You just never know who's behind the " anonymous " emails and online posts !

Officer admits sending profane e-mail to activist

05:15 PM CDT on Wednesday, May 31, 2006
By BRETT SHIPP / WFAA-TV

There's a new development today in the harassing e-mail mystery at the Dallas Police Department.
News Eight has learned that a Dallas Police sergeant has confessed to sending the profanity-laced computer message to a well-known neighborhood activist.
Lower Greenville Avenue watchdog Avi Adelman says he's floored that so much anger could flow from a cop he doesn't even know.
"It's even more surprising and shocking that somebody I don't know would go to the effort and trouble and grief to do this."
Sgt Ray Gonzales has confessed to sending a profane e-mail two weekends ago to Adelman.
Posing as a civilian, the sender of the e-mail taunted Adelman over a ticket he'd just been issued for making a false 911 call.
That ticket was quickly dismissed.
An upset Adelman traced the e-mail back to Police Central Patrol headquarters.
It read "heard you got a citation for abusing 911. You deserve the ticket you self-serving, expletive. Have a nice day."
Adelman now fears that there may be more officers who feel the same way.
"It says to me that this feeling, this heat is not just one sergeant, that other sergeants and other officers are part of this. This is not a one man issue," he said.
Adelman has been a lightning rod for controversy on Lower Greenville, especially after assisting News Eight in an investigation into allegations of excessive force by police using their pepper ball guns on bar patrons.
At the center of that investigation, Sgt. Michael Smith who has since been removed from the Lower Greenville beat pending an internal investigation.
News Eight has also learned that Sgt. Smith's replacement on Lower Greenville Avenue is none other than the man behind the e-mails, Sgt. Gonzales.
Sgt. Smith's disciplinary history with DPD is nominal.
He's been commended 46 times.
This has a lot of folks scratching their heads as to why a sergeant would risk his career to taunt a civilian.
He has declined to comment.
At this point police officials are not commenting on what may happen with Sgt. Gonzales.

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UPDATE

Five Dallas officers fired in major shake-up
04:19 PM CDT on Friday, June 2, 2006
By REBECCA LOPEZ / WFAA-TV

Five Dallas police officers were fired Friday in a major department shake-up.
Chief David Kunkle called an emergency 9 a.m. meeting with police union leaders to discuss the unprecedented action. That was followed by disciplinary hearings with the five employees.
No one at police headquarters could remember when a Dallas chief terminated as many officers in a single day.
Chief Kunkle said he would not tolerate inappropriate or illegal behavior.
"We've got problems that we've got to address, and they have to be addressed organically from within the department," Chief Kunkle said. "But I think it does help to point out the contrast—which I think the reporters see every day—between the two faces of the department: The relatively few people who get in trouble but tend to define us as opposed to these men and women who are extraordinarily brave, and do a good job day after day."
Sources told News 8 the police employees being terminated include:
• Officers Edward Saenz and Michael Contreras, who are accused of official oppression for retaliating against a wrecker driver who towed Contreras' personal car last month.
• Sgt. Ramon Gonzalez, for sending a profane and unsigned e-mail message to community activist Avi Adelman after Adelman filed a complaint against excessive noise along Lower Greenville Avenue.
• Officer Zenoc Castro, who threatened retaliation against a local TV reporter after her expose on Love Field officers.
• Sgt. Richard Garcia for failing to report Officer Castro's threats to superiors.
All of those affected did have the opportunity to present their sides of the story to a group of commanding officers at a series of disciplinary hearings at police headquarters on Friday.
The chief also announced major changes to the department's chase policy, designed to put limits on when officers can pursue fleeing suspects. The new policy reportedly permits involvement in a chase only when:
• Offender is suspected of a violent felony
• Information about the suspect is factual and not assumed
Dallas officers will be allowed to participate in police pursuits outside the city limits only if there is suspicion of a violent felony.
As part of the major changes on Friday, Chief Kunkle also promoted 25 sergeants.
WFAA-TV reporter Cynthia Vega and The Dallas Morning News contributed to this report.
E-mail rlopez@wfaa.com
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Police Suspended Over MySpace Comments

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Three police officers were suspended over Web site comments about their jobs and derogatory language about gays and the mentally disabled.
The suspensions came after two other officers were suspended in June over comments and photos posted on the same site, MySpace.com.
In the latest case, the Fayette Urban County Council approved a recommendation on Thursday to suspend Aaron Noel, Richard Sisk and Paul Stewart on administrative charges of conduct unbecoming of an officer. Each was suspended for 80 hours without pay and was ordered to undergo sensitivity training.
The police department began investigating the Web sites in March after they were discovered by another officer.
Last month, officers Gene Haynes and Adam O'Quinn were suspended over postings about an officer who had arrested country singer John Michael Montgomery in February on a charge of drunken driving.
Haynes posted an altered photograph of Montgomery and a fan, in which the arresting officer's face was placed on the fan's body.

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