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09/28/05

We recieved this letter (shown below) from a concerned citizen

As reported by KMIR Channel 6 - on 09/27/2005

Acting Chief of Police has a Felony Conviction for Falsifying a Police Report! How can this guy even be a cop let alone a Chief of Police in a profession predicated on honesty and integrity? This is another shortsighted and reckless decision by Jerry Hanson, Mary Stephens, Hank Hohenstein and others. McKinney is obviously another one of Jerry's minion's brought in to do his biding. Everyone including city officials knew about this guy's background months ago and some even as far back as 1997 when he first appeared in DHS as the interim Chief. In 1998 McKinney was the Interim Chief of DHS, but was forced to resign when his criminal conviction for Falsifying a Police Report was imminent.

Mary Stephen's openly admitted in an interview with the Desert Sun (March 22, 2005) that she was aware of McKinney's conviction and that she was confident he would "uphold the position with integrity".

What are you nuts? This man was convicted of a crime that showed he had no integrity. Mary, surely you jest! Who are you to judge the integrity of another? I am sure that Stephens is also aware of all of the following facts documented below since she is a close friend of McKinney's, and partly responsible for him being hired a second time. One scandal wasn't enough?


However there is a slight chance she is not aware of these serious issues since NO background check was conducted on McKinney until several months after he was already employed by the city! This is a violation of state law governing the hiring practices of police personnel. In addition, McKinney has been working for several months without having undergone a Psychological evaluation prior to employment; another violation of the law (1031 California Government Code).

Furthermore, the background investigation was conducted by McKinney's long time friend and former partner who McKinney hired to do his background without any other oversight of the investigation by city personnel - Hmmm...Does there appear to be a conflict here?

The reason McKinney did this is obvious, McKinney could not pass a legitimate background investigation conducted by a competent investigator in accordance with state law and California POST (Peace Officers Standards and Training) guidelines.

Read McKinney's attached resume, which should be cut and pasted to Jerry's, Mary's, and Hank's growing resumes outlining gross incompetence and collusion.

WALTER McKINNEY's
Resume
1. June 1998, McKinney charged with 118 PC (Perjury) and 118.1 PC (Peace Officer filing a False Police Report).


2. October 1998, McKinney convicted of 118.1 PC (a Felony)


3. December of 1998, L.A. DA's Office does not prosecute charge of perjury against McKinney after McKinney had perjured himself under sworn oath at the preliminary hearing. DA's Office agrees not to prosecute McKinney for perjury for his "nolo-contende" (no contest plea – same as entering a guilty plea).

4. November 1997, McKinney with all of his pending legal matters, is hired as the acting Chief of Police at Desert Hot Springs.


5. April 1998, McKinney resigns from his position as the Acting-Chief-of-Police of DHS. This is due in part to his receiving notification of his pending conviction, which would automatically preclude him from being a police officer in the State of California.


6. March 2005, McKinney is again hired as the Acting-Chief-of-Police at DHS. Immediately upon being hired, Mckinney solicits several Citizen Complaints on his own by passing out complaint forms to anyone willing to fill one out. McKinney then initiates several Internal Affairs investigations against officers and supervisors all of which were without merit and were unfounded. This was done to intimidate a workforce that is comprised of mostly probationary officers and supervisors.


In addition, McKinney terminates a respected probationary Sergeant without cause, and demotes the most competent member of the department, a Police Lieutenant citing "budgetary reasons" (then he immediately recruits for an Assistant Chief of Police?) This again is done to intimate department personnel; and in essence has created a hostile work environment, which will ultimately force the city into future litigation.


7. McKinney is hired without a background investigation being conducted by the City, which is a pre-requisite and legal mandate "prior to employment" under 1031(d) of the California Government Code. Several months after McKinney is hired, he employs his friend, and former partner, Reggie Stewart to conduct his background investigation. Stewart has not been a police officer since 1988, and has no formal police investigative experience (he has never been a sworn Investigator or Detective).
In addition, Stewart is not a POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) certified background investigator. Almost every police agency in California uses their own Detectives who are POST certified background investigators, or retired police personnel who are POST certified investigators to conduct backgrounds on prospective applicants.


DHS has three independent contractors who they have used in the past to do all background investigations. All of these contractors are retired police investigators who are also POST certified background investigators, yet McKinney hires his friend to do his background? The reason for this is simple. McKinney could not pass a background investigation conducted by a skilled investigator using POST guidelines, and state law. No agency in California would hire McKinney as a police officer, let alone a Chief of Police with his criminal conviction for falsifying a Police Report and his track record as a police administrator.


