All:
I have a small problem that I would like the group to ponder. I work in town in the cable commission. We have been taping the selectmen’s meetings. One of the last tapings I did was pertaining to a disagreement between Police and Fire departments. But to understand you will need background.
Our C of P has been fooling around on his wife. This has started before I moved into town. His wife went looking for a sympathetic ear and talked to his sergeant. Eventually they both started fooling around together. The sergeant was found out, and fired, the chief was divorced. Now the sergeant started working in the only garage in town. They used to work our town’s cruisers. But since the sergeant started working there, all work has been removed from the garage. And the police no longer call the garage to tow cars.
It got to a point where the fire department (which I am also on) waited 4 hours for a tow truck to show up from two towns over. Then the truck showed, the tow driver was smashed (drunk).
This caused bad blood between police and fire. The Chief of fire asked for a meeting with the board of selectmen. I taped the meeting. The meeting was two hours long, and there was one tape. This would have been broadcasted, except the secretary could not get the notes to the meeting. She asked for the tape to make minutes to be posted. When I got the tape back it’s been erased. Not once but twice. My machine pulled up scenes, but not much more. (Downloaded it to my hard drive and tried to rebuild) I found out the Chief of police told the selectmen’s secretary to erase it. The irony is now the former sergeant is running for chief’s job.
I sent the tape to my co’s repair division. I have a soundtrack, but no video. Now, do I broadcast this? Do I stay out of this, or do I play this out.
I was asking myself if his town even had a street light? Of course I can't talk because the nearest town around me has train tracks running through it and that is the only "lights". The Mayor owns one of the gas stations. Fricken town is less than a half mile long and they have 3 gas stations??? [img]/images/graemlins/laughing.gif[/img]
Arthur I guess when you say tape you mean magnetic tape of some format. Is it at all possible it was placed next to a magnet of some type accidentally? You know maybe on top of a speaker, this may explain why it wasn't totally erased. I personally use a degausser, it will completely erase a 1" tape in 10 seconds [img]/images/graemlins/supergrin.gif[/img]
the chief of police is in enough trouble. He has two offices who are, well, gay. one of the two like to flaunt it, but not as bad as Dingle on Reno 911.
But he will harrass folks in town. He will not go near any car with fire plates on it, so he has a blind eye to me in the truck. Most of us on the department speed around town anyway.
We also get a trustee from the county jail. He's job is to clean reaip anything in town property. Well, I have video footage of him splitting wood at the chief's home with the Chief there using a chainsaw in uniform (Chief was to be at a conference in Boston that day.) The trustee has also washed and waxed the personal cars of all the officers that show up during the day.
There are incident with computers missing, radios out of cars gone, and other things.
All:
I have a small problem that I would like the group to ponder. I work in town in the cable commission. We have been taping the selectmen’s meetings. One of the last tapings I did was pertaining to a disagreement between Police and Fire departments. But to understand you will need background.
Our C of P has been fooling around on his wife. This has started before I moved into town. His wife went looking for a sympathetic ear and talked to his sergeant. Eventually they both started fooling around together. The sergeant was found out, and fired, the chief was divorced. Now the sergeant started working in the only garage in town. They used to work our town’s cruisers. But since the sergeant started working there, all work has been removed from the garage. And the police no longer call the garage to tow cars.
It got to a point where the fire department (which I am also on) waited 4 hours for a tow truck to show up from two towns over. Then the truck showed, the tow driver was smashed (drunk).
This caused bad blood between police and fire. The Chief of fire asked for a meeting with the board of selectmen. I taped the meeting. The meeting was two hours long, and there was one tape. This would have been broadcasted, except the secretary could not get the notes to the meeting. She asked for the tape to make minutes to be posted. When I got the tape back it’s been erased. Not once but twice. My machine pulled up scenes, but not much more. (Downloaded it to my hard drive and tried to rebuild) I found out the Chief of police told the selectmen’s secretary to erase it. The irony is now the former sergeant is running for chief’s job.
I sent the tape to my co’s repair division. I have a soundtrack, but no video. Now, do I broadcast this? Do I stay out of this, or do I play this out.
If you don't mind me asking, are you simply just a concerned citizen, or is there something personal here?
Scott has been C or P since 1993. since then, there has been a lot of shady occurrences going on. Cruisers destroyed, questionable stops, police badgering home owners, equipment missing, illegal wiretaps, . And to top it off, incorrect equipment maintained in carsOn top of everything, we now have a police union starting here in town.(we are the smallest PD here on the seacoast. The last four years the union stated the department was too small. the department lost two members and now they decided it was large enough.
How are they badgering homeowners? If one badgered me, I would give 'em a piece of my mind. And if anything happened, it is not against the law to defend yourself from a cop acting illegally.
The two gay cops have been really coming down on two families in town. Both families are born again christians and have become quite vocal againist anything that can be considered homosexual.
So the tow members of queer eye for the cop guy have been known to follow them, park down the street, watching. knocked on the door if their dog runs over property lines
