(UPDATED-FRIDAY SEPT. 3) BREAKING NEWS: Vision Vancouver’s Penny Ballem Tells Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu to ‘Freeze’! No New Police in Vancouver for Five Years!
And the hits just keep on comin’…
A confidential source with the Vancouver Police Department confirmed for me late this evening that Penny Ballem, the most dreaded and despised City Manager in Vancouver’s history, has told the VPD that there will be a hiring freeze. In fact, Penny Ballem’s directive regarding budgeting included that the VPD is approximately 200 officers “over strength” (Just how delusional is this woman?? Extremely!)
Apparently some of this has to do with anticipated post-Olympic retirements that haven’t yet occurred for a variety of reasons but those in the hiring queue are getting letters saying that that hiring is frozen and may be delayed for up to 5 years!!!!!
Five years! Criminals rejoice! Break and Enter Artists rejoice! Povertarians living off the addictions of the downtrodden on the Downtown Eastside, rejoice! Haitian and Guatemalan refugee dime-bag dealers rejoice! Low-track hookers rejoice! Critical Mass law-breakers rejoice! Marijuana dope fiends and ‘Moron’ Emery freedom fighters, rejoice!
Folks, it’s Vision Vancouver on guard for thee. Yesiree, step right up a get yourself a bottle of Gregor’s very own personally signed and concocted snake oil, just in from wife Amy’s (rather curiously large) shed on Cortes Island. He’s a real crime fighter that Gregor Robertson, you betcha.
Remember how the Mayor just finished telling you what a great job they’ve done in reducing crime? What a load of bull! Crime isn’t down. Violent sexual assaults are up. Open drug dealing on the streets is no different. The DTES is still a total cesspool. The only real difference is that the gang-bangers shooting at each other in the streets have been given longer sentences by judges following the federal Conservatives lead and most certainly not Gregor ‘Most-of-my closest-people smoke-pot’ Robertson.
But let’s not let Chief Constable and all-round feckless wet-noodle Jim Chu off the hook either.
Did anyone catch the excerpt from the VPD’s Annual Report in the Vancouver Sun the other day? No? Well I did, And it looked like a campaign poster for Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver. The Chief of the Vancouver Police Department should hang his head in shame. He’s a coward and a push-over. Every time Vision Vancouver cracks the whip, Jim Chu bends over and begs for a few more lashes.
Chief Chu has consistently allowed the Vancouver Police Department to slide into subservience to the Vision Vancouver radicals infesting City Hall. Chu’s lack of action of the open drug use on the streets, particularly on weekends on Granville Mall, his capitulation to Vision complaints about ticketing the poor drug dealers on the DTES and his do-nothing attitude where ‘Critical Mass’ rides and marijuana rallies are concerned, are said to be huge sore points with the rank and file of the VPD.
It certainly doesn’t help either that there have been several news clips of Jim Chu out with the Mayor of Vancouver on bike rides, in an obvious effort to legitimize the bike lanes and the extremist cycling agenda. You’ll notice the latest fad with the cycling fascists in this city is to ride without a helmet. Think they’re getting ticketed? Not a chance.
The rank and file of the VPD are allegedly sickened by the Chief allowing the police department to be used as a political prop for Mayor Moonbeam’s re-election campaign. The cops hate Vision Vancouver–and for good reason.
Let’s face it, the last time the VPD had a police Chief with some testicular fortitude to stand up to political interference and usury was when the exceptional Bob Stewart wore that command with dignity and honour. It’s been down hill ever since Mr. Stewart’s retirement.
When Mayor Moonbeam was recently lauding Chief Chu about the reduced crime rate he said that the results were because “we continue to invest in our police” (notice how they didn’t release the hard stats below the figures–easier to manipulate final values? You be the judge.)
What a crock! See the Vision pattern again? See the Gregor Robertson way? Lie your ass off in public and let Penny Ballem hatchet the cops to a five year freeze–say one thing for the photo-op, but do another.
Meanwhile no one wake Chief Chu from his deep slumber. No one tell him how the morale in the officer’s mess is at an all-time low–lower than snail turdlets. No one tell him he is mishandling the force to the detriment of the public safety. No wonder these poor cops are all on edge and screw up from time to time. They’re led by a fool. What’s the pride in your badge worth Chief Chu? Not much apparently.