· (Ask any Chief of Police – if they would hire an officer with a conviction for falsifying a police report. McKinney has what is referred to as a "Brady Issue". What this means is that anyone with a "Brady Issue" is regarded as having credibility issues and is black-listed by the DA's office, meaning they cannot testify in court (what use is a police officer who cannot testify in court?).


· As a result of McKinney's background in this area, all DHS officers get a "Brady Letter" from the Riverside DA's Office attached to their reports stating that the DHS Chief of Police has "Brady Issues". This is being done by direction of Supervising DDA Sue Steading, which was addressed in an e-mail to Deputy District Attorney's in the Indio Office.


· Also, DHSPD has attended more Pitches Motion's (requests by the defense to review an officers personnel file) against its officers in the last few months since McKinney has been the Acting-Chief, then in the entire history of the department. This is a result of McKinney's own background and credibility issues.


8. Also under 1031 of the California Government Code, as part of a thorough background investigation (which we have already established that McKinney did not undergo) McKinney is mandated by law to submit to a Psychological evaluation prior to employment. Again, this was not conducted. McKinney has been working for several months in a sworn capacity as an Acting-Chief-of-Police without a "real" background investigation, or a psychological evaluation. The big question is how can someone who constantly breaks and skirts the law be trusted to uphold it? How can McKinney be trusted with his credibility issues to hold the personnel under his command to the highest standards?


9. In return for his service, McKinney rewards Stewart by hiring Stewart as a Sworn Detective. This is done before Stewart has passed a background investigation, or completed a state (POST) mandated re-qualification course. The re-qualification course, if completed would renew Stewart's certification as a qualified police officer in the State of California; without it, he is merely a civilian (Stewart is scheduled to attend this course in October). Furthermore, absent a completed background investigation (currently being conducted by a DHS Sergeant – one of McKinney's minions, being used to rubber stamp the investigation), and Stewart not attending a POST re-certification course, McKinney has felt it necessary to send Stewart to a two-week "Homicide Investigator Course" at San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (09/19/05 to 09/30/05).


10. Further more, McKinney's character is questionable for several reasons mentioned above as well as the fact that while the Acting-Chief of DHS in 1998, he had a sexual relationship with one of his female officers (the only female officer on the department at DHS) and subsequently lived with her (FACT). There is also rumored that she filed a report with the Department of Social Services (Riverside or Los Angeles Office) against McKinney for child abuse issues involving mental abuse of her son by McKinney. Upon his return to DHS in 2005, he has created a "Specialized" assignment for Officer Heath, sent her to specialized training, and awarded her a 5% pay increase. All geared toward keeping her happy, and quiet.


This is not the first time McKinney has had a sexual relationship with one of his employee's. While as the Chief of Police in Hawaiian Gardens, McKinney was involved in a relationship with his secretary. This relationship carried over into the workplace and involved "inappropriate" conduct on-duty. Furthermore, on at least one occasion, it is rumored that McKinney physically abused his secretary by pushing her into a filing cabinet.


If McKinney tries to deny either of these two relationships, names of both individuals will be provided.


11. In Addition, when McKinney returned to DHS in 2005, he had no intention of being the Chief of Police; his main goal was to become the next City Manager. McKinney saw how lucrative this position was for Jerry Hanson. He had the support of Jerry Hansen and his long time friend Mary Stephens that prompted him to submit his application for the position of City Manager. It was not until recent legal matters and public scrutiny surrounding his closest supporters did McKinney realize that becoming the City Manager was a greedy pipe dream. McKinney then withdrew his application. However, it is rumored that McKinney still has his eye on the brass ring.


Now, the question he needs to answer for the residents of DHS is what has he done to find a permanent Chief of Police for the City? What has he done for the city since becoming the Acting-Chief-of-Police other than furthering his own political agenda? (Painting patrol cars black and white in a city plagued with drugs and crime is hardly a strategic plan or a major accomplishment).


An FOI should be requested on his e-mail, work phone number, and cell phone number to see whom he is communicating with in the political and business world. I would venture to guess that Walt Luce and other key developers in the city are on McKinney's speed dial, and that you will not find many law enforcement contacts or other Valley Chief's of Police in his address book or e-mail list.


