MORE HPD OffICERS LEAVING- WYNN'S GOTTA GO

[drewfer]

Another VETERAN Hattiesburg Police Officer is leaving the department. He is going to work in one of the surrounding counties. Rumor has it that TWO additional officers are about to leave for full time MILITARY work.
HOW SAFE DO WE FEEL NOW?
LETS GET RID OF WYNN, before all the good officers are gone! Has anyone called BRADLEY? Bradley works at the Rental Place on 40th Ave. Do we know if Bradley is he going to support Dupree with keeping Wynn in? Has anyone called Dupree?
What can we do?

[reality]

I think it's a hopeless situation. Let's say Bradley does vote to get Wynn out. Then what? DuPree gets to select his next Chief, and he will still have Fairley pulling his strings regardless of who is selected. I think it's a no-win situation.

The only thing we can do is pray, just like we all did about Dennis. Prayer changes things which we may think impossible. Fairley needs to be exposed for what/who he really is and needs to be taken out of the picture completely. That's the only way DuPree will ever be a good Mayor.

[Omerto]

RIGHT ON!!!!! REALITY!!!!!

The situation at HPD is now at "critical mass" and nobody else seems to care.

If you can't call the Mayor's office (you have his phone number thanks to 3rdfloor), if you can't call Chief Wynn (like it would do any good!!) then at least follow Reality's request for prayers.

There are too many good women and men at HPD who cannot speak for fear of retaliation and loss of their retirement benefits. Can any of us imagine how horrible it must be to work under those "golden handcuff" conditions?

Do it for them, do it for own self-interests, do it for the safety of your family and community--drop on your knees and thank our Maker for every member of the police force and pray that the day will come when they will be delivered from this horrendous situation.

Thanks, Reality--for caring.

[drewfer]

I agree as well. Everyone needs to add this situation to the prayer list at church. Please pray for peace in the hearts and minds of our officers. Pray for strength so that the officers can return to work another day to serve us. Pray for will power so the officers can take what they are seeing, what they are hearing, and personally experiencing at the HPD to him. This situation will not last forever, because God has a plan in mind.

[Omerto]

Semper Fi, Drewfer.

[noway]

Yep Danny Rigel got another one from HPD. I will double check but I think that brings the number to 72 officers in 4 years. 5 since the election. I also heard that most of the 15 on military leave are trying to get reactivated or extended until September 2006. I also heard about the two Drewfer is talking about.

Remember if Bradley votes against the chief it will be a 3-2 vote and the mayor can veto it. A 4-1 vote the city will have a new police chief. Thats how I understand it. If someone finds out different please let us know.

[aaron]

This is one of the main reasons I'd like to get contact information up for the city council, as well as, maps showing what ward a person is in, and which council person they should contact. I'd like for Bradley, among others, to walk in tomorrow with 100 emails in their box from people in their ward.

[HubCityMan1912]

DITTO! DITTO! DITTO to one and all! (Especially to "RealityofHub")

In a sadly related and very scary development: See the "Ex-Councilman Scott Farris arrested!" thread...

[JB2379]

The citizens of Hattiesburg is in desperate need of better leadership and I think its time that Wynn is investigated by a higher authority. We are a growing ciy and we need a fully-staffed police department with good leadership. I wish Dupree will stop believing that we are comfrotable with Wynn just because he was re-elected. What agency can ipossibly nvestigate the HPD and expose Wynn?

[drewfer]

I am sure if the right man or group was to investigate Wynn's behavior, they could find enough dirt to ask him to resign.( Firing him would be better!) Like for example when Wynn called some officers and asked them to call in sick to "help" with the election. That was not right. Should he get away with that?

[itzme]

Sadly its is more than likely going to get worse than better. The mayor's EGO and those idiots he has surrounded himself with have convinced themselves that they are infallable. What is it going to take for them to reilize that their egos can endanger the lives of our citizens. And WHEN it does ( and it will as long as they keep this track) everyone in city hall should be held accountable. Quit defending these people. Their lack of intelligence will make our town more and more dangerous. Those of you defending it . . . are your lives worth their egos? It's not an issue of black, white, democrat or republican. It's not an issue of if the media is fair or not . . it is an issue of saftey. There is way too much smoke for there not to be a fire!

