Monkey Business

Kill the Messenger - Case Study

Dereliction by Seattle Police Department (SPD) Officer Adam Elias (#5741) and other East Precinct officers complements the malignance of Stephen A. Mitchell (41), Audrey F. Dunbar (35), and Council House directors. Elias and several colleagues act as straw cops for directors and consort with Mitchell and Dunbar in filing false and misleading reports to cover up elder abuse. [Elder Abuse - Introduction]

This syndicate has repeatedly tried to kill the messenger who reports elder abuse by misusing legal process and filing trumped-up criminal charges. Police officers indulged in monkey business - a dangerous real life portrayal of immature, inappropriate, and illegal behavior reminiscent of Keystone Kop farces.

A recent trumped-up charge filed by Elias and Mitchell pertains to publication of a cartoon of a “monkey terrorist”. Their behavior would rank as hilarious if not intended to send the cartoonist back to jail using false and misleading police reports.

The cartoon classified as pure speech constitutionally protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, a fact later confirmed by a Washington Supreme Court decision. It formed no part of any restraining order. In fact, an unlawful prior restraint that censored the author’s work for more than four years specifically permitted the use of pseudonyms and did not censor anthropomorphic cartoons.
[Tall Structure Terror] [Archive]

Elias stated in a police incident report (01 May 04) that he took a complaint from Mitchell. He claimed that: “Yesterday Mitchell noticed that Trummel's website had information regarding Mitchell and his friends. This is a violation of the anti-harassment order. . . .” Elias lied.

Elias claimed: “Today Mitchell called the precinct and left a message for me that Trummel had placed a picture of Mitchell on his website. . . . When I checked the website I observed a picture frame containing the photograph of a monkey. Elias continued: “. . . Mitchell will fully cooperate with a prosecution of Trummel for the court order violation”.

Reporting information about Mitchell and his cohorts ranks as constitutionally protected speech. The anti-harassment order to which Elias referred (later reversed by Washington Supreme Court as unlawful) only restricted use of names and pictures of Mitchell, not information about him or his friends. It certainly did not restrict publication of a picture of a monkey even if Mitchell thinks it bears a resemblance to him.

For four years the author complied with the unlawful prior restraint by using pseudonyms and anthropomorphic likenesses. He occasionally linked to other sites that he did not control - a practice permitted by international convention and not prohibited by the prior restraint which Washington Superior Court disguised as an anti-harassment order.

Elias passed his report about the monkey to Seattle City Attorney Thomas A. Carr who filed it as one of a string of similar criminal charges for which he asked the court to return the cartoonist to jail. This illustrates the disconnected lunacy of Elias, Mitchell, and Carr in their desperate attempts to cover up elder abuse by silencing media. [Lunacy]

Elias tacitly admitted to SPD involvement in the cover up by asserting in his report: “This type of incident has been an ongoing problem, as I personally have taken at least three reports”. He admits to three reports and has filed a string of other reports which accent his emotional involvement with Mitchell. Elias never once tried to contact or to interview the accused person or to ascertain the real situation; instead, he assumed the cartoonist guilty until proven innocent.

Carr later asked Seattle Municipal Court to dismiss the case. Faced with a competent criminal lawyer, Carr evidently found the Council House madcap comedy “too hot to handle” as it moved from one insane situation to the next. The scripted performance formed part of a string of other moonstruck productions filed by Mitchell and Dunbar aided and abetted by SPD.

The police reports had the sole intent of maliciously harassing the writer. The syndicate planned to return him to jail in yet another attempt to silence reporting that exposed the cover-up of elder abuse and other crimes at Council House.

City of Seattle and US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officials not only tried to cover up allegations but also tried to silence by unlawful means tenants who tried to report elder abuse. Moreover, biased straw judges have obstructed lawyers who tried to obtain due process of law for victims of myriad elder abuse. [Straw-Man Stratagem]

Bogus Criminal Charges

Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney, has knowingly used fabricated reports to file politically motivated criminal charges while Jeaneen Watkins, Harassment Advocate, City of Seattle, has buried victim complaints for political expedience. Sandra Kay Pailca, Director of the Office of Professional Accountability (OPA), City of Seattle, has practiced willful blindness. Instead, of properly addressing issues, Lisa Herbold, Legislative Assistant, City of Seattle, has made categoric statements that show contempt prior to investigation.

