Of all the STUPID, DISGRACEFUL shit I've seen while doing what I do...

...this REALLY ranks WAY up there.

If you live in Wichita, duck because here it comes, both barrels

Recently, the Wichita Police Department decided to honor themselves with commemorative coins for their dilligence. 30 plus years worth in fact, in capturing Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer. They spent between five and six thousand dollars of TAXPAYER monies to reward some 1200 people who helped catch Rader. Of course it helped that the serial killer drew a map to his house practically but why should THAT fact stop the Wichita PD from showering themselves in glory much like the now infamous 'Saturday Morning Awards Ceremony' on February 26, 2004 with emcee Police Chief Norman Williams.

I mean you bungled the case for 30 years, why stop at coins? You should ALL receive homes plated in GOLD so EVERYONE in Sedgwick County knows YOU were involved. Maybe gold inlayed swimming pools would be a proper use of taxpayer money. You could make a tiled gold bottom outlining the WPD logo. Maybe jeweled roofing for your homes would show residents of Wichita YOU were involved.

Oh, I'm sorry, did you suffer an awful lot trying to catch him? Did your lives change drastically while hunting him? Then get a few thousand more coins made for the residents who had to run inside and check their phone lines each night, the residents who would stay up all night with guns and freaking out at any little noise or disturbance.

Where does this end? When do you STOP honoring yourselves for what MANY people consider to be SHODDY police work?

Here now are images of the coins they are rewarding themselves with (the backs come complete with the names of BTK's victims):






Might I suggest a DIFFERENT coin design?

24 years ago TODAY, Laura McBride was murdered

Walking down from her apartment up across the Huron River off Green Road and somehow wound up in Peninsular Park where she was killed. My guess is that since she was stabbed (well there's more to that but I'll spare you the details until it comes out in open court) she was led into the park at knifepoint by her killer, a piece of human shit named Jimmy Eric Green (and Jimmy's parents should be SO PROUD of what they raised), was identified by DNA. They had to look no further than the State Prison in Jackson, MI to find him. He was serving a life sentence for rape and assault.

If anyone knows this case in Ypsilanti it's normally because they have heard the legend of Laura's ghost roaming up by the Hill dorms (ironically enough where Laura Dickinson was recently murdered) during the fall. Hopefully the closure in this case will allow Laura's memory to be that of a kind soul who was also an Air Force vet.

Maybe even perhaps it will release her ghost (which I believe was and is there due to an eyewitness account of a former EMU police officer named 'Joe' who worked there in the late 80's) from it's tortured existence. Who is to say but we do know, the book on one of the most intriguing cases in Ypsilanti's history can now be closed.

Peninsular Park

See if you can follow along to this logic

Perhaps credit in an Eastern Michigan course is possible if you can properly follow along with what Director of Campus Police Cindy Hall told the EMU student paper, The Eastern Echo:

"I would not jeopardize the safety of students, faculty or anyone around campus by withholding information," Hall said. "Any information was withheld to protect the integrity of the case."

OK, class so let's break that thinking down.

"I would not jeopardize the safety of students, faculty or anyone around campus by withholding information"

OK, but Cindy, you DID withhold information. How dare you tell someone to their face you wouldn't withhold information AFTER having withheld information.

"Any information was withheld to protect the integrity of the case."

OK, Cindy, but you just got done saying you WOULDN'T withhold info. It is HERE (and unlike John Fallon, EMU President I UNDERSTAND Cindy's thinking here) you make a CHOICE, public safety through awareness vs. the old bogeyman, 'intergrity of the case'. You are in charge of Campus Police which, most likely mean you could give two shits what ANY of us think about this. You have to do what's right by EMU police. John Fallon however DOES NOT fall under these auspices. He DOES NOT work for Campus Police.

Now Cindy, while your comments are maddening and border on doublespeak, you did what you felt you needed to do. You have a long reputation of the EMU police to uphold going back to the John Norman Collins cases in Ypsilanti that the EMU Campus Police BUTCHERED alongside the Ann Arbor PD. So you just be happy I'm not giving you the Fallon treatment. Next time, simply decline interviews Cindy, or have a professional spokesperson handle media requests, lest you come off as not too sure of yourself.

Mr Fallon, we're STILL waiting for your resignation. Do the right thing.

Resign.