">with teeth</i>, into reality. Don't hold out much hope for Jeffrey Asher when the panel is complete, but Jeffrey can’t responsibly operate a flashlight, as Melvin Jones’ head proves, let alone a gun, TASER, car, etc. We are all better off without him. How about this? Stop defending Jeffrey Asher and fire him now, before a discipline panel has to do it. Consider it an act of good faith on your part.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-40581102379870977882010-01-30T13:32:00.005-05:002010-01-30T13:45:04.219-05:00Police Departments Own Their Citizens. They Are The Law, Right?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5STQJy9YyhPrKjYpesLXzzMvh1EzAj2ACsbZmcZLk5YkF-PYuaX7_WV-txjNg-v9Z6y-PYjg2FyhPeY-CetZQ3WL1yAnCkRc9-2iVc7c-tWo60HRsN6eTfLnC7ClIuHssFcHaRqTBT36l/s1600-h/PoliceBand.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5STQJy9YyhPrKjYpesLXzzMvh1EzAj2ACsbZmcZLk5YkF-PYuaX7_WV-txjNg-v9Z6y-PYjg2FyhPeY-CetZQ3WL1yAnCkRc9-2iVc7c-tWo60HRsN6eTfLnC7ClIuHssFcHaRqTBT36l/s200/PoliceBand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432602891546146578" border="0" /></a><br />Well, I hope not, and I hope you agree with me.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">I will turn your face to alabaster,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">When you find your servant is your master</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">--Sting, Wrapped Around Your Finger, 1983 (The Police)</span><br /><br />Great song, great band, but it is just a song to the citizens, despite the ironic name of the group. Not so to a cop. Cops live in stark fear of this lyric becoming a reality for them. A cop is riddled with the haunting thoughts of how they violate citizens’ rights with every workday. They know there will be a day when their misguided belief of who and what they are become intolerable to citizens, who finally reclaim their rightful ownership of police departments. We know that cops joined the force for all the wrong reasons, and as Sting suggests in his lyrics, that guilt will turn into reality.<br /><br />The form in which this epiphany must take is the Citizen Review Board. Cops are really<span style="font-style: italic;"> common citizens</span> who have been given a particular job, and no more, but have tried to parlay that job into something it never included: automatic superiority. And they parlay it with the only tool they have to work with, ego.<br /><br />Nobody has corrected their mistakes, at least yet, and the citizens are suffering for it. <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/springfield-police-unions-twisted.html">Melvin Jones III, </a> of Springfield Massachusetts, <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/nypd-anal-assault-trial-underway.html">Michael Mineo</a>, of Brooklyn NY, <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/police-mentality-trickles-down-into-our.html">Daija M</a> of the Bronx, NYC, are all good and recent examples of the way an out-of-control ego hurts us all. Worse, these three <span style="font-style: italic;">common citizens</span> prove that you could be next.<br /><br />Why has the servant been working as our master for so long? Society’s absentee-management style is why, and it has now come back to bite us all. Cops do what they want, fueled by ego and misdirection, and the only reason a citizen does nothing is because they are not yet a victim. Time will deliver that reality to their doorstep eventually, unless society makes the titles of servant and master a bit more clear to their police departments.<br /><br />So what do we do? If you really like the way servant cops own you, do nothing. Cops will take it from there and in the long run, make every move, every thought you have, into a “violation”. You will be ticketed, jailed, fined, or put on a “list” forever. But if changing that outcome sounds better, we MUST take control back with a Citizen Review Board. Call the mayor, and the City Council. Make it clear to all incoming politicians that an oversight panel is a requirement to get or keep the jobs they seek.<br /><br />Call friends and neighbors, and set up an email based network between them. Bookmark websites of all local politicians and make it clear to them who you are and what you expect for your tax money. Above all else, remember that the citizen invented the police department, we pay for it and it belongs to us first. When we get that past the ego problems and clean up the police forces we have now, we can start to work on what the police academy teaches their recruits, and let attrition take its course. It is a big, long term job, but it only gets worse without control.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-24474673251096862742010-01-28T13:31:00.011-05:002010-01-28T14:23:45.761-05:00Mayor Sarno Steps Toward Meaningful Citizen Control Of Springfield Police<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlAvEJaYL-kF-r-EhWT3_bcqNVMpFFVMP4gdwWPN9042Ig0Ml1lvGrW-nebded0FDvs9_cVLajlx0SyFnxTR1pEhQn-jGCcDwuKUScXbK6L4DKmW99ms0daGFCI2-ugRoaoiY19Go-vvc/s1600-h/MayorSarno.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 109px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlAvEJaYL-kF-r-EhWT3_bcqNVMpFFVMP4gdwWPN9042Ig0Ml1lvGrW-nebded0FDvs9_cVLajlx0SyFnxTR1pEhQn-jGCcDwuKUScXbK6L4DKmW99ms0daGFCI2-ugRoaoiY19Go-vvc/s200/MayorSarno.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431861004377125618" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.masslive.com/metrowest/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1264580217112620.xml&coll=1">Springfield Massachusetts CRB Update</a>
