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Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton fired
Dallas Morning News ^ | August 26, 2003 | Staff

Posted on 08/26/2003 9:28:26 AM PDT by Recourse

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To: Recourse; MeeknMing
YAY!

Legend has it he was on the take with Al Lipscomb, shaking down the strip-clubs on NW HWY.
21 posted on 08/26/2003 9:55:13 AM PDT by SerpentDove (Each post focus-group tested for maximum wallop.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
There are places in EVERY city that you would avoid at night. What kind of remark is that?
22 posted on 08/26/2003 10:16:16 AM PDT by Sangria
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To: Sangria
How bout "There are places in Dallas that even the Cowboys don't visit"
23 posted on 08/26/2003 10:20:51 AM PDT by lelio
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To: SerpentDove
"Legend has it he was on the take with Al Lipscomb, shaking down the strip-clubs on NW HWY."

I think this reason alone (and documentation to prove it) will prevent this from being a long drawn out law suit....
24 posted on 08/26/2003 10:30:56 AM PDT by Maringa
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To: pikachu
"Didn't someone on the City Council PROMISE race riots if Bolton was fired? Maybe the raced card just can't trump policy anymore."

Race riots just don't have the same glamour anymore, since 'concealed carry' was signed into law here...

25 posted on 08/26/2003 10:31:07 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: Recourse
What great news, he was such an idiot and an embarassment to this city. It's hard for me to like Laura Miller but kudos on this one.

Here's a snip from the DMN article:

Councilman James Fantroy warned that race relations in the city would deteriorate if the chief were fired. “The black community believed in Chief Bolton. And so I hope that this doesn’t cause any adverse effect on our city,” he told WFAA-TV.

The black community sees it in black and white, what a joke of a statement. If they cannot see his incompetence, then they are beyond help. Jesse Jackson is probably on a plane right now.
26 posted on 08/26/2003 10:38:19 AM PDT by Akira (Judean People's Front? We're the People's Front of Judea!)
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To: Recourse
"An official told NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff that Bolton might have been fired sooner had he not been the city's first black police chief."

His skin color is certainly the ONLY reason he wasn't fired a LONG TIME AGO. He has been a terrible police chief and a disgrace to the uniform. This is SO OVERDUE it's not even funny.

27 posted on 08/26/2003 10:52:01 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Recourse

Who would have thought that Dallas Police were corrupt?

28 posted on 08/26/2003 11:00:48 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Here's to Hillary's book sinking like the Clinton 2000 economy)
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To: SauronOfMordor
What's the "uh oh" about?

It's about the upcoming rabble-rousing by the likes of John Wiley Price and Lee Alcorn. I can hear it now.


29 posted on 08/26/2003 11:09:09 AM PDT by rdb3 (They've read all the books but they can't find the answers...)
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To: bmwcyle
Oswald shooting was due to stupidity, not coruption. Ruby was an everyday fixture around the police station downtown. He liked to keep an eye on his money, you know.
30 posted on 08/26/2003 11:09:57 AM PDT by whereasandsoforth (tagged for migratory purposes only)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
I think that any "trouble" will come from the usual suspects. I don't know how much traction they'll get, though. Hopefully it won't have any affect.


31 posted on 08/26/2003 11:10:59 AM PDT by rdb3 (They've read all the books but they can't find the answers...)
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To: whereasandsoforth
Ruby was an everyday fixture around the police station

I want my police force to be friends with the local mob boy so he can walk about freely.

32 posted on 08/26/2003 11:28:47 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Here's to Hillary's book sinking like the Clinton 2000 economy)
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To: rdb3
I don't know how much traction they'll get, though. Hopefully it won't have any affect.

I don't think it will have any affect, this nonsense is over. Bolton had been doing a bad job, and there's no right that says an incompetant black can't be fired for poor performance unlike any other ethnic group. If any fools do try rioting, they'd better not try it in Hispanic, Asian, or white neighborhoods. And I would hope that black neighborhoods would oppose any rioters also. With concealed and carry, certain things are understood. There has to be a legitimate reason to protest, and the day is past when firing an incompetant official becomes a justification for members of his ethnic group to have a riot.

33 posted on 08/26/2003 11:43:04 AM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones
Be very interesting to see how many busineses in Dallas let their employees head home early today to 'avoid' some of the scheduled protests. With the poor traffic management in Dallas, it would take only a handful of the 'No Justice - No Peace' crowd to block a few intersections and bring the traffic to a halt.
34 posted on 08/26/2003 1:25:14 PM PDT by pikachu (The REAL script)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Why do blacs and Hispanics need "Community Leaders"??? There is no such term in white America.....nor do we need it.

WAKE UP MINORITES!!! Your OWN people think you are too STUPID to think and do for yourselves.....hence..."community leaders".

