San Francisco Weekly's September 21-27, 2011 cover story is "Ranger Noir: Accusations of wrongdoing at S.F.'s Park Patrol have gone into overtime." Written by Weekly columnist Matt Smith, "Ranger Noir" provides ample evidence of the top-down corruption of San Francisco government's Park Patrol.
It should come as no surprise to learn that the administrative corruption within the Park Patrol--which includes cronyism, favoritism, the manipulation of favored employee's time-sheets, the false billing of Park Patrolmen time to Golden Gate Park event holders and retaliation against personnel brave enough to complain about same--has been made known to "top officials at city agencies including Recreation and Parks, the Civil Service Commission, the Department of Human Resources, and the City Controller's Whistleblower Program," but these new revelations are, indeed, shocking.
Whistleblowers throughout San Francisco Government have followed a similar chain of command resulting in the same lack of action taken by City and County of San Francisco leaders. Rather than clean up such corruption--which would provide a huge boost to both employee morale and the efficient provision of City services to the public--San Francisco Government's caretakers seem content instead to defend the guilty and pay out taxpayers' monies to those employees and members of the public who win civil lawsuits and equal employment opportunity cases filed against the City and County.
San Francisco Government's leader's cowardice in the face of such internal corruption is a past and present disgrace.
EXTERNAL LINK:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-09-21/news/marcus-santiago-sf-park-patrol-overtime-fraud-matt-smith/
Write On again, Democraticus! The keyboard is more powerful than bureaucratic obfuscation.
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