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2 days ago

Memphis “Lynching”: Plot Thickens

White officer relieved of duty, three EMS personnel fired Some of the bodycam footage getting big play was worn by a white police officer who was relieved of duty yesterday. He was not arrested and charged perhaps because he didn’t participate in the actual beating of Nichols. If so, that’s…

Tyre Nichols

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Memphis “Lynching”: Plot Thickens
Memphis “Lynching”: Plot Thickens
Tyre Nichols

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Jan 24

Union Pensions: Crypto Madness

“94% of state and government-sponsored funds” It recently emerged that staid Fairfax County, Virginia, has three pension funds with cryptocurrency exposure, one to an astonishing ten percent of assets or about $150,000,000. That’s according to Edward Siedle, pensions forensic expert, writing in Forbes magazine. Siedle took issue with comments made…

Public Pensions

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Union Pensions: Crypto Madness
Union Pensions: Crypto Madness
Public Pensions

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Jan 21

Unions: A Cop Cops

Sounds like the IAFF Ed Mullins, longtime NYPD officer and president of their 13,000 member Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) evidently thought that crime pays. But Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District proved otherwise, saying Mullins scammed the union out of $600,000 with “a scheme to steal hundreds of…

Iaff

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Unions: A Cop Cops
Unions: A Cop Cops
Iaff

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Jan 18

Murder: Illinois Medics Charged

Case Closed? Finley is heard yelling at Moore [the patient] to get up and walk out to the ambulance. “You’re gonna have to walk ’cause we ain’t carrying you!” she says. “I am seriously not in the mood for this dumb sh*t.” (CNN) Earl L. Moore later died after he…

Ems Training

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Murder: Illinois Medics Charged
Murder: Illinois Medics Charged
Ems Training

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Jan 11

“Don’t Call Him a Hero”

Timothy Vaughn and Damar Hamlin Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest after being hit during an NFL game; many called him, and the episode generally, “heroic” but police officer Timothy Vaughn was having none of that. Vaughn wrote, “The [hero] narrative compares “football players” to our soldiers and police officers”…elevating “football…

Damar Hamlin

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“Don’t Call Him a Hero”
“Don’t Call Him a Hero”
Damar Hamlin

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Dec 23, 2022

Failed Leadership/Failed Culture

Silence = Consent It may be 2023 (almost) but you’ll never see better evidence (below) that killer culture is alive and well, at least in some fire departments. Word for word it may be the most inane (and dangerous) prescription for emergency operations we’ll see. Calling it a prescription is…

Iaff

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Failed Leadership/Failed Culture
Failed Leadership/Failed Culture
Iaff

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Oct 6, 2022

IAFF: Kelly and Morrison Axe Del Re

Dishonorable discharge President Ed “Edzo” Kelly and “right hand man” Pat Morrison sacked Elizabeth Del Re last week, she was a senior IAFF manager. The Edzo/Morrison action is reminiscent of the Schaitberger days when managers or other “at will” employees would be called in, as if to a Kremlin trial…

Iaff

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IAFF: Kelly and Morrison Axe Del Re
IAFF: Kelly and Morrison Axe Del Re
Iaff

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Oct 3, 2022

FDNY: Kavanagh and Diversity

What passes for progress Laura Kavanagh, the forever “acting” commissioner of FDNY, has chosen Kwame Cooper, a long serving city of Los Angeles fire official, to be the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the department. The Diversity Officer “is responsible for creating, implementing, assessing, and gaining support for diversity…

Fire Fighters

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FDNY: Kavanagh and Diversity
FDNY: Kavanagh and Diversity
Fire Fighters

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Sep 27, 2022

Vietnam Vets and Trump

Don’t let the old man in I’ve been spending some time down at the National Mall with my “Lock Him Up” sign, sitting quietly on the steps as an unofficial greeter. My goal is to spend an hour there for each and every “Let’s go Brandon” hat I have had…

Trump

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Vietnam Vets and Trump
Vietnam Vets and Trump
Trump

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Sep 20, 2022

Fire and Irony is Fireony

Annandale FD and the house that was. Annandale is in central Fairfax County, Virginia, a few miles southwest of Washington, D.C. It sits at the intersection of Columbia Pike and Little River Turnpike, (Columbia was once a “turnpike” too.) A turnpike was a private road with tollhouses to collect the…

Annandale

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Fire and Irony is Fireony
Fire and Irony is Fireony
Annandale

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