Despite considerable attempts to cover up the truth within the Arizona State University Police Department, the truth always has a way of getting out. We recently received information about one of the latest appointments through several channels, plus day to day information about the meetings and consternation of command trying to handle another so-called “promotion process” as officers are walking out the door in quick succession just prior to the annual shift change.
The tradition of promoting people who are tired of working as police officers to greater and greater responsibilities, but significantly less work and much higher pay continues. This is nothing new and neither is the empowering and rewarding employees for failure. The command at the ASU Police Department are the embodiment of all these qualities.
This promotion is disturbing because Sergeant Terry Lewis was in charge of detectives and failed to do his job. What job will he do in the lieutenant position?
He failed to submit charges on cases, failed to arrest when there was probable cause to arrest, made decisions only a qualified lawyer should, and opened up the department and university to gross liability.
Fairly recently, he was removed from detectives by the then newly appointed current Chief Michael Thompson, but now climbs the ladder to Lieutenant despite on the job incompetency at the Sergeant level and being known for never leaving his desk since he became a corporal many years ago.
This proves once again that job expectations, actual experience, competency, decision making, recent performance, integrity, liability, public trust, and honor all mean nothing when it comes to some promotions at ASUPD. They want lackeys who will do their bidding for them and accept the liability that comes with it.
Also, with Detective Jennifer Bryner making the Sergeant list over veteran police officers with many more years on it says something about the integrity of the process. Bryner was just off probation from field training, her prior experience was the police academy, with 1 year on, when she was selected over many highly experienced officers for detectives. How is she again propped up above officers with many times her own experience? Job experience and resumes mean abdolutely nothing.
Detective Brady made Sergeant despite having even less time on with ASUPD than Bryner and prior experience being limited to NAUPD. What can we say? These two promotions prove that it certainly helps when you have access to the testing materials through your friends who are trusted with keeping it confidential. It also helps when your social calendar includes extra-curricular engagements with command.
Do you want to succeed at the Arizona State Police Department? If so, find out who the power brokers are, kiss as much of their ass as you can stomach, find out who they don’t like and disparage them, show you are not above doing any unethical thing they ask you to do, volunteer for every extra-curricular engagement that becomes available, and do it with a smile. That’s the meaning of police work , serving and protecting right? Wrong. Like the legions of former ASUPD officers, you need to go some place else for that.
There were two notable exceptions to this process. We congratulate Lieutenant Latella and Sergeant Icenogle on their promotions. Unfortunately, their rank is too low to do much to change how the morally defunct ASUPD command operates.
1 , 2 , 3, 4…FOUR possibly more…OFFICERS QUIT, Two former Lateral Officers to ASUPD, Clinton Martinez and Dahmar Smiles, plus ASU Police 12 year Veteran Craig Woodruff can now take their experience where it will be appreciated, not held against them. Officer Daniel Gaughan can see if the crap games played at ASUPD by the clique work at Tempe PD.
When you are aware of how a police department is supposed to operate why would you stay at the Arizona State University Police Department? You wouldn’t. Officer Clinton Martinez and Dahmar Smiles were lateral police officers who came to ASUPD and were quickly able to see the lack of integrity, lack of leadership, favoritism, dirty politics, lack of opportunity, poor officer compensation, and knew the only solution was to leave.
Officer Craig Woodruff, Army 82nd Airborne Veteran, was with ASUPD for 12 years and, like most people who leave, was most likely fed up with the games being played with his career. Historically, some members of ASUPD command, supervisors, have had a habit of targeting veterans of the military and law enforcement. When you get to know the leadership of the ASU Police department you will ask yourself, “Why the hell did I come here?” Many retired laterals walked out in short order because they could see the numerous negative issues and had the option.
Many officers still working towards retirement left everything behind in other states, put all their eggs in this unsafe basket, and almost lost their careers to the unethical spiteful leadership of ASUPD.
They were targeted for no reason other than the fact that many here were intimidated by their experience and had the rank to injure them. Clinton and Dahmar can now take their experience where it will be appreciated, not held against them.
Despite being selected for Firearms instructor, DT instructor, and Crime prevention Clinton understood that only favorites get actual promotions and that is the only real pay raise available at the Arizona State University Police Department.
