But yet, like us as an employee, how can you hold me accountab | Clip Artist Films
But yet, like us as an employee, how can you hold me accountable for my actions when you can't hold your own accountable. It's not how that works. It's completely broken. Not only is it broken, the process, it will never be fixed ever. These people at P.S.B. they think that we'll be in compliance with the court monitor. In all phases, it's never gonna happen.
GR: Maybe once there's new leadership in there as Sheriff and then there's some pushback for common sense on the court, because Paul Penzone has, and this is the part that's so troubling about him and the whole situation.
Clip Artist Films has been following it for years. It's widely known Paul Penzone helped frame me in 2017. I have a personal, but also professional interest in making sure he doesn't hurt other citizens or M.C.S.O. employees. What I'm getting at is the concentrated power in his hands holds a lot of weight. Maybe there's an opportunity when the next Sheriff gets in, and Paul gets out of there, the department of P.S.B. can be reformed and overhauled.
WB: In my opinion, and a lot of people feel this way that P.S.B. has proven that they cannot be trusted in conducting fair investigations. A lot of people feel like P.S.B. should be completely removed and it should be a third party that comes in to do these investigations. Because these people, there's so many factors that go in to these investigations.
GR: And the Melendres ruling, legal from M.C.S.O. could start pushing back on that if they wanted to, filing some stuff saying hey - our hands are tied here. But for now it's the perfect excuse for Penzone to bury careers and bury evidence in those files. I'm real curious what's in those IA cases that he doesn't want out. You know?
WB: If you request certain IA cases that are closed, you'll never get them.
GR: I did get one public records request, the career records on Greg Honea, he's the F.A.T.E. detective that helped frame me. I got his IA stuff. He had a long history of evidence tampering just like he did in my case. I don't think Penzone wanted that to get out of the office, but is was sent to me. So sometimes it takes months, but you'll get something.
WB: They're also so behind on public records. Basically they're in the same boat as P.S.B. Gordon, they can't catch up with all their records requests that they're getting from employee and non. And from the court there's like 4 orders where they have to give these records up. They don't even follow that 1/2 the time Gordon. They get in trouble for that.
GR: That's crazy. What a sad state of affairs over there. So let's talk about how you've seen this articulate into the staffing shortages. I have another source telling me that in some areas it's at 50% or below. And have you found that to be true also? Certain areas?
WB: It depends. I want to say every jail is short, every district is short right now. Even including dispatch. We're just so thin. And the issue is, Penzone has single handedly ruined this agency. We can't effectively recruit people anymore. Because of his zero leadership in the office. These people don't care about, they don't care about human life. All they care about is padding their retirement system. All they care about is retiring and making the most amount of money. They don't care about anything else. They don't care about human life.
Penzone's going to be known Gordon as the Sheriff that had the most in line of duty deaths, ever. Some of these deaths they determined they weren't in the line of duty, but they were. We know these people died in the line of duty, but the office determined for political reasons, they didn't want to pay out the money. But this guy's gonna go down as that. We've had numerous people die Gordon. This guy, he doesn't give a fuck! He doesn't care.
GR: Penzone's an interesting character. If you go back on him years and years ago, he was the big face of silent witness. But in 2010, he went into the non-profit Not My Kid. Ended up being the Chief Operations Officer.
