Timmons says he placed a tracker on the police chief’s truck and a surveillance camera on a car wash pointing at city hall where the chief’s office is because the mayor’s signature goes on the chief’s time sheets and he had concerns about them.
“The mayor’s position is not just shaking hands and kissing babies,” Timmons said.
But the mayor says he did not expect officers’ signatures on a bunch of resignation letters and did not expect the entire full-time Milner police department to resign effective Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The mayor wants to and says he’ll be able to keep a police department. In the meantime, the sheriff will patrol.
Milner Police Chief Lamar Bunn says he’s done nothing wrong.
So the entire force was committing fraud, is what I’m hearing from those resignations. Charge the mfers instead of letting them just fuck off one county over.
If your boss put an illicit tracker on your car, then put up cameras to surveil when you get to the office, how would you respond?
I know I’d fucking quit. Especially when I have to be responding to calls and emails at all hours of the day
If I was a public servant I’d expect that every place I went with a government car and everything I did in it was recorded, because for police the alternative is fucking nuts. I’d also expect incredibly basic fact checking investigations like that when someone was suspected of fraud.
By the way, the entire department wasn’t tracked. Per the article only the chief was, yet everyone quit. If you can’t see crooked when it’s staring you in the face then I can’t help you.
Crying about workers’ rights for cops is ass-backwards when they protect capital over workers, regardless.
I’d expect some kind of accountability if I were fudging my time sheets.
My work issued phone has GPS tracking on it. My company issued laptop has GPS tracking on it. My work issued vehicle has GPS tracking on it. I have a camera that faces in and out of the vehicle as well. That’s just how most companies are these days.
I mean I wouldn’t be committing fraud and stealing taxpayer dollars to begin with so…
Just about everywhere I worked had cameras as standard, and if my employer owned the vehicle I drove, I’d expect the car to be tracked.
Book 'em Dan-O!