Records of furloughed city employees - Some got their job back and others did not

 

The city of Little Rock has still has all of it's buildings on lockdown due to the Rona pandemic and many employees have been effectively terminated.

We posed these questions to the city:

How many City of Little Rock employees were furloughed, by department, between 3/1/2020 and 10/8/2020.

How many of those employees were brought back to work within the same time period.

What follows is their response.

City Attorney:

City Manager and City Clerk:

Note that the email indicated that Jericho Way sent van drivers home. Wahy to take care of our homeless citizens.

Community Programs:

Criminal Court:

Environmental Court:

Finance:

 Fleet Services:

Housing and Neighborhood Programs:

Information Technology:

Fire Department:

Mayor's Office:

Bridgette is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Perhaps the feckless mayor should have furloughed her.

Parks and Recreation:

Planning and Development:

Public Works:

Traffic Court:

Zoo:

The Zoo showed why it is always in turmoil. They couldn't even prepare a proper list. Might be time to look closely at it's operations.

 

LRPD Internal Investigation brands Lt. Michael "Lil' Bang" Ford a liar

 

October 6, 2020 - Russ Racop

An Internal Investigation by LRPD found that Lt. Michael "Lil' Bang" Ford lied and misrepresented information to officers with the Maumelle Police Department.

The investigation centered around multiple rounds of bullets riddling the air at the Maumelle residence of mercenary LRPD cop Michael Ford on New Year's Eve and an inebriated Ford's encounter with Maumelle Police officers where he refused to provide his name and was incredibly uncooperative.

You can read about that by clicking here. 

Here are a couple of video clips from the Maumelle Police Officer's body cameras.

After being exposed and documented as a liar, why then is his sorry ass still employed by LRPD?

Because the LRPD Police Chief is a corrupt liar himself and Ford is one of the few employees of the department that is close to him and Humphrey will protect him at all costs.

A memorandum from Assistant Chief Hayward Finks spells it all out.

According to information in the file, Ford called Chief Keef on his personal cell phone. And guess what?

Just like his home and family, his personal cellphone is based in Oklahoma.

Records provided by LRPD revealed that.

 

Even more problematic is the fact that Ford also refused to cooperate with Maumelle Police even after he sobered and lawyer-ed up.

Ford's sister tampered with evidence (she threw away shell casings) and refused to cooperate with the investigation. 

 

Ford's wife refused to cooperate as well. That might be of interest to the state nursing board or her employer.

 And then there is this jewel.

The beleaguered chief got caught allowing Ford to bypass his chain of command. Pure fuckery.

Ford lied multiple times to Maumelle Police Officers and IAD investigators. 

⬩ Ford claimed the female Maumelle Police Officer was rude to him. Videos do not bear that out.

⬩ Ford claimed the Maumelle Police Officers did not tell him they were investigating a crime. Videos reflect they did inform Ford they were investigating a crime and stated what the crime was. 

⬩ Ford lied to Maumelle Police Officers about shots being fired at his residence. His statement to IAD investigators bears that out.

If the weapon that was fired was not Ford's, how could someone walk into your house with a rifle and you not notice it? And from the file we learn that less than 10 individuals were at his residence during the event.

It was initially recommenced that Ford be suspended for 40 hours . He only caught 16 hours of suspension.

Ford isn't the only liar working at LRPD. We published a LRPD's Liar's List and you can view it by clicking here.

The corrupt chief, Lil' Bang and the rest of the documented liars need to be fired.

LRPD is beyond fixing, it needs to be disbanded and a new Metropolitan Police Force be created under the leadership of Sheriff Eric Higgins.

 This is the internal investigation file provided by LRPD.

Draft of proposed ordinance is leaked - feckless mayor blows a gasket

Feckless Frank fumes about leaks at LR City Hall

Russ Racop - September 9, 2020

A draft of a proposed ordinance to funnel funds to Ward's 1, 2, 6 and 7 for economic development was leaked causing a flurry of activity today at Little Rock City Hall.

It's interesting to note that Ward 6 has the bulk of newly constructed apartment complexes in the city and quite a few shopping centers, grocery stores and bank branches.

Most of Ward 6 residents will be pissed to find that that their neighborhoods are described as low income and in poor condition.

Economic development is needed south of I-630 but stop the shit-talk about Ward 6. The biggest pile of shit in Ward 6 is Director Doris Wright.

 

City Director Lance Hines tells a citizen to fuck off

Ward 5 City Director Lance Hines

Russ Racop
August 4, 2020


Back in July, an email exchange was sent to us that caught our attention.

Hines replied and basically told Bernard to fuck off.

Hines' statement about the $5.5 million a year to youths and community programs spurred us to make a FOI request about that bankroll to youths and community programs.

You can view the spreadsheet the city sent in response to our request by clicking here.

Very little of that $5.5 million is or was actually spent on prevention, intervention, mentoring and treatment programs.

Salaries for city employees and staff along with expenses such as travel and conventions took up a large chunk of that pork.

Other expenditures were made for tobacco education and supplies, crisis intervention t-shirts,  the radio station at the West Central Community Center that Doris Wright thinks is her private property, playground equipment, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, LR Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission, citywide "enhancement" programs.

We need to disband the LRPD and form a Metropolitan Police Department under the leadership of Sheriff Eric Higgins.

We also need to recall the entire Little Rock Board of Directors and the feckless mayor.

Mercenary LRPD cop Joshua "Kade" Myers blows through stop sign crashing into a vehicle - What will his blood work reveal?

Mercenary LRPD cop Joshua "Kade" Myers

Russ Racop
July 28, 2020


Early Sunday morning, at approximately 2:55 a.m., mercenary LRPD cop Joshua "Kade" Myers  was ripping down Arch Street in pursuit of a vehicle and blasted through a stop sign at the 17th Street intersection t-boning the vehicle of Brannon Kidd.

 

Another LRPD cop, Jordan Ruff, was riding in the vehicle driven by Myers.

Jordan Ruff - Riding shotgun with Myers

Ruff has been with LRPD for over a year but has yet to change his voter registration from Fayetteville to Little Rock.

Ruff does has a vehicle assessed here in Pulaski County.

James Ruff is not Jordan's husband, it's his father.

Myers was the cop that was tasked to stay by the killer cop Charles Starks side (suicide watch) after he murdered Bradley Blackshire in February 2019.

 

Apparently Myers uses alcoholic beverages as a form of self-medication to relieve anxiety and stress.

 

80% of all white LRPD cops like Myers refuse to live in Little Rock.

This is unacceptable and must be rectified. 

We requested MVR footage from Myers vehicle and will post it once LRPD has provided it.

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A sharp eyed reader might have noticed that a familiar cop was listed as the investigating officer in the report - Brittany Gunn.

Gunn was the cop that killed a man and drove through a brick wall landing smack dab in the middle of University Avenue back in 2017.

LRPD cop Brittany Gunn

There were allegations that Gunn had some sort of personal relationship with the man she killed,  James Hartsfield.  Click here to view an article about that.

Besides being a killer cop like Myers mentor Charles Starks, Gunn also has a disciplinary record.

Gunn was also the cop that Chief Keef tasked to go through my social media posts and blog to compile a record of posts I made about his sorry, corrupt, lying, morally bankrupt ass in his failed attempt to get the prosecuting attorney to file charges against me for exercising my First Amendment Rights as a journalist.

You can read our post about that by clicking here.

Gunn is another one of the mercenary cops working for LRPD as she is an outsider that resides in Benton.