Category Archives: Editorial

Aug 08 2016
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Arizona State University Crime Spree Zone, CLERY, Clueless Command, Department morale, Editorial, Firearms, General, Investigative Journalism, Lawsuit, Media, Sexual assault, Staffing issues, training issues

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: Do you feel your child would be safe here?

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Jul 19 2016
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Clueless Command, Department morale, Editorial, Firearms, General, Staffing issues, training issues

More ASU Police Supervisors make the DISHONOR ROLL: Sergeant Nate Deveney, Sergeant Mike Roper. Shame on them for what they did to an Officer under their command!


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Police officer’s lives are more at risk than ever. Brotherhood, honor, teamwork, and professionalism mean more than ever, and yet again the supervisor ranks at the Arizona State University Police Department set the bar even lower for their own would be brothers in blue as they betray the oath they took to become police officers.

The bar of integrity and professionalism has been historically low for command, hit and miss among the mid-level supervisors, but the attacks on employees were primarily confined to the topsy turvey workplace of the ASU Police Department where morality, law, policy only applies to line level employees.

We received information that these attacks have now gone against an officer in their private life and were inspired to issue this post. These new attacks outside the workplace are against an officer who had gone through one of the most traumatic events people go through. Instead of support this officer was betrayed by not one, but two middle supervisors while the command of ASUPD stood by encouraging and supporting the hostile behavior.

Imagine yourself as a Police Sergeant in charge of police officers charged with serving and protecting a community. Would you think it is appropriate to do the following things to an Officer under your command?

DISHONORED ASU POLICE SERGEANT: Nate Deveney

  • Approach a subordinate officer’s fiancée’, brag about sleeping with her, and then discipline this officer you betrayed.
  • Make up frivolous negative paperwork about this officer with the intent to insulate yourself from your own indiscretion, dishonor, and shame as their supervisor.
  • It’s not enough that you have leveraged your position with ASUPD for sexual conquests with students and other university employees, but you also have go after the women of the officers under your command?
  • You have dishonored yourself and the profession and should be ashamed of yourself.

DISHONORED ASU POLICE SERGEANT: Mike Roper

  • Receive phone calls from an officer’s ex-wife’s boyfriend, verbally slander and denigrate an officer under your command to this stranger, and then like the other supervisor make up frivolous negative paperwork about this officer with the intent to insulate yourself from your own indiscretion, dishonor, and shame as their supervisor.
  • Order an Officer under your command to complete a task, when that task meets the disapproval of your command claim the officer who followed your order was not following your orders. You have a pattern of doing this, so all the officers in conflict with you throughout your time as a supervisor must be liars. You are the LIAR.
  • YOU HAVE THREATENED ANOTHER ASU POLICE EMPLOYEE, PLUS OTHER ASU EMPLOYEES, WITH THE LETHAL FORCE OF A FIREARM BECAUSE OF YOUR TEMPER.
  • YOU WERE PROTECTED BY CHIEF JOHN PICKENS, AND YET YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO DOCUMENT NONSENSE IN SUBORDINATE FILES TO DISCREDIT THEM AND PLEASE COMMAND.
  • You have dishonored yourself and the profession and should be ashamed of yourself.

This is what Arizona State University Police Sergeants Nate Deveney and Michael Roper did to ASU Police Officers under their command. One had just gone through a messy divorce and custody battle with two children.

During the most difficult time in his life, losing his wife, losing his family, losing his home, the Supervisors at his police department prey on him, attack his new relationship, attack his career, financial stability, and force this officer to contemplate quiting for the sake of his own sanity. Absolutely disgusting!

This is what Officers and civilians at the Arizona State University Police Department expose themselves to in that toxic workplace environment.

They are seen as the enemy, not members of the team. This is the type of godless supervision waiting to prey on your career, your family, your entire life, your soul. Shame on them for what they did to officers under their command! Shame!

Welcome to the Arizona State University Police Department, the Integrity Free Zone!

Not only do you have to watch your back in an increasingly dangerous world,

you have to watch your back within your own police department at ASUPD.

As sad as this is we are not surprised. We know a thing or two about this profession, about the issues of command, and the conduct of subordinates, junior supervisors, and it comes from the type of leadership they follow.

