Sunday homily: bubba justice, in Key West

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I woke up around 1:30 a.m. this morning, looked at my cell phone, which I had turned off when I turned in, saw a voicemail, listened to it: a mechanical person saying I had a free call from an inmate, then I heard my lady Kari say, “Kari Dangler”, and to accept the call press 5 ….

Kari at Ft. Zach

I went to the sheriff’s website to see why Kari was in jail, and found:

Arrest Date: 10/01/2016
CAD #: KWPD16OFF03994
Arrest #: MCSO16ARR004532
Address: STREETS OF KEY WEST, KEY WEST, FL 33040
Occupation: CASHIER, SECRETARY, OFFICE SECRETARY UNEMPLOYED
Arrest Location: 3131 NORTHSIDE DR KEY WEST
Charges: 1 Misdemeanor Count(s) of 810.09.2a
TRESPASS PROPERTY NOT STRUCTURE OR CONVEY
Officer/Agency: KWPD - KWPD
Bond Amount: $2000

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I looked up Florida Statute 819.092a and found:

The 2016 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI

CRIMES Chapter 810

BURGLARY AND TRESPASS 810.09

Trespass on property other than structure or conveyance

(1)(a) A person who, without being authorized, licensed, or invited, willfully enters upon or remains in any property other than a structure or conveyance:

As to which notice against entering or remaining is given, either by actual communication to the offender or by posting, fencing, or cultivation as described in s. 810.011;

(2)(a) Except as provided in this subsection, trespass on property other than a structure or conveyance is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

Title XLVI

CRIMES Chapter 775

DEFINITIONS; GENERAL PENALTIES; REGISTRATION OF CRIMINALS

775.082

Penalties; applicability of sentencing structures; mandatory minimum sentences for certain re-offenders previously released from prison.—

(4) A person who has been convicted of a designated misdemeanor may be sentenced as follows:

(a) For a misdemeanor of the first degree, by a definite term of imprisonment not exceeding 1 year;

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I think another Florida statute may give the judge discretion to levy a fine up to $1,000, in lieu of incarceration. However, Kari can’t pay such a fine.

Given the time of night Kari called me, I guessed she was found sleeping outside on private property, because the location address is where she has been sleeping nights. She had told me she recently was physically threatened there three different times at night by different people, and one time the police were called and an officer came and told Kari she could not be there.

The sheriff’s website is showing Kari is in Unit B, the women’s unit, where she always was held before. If she is in Unit B, and not in the infirmary, that means she probably was not drinking when she was brought in, and did not need medical care detoxing.

While I was working on this post today, Kari called me again from the jail, using her inmate telephone account. The mechanical person said the account had no money in it, so I was not able to accept the call, but now I knew for sure Kari is in B Unit, not in the infirmary. I called the company that provides inmates with telephone accounts, and put a little money in Kari’s account, so she can call me, her mother, her lawyer, etc.

Then Kari called me again, and we talked a little while. She said she was just sitting on the ground, not even sleeping, and there were two police cruisers and to police officers. One of the officers moved her bicycle somewhere nearby, she did not know if the officer locked it up, and one of the officers cuffed her took her to the jail.

This is Sunday. Unit B has visitation the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. I told Kari, if she is still in Unit B early at noon today, I will make the Bataan March on my bicycle to visit with her through the bullet proof glass. On the way, I will look for her bicycle and, if it’s still there, I will move it to some place more secure nearby.

Kari is facing violation of her probation for this, and also for an earlier trespass after warning charge, not resulting in her being jailed.

That time, Kari told me, she was sitting on a curb under shade trees behind the Winn-Dixie shopping center, waiting on the post office to get the mail up; she has a post office box there and was expecting a letter from her mother. That time, five KW police officers in four KWPD cruisers were required to apprehend Kari.

What was Kari supposed to do? She is banned for life from KOTS, the city’s homeless shelter? If she beds down for the night in a city or county park, she will be arrested for trespass and taken to jail.

I have tried my darndest to get an appointment with city attorney Shawn Smith, so he and I can meet in his office and talk about KWPD harassing, arresting and jailing homeless people for sleeping outside, who are banned from KOTS, or, like Rick Roberts, aka Raccoon, have been told by their physicians not to stay at KOTS, because it is medically unsafe.

