Collateral Damage

Last evening during a planned social function we learned that a Forest View dispatcher was fired on Thursday by Salvador and Gary.  A letter was sent to Larry Powell to inform him about the termination and that it was for policy violations. This kind of happening is not usually newsworthy but we then learned the circumstances behind the episode.  During Salvador’s internal investigation on how this blog gets it’s information, he was sifting through hours of security video looking for his big break in the case.  Salvador came across a video of the dispatcher in question snapping a photo of a blotter log.  We asked why she would do something like that and after it was explained it made all the sense in the world.

The Forest View cop department is still running on antiquated pen and paper databases.  There is no computerized database of calls that come into the cop station.  A blotter log is created on a computerized spreadsheet then printed and stored for historical purposes.  This makes stuff difficult when someone needs to search for information about something in those logs that happened in the past.  The cops and dispatchers can’t just go to a computer and search, they have to go grab a stack of printed sheets of paper and go page by page to locate what they are looking for.  Cops, dispatchers and even Salvador have taken pictures of schedules, computer screens, logs or cop reports.  We are told that this is common practice in Forest View. Maybe Salvador should check his text message history and look at the times he requested reports or log information from his Coke Bottle assistant or any other dispatcher and cop.  We are assured that Salvador’s own cell phones are full of the same kind of photos the fired dispatcher snapped. Not only of cop blotters or cop reports but of private citizen's driver's licenses and insurance cards.  That would make for a lot of policy violations for everyone if a policy that says "no cell phone photos allowed" even exists.

The fired dispatcher worked in the Forest View cop station about 3 or 4 times a month so why would she be the target of the leaky faucet investigation?  As bad as we want to feel for her, she should have seen this coming.  We are told she sleeps with Salvador’s enemy, the cop that Salvador fired back in August.  Salvador despises the guy and probably wants to bang his girlfriend, but she probably wouldn’t give it up. On the other hand, Salvador can’t figure out how the information is leaving the cop station, so she was the first to go. Gotta have something to show the Larry and Mark club that Salvador is taking action to stop the bleeding! Common sense says the dispatcher should have started looking for a new job the day they fired her lover. She was collateral damage and automatically guilty by association. Can't really feel sorry for her there.

Needle in a hay stack.

We have been following the happenings at the cop department for a long time. Many friends have been made throughout the years that are connected to the Forest View cop department directly and indirectly.  We have also made anonymous friends who email us content, rumors and many many pictures from fake looking email accounts. Then there's Mr. Coke Bottles, he hears it, he goes home and kills a bottle of vodka and then everyone hears it by night fall.  Everyone seems to know that loud mouth.  We haven't seen things in our inbox that look like blotter logs or cop reports. We are told that nothing on those blotters would be of any value to this blog.  We know what Salvador is looking for, unfortunately it will take him a year or two of sifting through video surveillance to find it.  The images emailed to us anonymously look to have been taken quite some time ago by people Salvador probably burned and may no longer work there.  They could have been taken and passed around by someone who didn't like Salvador back then but now is his best friend.  Many people had access to that office Salvador sits in now.  See, that office was a “watch commander” office before Salvador kicked everyone out and changed the locks.  It was open all day, and all night.  It could really be anyone that steps foot in that office, even those Salvador break's bread with.  Salvador's very own Judas.  Salvador will keep looking for heads to chop but this blog has gone from information leaks to whistle-blower status.  The head he chops next may be the one that takes Gary, Salvador and the village to the bank.  If the first amendment doesn't get them, the whistle-blower act will.

We won’t keep calling the information sent to our inbox a leak.  A leaker only distributes information for personal gain. Gee, where did we hear about a leak before?  Oh yes, the chipmunk who made copies of cop reports and went to show politically influential people who weren’t cops in hopes that they would choose him for the Deputy Chief position since he knew how to write a sentence (for the record, this is a run-on sentence). It was illegal and a violation of policy but he didn’t get fired. No one even slapped his hand.  They blew the whole thing off.  Salvador fires a dispatcher for doing something Salvador and everyone else in that cop department does on a daily basis but turns the other way to the blatant violation of law and privacy committed by Alvin.  They should check Alvin’s locker, the manila folder may still be there with all the reports he was parading around with.  We are told that Gary Wiseman knew that this happened. As a matter of fact, Gary was a witness to Alvin's actions but Gary sat on his hands, monitored the park and did nothing.

Accountability. Google it.