Sheriff Day?
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- March
- 13
County Legislator Ed Day, a former NYPD Chief and Commander of Detectives, has been helping out at the sheriff’s department a little these days.
The New City Republican issued a press release today saying he “has formally requested that the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department review and assess the merits of procuring the cutting edge ‘Child Exploitation Tracking System’ software, also known as CETS, in order to enhance Rockland County’s investigative efforts against those sexual predators using the internet to victimize our youth.”
Late last month, Day was announcing a formal proposal that the sheriff look at using and inmate reimbursement software program called “Pay For Stay” that is used by some Midwest counties to get county jail inmates to pay for some of their expenses.
Rockland County Sheriff James Kralik, in both of Day’s press release (Ed’s a press release expert, btw) expresses interest in the ideas and thanks the legislator for his help.
Now, Ed Day is interested in lots of issues. And, he’s a real idea man—that’s hardly a bad thing. He’s well-known for his frenetic schedule and his accessibility to constituents. And law enforcement is his bread-and-butter. But, well, is he missing the uniform?
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Wait a minute…I thought people already have payed to stay in the Rockland County Jail. No? Oh, wait…..I must be thinking of the time a Monsey synagogue representing a special interest group forked over twenty six thousand dollars to Rockland County in a “pay to play” arrangement specifically desinged to benefit Sheriff Kralik’s election campaign. I believe Ben Klein (the prisoner) has already set precedence by paying that $26,000 to stay in the Rockland County Jail instead of the prison in Pennsylvania, where he was actually sentenced. Maybe someone should tell Kralik that he – or his next annointed candidate – won’t be rewarded with votes from the payment plan Ed Day is describing.
I wondered how long it would take for that one!
These are apples and oranges though. The reference you make is to the jail hosting an out-of-state prisoner, which isn’t allowed (though federal and in-state transfers can pay for their keep and serve their sentence closer to home.)
Day’s program, called “Pay to Stay,” is different. It has a private firm evaluate the finances of prisoners and then rembursement is sought for certain costs, like medical expenses, etc. It’s a rather new idea, and it’s still under review.
Still witty, though, Mr. Grief.
...however, I do feel a compulsion to pass comment / clarification oo one particular sentence in your reply; (I’m aware you’re playing middle-of-the-road here)
”...hosting an out of state prisoner, which isn’t allowed.”
REAL WORLD TRANSLATION = “Unethically going to great lengths to lobby for and ensure the illegal (NYS Correction Law) transfer and housing of a Pennsylvania prisoner convicted of homicide, while accepting an illegal (NYS Correction Law) $26,000 payment from a Monsey synagouge – for the purpose of receiving the continued gratitude (votes) of a special interest group.”
p.s. – Kralik promised a full internal investigation into this fiasco and boldly stated Chief Clark (RCJ) would pay dearly for this arrangment. That hasn’t happened and is impossible and completely implausible – it was Kralik’s doing from the very beginning and all along.
p.p.s. – the protege now being groomed is less ethical and not nearly as street-smart as Kralik….yikes.
ok…..i’m done for now
Good, here’s a clip from a Nov. 1, 2007 campaign story:
”(Democratic Sheriff’s candidate Tim) O’Neill also has accused (Republican Sheriff James) Kralik of providing special treatment to garner votes.
Kralik denies the accusations, saying O’Neill has taken isolated incidents and made them sound like the norm.
During the campaign, O’Neill brought out that a Monsey man convicted of vehicular homicide in Pennsylvania was transferred to the county jail by a Pennsylvania judge with support from Rockland jail administrators.
Ben Klein’s synagogue paid $26,000 for his incarceration, jail officials said.
Taking out-of-state prisoners and accepting payments from private entities for an inmate’s incarceration is illegal in New York, state officials said.
Kralik has acknowledged that the jail was wrong to take out-of-state inmates. But he denied O’Neill’s accusations he knew about Klein or lobbied for him.
Jail Chief William Clark said he thought he could take an out-of-state prisoner if a judge signed a transfer order. He said the jail has taken in six out-of-state inmates since 2001 and accepted payments for their incarceration.
The jail has raised more than $500,000 by housing federal and state inmates, Clark said.”
Take from that what you will …
Doesn’t matter. Day and Kralik are wasting time, and County money.
O’Neil had my vote and if he ran for Sheriff again he will have it, again
The newspapers reported that Klein’s transfer was signed by a Pennsylvania judge and the motion was made by Klein’s lawyer in Pennsylvania.
Klein also pleaded guilty to Vehicular homicide – (not just Homicide, which has a different meaning in people’s mind). A friend of his died in a car crash after Klein drove recklessly.
There is no evidence that Kralik knew about the Klein move but that doesn’t stop the political speculation and accusations.
And the papers reported that the state reviewed what happened. And jail and Kralik agreed never to do it again – though the jail boss originally said he had a legal opinion saying the transfer as ok.
The Jail “boss” never got a legal opinion. That was a lie. Additionally, the Jail “boss” is the one who sent letters to the Pennsyvania judge begging for Klein to receive a sentence of community service. When that didn’t work, he begged for Klein to be transfered to Rockland. In those letters the Jail “boss” vouched for Klein’s character and his committment and contributions to “community”. Pathetic.
A Pennsylvania judge has ZERO legal authority to impose any matter in New York, or any other state. Those in law enforcement cleary know such a basic principal and were disgusted over the Sheriff’s claim of having to follow a “court order”. That was a pathetic lie and was only created to fool the public.
If anyone can look at this scenario and not see that it was a political pony show – and illegal – then they are wearing some very powerful rose-colored glasses.
Oh, by the way…..Rabbi Jacob Horrowitz was a broker in this deal – his name was all over the paperwork sent from the Jail “boss”. I recently saw a picture in the NY Times of Horrowitz and Christopher St. Lawrence standing in a field where Wal Mart is not going to be built in Monsey. They squashed that deal. Well…..Horrowitz TOLD St. Lawrence to squash that deal. That community OWNS St. Lawrence. Lastly, disgraced Gov. Spitzer sat in Horrowitz’s house and made his deals with the community prior to being elected governor.
My point? The jail scandal was all politics and Kralik was leading the charge. The Jail “boss” doesn’t need votes.
I’m just tired of the fact that the Orthodox/Hasidic community getting whatever they want out of the fact that the elected officials fearing that the Orthodox/Hasidics won’t vote for them and/or they will claim discrimination.
The Orthodox/Hasidics don’t care about America! That was evident in a recent article where they had the audacity to say we aren’t moral and yet amongst their own they have sex offenders, those who embezzle money, etc.
So I’m tired of men like Kralik bending rules to suit that community!