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loner calls for grand jury pro e 0 police
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On numerou occas·on
Commi ioner George
Wysinger has criticised the
Benton Harbor Police
Department, and once
again, he ha c lied for
grand jury inve tigation of
the department.
At the Monday, Novem
ber 5, Benton' Harbor City
Commission meeting,
Wysinger said he has
"serious problems" with the
police department.
He ccused the depart
ment of keeping drugs and
money seized in raids in
locked desk drawers and
not locked up in an
evidence lockers until the
I point and time the dealer
ha to appear in court.
City Manager Steve Man
ning assured him thi t the
drug money and drugs are
kept safe an locked up by a
court officer. "If it's been
tagged as evidence and is
go' ng to be used in court
and has been sealed, there
is a chain of custody that
has to be maintained," Man
ning said. .
"I DO 'T THI K all the
evidence is making it to the
court house", Wysinger
said.
"I have a serious problem
with our police depart
ment", he said. "We have
had 10 homicides already
this year .... we arc firing
police officers like they are
dropping out of the sky.·
Wysinger also s id he has
been hearing rumors on the
street about police officers
giving ·shakedowns." He
said officers are pulling
people over .and frisking
them and taking the drugs
out of their pockets and
then letting them go. "Whet!
I start hearing this, I get
concerned about it," he
said. I
"How in the hell can we
stop drug traffic out here,
when we got police officers
in our community doing this
type of thing," said,
Wysinger. "It's bad. I don't
like it and 1 said it once
before and I'm going to say
it again, we need a grand
jury investigation just in our
police department alone."
. "Too many things are
happening in the Benton
Harbor Police Department
that even the commission
haven't gotten no answers
to," said Wysinger.
Wysinger also said that
an officer had been fired
and another one is bein
threatened for filing a
grievance against the
department.
MAYOR WILLIAM
WOLF asked Wysinger if he
had gotten names and dales,
but Manning informed Wolf
that that was their job, not
Wysinger's.
"That's the problem I got,
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no consrstency," said
, Wysinger. "Our police
department, there's no con
sistency. Certain people are
getting kic ed in their tail in
the police department be
ca use they do not play
games. They are rubbing
against the ystem."
"The system is, do your
job, turn your head and
don't ask no questions and
you will surviv your retire- 0
ment time," he said.
"Everybody is shaking be
cause we're going to be
sued " said Wysinger, and
"we are going to be sued."
"It is a whole lot going on
in our police dep rtment.
We got one of the most cor
rupted, crookede t police
department in the "'irDuth
west lower Michigan,"
Wysinger added.
Manning denied all the
accusations, saying, "That'
not true. We have one of the
best departments in the
southwest lower Michigan."
A FEW MO THS AGO
Wysinger had called for a
grand jury investigation, but
later gave an open apology
for his accusations.
In other business the
commussion voted to ap
prove: - Changing the next
City Commission meeting
from Monday, November 12
to Tuesday, November 13,
with pre-meeting at 7 p.m.
and the regular meeting at 8
p.m., due to Monday being
'Veterans Day and all c ty
hall offices ill be clo ed
for the observation of thi
holiday.
Entering' into
Revolving Loan with J�e
Jackson, owner of J 0 's
Barber and Beauty for t e
amount of S2S,OOO. The c ty
previously pa sed a reso u
tion approving the loan as
soon as funds became av il
able, now the funds a e
- available. Jackson said e
will be adding 10 mo e
operators, giving him a to al '
of 12. '
- Approved two phas s
of Revolving Loan Funds
totalling $ 120,000, to
Carlton Cunningham,
D.B.A. Chadwick & Cun
ningham. For Phase I,
S60,000 at 8 percent interest
over seven years to be dis
tributed in fiscal vear 1991,
as long as Cunningham com
mits to hiring at least eight
(8) low/moderate income
city residents.
In Phase II, an additional
$60,000 at 8 percen interest Home, Benton Harbor. .
over seven years to be dis- - Mr. Jones. was b.orn �n
tributed in fiscal year 1992 �a!ch,. 1922, ID. Sardis, Mls
a long as Cunningham com- srssrppi and resided here for
mits to hiring an additional 35 year�. . .
ix low/moderate income Survivor I.ncl ude.
°l id ts daughter, Bonnie Br wn of
CI reSl en .
During citizens com- Gary, Ind.; three. brot�ers.
ment Ms. haerron Week, Audley of Sa�dls, MISS.,
organizer of the Lula B. Lee Rufus of Detrol��nd Sam of
Scholar hip, informed the �enton Harbor, and two
public that the Lula B. Lee Sisters,. Verta Mae Web.b of
holarship drive for next De t r o it and. M tl�da
year will be tarting soon Thomas of Batesville, MIs.
and their Black History
Month program wiU be held
ag in in February.
She also informed the
public that they will be
having their second year of
Benton Harbor's Hall of
Fame' and are asking for
nominees.
If anyone has names for
the Hall of Fame they
should give them to Com
missioner Steve Wooden,
she said.
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James Earl Jones, 68, of
Benton Harbor, was found
stabbed in his Fair Avenue
apartment Saturd y,
November 3.
The funeral for Mr.
J ones, was held Frid y,
November 9, at Pilgrim Rest
Baptist Church, Benton
Harbor. Burial was in North
hore Memory Gardens.
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