Mr. Gennaco is at it again. Tajae Murray was arrested by the Palo Alto Police on April 7, 2016. Murray was never charged with a crime. During the detention and arrest Murray was bitten by a Palo Alto Police Dog which "bit a off a chunk" of Murray's leg as officers looked on and even encouraged the attack, mauling, despite the fact that Murray posed no threat to the officers, was not resisting nor fleeing according to Murray's lawsuit filed against the City of Palo Alto and numerous Palo Alto Police Officers. Mr. Gennaco is advertised the community as a "Independent Police Auditor" who investigates misconduct perpetrated by members of the Palo Alto Police. Mr. Gennaco has just submitted his final report for the year 2016 and still has not written a report on the Murray dog biting incident even though a claim was filed against the City and rejected and therefore resulted in the lawsuit being filed against the City and the police department. The lawsuit was filed on May 6, 2017 and therefore the claim, the complaint, must have been filed prior to October 7, 2016. Mr. Gennaco refuses to complete a report in violation of his contract with the City of Palo Alto because he does not want to go on record as to what happened. He is waiting until after everything is settled before he says anything so that his report lines up with the Palo Alto Police Department's findings. This proves that Mr. Gennaco in not conducting an independent investigation of the Palo Alto Police. He did the same thing in the Tyler Harney case. The city settled with Harney shortly after a judge ordered the city to provide Harney with software to determine if the videos in his incident had been tampered with. So rather than provide the software which could have revealed illegal tampering of audio video recordings the city handed over money. No mention by Mr. Gennaco as to why the city was refusing to provide that software in the first place. Mr. Gennaco did write a report regarding in first half of 2016 which hie points out how a Palo Alto Police Officer detained a juvenile for being under the influence of alcohol and that the police officer failed to turn on his camera system. Mr. Gennaco points out how this officer was reprimanded for not turning his camera system on yet Mr. Gennaco says nothing about the fact that the camera system records video even if an officer fails to turn the camera system on, "Record After the Fact." And therefore Mr. Gennaco says nothing about the fact that the video of the incident could have been obtained from the system; nor does Gennaco mention whether or not the command staff actually obtained this video of the detained juvenile; the juvenile whom it is presumed to by Tajae Murray the individual who had chunk of his leg bitten off by the Palo Alto Police Dog. Mr. Gennaco is a former U.S. Attorney and prosecutor who has extensive experience in putting together comprehensive and complete investigations for trials in U.S. Federal Courts and is not capable of completing an independent investigation of the Murray dog biting case within a year and a half of the incident. That is fraud. At the very least Mr. Gannaco should have written a report regarding the failure of the PAPD to complete an investigation of the Tajae Murray incident withing a reasonable amount of time. Furthermore, Mr. Gennaco's contract requires that he present two reports a year in person to the City Council. Mr. Gennaco has has been subject to this requirement every year for the last eight to nine years and has not made one official appearance to City Council. Mr. Gennaco is in breach of his contract by not completing his reports and by not appearing before City Council in person yet the City Manager James Keene and the City Council continue retain Mr. Gennaco's services. Why do they retain his services? The City Manager James Keene and City Council retain Mr. Gennaco's services because his services are not about holding PAPD officers accountable but about minimizing the City's liability when its officers violate the Constitution; hence the reason whey the City does not want Mr. Gennaco to report in person to the City Council where Mr. Gennaco could be scrutinized by citizens in his reports as well as police watchdogs. The City of Palo Alto is using IPA Michael Gennaco to produce fraudulent analysisand accountability of law enforcement the same way that the Tobacco industry used the "Council for Tobacco Research" to deceive the public about the dangers of tobacco. NEWARK, Feb. 7— The tobacco industry's chief research arm for 40 years described its own mission as a "front" and a "shield" against potentially harmful Congressional hearings, lawsuits or scientific research about the health risks of smoking, according to a ruling by a Federal judge here who publicly quoted secret industry memorandums for the first time. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/08/us/judge-cites-possible-fraud-in-tobacco-research.html Contesting the Science of Smoking A decade after a judge ordered tobacco companies to acknowledge the dangers of low-tar cigarettes, they continue to dispute the scientific consensus. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/low-tar-cigarettes/481116/ Tobacco companies obstructed science, history professor says "Doubt is our product," stated a tobacco industry memo from 1969. For half a century, the tobacco industry tried to muddy the link between smoking and cancer. Now, with that effort long since failed, cigarette producers facing dozens of potentially ruinous lawsuits are once again attempting to manufacture doubt. "The tobacco industry is now trying to win their cases by rewriting history, saying that everyone knew but no one had proof," said Robert N. Proctor, a professor of history at Stanford https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2007/pr-proctor-021407.html |
Palo Alto City Manager James Keene
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Palo Alto City Manager has the right to terminate Mr. Gennaco's contract for any reason. Mr. Gennaco is in breach of his contract on at least two counts. One, he has failed to submit reports in a timely fashion or at all and two, Mr Gennaco has failed to appear in person twice a year to the City Council for years. So the question is why does Mr. Keene refuse to terminate Mr. Gennaco's contract. |