When former ASUPD Chief John Pickens picked his command he was sure to insulate himself with supervisors as morally bankrupt as himself in order to continue to operate the police department along his lines.

He hired former Tempe Police Assistant Chief Jay Spradling fresh off a mountain of scandal that forced him to retire or be fired from the City of Tempe Police Department.

Pickens hired current ASU Police Chief Mike Thompson who retired in shame from the City of Mesa Police Department after destroying his partner by coveting his partner’s wife at the police department and orchestrating his demise in the workplace to insulate himself from his own indiscretion, dishonor, and shame as a supervisor.

Sounds like a familiar theme after a while and it’s bsolutely disgusting.

Arizona state University police chief Mike Thompson has two speeds

If you think we won’t find out every detail, investigate every detail to it’s utmost end, continually expose these issues again and again, then you will be unpleasantly surprised. No amount of threats, intimidation, or whatever hold any sway, nor did they or will they ever.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”  Edmund Burke

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Jul 07 2016
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Clueless Command, Editorial, General, Media

ASU Police Command Put Entire ASU Community At Risk. They DO NOTHING about Critical Security Breech, No Student Dormitory or Building is Secure!

Arizona State University Police command left entire campus at risk
The incompetent ASU Police Command put the entire ASU community At risk once again. Someone has been walking around with keys to every Tempe campus building and the command of the Arizona State University Police Department have taken no action whatsoever despite the keys being known as missing for some time! Read Commander “Liar” Louis Scichilone’s own email below and ask yourself, “Does the author care more about appearances or the public’s safety?” The answer is clear…

Here’s Commander “Liar” Louis Scichilone’s own email, 

ASU Police Command puts entire community at risk

Taken no action or taken improper action, that’s what this criticism has been about all along. It’s about situations where command has taken no action when they had a duty to act AND situations where command took negative improper action contrary to the best interests of the ASU community they are sworn to serve.

This is just one more example of “misconduct in office”. It’s one more example of how the members of the Arizona State University Police Department Command are more interested in covering their own asses than doing what needs to be done in the best interests of the community they are sworn to serve and protect. Absolutely disgraceful.

The charge of “misconduct in office” is broad, and encompasses conduct that includes malfeasance, where someone knowing commits a crime, misfeasance, where someone “does a lawful act in a wrongful manner” and nonfeasance, where someone fails to act when required by their job.

This is a nonfeasance in office issue that puts everyone at the ASU community at risk. How long as this been happening? Why was nothing done? The one thing we are certain of is that this commander will have plenty of excuses for his inaction that will be less than truthful.

Read Commander “Liar” Louis Scichilone’s email here.

THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUMES 1 through 4

Working towards 50 shades of unmitigated exposure!

1. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 1 LEGITIMACY EDITION: HTTPS://VID.ME/8VRF

Video Volume 1 blog post

2. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 2 MORGAN OLSEN INCOMPETENCE EDITION : HTTPS://VID.ME/ZGW0

Video Volume 2 blog post

3. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 3 STREET FIGHTER EDITION ORE VS FERRIN WITH CHIEF THOMPSON’S TRUTHFUL OPINION : https://vid.me/CNM8

Video Volume 3 blog post

4. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 4 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CAMPUS LAW ENFORCEMENT ADMINSTRATORS (IACLEA) EDITION ASU POLICE ADMIN HAS NO BUSINESS BEING THERE! : HTTPS://VID.ME/ZGW0

Video Volume 4 blog post

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Jul 07 2016
15 Comments
Department morale, Editorial, General, training issues

The Integrity Report on the ASU Police Department exposes an opposition Bigot against the GLBT Community within the ASU police department.

ASU Police Opposition to the blog

Our initial response:  Link to the Original post and our response

theintegrityreport says:
July 6, 2016 at 10:01 pm

You know we will delete what exactly? We relish every opportunity to expose you for what you are. In this case nothing more than a scared and defeated bigot lashing out. Your anger, ignorance, and desperation are words to your sad little swan song. I pity the people who see you in uniform expecting honor, equality, fairness, integrity, and receiving what we see here instead.

