Wednesday, February 20, 2013

If I Were Greensboro Chief Of Police

I would want to clear the name of my own department so that without a doubt the public would know my department had done nothing wrong.

You see, I have asked Brian Clarey repeatedly to tell me if Eric Ginsburg or anyone else from Yes! Weekly interviewed the GPD officers who sent the e-mails that were released by the City of Greensboro to verify that those officers did in-fact send those e-mails.

Brian Clarey's answer in every instance thus far: crickets, not a sound. He avoids the question like the plague. Why will Clarey not answer that simple question? Simple answer: he screwed up. An e-mail is only a single source of information and in itself must be verified before it can be considered as proof.

Look, I'm not accusing Brian Clarey and Eric Ginsburg of anything more than possibly being duped. And I'm not accusing GPD Chief Ken Miller of anything except being every bit as stubborn as everyone who know me knows me to be. But if I were the Chief Of Police I would want to clear my department of any wrongdoings and today's statement in Yes! Weekly just doesn't make the grade considering how sloppily Clarey and Ginsburg's work appears to be.

“It would require direction of the council or the manager and we would be happy to provide those [documents] either to the Secret Service or the State Bureau of Investigation and they could do their forensic analysis on those e-mails,” he said. “I have no objection if we’re directed by the council or the manager.”

A police chief in any city in America does not need the approval of any City Council or any city manager to call in a higher police authority to investigate the bosses. It's a fact! As I said to Ken Miller in an e-mail recently, Former Chief David Wray told myself and several others that his mistake was trying to keep the investigation in house when he should have called in the SBI himself. I'm warning you again, Ken, as someone who wants to support you, this city eats honest cops. If you're honest and you don't want to become sausage biscuits for fat downtown developers then you'd better call for some back-up. And if you don't call for back-up most of Greensboro will believe you dirty.

I realize you're hesitant to investigate your bosses. Anyone would be. But with the only investigations going on being conducted by inexperienced journalists and a bunch of opinionated bloggers wearing tin foil hats (myself included) the longer you wait the worse it gets. And as your bosses well know, I don't back down and I don't let go. And if your bosses give you any shit over calling in State or Federal investigators you only need leak it to the local bloggers and Rhino Times and we'll destroy them just like we destroyed Mitch Johnson. I'll even give you Jerry Bledsoe's e-mail address if you don't already have it.