Jack Harris sits on the Board of AZ POST (the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board)We were able to obtain the meeting minutes from their site on their August 20, 2008 meeting. Jack Harris was in attendance at this meeting. On Page 3 of these meeting minutes, there is an entry for “Case # 8 – Stephen Boltz – Scottsdale Police Department.”
Here is a link to the site page with the meeting minutes
Scroll down to August 20, 2008 and read the minutes of the meeting Jack Harris attended.
Why is this important?
It’s clear, Jack Harris attended the meeting on August 20, 2008. Records show this.
What is paramount is Jack Harris’ vote on an 8-month suspension of this Scottsdale Officer (Stephen Boltz ) The AZ POST minutes state “...seconded by Mr. Duarte, motion carried unanimously.” When Jack Harris’ friend and buddy Ron Snodgrass (#2141) was brought up on similar charges and much worse – he was accused of creating a hostile work environment for a female worker and sexually harassing her – all Ron received was a written reprimand from Jack Harris in the PPD. The Board on the PPD that reviewed Ron Snodgrass’ case recommended an 8 hour suspension – but Ron Snodgrass’ friend Jack Harris overruled it by scribing “written reprimand.”
We can only assume that it is the chief’s discretion whether or not to bring such cases to AZ Post meeting. Naturally, Ron Snodgrass was never ever addressed at AZ POST. So the wanna-be -chief-but-really-just-a-citizen-like-the-rest-of-us, Jack Harris will vote for the 8 month suspension of a Scottsdale cop who only viewed and stored porno images on his own, work computer; but when Jack’s friend takes it further by having images on his desk, shows them to woman, and uses innuendo and dirty talk to get a married woman in bed; then all Jack gives his friend Ron, is a written reprimand???
Think something about this is rotten? Then read a little further on Ron Snodgrass.
Ron Snodgrass is a trainer with a company called Preferred Training Solutions, LLC in Glendale, AZ. These folks appear to run Early Warning/Intervention Systems Conferences. While most might commend Ol’ Ron Snodgrass for his entrepreneurial spirit, most of you might be shocked to know that the website lists his former boss Dan Olson (a Lieutenant with the PPD), in PSB as a co-founder. (The website was changed recently to remove Dan's name - but we found it!)
It is also to be rumored that Ron is a founder himself, but we are confirming that with the AZ Corporate Commission records. The AZ records state that the business was formed in the name of Kenneth Johnson (another PPD officer) in January, 2003. He later added another Johnson (most likely his wife) - Laurie Jean, to the LLC in October, 2006.
Here's the Link
(It's nice these public records request can't be lost, misplaced or destroyed by Stan Hoover!)
Now think about this for just a second.
You are working in a side business, where your boss is listed as a co-founder. Do you think for just a minute that your boss might be slightly apprehensive to properly manage you, reprimand you, suspend you or fire you? Now do you think Dan Olson lost his position as "co-founder" on the website, or do you think someone was trying to hide the fact that he (and Ron Snodgrass) is/are affiliated with Preferred Training Solutions, LLC?
Check out the page here:
God help us all if Ron Snodgrass is instructing officers nationwide as the site states. Is it classes on how to download good porn? The cause and effect of plastic surgery on ugly women? How to use a "C" drive to hide your granny and tranny porn? How to sexually harass employees that are attractive, blonde females and not get caught? How to host a meeting, not invite someone, then reprimand them for not coming?
Sweet Jesus - I can't believe these cops are actually sworn to protect us!
You can bet as soon as this BLOG is posted, these guys will significantly modify their site or shut it down to hide Ron Snodgrass and Dan Olson.
When we talk about FOJ - Friends of Jack - and Jacks inability to reprimand his friends and cover up investigations - this is what we mean.
Guys – there is absolutely something Rotten in Denmark – or at least in the Commander structure of the Phoenix PD. Corruption, nepotism and cronyism are rampant. Until Jack Harris, Phil Gordon and Frank Fairbanks leave, or the DOJ comes in, nothing will change.
Hence this is why we have this site and our BLOG.
Hence this is why we have this site and our BLOG.
