BRONIN'S HAND PICKED POLICE CHIEF
In an e-mail sent last night by Chief Operating Officer Thea Montanez to Councilmembers, Montanez stated that she had received an invoice from Friendly's Autobody for the vehicle repair for "approximately" $3300.00 Approximately? Does the City of Hartford now pay "approximate" amounts. How do you deposit an "approximate" amount? Do they have the actual amount or not? Where is the actual invoice and insurance documents?
Montanez also states in her e-mail that she apparently doesn't agree with the repairs. She states in her e-mail "that ($3300.00) seems high based on the limited amount of damage, and so as part of my review of auto repair expenses, we will be using photos from this case to get other assessments of repair costs.
Shouldn't an estimate have been the first order of business before Thody dropped the car at Friendly's the day after the crash to quickly get it repaired. Was that in hopes that no one would notice? Does the City of Hartford have accepted protocols on how to conduct business, and isn't that Montanez's function to make sure proper protocol and policy and procedures are followed, or is it her role to cover-up bad deeds before the Council or the public find out?
And which photos are you going to use to get other "assessments", the photos Thody claims he took himself? Where are the photos from the Crime Scene Division (CSD) that normally accompany any cruiser accident. Or maybe the Chief didn't want CSD involved because it wouldn't have been kept quiet?
It also really makes me question Assistant Chief Medina's (or whoever wrote the cover up report) and their investigative skills. How would a trained investigator write a report quoting a damage report amount of "less than $1,000.00" without actually seeing any repair documents. Isn't that the first thing you would ask to see before going out on a limb and quoting a dollar amount.
A dollar amount that I might add would be pretty easy to eventually verify or discount . I think anyone that has had body work done knows that even a plastic grill is most likely more than $1,000 to replace , not including labor charges. But I guess when you just take it for granted that you are dealing with stupid people who just don't care, the coverup is easy.
Well, Chief Thody, Ms. Montanez, Mayor Bronin and Assistant Chief Medina and Councilmembers, we aren't nearly as ignorant as you think we are and your actions are disgusting. Ms. Montanez, do your job and end the cover-up. For whatever reason you are willing to continue to put out false information is beyond me. Have you ever heard the saying that "the cover-up is worse than the crime". Montanez, Thody and Medina are digging the hole deeper with every lie you type. End this charade and start telling the truth, that is what you all are paid for by the people of Hartford. Every lie you tell continues to erode the trust and confidence we have in the Hartford Police Department.
And by the way, when do we get the phone records and the paperwork submitted to the Insurance Company or are those already part of a criminal investigation? ( I can't wait for those documents)
Mayor Bronin, it is time for you to start doing some housecleaning and get HPD back in order before it gets much worse.
Kev, Let’s also discuss the need for City of Hartford department heads and some lower level employees to have take home vehicles. I want one factual account where a department head personally saved a life by driving directly from wherever they were to a incident. Heck ,I remember Hartford Chief Dobson receiving updates on structure fires while sitting in his recliner at home while his fully tricked out SUV sat in his driveway. Although I also remember that racist being savvy enough to use that tricked out SUV city vehicle to conduct business for hE and his wife’s art gallery business ,until he got caught! You can drive almost to any point in the city within 10 minutes from Hartford’s Safety Complex on High St . If Thody is responding from as far away as Chester what would another 10 minutes matter? This perk has been abused for decades , employees have been drinking,drugging,sleeping,fornicating or meeting mistresses in them,they’ve pickied up and utilized the services of prostitutes,pick up they’re kids from school, take the family on outings in them,use them as a personal UBER to get friends and family around, the list goes on and on. This antiquated and ineffective practice needs to stop. It’s nothing more than a tax burden. So again , I challenge anyone to provide in detail the necessity for take home vehicles.
ReplyDeleteI always seem to be asking myself, is it possible to get any worse than it already is.
ReplyDeleteGreat reporting Kevin they all need to go. From the mayor to thea Thody and Medina. City council at this point is a joke too. Sad to say this is why i left hartford the misuse of taxpayers money and the corruption is too much to bear.
ReplyDelete“The cover up and lies are worse than the crime” has never been more true than here. These people run our PD and city and can’t be trusted to tell the truth? Honesty and integrity should be the #1 requirement for these roles. They are failing miserably and should step down. Not because a city vehicle got a boo boo but because the leadership smells like a dirty port-o-potty!
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