Dragonflyer Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Police Applications

“Draganflyer X6 R/C UAV approved by FAA for use by Mesa County Sheriff’s under Certificate of Authority (COA)”

“An advantage of the Draganflyer X6 is the relatively low cost when compared to air operations using a full sized manned helicopter or fixed wing aircraft. The Mesa Countys Sheriff office has been involved in more than 60 search and rescue operations this year. The Draganflyer X6 could of been deployed at a number of these cases providing a substantial cost savings for the Mesa County Sheriffs office.”

More at:
http://www.draganfly.com/news/2009/10/22/draganflyer-x6-rc-uav-approved-by-faa-for-use-by-mesa-county-sheriffs-under-certificate-of-authority-coa/

“Draganflyer X6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Takes Flight in OPP Police Applications”

“The Draganflyer X6 UAV helicopter, designed by Draganfly Innovations Inc. for aerial photography and videography, was used by the Forensic Identification Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on February 21, 2009 to collect evidence in a homicide investigation in a remote area outside of Kenora, Ontario, Canada. This represented the first operational mission of a federally approved, commercially produced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by an emergency service in North America.”
More at:
http://www.draganfly.com/news/2009/03/26/draganflyer-x6-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-opp-police-applications/

Dragonfly website:
http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/index.php

Radio Controlled Helicopter – for police work?

Just a thought; a real size helicopter is sometimes very useful in police work. An infrared camera can identify people. A night vision camera can “light up” an area at night.
The problem is a helicopter is very expensive to operate and extremely noisy.
The radio control helicopters also quiet enough to not be heard more than 50 feet away and can fly down streets and alleys at as little as one foot altitude and as much as 400 foot altitude.
They can take from 10 minutes to almost instant on to be ready to fly.
Here are two very different versions of a radio controlled helicopter:

Aerial Photography New York------SkyShutter--Promo from Jason Lam on Vimeo.

Skyshutter Americam:

http://www.aericam.com/





http://www.parrot.com/

It was a very good Christmas for “Shop with a Cop”

85 kids participated in Shop with a Cop this year:

“Coatesville event is in its 7th year. Santa's helpers in blue brighten children's holiday”

By Kathleen Brady Shea Inquirer Staff Writer

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/79150537.html

Is there a home for homeless firefighters in Coatesville?

It may be that our paid firefighters will be needing one soon.

I decided to add this as a post instead of a reply

I revised the introduction to the Coatesville Dems blog to reflect exactly what it is I do here.

I decided to add this as a post, instead of only a reply, to this comment of the post SMALLWOOD DISBARRED ATTORNEY SMALLWOOD MOSAIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS:

“I would like to see someone do a background check on the candidates for City Council. I am sure all of them have made some mistakes in their life. This is a good company. Instead of trying to smear their name perhaps people should argue the merits of the proposal!”

I stand by what I have said about Mosaic and I can back it up if necessary.

I have checked for any criminal records of all the candidates in this and all other elections since I have lived in Chester County. At times I have hired CFR-Cloud, Feehery, & Richter, Inc. when I had trouble finding information myself.

I have law enforcement contacts at local and Federal levels.

Since this is Coatesville, PA it is not surprising that a few of the candidates now running in this local Election do have felony convictions that they are hiding. If they should win I will do what I can to remove them from office.

The candidates supported by the Coatesville Democratic Party have no criminal records, not even misdemeanor criminal records. That is part of the reason they were chosen.

It is my opinion that pubic corruption in the City of Coatesville is at a truly astounding level.

In some parts of Coatesville the social life is a closed loop of families that go back for generations. Not necessarily a bad thing. “Coatesvillians” are a very friendly and loving people. I have spent some very good and memorable moments with long time Coatesville residents.

Think of Coatesville like a village in Sicily or the suburbs of Naples. It is not that bad here. The drug dealers here are not even close to being as effective or as brutal as the Mafia or the Camorra. But I think that the money from drug trafficking trickles down and spreads into nearly every corner of Coatesville and is major portion of the economy and political life here. The fact that many people know not only your immediate family but nearly all of your extended family and where they live makes it very easy to for a climate of fear to spread in certain areas of the city. The money and the fear make people be inclined to not hear or see things.