Court documents show how Mitchell and Dunbar filed a string of false and misleading criminal complaints with Elias and other SPD officers. They repeatedly claimed that the author violated a restraining order and cited nebulous complaints that they neither documented nor proved. Elias accepted them at face value without any consideration for probable cause.

During a review of documents, similar issues arose that should concern both the legislative and police departments of City of Seattle government. The documents implicate city employees and police officers in an unlawful conspiracy to fabricate or bury evidence.

SPD officers filed politically motivated reports to support false and misleading contentions by perpetrators of crime. Moreover, police neglected to interview accused persons or give them an opportunity to refute accusations which reinforces the conspiracy contention. Seattle Police Department officers have established a pattern or practice of unlawful activity that Seattle City Council members must investigate.

Carr and others have conspired with Mitchell to bring criminal charges that carry a jail sentence for routine investigative journalism not connected with any restraining order. Mitchell has also tried to implicate or involve the author in legal actions and evictions concerning third parties that have no bearing upon him except for investigating and reporting them.

Mitchell brought investigation upon himself by repeatedly terrorizing elderly tenants. He has consistently tried to psychologically transfer his legal problems with myriad Council House tenants onto the journalist that writes about them. Apparently City officials support his aberration. They issued unlawful arrest warrants that caused him to go on the lam for seven months and would have gone to jail again if apprehended. All this lawless behavior predicated upon SPD collusion and false witness provided by the lawless buffoon that occupies the position of Seattle City Attorney.

Complaints from Council House residents about elder abuse and harassment have not received attention for more than five years which indicates a monumental cover up. Moreover, the City has silently withheld public records requested under the Public Disclosure Act more than two years ago.

Carr and Watkins have perverted legal process by neglecting to address issues of malicious harassment and elder abuse. They have retaliated for reporting facts. They have silently withheld public records and have allowed Council House directors to practice racism and elder abuse with impunity.

SPD and city officials have a responsibility to investigate and prosecute crimes. Instead, they indict or jail victims without probable cause to cover up those crimes. In company with federal and state oversight authorities, City of Seattle and SPD have ignored reports of crimes filed with them and have repeatedly tried to kill the messenger that brought the facts to light.

SPD officers have not followed up on reports of crime; instead they have colluded with Mitchell in a cover up. In at least five cases they have arrested and incarcerated elderly tenants based upon false and misleading reports scripted by Mitchell and Dunbar for that purpose, then courts have denied their victims due process of law.

Mitchell and four of five Kapos (thugs) whom he employs have repeatedly committed assault and malicious harassment. With Dunbar, they choreographed confrontations to provoke tenants with verbal abuse while Mitchell and Dunbar used psychological transference to blame the victims for the outcome. The term “transference” defines a process whereby disturbed or evil people displace their own emotions or happenings onto others to their own advantage.

Each time physical assault has occurred, police officers have neglected to charge those responsible and, at the behest of Mitchell, have frequently neglected to file reports. Officers have intimidated and refused to speak with victims, or blamed them for the problems. Routinely, they have refused to take statements from independent witnesses sympathetic to those victims.

False and Misleading Reports

Stephen A. Mitchell and Audrey F. Dunbar, both employed as administrators at Council House, have filed several dozen false and misleading reports. Seattle Police Department (SPD) and other government departments have accepted those reports without question, deliberately avoided questioning the accused, and acted upon them without probable cause. In addition, Council House filed at least sixty perjured and suborned documents containing malicious and libelous contentions against myriad Council House tenants during a five-year period with the sole intent of silencing dissent through frivolous court actions and witness tampering.

SPD officers conspired with Council House administrators to cover up elder abuse and chose to ignore tenant complaints apparently for political expedience. SPD officers do not interview Council House victims. Moreover, they retaliate against journalists when they investigate complaints that police and city officials have buried. Effectively, police officers aid and abet Mitchell and Dunbar in filing false and misleading documents with prosecutors.