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

You know, when a city has to run television commercials BEGGING people to be cops, there has to be a problem with the department.

[Tire Swang]

The sad thing is, The Hattiesburg Police Department was once a proud organization that stood as an example for what other police departments in Mississippi should strive to become. The HPD was accredited long before many police departments in the state knew what acceditation was.

Today, the HPD is little more than a corrupt bureaucracy run by an incompetent bully that seeks to destroy anyone that doesn't buy into the Fairley-DuPree-Wynn political machine.

What a tragic story Hattiesburg is becoming. I'm just glad that the citizens of Hattiesburg can rely on Bob Pittman and The Independent to act as our eyes and ears into what's really going on behind closed doors.

[BDPH1856]

I really feel for the officers in the HPD who probably cannot say anything for fear of their jobs....of even more.
Maybe the Independent will get to the bottom of this for the sake of the "good" officers and protecting the citizens of Hattiesburg. :police:

[HubCityMan1912]

Further Details re the Scott Farris HPD "arrest"...(Transcribed directly from a preliminary written account by Scott Farris personally.)...

Farris is in the process of helping sell his mother/grandmother's longtime home near downtown H'burg...He had been in town all afternoon Monday (11 July 2005) placing a "for sale" ad in the H'burg American, putting up for sale signs on the property, and generally inspecting/cleaning up the place...About dusk that evening (aprox. 8:30 PM) there being no power at the now vacant house, he contacted a longtime [african-american] friend and part-time business associate who's family has a carpet cleaning/floor repair business, re repairs and cleaning of the floors of the house in preparation for its sale...At Farris' suggestion (in order to take a needed break/relaxation and discuss some business) the two men attended the 9:30 showing of the movie "War of the Worlds" at Turtle Creek Mall, via Farris' small 1991 Ford Ranger pickup truck (his "work truck"/"farm truck")...Around the end of the movie the carpet cleaning man's wife called re the condition of their ill 8 year-old daughter, and the father asked Farris to take him to check on his daughter staying with his mother/father-in-law in the Richburg community...They left the Mall headed for Richburg around 11:30 PM, driving in Farris' small 4-cylinder work truck (his secondary vehicle [full-sized Chevy Van is his primary vehicle])...They headed east on Hwy 98 and turned right (south) on Weathersby Rd in front of the Lowes store...They passed an HPD car to their right (west) which was parked to the side rear of the Lowes parking lot and near the east wall of the Lowes bld, the HPD car facing east...The HPD car almost immediately pulled in behind the Farris truck with lights flashing and spotlight blaring...Farris immediately pulled over to the right edge of Weathersby at the stop sign interesection opposite the Northeast Lamar Volunteer Fire Station...Two officers approached on each side of the truck...The one on Farris' side (driver side) explained that it was [a routine traffic stop] because of a non-functioning right front headlight and turn-signal. (This was due to a recent collision with an adult doe deer on Hwy 11 N near Moselle in Jones County [a primary route to Farris' mother's home in Ellisville], which Farris explained the circumstances thereof to the officer--and the plausible extinuating circumstances leading to the light being still un-repaired.)...The officer then asked for Farris' drivers license--presumably to issue a citation for improper equipment violation, and both officers retreated back to the HPD car to the rear of the Farris truck...After a long 10 minutes, one came back to the passenger side and asked the passenger to step out of the vehicle , which he [passenger] did without complaint and was escorted to the rear of the truck (front of the cop car)...Farris remained seated, quiet, and facing front...After another long wait, Farris turned to look thru the open rear window of the truck to see his friend [u]handcuffed! Still, he said nothing for a long moment, but finally, in a respectful, conversational-toned voice asked: "What's going on officers?", "What's the problem?", to which one of the officers mumbled something in a discourteous tone which Farris did not understand...This officer--JOHN BRISTER ["white" male, very young]--then walked back to the passenger-side window of the truck, leaned over, made eye contact with Farrris thru the open window, when Farris repeated the same two questions--again in a respectful and normal tone of voice--to which Brister rudely replied "He's wanted on a bench warrant" [turned out later to be an upaid check], to which Farris replied "What does that mean?", to which Brister replied [again very discourteously] "A judge has a bench warrant on him!" (Farris, who has FIVE lawyers in his family knew that much, he wanted to know WHO/WHICH jurisdiction, etc.) So Farris then asked [still nicely] "WHICH judge?", to which Brister SHOUTED BACK WITH EXTREME DISRESPECT: "That's none of your business!", to which Farris responded with justified perturbedness-but still respectful--"Well, excuse me officer, but I believe that it IS some of my business--he's a friend of mine and you have [removed him from my vehicle and] HANDCUFFED him!" [for a civil--not criminal--offense] and Farris then said: "I'm a taxpaying citizen of this City and..." With that, Brister races around the rear of the truck shouting for Farris to get out, and as Farris does so, Brister--never breaking stride--rushes around the corner of the truck shouting to Farris "You dont [b]threaten a police officer!", to which Farris tried to respond "I'm not threatening a--" but in the same instant, Brister pepper-sprayed Farris in both his eyes and face...Shocked and stunned [immediate complete blindness for at least 30 minutes accompanied by excruciating pain], Farris immediately turned to his left and placed both hands on the roof of the truck for balance and to keep his knees from buckling...He made no effort at physically restisting or even verbally protesting to Brister...Yet--incredibly--Brister then jumped on Farris' back while calling for his partner [Gavin? or Garvin?--also "white" male, very young] to assist him in "a take down" of Farris to the hard pavement, which they did without any physical or even verbal restistance from Farris, while at the same time Brister completed HANDCUFFING Farris...

