Trentonian Insider


Saturday, December 15, 2007

Where's Joe?


Hey all you budding paparazzi out there, it's time for a new game! Capt. Sleepy has already been caught on film so often in action (inaction?) that maybe a new subject would be in order. (See below post anyway!)
Your mission, should you accept it--Find Joe, get him on film and get that footage over here to the insider. Alas, you may have to hang out in Stirling (Morris County) to get him, but if you do accept the challenge, just beware of the influx of unstamped letters and Internet porn floating around in those parts!
To wit, this isn't a frivolous exercise aimed simply at getting another pretty face in the Rag, though Joe's manicured nails and neatly trimmed mustache could give many of our Page 6 girls a run for their money (not including of course Friday's featured honey, Katerina Kopsini, of Bucks County--do not line the bird cage with this one--definitely worth another look if its still hanging around! Yowza!)
I digress. The purpose of this mission is to find out not just where the director lives, but we'd like to know where exactly does he work? What are the city's taxpayers getting for that $100,000-plus salary and all those tanks of free gas.
If, as the director has noted, his family comes first, second and third in his life, and he needs to be with them at home in Stirling to protect them, we wonder how often he's actually down here protecting Trenton from evil.
One highly-placed police source said recently that many weeks, ol' Joe might only be in Trenton about four or five hours, YES HOURS, per week. Good work if you can get it. Now of course that source can't go public with that info, or for sure the director would spend quite a bit more than four or five hours deep in this informant's...you get the idea.
Now we know that even if the department, or the city administration were ever forced to admit this, they'd come back and say something to the effect of, "Well, you know, with today's technology, Joe can be in constant contact with every cop on the force. He's basically all-knowing, all-powerful, and we even hear he has one of those holographic communication devices like the emperor in the Star Wars movies uses, so he can pop up anywhere to check on things with a little (life-size?) holographic version of himself. But don't worry that was paid for with a federal homeland security grant, so that's being put to good use."
Back to Joe tracking.
Just this week, rumors are circulating that Joe called out sick on Thursday, then didn't show up for work Friday, while a CeaseFire program was being hosted in the city (See L.A. Parker's touching story on the event in Sunday's Trentonian). Top local, county and state law enforcement officials were on hand for the program, but ol' Joe was a no-show, presumably still feeling under the weather (so that's what was in his nose in that front page shot!) But later that same night, Joe was rumored to have showed up at a holiday party held at a Hamilton restaurant for the department's Fraternal Order of Police chapter. Glad this guy has is priorities straight.
See more on that discussion over at the Trenton Speaks forum.
But we thought it was the police unions who were behind this nasty campaign of pointing out that Joe's breaking city residency rules. Oh, it must be the other union, the PBA. You know the one with members? Wonder if he got his invite to the PBA's bash?
But again, I digress. So anyway, get out your digital cameras, your disposables, your camera phones, heck, your etch-a-sketches if you think you can get a decent likeness together, and get us some new some good shots of the skipper. Make sure you document time and place and maybe we can piece this puzzle together.
We know, we know crime is down, what difference does it make? Well just imagine what a Shangri La Trenton would be if this guy actually worked here, let alone moved the wife and kiddies in. Why, you could walk down any city street with a shirt made of $100 bills and never worry for a second.
Editor's note: Once this assignment is complete, next stop will be Hunterdon County, wink-wink.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Man, we miss this guy!


It's been a while since we've seen good ole' Cap'n Nap'n, and quite frankly, we miss him.

Anybody heard anything new on this guy? Drop us a line!

Is the juice loose in Trenton too?

While the sporting world turns its attention to the infamous Mitchell Report and its ramifications on curve balls and home runs to come, a performance enhancement probe continues to unfold here in T-Town, we think.

No we're not speculating on the pharmaceutical regiment undertaken in the Trenton Thunder clubhouse, though The Rocket did briefly fly through last year.

The inquiry we're wondering about is the one being carried out by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, where about a dozen Trenton cops and Mercer Sheriff's officers were the target of investigation. The probe began last year with federal authorities examining a fraudulent prescription ring based in Florida, where human growth hormone was said to have been distributed through online orders. The last we heard about the case was this summer when the feds handed the investigation over to JoBo's prosecutor team, and rumors were circulating in law enforcement circles that indictments were imminent. But so far, no new news.
Anybody know what's going on? Give us a call.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A little Christmastime levity

For those needing some comic relief from the seriousness of Trenton's residency issues (see post below) here's a little ditty we stumbled upon whilst trolling the Trenton blogosphere.
Check it out here from this link at the Trenton Speaks Forum:

http://www.trentonspeaks.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=477

Oh, and if you're wondering who that handsome smiling devil sandwiched between Santiagelf and Sleepy the Elf is, well that's the police department's new communications director Irving Bradley, another Newark refugee with residency issues of his own (a downpayment on a place doesn't satisfy the ordinance requirements, we checked). Oh well, if someone makes a stink on that one, maybe we can just re-write the law again! But that's a tale for a different day.