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like “the clique” within the Arizona State University Police Department is cracking under the pressure and we have potentially exposed a bigot within our opposition. We’re not surprised. The opposition makes one self-defeating decision after another and it is embarrassing  to have enemies so juvenile and feeble minded. 

We are against any form of discrimination because we are proud Americans who support freedom and equality no matter what race, creed, gender, religion or sexual orientation you may be. We would like to once again remind the bigoted people in our opposition about the oath they took to be sworn police officers. The fact they forgot it, ignored it, and broke the oath are why we are here today.

Simple Definition of BIGOT, Source: Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary

: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

Is it acceptable to have a bigot working at a police department? Of course not. This opposition poster uses a police code as their name and uses and Arizona State University email address to post it. I would like to know which member of the Arizona State University Police Department created this Email address and uses derogatory language aimed at the GLBT community and yet claims to support the sworn Officer code of ethics, diversity, and promises do exactly the opposite of what they’re doing. Does this person support the university mission? If this person was handling their police call would a GLBT member of the ASU community receive the same treatment under the law as a straight person.

Per ASU’s description of Discrimination in the Academic Affairs Manual (ACD)                       ACD 401: Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html

Discrimination is defined under applicable federal and state law. In general, unlawful discrimination means failing to treat people equally based, at least in part, on status that is protected under applicable law or policy. Protected status includes race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and genetic information.

Related:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-state-university-gets-failing-grade-on-lgbt-friendliness-says-to-campus-pride-index-6631913

https://alumni.asu.edu/chapters/lgbt-devils-pride

https://www.aclu.org/hate-speech-campus

https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html

Required Reporting

Unless a person is restricted by law from doing so, any employee who is informed of or has a reasonable basis to believe that sexual harassment has occurred, shall immediately report all information regarding the occurrence(s) to the Office of Equity and Inclusion/Title IX Coordinator.

Failure to report and/or inaction may be cause for disciplinary action.

If an individual wishes to have a confidential conversation about an allegation of sexual harassment, that individual can do so by seeking an appointment with a licensed counselor or health care professional. The university provides such services at the Health Services, Employee Assistance Office, or ASU Counseling Services located on each campus. Also, consistent with state law, the ASU Police Department Victim’s Advocate is a person with whom an individual can hold a confidential conversation about an allegation of sexual violence, including sexual assault.

Additionally, any individual has the right to contact local law enforcement to file a criminal report.

A supervisor, manager, or administrator who is informed of or has a reasonable basis to believe that violations of this policy, other than sexual harassment, have occurred shall promptly report it to the Office of Equity and Inclusion. Failure to report or supervisory inaction may be cause for disciplinary action.

Anyone who believes that he or she has been subjected to discrimination, harassment, or retaliation in violation of this policy, or who believes that this policy has been violated, should report the matter immediately to the Office of Equity and Inclusion. (But keep in mind they won’t do anything about it, see below)

Anonymity

If an individual wishes to remain anonymous, that individual can make a report to the ASU Hotline at 877/786–3385. (But keep in mind they won’t do anything about it.)

If an individual requests anonymity after a report is filed, the Office of Equity and Inclusion/Title IX Coordinator will take into account the request, the due process rights of all parties involved, the severity of the alleged harassment, and the potential risk of a hostile environment for others in the community in order to determine whether the request can be honored. The requesting party will be advised of the determination. (But keep in mind they won’t do anything about it, see below)

Look at how they handled these issues:

ASU Barrett Honors College

Transcripts/Recordings: 

THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUMES 1 through 4

Working towards 50 shades of unmitigated exposure!

1. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 1 LEGITIMACY EDITION: HTTPS://VID.ME/8VRF

Video Volume 1 blog post

2. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 2 MORGAN OLSEN INCOMPETENCE EDITION : HTTPS://VID.ME/ZGW0

Video Volume 2 blog post

3. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 3 STREET FIGHTER EDITION ORE VS FERRIN WITH CHIEF THOMPSON’S TRUTHFUL OPINION : https://vid.me/CNM8

Video Volume 3 blog post

4. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 4 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CAMPUS LAW ENFORCEMENT ADMINSTRATORS (IACLEA) EDITION ASU POLICE ADMIN HAS NO BUSINESS BEING THERE! : HTTPS://VID.ME/ZGW0

Video Volume 4 blog post

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Jul 05 2016
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CLERY, Clueless Command, Editorial, General, Investigative Journalism, Media, Sexual assault, training issues

The “High Noon” email that went out to all Conference Attendees of the International Association of College Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) hosted by the ASU Police Dept.

