Mr. Ellis has a great task at hand no doubt. Of course he would say his first priority is the reduction in crime. The crime in DeKalb County is off the charts. Surrounding counties and cities are reducing violate crimes, in particular murder, However, DeKalb County’s murder rate is so disproportionate, it has become a study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Does Mr. Ellis realize there are only 3 Vice and 5 Narcotics detectives trying to control the prostitution and drug flow in this county of nearly 700,000 residents, plus the transients? Yes, that’s 8 detectives for 7 hundred thousand residents! Let’s see, the FBI says the average should be 2.4 officers per 1000. For our Vice/Narcotics Units, that’s 8 per 100,000. Even Las Vegas gives better odds than that.
These hard working individuals have sacrificed their time, family and even lives (Terry Toles, Dennis Stepnowski) fighting these hideous crimes. Over the years our Narcotics Unit has seized millions and millions of drug money to assist with combating crime.
Bolton arrives on the scene with a water hose in his hip pocket and siphons millions of dollars of these funds for his ill-conceived “Mobile Precincts”, referred to by the rank and file as the “Magic Buses”. To date, neither Magic Bus as been instrumental a drug seizure.
About the only thing these buses have seized are ANTS, at least according to Assistant Chief (Olympic Games Tent City) Anderson.
So Mr. Ellis, this is just one of many, many problems. Rumor at the gas pumps is, just this week, at least one officer left for the DeKalb County School police, starting pay of $52,000. dollars. Another has left for Sandy Springs Police and additional 5 have applied for Sandy Springs Police.
Good luck to you Mr. Ellis, your first step in reducing crime would be to fire Terrell Bolton. Every since TeBo was hired by Vernon to sit in his lap like a good dog and be stroked, crime has been on the raise and morale is plummeting.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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So where do you start? That is an excellent question and not easily answered. First hopefully everyone understands that homicide rates and police departments have little to do with one another. Numerous studies have been conducted and all say police tactics have little to no effect on the crime of homicide. Unfortunelty DeKalb County is going through a very difficult time at the moment. A large percentage of our citizens are unemployed, uneducated, and suffering from generations of despair and neglect. All of these social and economic problems have more of an impact on crime than the police department. The majority of the precincts show an increase in calls for service, citations, and arrests. Again this reiterates that simply writing more tickets and putting more people in jail will not solve your crime problem. Again alot of people need to start reading because numerous studies have been conducted in this area.
To put it bluntly the police department is in shambles. The only thing holding it together is the patrol officers, detectives and sergeants that show up everyday. The lieutenants are too busy generating piles of useless and redundant paperwork/reports to please someone in the command staff who most likey has already recieved the information from another source. Examples include the regurgitation of crime analysis numbers. One certain precinct, lets call it Tucker, has become so ridiculous if you asked for transfers I'm guessing that most supervisors would leave. Also, lets not forget that threats and attempts of intimidation department wide have become the preferred leadership style. Another fine example is the redundant use of so called significant activity reports. Let me get this straight, uniform responds, writes report, and supervisors are verbally notified and usually on scene. Then you go back to precinct and fill out significant report and forward to chief of police. Detectives respond, verbally notify supervisors, put on daily report and fill out significant report and forward to chief of police. Huh?? Again more duplication of needless paperwork. Can't speak about the so called "paperless" report writing system. I'm convinced the ozone depletion has to do with the loss of trees our paperless system has required.
Mr Ellis your work is indeed cut out for you. Hopefully you'll hire a new chief who is qualified for the position. The last 8 years have not been kind to this department. They are coming into a department that is on the brink of a total shutdown and mutiny. Our officer's morale is at an all time low. Our critical equipment (guns, vests, radio system, car laptops, tasers) are in need of upgrade or replacement, training facilities should be condemned and replaced, your command staff is considered by most to be grossly incompetent and/or appointed cronies. Funny how salary wasn't mentioned.
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