Skip to my Lieu-tenant Josey

Lieutenant Jonathan Josey will not be promoted to the rank of Captain.  At least for the time being.  The FOP will file a grievance and he will probably get promoted.

But not so fast.  We know the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 is being sued by several of their members for allegedly not representing them as diligently as they feel they should be represented.

Former Police Sergeant Tyrone Cook is suing the FOP and his trial is scheduled to begin in City Hall in May 2016.  He is suing the FOP and their attorney, Mark Gelman for under-representing Tyrone Cook in his arbitration to get his job back.

Cook was terminated in 2010 for being late in 2002.  No, it’s not a typo.  Cook was terminated in 2010 for being late in 2002.  The City alleges Cook was late on numerous occasions, but he never received a warning notice, no one ever say “hey, you better come to work on time”, nothing.  Tyrone Cook never used a sick day in his twenty-seven years of service to the City of Philadelphia.

Allegedly, he was followed by Internal Affairs for a couple of days and they discovered that he was late.  It was also alleged that he paid himself 2 hours for overtime that he wasn’t entitled to receive on numerous occasions.

That 2 hours here and there sounds a far lesser sum than the thousands that was paid to Detective Kenneth Rossiter.  Rossiter Fired for Stealing Overtime    The amazing part of this story is that the FOP defended him vehemently with FOP President John McNesby asserting “He’s a good guy and a good detective,” “He’ll work a case around the clock. He’s the aggressive kind of investigator you need to have out there.”  Yeah okay.

Maybe if he left his neighbor alone, that anonymous letter would never have went to Internal Affairs in the first place.  The days of punching in at court and doing what you please and punching out at the end of the day is over, according to a retired veteran homicide detective.  Rossiter didn’t get the memo, but it didn’t matter because the FOP bought in former Police Chief Inspector William Colarulo and a few retired and at least one present homicide detectives to attest that sometimes detectives worked from home.

It’s ludicrous on the face of it.  Since when was that practice ever sanctioned.  And yeah, we know if people do it, it becomes a practice or culture, but it was never sanctioned.  Rossiter got caught.  He went to arbitration and the FOP fought hard for him.

Former Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey was in a losing position.  But at least he did the right thing by firing Rossiter for the infraction.  But he won his job back.  Good for him.

Bad for Tyrone Cook.  The FOP did not present one witness for him.  They did not contest the statute of limitations.  They did not appeal.

And Tyrone Cook isn’t alone at the losing arbitration table.  Seems there’s a pattern if you know what I mean.  But the lawyers will get to the bottom of it.

This is the same pattern with people being skipped for promotion.  We have some people skipped for promotion, who wait years for an arbitration, and others get arbitration dates at whip-neck speed.  We’ll see where the woman-slapper falls.

He did get a fund-raiser.  He did only receive one small charge of simple assault, even though Aida Guzman was arrested and charged with crimes she didn’t commit.  He does still show up on the news adding insult to injury.  He does post idiotic posts on Facebook suggesting he should apply to be the Police Chief in Ferguson.

Maybe he should be the Police Chief in Ferguson.  There’s a department that’s been known to “slap” their citizens around.  Sounds like a good fit.