All people who’s anyone within the hackerama has a driver – the pinnacle hack’s time is way too helpful to should be worrying about little-people issues like cease lights, discovering a parking area, and many others.
Doesn’t matter in case you’re elected or appointed, any hack value his six-figure pension has some flunky ferrying him round from one phony-baloney assembly to a different, all day lengthy.
Am I proper, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox?
For some time after Cox was appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu, his driver was Officer Craig D.D. Jones. They return a good distance, to the outdated days within the gang unit.
One factor a payroll patriot all the time needs in a driver is any person he can belief. For instance, former Mayor Marty Walsh used a feminine cousin of his who was on the job.
In accordance with the BPD, Jones is now not Cox’s driver. Whereas he was, Jones was assigned to the DPU – the Dignitary Safety Unit. I hope Jones handled the dignitaries with extra, uh, dignity than he did with many non-dignitaries he interacted with.
I requested Jones’ Inside Affairs Officer Resume, and received again 16 pages of reported incidents. Many weren’t “sustained,” as is the customized of the BPD when certainly one of their very own is accused, of something.
How about this sustained incident, from August 2024:
“Officer Jones reported to Sgt. Kevin Swan who knowledgeable Supt. Dottin on Aug. 24 that his Division Firearm was both misplaced or stolen.”
Wow! I assumed shedding weapons was extra of a convention with the State Police, or the Canton PD. And by the best way, wasn’t Kevin Swan a driver for Mayor Mumbles Menino again within the day?
Officer Jones appears to have a mood, no less than when he’s not coping with dignitaries within the Dignitary Safety Unit. Right here’s an unsustained allegation from 1998, that on Cheney Road he confronted a girl and instructed her “Simply shut the bleep up bitch and transfer again.”
A few months later, Jones allegedly noticed her leaving what was then the Fleet Middle “and when he noticed her he said in a loud voice, ‘Hey look, there’s that Cheney Road HO.’… she states that PO Jones stored screaming at her and swearing and calling her a bleeping whore and many others.”
Right here’s one from 2000 that was sustained – conduct unbecoming, for his habits at an outdated Bickford’s on Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester.
“He initiated a confrontation with a waitress and a supervisor. A videotape of the confrontation exhibits Craig Jones pushing the supervisor with both his hand or chest. The witness states that Craig Jones was abusive and aggressive.”
Test this one out from July 2007, sustained, with a 10-day suspension, 4 days to serve. It concerned a dispute over, what else, a paid element for O’Connell Development.
“Mr. O’Connell states that P.O. Jones pounded on the facet of his m/v and screamed at him, ‘You’re ripping me off’ when the P.O. seen the time on the element card. Mr. O’Connell felt threatened by the P.O.’s actions and believed that it was uncalled for.”
In 2016, an “oral reprimand” from Capt. Fong over, once more, a paid element. This time it was a BPD sergeant named Glardina who was supervising the element. Jones was a no-show and Glardina referred to as one other officer. In accordance with the incident report, Jones flipped out when he heard he’d misplaced his 4 hours of gravy.
What follows is the account of the BPD sergeant in regards to the Commissioner’s future driver:
“Officer Jones turned agitated, abusive, yelling and screaming at me calling me ‘an bleep’ and stating ‘You’ll get yours.’ Throughout this complete ordeal, I used to be sitting in my cruiser. Off. Jones then proceeded to my driver’s facet door flailing his arms at me in a crazed method. Throughout this time, I turned terrified of my security and locked myself in my cruiser….”
Right here’s one other sustained cost from 2008, relationship again to a 2004 incident involving a civilian who was pulled over by two plainclothes cops, certainly one of whom instructed him “Get the bleep out the automobile.”
The civilian says he was pulled out of his automobile, searched and punched within the face.
“Complainant said he had $120 in his pocket previous to the officer looking him and the cash was lacking when the complainant received him. Complainant said the black officer repeatedly swore at him through the cease.”
Listed here are a number of extra of the complaints towards Craig Jones, from totally different individuals, most of them unsustained:
“(In 2001) Mr. Belgrove states PO Jones referred to as him a ‘Bitch Faggot’ and PO Jones struck Mr. Belgrove a number of instances together with his ‘Balled Fist.’…. (In 2005) Officer Jones threatened to beat him up…. (In 2006) Officer Jones swore at him and said a number of instances, “Give me your bleeping license and bleeping registration.’… Officer Jones spit in his face….
“(In 2007 at Downtown Crossing) P.O. Jones approached him and poked him within the face whereas telling him to ‘Shut the bleep up’… (In 2013 on Warrenton Road Jones) got here towards my automobile began yelling to a degree my face was lined together with his saliva ‘Who the bleep you suppose you might be, give me your bleeping license’… he got here towards my automobile once more stubborn me out and spat proper on my face.
“(In 2019 at Stuart and Tremont Streets) a black male yelled out the automobile window, ‘What the bleep are you doing? You attempting to chop me off?’…. (In 2015 complainant) said that the Officer swore at him and shoved him towards a grate….”
In 2017, a girl referred to as Inside Affairs to complain that Jones “has been harassing her, stalking her, giving out her telephone quantity to different individuals, and harassing her by Fb and thru Instagram, through the use of ‘pretend profiles.’”
Does it appear odd that Commissioner Cox would someway choose this man, regardless of how lengthy he’d recognized him, to be his driver? Is that this actually the man the Comish wished to be hanging with all day lengthy?
It typically looks as if Cox has a tender spot for cops who’ve… issues, let’s assume. Or no less than a sure sort of cop….
In case you had been questioning, Craig Jones is licensed by the MA POST Fee. The alleged watchdogs haven’t any issues with any of the above. They by no means do. And also you’re not stunned, are you?
Overlook it Jake, it’s Massachusetts.
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