Ron The Cop

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

September 30th, 2009

Absolutely unbelievable! POLICE NO CHASE POLICY

Sorry I buried the lede of this post while discussing many other things.  A former partner of mine sent this amazing piece.  This is what I was responding back to my former RPD colleagues about:

From: MA
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:01 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: No chase policy

Crazy Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake defends no chase policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDS-bmf4YQQ

Chris Cato interviews Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake regarding a recently issued chase policy.  The Mayor’s policy states there are to be no foot chases or car chases by Wellford Police whatsoever.

To my former colleagues at RPD:

I do enjoy Tut’s emails  [See below].

Absolutely unbelievable! 

Police work sometimes is ugly and not pristine.   It is a job that must to be done in a civilized society because there is evil in our midst that will prey upon the flock.  Sometimes the sheep whom we must protect are not aware of this evil. They expect evil that lurks on the fringe of the flock to abide by our rules.  In some cases this leads to ridiculous extremes like our military that some people want to hold accountable to the rules of engagement that we as police officers are expected to abide by.   This is not a time for PCism.

The world should have learned by now that evil is never appeased e.g., circa 1939 with the rise of the Third Reich  and the current Iranian situation.  This is not about the majority of the Iranian people who are Persian but the ruling Fascist theocratic misogynistic minority Arabic Mullahs who rule by fear and force that would initiate the War of Armageddon to hasten the return of the Twelfth Imam from a well in Iraq.  Gee I’m sounding a lot like former Badge No. 1 Det. Bud Kelley.

I’m sorry but giving Miranda warnings to enemy combatants on the battlefield that seek the total destruction of our culture reminds me of that classic scene in Beverly Hills Cop I where Det.  Rosewood stands up in a middle of a running gun battle and shouts:

beverly_hills_cop_movie_image_judge_reinhold.jpg

[being shot at]
Sergeant Taggart: Jesus Christ!
Axel Foley: Yeah, these guys are serious.
Detective Rosewood: I hate machine guns!


Detective Rosewood: Police! You’re all under arrest!
[Armed thugs answer with a long hail of machine gun fire]
Sergeant Taggart: You do that again, I’ll shoot you myself!

The public’s perception of the police is largely based on fictional portrayals by the media.  This causes an unreasonable level of expectation of we the police which in real life have difficulty fulfilling.  This causes incongruity in the minds of the public of what is fictional and what is reality.

Here’s something that may give you all some solace as you protect the sheep whom we are sworn to protect:

http://www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
. . .

RPD’s enclave in Spokane and the CDA Area is doing well.  There is life after RPD.  We have established a beach head here e.g., Carpenter, McFall, Sheffield & the Brat, and others too. I know Lt. Toussaint is pining away:-)  When it’s time to pull the pin consider this area as a place to relocate to.  This area is great and has many fine attributes that So Cal lacks and or lost.  The only real problem is the political/governmental environment has been thoroughly co-opted/corrupted by an insidious ongoing criminal enterprise.  This corruption was the proximate cause of the manslaughter death of Jo Savage in the RPS Parking Garage that the powers that be have so far been able to cover up . . .

This will soon change as more of you and others move to this area and demand better!  You betcha I’m being hypocritical and demanding higher standards of our elected/appointed officials.  Besides THE ROCKET is on the case and may have the bad guys collared before you get here:-)

SPOKANE, WA – Is the AP shilling for the Cowles Co in its efforts to conceal a manslaughter death? You decide

And I will leave you with this piece:

And this my friends is the way the National Anthem should
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE> be sung!

Det. Ron “Rocket” Wright (Retired but not dead yet!)



From: MA
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:01 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: No chase policy

Crazy Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake defends no chase policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDS-bmf4YQQ

Chris Cato interviews Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake regarding a recently issued chase policy.  The Mayor’s policy states there are to be no foot chases or car chases by Wellford Police whatsoever.

Doubt she’s going to be re-elected.  Where is Wellford anyway?

