www.detroituncovered.com - clip and paste and read the context of this post...
PO John Bennett writes it and has taken punishment for it...suspended for years,without pay - for speaking out about the Detroit Police Department and its problems...
"This double standard is why our (Detroit police) department will never get it's act together nor get back to being respected." anon
"The Chief is supposed to lead by example. Have you forgotten the Code of Ethics? His situation has shown how hipocritical he and the rest of the administration is and has been." anon
"We are dealing with not only the departmental issue but the Moral issue. If you accept this situation than your obviously too far gone and certainly have not been introduced to that higher standard most have been subjected to at any Trial Boards." anon
"Why so much support for this slimeball Godbee? Is the city so hard up for a Chief? This is your website, J.B., but your support for some is puzzling." anon
The above published comments - show what a divisive issue Godbee has become.
On Let it Rip (Fox2Detroit.com - Aug 12), I said that Godbee should not be the face of the Detroit Police Department. His relationship with Patterson, disqualifies him from being Chief of Police.
It may not be illegal, as Tracey Henry and Charlie Langton said, but it is morally and ethically wrong! - that is why Bing should remove Godbee as Chief of Police.
Detroit is the butt of too many jokes, it has lost respect in many areas, its reputation is hurting the City - nationwide and Godbee is part of the problem and must be removed - now.
For years, I wrote in the Tuebor (DPOA newpaper) about the problems within the Department and my suggested solutions - no one seemed to want to address them - so the Department went from bad to bad to bad as Police Chief after Police Chief failed its officers and residents.
Nepotism, Favoritism, and Cronyism has infested the Department since I joined in 1977. It is a disease that has to be cured - and - the only way is to have a National Search to find a nationally respected and ethically unchallenged police chief. It will not be easy - and concessions to the new chief will have to be made - in terms of autonomy, and his ability to make the necessary changes to make the Detroit Police Department a respected police department.
Detroit has had to many inbred police chiefs - too many who took care of themselves and their favorite people - too many that have committed crimes and adultery!
Godbee was not the first.
It is time for Bing to rise to the occasion - to spend the money, take the time to find a man or woman who can lead the Detroit Police Department to national recognition for its efforts in all aspects of policing - a Chief who can command respect nationwide, of its own police officers and residents.
If you comment on this - please have the courage to use your name.
Detroit needs thinkers and doers - people who 'speak truth to power' and whose names are attached to their speech / comments.
You can also comment on my blog space -
http://davidmalhalab.blogspot.com
Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION - OPEN CARRY GUN TOTTERS - WRONG, FIGHT BACK
It is time that governors, legislators, Senators, House members and the President to stand up to the National Rifle Association and their lobbyists to enact a ban on assault weapons, stricter gun laws to prevent the flow of weapons to the Mexican drug cartels, sold by gun dealers along the Southwestern border and requirements to 'Open Carry' gun laws to equal the requirements of Conceal Weapons laws.
Michigan - Royal Oak, will host an Art Eats and Beats Festival, next week end, and the City has been forced by 'Open Carry' gun nuts to accept them at the Festival.
There maybe 500,000 people there and 'Open Carry' gun nuts who don't have to know how to handle, load or shoot their weapons - let alone, the ramifications of pulling or using their weapons will be roaming the streets with people who have been drinking and the heat of the day and alcohol may not mix.
'Open Carry' laws in 42 states must be amended to equal the training that those who have a concealed weapon are required to have. The 2nd Amendment was adopted in 1791 -
over 219 years ago - long before police departments and national guards - farmers had to protect themselves - it is no longer necessary for the public to openly carry guns in public. We massacred the Native Americans - we don't need more public massacres
I spent 12 weeks learning to use the weapon that the Detroit Police Department entrusted me with to protect and serve the public. It is only right that the public
be trained to use the weapons that they are allowed to carry in public.
ps: Retired law enforcement officers should be allowed to carry their weapons in all 50 states and territories, with a state - concealed weapons license.
Michigan - Royal Oak, will host an Art Eats and Beats Festival, next week end, and the City has been forced by 'Open Carry' gun nuts to accept them at the Festival.
There maybe 500,000 people there and 'Open Carry' gun nuts who don't have to know how to handle, load or shoot their weapons - let alone, the ramifications of pulling or using their weapons will be roaming the streets with people who have been drinking and the heat of the day and alcohol may not mix.
