That is exactly what I was thinking

In before she gets promoted to chief of police.

Maybe she weighs a lot though...so don't be to rough on her...

ITHACA, N.Y. — The City of Ithaca issued a press release on Thursday asking individuals who filed complaints with the Ithaca Police Department over the last 10 years to come forward if they feel their complaint was not adequately investigated.

"The Ithaca Police Department recently identified in the IPD Investigations Division a deeply troubling failure across nearly a decade to investigate a broad array of cases," reads the statement. "Most heart-breaking amongst these inadequately-investigated cases is an array of reported sex offenses."

While the statement does not mention any investigator by name, sex crime investigations have been handled by Investigator Christine Barksdale. The statement from the city specifies that investigators will no longer have specializations and will investigate a diversity of crimes.



IPD investigator honored with J. Diann Sams African American History Month award

Okay.  Presumably she is assigned to some kind of detective squad based on some type of crime or geographic area.  How is the sergeant assigned to that squad not tracking cases?  Even if he does it with Excel, or on paper, it seems fundamental to that job to know the info.

For what its worth, I know guys who literally have case loads in the dozens (for reasons that are not their fault), and at a certain point just keeping track of the cases becomes a burden that impedes working the cases.

A shitty detective finds excuses to make workable cases "inactive," or constantly reschedules follow up down the road, or sends some pointless item to the crime lab (where it will be for months) or whatever.  You don't just ignore them for years and hope no one notices.  Except maybe in Ithaca?

Assuming the news stories are actually accurate (a big assumption) than this is indicative of a much bigger problem.

Over ten years there were presumably several sergeants overseeing her investigations squad.  Nobody had an idea about dispositions or status of cases?

And those sergeants presumably had a lieutenant or that was in charge of several squads or some kind investigations division.  Lieutenant never asked the sergeant to break down his numbers and stats?  Presumably a captain and finally the chief.  Chief just accepted that the investigations division was just a swirling mystery with no accountability?

To clarify, I retired as a sergeant in 2015 after 41 years as a police officer.

There had to be several layers of supervision above the detective.

For a single sergeant to enter the unit and discover that there was no clearance/closure tracking system in place must have been horrifying because that sergeant knew at that point that every level of supervision above him was either lazy, incompetent, drunken, or corrupt and selling cases.

It takes large brass balls and a willingness to jeopardize future promotion to diddle with that.

Do they not have an activity report for the 'work' they're doing?  

CUNT

Seems typical. My dad works for the county in Vegas and constantly sees cases like this and was even falsely accused of sexual harassment and racism for chewing out an employee for not doing her g'damn job. The case was dismissed, but only after my dad had no option, but to join the union to get proper representation.

It's a self licking ice cream cone of corruption and waste. Lazy employees from a certain demographic file faux claims and get paid by the county to settle. And the public has no idea how often this is happening.

Amazing, she's not "just" an investigator, but sex crimes?

AND has her little fucktoy store?

Soooooooooo much phsychorogical.

If you got no better excuse play the race card

"Since you were sexually assaulted and will have a difficult time with normal human sexual relations for quite awhile, let me introduce you to my personal line of eco-friendly adult products".

Somehow the Ithaca PD allows her to work in her store during work hours as an investigator?



Selling dildo's?

There are ways of handling people like the one mentioned above.  You have to be fair and equally apply your evaluation and coaching to everyone. You can’t start out enforcing the rules when the POC problem child shows up.

Set clear measurable goals that match the organization objectives, monitor performance, provide feed back, provide training to raise the employee to minimum accepted standards, document, document, and document. Following this course of action will result in a an Improved employee, or one who rebels and shoots themself in the foot, or one day just quits.  Which ever it is, you will have succeeded in raising the performance of the organization.

My experience is they don’t show for the off site training or leave early, or start to act out which only makes the case for you.

They should assign her to investigate, she has been doing such a bang up job investing other crimes

I've long held the belief a writer's embellishment is the best part of a good story, and when it's given a nudge, reality writes such a richly vibrant script!

Experienced something similar involving an obese young woman when I was a shift supervisor decades ago.  I kept having to prompt her to do her job.  I wasn't mean about it, but she required a lot of prompting to do the basics.  She got defensive and began sending letters to my female supervisor, accusing me of sexual harassing another co-worker.  We worked in an open room of about a dozen people with no way to hide behavior or remarks, and my supervisor was just around the corner within earshot the entire time.  There was literally no action that I could have made without being in line of sight of at least 5 other people at any moment.  My supervisor knew it was a bunk accusation and blew it off but didn't tell me until much later.

Miss Heffalump next sends a letter to HR with the accusation against me.  Again, I'm still unaware while an investigation is performed involving all the other people in the work area.  Everyone vindicated me and the supposed 'victim' went to bat for me, saying that I had always been respectful and professional towards her.  I learned of the investigation and the vindication after it was all resolved.

Miss Heffalump did it because she knew she was performing poorly at work and had heard that a person making a harassment claim would enjoy protected employment.

I was transferred to another position and Miss Heffalump's shift got a new female supervisor.  Miss Heffalump was fired less than a year later for poor performance and poor conduct at work.  Her parents stormed in to the site manager's office with threats of lawsuits.  The site manager calmly produced a thick binder containing all of the documented infractions and warnings that Miss Heffalump had been receiving from her female supervisor and asked her parents if they wanted to read through them all with the site manager.  The parents shut their mouths and left without saying another word.

The transfer later turned out to be a blessing for me, providing new opportunities that I might have missed in the previous position.

I'm thinking of the 48 hours scene where Eddie Murphy is in the bar with a badge ....

Well, yes.

Welcome to America where the nation is still apologizing for slavery.

Interesting Freudian choice of words... I bet they don't lol

A Sergeant tells his Captain who goes to the Major who goes to the politically connected Deputy Chief and then the Sergeant is told to do nothing and let it go.

The Sergeant keeps trying to do his job and suddenly finds himself reassigned to patrol for the "needs of the department" and then spends the next 18 months defending his career after the useless employee files a Hostile Work Environment complaint accusing the Sergeant of being a racist.

If the Sergeant is lucky he documented everything through email and saves his career, because the higher your rank the less you can recall when you're being interviewed by Professional Standards.

At least that's what a friend told me......

That's not the past.  That's modern 21st Century Policing in progressive areas.

It works.

Wish I could use my white privilege for that

I have been told by liberals that slavery is the reason black people act the way they do.

Diversity is death, Tolerance is suicide.