On Board fires Darien police chief

Posted on March 8 at 9:45 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Responsible Citizen:
I find your blogs at times educational and at other times entertaining. What does “employee etiquette” have to do with this current situation? At face value there were obvious reasons for DeVoy contacting the WCSO and them agreeing that someone was tampering or accessing records illegally, otherwise they wouldn’t have involved themselves. Secondly, why was it so wrong for DeVoy to ask an outside agency to investigate rather than him involving himself, which would be a conflict of interest? An example would be if the cameras captured an officer providing a citizen with unauthorized information, DeVoy would be the disciplining officer. You’d want someone else being the investigator, don’t you agree? Why do you think the village has spent thousands of dollars hiring a special prosecutor while spending thousands of dollars for an attorney to investigate? You also are making assumptions as to the village trustee’s thoughts. I do however agree that this whole episode involves Metzner’s deliberate attempt to gather dirt on DeVoy to make room for his little buddy to be chief. Unfortunate for the village taxpayers, this will end up costing everyone dearly. It’s been proven time after time that Maltese is at very best a mediocre security officer (at very best) and not a police officer. He’s apparently scared of his own shadow and not even the EMS personnel trust him to provide security for them on calls. Apparently he likes to run and hide instead of providing security for them. I feel for the citizens of Darien if he becomes the next chief of police. He’s a walking and talking liability to the community. I personally think the best money tax payers could spend would be to investigate Maltese before his big buddy promotes him to chief.

On Councils make their own rules on public comments

Posted on March 5 at 9:45 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Cornchild: you're obvious not a person of your word. You're still blogging!
Posted on February 24 at 10 p.m. by Cornchild
To all,
I give up! You win. I obivously have no credibility because I refuse to accept the facts you make up or gather from somebody speaking with authory over their cup of coffee or bottle of beer.
What I've lost sight of is that this is the blogosphere, where nothing need be proven. We as group probably don't make up even 5 percent of the voting public in Darien, and I just hope other people reading these blogs have the good sense to look elsewhere for help in deciding how they will vote in April and what they will say to their elected officials as we try to dig out of this mess.
I will now stop wasting my time online and venture out into the real world, where I can have real discussions with people who have to accept responsibility for their actions and statements. Have fun yelling at each other.

On Councils make their own rules on public comments

Posted on March 5 at 9:41 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Cornchild:
“Why do employees have to be doing something wrong to feel violated” I don’t think anyone said the employees “did anything wrong” that was captured on video in order to sue the village. The thing some of the employees did “wrong” was to add their name to a notice of claim when they weren’t even in the areas of the police department that were under surveillance. That’s wrong in every respect and they should be held accountable for making a frivolous claim! Do you think an employer in the private sector would allow an employee to file a frivolous claim and continue their employment – I bet not. If you think differently then why don’t we just get the checkbook out now and start writing checks to 10 people for whatever amount they ask for. Furthermore, were the rights of the board members and citizens that entered into the police department violated, if so why hasn’t anyone else felt violated and filed a notice of claim? I believe if you go to the Darien library you’ll be monitored by a camera. Do you think everyone that has utilized that public building should be entitled to money for feeling violated? What is the difference between the library and the police department in terms of a public or non-public building? They're both owned by the community and not a private individual. Lastly, this has nothing to do with looking into bedroom windows so I don’t know why that was even mentioned.

On Councils make their own rules on public comments

Posted on March 4 at 2:46 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Agreeded reasponsible, except that they are messing with peoples lives here also. True Devoy is being paid, but think about if that was you in his shoes. Giving all that time to something he loves and to have it all ripped away. Not to mention Chet. These board members are trying desperatly to fix something they ruined by screwing with peoples lives. It is totaling uncalled for and I hope everyone involved gets sued.

On Councils make their own rules on public comments

Posted on March 3 at 2:12 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Check out this new blog about cameras
http://wclo.com/news/2009/mar/01/cameras...

I think the Sheriff should really be careful about installing the cameras. He should first make sure that none of the 9 Darien employees that filed a law suit for the installation of cameras don't travel his roadways prior to making the final decision. He'll be sued for violating their 4th amendment rights!

On Darien camera investigation could end Wednesday

Posted on March 3 at 7:19 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

One 943,

What do you mean call David? Who is David? You surely aren't talking about David Danz. That guy doesn't know anything, and if you do call him he will charge you. Oh wait, he does know one thing. How to take money from a Village that is going broke and give nothing in return.

On Councils make their own rules on public comments

Posted on March 2 at 9:29 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

I believe what it comes down to is this: They want somebody that they can control in the police dept. Maltese fits that bill perfectly because he is spineless and he knows nothing about law. They tell him what to do, he does it. With Steve it is different, he has been in law enforcement for so many years he knows when it isn't right and by law has to do something about it. Remember this all started because Metzner made fraudulent claims against Fema and the Village Insurance Company. For gods sake even Puttman knew that it was wrong. But now that Metzner has something against Devoy Puttman jumps on board and now they ride to meetings together. Puttman and other board members want to cut our police staff down to get out of this Financial mess they have gotten us into and they will mess with good peoples lives to do so.

When in Reality they should be cutting back everywhere instead of one Dept. Can't wait to see how much money this is costing us, and the board members get more money every special meeting called. Even a $100 extra every month is good for people on Social Security. The longer they drag this out, the longer Danz and the board members reap the benefits. The people in the Village need to start standing up to these boneheads. Quit re-electing people like Puttman who have put us in this situation. And I promise you another thing, if Kaufenburg gets into office there will be even more kayos. She has her one personal agenda against the police and other people. Beware!!!!

On Councils make their own rules on public comments

Posted on March 1 at 8:19 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Lets get on with saving this Village money now. Give them their walking papers and lets get people working for us that care. I am so Disappointed in Mary, thought she was a better person than that. All the others I would have understood, because you can tell by the way they talk to you that they think they are way above you. Does Dennisons probationary period end before or after Evi gets elected?

On Darien employees file notices of claim

Posted on February 28 at 8:51 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Has anyone put their applications in at the Village hall yet? Starting fresh is going to save us alot of money. We can keep police protection now. They might need to change the Referendum to "do you think we need 3 people in Village hall" OR " Do you think we need 4 DPW workers sitting on their butts all day". Getting rid of them and contracting out Mowing and Snow plowing would save the Village huge amounts of money just in Medical Insurance alone. We got something to work with now people. LMFAO !!!! OK, Keep one DPW, got to read meters and clean toilets.

On Darien employees file notices of claim

Posted on February 27 at 10:11 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Sorry I meant READ, hate to be accused of being a bobble head!!