So there you have it folks, the final kick in the teeth by this seating BOC. Lee May, Connie Stokes and Larry Johnson have proven they are friendly toward public safety. Kathie Gannon and Burrell Ellis have proven they are anti-public safety. Why would Elaine Boyer miss such an important meeting? Where was she? Jeff Nader demonstrated when times get tuff, he just don’t have what it takes to get the job done. Was he wearing a skirt today?
Knowing the department is facing an anti-police, anti-public safety BOC, did Bolton ask to use seized drug money to arm the officers with Tasers and dash board cameras? No!
The total cost for the Tasers and dashboard cameras is about $ 1,768,223.00. How much did the campers cost Terrell, $2,500,000.00? How many officers’ lives have been saved by one of those campers? How many officer involved shootings has those buses prevented?
The true obstructionist is Terrell Bolton! Again he has proven the problems with the department are not just the money alone. He refuses to make our job safer or better in any form or fashion.
It is all about the Kingdom he is building on the 4th floor. It is all about the have and have nots. After this meeting he will get in his Range Rover with his driver, spiritual guru, and other Klingons and probably review brochures of campers he wants to buy.
Again the question is asked: What has he done for you lately?
We continue down the pot hole filled road of obscurity, the road to disaster!
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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If Bolton really wanted to get Raises, Tasers and Cameras, he'd tell Uniform Division to shift their focus from writing tickets to cultivating community support via faster response times, more arrests and a lot more warnings.
Two birds with one stone...good will with the community via warnings vs. tickets and less money for the Board's pet projects they use to buy votes.
Just because Larry Johnson is cozy with Terrell Bolton and Vernon Jones does not mean he is "friendly toward public safety" as you state. And just because Jeff Rader does not go along with every single thing that Terrell Bolton demands does not mean that he is anti-police. Did it ever occur to you that perhaps some people (besides 95% of the police department) now realize that Terrell Bolton is woefully incompetent? Maybe some of the commissioners now regret giving Terrell Bolton the approval to waste over a million dollars on those ridiculous campers.
I believe that all of the commissioners are probably pro-police for the most part. As you correctly stated, “Terrell Bolton is the real obstructionist.” He is basically a con artist who is very divisive as he was in Dallas. He now has police officers arguing over which commissioner is on our side. I refuse to be distracted by this tactic and I firmly believe that we must stick together. He smiles in your face and incorrectly assumes that we are all so ignorant as to buy the truck load of bull-shit he is selling. It is far too expensive and it smells too bad!
You asked the question, “What has Terrell Bolton done for you lately?” Brother, not only has he not done anything for me lately, but the truth is this. He has NEVER done anything for me or this police department! The primary problem with this police department is not the lack of a pay raise!!!!!!!!!!
I hear the DeKalb County Police Alliance has hired a new executive director. We should ask him/her to raise the money to buy tasers and dash cams.
It shouldn't be a big deal for DCPA to do that, given little Upland (pop: 68,000) California's Police Foundation is able to nicely equip their officers. Go to http://www.uplandpolicefoundation.com and click on "Equipment" for a list of the things they've provided.
After all -- how difficult could it be to raise 1.7 million bucks in a county of over 700,000 and home of regional headquarters for several international businesses?
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