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Complaint Review: Garden Grove Police Department - Garden Grove California
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Seal Beach, California, United States
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Garden Grove Police Department
11301 Acacia Parkway Garden Grove, 92840 California, United States
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Garden Grove Police Department Worst Law Enforcement Agency in the County/State, possibly Nation, GGPD, Law Enforcement Imposters Anatomy of a Corrupt Law Enfocement Agency Garden Grove California
List of department defects: 1. Having a Chief that resists city imposition of secondary educational requirements from recognizable accredited learning institutions as prerequisite for promotion. Fish rots from the head down.
2. Having a Chief that hires and promotes based almost entirely on loyalty and willingness to do as instructed, regardless of integrity, as opposed to promotion based on credentials, accomplishments, and meritocracy. Example, officer Charles W. Starnes, Riverside County Sheriffs Department reject and closet alcoholic. Perhaps this is why his wife left him? How ironic it is that the benevolent "Chief” promoted this reject to head the department’s staffing efforts.
3. When a department’s chosen hires fail to graduate the academy, rather than direct scrutiny upon those department members who selected the underachievers, they enact an aggressive policy of recruiting other department graduates, or even in the past, guaranteeing badges to recruits willing to pay their own way through the academy, the latter being the proverbial equivalent of selling badges. Once these "lateral” transfer officers leave their previous department, the deception is complete. Knowing such transfers will likely be barred from returning to their previous department, GGPD has little motivation to honor the pledge that yielded the transfer. On a positive note, GGPD has a reputation for hiring those deemed unfit by other department so disciplinary problem officers are encouraged to apply, just don’t try and "lateral transfer” from GGPD. The traits recognized and honored by this department are valued by no other respectable department or agency.
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Steven
Yorba Linda,California,
United States
Indeed, these clowns are a joke
#2Consumer Comment
Thu, February 21, 2019
In 2018, this department killed two citizens within two weeks, both under extreme situations. The first incident took place in a city outside of their operational jurisdiction, Santa Ana, while following a subject for a supposed probation violation, a responsibility outside of their normal responsibility. The second event took place within their city limits, but on private property, of which they were never invited, shooting an unarmed vehicle occupant, as they have done many times before.
The most creative part about their criminal behavior is their handling of the situation. GGPD has discovered the art of keeping their deeds out of the media. They simply convince the victims family to avoid family embarrassment by avoiding media coverage until after the six month claim filing period has expired. The first the public will hear of the victim’s identity is when the district attorney’s report exonerating the officer who killed the citizen under strange circumstances.
There have been previous articles explaining how this department sells badges and agreesively hires "laterals”, other department’s officers. Their failures to select and recruit good candidates is what resulted in the "selling” of badges. Examples of their propensity to lure other department officers include officer William Starnes. This reject was fired by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, less than a year after his graduating from their academy.
Even his wife left his. Yet being ineligible to perform as a metermaid, GGPD hired and promoted him. Even the now deceased officer Howard Dallies was hired under questionable circumstances. Originally hired and trained by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, he was fired, later hired by Placentia Police Department, then embrassed and canonized by Garden Grove Police Department. What is even more suspicious is why Dallies was working as a motor COP during the weee hours of the morning. If the described incompetence were not enough, their department’s chief currently claims his efforts from the investigation of Dallies’ murder, and subsequent commendation, on him resume.
Ironically, his efforts and behaviors that resulted in his commendation eventually resulted in the ultimate suspect’s criminal dismissal. Much like the current and past GGPD chief educational achievements and accomplishment, these credentials lack supporting value. So be advised, COPS recently fired, in need of a paycheck, if you either worked as a badged officer or graduated from the academy, despite being fired by another department for any reason, you have a job waiting here at Garden Grove Police Department, but be advised, other departments are aware of their reputation.
