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Chief Stops Police Swearing-in Ceremony
WXYZ-TV ^ | May 19, 2006 | Ray Sayah

Posted on 05/20/2006 10:07:03 PM PDT by Westlander

It started as a swearing in ceremony to put badly needed cops back on Detroit streets, but it turned into a swearing out ceremony when Chief Ella Bully-Cummings decided to stop the event at the very last moment.

The 25 police academy students were ordered back to class after one of the students failed a pop quiz by Chief Bully-Cummings.

According to Richard Weaver, Detroit Police Officers Association, the chief asked one of the students for her assistant chief’s job description. When the student didn’t know, Weaver said the chief was "highly upset," had their badges stripped and sent all 25 back to school.

(Excerpt) Read more at detnow.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: academy; ceremony; cheif; detroit; donutwatch; govwatch; jackbootedthug; jbt; pms; police
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Kwame Kilpatrick's hand picked Chief.
1 posted on 05/20/2006 10:07:06 PM PDT by Westlander
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To: Westlander

Aw, it's not like they needed more cops on the streets of Detroit anyway. < /s >


2 posted on 05/20/2006 10:08:55 PM PDT by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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To: Westlander

LOL.

I am glad I don't live there.


3 posted on 05/20/2006 10:10:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.)
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To: Westlander

Kudos to the chief if this is about raising standards. In fact if it is, then maybe he should be put in charge of the school district where he can throw a few "pop quizzes" at the students just before graduation.


4 posted on 05/20/2006 10:14:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Westlander

Well, I for one, am glad. Those policemen don't need to be so foul-mouthed...I mean, swearing at a ceremony! What's next, talking loudly in theaters??

What? You mean it was a swearing-IN ceremony?

Oh, well...nevermind!

5 posted on 05/20/2006 10:15:27 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: Westlander
Why am I not upset about a chief doing this because the officer-to-be didn't know something so basic?

We think such ceremonies are sacred, and once you make it to that point you're home free.

The attitude should be your job is just beginning, not that your education is now ending.

6 posted on 05/20/2006 10:15:50 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Kowtowing to the Bush haters ends now)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Sounds like Chief Bully has got her panties in a bunch.

Any pictures of her?

I'm imagining someone along the lines of Niecey Nash on Reno 911.

The one who's pretty quick with the pepper spray when being confronted.

7 posted on 05/20/2006 10:15:56 PM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: Lancey Howard

Not he, she.


8 posted on 05/20/2006 10:19:23 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: battlegearboat

No pics. But I found a link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Bully-Cummings


9 posted on 05/20/2006 10:23:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.)
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To: battlegearboat

Da Proud Cheef

http://www.casstechfame.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ct_ellabullycummings3.jpg


10 posted on 05/20/2006 10:25:41 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Westlander

11 posted on 05/20/2006 10:26:33 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: Lancey Howard
Kudos to the chief if this is about raising standards. In fact if it is, then maybe he should be put in charge of the school district where he can throw a few "pop quizzes" at the students just before graduation.

One question pop quiz?

The question being the job description of an asst. chief?

You got to be joking.

12 posted on 05/20/2006 10:27:31 PM PDT by sausageseller (Look out for the jackbooted spelling police. There! Everywhere!(revised cause the "man" accosted me!)
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To: Westlander
Does the "Chief" even know her assistant's job description?

How does knowing that relate to investigating crime, or providing the appearance of protection for the citizens of Detroit?

One question *I* have for the "Chief": "Using both hands, find your own ass."

13 posted on 05/20/2006 10:32:30 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
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To: sausageseller
No, every cadet should know that. An Assistant Chief's job is to kiss the Chief's @ss and slap a vacuum on a fifty pound onion sack before sucking the chrome off a trailer hitch. They also occasionally drink coffee and make lame excuses to the rank and file about why city government is so screwed up.

Not that I've spent much time dealing with Assistant Chiefs or anything.

14 posted on 05/20/2006 10:33:42 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
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To: sausageseller

Do you know how many dots there are on a c-rat cracker?
I do.


15 posted on 05/20/2006 10:34:32 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Darkwolf377

This isn't the first time. She's just a pompous wretch.

Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings ordered an extra week of training for a group of new recruits Jan. 27. She said recruits were slow to salute her at their graduation at Cobo Hall.

Not to mention she appeared on TV ads supporting Kwame in the last mayoral election - a violation of state law.


16 posted on 05/20/2006 10:40:10 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: sausageseller
Ooh!! I know! I know!

The Assistant Chief's job is to hold the Bat Pattern in front of the search light while the Chief zeros in on a cloud or some other stationary suspended object!

Do I win anything?

:~)

17 posted on 05/20/2006 10:42:09 PM PDT by 4woodenboats (The GOP was created by those opposed to Southern Democrat Plantation Slavery...)
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To: Westlander
Gotcha, thanks for the background.

That she disguises grandstanding as "high standards" merely lowers the value of high standards in her case. It's not about HER, or an appearance of quality, that people who truly appreciate high standards are concerned with.

18 posted on 05/20/2006 10:44:06 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Kowtowing to the Bush haters ends now)
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To: catbertz

EEgads! I see her on TV enough. (i live in Detroit Suburbia)


19 posted on 05/20/2006 10:44:13 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: martin_fierro
Reinstate STRESS if Detroit wants to control crime.
20 posted on 05/20/2006 10:45:00 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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