After this painful and completely unneccesary/unjustified manhandling of Farris, he was kept in this extremely uncomfortable position for at least 15 minutes, then ordered to arise--without any assistance (Farris, 48, has a pre-existing damaged back, the condition of which was of course seriously aggravated by this ordeal)--and escorted by two cops to the rear cage of another police car...It was at this time that completely-blinded Farris stated very calmly and simply to the officers: "You men have made a serious mistake.", to which both officers mockingly replied : "Oh, have we now?"...Farris was then placed in the back seat cage of a HPD car with all doors shut--and left alone to suffer for at least 30 minutes or more...But Farris is also seriously clautrophobic and 6'4'', so that this close and long confinement only added to his misery ["cruel & unusual punishment"?]...Also at some point during this period, the other officer originally present (on site of the 2 hour incident)--Gavin or Garvin--sat down in the front driver's side seat and asked Farris: "What you been stealing?!", to which Farris replied: "Nothing", to which Gavin responded "We've got you on record as a convicted burglar!", to which Farris responded "No, not me, never!", to which Gavin replied "That's what our records show.", to which Farris responded: "Your records are wrong!", to which Gavin said nothing, and vacated the car (for the time being)...

Finally shift commander Lt. Tucker arrived and opened the rear door (a small relief for claustrophobic Farris) to get Farris' "statement", and he was relatively respectful, decent, competent (for which Farris thanked him)--BUT--1) He first insinuated that he was "surprised" that a man in Farris' position would want to make a full statement (which, on the contrary, Farris was most eager to do so--even with Brister standing over him and even when he was still in some physical and mental shock from the harsh effects of the pepper-spray, etc.)...2) At the conclusion of Tucker's interview with Farris, Farris explained his problem with claustrophbia and the fact that he had already been in this close confinement at least some 45 minutes, and requested that Tucker at least leave the rear door open...To this modest request Tucker replied: "They're fixing to take you downtown right now.", and with that he slammed the door back shut! Well, Farris was not taken downtown "right now", but was forced to endure his agonizing circumstances for at least another 20 minutes or more--while at least 6 to 8 officers of both HPD AND Lamar County Sheriff's Office milled around laughing and talking, alternatingly ignoring or--in the case of the HPD officers--"gloating over" trapped Farris! (Brister in particular, clearly "enjoyed" his power/authority.)...At least THREE HPD cars and THREE LCS cars--for a total of at least SIX patrol cars were present for the last 30 to 45 minutes of this outrageous "incident"! (As if some "major" drug bust, violent shootout, or at the very least a big bad drunken fist-fight had occurred!)

Finally, Gavin and Brister returned to the HPD car with Farris still handcuffed in the back seat cage, and proceeded at a fast speed directly to the Forrest County Regional Jail in Downtown Hattiesburg...Enroute, not a word was spoken by Farris or either HPD officer...ETA at the jail was aprox. 2AM, meaning Farris was on site of the "incident" a full 2 hours or more...