Shawn and his staff did not return my phone calls, which were answered by people, who said they would give Shawn the message I had called to make an appointment, so he and I could finish our discussion about all of that, and how the Pottinger case applied. The Pottinger case held the City of Miami could not arrest homeless people for sleeping outside, unless the city had a homeless shelter and the homeless people refused to use it. The same federal court that decided the Pottinger case has jurisdiction over Key West.

Besides the ordeal of sleeping outside at night and being constantly threatened by men wanting to have sex with her, inclement weather and bugs, people out walking their dogs, and KWPD officers, Kari is on probation stemming from a felony assault without intent to kill conviction, and any arrest and conviction will violate her probation and cause her to be sent for prison, perhaps for 5 years. That is why I was so furious that Judge William Ptomey put Kari back on probation, after giving her time served, and about 10 more days of time to serve, which she did serve. I knew putting Kari back on probation was a prison sentence, because she would be arrested and jailed for trespass, sooner or later.

Criminal “justice” system.

That is why have tried so hard to get Kari into Keys Outreach Coalition (FKOC), which is an in-residence turnaround program for people like Kari. City Commissioner Sam Kaufman, a local trial lawyer, is FKOC’s chairman of the board. Sam is representing Kari, for free, in the older trespass after warning case at the Winn-Dixie shopping center. Kari told me, when she met with Sam in his office about her trespass case, she asked him if he could get her into FKOC? He looked at her, said nothing.

I would like to blame Kari’s arrest last night as retaliation for what I have been writing and saying about KWPD at goodmorningkeywest.com, and what I said about KWPD at Hometown PAC’s recent candidate forum. But I cannot do that, because this runs much deeper than that. This is about the state of the soul of the people running KOTS; the state of the soul of KWPD and the city government, including Mayor Craig Cates and the six city commissioners; and the state of the soul of the people of Key West.

I am pretty sure Mayor Cates and five of the six city commissioners are Christian or Catholic. Sam Kaufman, who is Jewish, has spent much of his legal career defending homeless people being prosecuted by the city government for simply being homeless. For the Christians and Catholics mentioned above, and for Christians and Catholics all over Key West, and to give Hurricane Matthew his just due, I quote the homeless man Jesus, from the Gospel of Matthew:

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Matthew 25:31–46:

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers , you did it to me.’ Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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Related, homeless man Rick Roberts, aka Raccoon, copied me with this yesterday, and later said it is okay for me to publish it today: an email to someone he has only just started renting space from, cheap. Local lawyer Bob Goldman and local judge Peary Fowler get considerable mention in Rick’s email:

Ales,

You need to be informed about your attorney, Robert Goldman.

It dawned on me last night who he is, and yes I have dealt with him in the past.

First, I have cleaned up the place and moved stuff out. I still have the business class Comcast box and cable there that they couldn’t find a way to get to the top floor. It had never been done in the past, only a lead to the second floor exists.

When I lived in Houston 5 years ago, I had a small design and production of high end audio video products called simplyphysics. It had been around in various stages since 1984. I designed and sold products worldwide, and I became fairly well known as a premier designer in that industry. In 2011 or so, a group of audiophiles in Hawaii led by a guy Ed Wagner commissioned me to design and prototype for them an ultimate 3 pin cable connector called a XLR. They had some they purchased from a designer in Australia, but his design was better than most but critically flawed. You should know, these type connectors were going on exotic cabling to connect electronics costing tens of thousands of dollars.

I did the design under contract to Ed Wagner, and billed him in increments. We are talking super conducting pure copper parts sourced from the same people that provided the Hadron collider and machined in $500,000 screw machines to my specifications. The bodies were patentable precision machined affairs with a patentable force connection that clamped the copper pins for excellent surface contact. That gives you the background.

Well Ed, despite being a nice guy, got his parts and was very pleased but forgot to pay the $5000 remaining for the rest of the prototypes and the design rights. I sent him demand letters which he ignored. Being that he was in Hawaii, and I was in Texas, I just gave up.

