Continuation of Part One and Part Two:

https://examplepro.me/2016/03/18/what-do-you-do-when-your-asset-manager-lies-in-official-correspondence-part-two/

https://examplepro.me/2016/03/17/what-do-you-do-when-your-asset-manager-lies-in-official-correspondence-part-one/

 

Perhaps the best example of exactly where SPD and City Hall are today can be found in the email sent by Captain Brad Arleth to his Boss Assistant Chief Craig Meidl, on December 23^rd, 2015, and Meidl’s subsequent response. Leading up to the 23^rd email is Arleth’s heads-up to his staff.

But lets start here:

 

On Monday December 21^st, 2015 11:35 AM Arleth sends this email to his staff, which apparently includes the evidence photos showing the BS coming from City Hall, and basically says we will do what we are told even if it is BS.

 

 

What strikes me as very odd regarding this email is that although there is a copy of it in the IA Report there is no real mention of it in the “Investigation”. The copy of the email also demonstrates a cardinal-rule of what NOT to do as an Investigator (Later Story Parts).

 

 

On Wednesday December 23^rd, 2015 11:13 AM Arleth sends an email to Meidl asking for clarification of the “I da Little Boss” email Judy knight distributed on Friday December 18^th, 2015.

 

 

 

The critical thing to understand in this email is that Arleth is not only seeking clarification he is also pointing out with appropriate evidence including providing a witness, Gloria Wood, that Ed Lukas who was never interviewed in this IA “Investigation” is full of horse stuff.

*** A mistake Arleth made in his email above to Meidl was the way he handled the Ed Lukas evidence.

 

When you are dealing with Cronies, and Arleth was, the first paragraph of his email should have read like this and not presented in the third paragraph.

Assistant Chief Meidl,

I have a very legitimate concern that that SPD leadership is NOT being provided with true and correct information from Mr. Lukas and I am of the strong opinion that yourself and Chief Dobrow need to look into this further so a decision isn’t hastily made which might not be in the best interests of SPD or the Citizens we serve…then you go into your evidence and you put the proverbial turd on the Cronies plate.  

There is also the Breen way…but that might get you a letter anyway. 🙂

 

On Wednesday December 23^rd, 2015 at 1:05 PM according to the IA Report, in response to Arleth’s email Meidl sends this voice message to Arleth.

 

 

 

 

On Wednesday December 23^rd, 2015 at 1:31 PM Meidl documents his voicemail message to Arleth.

 

 

You might notice that the email documenting the voice message makes NO reference whatsoever to the fact that he (Meidl) admitted in the voice massage that SPD is being run entirely from City Hall. Perhaps he thought the voice message wouldn’t come to light.

 

This email interaction clearly demonstrates just how gutless, and shameless the SPD leaders have been and continue to be. You have a precinct Captain clearly telling and documenting to the Assistant Chief of Police, and now the Interim Chief of Police, that crony Ed Lukas is either NOT telling the truth in official City Correspondence or as the City’s Assets Manager he doesn’t have a clue what Assets the City has.

It further demonstrates that no matter how right the underlings might be… SPD leadership won’t even bother to check the facts before they “Salute” and “Kiss Ass” in order to perpetuated the Administrations Agenda no matter how flawed.

You might notice that the email documenting the voice message makes NO reference whatsoever to the fact that he (Meidl) admitted in the voice massage that SPD is being run entirely from City Hall. Perhaps he thought the voice message wouldn’t come to light.

 

This email interaction clearly demonstrates just how gutless, and shameless the SPD leaders have been and continue to be. You have a precinct Captain clearly telling and documenting to the Assistant Chief of Police, and now the Interim Chief of Police, that crony Ed Lukas is either NOT telling the truth in official City Correspondence or as the City’s Assets Manager doesn’t have a clue what Assets the City has.

It further demonstrates that no matter how right the underlings might be keeping SPD leadership won’t even bother to check the facts before they “Salute” and kiss ass to perpetuated the Administrations Agenda no matter how flawed.

