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On December 18, 2007, Terrell Bolton went before the B.O.C. and told them of a grand task force entitled “High Crime Task Force”. He asked for the temporary release of 50 vehicles from the Police Replacement Pool to be issued to this task force.
On January 22, 2008, just 36 days later, Bolton convinced the B.O.C. the task force had done such a wonderful job, the 50 vehicles needed to be permanently assign to the “High Crime Task Force”. This left the uniform patrol division 50 cars short.
- What is the “High Crime Task Force”?
- Who heads it up?
- Where do they work out of?
- Where do they work?
- In fact, no such “High Crime Task Force" exist or has ever existed.
The truth is, Bolton wanted the 50 cars to issue as take home cars for his ill-conceived ICP program. This program is not much more than community meeting hosts. They are not tasked with answering 911 calls. They do not work after midnight, and they have most weekends and holidays off. If Bolton had asked for take home cars for this program, he would have been told no.
We've searched the DeKalb County Police web page, and we can't find a High Crime Task Force anywhere. But we do find I.C.P. under the command of civilian "Chief-ette Keisha "Margarita" Williams. She's easy to find, shes the only one without a name identifying who she is. Funny, we always thought the Chief of Staff was a sworn officer.
At the next B.O.C. meeting, the commissioners need to hold Bolton accountable. The B.O.C. needs to inquire why they were deceived into believing a High Crime Task Force existed. Documentation should be presented showing the task force in its relation within the command structure. Who is its commander? What are their statistics?
Of course these answers can not be answered truthfully, because the task never has existed. Reason number, hell, we’ve lost count, why Bolton should be terminated now!
The madness continues.
3 comments:
Was that the Back on the Block, or BOB as it was refered to. Until all the overtime ran out and then the cars were given over to ICP.
More Vernon Jones shadines, this time with parks:
Sent: Mon 12/15/2008 8:42 PM
This is very late notice. I just found out that in a bizarre last ditch effort of some power play by Vernon and his director of Parks they are trying to revoke the contract that the County has with Celia and her crew. Unfortunately, I just found out or this would have come sooner for sure. Here are the pertinent facts:
Mid-contract, with two years remaining on their current contract, the lady who runs the parks department is trying to get some of her and one Vernon's buddies the contract.
The current folks who are under contract with the DeKalb (I think it is Operation Tennis) headed up by that tennis management diva, Cecilia, have held the contract for 30 years. It's one of the few contracts that actually makes the County money.
In an independent study, the County hired someone from California, to evaluate all the contracts held by the County. I don't know if this was solely Parks contracts or County wide. However, Cecilia and the crew got top marks. All of a sudden that report has disappeared after numerous open document requests.
The vote to assign the contract to one of Vernon's buddies is tomorrow. We need the following things to happen:
If you can come to the meeting in the morning…show up. We are asking folks to wear tennis clothes and bring a racquet so there can be no doubt why we are there.
If you can't be there send an e-mail. It's probably too late for them to read it but we might luck out have one commissioner at least mention their e-mail box being flooded overnight.
If you have a media contact please ask them to attend. Pertinent questions to ask would be, Why is this contract being evaluated mid-contract? Why does this have to happen one week from Christmas with a new CEO taking over in less than a month? Is this really what the county needs to be focusing on with a 40 million dollar deficit?
Here are all the commissioner's e-mail address and parks department and what the heck Vernon's too.
Vernon Jones ceo@co.dekalb.ga.us
Elaine Boyer njmcbrid@co.dekalb.ga.us
Jeff Rader jrader@co.dekalb.ga.us
Larry L. Johnson, lljohnso@co.dekalb.ga.us
Burrell Ellis Burrell@BurrellEllis.com
Lee May lmay@co.dekalb.ga.us
Kathie Gannon kgannon@co.dekalb.ga.us
Connie Stokes conniestokes@co.dekalb.ga.us
Fay (I can't find her last name) prdirector@co.dekalb.ga.us
Thanks,
Beth B.
FYI. I COPIED AND PASTE THIS TO AN E-MAIL AND SENT IT TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BOC EXCEPT VERNON. THE TOPIC WAS ABOUT THE 50 CARS AND THE SUPPOSED HIGH CRIME TASK FORCE. I HOPE THAT WE ALL TAKE THE TIME TO TAKE ACTIONS LIKE THIS, SO WE ENSURE THAT THE BOC IS AWARE OF WHAT IS TAKING PLACE.....
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