Just Another Dead Criminal
It was one of those literally unbelievable moments that seem to be happening with increasing frequency – a tax-eating public servant defending his culpability by deception, incompetence, and negligence for the bloody murder of a young female under his control essentially by implying ‘she asked for it‘:
The Tallahassee police chief says Rachel was suspected of selling drugs and she was rightly treated as a criminal.
“That’s my job as a police chief to find these criminals in our community and take them off the street, to make the proper arrests,” Jones told 20/20.”
Rachel was in a drug court diversion program when she became an informant. Due to the manipulation of the chief of the Tallahassee PD, she is now a dead informant. Yet despite his manifest culpability for her death, here he is, on TV, defending his reprehensible action of putting this peaceful dope-smoker in the literal sights of two (allegedly, a term with which he disdains to describe the unconvicted Ms. Hoffman) known murdering animals;
“I’m calling her a criminal,” Tallahassee police chief Dennis Jones told 20/20, who maintains that both drug dealers and drug users are considered criminals to his department.
It was like watching a fictional crime drama, except this guy really is on the government payroll, saying this stuff like he believes it.
If Rachel Hoffman was a “criminal, then this guy is nothing but a murderer.
Just flipping through today’s local newspaper and noticed a disturbing trend of how gobs of unearned cash gravitating toward unaccountable entities attracts the criminals.
Questions surround grant in Clifton Heights
CLIFTON HEIGHTS – Residents and some council members questioned the transfer of $825,000 in grant money to the Clifton Heights Economic Corp., a nonprofit entity that council has no control over, at a recent council meeting.
“I don’t know how we authorized this corporation when we never got papers on this corporation,” said Councilman Mario Alpini. A listing for the corporation at nonprofit compendium Guidestar.org could not be found.
Police: Mother stole $74,000 from Avon Grove Little League
LONDON GROVE – State police arrested a Little League mom after she allegedly stole more than $70,000 raised through hot dog and candy sales, raffles and donations.
Fresh Start program raises questions in Yeadon
YEADON – Councilman Isaac Dotson received answers to questions he raised at the July 17 council meeting concerning Fresh Start Summer Camp, a popular new program serving 43 local teens under the direction of founder Leslie Lewis-McGirth.
Dotson specifically asked, “How many checks did the finance department issue on behalf of Fresh Start and how much money was spent to date?” And “who authorized Fresh Start employees to be placed on borough payroll?” Dotson also inquired about registration fees, employees, salaries and whether they’d received background checks. He also wanted to know if Lewis-McGirth used the borough’s tax-exempt number for grant applications, and “why the borough has not seen any funds, … cash or check?”
This is all from one weekend in one county. And last but certainly not least, the dead tree version of the same paper today reported on the executive director of National Night Out (a non-profit crime watch organization) is under fire for claiming $300,000 in compensation from his $1.2 million budget most of which, as in the stories above, flows from us to him at the point of a gun. By the way, I’m also keeping an eye on the $500,000 check my own local youth club collected from the Commonwealth of PA to build a fieldhouse. The previously-privately-funded organization is quickly becoming a highly-protected fiefdom.