Apparently, the Crime Prevention position was vacated by someone who never applied for it, Clinton Martinez, and was recently given to Becky Garcia who was the only one who originally applied. Sounds fair? No. Sounds like ASUPD command zero ethics? Yes.
Clinton, Dahmar, and Craig, you left the mall cop job behind and can finally get back to being a police officer fighting crime instead of babysitting, dodging internal politics, policy enforcement, homeless management, and running traffic with timid college kids, suburban moms, and professors who know they are one complaint away from having you fired. You get to work at a police department where they have your back and it isn’t everyone out for themselves. Good Luck, stay safe where the real police work actually happens on a regular basis. We are confident you will be assets to the communities you serve.
This time there’s a video featuring even more embarrassment for ASU Police Chief Mike Thompson and the University administration. It may be hard to believe, but Chief Thompson is speaking the truth about Stuart Ferrin and the the Ore arrest.
It looks like more people are speaking out about the INTEGRITY FREE ZONE of the Arizona State University Police Department, God Bless your efforts. We look forward to seeing more.
Previous ASU Police Videos
1. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 1 LEGITIMACY EDITION:https://vid.me/8vRf
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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:
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.
It looks like more people are speaking out about the INTEGRITY FREE ZONE of the Arizona State University Police Department, God Bless your efforts. This time the video features more embarrassment for Morgan Olsen and ASU Police Chief Mike Thompson talking about him not understanding how you can’t have someone soliciting prostitutes and working as a SUPERVISOR at a police department. He just doesn’t get it…
1. THE ASU POLICE VIDEO CHRONICLES: VOLUME 1 LEGITIMACY EDITION
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Never underestimate the stupidity of the people holding leadership positions at the Arizona State University Police Department. The department is still…
ON A 5 YEAR 24 HOUR SHUFFLE STAFF AROUND FROM ONE CAMPUS TO ANOTHER ROUTINE TO HAVE SOME BOOTS ON THE GROUND
How many years has this been going on? This is the primary job for ASU Police command to successfully hire and retain staffing and they fail miserably year after year…
Chief Michael L. Thompson, you mean to tell the public, the Arizona State University community, that you can’t manage the few officers at the department with 1 CHIEF, 2 ASSISTANT CHIEFS, 5 COMMANDERS, 20 SERGEANTS, 5 CORPORALS so now you NEED LIEUTENANTS?
It looks like more people are speaking out about the INTEGRITY FREE ZONE of the Arizona State University Police Department.
Hopefully they keep the hits coming. Karma must be catching up to some people because one of the reprobates exhibits three signs of an imminent heart attack.
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“Osborne brought up the lawsuit at the beginning of the search committee meeting, causing the group to take a break to discuss the legality of further discussion. Olsen’s withdrawal was announced shortly after that. Committee Co-chairman Grant Shaft said after the meeting that Olsen’s withdrawal was unrelated to comments made by committee member Leon Osborne about a lawsuit filed against Olsen and other ASU administrators.”
Good Morning Morgan,
This whole thing could have been avoided if you dealt with the command of ASUPD, who now seem to be jumping ship like a not-so-merry band of motherfuckers. Could it be that their incompetence and corruption are finally affecting you? Maybe you should have done something when you were being made aware of the systemic problems within the Arizona State Police Department how many years ago now? It pays to be proactive instead of reactive.
Did this meeting at UND affect your life, career, reputation, pride, prestige, and earning potential? Was this a public shaming? The corrupt command staff ASUPD have done this to police officers for many years and you allowed it to continue. Now you have an idea of what they have experienced, but karma has yet to be paid.
It’s long past the time to put competent, experienced, and proven leadership in charge of the Arizona State University Police Department. You and your peers will find yourself in this position again, we guarantee it. I look forward to seeing what the people suing you have put together, make everything public record, because I prefer transparency in government.
It keeps everyone honest, puts criminals in jail, and serves as a warning to others tempted to violate the public trust and undermine moral integrity. Look at this experience as a time to reflect on what you should have done, what you should be doing, and do the right thing for the Arizona State University community who are in desperate need of a functioning police department that meets and exceeds expectations rather than lying about them to the public.
Olsen is the executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer of Arizona State University.
Committee Co-chairman Grant Shaft said after the meeting that Olsen’s withdrawal was unrelated to comments made by committee member Leon Osborne about a lawsuit filed against Olsen and other ASU administrators.