	Mitchell and Dunbar have repeatedly made monkeys out of Seattle Police Officers. Why have officers not arrested them for making false and misleading statements to public servants? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Those documents contain scenarios that allow Mitchell to deny tenants their constitutional rights. Officers, either unknowingly or maliciously, provide Mitchell with the tools for him to terrorize tenants into accepting “no-tolerance” polices and elder abuse.

Frequently, Mitchell describes tenants as vulnerable adults (crazy) and falsely portrays himself as their “mental health counselor”. He tells officers that he has absolute authority and will handle any situation. He persuades them not to file reports when incidents result from the illegal actions of his Kapos (thugs). Officers comply by not filing reports unless favorable to Mitchell.

Mitchell and Dunbar also frequently persuade officers to arrest tenants on trumped-up charges based upon false and misleading statements to SPD and government agencies. Alternatively, they bring frivolous or capricious law suits against tenants whom they wish to intimidate based upon denial of constitutional rights. They fulfill their misanthropic fantasies by using suborned perjury.

Both police and Council House directors condone their behavior - police by dereliction of duty and directors by anonymity, neglect, and indifference. Both police and directors grant Mitchell impunity. A charismatic sociopath, Mitchell does whatever he wishes despite laws that govern his behavior as a state actor. [Impunity]

Elder Abuse

Mitchell and Dunbar have repeatedly used SPD officers to support their contentions and to unlawfully punish dissenters. SPD and City of Seattle have allowed Mitchell, Dunbar, and Council House directors to escape responsibility for their part in at least two alleged homicides by abuse, and a string of other crimes.

Jackie Rose Nations (60) committed suicide after repeated abuse by Dunbar (her niece). Mitchell, complicit in that homicide by abuse, tried to transfer the blame for the suicide onto a seventy-one year old woman whom he accused of murder (a physical impossibility). SPD Officer Witmer (#6782) bought Mitchell’s sociopathic fantasy and filed it in his incident report without investigating to ascertain the truth of the statement. [Contractor’s Daughter]

Mitchell then tried to blame this reporter (against whom he has waged an insane five-year vendetta) for the death - he claimed that the victim jumped from a window because she saw her name listed as a nocturnal noisemaker in a pamphlet. Mitchell classified that as repeated harassment. Witnesses have since said that the victim did not have the mental capacity to comprehend written material anyway. [Who Killed Jackie Nations?]

King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng had notice of the Nations suicide and the cover up but has done nothing to investigate the complicity of Mitchell and Dunbar in two cases of alleged homicide by abuse although many witnesses have full knowledge of the incidents and would testify if protected from retaliation.

Mitchell and Dunbar then concocted another fantasy by implying in a police report that the author slashed the tires on Dunbar’s automobile three times. In a police report, Dunbar stated: “In the past [Dunbar] has had the tires slashed on her vehicle three times and feels that Trummel may have been responsible.” Any of a string of victims of vicious elder and racial abuse by Dunbar could have committed the tire slashing. They could have morally (if not legally) justified their action as retribution for the cruel treatment that she consistently meted to them.

Despite several hundred possible suspects, SPD Officer K. Dines (#4987) recorded Dunbar’s statement in his incident report. He neither questioned the accused nor did Dunbar have a shred of evidence to support her contentions. In fact, “the suspect” learned about the slashing from a Council House source when Mitchell published a reward to try to catch the perpetrator.

With a substantial reward at stake, Council House tenants maintained a wall of silence which points to the disgust that many of them have for Mitchell and Dunbar. Officer Dines would have learned if he had inquired that his suspect worked thousands of miles away on assignment on the dates of the slashing. Apparently, like his brethren he would rather file a false report than go against the political hierarchy. [Vehicular Irresponsibility - Tire Slashing]

The named officers exemplify only a few of the many instances of SPD dereliction of duty by aiding and abetting Mitchell and Dunbar in filing false and misleading police incident reports. They seldom interview the people whom Mitchell accuses to try to ascertain the truth. Several of those reports have resulted in elderly people going to jail or mental institutions without probable cause. Other Council House tenants have lost their homes through the same aberrant behavior.