By McKinney's own admission, he and his wife own a financial consulting business that has been doing "business" in the city for seven or eight months prior to becoming the interim Chief. McKinney has boasted in a meeting in front of the entire department that this business will make over $500,000 this year alone. There is no doubt that during these business meetings, McKinney, Hanson, Luce, Stephens, and others have been planning to destroy Chief Hill's career in order to find away to sneak McKinney back into the city. McKinney is also on contract with the city. Someone needs to request a copy of his current contract to see if it mirrors Hanson's.


12. McKinney continues to use bribes to gain favor and support from department personnel. Sgt. Eddie Cole (his former partner in Los Angeles and long-time friend who worked for McKinney at the L.A. Housing Authority Police Dept. and at Hawaiian Gardens Police Dept.) was given a position to supervise a "special" enforcement detail, which will include a team of four officers and a sergeant. These resources will be pulled directly from the existing patrol force that is already overburdened and understaffed.


In order to augment the ranks of a depleted patrol force, McKinney is processing police applicants that have serious background issues, including credibility and integrity issues. Most of these applicants were screened by DHSPD personnel months ago, and were rejected for various reasons, including criminal misconduct while employed as police officers with other law enforcement agencies. Yet McKinney, who obviously feels sympathetic towards these individuals who he shares something in common with, does not find a problem with processing them to be police officers in DHS.


McKinney has directed his friend, Sgt. Cole, to oversee the application screening process. Sgt. Cole's interest in getting officers hired is merely selfish and self-serving. The sooner officers are hired, the sooner he can supervise his "special" team. McKinney has directed supervisors (Sergeants) who are not POST certified background investigators, and possess no background investigation experience, to conduct these investigations. Again, this is another attempt by McKinney to control and rubber-stamp these investigations. In addition, no agency in California uses their patrol supervisors to conduct background investigations.


McKinney hired someone to do his background and repaid them with a job. He hired an outside investigator to conduct several bogus Internal Affairs Investigations, wasting city funds. Yet he does not find it important enough to hire a skilled investigator to conduct background checks on officer candidates? Again the reason is obvious to any law enforcement professional. None of these candidates, including McKinney would pass a legitimate background investigation. Under Chief Roy Hill's administration, every officer underwent a POST background investigation, conducted by a skilled and certified background investigator, prior to his or her employment.

Mckinney continues to make reckless decisions at the expense of DHS residents. After all, McKinney does not live in DHS and the officers and support personnel he hires will not be patrolling his neighborhood. McKinney does not even live anywhere in the Coachella Valley. McKinney does not even live in Riverside or San Bernardino Counties. One would have to ask why McKinney would drive five hours round trip to work in DHS?


13. Furthermore, McKinney is not qualified to be a Chief of Police by industry standards. He has never attended any formal training that is generally required of a candidate seeking a position as a Chief of Police (SLI, West Point Leadership School, POST Management Course, Command College, or the FBI Academy). These are all formal training courses that almost every Chief of Police possesses in the State of California. In addition, in a recent job announcement recruiting for the position of Assistant Chief of Police, the City of Desert Hot Springs in their bulletin state that it is "highly desirable" if the candidate possesses certification from the POST Command College, and the FBI Academy.

14. And finally, under 1203.4(a) PC McKinney is not legally permitted to possess, own, or have in his custody or control any firearms. Yet he wears a police uniform with four stars, a "tarnished" badge, and a gun-belt with a gun every day.

McKinney has chosen once again to resurrect his failed career in Desert Hot Springs at the expense of others. Chief Roy Hill was a credible administrator and visionary leader respected and loved by his officers and citizens. McKinney is a liar, who is hated by many, and respected by no one.

This is whom city leaders (Jerry Hanson, Mary Stephens, Hank Hohenstein) hired into a critical position to oversee the day-to-day operations of an agency entrusted with protecting the citizens of DHS. This is again a reflection of their reckless and shortsighted decision making ability. We hope and pray that the police officers and citizens of DHS do not have to make the ultimate sacrifice just to satiate the political and economic aspirations of a few greedy individuals.






 

04/08/05  WOW!!

Was DHS Police Chief fired for undercover possible criminal activity by Council members and General Manager?

Click here to see today's Desert Sun Article. This is what we and others have been saying  for almost a month now. Hate to say this but "We told you so". Lets see how DHS corruption apologist Bill Effenger spins/smokes and mirrors this on his public website.

Palo Alto attorney Robert Aaronson said that while Hill worked for the city, he uncovered what he described as "salary manipulation issues" and individuals using their official position to gain personal profit in land deals.