 

MORE TO COME!

 

I REPORT YOU DECIDE!!!

 

When I posted two earlier stories concerning the Garrity Rule and Mayor Condon invoking it, I made this statement.

“You may not see this reported anywhere else, but the Mayor sure needs to have some questions asked of him.”

 

https://examplepro.me/2016/03/16/will-he-or-will-he-not/

https://examplepro.me/2016/03/12/now-what-will-the-mayor-do/

 

 

 

I used the term “may” because it was easy to predict that even though the SR had all the info for a story they wouldn’t run it because they are in protection mode. I did however think the Inlander which has been pretty much on top of things may run a story because the story addresses a very important issue in a very high profile Spokane case.

 

The Inlander did run a good story and you can find it here:

 

http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2016/03/18/stuckart-asks-mayor-to-compel-participation-in-the-straub-investigation

 

As you can see from the Inlander story the Mayor and Brian Coddington are in the process of trying to figure out what to say and do. I’m sure they are trying to find a way out via the City Attorney…so like I said it will be interesting.

 

Will the SR run a story on this issue? Who knows? But now that the Inlander did they might so that they don’t continue to be embarrassed. The big problem for the SR Reporters is that they don’t have a clue about the Garrity Rule or what it means so they will have to try find an “expert”.

The SR does have a City Hall Reporter….Right????

 

I REPORT YOU DECIDE!!!!

 

 

This is part two in a series covering the now infamous Furniture-gate Case. Part One can be found here:

https://examplepro.me/2016/03/17/what-do-you-do-when-your-asset-manager-lies-in-official-correspondence-part-one/

 

Day Two of Furniture-gate, December 18^th, 2015, begins to demonstrate exactly why SPD is in an even worse downward slide since 2012. The self-serving, cowardice, fear of demotion, want to be somebody attitude of Police Leadership again gets in the way of what is right and best. Has it always been that way? HELL NO it hasn’t and I could cite case after case where it wasn’t.

 

December 18^th, 2015, at 10:10 AM, the day begins with ED LUKAS pushing the “I da Boss!” authority he thought he received from Big Momma the previous day. You might notice that Lukas continues the horse stuff that the furniture at the Intermodal was “new”, “purchased”, “designed specifically for the space”, and even “customized “. That is twice.

 

How can you tell this is one of those “I da Boss!” emails? It is really easy, and I’ve seen hundreds of these in email, memoranda, and report format. The first thing you look for is who the email is directed to and that will tell you exactly who the sender thinks he/she needs to show that “I da Boss!”. In this case ED LUKAS had to directly show two people, Meidl and Arleth, that “I da Boss!”. The CCs almost always demonstrated, as they do in this case, who the sender wants to make sure know that the message was delivered that “I da Boss!”. In this case Knight, Sanders, Dobrow, and Martinez, Judy Knight because he is her Boss and she should remember that, Sanders so that she knows the message was delivered to the cops that she anointed Lukas as “da Boss”, Dobrow so he understands that the person Dobrow delegated the authority to at SPD, Meidl, now works for him on this and not Dobrow, Martinez because she is coordinating the move and is SPD’s “Buyer” so heaven forbid if she figures out that the furniture wasn’t purchased, isn’t new, wasn’t designed for the space, if she does hopefully she will keep her mouth shut if she knows “I da Boss!”

 

ATTENTION ALL COPS!!!

 

I use to love finding “I da Boss!” stuff like this in cases because it directly attaches accountability for when things go to crap like this did. Lukas clearly establishes in the above email that this mess is HIS BABY and NO ONE else’s (Lukas of course was never interviewed in the IA Investigation…WHY?)

Here is some advice for you cops when you get one of those “I da Boss!” documents, and especially when it is from outside the Department.

1) Always, and I mean always, respond DIRECTLY to the communication and include your Supervisor in the communication.

2) Keep your own record of the communication.

3) Always, and I mean always, put the outside individual IN THEIR PLACE (I can’t emphasis this enough)!

