The epidemic of drunk and drugged up cops

North Chicago cop sued in fatal wrong-way crash

CHICAGO — The mother of a man killed in a wrong-way Lake Shore Drive crash is suing the North Chicago police officer who allegedly caused the wreck while driving drunk off-duty.

Police accuse Terrell Garrett, 35, of driving his Chevrolet Trailblazer more than 60 mph the wrong way in a 45 mph zone when he crashed into two cars March 15.

Joaquin Garcia, 25, and his friend Fabian Torres, 27, were both killed in the crash between Belmont and Diversey avenues.

Garrett, a five-year veteran of the North Chicago Police Department, suffered a broken hip and was later charged with two counts of reckless homicide and two counts of aggravated DUI.

Authorities said his blood-alcohol level was 0.184, more than twice the legal limit.

Garcia was a student at Malcolm X College and was studying to be a surgical technician, relatives said.

His mother, Cecilia M. Garcia, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against Garrett, accusing him of negligence leading to her son’s death. The suit seeks at least $100,000 in damages, including compensation for Garcia’s medical and funeral expenses. Garrett remains held on $500,000 bond and will next appear in court Friday, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

  Cop with alcohol on breath suspended

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) - A Battle Creek police officer who was a passenger in a 2012 drunk driving crash has been placed on administrative leave for an incident involving alcohol.

Officer Jennifer Appl is accused of being drunk when she showed up to work at 10 p.m. Saturday.

A coworker noticed the smell of alcohol on her breath and officials at the Battle Creek Police Department administered a field sobriety breath test. That test showed her blood alcohol content level (BAC) was .13.

They then called Michigan State Police to investigate per standard procedure because the department cannot investigate one of its own employees.

Several hours after the first breath test, Appl agreed to a Breathalyzer test given by MSP officials. She blew a .07, according to Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert. Only that test is admissible in court, Gilbert said. He also said it's logical to assume Appl's BAC was higher earlier.

Appl has been charged with misdemeanor operating under the influence and possession of a firearm under the influence of alcohol. She could be officially arraigned Tuesday.

Appl was placed on paid administrative leave over the weekend, Battle Creek Police Chief Jackie Hampton confirmed.

Appl's employment with BCPD, with which she has been an officer for four years, is now in question. Hampton on Monday declined to comment further on her future until an internal investigation is complete.

Hampton said the incident will go to the Human Resources Department and the City Manager's Office for further review.

Appl was the passenger in the July 31 crash in which a fellow officer crashed through mailboxes and street signs. At the time, according to a police report obtained last year, her BAC was .369. Driver William Gensch's BAC was .285.

Gensch was disciplined in connection to that crash, but Appl was not.

Appl has previously had trouble with alcohol, records obtained last year by 24 Hour News 8 show. She lied about failing to report to work in May 2012, the records say, because she was "too embarrassed to say [she was] in the hospital due to alcohol."

In a letter dated July 27, four days before the crash, Battle Creek Police Chief Jackie Hampton wrote to Appl that he had suspended her for 15 days. He also threatened to fire her for future "untruthful statements."

"The allegations against you are extremely serious," Hampton wrote. "I am especially concerned in regards to these allegations being related to the consumption of alcohol, and encourage you to take part in the services that have previously been offered to you."

Appl signed that letter on Aug. 1, the day after the crash.

  

Duluth Police Officer Charged with Hit and Run

Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- A 15-year- veteran of the Duluth Police Department has been charged with hit and run following an incident outside of a Duluth bar in March.

Officer Brian Jones, 50, was charged after police say he backed his car into a parked twice in the parking lot of Mitch's Bar and Grill on March 14.

When authorities were called to the scene, Jones was no longer there but his car was still parking in the lot.

The case was turned over to the Lake County Attorney's Office and Jones was placed on administrative leave but has since returned to his regular work duties.

The Duluth Police Department is currently conducting an administrative investigation into the matter.

