why i am suing the Medford Police and the City in Federal Court, and soon, Mr. Caraviello
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In my time of need, Harry, the Medford Police Department lied to me, was smug about lying, left me to twist in the wind, ridiculed the victim, and had me hire my own attorney to stop a stalker from harassing me. Chief Sacco said "You get the police service that you deserve" when I asked him why he didn't help me with a malicious and vicious stalker. Sacco was too busy deflecting the Channel 5 article on his son. Protect and Serve? An oath is just that, an oath, not putting police and their families first and discriminating when the mayor wants to protect a malicious 501c3. Who cares that I have actual facts and court case after court case to prove my point. When the police wanted video of the protest of Montvale Plaza, I was there. When the police needed to solve the robbery of Tony's Gas, I got the police in touch with the landlord and the case was solved. I helped the police with the smashing of the window at the Dentist's office. I've been there for the Medford Police. The police, sadly, helped me minimally while my lawyer and I did the heavy lifting. Then Detective Mackowski filed false charges on me which cost me thousands of dollars to defend after I was slugged by city clerk Ed Finn. Where were the police? A police officer URGED me to press charges on Ed Finn, the city clerk, but I guess he didn't get the memo that you are not supposed to help the guy intent on investigating Medford Community Cablevision. An over 60 citizen was physically and verbally assaulted by the city clerk of Medford and your officers tried to turn the tables and say a)it never happened and b)that falsely they want to say I "intimidated a witness" who was twice my size with 100 times my power. Where were the police? Siding with a violent man and protecting him. Where were your boys and girls to help me, Harry? You don't have to be a genius to figure out that if the police pressed charges on the victim of the crime they say never happened, that Ed Finn DID commit the crime because you can't have a "witness" if there is no crime. So I got screwed. Again. Which is why litigation is on the horizon in Federal court. The lawyer for the case got ill (cancer) out of state so I'm interviewing new lawyers. It is a grind but Caraviello and Mackowski will NOT get away with harassing a victim. I go through the legal channels and I have a healthy track record of winning. I'm just a peaceful man who writes, and no matter what Rumley says about my writing, I'm very, very good at it. I'm now a senior citizen who investigates missing manhole covers, missing curbstones, and sent the police a note about the metal place in Everett where the copper from Medford Housing was allegedly melted. Crickets. No response. There are some great women and men on the Medford Police force, and then there are the people who let me twist in the wind when I cleaned up the access TV mess that was the responsibility OF the Medford police. I could go on and on and on. The Jimmy Lee farce, the nepotism in Medford. The late Greg Hudson and his sins - AFTER the Gerry Clemente scandal. One would think the police would have cleaned up their act after the embarrassment of The Cops are Robbers - so much for the alleged Son of Sam Law which probably happened after Cops are Robbers. Celebrity through crime. Harry, I personally like you, if I didn't you would certainly know it. I go where angels fear to tread, silly me, but the bottom line on your friend from Arlington is that there is no place for inflammatory policing. Had the police removed the bad element at TV3 the city would have benefited. J.J.McLean called purportedly to console me after a tragedy struck and said "You won. You won. And the city is better off for it." But my question, though I was grieving a grief I wouldn't wish on anyone, I did not go public with for privacy issues for my friend (it's been 5 1/2 years now, and I'm still deeply wounded, but will speak in fragments) - if I were in my right of state of mind I would have said "J.J., why did I have to do all the work when you get paid 119K to do that work."