Dispatchers Demand Money for Good Bus

One more example that humans will use any position of power to extort money from others. Politicians get money for votes, photographs and laws. Taxi, bus and limo dispatchers demand money or food to get a good vehicle to drive. And some say we are an advanced society?

[From article]
"The alleged cash payments were made periodically and ranged from $50 to $200, said a transit-union official familiar with the investigation.

There was also edible extortion, workers told investigators, with Carrington allegedly asking for Cuban sandwiches, rice and beans, and coffee, transit sources said."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/meals_for_wheels_probe_of_bus_boss_Tw7kY2bbUD7wfXNcJ7BegJ

'Meals for wheels' probe of bus boss
By HEATHER HADDON
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:07 AM, September 4, 2011
Posted: 12:42 AM, September 4, 2011

Dispatchers Refused Help For Robbery In Progress

It is not only Cambridge MA police dispatchers who arbitrarily decide who gets help when they call for it. Dispatchers are not police officers and seldom know or care about abuse of constitutional rights, which include but are not limited to the Right to Access to governmental services, the Right to Redress and the Right to Petition, all First Amendment Rights.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/116456603.html

911 callers report theft aboard bus, denied help by dispatch
By Joel Moreno
KOMO Seattle WN
Story Published: Feb 17, 2011 at 11:09 PM PST
Story Updated: Feb 17, 2011 at 11:40 PM PST

Emergency Police Dispatcher Abuse

Florida Woman Calls 911 Three Times at McDonald's


Many radio and TV shows have ridiculed this woman for calling 911 when she was not served after paying for her food. There are two unaddressed issues mostly by the discussion. First she paid for food she did not get. The restaurant refused to refund her money. That is theft. Secondly Police dispatchers are not police officers. Many of them if not most are not trained in constitutional rights as police officers are trained. Often they make bad decisions on whether to send an officer or not. In this case they believed she was misusing their office. The dispatchers sent a patrol car. There are many instances when they abuse their power. They often ignore persons they believe to be mentally ill contrary to state and US laws. They often do corporations in the city favors by diverting the calls to officers who will not issue summonses for violations of city ordinances. So it is not as silly as the media portrays this. The media should study the abuses of dispatchers nationally to curb their abuses of citizen's rights.


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0303091mcnugget1.html

Where to Put the Cameras

Where to Put the Cameras

One surveillance camera must be placed into the City Manager's office, another in the City Council's buffet room. (Jillian Fennimore, “Cambridge City Council: We don't need Big Brother watching us,”
Cambridge Chronicle, February 03, 2009) The City dispatchers already have too much power thwarting citizen access to police and emergency vehicles. They often are not trained in the First Amendment rights of citizens to have access to police protection. The dispatchers often make decisions about what is a crime and who they should believe, openly discriminating based upon disability. This is a long term abuse that the City Manager refuses to address. The dispatchers often illegally divert calls to Harvard in order to ensure some abuses will NOT be corrected. If the surveillance cameras give more decision making authority to these ill trained dispatchers that is another rational argument against their deployment.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1452242314/Cambridge-City-Council-We-dont-need-Big-Brother-watching-us

Cambridge City Council: We don't need Big Brother watching us
By Jillian Fennimore/
Cambridge Chronicle staff
Tue Feb 03, 2009, 03:27 PM EST