Lee County, Florida: A deputy has been arrested and charged with possession of steroids, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His salary has been stopped and the sheriff plans to let him go as quickly as possible. ow.ly/jVTNv

St. Joseph, Michigan: An officer who pleaded guilty to two counts of larceny for taking prescription drugs from the county jail’s clinic will not serve jail time. He is currently on unpaid administrative leave. ow.ly/jVO7h

Monroe, Louisiana: An 18-year veteran state police sergeant was arrested on a variety of criminal violations, including narcotics distribution. “Thomas has dishonored his oath, his organization, and more importantly the community he swore to protect. We will push for the strongest possible punishment,” said the superintendent of state police. ow.ly/jWyKu

You're average cop is a common theif

Sentencing delayed for witness in Pittsburgh police corruption case 
The sentencing of a defendant in a corruption case involving the city of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has been postponed from April 4 to May 22 because she is cooperating with the investigation.
Former city systems analyst Christine Kebr has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and confirmed to U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon that she helped to steer a contract to an Esplen business for bribes totaling $6,000.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert S. Cessar wrote in a motion filed today with Judge Bissoon that Ms. Kebr "is cooperating in an ongoing investigation, and the government believes it would be advisable to postpone her sentencing until her cooperation is complete."
Judge Bissoon granted the motion.
Ms. Kebr, 56, of Castle Shannon, confirmed that she took the bribes from Art Bedway, 63, of Robinson. Mr. Bedway has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, bribery and mail fraud charges.
Prosecutors said Mr. Bedway ran Alpha Outfitters, which beat out a competing company to win a contract to install and maintain radios and computers in city police cars, for which it was paid around $330,000. Ms. Kebr said she conducted the selection process for the city's information systems department, while secretly working with Mr. Bedway and an unnamed third individual to ensure that Alpha Outfitters won the bid.
Former city police chief Nate Harper was a friend of Mr. Bedway, but has denied any involvement with the contract. Mr. Harper was indicted Friday on unrelated charges of conspiracy and willful failure to file tax returns and his attorneys have said he plans to plead guilty.


Judge revokes bond of former police chief charged in corruption case 
SPRINGFIELD — A judge revoked bond Friday for former Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans after she was charged earlier this month for allegedly tampering with a witness and obstructing justice in her federal corruption case.
Evans had been held on a recognizance bond for her 2012 indictment of allegedly misusing more than half of a $1.25 million state job-training grant that went to a non-profit she controlled with her husband, Ronald Evans Jr., who is also under federal indictment.
But on March 15 Evans was jailed in Springfield after being charged with allegedly coaching a key witness in the fraud case, Ashley Simon, two days before Simon provided false testimony before a grand jury last month.
Simon allegedly admitted to federal investigators she had lied under Evans’ direction to the grand jury about $17,000 in state grant funds she withdrew from the bank and $5,000 of which she deposited into Evans’ personal bank account.
After meeting on Feb. 6 with the grand jury, Simon allegedly sent Evans a text message saying, “I just got out if you think it’s okay to call me. It went horrible.”
Simon — who was supposed to be a mentor for Evans’ purported charity, We Are Our Brother’s Keeper — was controversially hired in 2010 as a part-time Country Club Hills police officer, a post she still holds full time but is currently on leave due to pregnancy.
After allegedly admitting she had lied to the grand jury, Simon agreed with federal investigators to wear a wire and record Evans in her Chicago home on Feb. 14, when Evans allegedly continued to say things like, “Never let them change your mind. . . . . Stay strong and we’ll get through this.”
Several tapes of recorded conversations, hundreds of pages of text messages between Evans and Simon and the testimony from U.S. Postal Inspector Basil Demczak, who conducted most of the investigation, were enough for the court to conclude Friday that there was probable cause for the charges.
After more than three hours of hearing, Judge Byron Cudmore decided to revoke Evans’ bond.
Evans — shackled and dressed in a gray and white striped jumpsuit with her family in the audience — sat motionless before Cudmore as he declared Evans unfit to rejoin the community for fear she could tamper with other witnesses.
Arguing for Evans’ release on bond, her lawyer, Lawrence Beaumont, told the court that Simon had “basically showed up on [Evans’] doorstep and asked to be tampered with.”
“It’s not like she’s going from witness to witness to witness and saying, ‘change your story, lie or whatever,’” Beaumont said of his client.
Beaumont also informed the court that Evans’ mother, Essie McCoy, was willing to put up her homes in Chicago and Alabama for bond and that Pastor Shirley Hughes of the Inspirational Deliverance Center Church of God in Christ — where Evans has been a member since 2008 — was willing to act as third-party custodian.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Bass, who prosecuted on behalf of the government, argued Evans has a “corrupt state of mind” based on her recorded conversations with Simon.
“A new charge and a new arrest following a different arrest and charge is not some magic wand,” he said. “We’ve proven what she is likely to do, and that is to commit another offense.”

