Headlining the local daily today is more muckraking with the Asheville Police Department. I would suggest the editors attend a Citizens’ Police Academy. Granted, it is propaganda put out by…
This must be big. The Hendersonville Times-News is reporting on the Asheville Citizen-Times’ lawsuit against the Asheville Police Department. This could be the first time I’ve ever seen a newspaper…
While I continue to struggle with the unsettling feeling that I am missing the big picture behind local rumblings about the Asheville Police Department, the local daily is suing the…
It was weird. Today, I noticed two PR’s from the Asheville Police Department about suspects at-large. It seems the department has grown weary of trying to convince the public it…
This morning, I went skunking around asking stray cops if they could provide some off-the-record background information on the situation at the Asheville Police Department. I am pleased to say…
The local daily has some interesting updates in the Asheville Police Department scandals. Examples include, “The city approached [Chief William] Anderson with the retirement agreement,” and Anderson “accepted a payment…
At last night’s city council meeting, there was a big brouhaha over whether or not a building should sell naming rights. The Asheville Art Museum is in a lot of…
The Asheville Citizen-Times had an informative article out last week on police use of military equipment in Western North Carolina. As a practical matter, how police use ex-military equipment largely…
The Asheville Citizen-Times has a rather worthwhile article on Homeland Security wizmo-gizmos. The subject grabs my funny bone at a visceral level. That is, if you pretend for a moment…
The Asheville Police Department is going to be sending sworn officers out with children to shop for school supplies. Now, it may be that the parents are habitual thieves. But…
According to the article, the Asheville Police Department is unveiling a new operations plan. It has six planning areas: quality of life, community communications, recruitment and retention, leadership, organizational structure,…
Finally! What the local papers have been awaiting! The release of the audit of the Asheville Police Department’s evidence room. Now, reporters get to sift through fifteen volumes of findings.…