In the spring Chief Chu, the genius, invited Dr. Bedlam to the Officers’ Mess Dinner, and it resulted in the largest number of spontaneous cancellations in the history of said dinner.
I tell you, with such a weak police chief and such a pathetic excuse for a Mayor, your safety is hardly better off as a result of Vision Vancouver. Think about your families, your children. Do you think the police with all-time low morale as a result of Vision and Chu’s inanity are more or less motivated to ‘Serve and Protect’?
The only thing you can bank on is that the longer Chu and Robertson are around , the LESS safe you and your families are.
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UPDATE: Instead of contacting me about her objections to my story Vision instrument Constable Jana McGuiness sent a few members of the press emails, the contents of which are below. I guess spinning was part of the police academy training. She sure excelled in that class, without question. So I wrote her yesterday.
Not a word of reply….
Know why?
Hmm…on WX this afternoon was Chief Jim Chu, telling listeners that (for the first time in YEARS!!!) the Vancouver Police Department were NOT going to be looking for any new officers this year…
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Starting to see the picture? It’s frightening that at least the media relations officer and the Chief of the VPD bow to Penny Ballem.
No, no, of course not. No need for more cops…of course not…
Dear Constable McGuiness:
I understand from several colleagues in the media that you have sent out the below points attempting to refute a post I did on my blog this morning. I also understand that Wendy Stewart of the Communications Department of the City of Vancouver has been in contact with you. Ms. Stewart, whom I have dealt with before, routinely runs the propaganda end of whatever response is needed to refute any story that may negatively impact the Mayor or any of his Vision Vancouver cohorts. Please tell me that you were not pressured into a response by the City. If so, it only confirms the fears that I illustrated in my blog post: That the VPD’s autonomy under pressure from Vision Vancouver hierarchs at City Hall, has been compromised.
I was wondering, too, if you would care to answer some questions for me, in writing, please…
1) Will you confirm that Chief Chu has not had ANY discussions with Dr. Penny Ballem regarding the VPD possibly being “over strength”? Or any thing regarding a hiring freeze? Also, that NONE of Dr. Ballem’s disciples at the city have had any even similar discussions with anyone in command with the VPD.
2) Will you confirm that the annual report excerpt was not sent to the Sun in the errant order it appeared?
3) There are FIVE clips of the Chief of Police blithely riding about with the Mayor. Please make your correction before I post this on my blog–several media sources have run similar, but not identical clips. If they are of the same clip, that’s unfortunate. They have been used to promote a Mayor who is NOT a ‘law and order’ leader.
4) Will you provide me with the stats as to how many tickets for helmet infractions the VPD wrote during ANY ‘Critical Mass’ ride in the last two years (since Vision Vancouver has been running City Hall)?
5) Will you provide me with the stats as to how many tickets for drug infractions the VPD wrote during any ‘Free Marc Emery’ protest? Or any rally that supported the legalization of marijuana? I attended two, as an observer, and watched the same bank of officers, eight of them, stand idly by, while several young louts danced in front of them, with lit marijuana joints in hand.
6) Will you please provide me with the background stats for the crime stats you release this year? How were they compiled? Who complied them? Was the City at all involved? Any statisticians that were outside contractors? Who were they? Was there a tendering process? Did the City select them for you?
7) Will you please send me the results of your staff morale surveys? How many were members with statutory positions? How many were actual cops that responded? How high was the response rate? Will you provide a break down between officers and constables? What percentage were clerks, support staff and assistants?
Will you deny that there were only four inspectors at the mess dinner this year? There were several who cancelled at the last minute when it was discovered Dr. Ballem was invited.
Finally, if setting the record straight was of such importance to you and the Vancouver Police Department, why would you not contact me directly? I know you’ve seen my post, it would have been quite easy to send me a note through my website. Would this not have been the prudent course of action to have pursued if you really felt accordingly?
Additionally, many media were asking you about my story all day. Why were you silent for so many hours? Can you confirm that you were not having your bullet points reviewed by anyone at the City?
Many of your objections were subjective, Constable McGuiness, so it would be most helpful for you to answer the above.
