I read in the Dallas paper that chief rushing is foing to retire at the end of January. As a former member of the APD I think it is about time. Maybe now the department will get someone who knows how to run a police department, does not play favorites, will get rid of the "yes men" and especially the one big "yes woman" and stop the leaving of good officers.

Yep, hopefully they will get a new chief that will make some drastic changes.

Perhaps you missed that I deleted the post in question?

So as I understand the rules, people can allege all they want about the police department and say terribly biased things but when one points out that the most vocal of these individuals may have biases, the post will be deleted. These individuals put their personal lives out in a public forum for scrutiny so I hardly think that it was a personal attack.

My point is that no one in particular may be biased and we should not take their views as the unadulterated truth. Better?

I assume you just forgot that your post sounds biased as well. I recently spoke to a jewelery store owner who lost tens of thousands of dollars in a robbery. APD all but refuses to even speak to this shop owner and has done nothing but file the report since the loss was covered by insurance.
Maybe if APD spent less time cursing at parents who drive safely at the high school and less time driving up revenue, many of the biased opinions would decrease. This is a relatively low crime area, APD can't have their hands too full to actually address the little crime we experience here. It's obvious things are less than harmonious in APD, every time I see two or more officers together, they're making sexist jokes about some female K9 officer or bashing their management.

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Not everything that happens in Allen makes the Dallas news.

I assume you just forgot that your post sounds biased as well. I recently spoke to a jewelery store owner who lost tens of thousands of dollars in a robbery. APD all but refuses to even speak to this shop owner and has done nothing but file the report since the loss was covered by insurance. Maybe if APD spent less time cursing at parents who drive safely at the high school and less time driving up revenue, many of the biased opinions would decrease. This is a relatively low crime area, APD can't have their hands too full to actually address the little crime we experience here. It's obvious things are less than harmonious in APD, every time I see two or more officers together, they're making sexist jokes about some female K9 officer or bashing their management.

• quitcherwhining Said:

A robbery? Why didn't this robbery make the news? It seems that if armed gunman held up a jewelry store in the safest city in Texas, it would have been newsworthy.

Every time you see two or more together...how many times have you seen this? Lastly how again do they drive up revenue? Sounds like someone is a little dramatic. Probably comes from the lack of validity.

Not at all, my point has always been that Allen is a relatively low crime area. I think this police agency could spent more time actually solving the small amount of REAL crime rather than spending so much time ticketing nonsense low level speeding and manufacturing crime. This town has been plagued with accusations and news clips regarding this police agency and it's need to create crime to bolster grant money and tax revenue.

I assume you just forgot that your post sounds biased as well. I recently spoke to a jewelery store owner who lost tens of thousands of dollars in a robbery. APD all but refuses to even speak to this shop owner and has done nothing but file the report since the loss was covered by insurance. Maybe if APD spent less time cursing at parents who drive safely at the high school and less time driving up revenue, many of the biased opinions would decrease. This is a relatively low crime area, APD can't have their hands too full to actually address the little crime we experience here. It's obvious things are less than harmonious in APD, every time I see two or more officers together, they're making sexist jokes about some female K9 officer or bashing their management.

This was investigated from an outside agency and you say it is an unfounded accusation?
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Two-allen- police-of...

• quitcherwhining Said:

A robbery? Why didn't this robbery make the news? It seems that if armed gunman held up a jewelry store in the safest city in Texas, it would have been newsworthy.

Every time you see two or more together...how many times have you seen this? Lastly how again do they drive up revenue? Sounds like someone is a little dramatic. Probably comes from the lack of validity.

• Al C Said:

I find it difficult to believe that a robbery of "tens of thousands of dollars of jewelry" would not have made some news of some type, either broadcast or printed. If this story had any validity whatsoever, the store owner would have called out Steve Stoler and vented his story for all to hear. I personally find it hard to believe any of the other accusations/observations in the original post. They're so far fetched that it makes one wonder. Just as those who still blame Bush 3 years later for Obama's miserable performance as president, it appears the sour grapes of a chosen few will target our retired chief for their personal agendas against the department for years to come.