Posted on 02/09/2019 7:52:23 AM PST by L.A.Justice
https://abc7.com/ex-lapd-commander-says-she-was-fired-because-shes-a-woman/5127882/
That KABC7 article has some more quotes from her attorney...
"My client acknowledges wrongdoing," Gage said. "She is willing to be punished, but she wants to be punished fairly. And she wants her 22 years of exemplary service to be recognized."
It is an update to a story posted in December...Back then, some posters commented that she is not that good looking...
Good luck to Commander...If her attorney could name other LAPD officers who avoided getting fired for worse offense...That will be interesting...Maybe Chief would let her keep her job to prevent names of those other officers from being disclosed...Her lawyer said, last month, that she is willing to be demoted to Captain...My position is that she should be given one more chance...
She was once in charge of LAPD officers in Venice Beach when she was a captain...
OK...When she got arrested for public intoxication, the driver was Sgt. James Kelly...He is black...I don't think that has any impact in her case...But, her attorney mentioned that in the legal papers...Whatever...
Let me take a wild guess here.
She (and her “escort”) are members of a protected race, gender, species and political party, right?
Maybe she should apply to the Boston PD after yesterday’s story of the copper with the two strippers and having his gun stolen.
Actually, no. She looks white and does not have a Hispanic name. I think she was fired for not being black. Side note: It looks like her offense was being drunk and asleep in an unmarked police car that another off duty police officer was driving. This is one of the rare cases where (if I didn’t miss something important) a complaint may be valid.
Two wrongs don’t make a right
Fire her and the others as well.
She thinks she deserves to be a captain after this incident?
I wish this was unbelievable.
She just may have a point.
But, being Mexifornia, and their xlown car of dimbulbcrat policritters, who knows what’ll happen?
A woman being passed out drunk out on the town has no business commanding men who work in a field like police work.
The question I have is why was she and another officer in a police car (marked or unmarked) if they were off duty?
My father was an undercover police officer and only used the police cars on his on duty time.
He had his own personal vehicle for off duty activities.
Euphemism for ‘passed out drunk’?
you can’t go back and fife people who have already been disciplined. Now without new charges. You’re stuck with the precident’s you create.
I'm not sure the male companion is her police partner. As a male companion usually implies a more intimate type of relationship. Unless of course they are the same person being described in the two different facets of relationship.
At any rate, good luck to her.
Where I live, they are encouraged to take marked cars and unmarked cars home. To some extent that is good for the community, because a recognizable police car parked in the neighborhood discourages crime.
Sigh first off, being asleep in your vehicle should not be a DUI/PI at all, unless you’re in the middle of a roadway. Being in a parked car is NOT ‘driving’.
At most, her and her partner should get in trouble for utilizing department vehicles for personal activities, unless they are already expressly allowed to do so.
“Where I live, they are encouraged to take marked cars and unmarked cars home. To some extent that is good for the community, because a recognizable police car parked in the neighborhood discourages crime.”
Okay, thanks for clearing that up. If my father were still alive I would have asked him.
Still, I would think that if one were to use a police car on off duty time, the activities one would behave in must be of a professional nature.
She is not fit to be a police captain.
“Where I live, they are encouraged to take marked cars and unmarked cars home.”
Does that mean they are allowed to drive them for personal use, on the taxpayers dime? Or just park them at their home?
Yes. And no. Most unmarked police cars I've seen stand out only slightly less than marked police cars. I'm certainly not entirely on her side, but I also find her firing disproportionate - she was not the driver, nor was she responsible for the car.
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