Police Officer Ethics, Abuse of Authority, and Influential Positions

Last summer I have experienced a very unfortunate situation where a Police officer abused his authority to scare me from investigating my daughters principle who also abused his position.

It all started when my daughter was having a real hard time in class due to the size of her 1st grade class (33 students). My daughter was crying every day and having to call me to inform her it was alright.

One morning she was crying in the hallway standing right next to Walt Davenport, the Principle of Central Point Elementary school, and he ignored her crying. When addressing this issue with Walt Davenport and requesting for two options be attempted; allow my daughter to sit in her class before the bell rang (to feel more comfortable with teacher and environment), or change of classroom and teacher (two other classes had less children). He made it clear that he was not going to assist; no transfer to another class etc. But at the same time he flat out lied to me by saying that due to the contract with the Teachers Union, children were "not allowed to be in classrooms before class starts" explaining that the Union requires that the school make this time available for teachers to prepare for class and that they "are not allowed to allow students access to the class". Part of this was correct, the part about having a contract with the Union, EXCEPT the fact the teachers have the right to grant access to students if they choose to. And that the School only has to give the teacher this amount of time and had nothing to do with teachers or the school granting students access to the classroom. This was confirmed by the Superintendent of the district and he stated "That is simply not true" when I told him what Walt Davenport stated.

So now I have caught him in a lie, and discovered that he is not willing to work with Parents or their children in hopes for a better chance of uninterrupted schooling. This on top of his lack in judgement as to addressing my daughters emotional breakdown right in front of him.

Walt even told my daughter that she could no longer call home when she felt scared and insecure. This was told to us by Laurel's teacher on her own will because she "thought we should be aware of Walt Davenports decision".

Naturally, this situation and my experience with Walt led me to investigate myself who this Walt Davenport is... Why should I keep my daughter in his care for approx. 8 hrs of the day? Is this someone my wife and I must be prepared to deal with regarding future situations? Can we and will we support a school who is lead by such a person? Remember his public position allows any citizen the right to review his public record.

I'm going to skip forward to where the abuse picked up again...

I had found out that he was also a reserve police officer for the town of Shady Cove. So I called the court house and stated "I am investigating Walt Davenports public history and would like someone to call me back" on the message machine. When I did get that call back, I spoke to the court clerk, Paula Stroop, and told her again that I was investigating Walt Davenports public history to see if he had been reprimanded for any bad judgement or anything alike. This court clerk decided to call Walt Davenport and inform him that I was researching his background. The court clerk was very resistant in telling me anything and my questions were clearly frustrating her. I actually apologized for her impression because I have been taught in field interviews and to clarify that I was not an investigator and that I was on the path to becoming one. I finally asked "for someone who only had to volunteer approx. 16 hours of service in a months time why would Walt give up such a position?" She responded with "I think it was because Walt just didn't like how things were being done around here". I asked one more time, "Was he let go due to any disciplinary reasons?" and again she stated "not that I am aware of". Ok, so no big deal right? I moved on to my next interview. (Shady Cove Police department was dissolved and is now patrolled by Sheriff deputies)

This is where it got disgusting...

Walt Davenport and the Paula Stroop took it upon themselves to accuse me of impersonating a "State (police) Investigator". Written in the police report states that Officer Griffin "stopped and began a conversation with" Walt Davenport in the parking lot. Walt had discussed with the officer of his and the court clerks story about my pursuit to examine Walt's public past telling the officer that I claimed to be a "State Police Investigator". Officer Griffin took it upon himself to investigate, now note that there was no formal complaint called into the police department. Officer Griffin decided to write me a felony arrest citation (This means it shows on your record that you have been arrested and we all know what a felony can do to anyone!) for Criminal Impersonation after lying about a "recording" of me stating I was a "State investigator". Then also threatened me with a No Stalking Order... Yes a No Stalking Order (I have it on video). And if one knew the law in which a person could be cited with a no stalking order you would understand that my communication with Walt Davenport was lawful. Walt Davenport is responsible for my daughter 8 hrs of the day 5 days a week. This fact justifies my lawful right to contact Walt Davenport as much as it is necessary to address anything situation having to do with my daughter.

I called Officer Griffin back and asked him how he justified threatening me with a No Stalking Order? Officer Griffin stated "There is no No Stalking Order, it does not exist, it never happened". Then threatened me by saying he could give me one if he decided to read the emails between Walt and I. So here we have Officer Griffin who admitted he NEVER read the email conversations between Walt and I, who clearly does not know the Law regarding a No Stalking Order once again belittling me because I am calling him out on his abuse. The conversation ended shortly when Officer Griffin hung up on me after asking him to advise me as to how I am to speak to Walt about my daughter if he is to continue being her Principal. Not very professional at all! By the way, this entire phone conversation I had with him (right after he left my house) never made it to his police report... hmmmmm.....

