HAD YOUR WRIST TWISTED LATELY?
HAD A NIGHTTIME VISITOR OUTSIDE YOU BEDROOM WINDOW IN A GHPD UNIFORM?
BEEN FOLLOWED BY A GHPD COP CAR WITH IT'S LIGHTS OFF?
Some of your neighbors have............
If the answer to any of these questions is yes:
The bad news is that you have absolutely no recourse within the City. City Officials like
Mayor Young and Kathleen Price are too busy trying to hide Dean Muchows new $600 phone bill before Monday's Council meeting
to care about the fact that the Gold Hill City Council has no protocol to address citizen's complaints against the Gold Hill
Police Department that are mounting daily. (Well, weekly at least, they don't come to work that much).
The good news is that you might be able to be one of the lucky ones that will end up on
the other end of the next lawsuit. When a city operates a public safety operation, like a fire department or a police department,
and it operates so far below community standards as is the case with the case with the GHPD, AND they have recieved complaints
of very serious natures, that have not been investigated or addressed, they have crossed in to the area of vicarious
liablilty.
When did the department last have excessive force training?
What did the Council do when an Oregon State Police officer reported to them that Chief
Muchow was seen co-habiting in a motel room with one of our female reserves during a recent Portland con-fab?
What did they do besides turn the claim in to the insurance when Officer Hank Hobart twisted
a juvenile females wrist to the point of injury?
What did the Council do when they recieved a complaint that the GHPD car was following a
black man repeatedly in a police car with it's lights out? (the young man being a member of Susie Schooneover's family, for
those of you WANT the officers to follow black men, and we know you are out there)
What did they do to respond to information that the same GHPD car, with no lights was reported
following Mrs Stoner, the Patrick School Librarian?
What did they do when they recieved information that Officer Hobart was reported sneaking
around in the dark at a woman's home outside city limits?
What did the Council do when personnel from another agency informed Gold Hill
that a GHPD Reserve Officer that had worked for their agency, had a severely abnormal pyschological
evaluation?
What did the Council do when they were made aware of the fact that they had not received
the background information from Union, including multiple complaints against Muchow involving children?
There is one answer and that is "nothing" in all cases.
This is where lawsuits and vicarious liablity begins.
You will be glad to know that even though Gold Hill does not have the money to send it's
officers for EXCESSIVE FORCE TRAINING, they still train regularly with Officer Hobart at the range.