'Open Carry' laws in 42 states must be amended to equal the training that those who have a concealed weapon are required to have. The 2nd Amendment was adopted in 1791 -
over 219 years ago - long before police departments and national guards - farmers had to protect themselves - it is no longer necessary for the public to openly carry guns in public. We massacred the Native Americans - we don't need more public massacres
I spent 12 weeks learning to use the weapon that the Detroit Police Department entrusted me with to protect and serve the public. It is only right that the public
be trained to use the weapons that they are allowed to carry in public.
ps: Retired law enforcement officers should be allowed to carry their weapons in all 50 states and territories, with a state - concealed weapons license.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
DETROIT POLICE - GODBEE, SEX/TEXT SCANDAL
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/let_it_rip/let-it-rip-august-12-2010-wpms -
COPY AND PASTE ABOVE LINE - LET IT RIP, FOX2 DETROIT, AUGUST 12...
DETROIT POLICE - GODBEE SEX/TEXT SCANDAL...
Interim Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee should step down - or resign because of his and the Department's unfolding Sex/Text scandal.
He has abdicated his moral and ethical leadership of the Detroit Police Department.
He should be concerned with repairing his marriage - not just running the police department.
Who is he trying to kid.
Mayor Bing should 'man up' and remove Godbee, if Godbee doesn't do the right thing.
COPY AND PASTE ABOVE LINE - LET IT RIP, FOX2 DETROIT, AUGUST 12...
DETROIT POLICE - GODBEE SEX/TEXT SCANDAL...
Interim Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee should step down - or resign because of his and the Department's unfolding Sex/Text scandal.
He has abdicated his moral and ethical leadership of the Detroit Police Department.
He should be concerned with repairing his marriage - not just running the police department.
Who is he trying to kid.
Mayor Bing should 'man up' and remove Godbee, if Godbee doesn't do the right thing.
Monday, August 9, 2010
DETROIT PISTONS - SAY NO TO MIKE ILLITCH- NO TO GAMBLING - DETROIT TIGERS - DETROIT RED WINGS...
Mike and Marian Illitch should be barred by the National Basketball Association from buying the Detroit Pistons. Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League should stand up, for integrity, and tell the Illitch's sell their gambling interests or their pro sports franchises.
Marian Ilitch owns the Motor City Casino, in Detroit, and is involved in getting casinos in Ohio - that will compete with Detroit area casinos.
Mike Illitch had an agreement with the City of Detroit to maintain historic Detroit Tiger Stadium as it was in 1999 and he failed - taking millions of dollars in taxpayer money. His neglect and failures help cause Tiger Stadium to look decrepit
and unsightly, making people believe that it was structurally unsafe - when it was not. Tiger Stadium was demolished through 'demolition by neglect' by Illitch, the Detroit Economic Development Commission and city officials. I have asked the FBI to investigate Mike Illitch and city officials - for possible federal law violations.
He does not have the best interest of Detroit, in mind, and Detroit does not have the money, nor does the state to build a new sports arena for a billionaire.
Speak Out - Integrity needs to be the NO. 1 issue in pro sports and mixing gambling and sports is not good for the fans or the players.
ps: didn't - Darren McCarty, former Red Wing, post a debt of $50,000. on his bankruptcy filing for the Motor City Casino (Illitch)?
Marian Ilitch owns the Motor City Casino, in Detroit, and is involved in getting casinos in Ohio - that will compete with Detroit area casinos.
Mike Illitch had an agreement with the City of Detroit to maintain historic Detroit Tiger Stadium as it was in 1999 and he failed - taking millions of dollars in taxpayer money. His neglect and failures help cause Tiger Stadium to look decrepit
and unsightly, making people believe that it was structurally unsafe - when it was not. Tiger Stadium was demolished through 'demolition by neglect' by Illitch, the Detroit Economic Development Commission and city officials. I have asked the FBI to investigate Mike Illitch and city officials - for possible federal law violations.
He does not have the best interest of Detroit, in mind, and Detroit does not have the money, nor does the state to build a new sports arena for a billionaire.
Speak Out - Integrity needs to be the NO. 1 issue in pro sports and mixing gambling and sports is not good for the fans or the players.
ps: didn't - Darren McCarty, former Red Wing, post a debt of $50,000. on his bankruptcy filing for the Motor City Casino (Illitch)?
Monday, July 26, 2010
HISTORIC DETROIT TIGER STADIUM - LIVES ON..
http://detnews.com/article/20100724/OPINION03/7240328/Baseball-alive-at-old-Tiger-Stadium-site - cut and paste to see the article..
Terry Foster, of the Detroit News, wrote a great story about 'Baseball alive at old Tiger Stadium, July 24. Read it and make comments - here is my comment. Please comment.
Mon. 07/26/10 06:26 PM
HISTORIC DETROIT TIGER STADIUM LIVES ON...