"(Hill) saw sufficient evidence to create enough probable cause that someone needed to investigate," Aaronson told The Desert Sun.

City Manager Jerry Hanson and other city officials had little to say about Aaronson's allegations.

"I can't comment to that," Hanson said, regarding Hill's termination or statements concerning his whistle-blower status.

Aaronson said the "salary manipulation" refers to the fact that "someone receives his severance pay although he's not severed." Aaronson would not say if that was a reference to Hanson.

 

04/04/05 @ 11:15 PM

Heard on local Channel 2 news that DHS City Manager is looking into dissolving our police department.  Now we know why they fired Roy!! Our assumptions and rumors where right!.  No link yet!

We were right as usual!! If we get the sheriffs dept again, we will get back to the horrible long response times and indifferent policemen.  The service in Palm Desert is not that great.

This is not good for DHS. Our response times are better with local officers.  Less than 2 minutes usually. vs the usual half hour to 45 minutes for the sheriff. Just ask those who wait and live in Mission Springs area that is unincorporated county. The accountability will be lost. 
Haven't the people of DHS had enough of this non stop BS?  Time for the leadership and management to go!! Our explosion of quality growth is directly connected to our top notch (but under staffed) police department.
Maybe a recall NOW is not such a bad idea.  We need to send these destructive cry baby jerks a message.  Please attend 04/05/05 City Council meeting!

 

 

This Letter below in responce to Cindy Uken's Opinion piece in the Desert Sun regarding Roy Hill.

04/01/05

Mr. King,

Dear Friends Of Desert Hot Springs

First, Hanson fires the Police Chief and he and the City Council have
no comment regarding the firing, other than he was not under
investigation for anything. "The city refused to give any reason for
Hill's firing but issued a statement that he is not under
investigation for any wrongdoing.  The city's public information
officer, Teresa Thompson, confirmed the dismissal and that Hill is not
being investigated for anything".

They spend a week dodging the media and refusing to answer questions from the public.

Hanson replaced Chief Hill with hired gun Walter McKinney, a man
convicted of falsifying a police report, the same charge that Chief
Hill fired four officers for, setting the stage for a
multi-million dollar wrongful termination lawsuit from those four
ex-officers.  After all, how can you fire a guy for falsifying a
report when your Police Chief has a criminal conviction for the same
thing?  My God!  Is that stupid or what?  Why would you do that?

Next, a story on TV about Hanson making $322,000 in salary followed by a week of increased pressure on Hanson and the City Council to justify why, with Hanson saying, "'I'm worth every damn penny.'"

Then Bill Garrett, executive director of the California City Manager's
Foundation, calls Hanson's contract and resulting salary "Malarkey",
stating, "it doesn't "pass the smell test."

Next Hanson claims he's somehow a victim in all this because someone leaked his ungodly salary!

Hanson then starts an investigation into this using a private firm,
stating, he did not trust the police department, Sheriff's Department
or District Attorney's Office.
"I don't trust (the departments)," he said Friday in a meeting with
Desert Sun editorial reporters, editors and Desert Hot Springs
councilmembers Mary Stephens and Hank Hohenstein.  (I'd be afraid of what they might find too!)

Last but not least, comes an article from Cindy Uken in the Desert Sun full of lies from dubious sources and disgruntled ex-employees.
Notice that neither Hanson nor the City Council will admit to any of
this nonsense publicly?  Oh yeah, I forgot.  They can't talk about it.
 Its a personnel matter.  So leak some crap to the press and have them try and do your dirty work, trying to trash an honest, caring guy that did his absolute best for the City of Desert Hot Springs and was the only thing standing in the way of rampant corruption from Hanson and the City Council.

By the way, Chief Hill, according to the Desert Sun, "has more than 28 years in law enforcement, a master's degree in public administration from the University of New Haven and a senior professional certificate in human resource management. He is a graduate of FBI National Academy and a Federal Emergency Management Agency trained emergency manager".
He has no criminal convictions and a totally unblemished record.

Who do you believe?

Concerned Citizen

 

04/01/05

City Council and Manager leak confidential information on others. Seems to only by OK when they do it and not OK when done to them.  Will Hansen have these leaks investigated too? Don't hold your breath!

