Our Commentary on the Fraudulent Kidnapping Stats – We Were Right To Help Get Jack Harris Fired for Lying. Cavasos Did the Right Thing - For Once!

The OIG recently came back with their findings.  After a year plus process and investigation, results showed we were right!   Ultimately the Phoenix PD were able to scrape up enough “kidnapping stats” to meet their original claim of 358, but of the original 358, the OIG only found 195 to be “kidnapping” reports.  AZ PLEA said it best – 195 equates to 54% and 54% in anyone’s book is a FAILURE. 

The fact still remains, former mayor Phil OxyGordon and former and fired chief Jack Ass Harris lied before Congress with the far-fetched claim that almost every night in 2008, someone was kidnapped and being held for ransom in Phoenix.

“People are being tortured. People are being kidnapped. Almost every night, Phoenix police will get one or more calls, with variations…my wife is being held in a Phoenix drop house and they say they will torture and kill her if we don't pay them thousands of dollars.'  The response to that kind of call is incredibly labor intensive.”

This was a flat our lie and somewhere Harris’ and Gordon’s pants are catching on fire.  Almost every night, there was not a ransom kidnapping in Phoenix in 2008.  By our estimates, there may have been 40-50 that year.

How is this possible?  How can they "create" kidnapping police reports?  It’s simple.  People forget that there are different kidnapping offenses under Title 13 (Arizona Criminal Statutes).
1.  Kidnapping (13-1304),
                 A. Unlawful imprisonment (13-1303)
                 B. Custodial interference (13-1302)
                 C. Trafficking of persons (13-1308)
                 D. Access interference (13-1305)
                 E. Unlawfully obtaining labor or services (13-1306)
                 F. Sex trafficking (13-1307)

 So if someone is late dropping of their kid and their dumb cunt ex-wife calls the police? 

That’s kidnapping. 

All those drop houses on TV? 

Technically they fall under kidnapping. 

Phoenix police officer David Adams (president of PPSLA) holds his wife hostage in Scottsdale for a domestic violence incident?

Yep! - Kidnapping again!

A drunken guy holding on to his former girlfriend in his apartment begging her not to leave him?

Yep technically if the cop fills out a DR, s/he could label it kidnapping again. 

Polombo nameplates still missing? 

That’s kidnapping. 

Cops giving us the complete employee application file from PERB on Louie Adrian Tovar? 

Those docs were probably kidnapped too and unfortunately any street cop can miscategorise any police report as a kidnapping report.


It’s very easy after the investigation began for the Phoenix PD to go back, re-evaluate their police reports and “pad” more to fall under 13-1304 Kidnapping.  

It’s like being audited by the IRS. 

By way of example, if you claimed on a tax return that you had $20K in medical deductions you will probably get an audit by the IRS.  After your initial sit-down with the IRS they will give you time to go back and “find” the deficit or receipts (proof) that prove the 20K in deductions. 

This is exactly what happened with the kidnapping stats. 

The original 358 did not meet the criteria of kidnapping (only 195 did) so a lie is still a lie, but the Phoenix PD were able to go back and “find” DRs from 2008 that added up to the original claim of 358. 

So technically -yes- there were 358 DRs that were labelled as kidnapping stats per AZ 13-1304, but rest assured there were not 358 ransom kidnappings in 2008 and we are not the kidnapping capital of the world behind Mexico City as Murray Andy Anderson claimed.    The description and deception used by Gordon and Harris before Congress; it never happened in Phoenix in 2008.  Almost every night in 2008, there simply were not ransom kidnappings by drug cartels or anyone else.

So the question remains – Were they purposefully deceptive? 

Of course they were, at least we think so.
 
They will try to blame the street cops for misidentifying or miscategorising police reports – but ultimately those cops work for the Phoenix PD administration and ultimately worked for Jack Ass Harris.  Jack was responsible and accountable and it was right for David Cavasos to fire him.  While the Phoenix PD will position this as some sort of vindication, the truth remains that blaming a street cop is not the way to fix this.  The blame and the ones who lied before Congress were Harris and Gordon, with the support of Lauri Burgett.

When the application process began for the grants, someone (Lauri Burgett, Jack Harris and Gordon) had to request, review and submit the application.  Someone had to say, “Hey we had 350+ ransom kidnappings and need money to stop this.” 

How does one prove this?  It’s tough. 

This is where they lied and purposefully positioned it for personal gain.  It turned into one big finger-pointing game and ultimately they blamed the street cop for mislabelling kidnapping reports.  Just take a look at all the post kidnapping projects Lauri Burgett was involved in?  A new car?  A video company?   Trips to England with Jack?  Tens of thousands of dollars in overtime dollars for her personally?  It’s sad the OIG wasn’t smart enough to see this, but did we really think the Federal government was going to indict a Democratic mayor, police chief and a lieutenant on perjury?  It was doubtful because our government has no balls to do what is right.  Just look at what is happening around the world and all the corruption in Congress. 

And to boot - look at the retaliation that was exerted upon Phil Roberts?  Clearly someone was trying to silence him and he struck a nerve with Jack and Burgett.   All Phil did was say the same things we said here and he was demoted, humiliated and chastised for it.  Wow.  That’s a little crazy in our opinion and shows how retaliation is a form of discipline within the Phoenix PD.

So how do we feel about the report?   It’s pretty terse (as terse as the US Government will get) and blames PPD leadership for most of the problems.  Remember – the US Government won’t call them liars, fucktards, assclowns and cunts like we will – but we think they should have launched a criminal investigation.  We still hope Jack Harris rides his Harley without a helmet and crashes into tree, leaving him on a feeding tube and a colostomy bag, and it’s only a matter of time before Phil OxyGordon is pinched with a DUI for all his drug use with his horse-faced girlfriend.  Karma is a mofo – just look at what’s happening with the Tovar family right now.

Ultimately, we got Jack Harris fired and Phil Gordon is sitting at home popping pills and neither can further destroy our city.  We do hope that this was the final nail in Joe Yahner’s coffin and any hope of him becoming a police chief has been killed. 

Here's a link to the report if you want to read it.

LINK TO OIG Report - On Fraudulent Kidnapping Stats