Whether by gullibility, malice, or just plain incompetence, SPD officers have repeatedly reported untrue statements by two pathological liars without any attempt to verify or validate what they said.

Mitchell falsely claimed to SPD officers that he has social worker qualifications and experience. He also implied that he has fiduciary powers by falsely classifying tenants as vulnerable adults in his care. Officers have relied upon Mitchell’s false claims to credentialing that allows him to diagnose psychiatric conditions when Mitchell evidently has a psychiatric problem himself.

History records several mentally deficient charismatic leaders who have posed as psychiatrists and social workers. Mitchell ranks with them. SPD officers have not had the savvy to recognize his condition in the same way that police officers in the past failed to recognize the behavior of Jeffrey Dahmer and Jim Jones until too late to help their victims. [Another Jim Jones?]

The record shows that several dozen other members of "Seattle’s finest” had no legitimate reason to make personal remarks in their Council House reports or to sway the opinion of others. They exceeded their authority as sworn police officers restricted to reporting only facts in a manner defined by law after Mitchell baffled them with his fantasies.

Invasion of Privacy

Police violate tenant confidences. Mitchell then uses that breach of ethics to retaliate against tenants for calling them. He later evicts them for using constitutionally protected speech that he classifies as “rude and abusive behavior” - a phrase which he has admitted under oath has no definitive meaning.

Some tenants call police on private issues such as robbery, assault, and threatening behavior. Police arrive and go to the designated apartment to interrogate tenants who assume that they have confidentiality. The tenants discuss their problems openly and the officers leave to make their report.

The officers visit Mitchell in his office on the way out of the building as a “courtesy” and disclose everything that the tenant has told them. He assures them that he will “counsel” the tenant and address the issues.

Mitchell uses the information that he has obtained from police in conjunction with information gleaned from private tenant files - files protected by federal privacy laws - to retaliate and abuse the tenant for calling police. He uses that information for blackmail and calls relatives and friends to foment trouble.

With the private information he scripts fantasy scenarios which he uses to provoke tenants to respond verbally. He classifies the response as “rude and abusive behavior” a term that he coined and unlawfully inserted into leases, then threatens them with eviction.

Following the threat, Mitchell instructs his thugs (Kapos) to provoke the tenant through harassing insults and other verbal assaults until in exasperation they respond in kind. Mitchell then either calls police or issues an eviction notice.

Elder Assault

Any form of assault upon elderly people defines as elder abuse which at Council House has reached major proportions with many variants. Police officers have knowingly and repeatedly condoned malicious harassment by deferring to managers.

The terms “assault” or “malicious harassment” mean either a threatened or attempted physical attack intended to cause bodily harm or an emotional attack by speech, writing, or gesture. Words alone do not constitute malicious harassment unless the context or circumstances surrounding the words indicate a threat and the person has the ability to carry out that threat. [RCW 9A.36 Physical Harm]

Capricious threats of eviction arguably constitute malicious harassment and rank as crimes of violence, especially when they give elderly people reason to fear, or inflict emotional harm upon them. Any act that causes harmful or offensive contact to an elderly person by word or deed with the intent of creating a state of apprehension - an almost daily occurrence at Council House - classifies as malicious harassment and elder abuse.

In Washington state, malicious harassment classifies as a class C felony. The state can prosecute and punish any person who repeatedly commits malicious harassment on each count separately. Courts can order punishment by confinement in a state correctional institution for five years, or a fine of ten thousand dollars, or both.

Police officers who neglect to arrest perpetrators of unlawful acts by intentionally putting themselves in a position where they remain unaware of facts commit willful blindness. A pattern or practice of deliberately evading their responsibility to interview victims of, and witnesses to, malicious harassment or assault construes as willful blindness and dereliction of duty.