Enjoy!

The People V. Joe Santiago

The battle over Trenton Police Director Joe "Crime is Down" Santiago has ebbed and flowed over the past several weeks, with emotional arguments to be found on both sides of the issue (though logical ones seem to be a bit more reserved for one view).

To recap...
Those who feel the city's top cop should call the Capital City home say he should because:
a) it's the law,
b) not abiding by the law would set one hell of a double standard for those who abide by the requirement, and even moreso for the folks who have been fired for not adhering to the residency restriction,
and c) because it's the law.

Those who feel it's ok for the city's top law enforcement agent to ignore, um, the law, argue Santiago should be granted a waiver because:
a) the director is afraid of alleged, unconfirmed gang threats left at his home (in Stirling, Morris County) and he'd rather have his family live 50 miles away from where he works and has, um, an entire police force at his disposal to protect them,
b) the director is also afraid of pornography that was sent to his wife's at-work computer, an occurrence which everyone knows would only increase in frequency and severity if he and the fam resided in T-Town,
c) Santiago has already said he'd rather quit than move into a godforsaken hell hole like Trenton (where crime is down though), and if he were to leave, then the city would fall apart, no one else would want his job, and there would be no one around to say "Crime is Down,"
and d) the only people who want to force the director to abide by the law are racist, disgruntled haters, so if those kinds of people want it, well it must be wrong.

Well, gee, looks like the pro-Santiago folks have at least one more "reason" on their side. Guess they win.

Looks like they could too, since a once-unified-against-Mayor Palmer-City Council (a rare bird in these parts) is seemingly starting to crumble under Hizzoner's pressure. (What happened to that 7-0 informal Trentonian poll taken of City Council members regarding their stance on residency?)
Now it seems council is considering an amendment to the residency ordinance to allow for Joe's exceptions. Will it be called the "Santiago Clause?" That sounds nice and festive for this time of year.

But a groundswell seems to be, um, swelling, with city residents exploring the possibility of gathering signatures for a petition aimed at fighting whatever knew law the council crafts for Santiago. Read more about the new effort here http://www.trentonspeaks.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=568 on the Trenton Speaks forum, or make some comments and get the discussion going here. Let us know where you stand on the issue Trenton!

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Where's Joe?


Hey all you budding paparazzi out there, it's time for a new game! Capt. Sleepy has already been caught on film so often in action (inaction?) that maybe a new subject would be in order. (See below post anyway!)
Your mission, should you accept it--Find Joe, get him on film and get that footage over here to the insider. Alas, you may have to hang out in Stirling (Morris County) to get him, but if you do accept the challenge, just beware of the influx of unstamped letters and Internet porn floating around in those parts!
To wit, this isn't a frivolous exercise aimed simply at getting another pretty face in the Rag, though Joe's manicured nails and neatly trimmed mustache could give many of our Page 6 girls a run for their money (not including of course Friday's featured honey, Katerina Kopsini, of Bucks County--do not line the bird cage with this one--definitely worth another look if its still hanging around! Yowza!)
I digress. The purpose of this mission is to find out not just where the director lives, but we'd like to know where exactly does he work? What are the city's taxpayers getting for that $100,000-plus salary and all those tanks of free gas.
If, as the director has noted, his family comes first, second and third in his life, and he needs to be with them at home in Stirling to protect them, we wonder how often he's actually down here protecting Trenton from evil.
One highly-placed police source said recently that many weeks, ol' Joe might only be in Trenton about four or five hours, YES HOURS, per week. Good work if you can get it. Now of course that source can't go public with that info, or for sure the director would spend quite a bit more than four or five hours deep in this informant's...you get the idea.
Now we know that even if the department, or the city administration were ever forced to admit this, they'd come back and say something to the effect of, "Well, you know, with today's technology, Joe can be in constant contact with every cop on the force. He's basically all-knowing, all-powerful, and we even hear he has one of those holographic communication devices like the emperor in the Star Wars movies uses, so he can pop up anywhere to check on things with a little (life-size?) holographic version of himself. But don't worry that was paid for with a federal homeland security grant, so that's being put to good use."
Back to Joe tracking.
Just this week, rumors are circulating that Joe called out sick on Thursday, then didn't show up for work Friday, while a CeaseFire program was being hosted in the city (See L.A. Parker's touching story on the event in Sunday's Trentonian). Top local, county and state law enforcement officials were on hand for the program, but ol' Joe was a no-show, presumably still feeling under the weather (so that's what was in his nose in that front page shot!) But later that same night, Joe was rumored to have showed up at a holiday party held at a Hamilton restaurant for the department's Fraternal Order of Police chapter. Glad this guy has is priorities straight.
See more on that discussion over at the Trenton Speaks forum.
But we thought it was the police unions who were behind this nasty campaign of pointing out that Joe's breaking city residency rules. Oh, it must be the other union, the PBA. You know the one with members? Wonder if he got his invite to the PBA's bash?
But again, I digress. So anyway, get out your digital cameras, your disposables, your camera phones, heck, your etch-a-sketches if you think you can get a decent likeness together, and get us some new some good shots of the skipper. Make sure you document time and place and maybe we can piece this puzzle together.
We know, we know crime is down, what difference does it make? Well just imagine what a Shangri La Trenton would be if this guy actually worked here, let alone moved the wife and kiddies in. Why, you could walk down any city street with a shirt made of $100 bills and never worry for a second.
Editor's note: Once this assignment is complete, next stop will be Hunterdon County, wink-wink.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Man, we miss this guy!