So an entire year goes by and my wife is stressed out, I am stressed because Officer Griffin, Walt Davenport, and Paula Stroop's actions could jeopardize my job and have long term affects. It is the day before my court date 10/28/2010 and I have not received any formal charges in the mail from the DA. I call the court house and they said the case has been dropped and advised me to confirm it with the DA's office. I was happy and giddy because I told Officer Griffin that there is no way he can prove I impersonated a "State Investigator" just because Paula Stroop said so. The police report was also not approved by Officer Griffin's Sgt. before filing it. So why did he not get it approved? Maybe because he didn't want to hear that he had no case and that maybe doing Mr. Davenport a favor is not good community policing and can be considered abusive?

Of course, the DA had not even filed the case due to no concrete evidence that I ever claimed to be a State Police Investigator. The case had to be dropped and they did.

I have yet filed a formal complaint and choose not to because we know the department will just protect one of their own.

I have an Attorney and since the case was dropped, we are now looking to see if there are or will be any other police abuse of authority.

Money over Consiousness

"Unless the rich liberals get into the game, Obama will be horribly outspent. If if he is outspent, he stands a good chance of losing."

It is a SAD democracy when people are elected by how much they spend instead of how much they care. It is sad when people can only be elected by how big their purse is instead of how big their ideas and passion is.

Bill Maher to me is a blind man though he wants his fans to believe he is all seeing man. When one presses so hard to have a particular existance to others there is a very good chance that this person is hiding their true weakness. Maher who is clearly someone that will not look across the line of political party in hopes to move in a better direction. He is someone that I consider very irresponsible because he only and will only and have always voted along his own party lines.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/02/bill-maher-says-president-obama-could-absolutely-lose-re-election.html

A Business Will Crumble If Staffed Poorly And So Will America

Ok, so lately I have been witnessing many people who have voted for Obama who also claim to be liberal Democrats becoming increasingly more aggravated and disappointed in their votes.

Understandable, right?

Well naturally this begs the question as to who they will vote for in the 2012 election. Almost all of them said that "sadly", or "unfortunately", they will vote for him again.

Fine, so I had to ask them a series of questions to understand what common sense they use in order to vote for a President that has let them down and did not get the job done as expected.

Here are the questions I asked...

1. Do you own a business, if so, do you keep an employee on the payroll if they are not able or willing to do the job?
2. If you as an employee had the sense that you were not grasping the scope of the job be fearful of losing your job?
3. How many times in your workplace have your witnessed a number of employees being cycled through a particular position until one individual is able and willing to get the job done?

My point was that regardless of party, it is the responsibility of the American people to continue cycling out politicians who are not getting the job done all the way up to the President until we find someone who can get some work done.

This means creating a term limits for Senators and Congressmen and women in order to flush out dead beat politicians. As it stands these seats are being held for decades because simply it has become the norm and many states/districts are not yet motivated enough to understand they are the boss.

This also means if a President does not do what is expected of them or as promised for the American people based on what the American people demand, they too, must be replaced.

Liberal Democrats have the nerve to say to me, "It's only another four years". This infuriates me because with all my questions they all unanimously agreed that those who don't work, can't get the job done, or not willing to work MUST be replaced until a better individual is found.

Obama must go and regardless of party affiliation, American's should be focused on the person, not the party in order to take a gamble on the next four years. We don't have time and we cannot allow a bad employee to continue the madness. The business loses money, production, and time. The country loses money, production, and at this moment most valuable time.

Drop the political party non-sense for this next election and all elections to come. And instead do your homework, understand the biggest threats and issues in America. Find the individual on either side that has more experience in these areas. When we hire an employee we don't ever dare to do so without reviewing their resume, as it should be for our President and elected officials.

We will never find a "perfect" individual. Every single candidate we experience for the rest of our lives will come with baggage. Good or bad, we must still get someone in there to do the job. If that individual tries to take advantage of the American people with corruption, lies, and abuse then we march down to Pennsylvania Avenue and fire them.

Remember people, you are the boss. We control this country but have slacked off too much in keeping Washington straight. Vote, vote educated and lets get the next person in the Oval Office in 2012, because we don't have time, our rights, money, jobs, economic growth, foreign relations, and production to waste anymore.

Ya dig?