[NOTE: The Mayor has since rescinded this policy]

Regaining footing: SC mayor revokes no-chase call

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The mayor of a small South Carolina town says she’s allowing her police officers to run after suspects again.Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake on Thursday told WSPA-TV she’s revoking her Sept. 2 ban.

She said a conversation with Spartanburg County prosecutor Trey Gowdy prompted the reversal, even though she still doesn’t want foot chases.

Gowdy sent a letter Wednesday to state Attorney General Henry McMaster, asking whether the policy violates officers’ duties to uphold the law. He says he feared the policy would hamstring officers and embolden criminals.

Earlier this week, Peake said she ordered the ban after a city officer was hurt chasing a “guy who had a piece of crack on him.” She said a drug possession charge was not worth higher insurance costs.

September 28th, 2009

SPOKANE, WA – Is the AP shilling for the Cowles Co in its efforts to conceal a manslaughter death? You decide

Please read the following exchanges between the AP’s Spokane Regional Reporter Nick Geranios and award winning investigative reporter Larry Shook regarding the manslaughter death of Jo Savage in the River Park Square Parking Garage owned by the Cowles Co that also owns  Spokane’s paper of record, The Spokesman-Review (S-R).

It is my professional opinion that the S-R is used as an instumentality of an onging criminal enterprise to conceal its criminal acts e.g, the RPS Bond Fraud and the manslaugher death of Jo Savage.  This is a unique circumstance where our normal watchdog of political/governmental corruption is owned and used by the perpetrators to cover its tracks.

Read and you decide.

*****

[Email to Nick Geranios AP reporter based in Spokane, WA ]

I just saw Larry Shook’s latest comment and your reply Nick:

I’ll pick my own soapboxes. Thanks, Nick. Larry

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Geranios, Nick K. <ngeranios@ap.org> wrote:

Larry:

Nice soapbox. what about my suggestion that you guys try to mount a public forum on the journalism surrounding this case?

NG

May I suggest an alternative?  Report the story.  Please see my suggestion re how the AP can demonstrate it’s not shilling for the owners of the Cowles Co while at the same time using its resources wisely in this email that I was just going to send below:

Our Country is in great danger when the free press is abdicating its role as a watchdog on our government that WE THE PEOPLE empower to govern on our behalf so WE THE PEOPLE can hold our elected/appointed accountable.  See Mr. Geranios’ latest reply to Mr. Shook below re being overworked.  The work has already been done by investigative reporters Larry Shook and Tim Connor.

If Mr. Geranios is so busy perhaps the AP could commission Shook and Connor to write the story that is going unreported?

If not the AP, the AP will have to take the criticism it too is caving to the special interests of the Cowles.

Nick this story will break eventually.  The truth seeks to be free. The AP and other media outlets have been playing catch up to breaking stories by the new/alternative/social media.

Will the AP go down with the Cowles Co’s ship?  Bottom line the survival of the Mainstream Media is dependent upon regaining the trust and credibility of your readers.  Ball’s in your court Nick.

Again thank you for engaging in this fascinating discussion.  This is an example of the power of the new alternative media where members of the old media can engage in dialogue with its readers in a symbiotic manner that in the end is beneficial to the readers and the public.

 

Det. Ron Wright (Retired)

*****

Please read the responses below from the AP’s Spokane Regional Reporter Nick Geranios to an email from Spokane resident Dick Adams on the subject of the manslaughter death of Jo Savage in the RPS Parking Garage owned by the Cowles Co, the owners of the Spokesman-Review.

Please read the reply by investigative reporter Larry Shook and I to Mr. Geranios.  As I said in my earlier email to S-R Online Editor Ryan Pitts:

Ryan,
Thanks for your response.  Like in the Otto Zehm case, “Who polices the police?”  Who polices journalists who fail to abide by their professional standards?*  That’s my point.  I’m trying to hold the S-R accountable for its lapses in journalistic principles.  By summarily dismissing my probative questions, this exemplifies the paternalistic attitude of the MSM and the reason it is in decline with the advent of the new/alternative/social media

[*] See Principles of Journalism as compiled by the Committee of Concerned Journalists]

Our Country is in great danger when the free press is abdicating its role as a watchdog on our government that WE THE PEOPLE empower to govern on our behalf so WE THE PEOPLE can hold our elected/appointed accountable.  See Mr. Geranios’ latest reply to Mr. Shook below re being overworked.  The work has already been done by investigative reporters Larry Shook and Tim Connor.