It is very hard to sit and listen to the victims of violent crimes here tell their stories. I don’t know how the police, district attorneys and social workers can do it.

I believe that public corruption and organized crime in the form of drug trafficking is the primary impediment to the redevelopment of Coatesville.

The current administration eliminated the CPD Narcotics Division, the CPD Bicycle Patrol and a Police Lt. who is said to have more knowledge of the players in drug trafficking than any other single person and that District Attorney Joe Carroll said was extremely important in his investigations. Joe Carroll said “I want Lieutenant Matt Gordon back”. Joe never got him back. Those facts arouse my suspicions about the city administration.

I believe that Coatesville has the potential to become the primary destination place in Chester County PA; but right now it is the primary destination place of anyone who wants to move “product” in Chester County.

That needs to change.

I believe that we need a massive increase in drug trafficking enforcement to do that. That level of drug trafficking enforcement does not need to be permanent. It does need to happen so that drug crime Coatesville is ordinary manageable level like it is similar cities like Phoenixville or West Chester. When that is achieved the redevelopment of Coatesville will be possible.

October 22. 2007 The Coatesville Administration did not know that 200 police would march side by side into the City Council Meeting

From the Chester County Reporter:

"Five months ago the police department was a mess,’ said Schenk. Matthews was hired in April. Schenk said many of the police officers who departed didn't want to work for a black chief. ‘If that's the reason they left, they need to be gone,’ he said. Statements that angered District Attorney Joe Carroll.

‘The department was not a mess before Chief Matthews came here,’ shouted Carroll, pointing his finger at Schenk. And to say these officers left because of racism is outrageous.’ Schenk later retracted his statement regarding officers not wanting to work for a black chief, saying it was based on rumor.”

Joe Carroll is a very quiet spoken gentleman. He rarely raises his voice. Joe's hands shook as he said the words below. A recording of Kurt Schenk’s Comments and Joe Carroll's response at that meeting is below:

http://www.box.net/shared/tieit04ix8

An article in the Chester County Reporter is here:
http://chestercountyreporter.com/100policeturnout.html

The “Fat Boy” sang, but it is far from over in Coatesville:

Richard Legree Jr. could have gotten more than 100 years. His sentence is 2 years (concurrent) incarceration and 8 years (concurrent) supervised release. Do you think that “Fat Boy” has special protection?

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
RICHARD LEGREE, JR

JUDGMENT IN A CRIMINAL CASE

CLICK HERE FOR THE JUDGMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM:

http://www.box.net/shared/disuv5gm2a

Reports of a shooting in Coatesville

There are reports of a shooting last night near 6th and Harmony. There are a large amount of people at the Courthouse in Coatesville today; with a double parked police car.

“By the way guys; we moved the pension plan.”

At last night’s Coatesville City Council meeting Ben Bruton, a Coatesville resident, asked a question concerning the Police Pension Fund.

Ben Bruton,

“Why does something administrative like this, be passed in front of council; to move in a multi-million dollar pension plan?

Walker,
“The commission approved it.”

Ben Bruton,
“I recall a meeting where; She (Patsy Ray) was there… Rick Dean was there.

We came to give a pension presentation: we were told that you (Harry Walker) weren’t available. We put on our dog and pony show. At the end of the meeting when we were talking about …. updating PENDOT we were informed, by the way guys, we moved the pension plan.

So the city had us come out, spend our time putting on a presentation. They told us after the fact the pension plans had been moved.”

Some finger pointing among the city council members and Harry Walker followed Mr. Bruton’s questions.
Listen here:
http://www.box.net/shared/oqgrkiqtc6

Coatesville Cheif of Police Julius M Canale

Congratulations to the new Chief of Police in the City of Coatesville; Julius (Mike) Canale. Congratulations to the officers of the Coatesville Police Department and also to the citizens of Coatesville. We have a good man to lead the Coatesville Police Department.