It's been a while since we've seen good ole' Cap'n Nap'n, and quite frankly, we miss him.

Anybody heard anything new on this guy? Drop us a line!

Is the juice loose in Trenton too?

While the sporting world turns its attention to the infamous Mitchell Report and its ramifications on curve balls and home runs to come, a performance enhancement probe continues to unfold here in T-Town, we think.

No we're not speculating on the pharmaceutical regiment undertaken in the Trenton Thunder clubhouse, though The Rocket did briefly fly through last year.

The inquiry we're wondering about is the one being carried out by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, where about a dozen Trenton cops and Mercer Sheriff's officers were the target of investigation. The probe began last year with federal authorities examining a fraudulent prescription ring based in Florida, where human growth hormone was said to have been distributed through online orders. The last we heard about the case was this summer when the feds handed the investigation over to JoBo's prosecutor team, and rumors were circulating in law enforcement circles that indictments were imminent. But so far, no new news.
Anybody know what's going on? Give us a call.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A little Christmastime levity

For those needing some comic relief from the seriousness of Trenton's residency issues (see post below) here's a little ditty we stumbled upon whilst trolling the Trenton blogosphere.
Check it out here from this link at the Trenton Speaks Forum:

http://www.trentonspeaks.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=477

Oh, and if you're wondering who that handsome smiling devil sandwiched between Santiagelf and Sleepy the Elf is, well that's the police department's new communications director Irving Bradley, another Newark refugee with residency issues of his own (a downpayment on a place doesn't satisfy the ordinance requirements, we checked). Oh well, if someone makes a stink on that one, maybe we can just re-write the law again! But that's a tale for a different day.

Enjoy!

The People V. Joe Santiago

The battle over Trenton Police Director Joe "Crime is Down" Santiago has ebbed and flowed over the past several weeks, with emotional arguments to be found on both sides of the issue (though logical ones seem to be a bit more reserved for one view).

To recap...
Those who feel the city's top cop should call the Capital City home say he should because:
a) it's the law,
b) not abiding by the law would set one hell of a double standard for those who abide by the requirement, and even moreso for the folks who have been fired for not adhering to the residency restriction,
and c) because it's the law.

Those who feel it's ok for the city's top law enforcement agent to ignore, um, the law, argue Santiago should be granted a waiver because:
a) the director is afraid of alleged, unconfirmed gang threats left at his home (in Stirling, Morris County) and he'd rather have his family live 50 miles away from where he works and has, um, an entire police force at his disposal to protect them,
b) the director is also afraid of pornography that was sent to his wife's at-work computer, an occurrence which everyone knows would only increase in frequency and severity if he and the fam resided in T-Town,
c) Santiago has already said he'd rather quit than move into a godforsaken hell hole like Trenton (where crime is down though), and if he were to leave, then the city would fall apart, no one else would want his job, and there would be no one around to say "Crime is Down,"
and d) the only people who want to force the director to abide by the law are racist, disgruntled haters, so if those kinds of people want it, well it must be wrong.

Well, gee, looks like the pro-Santiago folks have at least one more "reason" on their side. Guess they win.

Looks like they could too, since a once-unified-against-Mayor Palmer-City Council (a rare bird in these parts) is seemingly starting to crumble under Hizzoner's pressure. (What happened to that 7-0 informal Trentonian poll taken of City Council members regarding their stance on residency?)
Now it seems council is considering an amendment to the residency ordinance to allow for Joe's exceptions. Will it be called the "Santiago Clause?" That sounds nice and festive for this time of year.

But a groundswell seems to be, um, swelling, with city residents exploring the possibility of gathering signatures for a petition aimed at fighting whatever knew law the council crafts for Santiago. Read more about the new effort here http://www.trentonspeaks.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=568 on the Trenton Speaks forum, or make some comments and get the discussion going here. Let us know where you stand on the issue Trenton!

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