Upon entering the jail, the two [again--young "white" male] Forrest County Sheriff's jailers immediately proceeded to verbally abuse, degrade, disrespect, and physcially threaten Farris (e.g., alluding to use of a 50,000 watt "stun gun" on Farris--said the one jailer with ominous glee: "Yeah, that's what we use instead of pepper-spray!"), even though Farris--still handcuffed and near blindness from the pepper-spray--was completely compliant and cooperative physically and verbally the entire time...

Farris and his passenger/friend/business associate were re-united for the first time since Farris was pepper-sprayed, and were duly "processed", and then thrown into a narrow "holding cell" where already 7 or 8 other adult men were sleeping, so little or no room to sit or lie down except on the narrow hall floor. (i.e. hence, more claustrophobia problems for Farris)...The necessary collect phone calls were made from this place and Farris was subsequently bonded out at aprox. 3:30 AM, after spending a total of about 90 cruel minutes in jail...However, due to the deliberate non-cooperation of the worst-offending jailer [neither had name badges or would give their names], Farris' bailbondsman was still at HPD headquarters some TWO MILES away when Farris was suddenly released and dumped out on Forrest Street in downtown Hattiesburg [aprox.3:30AM]--WITH NOTHING BUT THE CLOTHES ON HIS BACK! None of his personal effects were returned (i.e. wallet, cell phone, money/change, keys, watch, ring, etc.)...As Farris walked through the front door of the jail, he again asked the jailer his name, to which the young "bully" replied very sarcasticly: "Why do you need to know my name?", to which Farris calmly replied: "For when I take legal action against all y'all!", to which this arrogant jailer replied "Yeah, right.", to which Farris responded: "I tell you this: You remember the name SCOTT FARRIS! You'll remember it!" [As he and the others surely NOW already do!], to which the jailer responded with disdain: "Yeah, whatever.", and locked the front door...

At this point Farris wandered up to East Pine St, then realizing his continuing predicament, walked back to the front of the jail, and--via the outside intercom--inquired as to where his personal effects were, to which a surprisingly and suddenly [relatively] courteous voice replied: "You were arrested by HPD, all your stuff is at their headquarters." [2 miles south down S. Main and Bay St.!], to which Farris replied "Thank you", and walked back out to the curb of Forrest Street in front of the Regional Jail...

Farris was still contemplating his situation and what to do next, when--within less than 10 minutes--a young "black" lady drove past and stopped in front of the newspaper stands (located across from the jail near the southeast corner of the Downtown Hattiesburg Post Office)...She was a carrier for the Clarion-Ledger newspaper and was placing that morning's edition [Tuesday 12 July] in the newsrack...Farris called acrossed the street to her: "Excuse me ma'am, but could I possibly borrow your cell phone to make an emergency call?", to which she responded by looking--but said nothing (she was understandably cautious/defensive)...Farris slowly walked across the street, while continuing to speak to her (telling her his name, background, etc.)...When Farris arrived near her front car door, she indicated that she had no cell phone, but she graciously offered and Farris gratefully accepted 75 cents, so that he could use the P.O. payphone to make another collect call, which he did...

At aprox. 4AM, one of Farris' paternal cousins (an attorney), picked him up on Forrest Street and drove him to the home of his mother in Ellisville...Thus, the first phase of his maddening ordeal was over but: 1) Due to physical and mental trauma, Farris did not sleep for some 48 hours, 2) Neither his eyes nor his back has fully recovered--and may not ever, 3) To this day, neither Farris' wallet nor his passenger's wallet has been returned to them by HPD. (In Farris' case, this included about $30 in cash, various credentials, and priceless, irreplaceable family photos.)...

Farris will of course plead "NOT GUILTY" to the charge of "Disorderly Conduct against a Sworn Officer", will then be awarded a trial (at which time he will seek to have all charges dropped and his record expunged [i.e. be completely exonerated]...He has also filed a formal written complaint with HPD ("Affadavit of Complaint"), and will also likely take further legal action for damages against at least HPD officer John Brister and HPD...

