I can understand Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wanting to bring in his own command staff, but he's coming under fire after the man he put in charge of Internal Affairs was fired for sexual harassment, his personnel director was let go for incompetence, and the major who hired the personnel director (allegedly the major's close friend) resigned after he was found by Internal Affairs to have engaged in "behavior contrary to good order." All these folks were let go last spring, the Houston Chronicle reported today.
Interestingly, the personnel director, Mark Canfield, "was fired 10 days after deputies questioned his credentials in anonymous postings on an Internet site." Which site? Other than telling us it was a "deputy's blog," the Houston Chronicle didn't consider that detail fit to print. But I'd like to know where that sort of information is coming from, if only to monitor it for other news about the Sheriff's department the Chronicle didn't happen to tell us about.
If anybody knows whose blog they're talking about that broke this story months before the Houston Chronicle reported it, please let me know in the comments.
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Let the Venting Begin
Thanks Thomas! Very interesting.
Grits,
As you now know it isn't a blog as much as it is a running chat room. The deputies use it to dime out each other, complain about local and national politics, and basically, simply vent. Having had the honor of being banned from the site - I tended to respond to some of the stupidities from "Tiburon Shark" and "Coconut" - it does give re-enforcement to the premise that some in LE do, in fact, conform to a specific worldview/subculture identified as being associated with policing (In other words, there are some farking nuts packing guns in that department!). Just my opinion. :~)
The farking nuts are the ones in charge.
Actually, no one seems to know who post what. We have citizens posting on the BLOG daily. Some complain about slow police response, while others complain about the weather. So to say that the only ones posting on the BLOG are 'farking nuts packing guns’ would be inaccurate at best. I have read in the past where radio DJ's post their opinions.
Cops are a unique breed. Nothing I have read there surprises me.
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