But then I got a demand letter from Ed’s attorney in Hawaii, via email when I was here in Key West. I came here because my health had gone far south and I was near heart transplant and totally disabled on SSDI. What better place to kick the bucket than paradise right…

I contacted Ed and his attorney in Hawaii via email and told them they actually owed simplyphysics, and that it was now out of business. I told them I was on disability and even by remote chance they could win, they would never be able to collect from a dead business and/or a disabled person. I told them they were burning up Ed’s money for no good reason. It seemed to die out.

Then I start getting inquiries about buying stuff from simplyphysics from a unknown source that was vague and downright email scamming. It ended up I traced it to your attorney Robert Goldman. I warned him the same way, that Ed actually owed simplyphysics, and that trying to represent him and collect from me was wrong. And that he would be basically stealing from Ed because simplyphysics didn’t exist to pay or defend itself, and I was totally disabled and protected from paying anything on the mere $733 a month I get. He never returned contact and it seemed to stop.

But no, he wanted Ed’s money real bad, and now that they went this far, they were likely concerned I or Ed would sue them for misrepresentation and turn them into their state bar(s) for misconduct. They decided to convince Ed to keep paying them. They filed a suit against me personally in small claims in Monroe County, Key West. The judge was Perry Fowler who I knew.

Well, Robert Goldman is probably the absolute worst lawyer I ever dealt with, and all my best friends in Houston were top, top, lawyers. I am not one, but I have done enough for myself and them to be one, and a damn good one at that. I warned Goldman again he was basically stealing Ed’s money for no good reason other than to line his pockets.

Robert Goldman never followed any rules of procedure. He did not conduct discovery, he did not do anything. Then came the hearing and the reason why became clear.

Judge Fowler knows I am disabled. Your lawyer is the worst I have ever seen. I tell her he hadn’t conducted any discovery, hadn’t done anything and that he was trying to just win on default judgment basically defrauding the court without following and proper and necessary due process and discovery rules. No motions, no nothing. She asks me to read over the documents he had and basically do the entire case pro se in minutes. I declined and explained the above to her.

She sides with Goldman and says she will rule, why? To allow Goldman who obviously was broke or just stealing the money to get paid. She does this for Goldman because she knows it won’t cost me anything. Because she knows Ed Wagner can’t collect because of my disability. But when Goldman “wins” he can collect the attorney fees from Ed. Just like I told Ed, these attorney(s) were out to screw him. He probably got hit for thousands in fees for NOTHING. No work, and no fault to me.

Perry Fowler went into a long litany of how this judgment could be appealed and all my rights in gory detail. She was protecting herself because I could overstep her and probably get her sanctioned for doing what she did for her broke attorney friend. Your attorney.

That all said, last night I get an email from a guy that is asking if I still was producing products for simplyphysics in a very vague manor with no indication of who he was. I knew it was Goldman through someone else. Sure enough it was a criminal attorney in Cuyahoga County Ohio that specialized in fraud. I sent him a reply detailing that he as too vague and it seemed to me he was doing it for Robert Goldman and put all of Goldman’s contact in the email. I never heard from him again.

Now that you know, why is it you don’t let me rent there when your “attorney” is such a fraud? I haven’t done anything to anybody. Looks like he is trying to lay behind a log and is trying to get rid of me because I know he stole Ed Wagner’s money with the help of his friend Perry Fowler. It never ceases to amaze me how many of these officials and “bubbas” down here are just shady criminals in bed together. Which strikes me as odd about you, you seem to be a really nice person, doing good work and are very successful at that. I was/am impressed.

I don’t see why you wouldn’t want me there. I am not a bad guy, I pay, I am pretty much just existing and trying to stay alive. I do a lot of research and sell some stuff on ebay. Occasionally some friends will ask me to do IT & tech favors for them. Besides that I am just hanging in there.

Your realtor knew me from that. He represented the owner of the old Sweat Tea’s in Key West on renting that out. A group of Czech friends were interested in opening a sports bar there and I was doing them a favor documenting the space and building out the plans to renovate it for them. I designed and built out 3 stores and office warehouses in Houston like that.

Sorry for all the detail, but I just don’t think it’s fair to hear Goldman’s side only because I have no doubt he will lie, cheat, and steal to save his ass. And from what? A disabled guy on $733 a month trying to rent a $250 a month office space in a nearly empty building out in deserted Cudjoe. Jeez. Really?