A post-account Commentary by Scott Farris will be posted here and available elsewhere very soon. (And will hopefully eventually be published--AS A PUBLIC SERVICE--by our primary local print media--Bob Pittman's Independent News [weekly] and the Hattiesburg American [daily].)

[nonnegotiable]

Wynn is gone!

[lamarrebel]

I hope you are right, but Bradley has sent out a lot of mixed signals. I wish I could attend Tuesday night's council meeting and I encourage anyone who can to do so and speak out. I have to be in Purvis for Dr. Spell's appearance.

With a large group and facts in tow, Wynn can be terminated. As I have noted before,
DuPree won with 60 percent of the vote, but three out of five wards voted against him.
These three council members, in turn, need to listen to the consituencies who elected them.

[nonnegotiable]

Believe me Bradley is playing the field he will say Wynn is gone!

[nonnegotiable]

Your also have to remember that some votes were illegal!

[lamarrebel]

I have no doubt that there were some illegal votes, but I do not believe they would have substantially reduced DuPree's winning percentage. Instead of 60 point whatever percent, the margin might have been 58/59 percent. I think even a perfectly smooth primary and general election campaign wouldn't have yielded a victory for Betsyt. I believe Hattiesburg now has a majority BVAP or close enough to it, that they few white crossover votes would have put him over, and the next census will show that.

[bartspoon]

Even if wynn is voted out. i bet you a dollar to a donut dupree will not get rid of him. He is so arrogant about his mandate he will just keep wynn on to run the hpd and not pick another chief and wynn will remain at present salary. dupree does not have a time limit on how soon he must get a new chief, and if he wants to just take away wynns title and keep him there, he can. and i do not doubt for a minute that he is arrogant enough to do it. watch..

also the council meeting to decide on department heads has been put off till another date.. or at least that is the imformation i have. but we still need to be there. and we need to go to all the meetings. i wish we could organize and have protest signs that say , wynn has to go, it would not take but about 50 people to fill up the small area in front of City Hall, and we could come up with some cleaver signs. "No wynn situation", "dupree is not our King", "No more wynn is a win, win", "Dupree is Afraid to Talk", "dupree needs to be Gone with the wynn", "Fix our Streets", "Stop intimidating city-employees", "HA Sucks", "NO News is Bad News", "who is running city Hall", "wynn is a Tyrant", "Stop punishing our Police", "what mandate", "mandate this", "Eat at Donanelles"(hey how did that get in there), "King Kong was framed",(hey guys this is serious) "Hot Chick wanted, call noway" (okay thats it im out of here). I did think of a great one but aaron would have to delete my post. It was about 3rdFloor.......
Hubbarrister, do you think you could be our spokeperson? do you think picketing city hall before the meeting is a good idea? I would like to hear your opinion and everyones else's. Any sugestions for signs? I personally like "MANDATE THIS" best.

[noway]

BARTSPOON POST ABOVE::::wynn has to go, it would not take but about 50 people to fill up the small area in front of City Hall, and we could come up with some cleaver signs. "No wynn situation", "dupree is not our King", "No more wynn is a win, win", "Dupree is Afraid to Talk", "dupree needs to be Gone with the wynn", "Fix our Streets", "Stop intimidating city-employees", "HA Sucks", "NO News is Bad News", "who is running city Hall", "wynn is a Tyrant", "Stop punishing our Police", "what mandate", "mandate this", "Eat at Donanelles"(hey how did that get in there), "King Kong was framed",(hey guys this is serious) "Hot Chick wanted, call noway" (okay thats it im out of here). I did think of a great one but aaron would have to delete my post. It was about 3rdFloor.......

OMG :rollonflo :smt046 :lolsign: this is better than your fiddling post awhile back!!!(The police dept. is burning and your fiddling.. :eusa_booh)



I cant stop LMAO.... I tell you what if you get out front of city hall with any of those signs.. ("Im sure I can raise some money from myhattiesburg.com members") Im in for fifty.. This is killing me

[Omerto]

put me down for fifty. let me know where to send it

[HubCityMan1912]

THREE [BIG] CHEERS for Bartspoon!!! The various slogan ideas for possible [protest] signs are incredibly BRILLIANT in that they are simultaneously EFFECTIVE AND HUMOROUS! Absolute GENIUS Bartspoon!...You are talented and gifted indeed! Congratulations and THANKS for sharing! (SERIOUSLY: Every last one of these "slogans" need to "see the light of day" and not be lost and forgotton.)