Dear Mr. King and Friends of Desert Hot Springs

About the Uken article in the Desert Sun, is the City Manager's
"private investigation firm" going to investigate how the Desert Sun
obtained a confidential personnel letter from Lt. Judd, and a
confidential letter from the Mayor to Dr. Steier?  Or is this okay for
Hansen to release this info if it serves his purpose?  Uken said
knowing some detail paints a different picture of the chief.  I think
it shows how slimy these people really are and how low they will stoop
to stay in power.  Hansen needs to go along with the
entire city council

Enraged Citizen

 

 

03/28/05

Roy Hill has no idea why he was fired. City leaders have no idea either? Click here for Valley Breeze story.  Thanks Buzz.

03/28/05

Those reviewing our City Manager's Contract tell us that even though our leaders don't have enough money to fund police services, they increased Jerry Hansen's half mill contract by 3% for 2005

Wow!

 

03/27/05

Did Jerry Hansen screw the Police?

Rumor has it that his representatives refused to fund the police retirement fund after he funded his own and Matt's retirement @ 2.7%. Seems not enough money left over after others including Jerry slobber at the trough. Rumor has it that Jerry's representatives later offered police 2% @ age 50 AND delayed starting coverage one year to June 2006 to save $160,000.  Interestingly how Jerry and Matt were not willing to make the same 1 year delay sacrifice to save the city even more money.

 

Updated 03/24/05

Firing of our Police Chief,

Roy Hill

or

Why does "No Good Deed Go Unpunished "

03/24/05

Click here for KESQ news story. Thank a (half) million Carlos Delgado for the story.  Click here for link to Desert Sun story on Jerry's Juicy contract.

  Maybe Chief Roy Hill was fired because there was not enough money to pay for 1) required police over time, 2) fund police retirement, 3) keep a full time dedicated Police Chief and 4) pay almost a half million dollars in cash and perks a year to our General manager Jerry Hansen!

Unsubstantiated rumor (we are trying to verify) is that Roy Hill was not willing to cut back on police services (screw the police) to save the money Jerry needed to spend elsewhere!

Of course maybe Jerry Hansen could become our new full time Police Chief!  He could add that position to all the other positions he presently gets paid for! With his salary, we should get at least 6 more job positions out of him.

We can be assured that our council members will follow Jerry like a bunch of blind dogs of a cliff if that is were he decides to take our city.

Forgot!  Been there, done that..... a few times! 

We will more than likely never know why our Police Chief, Roy Hill was fired.

Click here to read updated Desert Sun article  and the Press Enterprise and CBS news regarding the firing of our Police Chief.  New Chief Walter McKinney plead no contest to filing false police report. See KESQ news report.

Past experience with our City Council should tell us that our representative have little regard for us and at times have appeared to be even contemptuous of our citizens right to know.

In all probability, Roy was fired because he was a stand-up Boy Scout guy. When Roy was given the choice to do what's right or do what our manager and council told him to to do, it would have been in keeping with his character to choose the "what's right” option.

We can only speculate as to why our secret Star-Chamber fired him.  Our representatives have relied upon the comfort zone of personnel matters confidentiality to keep the citizens uniformed in this matter.

Our representatives have consistently made many of the decisions that affect us all in the realm of closed sessions away from the sight and hearing of the public. They do this under the caveat of discussing personnel or potential litigation matters. Of course any form of good or bad behavior on their part can be conveniently hidden under this broad title of "employment and personnel/litigation” matters.

Since our leaders tell us nothing, we can only judge their recent dealings from past history as to what may be their real intent.

Let's see:

Case in point #1

Remember when DHS Economic Development Commissioner, Alex Bias, raised the issue publicly about how incredibly wrong it was for our city council to vote to extend their own terms an additional 2 years?  This action by council would have made our elections moot or irrelevant.  Of course, if our City Council got away with doing this, they would have been able to elevate their positions from our representatives to our rulers. Adolph Hitler and other dictators who gained power through the electoral process come to mind here.  Our City Council's actions violated everything that our founding fathers had in mind.

Not surprisingly our City Council removed Alex Bias from the Economic Development Committee.  Alex made the mistake of standing with our founding fathers in defense of our representative republic and against the “wannabe be” City Council dictators.  Our City Council also rewarded the rest of the honorable committee members by disbanding the entire DHS Economic Development Committee.  We suppose that our wise leaders decided that DHS is the last place on Earth that needs an Economic Development Committee.

