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More Smoke & Mirrors from the SFPD

l3wis March 9, 2016 1Comments

The only ‘cold case’ our SFPD is good at solving.

 Does anyone find it a bit ironic that the SFPD has decided to pursue a 1974 cold case (whose main suspect died 3 years ago) yet can’t even get a single lead on the Tuthill park shooting in which they have classified as an inactive case.

Seems our new police chief is learning from his boss the game of smoke and mirrors.

Someone else said to me, this may have to do with justifying the SFPD’s cold case budget.

Well as long as they continue to have shadows and tree branches to shoot at in the dark, we will keep hope alive.

Avera’s statement is laughable

l3wis February 23, 2016 6Comments

Gotta hand it to Avera when it comes to ‘policing’ smoking on their property;

An Avera spokesman said employees are not allowed to smoke on any Avera-owned property, whether it’s the main campus or other properties it owns in the neighborhood.

“Our policy hasn’t changed but we can’t afford to have somebody sit there and patrol it all the time,” said Jay Gravolt, Avera’s director of public relations.

BAHAHAHAHA! But the hospital can afford to give thousands of dollars a month out in FREE meals to PUBLIC employees (SFPD) who park directly in front of the property involved (to go feed their faces on sick and dying people’s money). In between loading their bullet proof vests with multiple cartons of milk and feeding their faces on the private health dime, because apparently the city pays them so poorly they can’t afford a sandwich or the brown bag to put it in.

Can’t afford to patrol it? Maybe give a couple of extra monster cookies to the piggies and ask them to go over and ‘butt’ these people away.

Gravolt said hospital security and administrators often give verbal warnings when they see people smoking on Avera property, but they can’t police public sidewalks.

“We can’t control the right of way,” he said.

But the SFPD can, and littering on public property is a crime.

Tuthill shooting case now ‘Inactive’

l3wis January 5, 2016 2Comments

KSFY Screenshot

I was interviewed today by KSFY about the Tuthill shooting incident;

Blogger Scott Ehrisman said “it still concerns a lot of people that if in fact there was someone there, that after a year, there’s a person who supposedly pulled a gun, on one of our police officers and is free, and never was caught.”

To my surprise, the very question I have been asking was answered;

The scene at Tuthill Park on Tuesday afternoon is quiet, much like the case of an officer involved shooting at the park. According to Sioux Falls Police Chief Matt Burns, that case is now inactive.

So when was the Police Chief going to officially let the public know they were (unofficially) burying the case?

Funny how these things go.