DETROIT TIGER STADIUM WILL LIVE IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE STADIUM, SO LONG AS THEY TAKE THE TIME TO REMEMBER IT.
MIKE ILITCH OWES THE CITY OF DETROIT UP TO $12. MILLION DOLLARS FOR FAILURE TO FULFILL THE AGREEMENTS TO MAINTAIN TIGER STADIUM AS IT WAS IN 1999 AND TO SECURE IT FROM VANDALS AND THIEVES. ILITCH'S FAILURE TO LIVE UP TO THE AGREEMENTS MAYBE UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FBI - HE TOOK CITY FUNDS / TAX PAYER MONEY FOR THE AGREEMENTS.
DETROIT CITY COUNCILMAN KEN COCKREL TOLD ME 'DAVID, YOUR BOY (PETER RILEY) WAS RIGHT HE (ILITCH) OWES THE CITY THE MONEY, AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET IT BACK' - WELL COCKREL LIED TO ME -
HE HAS DONE NOTHING TO GET THE MONEY BACK.
ILITCH SHOULD HONOR TIGER STADIUM BY BUILDING A 2,500 SEAT LIGHTED STADIUM AND THREE (3) ADDITIONAL BALL FIELDS AT THE TIGER STADIUM SITE.
IF HE FAILS TOO - THE CITY SHOULD PURSUE THE FBI INVESTIGATION AND PROVIDE COMPLETE COOPERATION, AND THE CITY SHOULD DEMAND THAT THE NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, FORCE ILITCH TO SELL THE TIGERS AND RED WINGS OR THAT MARIANNE ILITCH SELL HER CASINO ENTERPRISES.
DETROIT HAS TO STAND UP IN THESE HARD ECONOMIC TIMES AND DEMAND THAT ITS CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS BE HONORED - SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE IN THE PAST.
DAVID7750, DETROIT, MI
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/forums/newstalk/lettersindex.php?relatedURL=http://detnews.com/article/20100724/OPINION03/7240328/Baseball-alive-at-old-Tiger-Stadium-site#ixzz0upa3trWL - cut and paste..to see the full story
Terry Foster, of the Detroit News, wrote a great story about 'Baseball alive at old Tiger Stadium, July 24. Read it and make comments - here is my comment. Please comment.
Mon. 07/26/10 06:26 PM
HISTORIC DETROIT TIGER STADIUM LIVES ON...
DETROIT TIGER STADIUM WILL LIVE IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE STADIUM, SO LONG AS THEY TAKE THE TIME TO REMEMBER IT.
MIKE ILITCH OWES THE CITY OF DETROIT UP TO $12. MILLION DOLLARS FOR FAILURE TO FULFILL THE AGREEMENTS TO MAINTAIN TIGER STADIUM AS IT WAS IN 1999 AND TO SECURE IT FROM VANDALS AND THIEVES. ILITCH'S FAILURE TO LIVE UP TO THE AGREEMENTS MAYBE UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FBI - HE TOOK CITY FUNDS / TAX PAYER MONEY FOR THE AGREEMENTS.
DETROIT CITY COUNCILMAN KEN COCKREL TOLD ME 'DAVID, YOUR BOY (PETER RILEY) WAS RIGHT HE (ILITCH) OWES THE CITY THE MONEY, AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET IT BACK' - WELL COCKREL LIED TO ME -
HE HAS DONE NOTHING TO GET THE MONEY BACK.
ILITCH SHOULD HONOR TIGER STADIUM BY BUILDING A 2,500 SEAT LIGHTED STADIUM AND THREE (3) ADDITIONAL BALL FIELDS AT THE TIGER STADIUM SITE.
IF HE FAILS TOO - THE CITY SHOULD PURSUE THE FBI INVESTIGATION AND PROVIDE COMPLETE COOPERATION, AND THE CITY SHOULD DEMAND THAT THE NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, FORCE ILITCH TO SELL THE TIGERS AND RED WINGS OR THAT MARIANNE ILITCH SELL HER CASINO ENTERPRISES.
DETROIT HAS TO STAND UP IN THESE HARD ECONOMIC TIMES AND DEMAND THAT ITS CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS BE HONORED - SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE IN THE PAST.
DAVID7750, DETROIT, MI
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/forums/newstalk/lettersindex.php?relatedURL=http://detnews.com/article/20100724/OPINION03/7240328/Baseball-alive-at-old-Tiger-Stadium-site#ixzz0upa3trWL - cut and paste..to see the full story
Saturday, July 24, 2010
DETROIT POLICE CHIEF EVANS - MAYOR BING - AFFAIRS OF THE HEART - LONG AGO
Mayor Dave Bing showed that Crime is not the #1 issue in Detroit - and it should be.