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After some requests for the original “high noon” email that had ASUPD command on suicide watch here it is. This was originally posted in comments, but not published in comments. Thank you Ted for joining this growing insurgency for justice by putting together this treasure trove of information we were previously not aware of.

Despite our knowledge of the corrupt inner workings of ASU Police Dept, we were somewhat surprised about the depravity tolerated, protected, and by default sanctioned by the Arizona State University administration.

There will be posts about the inexcusable Arizona State University War on Women!

HERE’S THE EMAIL:
Continue reading →

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Apr 30 2016
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CLERY, Department morale, Editorial, Firearms, General, Investigative Journalism, Lawsuit, Media, Sexual assault, Staffing issues, training issues

Contribute To The Lawsuit Against The Arizona State University Police Department & Boost Public Safety Integrity

ASU Police Officers are so fed up with corruption

Because so many current and former Arizona State University Police employees read, message us, and some comment on this blog we have been receiving more questions about how to participate or contribute to the lawsuit now underway. Here it is folks:

The Official Lawsuit Complaint can be downloaded here:

http://www.grandforksherald.com/sites/default/files/asucomplaintamenpfiled.pdf 

Here is the attorney contact information copied out of this complaint:

David W. Dow (SBA #007377)
The Law Offices of David W. Dow
3104 E. Camelback #281
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
602-550-2951
Ddowlaw1@gmail.com
Attorney for Plaintiffs

For what it’s worth, here are some photos for your lawsuit that were sent to us.

On the far right is Defendant William Orr, senior supervisor (Commander) of this event. To the left of him is Defendant Mark Janda.

The photographer is Defendant Pamela Osborne.

This is a partial photo of “the clique” that destroyed integrity at ASUPD.

We will be looking for more information to provide as this unfolds. Good Luck getting justice.

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ASU Police Chief Michael Thompson Sued

 

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Nov 27 2014
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Department morale, Editorial, General

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone helping to make positive changes in policing for the ASU community! ASU Police Lost Two of the Biggest “Turkeys” in 2014 due to your efforts.

ASU Police Thanksgiving! Lost two of our biggest turkeys and we're not missing them!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who contributed to positive change after 14 years of __________!

A very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who contributed to the pursuit of truth, demanded straight answers from public officials reluctant to give them, and who uncovered what a wayward government entity would rather hide despite the laws of transparency. The working employees of ASU Police and the public owe you a debt of gratitude.

Thank you, Anne Ryman, Rob O’Dell, Stuart Warner, Emilie Eaton, D.S. Woodfill, Jim Romenesko, and Sundevilsagainstsexualassault. Your efforts have sped up the process of change towards accountability in public safety at ASUPD. We also thank the employees of ASUPD who realized that change can only come from the outside and had the courage and intelligence to pursue it and contact the media, post on the Integrity Report, despite the bullies, internal threats, and paper tigers of intimidation. The year 2014 has been productive, but we are nowhere near where we need to be within the Arizona State University Police Department so the fight continues, the exposure will continue, and we will double our efforts. Stand by!

2014 News Articles to date:

1. ASU police staffing trails campus growth – AZCentral.com

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2014/09/21/asu-police-staffing-lags-campus-growth/15999573/

2. ASU, ASUPD under Federal Investigation

http://sundevilsagainstsexualassault.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/feds-asu-sex-assault-probe-ongoing/

3. ASU, community-college police got military surplus

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2014/09/17/asu-community-college-police-got-military-surplus/15812247/

4. ASU Police Officers Have 70 Semi-Automatic M-16s They Don’t Need

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2014/09/asu_police_officers_have_70_semi-automatic_m-16s_they_dont_need.php

5. ASU police plan to return surplus M-16 assault rifles

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2014/09/29/asu-police-plan-return-surplus-m-16-assault-rifles/16448959/

