• Chief of Police Orders Ten Officers to Hunt Down Son’s Stolen iPhone
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[quote] Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan, already under fire for sending an officer to a reporter's house after midnight, ordered police - some on overtime - to look for his teenage son's stolen cell phone in Oakland, authorities said Monday. Officers did not file a police report about the January incident, "an oversight that came to our attention when researching your questions," said police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, a department spokeswoman. On Jan. 11, Meehan's son reported that somebody stole his iPhone from his locker at Berkeley High School. The phone was equipped with tracking software. The chief showed his own phone to the property crimes sergeant, who deployed his team and drug task force officers to look for the missing phone, Kusmiss said. The signal stopped updating the phone's position near 55th Street and San Pablo in North Oakland. The phone wasn't found. "It is common for BPD officers to actively investigate an in-progress tracking signal from a stolen electronic device," Kusmiss said. But many officers have been grumbling about the incident, and a source said Meehan himself took part in the search, which at its height involved as many as 10 officers. Kusmiss said four detectives were paid overtime for two hours each. Meehan has declined to comment on the incident. The chief has been embroiled in a controversy for sending Kusmiss to a reporter's home after midnight in March to press for changes in a story about the Feb. 18 bludgeoning death of a Berkeley hills resident. Meehan is being investigated by a San Francisco law firm at a cost to Berkeley of up to $25,000. The city is also paying up to an additional $24,000 to a public relations firm to review how the police handle media relations. [/quote] Read more: [url]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/21/BAGC1OLH7R.DTL#ixzz1voKK8g2o[/url] Just get a new one. You're a chief, you should be able to buy another for your son.
Corruption at it's finest.
What a great waste of time.
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;36080509]Corruption at it's finest.[/QUOTE] Not really corruption. More just misuse of authority and resources.
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;36080509]Corruption at it's finest.[/QUOTE] That's not really corruption. It comes closer to Nepotism but isn't exactly that either.
Being police chief comes with perks.
Overtime to search for a phone? I'm sure none of the officers are going to bitch, thats like 30-40 an hour.
Maybe Berkeley is just a really, really peaceful town?
He was creating jobs you tools.
Well, that's a huge misuse of authority. I almost don't mind since it seems he only had the cops do this when they wouldn't be doing anything else and paid over time (which pays really good for police officers) for their efforts. He shouldn't be using his power for his own good, though.
[QUOTE=Crypt_Keeper;36081090]Not really corruption. More just misuse of authority and resources.[/QUOTE] Um, that's what corruption is. Using your authority and power to further your own desires versus the public good.
[quote]who deployed his team and [b]drug task force officers[/b] to look for the missing phone, Kusmiss said.[/quote] Is that really necessary? The phone is probably in the bottom of the kid's backpack.
[QUOTE=shian;36080461]Read more: [url]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/21/BAGC1OLH7R.DTL#ixzz1voKK8g2o[/url] Just get a new one. You're a chief, you should be able to buy another for your son.[/QUOTE] Cops don't actually get paid a lot, something expensive like an iPhone is still a loss.
What are priorities?
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;36082662]Cops don't actually get paid a lot, something expensive like an iPhone is still a loss.[/QUOTE] i'm sure the chief of police earns enough to buy another iphone
[QUOTE=RichyZ;36082860]get a different more affordable phone and tell the kid that shit costs money so stop losing it[/QUOTE] Stop losing it? So if your house was broken into and all valuable stuff was stolen we could just say "stop losing stuff and deal with it"?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;36082469]Um, that's what corruption is. Using your authority and power to further your own desires versus the public good.[/QUOTE] Except he is still investigating a crime. I wouldn't call it corruption, idiotic as it may be.
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