If possible, I would stay. I still need to get the Comcast box and my deposit. Let me know.

Rick

Last today, on the same general terrain:

Naja

Naja Girard d’Albissin shared MoveOn.org‘s video.

September 25 at 11:08pm ·

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September 23 at 1:26pm ·

State Senator Nina Turner responds to Mike Pence on institutional racism.

Jeff Sharp

Jeff Sharp I don’t disagree that racism exists to a much higher degree than most will admit. I’m not convinced that it it is institutional however. There are all black colleges but none that declare they are all white. There are quotas for hiring minorities but no such quotas for hiring whites. Institutionally there is racism against white Americans.

What has occurred is in our society today is many adults in their thirty’s and forty’s don’t respect the authority of the police. Children are being raised with no respect for even their parents let alone others. It is disrespectful, aggressive language and behavior that gets people shot by the police.

When a child is raised in an environment that where they only get a “time-out” for talking back to their parent, where the worst thing that there parent could do to them is take away their cell phone they are not afraid of anything that the police will do to them. They escalate things quickly wrongfully thinking that because they are mad that they don’t have to listen to the officer.

I’m sure some will consider it racist but I would suggest that the disproportionate number of blacks being shot or in prison is due to their behavior not profiling or institutional racism.

Black children certainly are disadvantaged and racism exists but getting angry about it and rioting only demonstrates lack of respect for our society and encourages racism.

Sloan Bashinsky

Sloan Bashinsky Hard for this white guy from Birmingham, Alabama, who was raised by a black daughter of an American slave like her own child, in my white parents’ home, to speak to what it’s like to be black in America, so I don’t see how any other white American can speak to what it’s like to be black in America. Naja, you told me the other day of a state supreme court, was it Massachussetts?, which held it was perfectly reasonable for a black man to flee police, given black people’s experience with police in America, and given the black person turned out not to have done anything wrong, to cause police to even be interested in that black person.

Naja Girard d'Albissin

Naja Girard d’Albissin http://www.npr.org/…/black-men-may-have-cause-to-run…

Black Men May Have Cause To Run From Police, Massachusetts High…

NPR.ORG

Jeff Sharp

Jeff Sharp Black or white does make a difference and I’m not questioning the fact that black men and women are treated differently by the police.

I will not agree that all police are racist or that they intentionally profile black people. The color of your skin only influences the officers initial perception of a person as much as the way someone is dressed.

Society in general stereotypes people, someone with their pants half way down and their underwear showing will be treated different that someone in a three piece suit.

I have never been black and could not profess to know what it is like. I can tell you that I treat everyone with respect until they prove to me they don’t deserve it. Showing disrespect to any law enforcement officer is a very bad idea and could result in you going to jail or worse.

Sloan Bashinsky

Sloan Bashinsky Your last sentence, Jeff, frames the dilemma. Regardless of who is right or wrong, running away, giving police lip, not obeying their commands, resisting being cuffed, etc. tend not to turn out well for the civilian. Alas, submitting to police doesn’t always turn out well for the civilian, either, as Charles Eimers certainly learned in Key West - they piled on him, one officer clobbered the back of his head with an elbow, there was bystander evidence he was tasered, bystander video showed his face, mouth, nose, eyes covered with sand, he smothered to death face down under them, and they got clean away with it. And he was white. And it was thought he was homeless, because his car looked like he might be living in it, but actually he was a tourist who had only just reached Key West.

This is a terrible dilemma civilians today have with police, to submit or resist, or to flee, and I imagine it’s going to get worse, and I don’t see a resolution happening in America. In Key West, I suggested during the mayor’s part of Hometown’s candidate forum this past Monday night, that KWPD be disbanded, and the city pays Sheriff Ramsay to provide law and order in Key West. For reasons, I said the city murdered Chareles Eimers and it was not able to stand up to the Outlaws bicycle gang (Bike Week a couple of weeks ago.) Let the Sheriff do it, he is better at it, I said.

Jeff Sharp

Jeff Sharp Regards Mr. Eimers the police were without a doubt wrong and responsible for his death.