Godspeed everyone and keep up the good work! IMPORTANT PS: The H'burg City Council had specific discusions re HPD this afternoon beginning at 4PM today (Monday 18 July 2005)...Scott Farris will formally address the City Council tomorrow (Tues 19 July) at the VERY BEGINNING of the regularly-scheduled Council meeting at 6PM (during the "Citizens Forum")--delivering his written "Commentary" re the HPD Issue.(This will make Farris' "Commentary" part of the official Minutes of the Council Record...Available for reading on this website/thread--SEE BELOW.)

[HubCityMan1912]

sorry, this thread isn't about Scott Farris, but there are 3 others that do are about him.

[just-Wynn]

Wynn has some suggestions for some signs: "When does Wynn not Win?", "Wear Wynn", "Know When to say Wynn", "Wynn-ever", "Don't break Wynn-d".... etc. Wynn is going to carry on despite these malicious efforts. :smt071

[reverand]

Wynn are we going to get relief
from harrashment and profiling from the Police.

We can't leave a club late at night,
without being followed and tailed by blue lights.

We get pulled out of our cars and patted down,
when no beer or stolen goods are found.

I guess we should remain home for a while.
and have a bail bondsman phone number on speed dial
Glory Glory

[Monkey]

Bartspoon:
I think my favorite is "Dupree needs to be gone wih the wynn!!"
:D

[just-Wynn]

Let's clear the air - break wynn Breathe deep peoples. Wynn is a breath of fresh air to the Hattiesburg area. The only reason you can't see the light, is Du- to Pree- exsisting conceptions you peoples have created about what you think Wynn is like. Wynn always plays Fair....ly peoples.

[Jessica]

I just heard Rusty Keyes turned in his notice today. Does anyone know if this is true? :smt102

[IGID]

What did you hear? Rusty was leaving or another veteren Detective leaving?

[Jessica]

Was my posting that confusing IGID? I thought I said it pretty clearly. :)

No, I'm not speaking of the detective in which you are referring. I've also heard he was leaving and coming to work with you at the Sheriff's office, but that has yet to happen. Or are you speaking of the detective who just finished interviewing with the Postal Service?


As I stated in my previous post, I heard Rusty Keyes turned in his notice today. I do not know if it is true though.

[IGID]

I haven't heard it yet, but you are right about the other one. He starts in a couple of weeks.

[Jessica]

I haven't heard it yet, but you are right about the other one. He starts in a couple of weeks.

Has he turned in his notice? That must be a pretty substantial pay cut, no?

[IGID]

I'm not sure the exact date he starts. It's before the end of the month though. He may be taking a cut, but the difference in work enviroment is probably worth more than $10,000.00 dollars a year. IMO

[noway]

Rusty has not resigned... Two officers did resign this week and rumor of a third but not rusty(as of yet)..

[R1ZOOM]

Who resigned this week Noway, and who's going to the SO?

[noway]

patrick deen going to work in consruction.. and terrell carson is going to work for forrest county..

[jojobeans1120]

WOW!!! Patrick's leaving too? This city is turning to $h!* and Fairley's carrying it in his handbasket!!!

[bigsexy]

It's true, I never thought it would ever happen. One of the most well known police officers of HPD is leaving. I confirmed this today that Rusty keyes is leaving. He turned in his resignation today. I also have been told that Terrell Carson is leaving also. That makes two more HPD officers with 15 years of experience leaving. There is probably less that five officers left with any amount of experience. well, the people that voted the mayor in have succeeded in what they wanted. a area with no productive police, where street side sale of cocaine is more prevalent than ever before. it used to just be marijuana and crack sold on street side. but now it is powder cocaine. due to the lack of enforcement the drug trade is booming. the question i have is? what is the best way to reduce crime stats. how about make so hard that officers never initiate an arrest. by not arresting that's one less report. the only possible truely believeable reason how serious crime could be down is due to the proactive prosecution by district attorney Jon Mark Weathers. He is the only reason Hattiesburg is not blowing Jackson away with crime.