If Mr. Geranios is so busy perhaps the AP could commission Shook and Connor to write the story that is going unreported?  Mr. Shook and Mr. Connor are quite capable of writing this story.

If not the AP, the AP will have to take the criticism it too is caving to the special interests of the Cowles Co in concealing the manslaughter death of Jo Savage.

You decide whether the AP is shilling for the interests of the Cowles Co.

Det. Ron Wright (Retired)

*****

Nick,

Your answer to Dick Adams is disingenuous and condescending:

This death has been studied and  studied and studied. The family of the victim has settled
I’ll belay my normal disdain for members of the Old School Media (OSM) to reply where you are sadly mistaken.  In your cavalier dismissal of this story  you are failing in your journalistic duty/responsibility to inform/educate the people as has the Spokesman-Review to a potential clear and present danger to the safety of the citizens of Spokane.

Please do read carefully the letters and emails from the Savage family I obtained by filing a PDR with the State AG’s Office after its review of the Savage case as submitted by County Prosecutor Steve Tucker before you summarily dismiss the stories of the Savage death yet untold by the OSM.   I find these letters very compelling and newsworthy and yet the S-R has failed to report on them.  Why?

Yes, the family did settle a civil wrongful death case but a civil settlement  is not a bar to a criminal prosecution especially in matters where the publics’ safety is involved.  Further the quick settlement of the civil case is a clue that the evidence in Savage’s death is very damning (See attached letter to County Prosecutor Steve Tucker by Attorney Rob Rember).   The legal rationale in the Savage Case is no different than the criminal liability of the owners in the tragic bar fire that killed 100 people in New Providence, RI,  e.g., the ordinary care and due diligence by the owners to their patrons:

Following Biechele’s trial, the Station’s owners, Michael and Jeffrey Derderian, were scheduled to receive separate trials. However, on September 21, 2006, Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan announced that the brothers had changed their pleas from “not guilty” to “no contest,” thereby avoiding a trial.[11] Michael Derderian received 15 years in prison, with four to serve and 11 years suspended, plus three years probation–the same sentence as Biechele. Jeffrey Derderian received a 10-year suspended sentence, three years probation, and 500 hours of community service.
In my professional opinion  the evidence against the bar owners is much less compelling than the evidence  in the death of Jo Savage in the RPS Parking Garage. The photos I’ve linked to below say it all.  Why wasn’t this case brought to trial?  This is story in my mind that so far hasn’t been reported:

There is no additional story that can be pursued in any reasonable way here.

Has the RPS Parking Garage been repaired/fixed so that it no longer constitutes a public hazard and is safe for continued public occupancy?   The City of Spokane is stonewalling and won’t respond to Sheriff Bamonte’s nor my demand for an immediate inspection:

Ron T. Cop takes on Spokane City Council

I don’t know for sure that the RPS garage is structurally unsafe but with the collective work of your professional colleagues, Larry Shook and Tim Connor, the evidence presents a very compelling case for its immediate inspection by the City of Spokane to ensure it is safe.  This is another untold story that so far has not been reported by the OSM:

‘Deathtrap’

Cowles media dynasty called hub of
organized crime by two former lawmen

Woman died, public threatened because of
government collusion with powerful family, they say
I made my demand for an immediate inspection of the RPS Parking Garage in person during a Spokane City Council meeting and in writing to Mayor Mary Verner in February of this year.  So far I have never received a response to my demand.  Why?


