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Ridgewoood Police Recruit Scandal Reader says nothing but political pay back
Aronsohn never forgave those three Councilpersons for not making him Deputy Mayor and now has systematically gone after everyone one of them as witnessed at the council meeting and now this.
Pucciarellli never forgave two Councilpersons for not appointing him head of the planning board and has said as much to people. (that is way he ran for office)
Hauck is the worst of them all, she does not think for herself and just does what she is told.
The retired police captain who spoke up blames the former mayor for not making him chief. I might and but not sure was Pucciarellli best man.He also hates Chief Ward and said so on public. So there you have folks It has nothing to do with nepotism, ordinance or money. Its payback time folks.
I would like to give a warning to any friends of Killion ( father) Stay away from him if any of the amigos see you or there rat friends in the village see you talking to him you may be next. The never forget.
this town is a mess,
Is this all there is ?
Who’s next?
I’m surprised that PUCCIARELL ARONSOHN haven’t got their political consulting firm Whitehorse Stagiest or their groupies to start doing damage control. Maybe its to early.
Former and current police and firemen still trying to run this this town for their own little domain.
#6 how? The council gets caught in lie and their intentions become transparent and you blame police and fire?
How could the police chief not be aware of the law? Only a $150k bet that there will be retirees. Tie this in with the non-compete problem with the school deliveries & someone (town attorney?) should be giving guidance with the rulebook more often. Ignorance of the law usually does not matter.
#8 what about the council ? Three of them approved the ordinence and admitted they were not aware of it… they also approved funding, testing, and equipment purchases in violation of their own law. How are you only citing the chief?
#8 what about the council ? Three of them approved the ordinence and admitted they were not aware of it… they also approved funding, testing, and equipment in violation of their own law. How are you only citing the chief?
Aronsohn apologist are now on line. The blame game has official begun .
I’d like to know how chief wards son got hired on the police dept. the village has a nepotism policy and a rule you must live in town must have given a fake address all the same crap in the village.
#12 Wards kids ( both )moved to RWD in an apartment took the civil service test passed in the top 3 or 4 and the #2 kid got hired the #4 did not completely above board. The kid who got passed over got hired by another pd in Bergen county. The # 3 kid on the list was the relative of DR. Cobb former principal of GW middle school and Interim superintendent of RWD schools, so take nepotism and stuff it. You are another misinformed malcontent. FYI the villages “nepotism policy is probably in violation of civil service law but no one ever contested it.
who cares . the police make so much as it is. talk about over paid.
#14 how is your comment relivant? Doesn’t even pertain to the artical??
Id have to agree with #13. Either the town is a civil service town (as we are, and as such we comply with civil service rules) or its not. The ‘nepotism’ policy, despite being well intended, does not have any place in a town that is governed by civil service rules. By applying this on top of civil service, someone could probably spend a few dollars on an attorney and invalidate it.
It would be an appropriate policy if we had a ‘chief’s test’ whereby ‘favorites’ or insiders (such as dispatchers) were hired, like many non-civil service towns.
Anyone who wants to rent a room or an apartment *and file federal income taxes and vote* can become a Village resident, eligible for hiring for any civil service position that requires residency. It does not require you to ‘grow up in town’.
Despite all of the above written by other posters, politics and ‘paybacks’ are the way it is in the real world.
If someone had a bitch with the former Mayor and chose to bring a legitimate question up before the council, so be it. The council must act in accordance with their ‘nepotism’ policy, or rescind it.
If one chooses to ‘throw their hat’ into the political arena, one must be ready to ‘suffer the consequences’. If the former mayor was more concerned about his son’s future employment, maybe he should have not entered politics and sat on the sidelines and enjoyed his retirement check.
That’s the way it is in the real world. And that’s why many successful businessman from the private sector wouldn’t get into politics…EVER.
WOW #16 That makes it right? Your answer is don’t run for office because there will political retribution not only on you which I,m sure he new would happen but it ok to extend this to your family. These are the moral people you want in office . Sound like a dictatorship. Let me do what I want or I will punish you and your family. No wonder people don’t speak up. Their afraid of payback. What a country. Hear that everyone if you don’t like what the your government doing don’t try to change it because they will get you. Just keep your mouth shut and just let do what ever they want.
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Welcome to the real world.
The village nepotism policy states that when a potential hire is a legacy, the village manager must supply the council with his or her legacy background. If you watch the public meeting, Heather clearly states that she informed the council of the recruits legacy background before they were given the go ahead. Then the council approved these two hires to proceed with medical exams, drug tests, and psychological exams. The nepotism policy should not even be in question at this stage. Heather also stated that when question by Albert that no non-legacy candidate was skipped over. In fact, the only candidate that was skipped over was a legacy. In addition, the skipped candidate is the one who has the most political and municipal ties of them all.
Its not a perfect world but operating within the civil service rules is most ‘transparent’ way to deal with hiring and promotions.
Read the Bergen Record sometime. Constant lawsuits in Paramus over promotions.
Police departments have many recurring ‘themes’ that happen in every one.
Officers dislike each other because of ‘perceived slights’.
Who get a better schedule?
Who got the better squad car?
Who got promoted ‘over’ someone who ‘thought’ they deserved it?
Who got more ‘details/side jobs’ (PSEG work etc)
Who got ‘credit’ for an arrest?
Who got a better office?
Who’s ‘brownosing’ the brass and getting preferable treatment. ETC ETC.
Then it gets personal. Who is fooling around with someone’s ex-wife, ex-girlfriend etc.
Its a fact of life in law enforcement.
Its not a perfect system, but civil service has more guidelines that must be followed than a department that has not decided to operate under these rules.
No matter who gets hired, someone else will be upset because they didn’t get the job.
Such is life in the real world.
Suck it up and move on.
Suck it up and move that’s what you would tell these two candidates. I bet you change you mine if they were your kids.
The Council should suck it up they made the so called mistake. Not knowing their own laws. As the Mayor said when he voted to pay lawyers fee for the firefighter who was passed over for promotion by Gabbert even though the court did not mandate the payment. ” It the right thing to do” The Mayor should also remember how he felt when his wife was laid off when our Governor stop funding for N J public television and he blamed it on politics.
civil service, who are they. I never see them come up to the village to see how things are going.
Appropriately called civil service, speak out and they take away ALL your civil rights, even your kids. And people will help them.
#17 I like how you think. What a Country, keep your mouth shut & all will be Ok. I thought we went to fight wars with countries that did that to people. Its appalling to me that people are so accepting of it here. Scared, but has oppression ever worked in history?