Our Eyes out on the street tell us, let’s just say, there is a power
struggle within APD. The issue is, “Who
is the Chief of Police?” This is like
watching a bad act.
ACT #1
As you recall Berry claimed Ray Schultz walked on water and was the
greatest thing since the toilet. Well, APD
continued to be flushed down the toilet because of the inept leadership, Berry
and Shultz.
ACT #2
Eden was brought in as the Chief of Police the last day of the
advertised vacancy to throw his hat in.
Eden was given a whopping salary to be the Chief of Police and Ray
Schultz was sent skidding out the door (so much for walking on water and being
the greatest thing since the toilet).
Meanwhile Eden gave his blessing to the Boyd shooting as being justified
and immediately lost all credibility. We
acknowledge Eden never really had control of the PD nor did Schultz.
ACT #3
So in order to fix the blunder of hiring and keeping Eden, after
bouncing Schultz, Berry promises the world to Bob Huntsman if he would return
to APD as a Deputy Chief of Police.
Well, Huntsman has been barking all the orders to the troops. However, problems still remain and APD is
still in the toilet because of inept leadership.
ACT #4
Next course of inept action is to hire an official PIO (public
information officer). Janet Blair is
brought on as the new PIO and has been caught several times, let’s just say,
fibbing. Some of our Eyes are telling us
Blair is now behind the scenes giving orders also.
Now APD has technically, three Chiefs of Police. The combined salary of the three administrators
(Eden, Huntsman and Blair) is in the neighborhood of $350,000.00. The City is spending
a lot of money and one would reasonably expect some results. Well, here are the results:
APD is still in the toilet because
of past inept leadership and now current inept leadership.
The troops do not have a clear and defined leadership.
Tax payers are out $350,000.00.
The Berry Administration needs to admit their wrong and cut their
losses and hire a real leader. The deterioration
continues and the men and women in the APD are paying the price directly;
indirectly the public is being ripped apart. There is a huge difference between a “Classy Act”
and a “Class-C Act.” The Berry
Administration is the latter of the two.
