ucd -- making arrests ? undercover ???
welcome to our SECRET SERVICE DISTRICT
1) Below is why large numbers of officers should be deployed in certain types
of volatile situations. The doctrine of overwhelming force is timeless and
universal whether old Sun Tzu or modern Powell espouses it.
Please keep all our law enforcement officers in your prayers; today we may lose
one.
2) UPenn is to be congradulated. The use of UCD is now generic, when
Philadelphia Police Officers working in UC are now referred to as UCD officers.
Ciao,
Craig
2 shootings of Philly officers within span of day
Associated Press
A police officer was shot in the head in North Philadelphia on Wednesday
morning, a day after another officer was shot in the shoulder.
The officer was shot around 10:30 a.m. at a Dunkin' Donuts, according to
Officer Raul Malveiro, a police spokesman. The injured officer was taken to
Albert Einstein Medical Center, but his condition was not immediately known.
Police did not know whether the suspect fled in a vehicle or on foot.
Wednesday's shooting came about 12 hours after a masked gunman shot a police
officer in the shoulder during a chase downtown. That gunmen apparently jumped
into the Schuylkill River, where searchers later recovered a body. Police said
Wednesday morning that they had not determined if it was the suspect's body.
Traffic Officer Mario Santiago responded to a report of shots fired shortly
after 10 p.m. Tuesday. The gunman was in a sport utility vehicle when he fired
at another vehicle, injuring two men and a woman, police said.
Responding to a radio call, Santiago started chasing the SUV. The gunman
eventually got out of his vehicle and approached the squad car, firing twice
through the window and hitting Santiago once in the right shoulder, police
Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said.
Also Tuesday, a man who fatally shot a police officer during a robbery attempt
at a bar last year pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to
life in prison. In May 2006, Solomon Montgomery fired a shotgun out the back
door of the bar, hitting Officer Gary Skerski in the neck.
Skerski's death marked the first killing of an on-duty officer in Philadelphia
in more than a decade.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20071031_2_shootings_of_Philly_officers_within_span_of_day.html
-Original Message-
From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: UnivCity@list.purple.com
Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:43 am
Subject: Re: [UC] Why I'm concerned about police deployment
ucd -- making arrests ? undercover ???
welcome to our SECRET SERVICE DISTRICT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a previous posting, I expressed concern about the police deployment with
respect to the killing that occurred outside of Koko Bongo on Sunday
morning. Having 10 cops there because there had been an altercation the
previous week seemed excessive -- and I wonder whether this heavy police
presence contributed to the precipitation of the gunfire.
The reason for the concern is the email message reproduced below, in
which Wendell Lewis brags to the UCD Board of Directors about the control
this /private/ special services district exerts over the police activity
in the area.
I'd like to think that the chain of command for decisions as well as
responsibility goes up through the ranks to the Captain at the 18th
Precinct and eventually to the Police Commissioner, City Council, and the
Mayor. Now, I learn that Messers Ceasar and Gray, and Lt McCurdy, are
UCD officers and that UCD rather than the Philadelphia Police Dept
will step up Police ... patrols in the area.
Always at your service ready for a dialog,
Al Krigman
*Recipients of the email message (the UCD Board of Directors) were:*
/Craig Carnaroli; Barry Grossbach; David Adelman; Della Clark;
Dorothy Welch Berlind; James Tucker; Joe Trainor; Lindsay Johnston;
Mark Mendenhall; Maureen Rush; Max Paul; Mike Brooke; Oliver
Franklin; Susan Phillips; Tony Bartolomeo; William Schwartz; (police
Lt John McCurdy)/.
*The text of the massage was:* http://www.iconworldwide.com/krf
This past Wednesday evening a robbery and arrest occurred at 46^th
and Larchwood. While the incident is troubling, I am pleased to
report that an arrest was made by new UCD Officers Ceasar and Gray;
both undercover at the time. Lt. McCurdy is trying to get
information on the arrest of the second male perpetrator. The
details are as follows:
Date and Time: Wednesday 10.24.07, 11:00 PM
Location: 46^th and Larchwood
Details: Complainant W/M 66 yrs. was approached by two B/M’s who
began punching the complainant to the ground in an attempt to take
his belongings. The males fled the scene; a short time later, one
male