[noway]

Does it matter.. What if 25 officers resign tomorrow.. So what HPD will not close down. Wynn is not leaving & Dupree aint putting him up before the council so pay attention IT DOESN"T MATTER...

[Maggie-Doodle]

I have been sitting here trying to think of something we could do that might would help solve the dilemma at the police dept....what if we all sat down and either wrote or called C.A.L.E.A. That is the organization that the p.d. got accreditation through. For those of you who don't know what accreditation is... let me see if I can explain.. it is a very involved set of guidelines that the police department has to draft and follow. A "manuel" of standard operating procedures that have to be adhered to. I would guess that if they got alot of complaints about what is going on at the department they would send an investigator to check out what is going on. It usually takes years to get accreditation and few police departments have accomplished the feat. Chief Sims worked diligently to get the honor for H.P.D. I also know that ever so often they send inspectors to "check up" on how things are being carried out...maybe a ton of letters to the agency would start an investigation...one thing for sure, it would be an investigation that could not be tampered with by the city administration!

[Maggie-Doodle]

OOPS! I forgot to give the address and phone number for C.A.L.E.A.
10302 Eaton Place,
Ste. 100
Fairfax, VA 22030-2215

PH: 1-800-368-3757

[fuzzis]

Accreditation usually has a set renewal time. So, perhaps before going off half-cocked, it might be a good idea to find out when HPD is up for re-accreditation.

fuzzis

[wilebill]

That's what I've been talking about, seeing how our dept. compares and adheres to some recognized "standard".

[Maggie-Doodle]

fuzzis, that is true about a renewal date and I am not for sure when their renewal is, but what difference would that make in the mean time? If enuf people lodged complaints I would think that an investigation by the organization would be done...what the hay do we have to loose except MORE quality officers? I think maybe they were renewed last year but I am not for sure...

[noway]

They were renewed last year and I think its every 3 years. But then again so WHAT.. They take away the accreditation.. and the city wont have to spend all that money to stay accredited and Dupree & wynn will say a bunch of disgruntled employees made them look bad.

He aint leaving
He aint gettin voted on

[fuzzis]

According to the CALEA website, HPD was re-accredited in 2004. Accreditation is good for what appears to be six years.

In looking at their information, a complaint procedure is not outlined. I would assume that if one were to make a complaint...and for it to be taken seriously and thus be a good use of one's time...one would need to be able to articulate what CALEA standard (s) the department was in violation of and the specific instances of that violation..

fuzzis

[Fairley's Corner]

I think it's a hopeless situation. Let's say Bradley does vote to get Wynn out. Then what? DuPree gets to select his next Chief, and he will still have Fairley pulling his strings regardless of who is selected. I think it's a no-win situation.

The only thing we can do is pray, just like we all did about Dennis. Prayer changes things which we may think impossible. Fairley needs to be exposed for what/who he really is and needs to be taken out of the picture completely. That's the only way DuPree will ever be a good Mayor.
How is Fairley preventing Dupree from being a "good" Mayor?

[lamarrebel]

uh oh....we have a new resident liberal among us :smt118 :smt119

[Smoke Diver]

And the Racial Cleansing continues in the city of hattiesburg

[JB2379]

Anytime you loose a well-known veteran police officer like Rusty Keys, something is definitely wrong. I wish Dupree would at least look into this mess at the HPD and stop taking Wynn's word that everything is okay. For some reason, Wynn thinks all these officers are leaving because they don't want to work for a black man. That simply isn't the case. Johnny, please wake up and smell the coffe, everyone who is critical of your police chief can't be wrong. Obviously there is a problem that needs to be addressed.

[Jessica]

It's true, ..... I confirmed this today that Rusty keyes is leaving. He turned in his resignation today.....

Bigsexy, thank you for confirming this darling. :smt006 I had heard it but didn't want to believe it. Hattiesburg is losing another good officer but I wish him the best. Did you by chance find out where he is going? I heard USM. :smt102

[nonnegotiable]

I can't seem to read the third page. Is anyone else having that problem?

[bigsexy]

Bigsexy, thank you for confirming this darling. :smt006 I had heard it but didn't want to believe it. Hattiesburg is losing another good officer but I wish him the best. Did you by chance find out where he is going? I heard USM. :smt102
I'm not sure where he is going. I do know he will do a good job nomatter where he goes.