Thank God Granato is stuck going to all these events instead of risking servere burnout with his troops.

For alwhile it looked like he was forcing he officers to attend these events constantly. I thought, gee, we really have a lot of danger in Yakima, sort of like south central L.A. I'd lived in L.A. and I starting thinking that I never once read in the paper that all their cops were stuck working southcentral Special Ed and youth center things, and never gettin any time with their own kids.

It gives me great pleasure to see Granato enjoying it so much. Search, Herald "Miller Park" for a pic of Sam have a good time a a youth event.

good ad location for Hammers. I bet it will pay big bucks!

good ad location for Hammers. I bet it will pay big bucks!

Sorry to get carried away, but the article making it look like Sam was some king of super hero on the gun deal was a little too much. A true hero has the guts to say "I'm sorry", to Light, Andrews and the whole community. The news just can't bounce around so much, there's got to be some stability to our Police Chief. But big time investigations one day and the a new persona working the kiddy donation is a bit disconcerting.

And the way I'm being totally ignored says a little bit about maybe this forum is fixed. Now everybody on it seems to be trying to make it look like they're "in the know", but what would somebody like that be doing on a forum?

Funny, I thought the discussion was about community and law enforcement coming together for an event designed to help fund a program to help keep kids out of gangs. There's always complaints that not enough is being done re gangs, grafitti, etc. but here's a group taking the initiative to to do something positive, and people continue to gripe. What is not important is how you feel about our police chief, but that a group of kids--some as young as 3rd grade-- may detour away from gangs by being involved in sports and other activities funded by events such as this. Here's hoping there are plenty of more people committed to the future of our community who are will to give up a day/weekend similarly.

baglady
I do not have feelings one way or the other about our chief. It is impossible for you to ignore previous, very serious incidences of him harrassing Yakima's finest. Maybe you only read things about the kiddy events and ignore the other. It just seemed to me that yesterday and today was some sort of preplanned pr campaign to soften Yakima up for another story of a cop having to file a lawsuit against Sam. Are you aware that officer Rummel is deceased and officer Brownfield was mercifully harrassed. Or are things like that not important to you? Is the only thing that matters are juveniles? How many good cops can we continue to lose while this blathering about how wonderful Granato is continues. I say let him continue to work these events if the public thinks his's so wonderful at them, in reality, it's more at his level, it appears. Did you even read yesterdays gun article where there was a commentator seeming to play Granato up as some kind of sex symbol "tail chaser". Give me a frigging break. Are you aware of how much money goes into all this kiddy stuff? A know a woman politician (supposedly Republic) who lives off money that's supposedly going to"potential gang children". I don't think she spends more than 10% of what she rakes in on them. And if you start digging in her accounts, she's got a very ugly side. One day I was talking to this fine lady who cares so much about children, (she lives on the east side), and she said, "hold on a minute, some kids just got in my back yard so I'm going to set my dogs on them". That's a bit unusual.

And if cops want to work these things than that's fine, but they should not have to, because they could suffer severe burnout, confronting gangster on the street, also.

And if you notice, I always say good things about our officers. You can fall in love with the chief, that's fine but I've noticed that not many people stick up for the guy out there on the street. And also, for one of our very finest policemen, Rod Light, to complain, we can no longer keep sticking our heads in the sand. Do you have any idea what this could do to their morale? Do you care? If the chief is going to be on the front page, and there's is a comment blog, than if you're commenting about him that's within the subject matter.

It's just on and on. I think we need a fundraiser for legal defense of our police officers against their own chief.

I would quit commenting on this stuff id they would settle the latest two lawsuits and discontinue harrassing them. Somehow, I think Granato's got such a big ego he could never do it. Well, Mr. Big Ego, meet me!

WHY DON'T YOU JUST ADMIT IT

When these things hit the news about a cop being harrassed in Yakima, you probably think "another lamb to the slaughter".

Nobody says anything then, everybody' silent and thats because in your heart of hearts you are thinking "I don't want to go through what those cops are going through". And you're also thinking, "whose ever doing this to them is dirty and evil, more evil than I can begin to imagine."

And when this stuff hits and you all start pouring in the good comments for the bad guys, it's because you're afraid. Either that, or you are them.

WHY DON'T YOU JUST ADMIT IT

When these things hit the news about a cop being harrassed in Yakima, you probably think "another lamb to the slaughter".

Nobody says anything then, everybody' silent and thats because in your heart of hearts you are thinking "I don't want to go through what those cops are going through". And you're also thinking, "whose ever doing this to them is dirty and evil, more evil than I can begin to imagine."

And when this stuff hits and you all start pouring in the good comments for the bad guys, it's because you're afraid. Either that, or you are them.

OinK OInK.

wimp
every investigation on himn has cleared him? so why is he to apologize and again thier has never been a vote of no confidence by the officers. so I guess they are satisfied with thier chief. I guess you expect everybody to have a love fest witht thier chief and I for one don't trust cops that don't want to take drug tests...I don't care how many complaints they file against him, I trust them less for that.
If these cops are so stressed out retire, move on. go away..but I guess leaving A $72,000 gravy train is too hard so they can afford to put up with it. Nobody is holding them against thier will.
WIMP:
You have no crediblity when you say " I have no feelings one way or and other about the chief"

That is a lie since you have not had anything good to say even when he does something good. These officers are earning overtime and in bad ecomonic times they cannot complain..they have a job and they get overtime...

Wimp,
Judging by your personal vendetta against the Chief, it appears that you are never going to be satisfied with anything that Chief Granato does, even if it betters our communtiy. What you deem as retaliation is actually called accountability in the private sector, but you of course have your union to run to if you are held accountable. You're not the chief! Run for office if you have all the answers, but stop the wining! A pet monkey can file a law suit, so that means nothing to the private sector. GET OVER IT!