JPD officer charged in bribery case takes witness stand 
The prosecution rested its case Thursday against Sgt. Richard McGahey, who is accused of accepting $250 to give a field release to a suspect.
McGahey denied ever taking a bribe.
The FBI’s informant, who helped with McGahey's arrest, took the stand Wednesday.
The informant said he had a long business relationship with McGahey.
McGahey testified that the informant regularly owed him money. McGahey said at one point, the informant owed him more than $400.
"I said, 'Good grief. How much are we up to?'" McGahey testified.
McGahey said he gave the informant food on Thanksgiving and Christmas. McGahey said he also gave him rain gear and an old suit.
"What did you think that money was for?" defense attorney Dale Danks Jr. asked McGahey.
"Well, I knew what it was for. It was for the $196 that he owed me," McGahey


Judge tells D.C. cop to seek help for gambling problem before sentencing
The sentencing of a D.C. police detective convicted of stealing her brother's identity has been deferred so that the officer can begin to seek help for a gambling problem.
Jamell Stallings, 46, of Brandywine, was convicted in February of counterfeiting, identity fraud and theft charges. She was scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday but now has another court appearance scheduled for May 17.
According to prosecutors, Stallings and one of her brothers, Ronald Greene, had gone to a credit union to open an account, but Stallings made herself a joint owner of the account without her brother's knowledge. Stallings then used her brother's identity to take out several loans. She used the money for items such as fancy dinners, her education and to pay off her vehicle.
Stallings has been a D.C. police officer since 1989, and a police spokeswoman said Tuesday that she remains suspended without pay. As a homicide detective, Stallings was testifying against criminals during the day and "was coming home and scamming banks," prosecutor Renee Joy said in a hearing Tuesday.
Greene and his daughter did not attend the hearing, but Joy read letters from them in which they asked for Stallings to receive mental health treatment. Joy recommended a sentence of 4 years and 3 months in prison, which is at the top of the sentencing guidelines.
Stallings' lawyers then called a co-worker and two of Stallings' other siblings to speak. A sister said Stallings is a good person who has tried to help Greene. Relatives also claimed that Greene, who has suffered from a drug addiction, has been a problem.
But before Stallings was given the opportunity to speak, Prince George's County Circuit Court Judge Sherrie Krauser had a lengthy sidebar with the prosecutors and defense attorneys. Krauser then addressed Stallings and her supporters and said they were "under a misconception" if they thought the indiscretions were about Stallings trying to assist Greene or an intrafamily dispute.
Instead, Krauser told Stallings, "It's all about your gambling." The judge noted that bank records showed Stallings taking trips to Atlantic City, N.J., and Las Vegas.
Krauser encouraged Stallings' family members to rally around her and help her overcome her addiction. She said she wanted Stallings to begin her road to recovery prior to sentencing in order to ensure that she does not commit similar crimes in the future.
As Stallings exited the courtroom following the hearing, she was crying, and her supporters were consoling her.

Weasels

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: 

A jury decided that two of four cops are liable for framing a mentally challenged 15-year-old in a 1983 rape and murder case. 

The man spent 26 years in maximum security prisons before DNA evidence set him free in 2009. 

He has been awarded $7 million in damages. 

Greenville, South Carolina: A cop was arrested after being accused of disposing evidence in a 29-year-old homicide case. “As a result, continuing the case and pursuing defendants [will be] extremely difficult,” said a court solicitor. ow.ly/jsZaT

Simpsonville, Mauldin Cop Arrested

George Ralph Bobo is being charged by SLED with obstructing justice in murder case. Missing evidence could now make it impossible to solve the 28-year-old crime.

Update: — At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, 13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins said physical evidence allegedly disposed of by former Simpsonville Cop George Ralph Bobo means it will likely be impossible to close the case of the 1984 murder of Cassandra Johnson.