Mitchell, a ravening sociopath, has repeatedly acted as principal actor and provocateur for violent assaults and malicious harassment of probably hundreds of elderly people during his tenure as administrator at Council House. Audrey F. Dunbar, Felippe Jacques and four other Kapos (thugs) have aided and abetted Mitchell in those crimes. In most cases, SPD officers have practiced willful blindness. [Five Kapos]

Terrorism

Council House directors have terrorized elderly tenants by mounting a campaign to orchestrate frivolous and capricious complaints, multiple perjury, subornation, witness tampering, and alleged homicide by abuse tacitly permitted by Seattle Police Department officers.

Impunity granted by corrupt elements in City of Seattle and HUD, in an alleged composition with Washington Superior Court and Seattle Police Department, has allowed Council House directors: to unlawfully incarcerate at least four elderly people; to conspire in multiple abuse that resulted in the death of at least two senior citizens; and, to effect a string of racially motivated, unlawful evictions using "zero-tolerance" policies.

Homicide by Abuse Extreme indifference to human life that causes death of a vulnerable adult through a pattern or practice of neglect. Stephen A. Mitchell and his team of thugs have terrorized dozens of elderly people for more than five years. Three deaths from neglect and abuse have occurred for which Mitchell and his assistant Audrey F. Dunbar must hold ultimate responsibility. Homicide ranks as a class A felony punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in a state correctional institution or by a fine of fifty thousand dollars or both. Neglect means a pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health. Council House directors employ terrorists who use Judaism as a political weapon. Their administrators and Kapos organize in cells to use religion as a cover for elder abuse.

Police officers have shown a pattern or practice of covering up crimes by colluding with Council House directors and administrators while refusing to interview people who have filed complaints. They interview the perpetrators and ignore the victims. Managers and their thugs falsely portray tenants as vulnerable adults (crazy) to deter officers from interviewing them.

Council House rents independent-living apartments to senior citizens. The apartment block does not classify as a nursing home and does not legally house vulnerable adults. The only difference between Council House tenants and tenants in other apartment blocks relates to impecuniosity and age. [Vulnerable Adults]

Officers defer to management wishes by filing false and misleading reports to dispose of issues which managers use to retaliate against tenants for complaining. Officers arrest tenants on the unsubstantiated statements of perennial, pathological liars without questioning their motives or verifying their statements with the victims and their witnesses - people whom they have sworn to protect.

Violent Assault

Felippe Jacques, by his own admission, has a lifelong history of violence. At Council House, he has physically assaulted tenants at least ten times and maliciously harassed them on many other occasions. Mitchell upgraded him from volunteer Kapo to staff which has allowed him to exacerbate his violence. His victims have repeatedly filed complaints with police but Mitchell covers for him. SPD officers back off when Mitchell speaks, either from gullibility or for political expedience. [Noblesse Oblige]

Jacques has filed multiple perjury in his own behalf. He has also suborned more than forty tenants in Mitchell’s behalf which other directors and Council House attorneys have filed in several cases. Most of the perjury has never suffered legal discovery by order of Judge Doerty. Jacques has published multiple libel and acts as Mitchell’s propagandist by distributing hate mail to the web and to Council House tenants. Although aware of the hate mail, SPD officers have done nothing about it.

Arguably, the writing, which contains threats of physical violence and racial hatred, cannot stand scrutiny for constitutional protection. An acknowledged misanthrope, Jacques terrorizes tenants yet SPD officers protect him from criminal prosecution. Witnesses say that officers socialize with him which indicates their mentality and demeanor.

Jacques’s victims seldom get an opportunity to explain assaults to police officers who routinely refuse to interview them or witnesses. Tenants claim that on several occasions they have seen officers joking with Jacques about victims after he had taken part in their assault. Mitchell openly boasts, and his thugs laugh about, having judges in their pocket.

Jacques behaves like a modern-day Svengali who, with evil intent, tries to persuade others to do what he wants. Mitchell and police officers eat out of his hand to the detriment of tenants for whom they hold joint and several responsibility. SPD has repeatedly neglected to have either Mitchell or Jacques arrested for violent assaults and misrepresentations to police officers.

