Morris strikes back in defense of Chief

Yap, yap, yap. Blah, blah, blah.

I think the easiest way to dissect this weak press release is to start with the core values Billdt lists in his rambling comments.

1. Committment to Public Service

When Mike Billdt refers to "Committment to Public Service", what he really means is bilking the taxpayers to pad the retirement packages of his cronies. Instead of grooming a bench and establishing a plan of succession, Billdt would rather tap lifers and elevate them to higher positions of leadership, even though they have one foot out the door.

Take Mankin for example. Mankin gets promoted and within a year retires on a medical leave.

2. Safety

When Billdt speaks of safety, he is referring to the pimping of Operation Phoenix and his ceaseless praise for the program that is for all intents and purposes...the flag of the Morris Administration. When the Mayor controls your job, and not the Council, it is in your best interests to obey the mayoral leash and sit when you are told to sit, and roll over when you are told to roll over.

When Billdt speaks of safety, he is talking about keeping his neck from getting sprained by the jerking of the leash. Sit! Goooooooood boy.

3. Integrity

This is a laugher. Integrity? Even with a "degree" from Augie U., Billdt doesn't know the meaning of the word.

The following is a documented, certified fact. On at least two separate instances, Chief Billdt lied to the City Council.

He lied about the forming of the taxpayer funded Police Activities League. He said it was already operating back around November of 2007. It didn't become operational until February of 2008.

Before that, Mayor Morris jerked the leash and Billdt obediently lied about the baseline number of parolees in the city so as to make the rise in parolee numbers seem much less severe than it actually was. Billdt sheepishly acknowledged that he was including parolees in prison and at unknown addresses in the number when savvy reporter Robert Rogers called him out on it.

Those are two specific instances. There is a laundry list of others.

4. Loyalty

Billdt spells loyalty with a K-N-I-F-E. He stabbed the previous chief in the back in order to secure the job and covered up the investigation (....er....allegedly) into pornographic pictures
to protect Mayor Morris' pet program.

When Billdt isn't stabbing others in the back to get ahead, he is rewarding his cronies with advancement and promotion and punishing dissenters.

5. Respect for the Law

Billdt has so much respect for the law that one of his officers was not immediately placed on leave when that officer faced allegations of criminal misconduct in his abuse of the law.

How do you demonstrate respect for the law, when you do not immediately investigate serious accusations against an officer who is accused of breaking the law by another officer? How do you have a respect for the law, when you cover up (allegedly) an investigation into potential sexual misconduct in the name of political expediency?

6. Accountability

One would think that a police chief would be an "open book". Perhaps, had the Chief actually been forced to crack one here and there on his way to buying a fake degree from a defunct and unaccredited "university" called Augie U., he might understand the need for transparency and accountability in government.

Instead, he hid his "resume" for two years out of sheer embarrassment.

Later, Chief Billdt says that "his door is always open" to the POA. Interesting.

POA President Rish Lawhead has regularly met with Chief Billdt over the last year and a half. After several meetings where Chief Billdt made several promises in response to concerns raised by Sgt. Lawhead and failed to follow through, Sgt. Lawhead sought to document the meetings with a brief letter summarizing the discussion.

It was at this point that Chief Billdt threatened to terminate all future meetings if Lawhead insisted on documenting the subject of the conversations.

That is the sort of accountability Billdt practices.

Mayor Morris. Yes..Yes..We know. Chief Billdt has your "confidence in the extreme," he has an "S" on his chest, all the criminal has now left San Bernardino, blah blah blah. When you wake up from your dream look out the window. Do you see the smoke? Rome is burning and guess who's going down after Billdt. Yep, you. "In the extreme."

It is about time that the Sheriff takes over the city of San Bernardino. The city would have a helicopter (a-hem), not have to pay booking fees at the jails, and could really clean house in the PD administration. The fine officers that faithfully serve our city would be picked up by the Sheriff Department and have an opportunity for varied career assignments. Best of all the new Chief of Police would answer to the city council, not the Mayor.

How late did Jimmy Boy have to say after the council meeting last night to come up with this load of BS?

Billdt is a liar, as Joseph Turner pointed out. He will say whatever he has to so that he keeps his job and fat retirement.

Wilson is a liar, oh wait - he just "misspoke" to the DA - that isn't lying right? Besides the fact that Wilson's last day is this Friday - he will say whatever the Mayor tells him to. He has no integrity.

Mayor Morris is a liar. He has lied to me personally. He is covering up the mess with Operation Phoenix. He denies knowledge of what was going on but Wilson wouldn't answer the question if Mayor Morris had prior knowledge because he knows Morris knew. Lots of people told Morris about the problems in OP and he ignored it and them.

The lot of them are liars and the press release is a bunch of protestations about a subpar employee that is being protected to keep him quiet about the Mayor's knowledge of the Operation Phoenix cover-up.