Wasted Honor -- - Say What you Need To Say......: A response to a special report on Mesa Police by Wendy Halloran

Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

I use sarcasm, satire, parodies and other means to make you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, February 28, 2014

A response to a special report on Mesa Police by Wendy Halloran - Phoenix news12

I finally had a chance to watch these two intense reports by Wendy Halloran – your remarkably accurate and factual journalist / investigative reporter and the citizen’s champion for justice.

The first report titled “the Fun House” was really scandalous as I found its contents to be disgusting, revolting and ghastly in nature as it made me recognize the fact that some cops act that way behind closed doors in areas not available to the public. It was certainly a tarnished reflection of their badge, uniform, sworn oath to protect and serve and revealed a vulgar comportment that can only be described as inequitable and condescending to the worth of human beings that lived there in.

Whether they were homeless or law-biding citizens these people were stereotyped to be unfit for respect or dignity and sub-human treatment, under their sworn protection as public servants.

Although it happened many years ago, it is likely still practiced and condoned in secret through their code of silence and still well hidden from their supervisors and administration or worse, still tolerated and covered up.

Then I watched the second report and realized this shame was deeper than one could expect it to be. Watching the second report titled “Right to Know” gave me a negative impression of the administration that seemed to go the extra mile to hide this type of misconduct from the public and then, to make matters worse, encourage police officers that have received misconduct sanctions or discipline to purge their personnel files so these facts won’t be held against them when made public.

Needless to say, I am very appalled and disappointed in the Police Chief [past and present], the city administration / oversight board and the Mesa PD chain of command that endorsed these kinds of behaviors or misbehaviors through passive enforcement of the code of conduct; deliberate silence for not acting upon legitimately logged citizen complaints; encouraging pseudo& inert informational cover-ups, failing to condemn and condoning actions through tacit approval or lesser disciplinary sanctions or even promotions after the facts gleaned their unfit behaviors to be agents of public trust.

As a citizen residing in the City of Mesa I would not trust my grandchildren in the hands of these bigoted and biased cops that roam the streets in disguise as uniformed or un-uniformed law enforcers as what they are in reality are self-appointed enforcers of their own standards and their own beliefs whether they are ethical or not since their culpability is not challenged and their [agency or PD records] transparency is discouraged.

It will be difficult to realize that not all Mesa cops act this way but to be truthful, when other cops who do not condone such conduct or misconduct look the other way, they are in some sense tolerating this type of behavior. That worries me too.

First link:

http://www.azcentral.com/video/3258113087001

Second link:

http://www.azcentral.com/video/3263604727001