according to the Journal (sub req).
There is an immediate problem with four of the candidates.
As APS administrators they are either totally clueless about the ethics and accountability issues
in the leadership of the APS;
or they have guilty knowledge of them.
In either case; they would not seem well suited for the job of restoring integrity to the office of Chief of the APS Police Department.
Guilty knowledge means, knowing about a problem,
having some responsibility or obligation to address it,
and instead, doing nothing.
I will bow to controverting fact in the form of any public record of their having stood to be counted on the issue of the lack of accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct, in the leadership of the APS
Thursday, September 06, 2007
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Jim Dorn stood up to Gil Lovato - he was the one who guided me to Internal Audit when I had information that a principal of a charter school was defrauding the state of money through VASTLY inflated "head counts". Gil did nothing with the information for over a year, which is why I went to Jim for guidance when he came back to APS from JeffCo Schools.
Through the Danny Moon fiasco, it was noted that Gil stood by and let a felony fraud of over one million dollars go unreported, uninvestigated, not looked at. Jim was still in Colorado at the time.
I was trained in police investigation techniques, know what constitutes probable cause, and had the hard evidence I needed to bring a case, but Gil ignored his duty as a special deputy. That, along with many other of his ethical trangressions, is what finally got him ousted.
Jim may not have brandished a samurai sword at Gil, but he had a hand in his overall defeat. Jim ran JeffCo schools Risk Management, in Colorado. He was in charge of Emergency Management, Loss Control, Security and Insurance. He had four managers under him; I ran Security for him for two years, plus filled in for Loss Control and Emergency Management when those positions were vacant.
Jim is a good man, and has ethics to spare. He is THE candidate to guide APS Police, Security and Safety into the future. Or at least get it's procedural compliance into the PRESENT!
J. Lopez - former APS and JeffCo employee
PS - I am not sure how much more qualified a person can get. SCHOOL specific experience and a law enforcement background, plus a Masters in Public Administration. Also - look what happened last time APS tried to hire a former APD Lt. or a former FBI man - Harrel and Lovato, both philandering despots who thought more of knowing their employees in the biblical sense instead of doing their jobs!)
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