Jacques threatened tenant Leon L. Harris in a courthouse by saying: “I’m going to blow your fucking head off”. Mitchell condoned that behavior. Seattle police claimed that they referred the incident to the district attorney who has apparently done nothing about it.

Mitchell did not consider it “rude and abusive behavior” and did not warn Jacques that he had violated his lease or threaten to evict him as he has done with many other people who looked at him cross-eyed. Instead, Mitchell has rewarded him in a variety of ways and harassed witnesses against him.

Recently, Mitchell moved Jacques to a better apartment then unlawfully evicted Donald Jackson, a black man who had just returned from intensive care, by throwing all his possessions into the street. This allowed Jacques’s woman friend to occupy the apartment across the hall from his own.

Mitchell and Jacques, both rabid racists, harassed and terrorized Jackson and his wife (his only caregiver) for months to effect the eviction. Seattle Office of Civil Rights lawyers whitewashed that and similar incidents by intimidating witnesses and falsifying evidence to give Council House a clean bill of health. [Whitewash]

Allegedly, SPD arrested and jailed Jackson’s wife for trespass on evidence manufactured by Mitchell and Jacques using surveillance cameras and false police reports. SPD repeatedly cooperated with Mitchell when Jacques harassed the woman and her husband then Mitchell arranged for a sheriff to evict them. Meanwhile, Jeaneen Watkins, Harassment Advocate, City of Seattle, did nothing to help the couple - she evidently took her job title literally.

Probably a hundred assaults at Council House do not include five physical assaults on this reporter, many violent and unprovoked verbal confrontations including death threats, and 111 days in King County Jail which included 25 days in solitary confinement. That solitary confinement resulted from a sua sponte decision by Judge Doerty in an ex parte consort with Judge Wartnik and Council House directors using trumped-up charges to try to destroy this web site. Mitchell and five other directors retroactively supported the sua sponte decision with perjury and suborned perjury from thirteen other people after the fact.

All this, and at least two deaths allegedly from homicide by abuse, occurred long before Lauren Jeanne Hawk (65) appeared on the scene. The situation has now reached the state of being completely out of hand.

Instead, of addressing very real issues, City officials either do nothing (laissez faire) or collude with perpetrators. They use SPD to act to the detriment of victims. Officers then cover up dereliction as evidenced by the fraudulent criminal charges made against this reporter.
[Laissez Faire]

A series of violent incidents have occurred during the past five years. SPD have failed to properly investigate violent assault, apparently to favor management and their thugs. Most recently, Mitchell physically assaulted Hawk, a sixty-five year old woman in a wheelchair. She called 911.

Later, Hawk contacted this reporter about the physical attack upon her by Mitchell. She said that police arrived as the result of her emergency call and went straight to Mitchell’s office. She says that they refused to interview her or her witnesses. Instead, they interviewed Mitchell and Felippe Jacques his assistant thug (whom Hawk alleges has since assaulted her with a stick).

Hawk vociferously claimed Mitchell’s assault evidently recorded on a security tape. The assault matched other instances of physical and many more verbal assaults at Council House. Mitchell and police officers have consistently helped to transfer blame for almost all violent incidents onto the victims.

This reporter referred Hawk to Lisa Herbold, Legislative Assistant, City of Seattle, claiming that as a journalist he could not give her legal advice. Previous incidents bore out much of the behavior that Hawk described. Apparently, that referral ended in a cat fight between Herbold and Hawk.

Keeping Hawk silent seems an unlikely possibility. Herbold, Pailca, and Seattle City Council had three opportunities to respond to Hawk’s statements prior to publication. They neither refuted her accusations nor responded to requests for public records in accordance with Washington Public Disclosure Act, RCW 42.17.

Seattle Office of Professional Accountability

Sandra Kay Pailca, Director of the Office of Professional Accountability (OPA), City of Seattle, a lawyer, politician, and program director paid by Seattle Police Department, has conflicts of interest that affect the public adversely. She effectively occupies a risk management position in the guise of mediator. City publicity claims that the mayor appointed her as a civilian employee. Pailca, a lawyer paid by the police department, ranks no more as a civilian than this reporter qualifies as a police officer.

