Former Fullerton Police Detective Ronald Bair
A lawsuit just filed in federal court alleges that a now ex-Detective Ronald Bair, of the Fullerton Police Department, demanded sexual favors from a woman in exchange for favorable testimony in a child custody case. The OC Weekly’s Gabriel San Roman summarizes the suit in a September 15 article.
The plaintiff is suing not only the Fullerton Police Department, but also the City of Fullerton and FPD officers who, she alleges, mishandled her complaint against Det. Bair, and “inappropriately, told police detective Ronald Bair about the anonymous complaint, by the plaintiff,” exposing the plaintiff to retaliatory actions against her. The text of the lawsuit is very disturbing, and paints a picture of a vulnerable woman in the midst of a painful custody…
This shit isn’t going to stop until someone comes unhinged and starts shooting these dirty cops. We sure cant rely on the “good cops” to arrest them for Pete’s sake.
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It was interesting to go back into the FFFF time machine and see the Bloviator spin for Chaffee’s interjection in the exchange between Whitaker and Bair. Of course Flory got elected and POPC’s proposal for civilian oversight in Fullerton got canned accordingly.
Way to go Bloviator!
Oh, Poseur — I wish that everything you wrote that wasn’t being published in the print edition of the Weekly had the improved quality of what does appear in a place where more people will see it. I can’t tell if it’s because there you have editors or because there you give more of a crap.
You’re right that I was defending Chaffee — and pushing back gingerly against the seeming religious movement (with Kelly Thomas as martyr) that was growing on FFFF at the time) — at the time, despite that I was not and still am not thrilled with his stance on police misconduct.
Now let’s test your reading comprehension.
My position on the 2012 General Election derived from my belief that there was an even MORE important issue facing Fullerton at the time than the Citizens’ Review Board issue (which, like it or not — and I don’t — DOES face legal problems due to the overreach of POBAR), which the City’s ability to fix it was limited. (It was also something that would not be fixed by a transfer to the OCSD office or by bringing in Bushala’s friend Bill Hunt — you DO know of him, right? — as the new Police Chief.)
I mentioned that issue a lot. Can you tell me, without looking it up, what that issue is?
(Here’s a hint: it’s something that you and your overlords have generally been too chickenshit to address.)
Was it Measure W, the ballot measure to stop the Chevron development of Coyote Hills? Because Flory was in favor of the Chevron development, and opposed to Civilian Police Oversight too. Now, what was that other issue…?
Flory did favor the Chevron development, Matt; I didn’t.
Flory opposed a Citizen’s Oversight Commission, which I favored — although she did so based on an interpretation of POBAR which is, unfortunately, plausible — and may be correct. You don’t like it, I’d run the risk of it being tossed out in court, but it’s not evil.
Neither of those positions seemed to me to be the main ones that mattered in the City Council vote. The Coyote Hills issue was likely to be (and in fact was) settled by the election. The effect of a Citizens’ Commission, even if upheld by the courts, was likely to be minimal — even though I do still think it had symbolic and deterrent importance.
There was another issue, though, where I believed that the Council would have decisive say — and where their decisions would really matter. If you don’t remember this other issue that I was writing about at the time — that I considered the most critical one in Fullerton that year and where Flory was not only on the correct side, but had the chops to win a fight over it — you can easily look it up.
Or, theoretically, you can ask me what it is without being a jerk. (Or, if necessary, you can have someone who has an easier time not being a jerk be the one to ask me.)
*Say the the magic word and down come the Feds with a “Consent Decree” of 10 years or more. We love good cops but that is the very reason why the Fullerton PD themselves may want to invite the Feds to come down and review their reports, their activities, their domestic abuse history, their Administration and philosophy. Transparancy at Rampart division in LA was painful, but necessary. When is some ambulance chasing attorney going to file Federal papers and ask the DOJ…….to “come on down!”.?
Another victim of FPD a detective from Fullerton TESTILYING on court in a child custody case !! I am not surprise, they did the same thing with me on 2010 someone talk me :”if you don’t back off with your restraining order, this FPD police will testylying against you” (me) and I will loose my children an fpd police man was outside of the court room, and my attorney didn’t allowed me to be in the court room, now is too late attorney Paul STamant has been disbar … but it is too late my children were taken away from me with many lies. everything just to cover a fellow officer.