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Written by Don Conkey
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Sunday, 20 January 2008 |
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A nonprofit organization that raises money for disabled officers has raised concern with local police. Police Capt. John Dougan said that Quincy police, as well as police departments in other communities, received a warning from Somerset police about the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation. “We are asking people to use caution and look into the organization before donating,” Dougan said. In its warning, Somerset police said the organization is a non-profit corporation that has been soliciting funds for what its literature describes as “local community officers that are struggling due to disability.” However, latest documents filed at the state level showed that there was no contribution to any individuals, and that more than $500,000 of the $627,000 raised by the organization in 2006 went to ‘‘fundraising,” Somerset police said. Somerset police said fundraising in the area is conducted by Kane Marketing Group of Pawtucket, R.I. Patrick Kane, owner of the marketing group, told the Patriot Ledger Thursday that his company had been hired by the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation to do fundraising and has done so. Kane said that the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation is “a legitimate organization,” but referred other questions to the foundation’s office in Niceville, Fla. |
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Written by MICHAEL GELBWASSER
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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REHOBOTH -A local fundraiser for disabled police officers and Somerset Police Chief Joseph Ferreira are at odds over whether the funds are actually helping area cops.
Ferreira is warning his community not to support the Disabled Police Officers Assistance Foundation, which is running a local campaign from 140 School St. in Rehoboth, the home of campaign director Patrick Kane Jr. Kane counters that the funds hire retired police officers with degrees in mental health fields for a free 24-hour counseling service for disabled cops and their families nationwide.
Somerset police investigated the foundation after a Somerset merchant ready to donate $1,000 called Ferreira to question the group's legitimacy. A retired state police captain also called, after an out-of-town gold and silver company he works for was solicited.
The foundation's nonprofit parent group, the Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center of Niceville, Fla., generated $627,054 in revenue in 2006, according to its 2006 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax, which Ferreira provided. The group claimed $509,069 in "professional fundraising fees." |
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Written by Maria Cramer
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Six months after Boston Police Lieutenant David Murphy pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend at the time in a
Baltimore bar, Commissioner Edward F. Davis suspended him for five days. more stories like thisThe president of the organization representing the state's minority police officers said the punishment was light compared to what others, particularly minority group officers, have received in similar cases. Angela Williams-Mitchell, a Boston police officer and leader of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers, said other officers have served longer suspensions and have had to wait years before officials decided their fate. "There is a big difference in the punishment that goes out to certain officers," Williams-Mitchell said. "I do definitely see that there is great disparity in the department and how they are treated." |
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Chicago students seek Obama's haircut, speedy spud, Weird Al
*Chicago students seek Obama's haircut, speedy spud, Weird Al*
CHICAGO (AP) - Dozens of students from the University of Chicago returned Sunday from a four-day multistate trek dubbed the world's largest scavenger hunt after trying to find Barack Obama's haircut and a car horn that plays "La...
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Artist has a fresh lick of paint
*Artist has a fresh lick of paint*
Image: http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/8413/tonguepaintbarcroft450xmg4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Struggling painters must suffer for their art, slumming it in filthy digs and
eating whatever's in the fridge, even if it's not food.
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Well shod dogs
*Well shod dogs*
Rescue dogs working with Chinese firefighters have been given leather
shoes.
Chaoyang fire brigade in Beijing city have fitted them with shoes to
protect their paws.
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Storm blows car onto roof
*Storm blows car onto roof*
A Chinese driver got the shock of his life when the car he was driving was
blown onto the roof of a building during a fierce storm.
The driver, of Yanbian city, Jilin province, said he had just turned a corner
when it suddenly felt as if his car was flying...
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Man Cuts 12,000 Volt Power Line
*Man Cuts 12,000 Volt Power Line*
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) ― San Francisco police are looking for a person who cut 12,000-volt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. wires on Friday causing an outage, a flash fire and possible major injuries to the person.
Police, fire and PG&E officials responded to the...
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Hundreds strip for naked photo shoot in Austria
*Hundreds strip for naked photo shoot in Austria*
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear.
The latest work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick gathered 1,840 people, baring it all in Austria's...
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Farina Busted: Is That a Gun in Your Pocket...
*Farina Busted: Is That a Gun in Your Pocket...*
Sources tell TMZ actor Dennis Farina was arrested at LAX this morning after trying to get through security with a loaded gun.
It happened at around 8 AM. Farina was flying out when he was nabbed at the security checkpoint. Sources say he told...
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13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers
*13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers*
A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad's credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to...
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Woman flees when confronted about theft of baby wipes
*Woman flees when confronted about theft of baby wipes*
ENGLEWOOD — A loss prevention detective at Wal-Mart, 7725 Hoke Road, stopped two females after observing one of them open a container of baby wipes and place them under her stroller, which was occupied by an infant.
The subject...
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Police in Harrisburg pull over 9-year-old driver
*Police in Harrisburg pull over 9-year-old driver*
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Capitol police in Harrisburg thought they had a drunk
driver on their hands. But they didn't find an intoxicated person behind the
wheel.
Instead, they found that a 9-year-old boy had been driving. Police say it
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