THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015

So Where Were All The Riots?

The Hard-Sell Media Hype continues this morning in the wake of “JayWalking Joe” Deters’ masterfully-orchestrated press conference yesterday when the Hamilton County Prosecutor announced Deters’ Grand Jury had actually indicted University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing on 1 count of Murder (Special Felony) and 1 count of Voluntary Manslaughter (Felony 1) in the July 19 shooting death of Samuel Dubose, who’d been pulled over for a missing front license plate. Our Kneepad Liberals in the Press have to do something, after all, their attempts to create a riot that was even bigger than the one in 2001 didn’t work out.

Troubled Tort Watcher Tino Delgato says he can’t help but thinking about three things. Officer Tensing should have said his gun accidentally went off. That charge would be negligent homicide. Secondly, Prosecutor Deters making over the top comments to quell any local unrest and for his own national media attention. Thanks to him, this case will have to be moved out of Hamilton County.  

Tino also finds it odd that Joe Deters will prosecute this case against Officer Tensing, but hired out of office Lawyers TWICE for the cases against Tracie Hunter. But Hunter’s trial didn’t have the national attention this one will be getting. Joe has learned well from his mentor $tan Che$ley.  Go Figure!!!

Some people were also surprised to hear Deters praise Cincinnati’s Current Affirmative Action Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell, and refer to CPD as the best police department in the state.  Did any of our Investigative Journalists bother to check to see where “The Ghost” was during the first 3-4 days after this incident?  Word is, he was not at work and no one knew where he was.  Better yet, despite his absence (AGAIN) from the agency, he had left no one in charge as the “Acting Police Chief.” 

Command officers and others inside CPD are  thankful that Assistant Chief James Whalen was present and took command of the situation while Ghost Blackwell was nowhere to be found.  Most in the CPD are giving credit to Whalen for the success experienced, to date!

And didn’t anybody notice when Da Chief showed up in full uniform for the funeral of a criminal and at a #BlackLivesDon’tMeanCrap rally, but was an hour and a half late, and in civilian clothes, to the dedication of a plaque and presentation to a Police Officer’s family last Friday? Good Grief!

And why have both Ghost Blackwell and his predecessor James Craig dithered and twiddled their thumbs for “three years” on whether to even test body cameras? CPD, as a leader in best practices after the Collaborative, was uniquely positioned to be a leader in adopting this technology in furtherance of the goals of that agreement and continuing to build and reinforce trust in the community and to document the almost-always excellent interactions between its officers and members of the public. Then-CEO of Cincinnati Bell Jack Cassidy even offered to provide $1,000,000 of necessary infrastructure improvements for on-officer video at no cost whatsoever to Cincinnati over-taxed payers.   Craig and Blackwell have been too interested in self-promotion to even consider the single biggest technological advance in policing in the last decade.

As a result of Failed Fourteen Star Craig and Ghost Blackwell’s failure to act, CPD is now playing catch-up. The Ghost ought to be on his knees thanking God this wasn’t one of his officers, since there would be “no” video of a highly controversial incident, and the city could once again be subjected to the wrath of rioters, riot-rooters on Clowncil, and bogus “civil rights leaders” like deranged former judge Tracie Hunter’s chief apologist Bobby Hilton.

Additionally, the rumor has it the City has authorized a “climate” study to help determine the level of confidence members of the CPD and the public (specifically OTR stakeholders) have in Blackwell.  The study has been in effect for about a week.  Early indications are that there is almost unanimous disgust and absolutely no confidence being expressed for Blackwell as Chief of Police, in spite of our good friend Joe Deters’ glowing praise.