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<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p>Mayor Domenic Sarno, pictured at left, (no, not the blurry guy with the hat), may just be making progress here. So far, he is following up on his promise to get a new police oversight board up and running in the coming weeks.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p>His response is due to an outcry of citizen frustration. A Springfield, Massachusetts cop, known to <a href="http://bigbaldwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/springfield-police-unions-twisted.html">Melvin Jones III</a> and many other victims as Jeffrey Asher, is still on the payroll, and still thinks he is not guilty of anything, like bashing in Mr Jones' skull, partially disabling one eye and providing a long-lasting headache due to the broken bones in adjacent areas to said eye.
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<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p>Keep it up Mayor Sarno, and make it permanent! The citizens and all future Melvin Jones's will thank you. Better yet Mayor, make a national statement by showing other cities and towns exactly how it is done. Make your plan a role model for others to follow. While cities and towns are all different in their needs, all cops are alike in their problems. Your work could become textbook information in police academies from coast to coast. Let's get that ball rolling.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p>Folks, call the Mayor, email the Mayor, fax the Mayor, 413-787-6000, (City Hall), as well as the Springfield Massachusetts Police Department 413-787-6322, spd@springfieldpolice.net and encourage the efforts of Mayor Sarno. This issue is the People's Business, if there ever was such a thing. It is what will happen next, to you or a family member, and what you need to be a part of to control. Make the contact with Mayor Sarno as well as the Springfield police union, and put on the pressure. Melvin Jones felt the pressure on his skull. Let's exert some of our own with our voices.
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{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/michael-mineo-anal-assaul_n_432053.html">The Story</a>
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >That’s right, Michael Mineo was anally raped in a subway station by a cop, specifically Richard Kern, seen here with his lawyer. Mineo’s boxer shorts had a hole ripped in the back, the nightstick has his anal DNA on it, and he was admitted to the hospital with anal injuries, but cop Kern has pleaded not guilty. OK, let’s just sit back and watch this load from lawyer and cop alike spill into the record books. I can’t wait.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style=";font-family:";" >Maybe probing Mineo with a nightstick was within police policy. Maybe Mineo requested it. Maybe he is just trying to shake down the citizens of NY for multiple millions of dollars. Or, there might be truth to Kern’s statement that he was checking for drugs. In any case, it will be another exercise in absurdity from the police department and their lawyers, I am sure.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43ke7q5qcIDcY4LkAna6EvdO4g6kaT81Ft96p0oAPHRIxT7Kp9DmZyeoFZ-E23O9n6EZIof5KySzlkGR3s3t8X-cqv3ZH8bIbhibx1ANG1uxI6U9NkUnFRFI7wi5h2K1SoKL_SdzgbySM/s1600-h/MichaelMineo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43ke7q5qcIDcY4LkAna6EvdO4g6kaT81Ft96p0oAPHRIxT7Kp9DmZyeoFZ-E23O9n6EZIof5KySzlkGR3s3t8X-cqv3ZH8bIbhibx1ANG1uxI6U9NkUnFRFI7wi5h2K1SoKL_SdzgbySM/s200/MichaelMineo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431145153663378338" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750108803587703094.post-43866086881989861032010-01-25T16:05:00.003-05:002010-01-25T16:15:59.188-05:00Springfield Citizens Are Sick Of Jeffrey Asher<object width="320" height="264"><span style="font-size:100%;">How much does it take before we all learn that the wrong personality type is attracted to the job of police department employee? Springfield Massachusetts is getting there. Mayor Sarno, step in and settle this today.</span><param name="movie" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" value="http://www.cbs3springfield.com/v/?i=82294012"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.cbs3springfield.com/v/?i=82294012" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="264"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0