THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
With Plenty of Blame to Go Around
Did Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Kathy Harrell really send out a little notice saying numerous members of the FOP had requested a special meeting to address morale, staffing levels and other issues occurring in the Cincinnati Police Department held on Monday, September 14, 2015, starting at 6:30 p.m., and all members of the FOP were encouraged to attend?
That notice sounded so routine, The Blower naturally figured we should continue to use “The Counter” at the lower right-hand corner of The Whistleblower Newswire Web Page to click off all of those precious days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Not-Yet-Indicted Hillary Clinton arrives in Cincinnati for her September 10 $2,700-per-person Legal Defense Fund-raiser in East Walnut Hills hosted by Jennie and Allan Berliant, before ever thinking about turning “Just Another FOP Meeting” into such an important story.
Then someone said Feckless Fishwrapper Sharon Coolidge had written a story breathlessly reporting unnamed officers had revealed a vote of no confidence in Cincinnati’s Current Affirmative Action Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell was expected.
Do you think Da Chief wishes he’d taken that $250,000 Parting-Gift Package he rejected when Cincinnati City Mangler “Baltimore Harry” Black offered it?
What a bunch of pussies at the FOP, and how ironic! Let’s think back a short time. When Kathy Harrell was determined to be guilty of the civil equivalent of perjury and receiving stolen property (that’s lying and stealing in plain English), the FOP membership responded by electing her to another term as their president. The obvious next step was for the union faithful to stick their collective heads up Harrell’s ass and quit thinking for themselves. Then it became necessary for the membership to claim absolutely no responsibility for their personal failure to help maintain an effective level of safety in the City of Cincinnati and they’ve done that very well!
The union is speaking out of both sides of their collective mouths, and has helped create the problems in the department during the last four years. They’ve schemed with Failed Fourteen-Star Ex- Chief James Craig to develop work schedules that are a primary cause of current staffing shortages and supposed “morale problems.”
Note: none of the officers has turned down his or her paycheck despite the anguish over morale. In fact, they’re “earning” overtime at a record pace despite such “horrible” working conditions. It must be miserable going to work every day under them! Then again, with crime rates soaring, maybe the cops are on a slowdown at the Union’s direction because Chief Blackwell has refused to kiss a lying thief’s ass. If that’s so, at least Chief Blackwell has some redeeming value.
Watch the FOP continue to bitch, whine, and complain while they contribute absolutely nothing to an effective solution. What a bunch of cry babies! Here’s an idea: do your freaking job or quit and give somebody a job who will earn his keep. You know: lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
And as local shootings continue during Obama’s Summer of Racial Violence, every place you turn, the answer is always the same: “It’s someone else’s fault.”
That recent TASER application by police was appropriate and though the criminal’s death was unfortunate, there has been absolutely no medical evidence which links the application or a conducted energy device (TASER) to the death of an individual.
Perhaps the proper solution would be for those criminals to stop robbing people and/or stop resisting arrest when confronted by the police for committing a felony offense of violence. Now that’s a novel thought! Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit the Liberal Agenda of our local Race-Baiters, The FishWrap, or any other unreasonable groups of people out there.
Meanwhile at the University of Cincinnati, The Fishwrap keeps stirring the pot with this damning headline: “Could coming training have prevented DuBose death?”
It might have helped UC Police Officers to make a better set of decisions during traffic stops, but nothing can absolutely prevent tragic incidents. It’s an excellent move as training is the key to good decision-making and provides solid parameters for use of force. It appears UC’s training did not match the style of policing they had authorized for their officers. This article describes systemic failures in the agency. Those failures trickled down to individuals, such as Tensing, making horribly tragic decisions. UC is moving in the right direction on this.
Meanwhile, Award Winning Photo Illustrator Artis Conception shows us another kind of traffic stop our Boys In Blue can only dream about!
