Let me get this right.

While the Mentor Police top brass is stating in a Press Conference that they (assuming he means not just himself but the whole police and prosecution administration) will investigate, charge and prosecute the accused Shore Middle School teacher to the "fullest extent of the law", this same MPD to brass refuses to come close to even discipling his dispatcher and police officers to the fullest extent of disciplinary action - much less to the "fullest extent" of the law? This is someone's attempt at crude comedy, right. You don't think that these officers (and probably the dispatcher in the previous incident) broke State laws?

Well, if you are fortunate enough to informally know any attorneys, then ask them "off the record". I am fortunate to know a number of attorneys and have yet to find one that the actions in both situations involved criminal violations but the Mentor (and in the one case also Kirtland Hills) city employees. And they (as well as citizens talked with) have universally stated that these individuals should have been terminated for their transgressions and had the activities probed, charged, and prosecuted by an outside entity with almost every lawyer suggesting the State Attorney General's Office over that of the local Sheriff's Department. Wonder why?

So the top brass of MPD is going to play full-court press with the 23--year old, just out of college female school teacher while lettering their repeated rotten apples get basically free passes.

This isn't crude humor, it is sickening.

The police chief says that this was simply a couple good officers who made a bad judgment. Uh, I thought that Officer Cole was actually charged with FOUR completely separate incidents spread out over more than a year and several months apart. And sadly I saw nothing in the NH or any of the media sources where anyone went to Human Resources and bothered checking these individuals personnel files. Nor where anyone went to Kirtland Hills and obtained their ENTIRE CASE FILE. The KH Officer has already served his suspension with no appeal, so his case is closed and the entire file (investigative reports, taped interviews, transcripts, physical evidence, etc., etc.) is a fully open PUBLIC RECORD now. Yet "who" - especially the NH - has obtained it and reported on the facts from it? No - let's just take the word of the top brass from both departments on what happened. Is it true that the husband of Officer Kleisch's girlfriend (who filed for divorce from her husband abut seven months after the DUI incident) was the complainant in this situation as he became aware of it during the divorce proceedings? What was his initial written statement - presumably to KH PD?

No, I think that this was more like typical actions of bad judgment by an ever growing number of bad, rotten apples due to a management that cultivates this type of behavior and intentional hires officers who are questionable in many cases. If you don't gasp "why", think about it some. It started back with the former chief.

And MPD police chief Llewellyn says that discipline in this matter was forthcoming only now because "they (MPD) just became aware of it". How does that explain the discipline for all those other incidents committed by Officer Cole just coming to fruition? Excessive sign-outs for excessive time period at Motel Six (another girlfriend situation)? Signing out on personal business at the Central Dispatch Center in another city for an excessive time period (another girlfriend situation), etc.? Were those also things that the vaunted police chief just became aware of? Is he deaf, blind and dumb? And this was the "best candidate in the country" in a "nationwide search" (no that is - unlike the police and city administration comments - not a lie). Do an advanced search of the NewsHerald and you will find this story:

http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=6815176&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=8

Are we to really believe that this was a legitimate nationwide search? Are we to really believe that the "best candidate happened to be in Mentor's back yard"? Is the assumption of city officials really that we are all really that dumb? Or are we really that dumb. Ask any older Mentor police officer who will talk to you off the record (or they will be targeted) or preferably some retired police officers and they will tell you that Llewellyn was named chief for no other reason that he was the former chief's "hand picked successor" and protege. I have repeatedly been told that an examination of Llewellyn's personnel file will confirm that. He was assigned to all the right assignments. He was sent off to all the right schools. The former chief -along with the former city manager - even conned city council into creating a completely unnecessary third police captain's position in order to get Llewellyn into that position (as the other two captains weren't leaving so he could get his protege some time as Captain so he could be a "legitimate candidate" for police chief! (And, by the way, the current police chief has learned from that same maneuver, fairly recently conning the current city council - shame on you - into creating a FOURTH even more unnecessary captain's position so that Llewellyn could move his protege into a captain's position to eventually replace him: note the key element that they have all attended the so-called elite, very clannish FBI National Academy management program as a part of their legitimate candidate pre-requisites.

Of course if we had a legitimate newspaper who knew how to get their hands dirty and dig out the facts and weren't so afraid of stepping on toes then you would have heard all about this long ago from them.

Billie

i heard they made out, not sex.