While You Were Sleeping…
The other day FFFF ran a post on recent efforts by the Fullerton Police Department to share its Heroic doings with the public. Some were struck by the blatant and ongoing hypocrisy of the department’s alleged attitude toward DUI driving, given the fact that our former drunk-driving City Manager, Joe Felz, was given a free pass by the FPD after running off the road, plowing over a tree, and trying to escape the scene of the crime.
I’m struck by the constant effort of the department to spin PR yarns to make itself look good – despite all the evidence to the contrary. Get a load of the “while you were sleeping” shtick. It’s the old “we Heroes are keeping the streets of Fullerton safe while you get to sleep safe and sound – and how can you put a price tag on that?” routine. This relentless drum beat of the upbeat continues long after Chief Danny “Galahad” Hughes‘ departure, meaning that the strategy of fooling the public into mistaking a tsunami of PR for reform, is alive and well.
Anyway, I though I’d share a few other FPD activities that happened while we were sleeping, or maybe even when we were wide awake, sort of a public service announcement. Please observe the veritable FPD crime wave:
Veth Mam is assaulted, beat up and falsely arrested by Kenton Hampton and prosecuted.
Todd Majors rips off Explorers to pay for drug habit.
April Baughman rips off evidence locker – a lot.
Kelly Thomas is stalked, threatened and beaten to death by Ramos, Wolfe, Cicinelli & Co.
Cary Tong & Co. abuse arrestee.
Sonny Siliceo intentionally misidentifies Emanuel Martinez sending him to jail for 5 months.
Sonny Siliceo files a report so false even the DA can’t ignore it.
Timothy Gibert busted for ripping off high desert Home Depot.
Andrew Goodrich lies to press about cops receiving broken bones from Thomas incident.
Kelly Meija places bag of chicken on iPad, purloins the latter at an airport and gets caught.
Perry Thayer and friends get their kicks.
Ron Bair extracts sex from crime victim.
The battery and false imprisonment by Christopher Wren.
The serial abuses of John Cross and Gregg Nowling.
Officer Bybee rams bicyclist David Tovar.
Well, now I’m completely exhausted. Please feel free to remind FFFF of any other misbehavement by our boys and girls in blue and I’ll be sure to add it to the list.
What ever happened to April Leanne Baughman? Inquiring minds want to know. Surely she had an accomplice at Police HQ to help cover up.
That has to be about a third of the police department. What are the rest of them doing? Standing around and watching?
Yes.
This is just the stuff that came to light. Let’s say 90% of the bad stuff never even gets out…
Didn’t you guys have a letter from the police chief promising a resolution on that complaint against Corbett for the Felz/Hughes corruption case? What happened to that?
Dead Letter office
Ha ha. nice list. How about Chief Danny, Goodrich, and Coffman’s “excessive horning” bullshit?
And what about Bybee ramming the dude on the bicycle? That one cost us twenty grand.
Oh, yeah. David Tovar. Thanks.
Don’t forget this recent one:
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/tire-slashing-friends-claim-a-couple-kidnapped-assaulted-robbed-them-but-it-wasnt-true-7582786
Thanks. Never heard that. I’ll add it but it certainly deserves its own post!
You should be a headline writer.
Whoever let Dino Skokos get away with that FJC assault caught on tape should be on this list.
A complaint would need to be filed. Maybe it wasn’t.
Maybe it was.
I think former officer Ramos is living just a few blocks from the police dept. There is a monster truck parked in a driveway of a house just beyond “the sappy tree” where the sign above the door says “Ramos.” I heard he was staying close by the downtown. Isn’t there a registry for former employed officers living in your city. I just don’t want to be out walking in front of that house at night!
I love that idea. A Bad Cop Registry.
Naw, the data base would be too big.
Your link for Cross and Bowling is wrong.
Fixed it.