OPA claims to review all complaints and document them before classification according to seriousness of allegation. Pailca uses police officers to investigate police officers and has apparently never heard of the blue wall of silence let alone conflict of interest.

An independent authority must interview victims in private instead of straw Kapos employed in a department that has an uncaring mayor, a buffoon for city attorney, and a “harassment advocate” who takes her job title literally by feigning investigation of elder abuse. [Five Kapos]

Police take no notice that elderly tenants at Council House live in perpetual fear of reporting incidents to police and oversight authorities. Managers and their thugs retaliate against them by making their lives hell with derogation and ostracism or by bringing frivolous law suits against them and arbitrarily evicting them.

Tenants need independent interviewers in a location away from Council House and its managers and their enforcers to avoid violent retaliation against them for speaking their minds. They also need someone other than the usual straw cops that favor Council House directors and turn a blind eye to elder abuse and other crimes that they commit.

Justice must not only be done but be seen to be done which is extremely unlikely with a consortium of politicos and police officers covering their asses, and a lawyer who has been in bed with the politicians and police officers for more than a decade.

A conflict of interest occurs when lawyers, politicians, or program directors have competing professional or personal interests which make it difficult for them to perform their duties without bias. A mere appearance of prejudice undermines confidence although no evidence of impropriety may exist.

Conflict of interest negatively impacts the public interest when a government official occupies several positions that require judgment on issues that affect the public good. Particular conflicts occur when an official has an ethical responsibility to follow professional codes of practice, then uses professional skills to abrogate laws for personal gain and political expediency - a risk management procedure.

Risk management regulates the cost through assessment strategies that avoid or transfer risk to adversaries. That process either reduces vulnerability by mitigating risk or applies cost effective controls. It includes both risk prevention and damage control. It has no legitimate part in the mediation process because it involves consideration of political, social, economic, and legal hazards to determine an optimal situation for an employer or political interest.

Both conflict of interest and risk management in government result in an erosion of rights through biased decisions that balance risk economics with mission benefits to the detriment of constitutional and human rights. The combination results in identifying and controlling events and people - political opportunism to the detriment of the public good.

In the City of Seattle, the ultimate responsibility to address the issues reported in the media about police corruption, incompetence, and dereliction lies with Sandra Kay Pailca. Pailca fronts as a civilian employee when in fact she works as a lawyer on the police department payroll. Appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council (22 Jan 01), she has a responsibility to investigate complaints, certify investigative findings, and make recommendations on case disposition and officer discipline to the Chief of Police.

Pailca served as chair of the King County Labor and Employment Section from 1997. In that job she provided advice to, and defended employees in all three branches of county government in labor and employment matters. That experience created a precedent for her present actions in protecting police officers.

Pailca has become a leading light in the City of Seattle administrative structure set up by Mayor Gregory J. Nickels. That structure relies upon charlatans and flaks to cover up governmental dereliction and collusion. Pailca, with her inherent conflict of interest, must favor the group that pays her which denies human and civil rights to support “Seattle’s Finest”. [Dereliction and Collusion]

Willful blindness by Pailca and Watkins, also denial of human rights by the police officers for whom they cover, has manifested in untold elder abuse at Council House. That blindness has resulted in unlawful eviction, arrest, imprisonment, confinement in mental institutions, and death of a string of tenants. The victims did nothing more than dissent when faced with violent sociopaths who manage the block.

Pailca will certainly have her work cut out when she finally addresses SPD dereliction and collusion of city officials and police officers with Council House directors. She will have to admit to personal dereliction during the five years since her appointment. Her disinterest and political affiliations have left senior citizens with no redress for grievances.

Media

Some Seattle media apparently thrive upon political association which only encourages corruption and abuse. Willful blindness and dubious associations lead to nothing more than puffery for political expediency and propaganda - a procedure on which Mayor Nickels relies to cover up the deficiencies and corruption in his administration. Similar associations exist at all levels of Washington government and in each of the branches, especially among media representatives and the City of Seattle officials named in Contra Cabal.