35 posted on 08/26/2003 1:33:33 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: SerpentDove; Recourse
Amazing ! I hadn't heard until your ping ! I am speechless ...

Thanks for the post and ping ...


36 posted on 08/26/2003 1:37:21 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: bmwcyle

37 posted on 08/26/2003 1:39:30 PM PDT by July 4th
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To: July 4th
Alright, so they really have a band.
38 posted on 08/26/2003 1:41:22 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Here's to Hillary's book sinking like the Clinton 2000 economy)
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To: MeeknMing
I've been suspecting something. He has been on the defensive for a few days now -- complaining that the mayor was visiting some in his office without calling first. WITHOUT CALLING FIRST ???? That sort of thing.
39 posted on 08/26/2003 1:45:47 PM PDT by Texagirl4W
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To: yall
Update from The Dallas Morning News ...


Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton fired

03:18 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 26, 2003

From Staff Reports

City Manager Ted Benavides fired Police Chief Terrell Bolton on Tuesday morning, ending the reign of an embattled leader whose tenure was marked by the fake drug scandal and a controversy about an officer involved in an off-duty shooting.

"After four years of Chief Bolton's leadership, I just thought it was time to go in a new direction," Benavides said. "I think he's a really good guy. Sometimes events overtake you."

Benavides said an “accumulation of issues,” not one single event, prompted the chief's firing. He said he had been considering the move "for a while."

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At a news conference, Bolton, who had been police chief since October 1999, thanked the officers and citizens who supported him, and outlined what he considered his accomplishments: cutting his budget to stay within the city’s means, improving the officers’ salaries, reducing violent crime, and increasing the number of minorities and women in the department.

But he said he did not understand why he had been fired. “I’m still trying to work that out,” he said.

“I leave with no regrets,” he said. “I think that I’ve given Dallas everything that I could give Dallas within the resources that I’ve had.”

Benavides said he would begin a national search, which he expects to take at least six months.

Bolton's dismissal was effective immediately. In the meantime, Assistant Chief Randy Hampton was named to lead the department.

City Councilman John Loza said he supported the city manager's decision.

"I know it’s a very difficult decision on his part and I really do think to a certain extent that Chief Bolton maybe was a victim of circumstances beyond his control," Loza said. "But I think there was a lot on consensus that we needed to take a new direction and I can understand that.

“I think we have an opportunity now to hopefully find someone that will take some new initiatives and get us moving forward, [and] improve the morale in the department.”

Earlier this month, police officials announced that the department's internal affairs division would conduct a review of department hiring practices. Those practices came under scrutiny recently after The Dallas Morning News reported that Officer Derrick C. Evans had been the subject of emergency protective orders in Alaska for allegedly assaulting his wife, according to public records.

The orders were not found by the department's background check when Evans joined the department in February 2000. Evans was put on administrative leave this summer after he wounded a teenager during an off-duty confrontation that involved his stepdaughter.

The chief also was criticized about a July report that showed that Dallas would have the highest crime rate among the nation's largest cities for the sixth year in a row if projections hold true through the end of the year.

At the time, Bolton noted that the city's crime rate had fallen significantly in the last decade, despite an apparent spike in crime for the first half of the year.

The Dallas County district attorney's office has identified more than 80 Dallas police narcotics cases tainted after the fake-drug cases surfaced in late 2001. About two dozen cases involved fake or no drugs, and others were dismissed because of questions surrounding the involved officers and their paid informants.

Sgt. Gil Cerda, president of the Dallas chapter of the National Latino Peace Officers Association, said the decision to fire Bolton was not particularly surprising.

“All we can say is, we don’t know which straw broke the camel’s back,” Cerda said. “It was something that was in the making. The city manager made the decision to carry it through. I don’t know if he was stimulated by City Council members, or just by the trouble that’s happened over the past four years. Chief Bolton had a tough job. He was hit hard from day one. I don’t know anyone who could cope with that in those four years.”

Bolton supporters said they were disappointed that the city’s first black chief had been fired.

Councilman James Fantroy said he was concerned that race relations in the city will deteriorate as a result.

“The black community believed in Chief Bolton. And so I hope that this doesn’t cause any adverse effect on our city,” he told WFAA-TV.

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price pointed to the chief’s clashes with Mayor Laura Miller as a reason he may have been dismissed.

“We understand the mayor has felt like that Chief Bolton was the weak link in the chain … and was probably disposable,” Price said.

Benavides said neither the council nor Miller played a role in his decision to terminate Bolton.

"The city manager hired Mr. Bolton," he said. "The city manager terminated Mr. Bolton."

Dallas Morning News staff writers Colleen McCain, Tanya Eiserer, Holly Becka and Jason Trahan and WFAA-TV contributed to this report.


Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/082603dnmetbolton.4420b719.html

40 posted on 08/26/2003 1:52:00 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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