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!
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 ...
Aw, it's not like they needed more cops on the streets of Detroit anyway. < /s >
LOL.
I am glad I don't live there.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Not he, she.
No pics. But I found a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Bully-Cummings
Da Proud Cheef
http://www.casstechfame.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ct_ellabullycummings3.jpg
One question pop quiz?
The question being the job description of an asst. chief?
You got to be joking.
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."
Not that I've spent much time dealing with Assistant Chiefs or anything.
Do you know how many dots there are on a c-rat cracker?
I do.
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.
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?
:~)
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.
EEgads! I see her on TV enough. (i live in Detroit Suburbia)
An Assistant Chief's job is to be the Chief's bag man.
"Do you know how many dots there are on a c-rat cracker?
I do."
I actually have some C-rations about 4 boxes
Reno 911 ROCKS!
Only someone completly lacking in qualifications would need to have their ego massaged by terrorizing underlings for imagined slights to the person's authority.
People who are competent and actually know what they are doing. Have no need to prove themselves at the expense of others.
While the gold shield is more concerned about herself....
Last week, Detroiters were murdering each other at a rate of only one per day. 'Only' because the 361 homicides recorded last year reportedly represents the lowest total since 1967. Unfortunately, it is the murder rate that is of real import, and back in ’67, Detroit had a lot more people, so the current rate of 39 homicides per 100,000 people is actually much higher than it was back in the ’60s.
Thats a mustache only a mother could love! At least I wax mine! LOL!
I still have a few of the green cans around here somewhere and a P38 still hangs on the chain with my tags (up in the attic). At the end of my tour is when the switch to MREs was made (circa 1984), and NOBODY was happy about it - - we NEVER thought we would miss c-rats.
Semper fidelis,
LH
Chewing outs should happen in private. You chew cadets out in front of other cadets to make a point, but after they've made it through the class, you never chew an officer out in front of another officer. You bring them in, and talk to them privately.
I just completed a training academy. At graduation, I tied two of my cadet's ties for them. Those are my people. I'd never belittle or embarass them in front of their family members. Mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children waiting for a swearing in ceremony get treated to this garbage. It's not right.
So how many holes in the cracker? (sounds like saturday night in New Orleans)
It was 83'. Mine was the first unit to be issued them on our way to the middle east. I lost the heel off my boot and replaced it with the brownie. It's still my favorite set of boots.;-)
Way to go, Chief.
As an outsider I wasn't familiar with this woman's history. It's interesting how the MSM breaks these stories nationally and they don't bother with the background the locals and those in the same field know. You'd almost think they did it on purpose. ;)
Well, I dunno. If I were a resident of Detroit, I know I would feel much safer knowing that the police know what an assistant chief does---or even what his/her name is. Would certainly put a spring in my step (which would also help me avoid the bullets flying about).
Well, I guess she showed them, huh? The gall of a young cadet, not knowing the job description of an REMF gofer like that. Nearly every department with which I am familiar, the proper job description for assistant chief is "Chief's apple polisher, lackey, henchman, and all around flying monkey". What a pompous bitch....
And, while we're at it...what's all this about "conserving natural race horses"? What about all those other poor horses out there that aren't fast enough to race?
The assistent cheif's job is to make sure the cheif gets her PMS pills.
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and this assistant chief obviously failed to do that twice this year he/she/it should be immediately fired :-)
Chief: "Recruit, what are the duties of the Assistant Chief?"
Recruit: "The job of the Assistant Chief is to make sure you don't look stupid and ask such ignorant questions in public. I mean, if YOU don't know then maybe YOU should go back to the academy."
I think you and others are missing the point. Why should a plebe at the United States Military Academy have to know the number of lighbulbs in the chandeliers in the dinning hall or the number of floor tiles in a particular building? While the knowledge may have little to do with military leadership, plebes are required to know all sorts of trivia and are subject to pop quizzes all the time. I would think that a basic understanding of the chain of command and who is responsible for what is something that every police academy grad ought to know if only to know it.
(From the story):
"The 25 students are former officers who were laid off and then recalled. They went through a two week training session and will continue to train until Chief Bully-Cummings is satisfied.
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The guy who cleans out the beer taps down at the pub says he's a Vietnam Vet and describes sitting around Bang Sang eating MREs.
The first half of my year tour in RVN was on a river boat and C-Rats was it.
I'm playing this guy like a Flounder, just waiting for the right time to set the hook.
The point of a military officer demonstrating an ability to absorb and retain lots of seemingly trivial bits of information is that you will never know when (what first appears to be) a trivial bit of info will make the difference between victory and getting your command exterminated
Similarly, for a street cop, being able to absorb and retain little bits of info may make the difference between living or dying ("Hey, that armored truck's security guard is not supposed to be wearing sneakers ... and didn't I remember seeing his face on the 10-most-wanted? ...")
Well, DUH!!!
Assist. Chief Job Description: Kiss butt of Chief.
I would submit that any, and all, police officers know the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, their particular state and local ordinances backwards and forwards. Further, they should be well versed in Federal laws, rules and regulations. They should be multi-lingual, knowledgeable in sign language, familiar with various cultural customs of those they may come in contact with in the performance of their duties, expert marksmen, competent EMT's, drug counselors, psychiatrists and psychologists, brilliant mediators of all disciplines, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
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