Please respond as soon as possible. .
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A. G. (Alex) Tsakumis
alexgtsakumis.com
•there is absolutely no truth the the five year hiring freeze, no letter, no plan, no discussion and the VPD has never received a directive from Penny Ballem indicating that the VPD is approximately 200 officers over strength.
•there is no letter being issued to VPD applicants saying that hiring is frozen and may be delayed for up to five years.
•the annual report that ran in the Sun had the back and front pages reversed…every year, regardless who is the mayor and therefore the chair of the police board the annual report contains a message from the chair on the back page not the front..the Sun has admitted its mistake and will rerun the report in the proper order
•there has been one, not “several” clips of the chief on a bike ride with the Mayor and that was to promote bicycle safety
•helmet laws are being enforced and ticketed
•the VPD has always stood up to political interference even if it meant investigating the Mayor for alleged criminal activity
•the approach to policing Critical Mass is consistent with the approach to all protests that was applauded widely during the Olympics
•the VPD for many years now has successfully reduced crime and disorder issues on the Granville Mall with the strategic deployment of extra officers on weekends.
•the hard figures for crime stats were released publicly in the Annual Report and they are readily available on our website.
•the city manager was invited to the annual mess dinner because the city manager is routinely invited, she was the first to accept and we are unaware of a single cancellation or for that matter whether anyone even knew she had accepted the invitation and was coming
•recent staff surveys reveal that morale is high not low
•the blog(post) is riddled with factual errors
CONSTABLE JANA MCGUINNESS
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICER
COMMUNITY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION
VANCOUVER POLICE DEPARTMENT I Beyond the Call
Required reading for every Vancouver Citizen, this article by Alex.
As quite a famous ad taught us all:
1. Chicken coops=several thousand dollars.
2. Bike lanes=25 million dollars.
3. STIR contracts to friends=God knows how many dollars.
4. Renos to city hall mayor/councilor digs=many many dollars.
5. Empty city hall floors and the moving of depts. to other addresses=God knows how many dollars.
6. Payment to overpaid consultants during the Olympics=thousands of dollars.
6. This list could go on, but you get the point.
And finally, the “coup de grace”:
THE CLAWING BACK OF THE POLICE BUDGET—-PRICELESS!!!!!
Of all the stories written in the short tenure of this mindless bunch of people at city hall, this has got to make people wonder what the hell is going on there.
Electorate of Vancouver, wake up and vote these hacks (Moonbeams word) out. Remember this article the next time your car gets broken into.
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Great comment.
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The VPD is short hundreds of officers now, We are stretching this force now and every time an increase of the force is stalled all of us are less safe.
So with a freeze we better get ready to call Ghost Busters in emergencies or should we call Heir Ballem.
Seriously, this council does not see the importance of public safety as a priority of the people of Vancouver.
We need more detectives, traffic cops, forensic cops, beat cops and more money for training of new officers.
The news here is only good news for the gangs in this city. The rest of us need to be sure to lock our doors.
To Alex:
Please report on the spending at city hall in areas of the Olympics, mayor and council expenses, managers expenses, consultants fees, the Olympic debt ( athletes’ village) wage increases for the manager, severance pay to fired or forced our staff, the mayor’s swearing in, the staff party the city gave, the heritage line costs, the purchase of the Vanoc building for the VPD, the cost of the bike lanes and cost of studies re bike lanes, etc.
I think we will find this mayor and council are spending like drunken sailors.
Lastly, it crucial for the city and the workers at city hall that city manager undergo an independent review of how she performs her duties at city hall including staff relations.
Oh and one more thing. If I were mayor Ballem would be gone instantly. Dictators as managers have no place in a democracy.
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Oh great. First it was the Fire Department. The Chief there has been told to trim $4 million of his budget. That will most certainly mean the closure of one fire hall, and nearby halls will have to take up the slack.
So what happens is simple. Longer response times for the boys and girls in the fire service to the service area covered by the taken out fire hall. This budget cut does not mean the delay of new equipment, since much of Vancouver’s equipment isn’t due for replacement, and if it is, it is on a rotational basis (oldest out first). The equipment and apparatus are in fairly good shape, although some active duty and reserve equipment could qualify for collector plates!.
