We are on FaceBook!Not that you would want to link to us and be our friend (your identity would be reveled), but we are now on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/
We will post most of our photos there and it is just another venue for us to spread our message about Jack Ass Harris, the morons called Assistant Chiefs and the entire 4th floor.
You could always create a pseudonym like us (for the dumb fucks like Soha, Snodgrass and Balloon Knott - we know this word has more than 2 syllables and it means an “alias”)
You can find us at by searching for BadPhoenix Cops.
Here’s a few great photos we found on Facebook.
We call this one "It's time to Break out the Peanut Butter and Play with the Dogs"
When we find more we will post them.And of course what could be better than all the press Chief Jack Ass Harris is getting on his boondoggled pension plan and rehire?
We are glad to see that Frank Fairbanks grew some testicles and decided to restrict the rehiring of City workers like Chief Jack Ass. We here that Road Rage Anderson and several others were considering going down the same path, hopefully this will put an end to that nonsense.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2009/01/14/20090114rehire0113-ON.html
We also think the results of our last poll were interesting.
64 of you voted on the topic of whether you think Mark Goudeau is the Baseline Killer.
20 of you (31%) had no doubt and thought he did it. Must be the guys in homicide who received all the accolades.
But what was interesting is that 57% of you think he didn’t do it, or were unsure and thought that the report and all the other details that point to someone else should at least be reviewed. Of this 57% - 39% were adamant he didn’t do. 18% wanted further investigation into the TWS report.
With a majority of people voting and posting here being in the PPD, City Government or tied to the City – it’s frightening that you have doubt in your own system. But I guess it is a system of ineptitude and one that lacks leadership and a senior level skill set.
We all know Jack Harris is an enormous "Jack Ass" and couldn't lead Steve Soha to a bar stool. What Jack and the 4th floor forget is that Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
We should also note with the voting a solid 6% still Mike Polombo is still a Potato Head – even though he got the new FBI gig.
3 comments:
Posted on the PLEA website:
Protecting Members from Management
A Coup D'etat by any Other Name
by Ken Crane
It might surprise you to know that your Union was recently the focus of a failed hostile takeover by an outside organization. The hell you say!? The hell I say indeed, allow me to explain.
The first question we must ask ourselves is who would want to manipulate and interfere with your association's business and why? To answer this question we need to go back to when your current PLEA Board took office a little over a year ago. At election time the motto was and still is "It’s all about the members.” The platform consisted of three key elements: 1. Aggressive representation, 2. Maintaining positive partnerships, and 3. Holding police management publicly accountable. It’s that last one that can get people in police management really ticked off.
There’s no question that PLEA has seen some of it’s highest approval ratings to date. The consistent feedback that we receive from officers and supervisors alike confirms this. “You guys are doing a great job”, “Keep up the good work”, “Keep up the fight”, “We appreciate what you are doing”, “Keep holding their (management’s) feet to the fire”, and ”We finally have a real Union” are just a few of the many comments we hear on a regular basis. Comments like these combined with the fact that our membership numbers have never been higher clearly indicate that we are moving in the right direction and doing right by the members.
After taking office, your PLEA Board did exactly what they said they were going to do. One member described it best when he said, ”You guys are really kicking ass and taking names.” This is a formal labor term used to describe holding police management accountable for poor policies. The problem is that those in police management can only handle so much accountability, then, by God, something’s got to be done.
This is where the leadership of PPSLA comes in to play. Lieutenants Mark Hafkey and Dave Adams recently requested a private meeting with Dave Dager, PLEA’s Chairman of the Board. The purpose of the meeting was to try to manipulate Dave into running for the position of PLEA President. The hell you say!? The hell I say indeed. But wait, there’s more. Dave was told that if he would run for PLEA President that PPSLA would make sure that he had financial backing, staff support, and the assistance of a PR firm. Turnkey operation. All we need you to do is throw your hat in the ring and we’ll take care of the rest. Kind of like China or Russia trying to install a puppet government in a third world country. Why would PPSLA think that PLEA needs a new President when things are running so well unless the purpose is to further their own interests?
PPSLA has been wrong and silent on numerous issues. They were wrong on the immigration issue. They were silent on the rifle issue. They were silent on the knit watch cap issue. They were wrong when they took an active part in attacking PLEA and PLEA Treasurer Joe Clure during the recent pension board election which resulted in them losing the services of their own attorney Mike Napier who is without question one of the most skilled and experienced labor attorney’s in the state. They were supportive of 'Jack Pot DROP’, which the city just recently said was the wrong thing to do. They were disastrously wrong when they grossly underestimated the character and loyalty of PLEA’s Chairman of the Board, Dave Dager. What PPSLA is vocal about is their association’s philosophy: “Our job is to support the policy makers.” That philosophy is O.K. until the policy makers are wrong. Blind obedience to flawed policies isn’t loyalty, it’s called trading truth.
PPSLA has brought this philosophy into the state Arizona Police Association (APA) group of which PLEA is a fellow member. When sensitive and internal APA police labor strategies, endorsements and discussions make their way out to the mailboxes of the public and into the offices of the policy makers, one must question the wisdom of allowing a police management philosophy to coexist in a police labor group. PLEA has great concerns that the Public Safety Manager has a seat at the table in the form of PPSLA. PLEA is seeking a solution to the problem through an APA bylaw revision defining who can (and cannot) be an active voting member of the APA. We believe that PPSLA has no business running or attempting to run PLEA or compromising the APA. When you live in an organization that has weak standards, it’s easy to assume that others will be the same way.
This is what sets us apart. We don’t believe in blind obedience. Your Association refuses to trade truth and this is where management accountability comes into play. PPSLA’s power play blew up in their face leaving the two lieutenants looking like Wiley Coyote in a roadrunner cartoon right after being on the wrong end of a dynamite blast. These inept and clumsy actions appear to be the mark of desperate managers looking for shortcut solutions to problems they don’t know how to solve.
Apparently, Lieutenants Hafkey and Adams think that the direction PLEA is receiving from you, the member’s, is flawed and that they, more than you, know what’s best for your Association.
Staying true to the philosophies that were laid down at the outset is what has kept your Association on track. We are here to put the members first. We have demonstrated on numerous occasions that we can work cooperatively with management to achieve objectives important to the members. What we won’t do is climb in bed with them. Anyone who has heard us on TV, or radio, read the website, newspapers, or the RECAP knows that we’re out front fighting for the members. When you go head to head with management long enough, you’re going to make some enemies and this latest incident proves it.
At this point in time, your attorney’s are involved and charges are being brought against the Department for interfering in Union activities when their “policy supporters” (managers) attempted to influence the internal election process of PLEA.
Be sure to let Lieutenants Mark Hafkey and Dave Adams know how much you appreciate their concern for manipulation of PLEA.
Regarding restricting employees from coming back to the PD:
What about the fair labor standards act?
Is it a violation of the act to deny employment to a qualified applicant just because he or she is retired from a similar job with the same employer?
What about age discrimination? Is it age discrimination to deny employment to a qualified applicant because he or she is retired?
Aren't there precedents for this kind of rehiring in other police agencies in Arizona and also in other occupations?
Just asking - Any legal experts out there?
It is really disgraceful to hear about Jack Harris and to see these photos of an assistant chief from Facebook!
Maybe this chief doesn't understand what it means to represent a job and a community, regardless of her personal taste and inclination towards woman.
It just disgraceful. Why isn't anything being done about it?
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