I disagree with your assertion that “submitting to the police doesn’t always turn out well for the civilian”. Eimers didn’t simply submit, he lead the police on a car chase if I remember right? The police are human and most have regularly seen what happens when a scooter gets hit by a vehicle. Chasing anyone at a high rate of speed through such a populated island as Key West would get anyone’s Adrenalin up.

I think it was precisely that which lead to Mr. Eimers death. I’m not justifying the Key West polices actions but if Eimers would have pulled over and spoken with the officer he could have explained his situation and gotten a ticket for a broken tail light.

I’m not sure that the MCSO is any more responsible than the KWPD? They both have had their fair share of scandals and have questionable officers. On that note where do you think that the MCSO would get the officers to patrol KW? They would simply hire the KW officers and change their uniforms…

Sloan Bashinsky

Sloan Bashinsky MSCO ;provides law enforcement everywhere in the Florida Keys but Key West. MSCO is the city of Marathon’s police department. The city of Islamorada’s police department. Ocean Reef Club’s police department. And the police department for Key Largo, the lower Keys, and all of unincorporated Florida Keys. Sheriff Ramsay only would need more funding from the County Commission to take on Key West, hire the officers he needs to look after this city like he looks after the rest of the Florida Keys. He probably would hire some KWPD officers, I would be surprised if he did not. But he, not our present police chief, Donie Lee, and his city hall bosses (city attorney Shawn Smith, city manager Jim Scholl, Mayor Craig Cates and the six city commissioners) would be calling the shots, That’s because Sheriff Ramsay is an elected constitutional officer. He answers to no one but himself in the Florida Keys. And his deputies answer only to him.

Do you really think KWPD would have killed Charles Eimers, if they had through he was a tourist? They slow chased him to South Beach, where he got out of his car, walked onto the beach, and at their command laid faced own on the beach. He clearly was unarmed. They piled on him and killed him. Bystander’s video showed it. The video the cops did not know existed, when they made up their stories about how he had resisted arrest, struggled against him, so … Any struggle Emers did was caused by being smothered to death on that beach, underneath four, as I recall, cops, one of whom was caught on his taser video boasting he had come down on Emiers like a fucking bomb, we killed him …

Sorry, you and I will never agree, even though I do agree Eimers was nuts driving away from that traffic stop, and that he did drive away and then was murdered is local proof of what happens to people here who are not compliant with local police. This is an old problem in Key West, where homeless people, especially, are concerned. It is endemic to KWPD.

The one police chief the city had, Gordon “Buz” Dillon, who was trying to put an end to city police mistreating homeless people for sport, got fired because he caused a warrant to be issued against Dennis Reeves Cooper, the founder of the blue paper, after Dennis broke a story about an Internal Affairs investigation. Dillon was a good friend of mine. He told me he lost his cool and messed up, but he truly felt Cooper had compromised the IA investigation. Dillon also told me that he and Cooper were buddies. That came about after Dillon got fed up with how Key West Citizen and the Keynoter were reporting cop stories, so he started feeding all of that to Cooper, clandestinely. They were in cahoots, having a good time. Until, without talking with Dillon, Cooper reported the IA investigation. None of that cahoots did Cooper ever report in his crusade against Dillon. Nor did Cooper ever report, or go after, the local judge who signed the warrant, Wayne Miller. the kind of warrant which already had been determined to be illegal for that kind of situation, by a Florida appellate court. A warrant Miller never should have signed. Cooper let Miller skate clean away, and put it all on Dillon. None of that was reported by Cooper, nor by the Citizen, nor by the Keynoter.

However, I eventually reported it several times at goodmorningkewyest.com, from time to time. Also, after I was approached online by someone using a littlewayne@_____ email address, I reported what that person had written to me. that after Cooper went after Dillon, Judge Miller went to Cooper and asked to be left out of it, and Cooper agreed to it. Much later, when Cooper himself was arrested by KWPD and prosecuted, successfully for D.U.I.,Judge Miller presided over that case. After the jury convicted Cooper, Judge Miller put Cooper on probation. Later, based solely on a letter from Cooper to Judge Miller, that Cooper had completed all terms of his probation,,which letter I myself read in the Clerk of Court’s file on the Cooper case, Judge Miller ended Cooper’s probation, without any apparent input from the state attorney. None of that did Cooper report either at the blue paper. Nor his having an earlier time gotten loaded and drove his car into a tree on a sidewalk, and then he drove it home, but by the time KWPD arrived, he was not in the car and they could not charge him wit D.U.I. Later, though, they caught Cooper over the booze limit, while driving, and he make a lot of howling over that at the blue paper. He was stalked. He was set up. But never admitting he was over the limit.