He had Saul Green, Deputy Mayor, fire (force a resignation) on PC Warren Evans. Bing, if Evans was such a problem - should have stepped up and fired Evans and had a press conference with a list of reasons.
But, Bing and Green didnt - they alluded to this and that - none illegal and none worthy of firing a police professioanl. They seemed to announce Godbee as the New Chief of Police - but later said he was the 'interim' chief.
Wether or not you like Bing or Evans - Bing should have fired him - personally - not letting underling do this deed.
Bing has promised / said, Detroit will have a national search for a new police chief - I have advocated that for over 20 years - it must be done.
Detroit does not need a new inbred police chief - tied to the leaders? and politicians past and present. We need to clean house at DPD.
I suggest x - LA Police Chief William Bratton. Who do you want?
ps. Watch Warren Evans interview with Fox2 News Anchor, Huel Perkins.
www.fox2detroit.com
VERY GOOD interview with Warren Evans...he handled the interview much better than the mayor handled the announcement... at first I thought the mayor was announcing the appointment of Godbee as police chief, a little later the mayor and Saul Green mentioned - interim
If Evans transferred out of mayoral security - anyone - that the mayor wanted, that officer would have been brought back to EPU...by the Mayor.
And a reality show showing the Detroit and its Chief are fighting crime - for which
Detoit is almost synonomous with - may have been a positive. Cameras make you work
better more professional - if not then scrap the video cameras in police cars - that have cost Detroit millions of dollars...
do you remember.....
cultural thing in Detroit...to hide relationships..
remember ....Detoit PC Isaiah McKinnon allegedly had an affair with...(Sgt) Cathy Mort----..who he discovered singing ...and promoted...and let her leave her corvette inside dpd hq parking lot...and she was married to a redford twp police lt.... she allegedly was responsible for break up of the 'blue pigs'.........and a lot of talk within the ranks...
- and he allegedly let a (nephew)? leave the scene of a fatal shooting to change clothes...
PC Stanley Knox - allegedly had an affair with a PO Stepahanie -----? and she reportedly had a baby by him.....?
PC Hart...was illiterate (per his attorney) and had affair with serveral women...and became a convicted felon...
maybe DPD should have a no frat ethics rule for police chiefs...
He had Saul Green, Deputy Mayor, fire (force a resignation) on PC Warren Evans. Bing, if Evans was such a problem - should have stepped up and fired Evans and had a press conference with a list of reasons.
But, Bing and Green didnt - they alluded to this and that - none illegal and none worthy of firing a police professioanl. They seemed to announce Godbee as the New Chief of Police - but later said he was the 'interim' chief.
Wether or not you like Bing or Evans - Bing should have fired him - personally - not letting underling do this deed.
Bing has promised / said, Detroit will have a national search for a new police chief - I have advocated that for over 20 years - it must be done.
Detroit does not need a new inbred police chief - tied to the leaders? and politicians past and present. We need to clean house at DPD.
I suggest x - LA Police Chief William Bratton. Who do you want?
ps. Watch Warren Evans interview with Fox2 News Anchor, Huel Perkins.
www.fox2detroit.com
VERY GOOD interview with Warren Evans...he handled the interview much better than the mayor handled the announcement... at first I thought the mayor was announcing the appointment of Godbee as police chief, a little later the mayor and Saul Green mentioned - interim
If Evans transferred out of mayoral security - anyone - that the mayor wanted, that officer would have been brought back to EPU...by the Mayor.
And a reality show showing the Detroit and its Chief are fighting crime - for which
Detoit is almost synonomous with - may have been a positive. Cameras make you work
better more professional - if not then scrap the video cameras in police cars - that have cost Detroit millions of dollars...
do you remember.....
cultural thing in Detroit...to hide relationships..
remember ....Detoit PC Isaiah McKinnon allegedly had an affair with...(Sgt) Cathy Mort----..who he discovered singing ...and promoted...and let her leave her corvette inside dpd hq parking lot...and she was married to a redford twp police lt.... she allegedly was responsible for break up of the 'blue pigs'.........and a lot of talk within the ranks...
- and he allegedly let a (nephew)? leave the scene of a fatal shooting to change clothes...
PC Stanley Knox - allegedly had an affair with a PO Stepahanie -----? and she reportedly had a baby by him.....?
PC Hart...was illiterate (per his attorney) and had affair with serveral women...and became a convicted felon...
maybe DPD should have a no frat ethics rule for police chiefs...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
DETROIT POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS ??? MAYOR BING FIRES POLICE CHIEF..
