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I wonder if these pigs every have enough time to arrest criminals?
You know, when they are not giving massage jobs to hot woman.
Mayor Gordon says Phoenix needs to hire more cops to keep us safe. Jesus Mayor Gordon, just tell your son and and the other cops he works with to stop feeling up hot woman while they are on duty and hunt down some criminals. If you do that you won't have to hire any more cops. Bad news: Mayor's son not given favored treatment Well, I read the internal affairs report on Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's police officer son. I must say, junior gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: Call for Service. Who knew that when you call for help in Phoenix, you also might get a French kiss? Or a quickie in the back office, with a follow-up photograph of the officer's private parts as a souvenir? But I'm getting ahead of myself. Several readers called me over the weekend, to complain about favoritism at the Phoenix Police Department. This, after reading that Officer Jeffrey Gordon got a mere four-day suspension after inappropriately touching a city employee's breasts while on duty. So I looked into it. The good news: I don't believe there was any favoritism. The bad news: I don't believe there was any favoritism. This, apparently, is the way the Phoenix Police Department operates when their officers, um, operate. Gordon got into hot water in December, when he showed up at a city office around quitting time to see an employee who was having some work-related issues. The on-duty officer proceeded to give the woman a massage that included either: A. Reaching both hands into her bra and touching her breasts. (Her story.) Or, B. Slipping his fingers underneath the neckline of her blouse and possibly touching the tops of her breasts. (His story.) Neither scenario seems particularly appropriate, which is probably why Gordon called her the next day, to ask if she planned to tell his sergeant. The fact that he'd e-mailed her a couple of pornographic videos earlier in the year -- unintentionally, he would later claim -- didn't look especially good. The woman didn't tell Gordon's sergeant but she did tell HR, and by January Gordon found himself under investigation. That's when internal affairs learned about his other on-the-job extracurricular activities. In 2007, he was called several times to a north Phoenix apartment complex where he took care of business, so to speak, performing consensual sex acts with an employee of the complex – once in a vacant apartment and another time in an office. He also admitted that he sent her a picture of his genitals – one that was displayed on her computer screen at work, according to her co-workers. “Officer Gordon said the picture was of his penis and was taken and sent while he was off-duty…,” the report said. “He said nothing in the photograph was present to identify the Phoenix Police Department.” Nice to know. Just as it's nice to know that he was called to another complex in 2007, wherein he wound up French kissing an employee and later doing two criminal background checks on her – at her request, he said. She told investigators that he asked for her phone number and even called to ask if she had a boyfriend. Gordon acknowledged giving both women his personal phone number but he didn't sound too apologetic. “She was into me,” he told investigators, of one woman. “At the time, I'm a new officer. It's pretty exciting. It's pretty cool.” It's pretty appalling. I'd like to think that the Phoenix police would consider it serious business when one of the city's finest uses his uniform to get out of his uniform while on duty – if not for the sake of citizens then because of the possibility that he could be vulnerable to corruption if he happens to unzip his pants for the wrong person. Instead, this guy got an eight-month paid vacation while he was investigated and now a 32-hour suspension. Not apparently because of favoritism. It's just what they do – in Phoenix at least. Lyle Mann, executive director of the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, said some agencies have fired officers for such conduct but others have issued suspensions. “He has been punished within the parameters of whatever discipline system the city of Phoenix has,” he said. “They determined that discipline was short of termination.” Mann said he's requesting the report to determine whether the board, which certifies police officers, should take any action. Good for him. When you call the cops you should get protection, not a date. |