6. ASU police on heightened alert after violent sexual assault…

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2014/09/13/asu-sex-assault-heightened-alert/15604295/

7. ASU names new chief for embattled campus police force

 http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2014/10/31/asu-interim-chief-head-campus-police-force/18263117/

8. Sexual assaults at ASU rarely result in expulsions

http://www.azcentral.com/longform/news/local/tempe/2014/11/23/asu-sexual-assault-few-arrests-convictions/19286329/

9. Embarrassment a bad reason for government to redact facts

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2014/09/28/embarrassment-government-facts/16376477/

10. Arizona State University won’t let the Arizona Republic see sexual assault victims’ names

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/11/18/arizona-state-university-wont-let-arizona-republic-see-sexual-assault-victims-names/

11. ASU Flouts Arizona Law, Refusing to Turn Over the Names of 36 Sexual Assault Victims

http://collegeinsurrection.com/2014/11/asu-flouts-arizona-law-refusing-to-turn-over-the-names-of-36-sexual-assault-victims/

12. Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault (Not an article, but plenty of good information about the problem of sexual assault at ASU)

http://sundevilsagainstsexualassault.wordpress.com/

13. Coming soon…

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Oct 01 2014
32 Comments
Department morale, Editorial, Staffing issues

Editorial: What do we stand for? Integrity, accountability, and competency at ASUPD.

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Fresh off the heels of the Arizona Republic‘s investigation into ASUPD’s staffing levels, it was apparent that Chief Thompson was fretting over the negative media exposure. Thompson sent out several long winded and bizarrely worded emails to the entire department…at 2330 hours….on a Sunday evening:

Acting Chief Clown Thompson email

Here’s our response to Chief Thompson’s email:

Your highly emotional and generic email response to the solid facts presented by the Arizona Republic article is proof that you are not a leader; you more than likely wrote this to appease your bosses who are probably starting to figure out you’re not the man for the job. The troops know you’re just another reactionary Pickens-styled politician who is scared and doesn’t know what to do.

The lengthy analogy of washing your hands in comparison to the ASU Police department works…but not in a positive way for you. We’ve been standing under the scalding water for years getting burned, waiting for a competent leader to turn the department around. New officers can sense it too; most want to get in and leave the agency before they get burned. It doesn’t take them long to figure this out. (Look at the record of employee turnover, it proves this theory, yet it is one more fact you don’t want to acknowledge)

New officers have heard and seen many so examples of officers who have been burned by the department’s management for any number of reasons, with the main reason as not being a member of “the clique”. No matter how bad you screw up, no matter how bad you treat others, you have someone to support you. Yet, you refuse to address the clique’s existence or their inability to be held accountable for anything, instead throwing out a broad statement about how we need to treat everyone with “dignity and respect”. Most all of us treat each other with respect, but there are a handful of people who can’t seem to understand that concept, which in turn destroys the morale of the department.

If you weren’t addressing the department clique with your warm and fuzzy  statements, then this is your attempt to explain away what has taken place under both your and Pickens’ watch.  Your words are meaningless to us all without any sort of follow up action.

The current command staff pride themselves on a negative management style of inbred cronyism. This cronyism may work at a backwoods sheriff department in a town with a population of 10, but it doesn’t work in a large, ever-expanding city like Tempe. Values such as integrity, accountability, and competency in management are required in a department like ASUPD in order for officers to stay engaged here. How many of the dozens of officers hired under Pickens still remain at ASUPD? Maybe a handful?

Thompson, you are getting paid a lot of money to sit at a desk, have meetings, and do a lot of excuse making for the state of affairs at ASUPD. We had 14 years of that. For years we have been waiting for someone that gets results. For years we have been waiting for staffing,  adequate training, and more equipment; but more importantly, our leadership deficit has been the most critical issue of this department.

Thompson, you ended the email with, “each of us serve a noble purpose and I ask you to never forget that and always remain worthy of wearing the uniform or serving within the police department.” As our leader, we the troops are waiting for you to serve a noble purpose, and to remain worthy of wearing the uniform or serving within the police department.

So far we haven’t seen it.

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