With the expansion (vertical) of Vancouver particularly downtown, there needs to be a retainment of current levels of firefighters perhaps even one more station downtown.
Fire Department is getting hosed and a few members are burned about it.
Now the Boys and Girls In Blue, Vancouver’s Finest are going to have to make up for whatever the geniuses in City Hall decide for the Police Department. They’re stretched out as it is. Agree that Chu can be
as much interesting as Chief Wiggum when it comes to policing, but
VPD is a complex organisation, and the boys and girls in blue do need our support. As do The Red Knights at the fire hall.
Any concept out there to cut the number of councillors??
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Specific ‘Clowncilors’? Yes! LOL!
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Very specific clowncillors and also Mayor Moonbeam!
Great Caesar’s Ghost, what is happening to our beautiful city?
I’d say to Mayor Moonbeam right to his face:
“Leave the fire department alone!”
With a hose charged and pointed right at him.
Maybe some of the boys could hose down his car.
even the inside.
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Are you suggesting their might be smoke in the Mayor’s car???
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Can someone enlighten me. Why are these Fire & Police freezes necessary? Why are they being done so far in advance of the budget review process?
If they’re trying to cut dead wood, it’s easier if you use a sharper ax, not a blunt instrument. Is this to finance their even more grandiose 500 year plan? Are VV expecting the recession to last another 5 years?
& you’re right Alex, that 4 page coloured ad was way, way over the top of unacceptable.
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I think the simple answer is that Ballem just doesn’t know any better. And neither does Vision Vancouver.
And, yes, the ad was just pathetic.
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Hi Alex,
I saw the “Ad” and the first thing that came to mind was the he is planning another term in office.
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Of course. It’s all about fooling the electorate for a second time.
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I have to say Alex, this really doesn’t shock me. Well it does and it doesn’t. Dr Bedlam has no problem turfing employees from City Hall to save a few bucks but she manages to pull 25 mil out of her ass for bike lanes!?!? Hope I can expect to see a story on Global about this within the week. Thanks for the insight as to what is really going with this crew. Definitely won’t hear about it reading the Province.
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Actually, you would read it in the Province before you’d read it anywhere else.
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Why are we losers? Are we not a proper reflection of ourselves in terms of who rises to power?
I need to get out MORE or something! I was complaining to my wife the other day that every time I sit down with people and talk politics and on-goings in Vancouver – we are almost always on the same page!! Clearly I don’t have a wide enough circle of friends/acquaintances.
Who are all the stupid people that vote for people like Gregor? Where are these people – where do they live, how come I never meet them. Clearly I must be a caveman without knowing it!
How is it that the Chief of Police is so controlled by the COV? Is he afraid of his job? Can the regular officers not do something about that? Anything – Something!! Enforce good law anyway and just do the right thing? Refuse to work (I’m not even willing to call it strike) – something? anything? My blood pressure rises most of the time when I come to this site – which I do too often.
I read what you just wrote Alex and I’m absolutely infuriated – are we helpless people? Is this always the way it is and has been and will be?
How can a few people control us and our city?
RE: bike helmets btw. I’m NOT a cyclist and I have ZERO tolerance for the flagrant disregard for the law – however I like the idea of having loaner bikes all around the downtown (only) core area, and I believe that if you are on a official city “loaner” bike IN the official “loaner bke area” that you should be able to ride without a helmet. Helmets are for courier riders, kids, and distance regular commuter type riders and that should be enforced and enforceable by insurance, licensing AND plates. Loaner bikes for casual riders in the downtown core are a different story though – I don’t think they need helmets. It cool to just be able to get on a bike a ride a few blocks and drop it off for the next person. I’m not a rider but I would totally do that – but not if there is a helmut law in place.
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I actually have no problem with that scenario. Riding a few blocks might be worthwhile, particularly fro tourists, but without helmets, someone will surely get hurt.
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One last comment I forgot to add in my previous post.
I was downtown on the weekend, in and around Granville Street, when to my surprise, I see a huge horde or cyclists coming up Granville Street.
Now the three things that struck me as odd were the following:
1. the area where they were cycling was closed off to traffic and deemed a pedestrian friendly area (down by SFU business school), so why go there? (Also, I had to jump out of the way so I was not run over; such a caring bunch those cyclists).
