tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646417.post8961424082167834432..comments2024-03-26T16:11:40.327-07:00Comments on Behind The Blue Wall: [CA] Eureka Police Officer Kalis allowed to "resign" amid charges & his ex-wife is now even more afraidBehind The Blue Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429113203939514642noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646417.post-35323214708817048962012-03-25T17:58:40.783-07:002012-03-25T17:58:40.783-07:00To the person who posted it, please explain the li...To the person who posted it, please explain the link better and show what the link is instead of embedding the url in text so people can decide whether it's safe to click. Thanks.Behind The Blue Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429113203939514642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646417.post-65891453433245513852012-03-25T17:55:53.073-07:002012-03-25T17:55:53.073-07:00don't click on the comment I just posted and d...don't click on the comment I just posted and deleted right away. it may be a trick.Behind The Blue Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429113203939514642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646417.post-71650157191825976612011-04-16T21:39:46.451-07:002011-04-16T21:39:46.451-07:00(From Comment Posted on Humboldt Herald:
http://...(From Comment Posted on Humboldt Herald: <br /><br />http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/epd-officer-charged/#comments<br /><br />Dear Humboldt Herald,<br /><br />Thank you for hosting this ebullient back and forth discussion. <br /><br />I'll have to agree with Mark Sailors insofar as cops and department line-of-command should be held to a higher standard than civilians--not in terms of normal human foibles but in terms of law and order. They've gone to college in many cases, then onto the academy, taken sworn oaths, are sent annually to training courses to keep up skills and acquire additional skills all to uphold complex laws and to work to keep communities more safe, more peaceful. Law enforcement officers are considered 'experts' by the public and, given their years of specialized training, would be expected to understand what is right and wrong not only in spirit but by the letter of the law.<br /><br />In reference to "Tra's" and "Henchman of Justice's" threads above, in my opinion the public should call for the immediate appointment of a Grand Jury to investigate EPD and DA management (or lack of management) of the entire matter. A Grand Jury would first be expected to receive a full set of the EPD's written policies and procedures. At this point, the Grand Jury could compare and contrast all of the current evidence in the case in order to make a recommendation to indict one or more members of the entrenched EPD culture based upon who was responsible for both developing exceptional cops and for disciplining cops who aren’t able to live and work up to the high expectations this and any community has of their well-paid, well-insured and well-pensioned police force. <br /><br />And one doesn't need to attend the police academy to know that, as Mark Sailors so eloquently put it, the harmless homeless soul just walking across the wrong plaza at the wrong time of day is consistently approached under the auspices of local panhandling ordinances. Upon contact with the citizen, an ID is requested, a search for warrants conducted, a citation issued (or, worse, a visit downtown to finger-paint with print-grease). And given the particulars, most of us who have seen even a few crime dramas on the Lifetime channel know that bail is set and, if the citizen has no assets to post bail, countless numbers simply sit in tiny cells throughout the process, often for months. Most of the most vulnerable amongst us who are charged with non-violent offenses are never set free to continue to kill poor 'fishies' without a license as one reader stated. For the rest of us, its strictly ‘by the book.’ <br /><br />An immediate probe into this matter by a Grand Jury will go along way towards re-establishing any trust the local community had for the Eureka Police Department before this matter became the scandal it is quickly becoming. At this point, the entire situation just doesn't smell right. Unless we search for and find the rotting source of the smell, the smell usually just gets worse.<br /><br />Looks like a few folks got some 'splainin to do. <br /><br />Respectfully submitted,<br /><br />On Twitter @JackieWellbaumJackie Wellbaumhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002203657229noreply@blogger.com