We heard about this story a few weeks back, but we wanted to ensure Donna Rossi of CBS Channel 5 got the story first since we always beat her to the punch. She gets so pissed at us when we post something before she can do a story.
It appears that the selection process to go to Obama’s Inauguration was based on color and gender at the request of the new police chief. You're Black? OK brother! You're Hispanic? No problemo. You're Gay? Well bring your rainbows to DC! You're a white male? Sorry - you can't go.
LINK: You Have to Be a Minority to Go to Inaugurations These Days
The article states:
Montgomery admitted that she and commander Geary Brase used race and gender in the selection process, but Montgomery and Brase also told investigations that they were ordered to do so by the city's top cop.
"Based on what we needed ethnically, to balance out the list, he chose the most senior members of that ethnic group and/or gender group to go," Assist. Police Chief Tracy Montgomery said in her interview with EOD investigators.
"I was told by Chief (Daniel) Garcia through Chief Montgomery that the police chief wanted to send a diverse representative group to Washington," Brase said.
An email by Montgomery also indicates that matching the inauguration team to the ethnic and gender breakdown of the department was the expressed desire of the police chief.
It looks like there may be a little riff now between the dumbass and ever worthless Montgomery and the new police chief. We hope now she gets fired. We heard she went on stress leave over this one.
See Garcia? We warned you and now she threw you under the bus!!
But here’s where this is really creepy and shows how dirty and diabolical the Phoenix PD and city Manager’s office really are!
Chief Danny Garcia’s interview wasn’t recorded.
Why?
Also this investigation gets turned over to Police Internal Affairs which is run by Danny Garcia too. Why?
Because that’s the way they set it up. That’s the way they scratch each other’s back and protect themselves. That’s the reason why people hate dirty cops and one wonders why they are not given respect?
Someone asked us the other day, “What is going on? Why are people so apt to hate (and shoot) cops? When is it going to end? How can we make it stop?”
(For those of you outside of Arizona or international, over the course of the past few weeks here in Arizona, a Phoenix cop was shot in central Phoenix six times and a Maricopa County Sheriff was shot in Peoria – just a few miles from "Balloon" Knott’s house. )
Make it stop?!!? For us the realization came after 9/11 and continued up until this Blog was created in 2008. Cops somehow were elevated to demi-gods and it has progressively gotten worse. They are para-military (even their uniforms look like military) and demand in some weird, backward bizarro-world way, the same respect of those who serve in the armed forces.
But people have lost most respect for law enforcement because of the power play. Just read the news (and this blog!) and how Garcia doesn’t get recorded during an investigation or hides things from public record or starts bogus investigations on a whim. Is he above the law? It appears so.
In the news we hear and see:
- Cops throwing kids against the wall for skateboarding and threatening our youth, whilst secretly being recording
- Cops throwing old ladies on the ground at traffic stops
- Cops having on duty sex, in uniform
- Cops stealing, molesting, being drunk or beating their wives/girlfriends
- Cops spraying mace and tassering kids on school campuses
- Cops shooting at citizens (and sometimes killing) with no very little merit and their only justification is they felt threatened and the only witness is now a dead man
And in Phoenix…
- A pocked faced Lauri Burgett starting a video company about her own job and retaliating against Phil Roberts for calling her out on many things
- Mike Polombo bringing up bogus harassment claims with his whore, blowjob loving wife Heather
- Louie Tovar raising and hiding a child molester known as, Louie “Adrian” Tovar junior
- Officer Chris Wilson enjoying the taste of 14 and 17 year old boys (
why not the taste of gunpowder, copper or lead??)
- Theron Quaas shoving ferrets and live mice in his ass (
that's an inside joke, but if you have even seen this little man, you know it's not too far from the truth)
- A drunk Steve Soha or the ever stupid Tracy Montgomery now throwing her own chief under the bus
- Dave Adams beating and holding hostage his wife, then being promoted to lieutenant
- Numerous sexual liaisons and sexual advances within the Phoenix PD even involving the former Mayor’s son - Jeff Gordon (
who by the way was suspended for 6 months by AZ post for his on duty sex – so Phil OxyGordon called in some favors to get him a temporary job as a police assistant until his AZ post certificate is reinstated.)
….and all are still working as Phoenix cops. Google
any of these names and see what the internet (and this blog) has done to their reputation. Spending $10,000 with reputation.com sure doesn't help!!
A new police chief who wants to alter a cops uniform for looks, but doesn’t understand or read his own Ops order 3.15 on uniforms – as he is seen repeatedly wearing an honor guard pin on his lapel. This douchebag move is akin to Obama wearing a Seal Team Six pin on his lapel.
The biggest compliment we are ever paid is when people tell us (and thank us) for opening up their eyes and telling these stories that would otherwise never be told. How often will main stream media cover the stories we cover and say what we will say? They won’t . They can’t. Mainstream media like Channel 5 and Donna Rossi need a cooperative and liberal relationship with cops. We don’t and don’t care - and will pay, bribe and obtain our stories through the most surreptitious means possible.
People tell us that before reading the stories here, they would willingly call the police for help, willingly trade in weapons for a $50 gift card, willingly submit to DUI road exams, willingly speak to/meet with/or participate in investigations with police officers and willingly hand a driver’s license over to any cop that asked for it. We have been witnesses to crimes locally, been approached by cops and (tried to be) questioned and we simply walked away.
The LAST person we would ever talk to, collaborate with or help is a cop (
unless of course it is for blog purposes.) We were glad to see recently that a cop named Bennett survived six bullets on Camelback, but one has to understand that respect is earned, and what happened to Bennett was just part the chaff and fallout of the systemic rot within most police departments.
We don’t ever wish for anyone to get shot, except for maybe the pedophiles and it be self-inflicted. For the other dirty ones we mention here, like Polombo or Tovar we wish for Lou Gehrig’s disease, testicular cancer or strokes that leave them in diapers. But we wonder if in hindsight Officer Bennett would agree that pulling over someone on Camelback alone, on a bicycle was worth it? Does his wife and kids think the risk was worth it? Just because it’s a high crime area, should cops stop and fuck with everyone, all in the name of protecting us? Was Bennett poking a bear that didn’t need poking?
Perhaps.
Did the bear bite back?
Obviously it did.
This might sound surprising coming from us but there are fucked up people in the world and sometimes they just need to be left alone especially late at night on a bike. Darwinism usually takes care of them. It was only a matter of time before the PHX LITE RAIL made him into road pizza. Was the guy a threat to someone? We don’t think shooting cops is ever the answer. All that does is kill the good cops that are left, and turns the bad ones into martyrs. It also saddles us with tighter laws protecting these bad cops making it a cyclical problem.
How do you make it stop? How do we bring respect back to officers?
It’s simple. Take away the demigod status, make examples of the bad ones and pray for Lou Gehrig’s disease on the really bad ones. How about we start by recording the police chief during corruption investigations?
Until we do, expect more of the same and expect to hear more stories about cops being shot and expect this blog to keep finding stories on corruption, cover-ups, ineptitude and abuse of power. Until then, expect ignorant bikeriders on Camelback to find bullets and Ruger LCPs to be their great equalizers.
