Portland's bad boys in blue are quite a few
In addition to the road-raging, leg-stroking captain who was demoted to the sex crimes unit; beyond the "military history buff" captain who builds shrines to Nazis; on top of the chief who presides over them all with the keen observation skills of Sergeant Schultz -- the kids at the Merc give us a couple more ne'er-do-wells to roll our eyes at:
In the most eyebrow-raising of the two new examples, Reese set aside a unanimous dismissal vote for a cop accused of failing to file a use of force report and then lying and dodging questions to cover his tracks. Board members were so upset by the allegations, they basically said the officer fundamentally lacked the credibility to continue working as a cop....In another case, in which a cop lied to his boss after getting caught buying a TV 80 blocks from his assigned district, Reese bucked a 4-1 vote for termination and ordered a demotion. Like in the Wyatt case.
This week, the world will get to see "Alien Boy," the long-awaited documentary about the murder of a scrawny mentally ill man, James Chasse, at the hands of two or three goons on the Portland police force. Much of their accounts of the killing also lacked candor. It would be great if we could teach the children to trust the Portland police, but we can't. It's really sad.
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"... they basically said the officer fundamentally lacked the credibility to continue working as a cop"
I wonder if that information will make it into the Brady disclosures (material exculpatory evidence) prosecutors must make in criminal cases involving the cop.
Posted by Conrad | February 11, 2013 11:38 AM
The real problem is that he has now set a precedent for the appropriate level of discipline for those behaviors.
Posted by Kai Jones | February 11, 2013 1:58 PM
Actually - the real problem is the Chief is a SamRand toadie with no integrity. The Chief should be sent off to collect his FPDR benefits.
Posted by x-portlander | February 11, 2013 5:19 PM
Effecting reform of police corruption likely needs more action than a documentary movie, as seen on TV. Epidemic police corruption disfigures the quality of life in 90percent of precincts across the USA.
I read through Christopher Jordan Dorner's selfsaid 'Manifesto' "To: America, Subj: last resort." LAPD actions to censor and ban Dorner's written 'speech' provoked my curiosity to see what shames police to hide it, or try to hide it. Maybe worse than shame; maybe it is crimes guilt that police hide (from). Anyway, censorship efforts indicate it's not something police are proud to publicly display of themselves.
(I used this link, but connection was on-again off-again, like going into the middle of a cyber censor battle.)
My main point is noting numerous equal statements of police corruption written by bojack and written by Dorner.
Citizens for reform of police have to have someone who can run the numbers and do the reforming math.bojack is an exemplary auditor. Of police paychecks, the 'bottom line.' He finds understanding that considerations of the pay, only, pervades the job behavior of police. And bojack says what he sees.
Dorner is an exemplary policeman. Years and years inside the 'blue line.' Has an insider's view, and says what he sees.
Independently, two reasoning to the same single conclusion: police corruption.
Vicious, violent, lawless. Ingrained ruin.
And that's only part of the situation. The larger moral sense of conscience or justice is the main context in which bojack and Dorner sound alike saying the same things.
Anyway, throughout reading Dorner I kept hearing bojack. And I just wanted to share the experience here in bojacktown.
Provided only a link, I believe scant few actually click through. Reading is so icky.
Now here are some powerful excerpts directly in front of faces who'd rather look away.
It's a bumpy read with typos and twisty taxonomy, yet the meaning in it is obvious. So obvious that there are attempts by people and institutions vividly exposed in it to try to erase it.
We see whistleblowers and attentive observers in our communities imploring mainstream massmedia to report their stories, they shout aloud injustices in order to 'get the word out,' but MSM only suppresses and hides those voices.
Here (PDX or LAX) the victims report several active-duty killer cops, and MSM hide all that and report a single cops killer. MSM must know their cover-up is guilty as the crimes. Corrupted media corrupt the community.
Dorner's 'Manifesto' starts in exposing MSM guilty for public service they don't do:
To stop police corruption is going to take more than a movie in Portland and eye-witness testimony in L.A.More, like a chorus of the community, citizens for civil order. Knowing we can remove all corrupt officials, politicians, judges, public servants, and media monoliths - indict and sentence their corruptions - and then call forth plenty better folks to do the jobs responsibly.
The Pope resigns. Maybe he got the Word. Of public contempt. The Pope is replaceable.
In unity, the chorus of community is heard casting out corruption when everyone knows the words of the wrongs and speaks from the same page.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | February 11, 2013 7:36 PM