Another related story is the complicity of the S-R’s failure to cover these stories in my opinion in deference to exposing the criminal acts of its owners:

As I recently wrote Ryan Pitts, the S-R’s online editor, re S-R senior editors Gary Crooks and Doug Floyd of the S-R scrubbing my comments without explanation from their editorial blog, A Matter of Opinion  [excerpt full text here]:

 . . . You should know that I’m acting from the mindset of a seasoned criminal investigator bringing all my extensive professional education, training, and experience to bare on the worst case of public corruption I’ve seen in my entire law enforcement career [See my vitae][My emphasis].  Why?  Because I can.  Because I’m not part of any of the law enforcement organizations that so far has failed to protect the people that they are sworn to protect – I’m breaking blue.  The [Otto] Zehm case is only symptomatic of much deeper co-option/corruption issues as I referred to in my reply to Lewis, “Still waters run deep.”   The actions of certain S-R employees could be construed as rendering criminal assistance (RCW 9A.76.070) to its owners.  Not only am I using the power of the new social media to seek justice but I’m developing evidence for future criminal/civil action e.g, a federal civil RICO case.

Conspicuously the S-R has not led the public debate into the Savage death case [RPS parking garage] as it has righteously done in the Otto Zehm case.  Why?

At least one member of your profession Ron Rudd [sic Judd] of the Seattle Times was willing to report on this story before it went deadly:

Newspaper part of the story in Spokane fight

And also from my email to S-R Online Editor Ryan Pitts:

My point is there is a clear pattern and practice that has emerged re my probing questions that was initiated with former S-R Editor Steve Smith and now is engaged in by Gary Crooks and Doug Floyd.   Bottom line is why do I have to ask these questions?  Why aren’t the S-R reporters asking these questions that in normal circumstances/environment would be asked?  Read/listen to Tim Connor’s recent interview with former S-R investigative reporter Karen Dorn Steele for insight. [My emphasis]
And finally, Nick, in your trite dismissal of these stories:

This death has been studied and  studied and studied. . . There is no additional story that can be pursued in any reasonable way here.

You are failing to recognize the fundamental lede of this story.  As seasoned law enforcement professionals both Sheriff Bamonte and I are breaking blue which is rarely done in Spokane.  We are both calling out our fellow law enforcement colleagues for their failure to do their duty that they are sworn to do on behalf of the people. Both Sheriff Bamonte and I are law enforcement insiders.  We know how the Savage Case was buried from public scrutiny but so far the OSM is not telling our story but in fact as you have done sought to marginalize us. Why?  [My emphasis]. 

In short for whatever reasons the law enforcement community turned a blind eye on the death of Jo Savage in the RPS Parking Garage.  It could have been anyone of us or our loved ones that plummeted to their death that day, April 8, 2006.  Those charged by the people with the responsibility of doing a criminal investigation just went through the motions of throwing the ball around the bases.  None ever threw the ball home e.g., there was never a complete, competent, and thorough criminal investigation ever done that followed the evidence where it led that would have found the evidence that County Prosecutor Tucker in his review of the case once given to him by the US Attorney’s Office failed to find. Tucker never asked the probative questions.  Why?

This was a sham all to keep the ball hidden.  If the public were to know the facts/evidence/circumstances of Savage’s death they too would be clamoring for justice as Sheriff Bamonte and I are.   In short this was a cover up.  And hence the hypocrisy if find with the S-R fanning the flames of the Otto Zehm Death and for the most part remaining silent on the Jo Savage Death.  Again I ask why?

For further please read my criminal complaint (Linked in this post) against Tucker I filed with Governor Christine Gregoire that details where it is my professional opinion that he with specific intent buried the Savage case from public view and scrutiny.  To this date Governor Gregoire hasn’t even acknowledged my formal complaint?  Why?  Need I draw you a road map?  This is all about which 2012 gubernatorial candidate will receive Cowles Co support and funding e.g., Rob McKenna or Christine Gregoire.  So far my money’s on McKenna for not taking his blinders off and taking Tucker to task for severely limiting the AG’s review of the Savage case.  This is the story of state if not national interest.