The plaintiffs, who are several former university police officers, claim in their suit there is culture of “corruption” within the ASU Police Department that included discrimination and falsifying crime statistics.
The civil lawsuit states Olsen failed to act when made aware of these problems.
“In fact, employees were instructed not to do certain audits and investigations by management after they were advised of the problems,” the complaint says.(This is a PDF link to the actual lawsuit)
The plaintiffs also allege employees were made to falsify crime statistics to make campus appear safer.
“In at least one case, an employee was told to tear up a citation because another officer was having a relationship with the defendant’s sister,” the documents state.
Olsen did not respond to a request for comment.
Osborne brought up the lawsuit at the beginning of the search committee meeting, causing the group to take a break to discuss the legality of further discussion. Olsen’s withdrawal was announced shortly after that.
The Arizona State University management has a systemic corruption problem and the ship is starting to leak. Here’s another example of what happens when a crime boss mentality gets into the leadership of government. The police department, prominent Bio Design scientist, who’s next? Don’t be bullied. Fight back. Document your harassment the best you can, secure tape recordings, get witnesses, written statements, and protect yourself against workplace bullies.
Prominent ASU scientist sues university and President Michael Crow, alleging retaliation
Deirdre Meldrum alleges university officials staged an after-hours raid to take equipment from her lab; ASU administrators say her claims are a diversion to mask a decline in her research funding.
A prominent research administrator and scientist at Arizona State University has filed a lawsuit that accuses school administrators, including President Michael Crow, of abusing their authority, diverting funds intended for her lab and harassing employees who make allegations of ethics violations.
The civil action was filed Feb. 29 in Maricopa County Superior Court by professor Deirdre Meldrum, a university scientist and former dean at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. It echoes and recites many of the allegations Meldrum previously filed in a whistleblower statement and a notice of claim against ASU. Those actions, not previously divulged publicly, were obtained by The Arizona Republic via a government-records request.
The lawsuit includes counts alleging breach of contract, misrepresentation and whistleblower retaliation.
Meldrum, who came to ASU in 2006, said her conflicts began three years after she arrived, when she complained to Crow that research funds and staffing had not been provided as promised in her contract, and that her pay was not commensurate.
“ASU is abusing people and resources for their own benefit,” Meldrum said this week in an interview withThe Republic. “It’s a pattern, and it’s been going on far too long. … I believe a lot of wrong has been done by leaders of the institution. I want them to be held accountable.”
ASU, in a statement, said Meldrum’s allegations are an attempt to divert attention from the real issue: Over the past five years, according to the university, Meldrum’s success in securing research funds has declined “precipitously” — to less than $500,000 in fiscal 2014, and zero in fiscal 2015. At the same time, the statement said, ASU provided her with more than $6 million in funding, 6,000 square feet of lab space and 2,000 square feet of office space.
“We remain hopeful that Dr. Meldrum and her lab will return to the level of success … enjoyed in the first years after she arrived at ASU,” the statement said.
The civil suit names Crow as a defendant along with 12 current or former top ASU administrators and the Arizona Board of Regents, who oversee the state-university system. The Republic reached out to Crow through a spokesman, but he did not respond to an interview request regarding Meldrum’s allegations.
The lawsuit is the latest in a chain of formal complaints filed by Meldrum beginning in 2014, when she sent a whistleblower letter to Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne. When allegations in that letter were not investigated, Meldrum said, she resubmitted them in January 2015 to newly elected Gov. Doug Ducey and Attorney General Mark Brnovich, as well as to the state Auditor General’s Office.
The 74-page whistleblower letter contains accounts of Meldrum’s six years of conflicts with Crow and other ASU officials, offering far more detail than the lawsuit. At one point, it alleges, university officials staged an after-hours raid to take equipment from her lab.
The lawsuit asserts that ASU breached Meldrum’s contract, made false representations and unlawfully retaliated. It also refers to allegations in her whistleblower letter that Crow has used similar tactics against scores of other professors, administrators and researchers since he became university president in 2002. Her complaint letter listed 172 former ASU employees among the “fallen stars.”
Most have left ASU, and some have assumed prominent positions at other universities.