The lectern and microphone usually faces the Coatesville City Council. Cheif Canale turned it to face the people in the meeting hall and gave this address:

http://www.box.net/shared/hlyyh7fxkh

Agenda for tonight’s Coatesville City Council Meeting

Swearing in Chief of Police Lieutenant Julius Canale

Presentation by the "Mosaic Group" for their Flats (former G.O. Carlson property) housing project

ACTION ITEMS
1. Receive and consider a Resolution to approve the Summary Plan Document for the Police Pension Fund.

2. Receive and consider a Resolution authorizing the City of Coatesville to enter into Easement Agreement between the Redevelopment Authority and the City of Coatesville for the Riverwalk Project.

For an Adobe PDF of the agenda click here:
http://www.box.net/shared/yld39rcidz

The next prayer march or candlelight vigil

The next prayer march or candlelight vigil over a shooting in Coatesville might be more effective if it is held at the State House in Harrisburg.

Also see Bob Herbert's Column in today's New York Times, "A Culture Soaked in Blood"
By BOB HERBERT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/opinion/25herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Victims of crime

Listening to the stories of the victims of crime here is like having your heart not just sink but also dragged through the gutter. I can imagine that every day of not seeing the criminal that tore a loved one from them brought to justice is a day spent partly in anguish.

The victims of crime in Coatesville have called on the city for retribution. They have called on the District Attorney for retribution. Asking the inept Administration of the City of Coatesville to do anything is a futile task. I believe that retribution is coming from the District Attorney’s side. But it looks as though the city administration is more concerned with the rights of criminals than their victims.

Seeing a criminal brought to justice does bring relief to the victims of crime and their loved ones. For some reason that relief or, if you will, pleasure brought by the arrest, conviction and sentencing of a criminal is something that we don’t like to talk about. That pleasure felt is real and it helps to fill a hole in the hearts of the victims of criminals. It is a hole that gets more empty and more lonely as time goes by without retribution.

Age of Crime Gun Possessor

I excerpted a part of the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative YCGIIA National Tracing Center (NTC)’s Crime Gun Trace Report 1999. It may be the latest report. In my opinion the ATF was severely neglected by the Bush Administration.

"Juvenile Possessors(ages 17 & Under)-- 9.3%
Youth Possessors (Ages 18-24) -------------- 34%
Adult Possessors (Ages 25 & Older)-------- 56.7%"
From-Crime Gun Trace Report 1999/span>>

http://www.box.net/shared/l9a17oj4pg

For information on one initiative that could be adapted locally to reduce youth gun violence, see this report:

"Gun Violence Programs: Directed Police Patrols

Directed police patrols were first tried in Kansas City, Mo., in the early 1990s. Kansas City police increased traffic enforcement within a neighborhood experiencing high levels of violent crime and, in doing so, seized 65 percent more illegal guns. This led to a 50-percent decrease in gun-related crime."
http://www.ojp.gov/nij/topics/crime/gun-violence/prevention/directed-patrols.htm

The curfew is back

We drove through Coatesville last night (Saturday) shortly after 10 pm. Except for some activity at the Masonic Hall and the CYWA the streets were empty. On Saturday night in Coatesville when the weather is nice; the corners at 6th Avenue and Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania Avenue and Lincoln Highway, Chester and Lincoln Highway and 8th Avenue and Lincoln Highway are usually teeming with people. I asked around; the word on the street is that the curfew is back.

You may walk by them at the mall, on the street or at a "Tea Party"..

Call them “The Terrorist Next Door” or “The Enemies Within”. The last one of note here in the Coatesville area was David Wayne Hull; the self declared Imperial Wizard of the Pennsylvania chapter White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He intended to blow up the Peach Bottom Power Plant. The attention to detail by Coatesville PD Detective Martin Quinn led to the infiltration of his organization by PA State Police and his arrest and conviction.

Because we have a black president, a reaction to the possibility of lifting the ban on military assault weapons and a failing economy; recruitment is way up. It only takes a few people like Timothy McVeigh to achieve a deadly effect.

Both the White Supremacist blogs; Stormfront (National) and Keystone Alliance (PA) have information about the "Tea Parties" in PA-times and places.