Wilkins said the slain woman's family was told of the evidence destruction and impending charges against Bobo before the information was publicly released. He expressed sympathy for the family, who has been waiting for more than two decades for justice and closure.

Wilkins said that despite the case being 28 years old, investigators continued to work on the case with real hopes of solving it.

"Their ability to get justice has now been severely compromised. My heart goes out to the family of Cassandra Johnson," he said. "This is absolutely tragic for her family."

Wilkins added: "Our ability to continue our investigation and prosecute a potential witness has been seriously compromised in that now we no longer have a piece of material evidence — we no longer have that we can no longer test — and it ultimately taints a significant part of the case making it very difficult to pursue a potential suspect in the case."

Wilkins did not say what key piece of evidence Bobo is alleged to have destroyed, nor what his motive was, though investigators believe they know, he said.

Wilkins also said they believe Bobo, who was in charge of evidence in the Johnson case, worked alone in allegedly disposing of the evidence. Wilkins said it did not appear that evidence from any other cases had been compromised by Bobo, who remained in the county detention center Tuesday afternoon on $60,000 bond.

Wilkins also alleged that the evidence disposal was not accidental. "We're alleging he knowingly disposed of the evidence," Wilkins said.

Robbie Davis, the mother of murder victim, said Bobo assured her he would find the killer, according to WYFF.

"How could you sit and smile at me and promise me you were diligently working to get it solved when you knew in your heart all along that's not what you were doing? You were doing the opposite," said Davis.

Bobo's attorney, Jim Bannister, said his client is innocent.

“I think the important thing to remember at this point is that these are just allegations,” Bannister told The Greenville News. “We’re talking about a fellow who has devoted his entire professional career to law enforcement, to the justice system and working for the people of the county.”

Bobo's arrest left former Simpsonville Police Chief Keith Grounsell shaking his head.

For Grounsell this is personal, since he had been working on the Johnson case while at the solicitor's office, and later as police chief, and believes the case was close to being solved before the city fired him last December.

Grounsell also hinted that his controversial firing, and now Bobo's arrest, are just the tip of the iceberg and that more revelations of long-simmering problems within the city are a step closer to being brought out into the open.

In a statement to Patch, Grounsell said:

"In light of the recent events and the arrest of Simpsonville Police Lt. Ralph Bobo, my thoughts and prayers go out to the Johnson family during these hard times. I personally worked on investigating the 1984 cold case murder of Cassandra Johnson and was on the verge of making an arrest in the case. I started working this investigation while I was at the solicitor's office and continued to do so as the Chief of Police in Simpsonville.

"I have taken a personal interest in seeing to it that the Johnson family got some answers as to why this case has not been solved. With that said, in order not to do or say anything that would jeopardize the ongoing SLED investigation in Simpsonville, I will not comment on any of the specifics of the investigation. I will say that there is more to come and a lot more than meets the eye that has been going on in the city of Simpsonville for decades — just like I said from the beginning of this ordeal.

"Although this is a tragedy and the Johnson family is being revictimized again, hopefully it will open the eyes of many people as to what I have been saying all along."

ORIGINAL STORY: A former Simpsonville cop has been arrested and charged with obstruction of justice and misconduct in a murder case, the State Law Enforcement Division said Tuesday.

George Ralph Bobo, 53, of Gray Court, was arrested by SLED agents Tuesday and booked into the Greenville County Detention Center. He has been charged with one count each of obstructing justice and misconduct in office, according to arrest warrants.

SLED alleged that Bobo, a former cop in Simpsonville and Mauldin, disposed of evidence in a homicide case sometime between March 2000 and January 2012.

Simpsonville Police Chief Steve Moore said he was awaiting word from SLED, but said he believed the case in question is the 1984 cold-case murder of 20-year-old Cassandra Jones, a Hillcrest High graduate who was found dead from multiple stab wounds in a wooded area off West Georgia Road on Sept. 22, 1984.

The case remains unsolved.

Bobo, hired by Simpsonville in 1992, was a lieutenant with the Simpsonville Police Department when he was fired in January 2012, Moore said. He then went to work for the Mauldin Police Department and later resigned there.