11 comments:
According to their website, Ken Johnson and Dan Olsen have, "Both have earned their Masters degrees in Education..." What a joke! Almost the entire command staff at PPD have the same exact degree from the same exact university. What this doesn't say is, "While earning their Master's degree, both Dan and Ken went to school one night a week for two years." This equals their Masters Degree. "Furthermore, it should be noted that this 'Masters Degree' did not require so much as one single exam or a Thesis much like every other Masters Program in the country does." Basically, go to class once or twice a month (i.e.: when you feel like it), feel free to drive your city vehicle to class, don't come down hard on the instructors while they are employed during the day as subordinates to many of the students, share written assignments with your classmates and pass your assignments onto your buddies who are in the "co-hort" behind you.
Every single PPD graduate of this "Masters Program" should be ashamed of themselves. You have true professionals like Assistant Chiefs Joe Yahner and Blake McClelland who went out and earned real Masters Degree, i.e.: AZ State University. Please don't ever consider a Masters Degree from a co-hort group the same as a real Masters Degree. I like to think of it more as a "great opportunity for cheaters to obtain a piece of paper that isn't worth the city dollars that were reimbursed to the command officers who 'graduated' from the program!"
Hey Road Rage....is this where you got your "Masters Degree?" It cretainly wasn't from "ACME School of Driving and Self-Defense!"
Good evening, sir. This is an excerpt from the AzPOST site:
"The Arizona Peace Officer Standards & Training Board was originally comprised of nine members, appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Board included two sheriffs, two chiefs of police, a college faculty member in public administration or a related field, the state attorney general, the director of the Department of Public Safety, and two public members.
In 1977, the statutes were revised to require one sheriff come from a county with a population exceeding 200,000 and one sheriff from a county with a population less than 200,000. Additionally, one police chief was to be from a city with a population exceeding 60,000 and one from a city with a population less than 60,000. In 1984, Board membership was expanded with the addition of the director of the Arizona Department of Corrections and an administrator of a county or municipal correctional facility."
Where does a Public Safety Manager fit into the mix?
How is the validity of the Board's decision affected by this square peg?
Just a curious observation.
Maybe it is time to take all of this to the next city council meeting or the FBI ethics bureau. Most of the 4th floor needs to go. BRAVO- Keep up the great corruption exposure.
In the PPD we have this thing called City Business Leave. It is when you are given time off when approved through your chain to attend training, conferences, and meetings of a business nature and of benefit to the department/City.
I wonder... When Ron, Dan and Ken Johnson were doing these training for their business (where they were getting paid) were they on their own time (which is what they are supposed to be doing) or using City Business time for a personal business.
Also policy requires that employees with outside business interests register their business with their supervisor.
Is it only a coincidence that the two assistant chiefs who got real masters degrees are caucasion males? I wonder where Robinson, Montgomery, Pena and Ontiveros got their masters?
It is time for a federal investigation into all of the allegations on this website.
These assclowns found their masters in a box of Cocoa Puffs. Jack Harris sent 5 box tops from his Lucky Charms to get a plastic gold star.
I have one recommendation to the webmaster: send a copy of these messages to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mayor Gordon, City Manager Frank Fairbanks, Assistant City Manager Alton Washington (another co-hort masters degree?) and every city councilman. When the consent decree comes, none of them will be able to say "I didn't know that!" Think of the New Times article that could follow when they run for re-election. Maybe they could title the article: "Gross allegations of misconduct in the PPD ignored by City Mayor, Councilmen and City Managers, in direct violation of PPD Operation Orders and city Adminstrative Regulations"! I doubt many of the old farts who actually vote would like this!
Have you ever sat next to Snodgrass? Two things you notice -An odor that is a cross between a wet dog, shit, bad sour cream and a dead rat. And second - the man leaves a bead of sweat and DNA on the back of the chair from all those bowling/hawaiin shirts he wears - it's gross! If you threw a rock at him it wouldn't hit him -it would just start orbiting!
We love the site! 4th Floor is in overtime trying to figure out who is posting and what to do. Rumor is they are using Homeland Security Bureau and Department Resources to track this site. Nice way to spend resources, rather than fixing the problem. Keep up the good work.
One other note relative to this whole mess...part of the reason (maybe the primary reason) Ron Snodgrass has never been subject to an investigation by AZ Post is that his wife (at the time, until their divorce in July 2007) was a board member of AZ Post, until her retirement (July 2008).
Reference "anonymous" comments left January 10, 2009. You mention Ron's wife but not the wife's name. I was also, sadly, one of Ron's wives, but we were divorced in 2000...while Ron was 'engaged' to the next wife. The wife anonymous is referring to had(has) initials of C.B.
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