4) If you receive a response from “I da Boss” DO NOT RESPOND simply forward your documentation of his response to your Supervisor.

 

This would have been the proper response to the Lukas email:

“Mr Lukas thank you for the email directed to me and Assistant Chief Meidl establishing Assets Management’s position and role in the move from the Peyton Building to the Intermodal. Although I appreciate the heads up, so to speak, and realizing you are new to your position with the City I would be remiss in not pointing out that as members of the Spokane Police Department we are required to work through and take orders directly from our own Chain of Command, in this case my direct supervisor as you know is Assistant Chief Meidl, so I will be taking my orders and direction regarding the move directly from him, and I feel it would be in everyone’s best interest that you deal directly with Assistant Chief Meidl or Chief Dobrow regarding the move they intern will provide me clear orders and direction, hopefully eliminating the possibility of confusion or misunderstanding.”

 

For you Cops that just read that and are thinking… “Holy Shit Breen…we can’t do stuff like that!” … My answer to you is… “The Hell you can’t and it is about time we as Citizens see a lot more of it!”

1) Everything in that response is true.

2) It protects you from being a scapegoat, as is the case here.

3) It forces compliance with the Chain of Command.

4) It puts the onus on your Supervisors to do THEIR JOB.

5) No Supervisor in their right mind, whether they liked it or not, would come after you as long as it is true and well documented (They never did create a single position for a graveyard Detective like they would have liked to have done…keep that in mind!)  🙂

 

December 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM, after what was probably a morning of interesting conversations at City Hall (Which were never followed-up on) JUDY KNIGHT sends out the “I da Little Boss!” message to Meidl and Arleth. She also CCs Sanders, Dobrow, and Martinez to let them know ED LUKAS earlier in the morning told everybody “I da Boss!” now you need to know “I da Little Boss!” and make sure Big Momma knows the Cops got the word.

You might want to pay special attention to this statement from “da Little Boss” just for future reference in this series of stories.

“Once again, please make sure you mark up the furniture that you will be taking to the Intermodal Precinct, so that the movers will know which ones to deliver to that sight.”

 

 

ATTENTION ALL COPS!!!

 

When you get the inevitable “I da Little Boss!” communication the process is quite simple (See Above).

 

Forward the email you already sent to “I da Boss!” to “I da Little Boss”. You have some choices as far as this is concerned but they are limited to two.

1) Include a notation to “I da Little Boss” something like this “I have to follow SPD Policy and Procedure, I’m here to help and I will once I get some direction.”

2) Use the Breen not so nice method and don’t respond just forward it to your real Boss.

 

 

Well that is it for Part Two…but stay tuned for Part Three where the real “The self-serving, cowardice, fear of demotion, want to be somebody attitude of Police Leadership again gets in the way of what is right and best.” shows up plain as day!

 

I REPORT YOU DECIDE!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND CORRECTION!!!

https://examplepro.me/2016/02/17/bigtime-story-correction/

https://examplepro.me/2016/02/18/what-is-in-anne-kirkpatricks-wallet/

Accuracy in Journalism is of paramount importance when dealing with Cops and Criminal Justice Issues. When you are reporting a story, especially one involving a former SPD Chief of Police who has at best very, very questionable abilities, DO NOT portray her as having some association she DOES NOT HAVE. LEEDA IS NOT “the FBI’s”. It never has been. If you don’t know why the Federal Bureau of Investigation “required” LEEDA to make a disclaimer on everything they own, do your own research and find out the WHY!

 

 

“she’s been a Seattle-based instructor with the FBI’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Association, a private nonprofit that contracts with the FBI for training services.”

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/17/kirkpatrick-finalist-for-chicago-police-superinten/

 

 

http://www.gafbinaa.org/uploads/2016_GA_LEEDS_packet.pdf

 

AND BY THE WAY… BRAD ARLETH WAS NEVER SUSPENDED! IT IS THE REPORTER’S JOB TO GET THE HEADLINE CORRECTED WHEN IT IS COMPLETELY WRONG!!!