13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins told WYFF that because the evidence in the Johnson homicide case has been destroyed, it will most likely never move forward. Wilkins said it is most likely that the South Carolina Attorney General's Office will prosecute the case against Bobo.

If convicted, Bobo faces a possible combined 20 years in prison on the charges, a SLED news release said. Bobo was set to appear in court Tuesday afternoon.

Citizens first, hired help second.

"I have to realize every single day that I come to work that the decisions that I make -- you always have to say, how does this impact a patrol officer interacting with the community? " Roessler said. "I'm looking forward to the honor and the privilege to serve all the members of what I call the police family."

Artists concept of Roessler

No, wrong. Decisions made by government officials should be based on how they affect the citizens who employ them. Not the other way around. Decisions should not be made on the impact they will have on employees hired by the citizens to run their government.

Citizens first, hired help second.

Roessler is the latest in a long string of police executives who probably live in a bubble, a bubble that makes them fail to understand that the honor and privilege is in serving the citizens of the community and not the cops the community pays and pays and funds (And far above the national average, at that.)

It's our government, not theirs and so long as the county allows the vast majority of our well paid cops to live outside the county, it will never be their government.  Other counties have live in requirement for their police. We don’t. The cops have that kind of pull in your government.

Roessler appears to be part of, if not one of the architects of, the“us first” mentality that permeates the Fairfax County Police. But we can’t blame him. The cops have been out of control (and grossly over funded) for decades and the guilty finger for their arrogance and brutality should be directly pointed at us, the county residents, the owners of the government who keep reelecting the same old tread-mill thinking hustlers in slightly shiny suits who let the cops run rampant on our traffic jammed crowded roads (and ridiculously overcrowded schools.)

We don’t have the money for more roads (or more schools.)  But the cops have enough money to employ a dozen deputy chiefs, a navy and an air force that may or may not includes drones with a few bucks left over to hire even more cops and open even more police stations. Think about that while you sit on the beltway.

The policeman is not your friend. The Fairfax County Police Department holds its self-interest far above your wants and needs. In fact, the full time job of the several dozen assistant to the assistant chiefs of police we carry on the payroll, is to get you to trust the cops and not to ask too many questions. They need you to stay dumb. Trust us, the cops tell you, we don’t need police oversight in Fairfax County, we’ll handle it ourselves. Trust us.

Your elected officials agree with the cops. They don’t want police oversight because the hundreds of misdeeds, transgression and criminal actions the cops get involved in every year….on your dime….. would go public and citizens would be aware that the elected officials we pay to run government aren’t very good at what they do, and, proving the cops point, should not be trusted.

Trust us, the cops say. We’re hiring nine new cops this year because we need them. We won’t offer any proof, your elected officials won’t ask why, they trust us, why don’t you?

Local government, hell government in general, runs better and is more efficient in delivering services when it’s not trusted.  The cops know that and in their view,  as, long as citizens stay asleep, everything will be just fine.

Don’t trust the bastards, by not trusting them we not only empower ourselves and keep the collected elected sleaze on their toes, we give the hundreds of good, decent people who work in government, the ones who have nothing to hide, a boost up and a chance at running things, out in the open.

Roessler has been raised in the “trust me” culture of the Fairfax County Police and that form of leadership sets the tone for further abuse, mismanagement and secrecy by the police.

We need to hire a police chief not born and bred in the old south-redneck, good ole boy network that is the Fairfax County Police. It’s a new century. It's time to change things. We’ll need to look outside the Fairfax cops secrecy system, outside the county and probably outside the state to find someone capable to tear down the “trust me”-think mentality that runs the cops, someone who will attract more outsiders to the force, hiring fewer white boys with Nazi haircuts and mangers who are creative, committed to the community, and idealistic in their goals.

Fuck the police

The problem of Mentally Ill cops in America

Erin Healy Ross recalls her brother, 38-year-old police officer Ryan Healy.

“I received a text from him saying that he had decided to die and that he would be in the house,” she recalls.

Erin and Ryan’s father, a retired cop, raced to the officer’s house.

She says, “I just remember my dad saying, ‘Do you know how many times I have been on this kind of a scene? But never in my life could I imagine that it would be my own son.’ And that was just heartbreaking.”

