Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Funeral Arrangements For APD Officer Gail Thomas
Viewing will be held on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at Murray Brothers Funeral Home located at 1199 Utoy Springs Road S. W., Atlanta, GA 30331 (404) 349-3000. The public viewing will be from 10:00 a. m. to 5 p. m. The family will receive visitors from 5 p.m. to 6 p. m.
The funeral service will be held on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at Elizabeth Baptist Church located at 4245 Cascade Road S. W. Atlanta, GA 30331 (404) 691-3146. Pastor Craig Oliver officiating. The service will be held at 11am on Monday, January 30th.
The burial will take place immediately after the funeral service. The burial will be held at The Mount Harmony Cemetery located at 581 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Mableton, GA 30126.
****For those jurisdictions wanting to participate in the escort; Police Officers will meet near Turner Field. The assembly will line up on Pollard Blvd. between Hank Aaron Dr. & Ralph**** David Abernathy Blvd.
Mourning Band Protocol
The funeral service will be held on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at Elizabeth Baptist Church located at 4245 Cascade Road S. W. Atlanta, GA 30331 (404) 691-3146. Pastor Craig Oliver officiating. The service will be held at 11am on Monday, January 30th.
The burial will take place immediately after the funeral service. The burial will be held at The Mount Harmony Cemetery located at 581 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Mableton, GA 30126.
****For those jurisdictions wanting to participate in the escort; Police Officers will meet near Turner Field. The assembly will line up on Pollard Blvd. between Hank Aaron Dr. & Ralph**** David Abernathy Blvd.
Mourning Band Protocol
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Another Bolton Hire Arrested
At first we weren't going to post anything about this arrest because it really embarrasses the department. But after reading the news article and watching the video, we just couldn't resist.
You just can't make this stuff up!
Good God!
You just can't make this stuff up!
Police impound the police car of Terrell Bolton hire, who is officer of the month, who is arrested after his girlfriend Shawte (pronounced Shorty at Emory U.), who happens to have a mug shot on file, pimps out her cop boyfriend, who just happens to have evidence in his uniform shirt pocket when arrested.Terrell Bolton, the gift that keeps on giving.
Good God!
Burrell Ellis Is Asking For 6.5 Percinct Increase In His Budget
Even though he is predicting at a 5 percent drop in tax revenue, the elitist Burrell Ellis is asking for a 6.5 percent increase in his budget and an increase of 5.8 percent for the commissioners.
This after a year of insurance premiums, for us and our retirees, furlough days and lost paid holidays for public safety.
We came only assume Burrell and the commissioners think they can buy us off with their proposed "payday loans".
It seems the only time they use the work "cut" is with the pay and benefits for the police, and only time they can say "increase" is when it comes to their own selfish pay and benefits.
On your next watch, be sure to write those tickets boys and girls. It's really paying off. To the tune of a 6.5 percent increase for Burrell and 5 percent for the corrupt commissioners.
Click here to read more.
This after a year of insurance premiums, for us and our retirees, furlough days and lost paid holidays for public safety.
We came only assume Burrell and the commissioners think they can buy us off with their proposed "payday loans".
It seems the only time they use the work "cut" is with the pay and benefits for the police, and only time they can say "increase" is when it comes to their own selfish pay and benefits.
On your next watch, be sure to write those tickets boys and girls. It's really paying off. To the tune of a 6.5 percent increase for Burrell and 5 percent for the corrupt commissioners.
Click here to read more.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
I Owe My Soul To The Company Store.......
Are they really serious? Our commissioners are so inept running a budget, they now want to resort to "payday loans." This has to be in the top 5 most stupid ideas to come out of the Maloof Building.
The county will now loan you the money to make that special purchase of appliances and such, automatically deduct it from your pay check, and will make 10% of your purchase for their trouble. Nothing but laughable.
Be sure to get the part where if you are dissatisfied with your purchase, the county will take it back from you within the first 12 months. Seriously? What will they do with the returns? Stack them up in the surplus yard to be sold to the highest bidder?
This has to be a joke, right?
Click here for your reading pleasure.
The county will now loan you the money to make that special purchase of appliances and such, automatically deduct it from your pay check, and will make 10% of your purchase for their trouble. Nothing but laughable.
Be sure to get the part where if you are dissatisfied with your purchase, the county will take it back from you within the first 12 months. Seriously? What will they do with the returns? Stack them up in the surplus yard to be sold to the highest bidder?
This has to be a joke, right?
Click here for your reading pleasure.
Friday, January 20, 2012
E911 Operators Say They Feel Underpaid, Under-Appreciated
Addressing the issue of pay raises for 911 operators, Wiz Miller's socialist ideology is front and center.
Hey Wiz, why don't you reduce your salary on par with the a topped out communications operator? You elitist hypocrite!
Click here to read more
"There’s funding there,” Miller said. “However, they are employees of DeKalb County just like every other employee. We try our best, even in these hard economic times to adequately and fairly compensate our employees".What a crock of shit. If there's parity in the county, then why is Burrell Ellis and all his minions making exorbitant amounts of money and car allowances?