Contra Cabal has reported corruption that has caused the death of several elderly people and the terrorization and abuse of many others - predicated upon greed and political expedience. Yet, from Nickels down, nobody has given the victims a hearing. Jurists have even victimized attorneys who have represented them. [The Trial - WIP]

Council House directors and their thugs still rely upon bogus court findings and suborned declarations to demean elderly people. They continue to quote the outrageous and unfounded rants made by Judge James A. Doerty, in consort with Judge Anthony P. Wartnik, published on Superior Court record despite Washington Supreme Court having overturned them (30 Mar 06).

Mitchell has recently represented or implied that this reporter works with myriad Council House complainants in an activist or representative capacity - another false statement by this pathological liar. This reporter has no connection with anyone at Council House except sources - tenants who have witnessed corruption and elder abuse by Council House directors in consort with equally corrupt judges, government officials, and police officers.

People with whom he communicates rank as journalism sources essential for the verification and validation of facts. The process ascertains truth and his reports overcome the anecdotal references and the stream of propaganda that emanates from Council House and its directors upon which police officers and city politicians evidently rely.

Conclusion

Nicholas J. Licata, Council Member, City of Seattle, must belong with his colleagues on the moon if he thinks that anyone in their right mind believes that OPA acts as an unbiased resource. Moreover, he failed to realize that journalists neither act as law enforcement officers nor file complaints in behalf of victims of crimes that they report. That prerogative remains with the victims and legal counsel.

Laissez-Faire means Abuse Federal and municipal officials charged with oversight of Council House adopted laissez faire policies. They neglected to investigate reports of elder abuse, racism, harassment and alleged homicide. They also condoned eviction without due process of law. Laissez-faire emphasizes the profit motive at the expense of those whom the law protects while government officials acquiesce for political and economic expedience.

If journalists filed with OPA, then they would have to make a prior judgment of probable cause. They would have to impinge upon the legal rights of individuals and unlawfully act as legal advocates or law enforcement officers.

It is not the job of journalists to file complaints against Council House (except when they rank as first party to a complaint). However, they may publish details of myriad crimes, dereliction by government officials and by SPD after investigating them enough to verify and validate what sources have told them.

The function of the Fourth Estate remains one of revelation when the other three branches of government unlawfully conceal - nothing more. They do not take sides although many politicos would prefer to have this writer "on their side". That type of affiliation only creates conflicts of interest so most writers avoid them.

A journalist’s responsibility ends with published reports. It is the duty of elected officials like Licata to inquire into elder abuse and deaths at Council House and to take whatever action they deem necessary to redress grievances and to insure that state actors conform with the law. Licata must also insure that Pailca cleans up her act. He needs to order a thorough investigation of Council House by truly independent investigators, preferably from out-of-state.

In the wake of dereliction by Seattle officials of US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and its Office of the Inspector General (HUD-OIG), who have consistently covered up elder abuse and misappropriation of federal funds for five years, that function probably belongs to General Accounting office.

A thorough and independent investigation of Seattle Police Department, East Precinct officers needs to fathom the unholy alliance that exists among SPD officers, City employees, Council House directors, and Washington Superior Court jurists within the Council House exclusive, faith-based initiative now known worldwide as Seattle Jewish Mafia.

[Nmesis]

Brad A. Meryhew, formerly Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons (SCRAP), a public defender appointed by Judge James A. Doerty when media pressure became too hot for him to handle, obtained the author’s release from solitary confinement (2002). Ironically, Meryhew succeeded without a purge of the alleged contempt that Doerty contrived in an ex parte relationship with Judge Anthony P. Wartnik. Meryhew, now in private practice as a partner in the Law Offices of James Newton, Auburn, Washington, will defend against the new criminal complaints filed in an alleged retaliatory compact among Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney, Council House directors, and lawyers exposed in Contra Cabal. Meryhew visited the author frequently while in jail and after transfer to solitary confinement. He inspired the author to undertake extensive research into institutionalized racism during and after his release. [Institutionalized Racism] [Attorneys at Law]

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