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WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. Special to WPCNR. November 1...

2010-08-31T22:50:10.466-05:00

WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. Special to WPCNR. November 12, 2009 UPDATED NOVEMBER 14, 2009 in italic type: Commissioner of Public Safety Dr. Frank Straub resigned from his position Friday by submitting a letter of resignation to the law department according to The Journal News, which reports Straub is leaving effective today. A call to city hall by WPCNR inquiring of the status of the Commissioner was not returned. However the Journal News report failed to indicate who was commanding the department.

Mayor Joseph Delfino told WPCNR Thursday evening that the resignation was effective next Tuesday. It is unclear now whether the Common Council will terminate him as they had intended to do Monday evening. The council could not fire him Monday evening anyway because unanimous consent is needed to consider an ordinance, and that was not likely forthcoming since Mayor Joseph Delfino and Councilman Glen Hockley are supporters of Straub.

Council President Benjamin Boykin told WPCNR Friday morning he would have no public comment on the Straub matter. Hum...seems he didn't fair too well there either. Trouble is he was announced as our NEW director on Dec. 16, 2009. Just a little more than one month from the time he was gonna be fired from NY. Who did the background on this guy?

An engine search, of "1996 police brawl in In...

2010-08-31T17:07:06.580-05:00

An engine search, of "1996 police brawl in Indianapolis", will clue you in, Student and elders.

I believe our Mayor is a good leader. I also beli...

2010-08-31T05:56:48.607-05:00

I believe our Mayor is a good leader. I also believe he screwed up big time by bringing in a New York Liberal!

Straub's most noticable trait is CONTROL. TOTAL CONTROL. He doesn't realize that the public safety director is not the Fire Chief or Police Chief.

Straub also is an ego-maniac, as demonstrated by AI's outstanding report! Does anyone in Indianapolis remember the name of any prior public safety director? -they don't? Maybe that is because, like the Mayor's Chief of Staff, it is NOT a position of interest to the general public.

This public safety director blacks out the media and totally controls the police (as reported by AI). He is the face of police, even though he is not a policeman. He wants his name and face in the media exclusively.

Psychologists can tell us more about this behavior.

It is an affront to the city that Straub was detaining our Police Chief from attending to his duties and ordering the police chief to make Straub look better to the media.

The bottom line is: Straub is an extreme embarrassment to the best mayor we've had in many years. I hope the Mayor shows Straub the map to New York.

Frank Straub, you're not in New York.

Ah, Cato, you took the joke. I to this day still ...

2010-08-30T21:49:05.202-05:00

Ah, Cato, you took the joke. I to this day still remember it.

How come Russ McQuaid can get IPD cell phone recor...

2010-08-30T21:24:10.138-05:00

How come Russ McQuaid can get IPD cell phone records but the FBI can't get Brizzi and Durham bank and/or cell records??? HELLO???

Here's a joke from those days: Why did the co...

2010-08-30T20:18:30.594-05:00

Here's a joke from those days:

Why did the cops leave the Indians game early?

To beat the crowd.

Ah, back in the day. Reminds me of when crap like the Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul and the Spin Doctors were current.

As I recall, a number of police officers had been ...

2010-08-30T20:09:18.534-05:00

As I recall, a number of police officers had been given free tickets to an Indians game courtesy of the mayor. They drank at the game and then went downtown after the game and had some more to drink. At some point, they encountered people on the sidewalk to whom they were very obnoxious. A fight broke out. Racial slurs were spewed. And some people got roughed up pretty bad by the cops. That's the short version.

Could you shed some light on what the 1996 brawl w...

2010-08-30T20:03:16.700-05:00

Could you shed some light on what the 1996 brawl was and what caused it? I was only 10 at the time and wasn't exactly paying a lot of attention to local politics.

Yeah, The downtown police brawl in 1996 helped sin...

2010-08-30T19:09:02.892-05:00

Yeah, The downtown police brawl in 1996 helped sink Mayor Goldsmith's gubernatorial bid. He wound up losing Marion County to Frank O'Bannon that year by a significant margin.

That is one thing neither of his two predecessors,...

2010-08-30T18:41:35.877-05:00

That is one thing neither of his two predecessors, Mayors Goldsmith and Peterson, wanted control of, namely our police department. Go for it, Ballard, and good luck.