Hey Wiz, why don't you reduce your salary on par with the a topped out communications operator? You elitist hypocrite!
Click here to read more
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A Call To Arms, Burrell Ellis Is Gunning For Our Pension Fund
To our fellow officers,
This is probably the most serious attack on our benefits in the history of Dekalb County. The commission, particularly Burrell Ellis, is gunning for our pension in an attempt to destroy it by using our pension as a cash bonanza.
This goes beyond furlough days, unpaid holidays and being forced to work for no pay. This is our very livelihood once we retire. This is the livelihood of all current retirees. Burrell Ellis is posed to make a direct attack on our pension, thus a direct attack on us, public safety employees and the general public.
Burrell Ellis could care less about the safety of the DeKalb County citizenry. He has a problem grasping the concept that public safety takes loyal, dedicated and commented employees. Ellis fails to understand, or simply doesn't care, that people who are welling to dedicate 30 years of their lives, and sometimes their very life itself to the citizens of DeKalb County, should to be rewarded.
We all knew coming into this profession we would not get rich. We are public servants by choice. The reduction of pay, the increase in health insurance premiums and furlough days make our lives harder. But we do our job as a calling, we are centurions. But we are not fools.
It is our hope, at the end of our career, there will be a decent pension waiting for us and our family for the sacrifices we make. Now, Burrell Ellis wants to take that all away. He will never come out and say it, but these latest actions show his covert attempts to take our pension away from us. Our pension, not his.
We have a poor track record of being united. Burrell Ellis and the commissioners count on us to turn a blind eye to the intricacies of our pension. We simply cannot afford not to become involved and united. We must become more active.
All we have now as far as being organized is the Frateranal Order of Police, Lodge 10. It is time the F.O.P. steps up to the plate on this. Granted, membership is low, and the executive board including president Jeff Wiggs don't get too excited carrying the burden for all the non-members.
Our pension is so important, it's time for all of us to join the F.O.P. Once we are members, we can make demands to take the fight to Burrell Ellis and the commissioners. If the current F.O.P. execute board and president refuses to take on this battle, then with enough members, we put in place the people who will.
This is a defining moment for all of us and the F.O.P. We call on Jeff Wiggs to address this issue. We offer the blog as a platform to get the message out.
This is probably the most serious attack on our benefits in the history of Dekalb County. The commission, particularly Burrell Ellis, is gunning for our pension in an attempt to destroy it by using our pension as a cash bonanza.
This goes beyond furlough days, unpaid holidays and being forced to work for no pay. This is our very livelihood once we retire. This is the livelihood of all current retirees. Burrell Ellis is posed to make a direct attack on our pension, thus a direct attack on us, public safety employees and the general public.
Burrell Ellis could care less about the safety of the DeKalb County citizenry. He has a problem grasping the concept that public safety takes loyal, dedicated and commented employees. Ellis fails to understand, or simply doesn't care, that people who are welling to dedicate 30 years of their lives, and sometimes their very life itself to the citizens of DeKalb County, should to be rewarded.
We all knew coming into this profession we would not get rich. We are public servants by choice. The reduction of pay, the increase in health insurance premiums and furlough days make our lives harder. But we do our job as a calling, we are centurions. But we are not fools.
It is our hope, at the end of our career, there will be a decent pension waiting for us and our family for the sacrifices we make. Now, Burrell Ellis wants to take that all away. He will never come out and say it, but these latest actions show his covert attempts to take our pension away from us. Our pension, not his.
We have a poor track record of being united. Burrell Ellis and the commissioners count on us to turn a blind eye to the intricacies of our pension. We simply cannot afford not to become involved and united. We must become more active.
All we have now as far as being organized is the Frateranal Order of Police, Lodge 10. It is time the F.O.P. steps up to the plate on this. Granted, membership is low, and the executive board including president Jeff Wiggs don't get too excited carrying the burden for all the non-members.
Our pension is so important, it's time for all of us to join the F.O.P. Once we are members, we can make demands to take the fight to Burrell Ellis and the commissioners. If the current F.O.P. execute board and president refuses to take on this battle, then with enough members, we put in place the people who will.
This is a defining moment for all of us and the F.O.P. We call on Jeff Wiggs to address this issue. We offer the blog as a platform to get the message out.
"I talked with Robbie Robertson today on various issues, let me give you the bad news first.Pension funding is down to the mid-sixties from the mid seventies of last year due to the financial market.
The pension board expects a new and vastly degraded pension plan for the new employees to be rolled out shortly by the commissioners.The employees have got to admit that the pre-2005 pension plan is unsustainable under current market conditions.
The pension board is extremely concerned that the commissioners will take action against the pre-2005 pension plan for the active employees. Robbie stressed that the active employees will have to take active measures against the attempt by the commissioners to deprive them of their legally defined pension benefits.
On the positive side.
The pension board is satisfied with pension board election results and working to train the new members. It will take approximately two years to bring the new members up to speed.
My opinionated opinion on the pension board:
This is not the same pension board as seen over the last decade. Many of the members still remain but they are not lying down and taking the same shit that they did previously under the Jones administration. The latest minutes reveal that there was sustained and effective resistance against the attempt to subvert the pension board with the addition of Gottlieb and Ransom as voting members.