Her brother was dead from a single gunshot wound.

Healy worked out of the West Side 10th Police District. Toward the end, he told his family he was “overwhelmed” by what he was experiencing on the job: the bodies, the violence and especially crime’s effect on children.

He told his family those kids had no way out and no hope. Then there was the squad car accident that left him seriously injured in 2011.

“Some people can handle it and they go to work and they come home and they don’t think about it,” Erin says. “But obviously for Ryan, he did think about it.”

The family believes he may have suffered from PTSD.

The Chicago Police Department recognizes PTSD is real among officers and has programs to diagnose and treat it. There are also suicide-prevention programs, but the officer must come forward himself and ask for help. In the tough culture of law enforcement, that is often hard.

Ryan’s family wishes that he had reached out for help somewhere along the way.

There’s a plaque at the Chicago Police Memorial for officers who have died in the line of duty. It reads: “It is not how they died that made them heroes. It is how they lived.”

His family believes that applies to Ryan Healy, too

Stuck in traffic because we don’t have enough roads? No, you’re stuck in traffic because the cops got your road improvement money.

 “The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.”  Cyrano De Bergerac

 

Stuck in traffic because we don’t have enough roads? No, you’re stuck in traffic because the cops got your road improvement money.

The cops in McLean spent $20,000,000 of your money...…money that won’t go to schools or road improvements or a library……because they wanted to make a few improvements to their office space. Twenty million dollars’ worth of improvement.   Constructing a new building would have cost less.   

“The roof has been leaking for years and we don’t have anywhere to park our cruisers,” said Supreme Allied Commander Janickey.

Leaky roofs?  Oh come on. The red necks you hire never knew a roof didn’t leak until they came way north to Fairfax County. How do you think they got water into the house?

When we in the non-millionaire class have a leaky roof we don’t build a new $20,000,000 home. We repair the roof.  You call a roof guy, he shows up with a hammer or something and closes the leaks and you pay him.

So are we clear, Mister Howl?  You repair the roof you don’t build a new building. I don’t care what “That’s Gerry with G Dearie” Hyland told you.

The second “good” reason Commander Spendthrift has to build a $20, 000, 000 addition to the existing police station (while salivating at the possibility of building a second station a few blocks away) is parking.

That’s right. There is a parking shortage at red neck central so the morons are spending $20, 000,000 of your money on their home improvements.

“We don’t have anywhere to park our cruisers” Super Commandant Janickey whined.

Well, just park like you do at home back in Prince William County where almost 90% of you live….park on the front lawn next to the ole truck up on cinder blocks that don’t still work no how.

Star Fleet Commander Janickey apparently thinks we are all blind and can’t see through the open chain link fence around the McLean police station with its half empty parking lot and two dozen unused police cars sitting idly within.

Want more room in your half empty lot?   Get rid of the two dozen cop cars you don’t use, that’ll give you room in your parking lot.  Here’s another idea to make more room. Get rid of some of the 180 people you have on staff.  You could get by with half that number of people on staff and you know it. 

Since this is obviously a case of the police out of control we went straight to the bastion of control in Fairfax County, the board of supervisors. 

“If I had a backbone, I’d stand up to these cops” said McLean area Supervisor John W. Foust “instead I’m going to pretend this isn’t an outrage and pray it goes away. If it doesn’t we’ll just toss more money at it until it does go away.”

“And I’ll be there to catch it,” said Sharon “show me the money” Bulova, although no one asked her.

“Of course they can have two new police stations and twenty four new cops for a crime problem that doesn’t exist!” said Supervisor “Gerry with G” Hyland. “Money is not an issue. I have spent my entire life in government and in those many years of avoiding real work I have learned that when you need more money you simply send someone out to the magic money tree to get it. And that’s exactly what we’ll do here. The people should kneel before the police to show how grateful they are. I’m always on my knees when it comes to the cops.”

In other words, the board of supervisors, the people you elected to protect your interests, have nothing to say on the issue.  

So as you sit in traffic, late for everything and burning gas remember the words of Commander and Spend Janickey who said, “It’s a good time to be at the McLean station.” And he’s right.  Life for your local police is very, very good.