PORTLAND, Maine — The acting police chief in Maine’s largest city is ready to assume the job on a permanent basis.
Acting Chief Michael Sauschuck will be officially sworn in as Portland’s 19th police chief on Monday after being confirmed by the City Council last month.
Sauschuck has been serving as acting chief since Chief James Craig left in August.
He will oversee a department comprised of 162 sworn officers, more than 50 civilian staff and an annual budget of more than $13 million.
Does anybody know how many Afro-Americans are on the City of Portland Police force? And if the new police chief, Michael Sauschuck has any plans on hiring Afro- Americans to represent the population and social structure of the city of Portland, Maine.
LOL Shut up pay your taxes and let the hacks worry about these things.
Until Maine voters and taxpayers take civilian control of our military run criminal justice workfare program for the marginally employable you and I and the 99% will be disenfranchised from participating in choosing how we meet our own community safety needs.
In 1999 the Martin Luther King family sued one of the assassins of Martin Luther King in civil court. They did this because the department of justice would not reopen the investigation after the Martin Luther King family uncovered evidence that the FBI, CIA, and Memphis police had assassinated Dr King. The King family also wanted to enter their evidence into a public record so it could be accessed.The jury returned a verdict in favor of the King family and juror members held a press conference saying it was a clear cut case of the FBI assassinating Dr King. There was a media blackout of the trial. Details of the trial can be viewed here or by reading the book called ACT OF STATE THE EXECUTION OF Martin Luther King
written by the trial attorney William Pepper.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/mlk-conspiracy-exposed.html
I bet you also check under the bed for a boogie man every night.
Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression
by David Martin
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring
down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based
defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these
techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a
mere token opposition party.
Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.
Wax indignant. This is also known as the “how dare you?” gambit.
Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild
rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to
learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.”
Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the
weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild
rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the
charges, real and fanciful alike.
Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nut,”
“ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and of course, “rumor monger.” You must
then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you
have thus maligned.
Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by
suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but
are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make
money.
Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
Dismiss the charges as “old news.”
Come half-clean. This is also known as “confession and
avoidance” or “taking the limited hang-out route.” This way, you create
the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively
harmless, less-than-criminal “mistakes.” This stratagem often requires
the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one
originally taken.
Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance.
With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant.
For example: We have a completely free press. If they know of
evidence that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) had
prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing they would have reported
it. They haven’t reported it, so there was no prior knowledge by the
BATF. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a
conspiracy leaker and a press that would report it.
Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely.
Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or reporting a distraction.