2. Many were not wearing helmets.
3. NO FEWER THAN 8 COPS ON BIKES AND IN CARS ESCORTING THIS HORDE.
Now tell me, would not a rational person think there were better ways to utilize our police force? Last time I checked, crime was still a problem in Vancouver.
All I could do was shake my head….and by the way, the cops looked like they would rather be having a root canal than be there.
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You should have stuck your foot out…
Last time I saw a hoard of cyclists it was at the tail end of a Critical Mass ride and I was trying to cut through traffic to get over the Lions Gate Bride for a meeting.
One of them fell because he was trying to pass his roach to another rider. And then about six came tumbling down. Oh well. They seemed to have a good laugh, except for the lead dope smoker that was clearly angry about losing the marijuana.
Lord, how this city has slipped to nothing as a result of Vision’s insanity.
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One of the mistakes that have been perpetuated by politicians to justify their actions in respect of police and budgets is the police per population ratio and the case load statistics per officer. In fact:
“The number of procedural steps and outcome categories needed to handle a case increased for all five crimes, though for break and enters the increase was about 22% and for homicide about 25% over the 30-year period. The number of steps needed to handle a DUI case increased 45%. The number of steps needed to handle a domestic assault increased 61% with the big shift coming between 10 and 20 years ago. The complexity of drug trafficking cases has increased at a stunning pace, expanding 722% over the 30 years.”
UCFV study.
Is it any wonder that the Delta Police, for example, do not initiate an impaired investigation unless there is injury or death? The standard 24 hour suspension has become the go to for departments that have minimum manpower on shift for any given time and cannot afford to lose 2 officers for 5 hours to do an impaired investigation. A cynic might suggest that the draconian Provincial laws about to come into effect in late September are a result of the near impossibility (negating guilty pleas that skew stats) in obtaining a conviction with the insane case law decisions on impaired driving in the lat 10 years.
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Superb comment. I quite agree. But considering what the bike lanes have done to the cab and limo business in and around Vancouver, we should all be glad about the Draconian rules. I for one always take a cab even if I’m not going to drink. It’s easier and you can get some work done on the way home, too! And cab drivers are a wonderful source of street level info. They HATE Vision with a passion–and why shouldn’t they? Vision have killed off their business by at least half.
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Tell you what, Alex. Halloween is coming. If you dress up as the Penguin, I’ll dress up as Catwoman and we can appear as a delegation before Council to demand an apology on behalf of hacks everywhere. Make it an NPA fundraiser, what do you say?
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Okay! now we’re talking!
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I’ll willingly donate a ‘Joker ‘ costume for the Mayor…..
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Hey! There you are! Why the hiatus?? Out form the warm blanket of your Bentley? LOL! Great comment!
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I do believe, I heard on TV, there are many crimes that go unreported. I can’t remember the content, of the reasons why.
However, when it has been discovered through, the FOI, Campbell and Hansen, were in discussion regarding the HST, last January…..Lawlessness in BC, just doesn’t seem surprising. That a person is in danger, walking down the street of your own beautiful city, must be really disappointing. I haven’t been to Vancouver or Victoria for years. However, back then, we had no sense of danger. That was part of the fun, to poke along the streets, day or night. The violence in Vancouver, will eventually say, Vancouver is not the best city to vacation in.
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Didn’t we just read that one of the biggest problems in catching the guy that was preying on the ‘Missing Women’ was that the Vancouver Police Department was understaffed.
I guess the Vision team didn’t get that memo, or they couldn’t care less.
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I think it definitely the latter. They aren’t sending each other memos anymore since I get copies of most of them…
Thx for stopping by. Pls come again.
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You’re right. The VPD has never walked the beat so proudly since Chief Bob Stewart manned the helm. (His son Tommy pounded out a pretty good beat too as Trooper’s drummer in their chart-topping glory days.)
Seriously, was Chief Stewart a complete rarity among police executives or is there some unerring ability for successive civic administrations to pick uninspiring leaders for the VPD?
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Hey! thought I was the only one who knew his son was with Trooper! I was a super trooper… I gather you were too!
