Detroit Police Department to overhaul towing system amid corruption scandal

The Detroit Police Department’s towing policies are getting a major overhaul amid a corruption scandal.

[yourmomisaho]

What?!? Towing corruption!?? Whowuddathunk????

[MrDetroit]

I wonder if repair bills for vehicles are ever padded. That seems like another area where you could easily get lost in the numbers.

[karenwinston]

LOL, The computer program is run by DPD

[wilquisonsenapie]

The dayli worker still believe in the goverment to help them for everything.

[spcwilliams]

Get rid of city towing and just give out more parking tickets when needed.

[themichaelcantrellband]

The sidebar: (5:18-cv-01436-KK April 5, 2022) Jeff Cook (Pro Se) v San Bernardino sheriff deputies Jones and Lopez)
So we approach and I hand Judge Kato the printout of the 107.7 news story about CI Desiree Guererro’s bust for dealing meth and the $50, 000 bail noted in the article. I said I was going to ask her where she got the bail money. County Council Heidi Williams immediately chirps up, because Guererro has just denied ever having a felony, and starts blabbing about how the 2020 case is still in the ya know, they are holding up on letting her off to see how her confidential informant testimony goes. And that’s going to play into my hands, as usual, because the next thing I say to Kato, is that I have the case numbers for the Guererro felonies, and Williams starts chirping real fast, because, that’s actually two counts of perjury, because Guererro denied both incidents.
First, I’d like to thank god for me being so ____ing smart and devastatingly manipulative as to pull that off, because Kato will not let absolutely anything in, and only by being pushy as side bar do I pull it off. Ya, now she’s confronted with a situation, with Williams readin about the bust Over Kato’s shoulder, and Williams loses her nerve and falls apart. Between you and me, Ida shut my mouth and looked fat and dumb, her specialty. And that’s not an insult, there’s no hiding that, and those high heels, we were all wincing watching her walk, I was going to complain to the judge that a display like that had no place in federal court, but after a while, she started to look good in a Kafkaesque kinda way, anyway back to the case.
I’m feeling like a lion at a kill, before the hyenas close in. Remember I’m one of only two men in the courtroom, me and one guy in the jury, the two cops are no men, they’re cowards and I called them that. So I’m in complete charge, but the fix is in, and the jury is already pro police, but I DON’T KNOW THAT YET AND SO IT DOESN’T FAZE ME.
So, Kato lets me redirect Guererro to her two counts of perjury and she admits to the crimes. It was, kinda like a one punch fight, no contest, and by then there’s a crowd of white law enforcement in the audience and they’re tryin to intimidate me, but I’m on a roll, I mean a mofo roll and it all comes out. I’ve deluded myself into thinking the deputies in the audience are interested in the truth, but on a break I try and chat one of them up and he turns hostile.
But, before we leave that sidebar I also ask Kato to check the case number for Officer Jones’ felony (VC M23152(A) SWM 1407320) and she refuses, letting him deny it in open court and he also denies any knowledge of the Watchlist (S4MR4Z2D1) which I have already put into evidence including the case number for that, Williams sat on her hands and I got that into the record including the denials. As I recall, Kato tells me I can’t go back to the Jones felony until we readdress it at another time, which is NEVER!
But, I’m not tryin to make Kato look bad, she did good, the best she could, and under the circumstances, knowing that I would never get jury of my peers. So why risk looking liberal while her confirmation is going on and she gave me enough rope to hang them. This beast is a mammoth and I’m just a guy with a spear, I’ll hafta move on ta something heavier to bring em down. So, …..
I notify Judge Bernal that the manipulation of evidence in deposition happened on his watch, that’s what the State bar wanted, and the IA investigation into Jones’ denial of the felony and watchlist, and copied the FBI Monday morning, that’s their Watchlist!
I think what’s goin on, is that Jones cleared that felony somehow to retain his firearm permit, but didn’t go back far enough to remove the conviction from his record. It has to be him, but they denied it. I wondered at the time why they let me put it into evidence including the case numbers in my redirect of Jones. But, the foundation was not an accusation, but why was this appearing on his credit report, they can’t touch me for that and Kato didn’t admonish me.