These are the stories you are trying so hard to ignore.  Why?

Again Mr. Geranios will you report?

Det. Ron Wright (Retired)

 

[S-R archive photo circa 1991 showing RPS Parking

Garage vehicle barrier that failed in similar fashion as the

one that broke in 2006 causing Jo Savage to fall to her death

on April 8, 2006 – see below.]

[Evidence located found that these barriers failed in the same manner on average

of two to three time per years since 1991 with full knowledge of the owners and yet they chose

to do nothing until after the death of Jo Savage in 2006.  Why?]

 

*****

I’ll pick my own soapboxes. Thanks, Nick. Larry

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Geranios, Nick K. <ngeranios@ap.org> wrote:

Larry:

Nice soapbox. what about my suggestion that you guys try to mount a public forum on the journalism surrounding this case?

NG

Larry Shook

to Nick, Dick, me, Terresa, Tony, Stacey, Jim, Jonathan, Mary, CityCouncil, Anne, Ozzie, Frank, Bonnie, Ted, Kevin, Terri, Jacob, Gary, Joel, Lupito, Mike, Rob, Breean

show details 12:03 PM (23 minutes ago)

Thanks, Nick. Let’s be clear–I’m part of a group of one. You’re not. You work for the largest press organization in the world. If I contented myself with the kinds of excuses you offer below I never would have reported any of this. If you and your bosses want to whine about how hard it is to do your jobs, go ahead. You won’t get any Kleenex from me. The evidence that public corruption killed Jo Ellen Savage is simply overwhelming. The evidence that a member of American media royalty is the hub of this corruption is similarly overwhelming. And you don’t see a story? With declarations like the one you make here you and AP are simply serving notice that you’re too busy covering football games and the like to be bothered with trivia like depredations against democracy in America by one of the nation’s media dynasties. If that’s a mission you’re comfortable with I don’t know there’s anything more to say–except maybe “Mission Accomplished.” It’s not a mission I’ll ever be able to salute. I do appreciate that you took the time to write me and I do wish you only the best. Good luck with your various deadlines. Larry

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Geranios, Nick K. <ngeranios@ap.org> wrote:

Larry:

I’m not looking for an argument with you guys. I’m just trying to point out that in the real world, one reporter’s time is very, very limited. I write many stories on a variety of topics every week, and nearly all of them are required to have a national angle. There is simply nothing about the RPS story and the Savage death that would interest people in Miami, Philadelphia or Los Angeles (please do not send me a screed about how everyone SHOULD care about these things. They don’t and as a journalist you know it.).

Today alone, I am writing about the death of a high school football player in Washtucna, the double homicide in Spokane, opening of the EPA’s hazardous waste repository near Kellogg, and trying to find the time to research and finish a bigger look at the escape of the criminally insane fellow from Eastern State. The rest of the week looks just like today, except that I also have to write stories about the Washington State and Idaho football teams, which I also cover.

I am one reporter and have no time for the sort of forensic examination into this story that you and your friends are suggesting. Even if I wanted to, there is no way i would get approval from my superiors to do that.

I do think that your group should consider contacting the Washington News Council or the center for responsible media at Gonzaga. This might be an interesting topic for a panel discussion on how a depleted news media can retain a “watchdog” role.

Nick Geranios

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Larry Shook <lwshook@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: AP opinion
To: “Geranios, Nick K.” <ngeranios@ap.org>
Mr. Geranios: Thanks for sharing this response from you, the Spokane, WA, AP reporter with me concerning Jo Savage’s April 8, 2006, death in the RPS parking garage. I think it reflects the deep resignation surrounding the RPS corruption and its implication in Ms. Savage’s death. “That money was stolen from the taxpayers of Spokane fair and square and that woman was killed fair and square. Everyone–the Spokane City Council, the Spokane County Commissioners, Spokane’s police chief and sheriff, the governor of Washington, the state attorney general, the FBI, the U.S. Dept. of Justice–says so. That’s an end to it.”