Case in point #2

Remember when our city council fired the entire Planning Commission without ever giving an explanation, even to this day?  From what we have pieced together, this termination happened when our planning staff decided to purposely misinterpret our planning codes and actually secretly re-wrote our code, at least verbally, so as to arbitrarily discriminate against Mid-Century Modern Architecture.  The Chairman and one Commissioner stood up against this discrimination.  The Chairman scheduled a Planning Commission meeting to opine and advise Council on the staff- misinterpreted code.  Well, mid-level staff members cancelled the Planning Commission meeting, and our Council fired the entire Planning Commission.  Of course, in the spirit of being above the law, they fired the Planning Commission without public notice.  Representative Democracy is not apparently allowed in DHS.

Seems like there may be a pattern here.

 

Here are some questions that our citizens may want to ask:

1)  Why was our Police Chief, Roy Hill, fired?

2) Why is it that our City Council and City Manager to this day refuses to give us any information on this or past firings?

3)  Was Roy fired because he did what was right for DHS citizens and police instead of doing what is right for our star-chamber City Council?

4)  Was Roy possibly getting too close to uncovering illegal corruption on the City Council or Manager level?

5)  Was Roy fired because he was carring out sound policy regarding protecting our citizens from crime instead of  protecting criminals inside and outside of our city hall?

6)  How does our Council/Manager firing of this award- winning Police Chief for no readily apparent reason benefit the citizens of DHS whom they were sworn to serve and protect.

7) How in any way does this firing effect in a positive manner the City's ability to attract a future qualified Police Chief?

8)  What does this Firing effect the moral of our police department personnel?

9) How can this arbitrary firing in any way make our city safer?

10)  What perception will this action create among the other Coachella Valley cities?  Can you say "Laughing Stock of the Valley?"

11)  Our citizens are paying a greater than $8 million dollar bond to pay off past discrimination litigation. Will further secret Council/Manager discriminatory actions lead to opening our citizens' pockets to pay for additional, justified litigation?

12)  Do we need to ask for copies of the W2's from our Council and Manager?

13)  Do we need the FBI to investigate these secret shenanigans?

14)  How is it likely and reasonable in this city or in any city, that so many citizen volunteers who have participated in the process of local government should be found to be so wrong in their thinking, so outrageous in their behavior as to need to be removed from their appointments as seems to have happened here with such frightening regularity?


Update 03/21/05

It is even worse than we thought!!!!!

Our new chief was prosecuted for allegedly filing a false police report. Our fired Chief, Roy Hill and commissioners rejected our new chief for this same offense when he applied for a position with our police department.  Click here for the link to the Bell Gardens story!!

 

15) How can we fire 4 DHS police officers for allegedly filing a false police report then replace our current chief with a new chief that was prosecuted for the exact same offense? 

16) How can this action not increase the city's liability for a "wrongful termination" from these 4 officers? The offense was very minor in nature. Even so, we need to treat everyone equally and not arbitrarily discriminate by fired officers because they were not crony friends of Council members.

 

17) These officers are now appealing the decision to fire them. Are they justified?  Probably so!  They now have a excellent bases to sue the city for wrongful termination.  What was our leaders thinking. Unequal application of the law is not justice.

Our sources tell us that this carnage has not ended, so stay tuned for more future gory details of the reckless petty city leadership determined to undo the positives by constantly eating their young.

http://www.stopmoskowitz.com/article0008.shtml

18)  Maybe it's about time to "fire those that are firing others! Some of our Council leaders have expressed to us that it is good to have a new Chief because our city is growing.  This attitude reminds us of the old TV show "Queen for a day".  Maybe that is what our "leaders" have in mind, "Chief for a day or week or even a /month".  Maybe a better alternative would be to replace our current leadership with new leadership instead.

Clarification in regard to

Chief Walter McKinney

We want to state for the record that we hold no bad will against our new Chief, Walter McKinney.  From what we have read, McKinney has a very effective record as Policeman and Chief and has helped to significantly reduce gang crime in the City where he served.  He will be a positive asset to our City.  He has paid for his past very minor offence. No one of us are perfect by any means.

He is also faultless in regard to the issues of Roy's firing. As long as Walter McKinney is our Chief, we need to support him in his efforts to make our city a safer place to live and wish him the best of luck and will be behind him supporting his efforts.

McKinney and our City deserves nothing less.

 

Please stay tuned (visit us often) for future developments and comments

 
 

Please contact us for additional questions you would like us to post.

 

Sincerely;

Friends Of Desert Hot Springs

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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Last Updated: October 1, 2005