I doubt you wanted to read all about that, but it is part and parcel of the whole, for why Key West has not had a police chief since Buz Dillon, which the blue paper liked. I suppose that’s poetry, some would say irony, others might say justice, the crazy variety. Or karma.

Jeff Sharp

Jeff Sharp Sloan Bashinsky I don’t have a problem with Sheriff Ramsay but the MCSO has had serious problems in the past. I don’t want to go through a laundry list of stupid or possibly illegal things its officers have done. The fact is law enforcement officers are people with real world problems of their own. They have stresses caused by low pay, high housing cost, and any number of personal or family issues. They will make mistakes and need to be held accountable but some consideration needs to be made for human error.

I think that maybe the KW Police chief should be an elected constitutional officer. He would answers to no one but himself and the people who elected him.

“Do you really think KWPD would have killed Charles Eimers, if they had through he was a tourist?” Absolutely not but they never had a chance to find out because of both their actions.

I either didn’t know or forgot that it was a slow chase.

If I haven’t made it clear yet, I think that the KW police murdered Emers. They ALL need to be held accountable (though they never will) for the cover up. Allowances can be made for human error but not for intentional cover up to avoid the fact from being known.

I’m a local since 2000 but have lived in FL and visited the Keys since 1985. I remember the most recent Cooper case and from what I read there is substantial evidence the he was being stalked and that the officer perjured himself?

If I haven’t made it clear yet, I think that the KW police department had some very bad people working for and around them. I don’t think that they are all bad or that it can’t be fixed. The answer may be electing the police chief rather than hiring him?

Sloan Bashinsky

Sloan Bashinsky I also arrived here in 2000, and I then had many opportunities to see KWPD up close and personal, because I was homeless. I imagine Dennis Cooper indeed was stalked, but I had heard plenty that he was known to drive under the influence, which would justify the police staking him out for the safety of the general public. I don’t think there is any doubt Cooper was under the influence. A jury convicted him. The problem is not the police chief, sadly. The problem is the mayor and city commissioners, and most of Key West’s so called we are all created equal members of one human family, who want this very kind of police chief and police force. Otherwise, the citizens would lean on the mayor and the city commissioners, and the mayor and the city commissioners then would lean on the city attorney and the city manager to straighten out the police force. Since the mayor and the city commissioners do not do that, res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself.

I don’t know if the Key West police chief can even be made a constitutional office. If it can be, it would take a lot of hard work, a petition drive, to even get it on the ballot; and more hard work to get that referendum passed; and I am pretty sure the state legislature would have to get involved, and perhaps even a state constitutional amendment passed.

Yeah, deputies have messed up plenty, but I have seen Sheriff Ramsay fire deputies. I don’t recall Donie Lee firing any police officers. In Lee’s shoes, this old former practicing attorney, would have fired a heap of police officers in the wake of the Charles Eimers murder. In Lee’s shoes, I would have had my S.W.A.T., armed to the teeth, meet the Outlaws at Cow Key Bridge and told them to turn around and go back to wherever they came from. KWPD knew the Outlaws where coming to Bike Week, and did nothing. And when the Outlaws went on their rampage, only one cop showed up, according to the blue paper.

sloanbashinsky@outlook.com

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About Sloan

Darn, that would take a while. Try the autobiographical pages in the header. Ditto for header menu pages at www.goodmorningbirmingham.com. Hatched and raised there, eventually I ran away from home. Here's a short list: Born 1942; male; spoken for; accused of all sorts of imaginable and unimaginable things, perhaps some true. Live on Key West of Weird asteroid. Publish something most days at goodmorningkeywest.com, been at that since July 2007. That's heaps of catch-up reading, probably not recommended.
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