A reporter, and a “news” agency, that adopts such a view, I’m afraid, is beyond the reach of reason or an appeal to professional ethics. What you seem to be saying is that Mr. Adams has mistaken you and AP for government watchdogs. You and your employer seem content to let government watch itself in the matter of Ms. Savage’s death. That’s a curious value proposition to make to customers like Mr. Adams. Still, with your sarcastic and indifferent comments, I think you have reflected one of the saddest and ugliest aspects of the death of Jo  Ellen Savage: her own family allows her to lie in her grave with the details surrounding her death buried beside her. The family learned those details in the course of “settling” Ms. Savage’s death. David Savage, Jo Ellen’s former husband, former president of the Washington State Bar Association, told Spokesman-Review reporter Jonathan Brunt that those details supported filing First-Degree Manslaughter charges. And yet the Savage family has withheld those details from me, the one reporter who has been willing to report this tragic story thoroughly. (Please see “Death by Parking” and “Deathtrap” at www.girlfromhotsprings.com.) The Spokesman-Review, Jonathan Brunt, AP, Nick Geranios, Jo Savage’s survivors must all live with their decisions.

Please note that among the recipients to whom this message is openly copied is Rob Rembert, a member of the law firm that “settled” the “victim’s” death, as you put it. I suggest that you contact Mr. Rembert and request the results of his law firm’s investigation into Ms. Savage’s death. If you don’t want to go to the trouble of reading those files you might at least request an interview of Mr. Savage and ask him for the factual basis of his statement that his former wife’s death should be investigated as First-Degree Manslaughter. With all due respect, Mr. Geranios, I really don’t think it’s Mr. Adams’s job to engage in the silly task you proposed to him. I do think it’s your job to do as I here suggest. If you don’t choose to do that, all I can say is that you and others–including other “journalists” to whom this message is copied–apparently feel much more “settled” about Ms. Savage’s death than I do. Thanks again for your note and giving me the opportunity to comment. Sincerely, Larry Shook

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Geranios, Nick K. <ngeranios@ap.org> wrote:

Dick:

Why don’t you try to count up all the preventable deaths in the nation every day and then get back to me with a proposal to write a book on each one. This death has been studied and  studied and studied. The family of the victim has settled. There is no additional story that can be pursued in any reasonable way here.

Nick Geranios 

 


From: Dick Adams
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 6:38 PM
To: Geranios, Nick K.

Subject: AP opinion


Mr. AP,
I read your comment re Detective Wright and Sheriff Bamonte.  Everybody is entitled to their opinion. One thing struck me though, how a person is bored regarding a death that could have been prevented.  Greed comes to mind when the owners short changed needed repairs to the River Park Square parking garage.  How sad.
Dick Adams,
Spokane, Wa.

September 26th, 2009

Northside Landfill Little League Project – Spokane, WA

[Note:  I will post more on this project later as updates]

I want to congratulate Dr. Denise Smart on her election as Chair of the Balboa South Indian Trail Neighborhood Council (B/SITNC) and the adoption of the B/SITNC’s Position Paper on the Northside Little League Project by a vote of 100 to 0.  This will send a strong message to our elected and appointed leaders to act responsibility.  The proposed Northside Landfill Little League project isn’t a NIMBY issue or that we are in anyway against the aims and objectives of the Little League.  In short as I believe you have all come to realize, the siting of this project on the Northside Landfill was disingenuous at best and lacked common sense.  Why?

Denise and my wife, who is also a doctor of public health, specifically chose Spokane as a place to relocate after doing extensive research. Spokane has many fine attributes including climate, four real seasons, a functional airport, many major educational and health facilities, shopping, lack of traffic congestion [relative:-)], and as a regional hub is a center for culture and the arts.  Spokane because of these attributes is set to grow economically.  My wife and I helped Denise’s find her house.  Denise and Steve bought it sight unseen based on our recommendation.  We were aware of the SuperFund status of the landfill however based on our research we believed that any repurposing would be many years in the future.   Subsequently, as we have all found, this was wrong.  This is why we’re committed and supporting Denise and the neighbors affected by this project.