Photos: ASU Biodesign Institute
ASU’s Biodesign Institute on campus in Tempe is a major hub for research on the Tempe campus. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Meldrum asserts that she brought in more than $35 million in research grants to ASU, and secured a total of $80 million during her career.
The state universities have a whistleblower policy that prohibits retaliation against employees who disclose information of public concern, including what employees believe are violations of law, mismanagement, gross waste of public monies, or abuse of authority.
Meldrum said none of the officials acted on her whistleblower complaint, instead treating it as a personnel issue.
Mia Garcia, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office, confirmed the office reviewed the complaint letter and concluded it reflected a personnel dispute over Meldrum’s contract, not a whistleblower report of official misconduct as envisioned by the statute.
“Whistleblower complaints raise a matter of public concern that would otherwise not be known,” Garcia said, adding, “We take whistleblower complaints very seriously, but they have to be an issue of public concern.”
Regents General Counsel Nancy Tribbensee last year sent a letter to Meldrum’s attorney, Daniel Bonnett, asserting that most of the issues raised by Meldrum were moot because she did not report them within 365 days per university policy.
Tribbensee dismissed Meldrum’s more recent claims about allegedly improper financial transactions involving research funds, arguing they “do not appear to … be ‘on a matter of public concern.’ ”
Meldrum alleges that after she began to complain of wrongdoing and retaliation, university officials moved to cut her pay, authority and research operations.
Meldrum remains director of ASU’s Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation within the university’s Biodesign Institute. The center is investigating cancer cells and diagnoses. Meldrum was notified in September that the center’s budget and lab space will be cut substantially if she does not produce $2 million in additional research grants.
Earlier last year, an ASU news release announced that Meldrum had been inducted as a fellow with the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. It said she has secured more than $35 million in research grants during the past decade, “among the highest individual grant awards in ASU history.”
Recruited as ‘visionary’
Meldrum, a professor of electrical engineering, was recruited to ASU from the University of Washington and touted by Crow as a “visionary” with a “track record of moving science and scientists to the cutting edge of discovery.”
She earlier held jobs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and has led research on topics ranging from genome automation to live single-cell analysis and undersea sensor robotics.
Meldrum’s various legal filings allege that she became a victim of administrative abuse after identifying “irregularities … involving mismanagement and mishandling of finances.”
Meldrum asserts that Crow reneged on a promise to provide $6 million for new engineering research and $5 million for engineering fellowships to attract top-level students. She also claims her pay was substantially below salaries received by other deans.
When Meldrum took those concerns to Crow in 2009, her whistleblower letter alleges, he “closed the door and launched into a 20-minute verbal tirade during which he yelled and threatened her.”
The whistleblower letter alleges that Crow chastised her for asking for a pay raise, declaring, “This will be the most painful dollars you have ever received.”
At the time, Meldrum was dean of ASU’s engineering schools with about 201 faculty and 7,000 students.
In subsequent months, Crow announced that Meldrum was being replaced as dean and named ASU’s “senior scientist,” tabbed to found a new biosignatures lab.
Meldrum contends the maneuver was a demotion in disguise, and that university administrators began a campaign of retribution. In the whistleblower letter, she alleged that Crow “orchestrated her removal as dean of the School of Engineering with unfulfilled promises and false representations while relegating her to a position with the vacuous title of ASU ‘senior scientist.’ ”
During a 2010 meeting with Crow and other administrators, Meldrum alleges in the whistleblower letter, the ASU president rebuked her for complaining that the biosignatures venture was not getting promised support, then explained that “a good part of everything being done at ASU is puffery and papier mache, and that it was their job to support the illusion before it all collapsed on itself.”
Meldrum’s complaint says Crow then asked her to assume a new role helping promote women in science. The whistleblower letter shows she responded angrily in an email, noting that Crow had just stripped her of her title as dean. “This was done against my will, and no explanation was ever offered,” Meldrum wrote. “I was one of the few women deans in engineering in the country …”
“Now, you ask me to help ASU address the national issue of the disappointing participation of women in science and engineering, which I’m a victim of the very system that discourages women from climbing to the top … You have made me a laughing stock on this matter.”
By late 2011, the biosignatures project still had not geared up. Meldrum alleges it was renamed the National Biomarker Development Alliance, and she was not on the leadership team, let alone director.