New York Times
April 18, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Enemies Within
By CHARLES M. BLOW

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/opinion/18blow.html

Local police receive awards
Daily Local News 
GINA ZOTTI , Staff Writer 


"In addition to the anonymous trooper, whose name is not being released because of his undercover status at a Chester County state police barracks, West Goshen Detective Sgt. Gregory Stone and Coatesville Detective Martin Quinn were recognized for their investigative work that led to the guilty pleas or convictions of a number of violent local criminals.

'The local police and local prosecutors are and must be the first line of defense in defeating crime in Chester County," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Hogan Jr. "Chester County residents are incredibly lucky to have such good police officers taking care of them on a day-to-day basis.'...

Hogan said the white supremacist cell was meeting on a regular basis in western Chester County -- in the Honey Brook and Parkesburg areas -- as well as over the border into Lancaster County for years before their arrests in 2002.

'The frightening thing about Hull is not just that he hates people because of their race and not just that he wants to be violent, but that he’s teaching people how to hate and how to be violent,' said Hogan. 'He’s telling people how to make bombs, where to put them and where they’ll do the most damage."
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2005/01/12/frontpage/13730113.txt

See the ADL’S “LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY’S RECOURSE NETWORK” for more information:
http://www.adl.org/learn/default.htm

Pension Funds

The administrators of the pension funds in Coatesville have changed during the Walker Administration.

Do we need to investigate the pension funds in the City of Coatesville's Government?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/nyregion/18pension.html?th&emc=th

There is one simple way to eliminate the source of about one half of the drug trafficking in the United States of America.

And that is legalizing marijuana.

The correct question to ask is; are the heath problems and social problems associated with marijuana use worse than explosive growth in the health and social problems associated with gun violence, kidnapping, home invasion and beheading?

I think that drug trafficking violence is now a real probability in any neighborhood; rich or poor, city or rural, in the United States of America.

In my opinion law enforcement in the USA cannot keep ahead of the drug trafficking business. Since the United States of America is by far the largest user country on earth; legalizing marijuana would cut an entire product and revenue stream from that product from the worldwide drug trafficking industry.

The citizens of the USA are currently on the losing side of the “War on Drugs”. With less money on tap for the drug traffickers; the “battlefield” of the “War on Drugs” would be more even. And part of the tax revenue from the sale of marijuana could go to law enforcement.

There are hundreds of millions of dollars available for bribing. I would be highly suspect of any politician that opposes legalizing marijuana.

The article below centers on the drug violence from Mexico. A large amount of the marijuana sold in the USA also comes from Canada.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23border.html?hp

Reverend Council Person Patsy Ray’s sermon in praise of Chief Matthews

“We lynched him before he got here.”

“Our police department has come a long, long way. We are going on to national acredidition You probably don’t know that you wasn’t accredidated. Because you didn’t even think of it. All you had was a bunch of cops arrestin people takin care of you.”

Was Reverend Ray (as Coatesville City Manager Harry Walker refers to her) thinking of the alleged "incident" with the sweater and East Whiteland Police at Boscov's when she spoke about Chief Matthews being there when she needed him?

As usual Council person Ray's council comment is filled up with Biblical references. What “Saturday Night” could do with this.

Listen here:
http://www.box.net/shared/d6xokofyfz

“Regardless of what the Daily Local News says or the DA says I believe our police department is better off now than it was before you came.”

Below is a link to a recording of Coatesville City Council person from Coatesville's Fourth Ward, Kurt Schenk at last night’s Coatesville City Council Meeting:

Council person Schenk is speaking of Chief Matthews:

“I will be indebted to you for the rest of my life for what you have brought to Coatesville.”

Kurt said of Chief Matthews “you have been a good chief, you were a great chief”.

“Regardless of what the Daily Local News says or the DA says I believe our police department is better off now than it was before you came.”

Then Kurt Schenk talked about the “other” Walker; Zack Walker that was lynched about 100 years ago. Schenk compared Matthews to Zack Walker:

“I believe that Chief Matthews was put in a fire and we had the DA and Andy Hachadorian and the Daily Local News standing there pushing him back in with a pitchfork.

The statement at the end is from Ronnie Suber.

http://www.box.net/shared/r970o9jol7