Spokane’s economic growth is currently being impeded by a dysfunctional government that has been co-opted/corrupted by an ongoing criminal enterprise.  This is not obvious to most of Spokane’s working families in their busy schedules.  In a normal environment we all look to the local paper to inform/educate us on issues of importance re our government and elected/appointed officials.  Sadly this is not the case in Spokane.

To protect our neighborhoods from the imposition of poorly crafted backroom political deals, we must stay active and engaged to hold our elected/appointed accountable for their decisions/actions.  You have now given a new sense of purpose to the B/SITNC.  It is critical for you to stay engaged for reasons you may not realize.  The proposed Little League project as I’ve told some of you is only the tip of the iceberg of a very dysfunctional political/governmental environment that has been co-opted and corrupted.  The Little League project was not the product of rationally based decision making process but was the outgrowth of a backroom political deal by powerful political players.  Why does this matter to you?  This is costing you as the taxpayers as much as $100M from one fraud alone and the subsequent subornationation by elected/appointed officials.  This is a drain on Spokane’s general fund of nearly $2M per year.  The Spokesman-Review has failed to inform you. Why?

If this rip off does not aggravate you, are the lives of your loved ones important to you?

As I recently wrote Ryan Pitts, the S-R’s online editor, re S-R senior editors Gary Crooks and Doug Floyd of the S-R scrubbing my comments without explanation from their editorial blog, A Matter of Opinion  [excerpt full text here]:

 . . . You should know that I’m acting from the mindset of a seasoned criminal investigator bringing all my extensive professional education, training, and experience to bare on the worst case of public corruption I’ve seen in my entire law enforcement career [See my vitae][My emphasis].  Why?  Because I can.  Because I’m not part of any of the law enforcement organizations that so far has failed to protect the people that they are sworn to protect – I’m breaking blue.  The [Otto] Zehm case is only symptomatic of much deeper co-option/corruption issues as I referred to in my reply to Lewis, “Still waters run deep.”   The actions of certain S-R employees could be construed as rendering criminal assistance (RCW 9A.76.070) to its owners.  Not only am I using the power of the new social media to seek justice but I’m developing evidence for future criminal/civil action e.g, a federal civil RICO case.

Conspicuously the S-R has not led the public debate into the Savage death case [RPS parking garage] as it has righteously done in the Otto Zehm case.  Why?

The public has been left uninformed and has no clue that it should be concerned.  Further I am not alone in believing that the the RPS Parking Garage presents a clear and present danger sufficient that it should be immediately inspected to ensure that it is safe for continued public occupancy.  It could have been any one of us that suffered the tragic fate of Jo Savage.  The question remains does this hazard continue to exist today?

References:

‘Deathtrap’ –  Cowles media dynasty called hub of organized crime by two former lawmen –
Woman died, public threatened because of government collusion with powerful family, they say

[Watch the short compelling video produced by Larry Shook an award winning investigative reporter that the Cowles Co is doing everything in its power to conceal from the public to conceal its criminal acts]

Ron T. Cop takes on Spokane City Council

The Secret Dahlia Society, the MOBIUS Project, and the Cowles family connection

[Scroll down for photos from inside the RPS Parking Garage]

‘Fraud: Scam Capital of America’ vs. an ‘Army of Davids’

 

Newspaper part of the story in Spokane fight [The S-R]

‘O. Yale Lewis’ Documents finally released by City of Spokane, WA]

Seattle Times staff reporter [Monday, October 20, 2003 – Page updated at 12:00 AM]

 

[S-R archive photo circa 1991 showing RPS Parking

Garage vehicle barrier that failed in similar fashion as the

one that broke in 2006 causing Jo Savage to fall to her death

on April 8, 2006 – see below.]

[Evidence located found that these barriers failed in the same manner on average

of two to three time per years since 1991 with full knowledge of the owners and yet they chose

to do nothing until after the death of Jo Savage in 2006.  Why?]

 

 

 

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