To all the recent Park Ridge graduates, at all levels of education, congratulations!
The above video is of one of the best commencement speeches ever delivered; it's worth watching.
Our wish for you is that you find what you love -- stay hungry -- stay foolish.
We're starting our weekend early. Enjoy yours too.
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Thanks PRU - being inspired while watching Steve on my MAC is nirvana.
:-) You're welcome.
PRU, enjoy the weekend. Police Department members won't since many of them will be thinking about yesterday:
Members of the police department were told (and told and told and emailed and encouraged and informed and advised, etc) that Terry Ekls and his associates would be available at 5pm on both Tuesday, June 3rd and Wednesday, June 4th to listen to any department members who wished to voice concerns of any kind for the investigation/audit. The PD members were told that Ekl and his staff would stay as long as it took to ensure all voices could be heard. These two dates were to cover all four patrol shifts since 6pm is the end of the day shift tour and the start of the evening shift tour.
So when at least five department members went to speak with Ekl and his people after the previous shift's end and the oncoming shift's 6pm roll call, there was no one to be found. Where did they go? Ekl was tracked down climbing into his vehicle in the parking lot. He was leaving at 6:30 pm. He was confronted by several of those who wished to speak with him. He said he was done. He said he thought no one wanted to talk to him, so he sent his people home. No, no, no, we have people who want to speak to you! Who need to speak to you! Who have important things to say! Come back in. Please! You're just here in the parking lot. Let's walk right back inside. Your staff must have cell phones, right? Call them and have them turn around and come back. You're being paid $75,000 to conduct an investigation but you're only staying an hour and a half? (and you were late after 5pm.) You didn't check with a supervisor to see if maybe there was an emergency call that tied everyone up so that was the reason no one just walked into your conference room? You didn't know shift change was at 6pm? That's why 5pm was the set time! You just decided, I'm outta here?
He handed out a fistfull of business cards to pass around. Just have everyone call me. I gotta go! Bye!
Low bid. This is what you get. And the truth is what you'll be missing....
I can't believe this....well then again, I guess I can. So are you saying that whoever wanted to talk to Ekls had to go at 5:00pm while working and before the shift change at 6:00pm? And what would have happened to the officers that are talking to Ekls at 5pm if something happened on the street during that time? How much trouble would they have been in if they had not responded to a call?
(can we all say "fired"?)
How are working officers suppose to cooperate with an investigation if the investigator isn't available while the officers aren't working? This sounds so set up to fail. I can hear it now ...."oh, John Doe isn't here for roll call....he must be with Terry Ekls spilling his guts."
So now does this mean that none of the officers will have the opportunity to talk to Ekls and voice their comments and concerns?
I'm not a city employee but I pay their salary. I want to know if they have something to say. I want the whole truth and not some half baked assumption because the investigator didn't have time to talk to all who have something to say.
Anonymous (I can only assume PRPO):
Make this known. Tell the papers. Tell the aldermen (tho I know most won't care, some might). Tell your union. I'm not saying anything will change, but sometimes the only thing politicians (and businessmen with money and reputations at stake) will respond to is public outrage. Good Luck.
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