Yes, Bob was our last great Chief.
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Hi Alex:
Just busy – a job change on the 15th of Sept. with two words that will have Chris Keam in fetal position under his desk – ‘car allowance’…:)
Trying to sow things up before I move on to a new phase!
Keep up the excellent work and I am very sorry about your little man’s injury. Busted my nose when I was seven….bike accident (Dad put my ‘new bike’ together and well, the handle bars weren’t quite tight enough!)
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The Thought of The Day
“The Roman Senators were the smartest people; they treated their Centurions with respect. In the back of their minds they knew there was always the possibility for that familiar street torch, to get burned out at the wrong moment – on a Moonless night, while they were having a walk in the wrong neighbourhood – on the Via Sacra.”
THE DAY-DREAMING OF CONSTABLE CHU
Vancouver, being called by some, Hollywood North and such, it would not be so outrageous to think that our First Cop is rooting for a return to the Mack Sennett Keystone Kops. Ah, the magic of the Silent era.
POPUL-RARITY
Mayor Gregor Robertson’s popularity is leaking like a Happy Planet Juice carton in recent days, as residents of Vancouver slowly begin to realize they elected Gregor Robertson to be their Mayor.
THE ANTON IDENTITY
While on Holiday in the land of one thousand Fjords, Suzanne said she hoped for a Sam Sullivan comeback, because… she liked the man. And also because he was always supportive of her, never put her down, and made her believe in herself, and encouraged her to dream that one day, she could too…lose a Mayoral election.
SHARP LIKE A BEE NEEDLE
Once, caught in a Spelling Bee competition, young Gregor was asked by the moderator: ‘what is your name, son?’ to which the little future politician replied ‘Name. Name. N-A-M-E. Name! May I have that in a sentence please?’
COPE IS COPING WITH VISION
So they have a new Executive, whatever that means, hmmm, when you have nothing to execute. COPE leaders are saying they are happy with Robertson performance as Mayor and with their arrangement with Vision. TRANSLATION: Membership for COPE is low, money is low, and morale is low. And what can a Working Girl away from home, with no relatives or friends, and a lot of debt, to do? They all agree that ‘It’s better to get something out of nothing than to get nothing out of something’
CHAIRS ON 12th & CAMBIE
When Ilf and Petrov, the Russian duo writers, set their The Twelve Chairs in 1927, in the still pre-Stalinist Soviet Union they did not expect their story to be true today, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The premise is a simple one: on her deathbed Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov’s mother-in-law reveals to him that she managed to hide her jewels in a set of chairs before the Revolution came. Worth a fortune — perhaps 150,000 roubles by now (or $ CAN 260,000)– Ippolit Matveyevich sees in this hidden treasure an enormous opportunity. He could forget about his lowly clerk-job, and again live in the noble (well, more or less, given the times) manner he was accustomed to before the Revolution. It’s not quite that simple, of course: the chairs fell victim to the Gregor’s appetite for Green Revolution, ummm, the way he put was ‘something doesn’t quite smells right!’ So where are the jewels now? In the chairs, where else?
CELEBRITY BUZZ
In his recent interview, Gregor sounded weak and vulnerable. There are rumours, Angelina Jolie is thinking of adopting him.
CAUSE AND EFffffffect
Penny Ballem DM, was caught yesterday enjoying her own little, gassy trickle on the third floor, right in front of the elevators. Two people witnessed the happening. Sadhu Johnston, as No. 2, took the responsibility for it immediately. Later in the day the poor city hall clerk who was moving his own stuff as per Gregor’ relocation dictate, was fired for trespassing City Manager’s personal space. BTW, if you were wondering, the suffix DM is not a typo, it stands for ‘de Medici’
WE ARE ALL INNOCENT
When asked about the possibility of becoming a contender for the Mayor’s job, Michael Geller answered ‘Robertson is an attractive, pleasant young man’ …You’ll have to excuse me now but I have to get dressed and start looking for a 24 Hours Pharmacy. After reading this in today’s Georgia Straight I’m in need of a strong Tylenol. I’ll be out and about for a couple of hours or so. You could read all about it on my blog http://www.glissandotravelstothepharmacy.com
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
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You’re just incredible…
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