As I have stated in a previous story Mayor Condon has been asked to invoke the Garrity Rule!

 

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

 

A quick PRR, and a quick response from Terri Pfister reveals this:

 

 

 

https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/26b41fdc-3f93-410d-aa2c-bd69ca778d72

 

You may not see this reported anywhere else, but the Mayor sure needs to have some questions asked of him. It will be interesting if anyone does ask what various excuses he and Brain Coddington can come up with.

 

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Now that the Spokane City Council has requested that Mayor Condon use his power under Garrity Vs New Jersey to compel those public employees of ours who are refusing to cooperate with the City Council Investigation to cooperate and give statements, I wonder what his next move will be?

 

http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2016/03/09/also-not-talking-to-the-straub-investigator-the-assistant-city-attorney-who-was-repeatedly-warned-about-straub

 

 

This link will provide you with some fairly good background regarding Garrity vs New Jersey which has been law for a long time.

 

https://www.lris.com/2011/12/21/continuing-development-garrity-rule/

 

 

Just so you understand the Garrity Rule is used all the time at City Hall. If you review some of the past links, I have provided, you will find Garrity Warning documents like this.

 

 

 

It should be obvious to anyone reading this Blog that Mayor Condon is doing everything he can to obstruct the Public’s right to know. So now he has two choices do the proper and ethical thing by invoking Garrity, or continue to obstruct the ongoing investigation.

 

If he continues to obstruct the investigation Mayor Condon will have a heck of a time trying to square not invoking the Garrity Rule in light of the COPS/DOJ Report.

 

This should be interesting!

 

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I mentioned it in today’s earlier story…so I’ll give you a bit of a tease.

 

A while back I was asked to take a look at an “Investigation” McDevitt had conducted back in 2011 into DSHS. In my opinion it was one of your typical “Lawyer Done Investigations” that end up being a few pages of conclusions, and a few recommendations. McDevitt’s “Investigation Report” was just 15 pages, actually fairly short by lawyer standards. The importance of the investigation called for an extensive well documented fact based investigation. IMO we paid for it but didn’t get it. There was a lot of political back stories involved in the report that I won’t get into here, but what stood out to me the most is McDevitt’s insertion in his report of his very obvious political perspective.

 

When you do an “Independent Investigation” as he was contracted to do, you have to put your bias and political ideology completely aside or it just isn’t INDEPENDENT, I don’t think anyone would dispute that Jim McDevitt has a very Conservative Ideology, which is fine, but you can’t let your political ideology interfere with your integrity. Yes, Gretchen, I know it was a Democratic Governor, and I know he was later appointed to the Clemency Board, but that isn’t the point.

 

Whether you are a Conservative or a Liberal, makes NO DIFFERNCE, even if you believe that all welfare recipients should be subjected to random drug testing, or the State of Washington should be chasing down “illegal aliens” receiving welfare benefits, you would have to agree that recommendations like McDevitt’s have NO BUSINESS in a truly “INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION”, and Condon’s choice should trouble you!

I REPORT YOU DECIDE!!! 

 

 

 TYLER TJOMSLAND Jim McDevitt, director of law enforcement, center, listens to citizen concerns on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at the Spokane Public Library in downtown Spokane. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)

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When I saw the above photo in today’s SR, I thought to myself what a pictorial on why I’m here and doing this. The photo really tells it all about the continued downhill slide of the Spokane Police Department, and exactly why it continues to slide.

 

The picture depicts Mayor Condon’s choices to run the SPD after his awful decision to hire Frank Straub. The man on the left is Interim Police Chief Craig Meidl of among other things the infamous “Salute” fame. On the right James McDevitt, who has been Mayor Condon’s go to guy on law enforcement issues even before Condon took office, and actually helped to bring us such luminaries as Frank Straub and Selby Smith. I have written some stories about McDevitt but those stories only scratch the surface of McDevitt’s time in Spokane.

 

https://examplepro.me/2016/02/13/no-ideologues-david/

 

It seems that when McDevitt becomes involved in any issue there is controversy, including his “Independent Investigation” of DSHS which resulted in the hiring of his friend (perhaps another day).

 

I really have to wonder if Condon’s made up position of Director of Law Enforcement is simply a ploy to keep the lid on. As I reported earlier McDevitt’s appointment will not be approved by the City Council, and it will be another matter of the Mayor trying to find a way for a back watching scenario.

Although Mayor Condon would like the public to believe he is cooperating in the City Council’s Investigation the reality is that he isn’t, as this Inlander story points out.

 

http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2016/03/09/also-not-talking-to-the-straub-investigator-the-assistant-city-attorney-who-was-repeatedly-warned-about-straub

 

If Mayor Condon really wanted to cooperate he as the Head of ALL Public Employees working for the City of Spokane would invoke Garrity vs New Jersey and compel them to talk, Attorney’s just like Cops can be compelled to provide testimony/statements.

 

https://www.lris.com/2011/12/21/continuing-development-garrity-rule/

 

Look at McDevitt’s statements in the SR Story…. Boy are we as Citizens in big trouble.

 

 

“McDevitt said he has come to realize that unless you walk in someone’s shoes, you can’t understand them.”

 

The shoes that Jim McDevitt has walked in all of his life, never had holes in them. You don’t need to walk in someone’s shoes to understand them, you have to be willing to put aside your prejudices and actually listen (LULU). One pair of shoes McDevitt has NEVER walked in is a Cop’s shoes.

 

“I’m open,” he said. “It’s part of the journey, part of the learning process.”

 

There is only a learning process for those willing to learn, and you can’t learn what you should have learned long ago in four short months.

 

 

His intent was not to endorse racial profiling but to point out that it exists, McDevitt said. He blamed having to repeatedly shorten his opinion piece for its lack of clarity.

 

There is always someone or something to blame, somehow around here there is always someone or something.

 

“McDevitt invited people to meet with him about their concerns.”

 

Rule number one for people contemplating a meeting with Jim McDevitt. Always have more than one witness present or get permission from him to record the conversation.

 

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/oct/11/administrative-raises-jar-city-budget-talks/comments/

 

Jim McDevitt…If you really want to help the Citizens of Spokane and SPD…GO FLY YOUR DAMN PLANE!!!

 

 

I REPORT YOU DECIDEIII