No one really believes that Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans - resigned.
He was fired by Detroit Mayor Dave Bing - who no longer had any use for Evans, who was selected as Police Chief to remove him as a mayoral candidate.
Detroit has been plagued by bad police chiefs starting with Mayor Young's - felony chief - William Hart, thru Stanley Knox, Isaiah McKinnon, Benny Napoleon, Jerry Oliver and worst of all - Ella Bully Cummings.
Evans was 'aggressive' in fighting crime - he showed Detroit residents that the police department wasn't sitting on its hands, that he would commit officers to the street to engage the criminals that were destroying the neighborhoods and fabric of Detroit.
Chief Evans was a pit bull - not a mayoral lap dog or bobblehead like some former police chiefs that have occupied the Chief's chair, in name only.
Chief Evans, for over a year - failed - to rid the Department of: Crisnet (report system) that is a ball and chain around police officers and keeps them tied to a computer, and doesn't allow them to patrol effectively; adopt a Verified Response System - to handle false B&E alarms; obtain Jail cells and medical facility for Detroit Police prisoners ( 1/2 of Detroit jail cells were closed by Cummings and Detroit is paying millions of dollars for emergency medical care for prisoners - unnecessarily...
Detroit no longer needs Police Chiefs - the inbreeds that have helped destroy in infrastructure and morale of the Department. Detroit needs a National Search for a new police chief - a chief who will bring national respect and intelligence to a job that has been for too long occupied by political underlings with no independence and strings attached.
Detroit needs a new chief to come in and clean house.
Mayor Bing says a National Search will be done - I have advocated that for over 20 years - maybe now - it will happen????
Ralph Godbee, will make a good interim chief - a better public information officer.
ps: Muhamed Oakdie, former DPBPC, made foolish and ignorant comments about the best police chiefs come up thru the ranks...look at the history of bad Detroit Police Chiefs - Hart, Knox, McKinnon, Napoleon, Bully-Cummings - who have come up thru the ranks.
ps: CP Pugh " surprised " at Evans resigning??? Where has he been - it was not a matter of if - he would resign, just when would he be fired...
ps: Apparently Detroit Mayor Dave Bing - hasn't got the stomach or courage of his convictions - He has Deputy Mayor Saul Green - Fire - err accept Chief Evans resignation.
He was fired by Detroit Mayor Dave Bing - who no longer had any use for Evans, who was selected as Police Chief to remove him as a mayoral candidate.
Detroit has been plagued by bad police chiefs starting with Mayor Young's - felony chief - William Hart, thru Stanley Knox, Isaiah McKinnon, Benny Napoleon, Jerry Oliver and worst of all - Ella Bully Cummings.
Evans was 'aggressive' in fighting crime - he showed Detroit residents that the police department wasn't sitting on its hands, that he would commit officers to the street to engage the criminals that were destroying the neighborhoods and fabric of Detroit.
Chief Evans was a pit bull - not a mayoral lap dog or bobblehead like some former police chiefs that have occupied the Chief's chair, in name only.
Chief Evans, for over a year - failed - to rid the Department of: Crisnet (report system) that is a ball and chain around police officers and keeps them tied to a computer, and doesn't allow them to patrol effectively; adopt a Verified Response System - to handle false B&E alarms; obtain Jail cells and medical facility for Detroit Police prisoners ( 1/2 of Detroit jail cells were closed by Cummings and Detroit is paying millions of dollars for emergency medical care for prisoners - unnecessarily...
Detroit no longer needs Police Chiefs - the inbreeds that have helped destroy in infrastructure and morale of the Department. Detroit needs a National Search for a new police chief - a chief who will bring national respect and intelligence to a job that has been for too long occupied by political underlings with no independence and strings attached.
Detroit needs a new chief to come in and clean house.
Mayor Bing says a National Search will be done - I have advocated that for over 20 years - maybe now - it will happen????
Ralph Godbee, will make a good interim chief - a better public information officer.
ps: Muhamed Oakdie, former DPBPC, made foolish and ignorant comments about the best police chiefs come up thru the ranks...look at the history of bad Detroit Police Chiefs - Hart, Knox, McKinnon, Napoleon, Bully-Cummings - who have come up thru the ranks.
ps: CP Pugh " surprised " at Evans resigning??? Where has he been - it was not a matter of if - he would resign, just when would he be fired...
ps: Apparently Detroit Mayor Dave Bing - hasn't got the stomach or courage of his convictions - He has Deputy Mayor Saul Green - Fire - err accept Chief Evans resignation.
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