Meanwhile, the lawsuit alleges that unidentified ASU officials began making unauthorized withdrawals from Meldrum’s research account without notifying her, and concealed or withheld the records.
Meldrum alleges her objections prompted a rebuke from the administration and imposition of “impossible” performance requirements for published articles, grant revenues and work metrics not imposed on other ASU center directors or professors. She also was told she would no longer be ASU’s senior scientist, according to a notice of claim that preceded her lawsuit.
Pattern of abuse?
After Crow arrived in Tempe in 2002, he rebranded ASU as the model for a “New American University” — an institution that would provide broad access to a quality education while conducting research that has meaningful impact on society. The university began aggressively ramping up its research, turning the money and prestige into academic success and economic development.
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Hiring top-notch faculty with lucrative research grants proved critical to those achievements.
But Bonnett, Meldrum’s attorney, alleged in letters to Ducey and Brnovich last year that Crow had engaged in “a consistent pattern and practice” of recruiting celebrated professors with incentives, “then failing to honor and deliver upon those promises.” The letters said anyone who dared to object would get punished and silenced, or forced out.
Meldrum’s are not the first allegations of this kind to be leveled.
Before and during Crow’s tenure as vice provost at Columbia University, noted mathematical economist Graciela Chichilnisky pursued a series of lawsuits against the New York university for gender discrimination and other torts. Online federal and state court documents show the suits ended with settlements, the most recent during a trial in 2008.
Case files were not immediately available, but Chichilnisky told The Republic that she collected more than $1 million in litigation based on claims of continuing discrimination. She said the dispute began when she questioned substandard pay and working conditions, then escalated into a “toxic” environment during Crow’s tenure.
“They tried to destroy my work,” Chichilnisky said. “He froze my research funds. He sent five movers by surprise and removed all of my books and computers from eight offices. Then they locked the offices and changed the keys.”
Crow declined to comment on the Chichilnisky case, as did an ASU spokesman.
In another lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, ASU professor George “Bob” Pettit in 2005 accused Crow and the university of improperly firing him as director of ASU’s Cancer Research Institute. The civil complaint alleged breach of contract, fraud, conspiracy, defamation and whistleblower reprisal.
Pettit has written more than a dozen books and is considered a pre-eminent researcher, responsible for scores of anti-cancer drugs and patents based on marine life and natural compounds. The National Cancer Institute once described him as an American “treasure.”
Pettit declined comment for this story. But court papers and news articles say Pettit, like Meldrum, got crosswise with Crow over finances and ASU’s handling of intellectual property rights, or patents. In 2005, Pettit was removed as leader of the institute, and 31 employees were terminated.
At the time, ASU said Pettit was demoted because his research funding had dwindled and his lab had been hit with numerous safety violations.
In 2011, Pettit won a federal verdict for part of his case against the Board of Regents — after Crow had been dismissed as a defendant. That decision was overturned on appeal in 2013. Pettit remains a tenured professor at the university, where he has worked for more than a half century.
The money trail
Much of Meldrum’s lawsuit and her whistleblower letter focus on internal ASU politics and legalities involving research funding, leadership, credit and control.
She alleges in the lawsuit that unauthorized university officials transferred large sums of money — nearly $100,000 in one case — without explanation, and refused to disclose where the money went.
The lawsuit also claims Arizona Technology Enterprises, the university’s patenting arm, “colluded” with several former employees “in misappropriating intellectual property from the lab,” an assertion that echoes Pettit’s lawsuit a decade ago.
Meldrum said she was awarded $2 million before her arrival at ASU to work on a project with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute involving robotic efforts to collect and study microbiotic organisms in the ocean. Meldrum’s whistleblower letter described the outcome as “an orchestrated, back-stabbing collusion,” and requested an independent investigation.
After Meldrum was dismissed from the project, according to the whistleblower letter, her lab was entered — apparently on a weekend night — by an employee who removed research equipment and supplies.
In emails to ASU administrators, Meldrum wrote: “You sneak into my laboratory in off hours, you steal my equipment and supplies, and you stash them in a hidden place. What possible explanation can justify these actions?”
University officials answered in emails that the Monterey Bay institute had requested the change of project leadership, and off-hours removal of research gear was just a misunderstanding. Some items were returned.