Make no mistake, Gottlieb and Ransom do not work for DeKalb retirees and employees. They work for the commissioners and CEO and will screw DeKalb employees at the slightest whim of the DeKalb CEO and commissioners.
The DeKalb pension board stood tough against Ransom and Gottlieb, the CEO and commissioners. DeKalb employees will have to follow through in the next year with active support as the CEO and Commissioners attempt to legally remove employee pension benefits. The pension board can not do this alone. They need the active employees help and support on this issues.
The pension board is doing their best to retain your pension benefits. The BOC is intent upon destroying them.
You make the decision as to who to support in this fight.
Best of luck, guys and gals!"
KenC
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Benita Ransom, Burrell Ellis' Lap Dog and Human Resource Director, Fights For a Power Grab On The Pension Board
Be afraid, be very afraid.
During the September 2011 pension meeting, Benita Ransom questioned why she and finance director Joel Gottlieb are not allowed to vote on pension matters.
This is the same woman, an outsider from the city of Atlanta, who instituted our new wonderful holiday pay plan. You know, the one where we are paid 32 hours for 40 hours work.
Joel Gottlieb is the same person who is responsible for the illegal use of 40 million dollars illegally taken from the green space program to be used in the general budget to cover bills.
On a side note, the question was asked, when was the last time our retirees received a cost of living raise? Some say 2005, some say 2007. For any of the members not knowing the answer to this question is beyond ridiculous.
Click here for reading pleasure.
During the September 2011 pension meeting, Benita Ransom questioned why she and finance director Joel Gottlieb are not allowed to vote on pension matters.
This is the same woman, an outsider from the city of Atlanta, who instituted our new wonderful holiday pay plan. You know, the one where we are paid 32 hours for 40 hours work.
Joel Gottlieb is the same person who is responsible for the illegal use of 40 million dollars illegally taken from the green space program to be used in the general budget to cover bills.
On a side note, the question was asked, when was the last time our retirees received a cost of living raise? Some say 2005, some say 2007. For any of the members not knowing the answer to this question is beyond ridiculous.
Click here for reading pleasure.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Wife of Sergenat D.A. Frazier Dies
Sergeant David Fraser has lost his wife Kathy after an extended illness. Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced once they are finalized. Please remember David, his twelve year old daughter Hannah, and their family in your time of prayer.
Burrell Ellis Leaving A Legacy of Corruption
On the heels of allegations of corruption and pay offs within the Water Shed Department, Ellis announces Dekalb County is in the business of creating jobs through the county's 1.35 billion dollar "stimulus package", the revamping of the county's sewer system.
Ellis promises economic prosperity and clams it will create 1300 jobs, costing the tax payers just over 1 million dollars per job. Prosperity for who? The likes of Dick Stogner?
Time and time again throughout this country, people have been convicted for corruption in almost every large sewer system revamp. The closest being the City of Atlanta.
Ellis promised the jobs will be directed to DeKalb residents and small, minority-owned contractors, so you white males need not apply.
We commend District Attorney Robert James for taking on the allegations of corruption. But he really should turn this over to the Feds because this is way over his head.
Ellis promises economic prosperity and clams it will create 1300 jobs, costing the tax payers just over 1 million dollars per job. Prosperity for who? The likes of Dick Stogner?
Time and time again throughout this country, people have been convicted for corruption in almost every large sewer system revamp. The closest being the City of Atlanta.
Ellis promised the jobs will be directed to DeKalb residents and small, minority-owned contractors, so you white males need not apply.
We commend District Attorney Robert James for taking on the allegations of corruption. But he really should turn this over to the Feds because this is way over his head.
Typical Third World Actions
And we rely on these people to make educated decisions about the county's future.
Monday, January 9, 2012
County Arrogance Cost Taxpayers Money
Congratulations to fire Captain Sell Caldwell for not laying down and let this county continue to get away with doing employees wrong. We hope he can get punitive damages out of this arrogant hierarchy.
"The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that a former DeKalb County fire captain should be reinstated to his job.AJC story
Sell Caldwell III was fired after a February 2010 fire in Dunwoody left 74-year-old Ann Bartlett dead.
In the Supreme Court ruling released Monday, justices said Caldwell was fired after authorities said he failed to locate the dispatch address and failed to take command of the scene.
Caldwell appealed to authorities in DeKalb County, where a hearing officer determined the fire department made factual errors in firing Caldwell.
A DeKalb County Superior Court Judge then ordered the county to give Caldwell his old job back. The Supreme Court said in its ruling Monday that Caldwell should be reinstated".
Governor Nathan Deal Is Playing Politics With Georgia Law Enforcement
Governor Deal has placed one of his political cronies, former state representative Tim Bearden to run P.O.S.T.
How does this affect you? Think Terrell Bolton, but on a state level. Not only is Tim Bearden not qualified, his character is questionable at best.
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How does this affect you? Think Terrell Bolton, but on a state level. Not only is Tim Bearden not qualified, his character is questionable at best.
Click here to read more.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
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