‘Shell game’ alleged
Meldrum also pressed ASU officials to fulfill funding obligations in her employment contract, which she said included $500,000 for a project known as NEPTUNE, an undersea observatory for research on new microbes along the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate in the Pacific Ocean.
In November 2012 emails that Meldrum sent to then-Provost Elizabeth Phillips, she said financial manipulations were undermining the project.
Meldrum claimed money was shifted into and out of accounts in a way that was “dishonest and tantamount to embezzlement.” In a July 2013 email to Pamela Mulhearn, then director of Biodesign Institute research operations, she alleged that her research work had been shorted $840,000 as a result of a “shell game.”
Meldrum says she was unable to get the transaction records, or to get administrators to investigate. Instead, she was reprimanded by Phillips, who alleged that the “tone” of Meldrum’s email to Mulhearn violated ASU’s ethics code.
According to Meldrum’s lawsuit, ASU officials began imposing performance “metrics” last year that were not in her employment contract and are not imposed on other faculty.
According to the lawsuit, Meldrum was informed if she could not secure at least $2 million in additional grants or contracts by March 1, her office and research space would be reduced dramatically.
In a statement to The Republic, ASU said the cutbacks will not take full effect until 2020, and in the meantime Meldrum “remains an accomplished scientist and tenured member of the faculty, and she will be treated similarly to other ASU faculty members.”
Meldrum’s lawsuit contends the cutbacks are retaliatory.
“They’ve been trying every which way they can to get rid of me,” she said in an interview with The Republic.
“It affects people’s lives and careers. It impacts the reputation and potential success of the institution. … Someone has to speak up and do something about it.”
Why is Chief Mike Thompson running around the ASUPD Tempe station in a panic? Why is he sweating so much? What does he have to worry about? Rumors were all over the agency claiming it was the recent employee lawsuit, a jealous threatening husband from another act of philandering, his bosses were caught off guard again, but nobody seems to know for sure. The number one question is if he didn’t do anything wrong then he wouldn’t have anything to worry about right? Another question is why does the Gilbert Police Department have a unit stationed outside his home? Don’t be scared Mike, just be thankful that Gilbert PD can come to your unnecessary rescue.
ASUPD Chief Mike Thompson enjoys a level of public safety service that the ASU community can only dream of. Year after year at Arizona State University staffing at ASUPD is so pathetic that shift Sergeants have to juggle staff around just to have an officer or two at each campus for the 100,000+ who depend on them. Why a cronic staffing shortage for over half a decade?
Lousy incompetent leadership that kills morale and drives employees straight out the door. How ironic that Arizona State University Police Department is hosting:
The 2016 Executive Development Institute (EDI)is sponsored by IACLEA (The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators). This year 42 executives, including three members of the Arizona State University Police Department, will participate in workshops March 7-10.
The 42 college police chiefs attending should pay close attention to those hosting the event because they are a wonderful example of what not to do.
Arizona State University Police Commander Louis Scichilone is under the delusion that the Gilbert Police Department is going to take a disgraceful command stooge from ASUPD seriously?!? LMAO, delusional.
Lou Scichilone wishes he was a real police officer, a real police commander, but he’s just another one of Pickens’s left over hostile flunkies who spent a short stint on patrol before racing up through the ranks without proving anything worthwhile. The flunkies in ASUPD command proved nothing more than their ability to ineptly lead an organization into ruin. Don’t take our word for it, ask any employee who left, they are legion.
ASUPD had real leadership examples, but they couldn’t stand working under Pickens’s corrupt regime like many who can’t stand working under Thompson’s.
We had some command who proved themselves elsewhere, came to ASUPD, found out what a unprofessional workplace cesspool it was, and promptly left to succeed as Chiefs at other departments.
Lou Scichilone has nothing to offer another police department but plummeting morale and misery for honorable officers who will be confronted by his insatiable desire to lie, lie, lie, and get away with it.
If he can’t stand the workload of sitting around on his butt doing nothing like his career mentor former Chief John Pickens, then good luck succeeding in the real world where there are consequences for lying and being part of a destructive clique that destroys a police department. Abandon Ship! Jump! Swim! No chance Lou, your reputation precedes you. Everyone knows, because that’s what happens when you do dishonorable things to fellow police officers.
