SULLIVAN FOR D.A.: ‘CRIME IS ON THE RISE … AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS IGNORANT OF THIS FACT’
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 7, 2022) — THE PLANET opens with a couple notes on crime, followed up by another note on crime. Got the theme?
From Lt. John Soules, Pittsfield Police Dept.:
On Thursday March 3 2022 at approximately 2:24pm members of the Pittsfield Police Department (PPD) responded to Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) for a reported shooting victim. The victim, a 34 year old male Pittsfield resident, sustained a serious but non-fatal injury. The ensuing investigation revealed that the shooting occurred at a residence on West Street where PPD investigators located ballistic evidence. Investigators developed information that 42 year old Pittsfield resident Terrell Ortiz was the shooter. Ortiz and the victim are known to one another and investigators do not believe that this was a random act.
On Friday March 4 investigators applied for and received an arrest warrant charging Ortiz with Assault and Battery by Discharging a Firearm for his role in the shooting. On the morning of Sunday March 6 police officers with the Trenton New Jersey Police Department arrested Ortiz in Trenton NJ.
Anyone who wishes to provide information regarding this case is asked to contact Detective Losaw at 413-448-9700 x572. Information can also be provided anonymously via the Detective Bureau Tip Line at 413-448-9706, or by texting PITTIP and your message to TIP411 (847411).
Second, from the NY Times, March 6, 2022:
| So far in 2022, murders in U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, are up even more overall, according to the crime analyst Jeff Asher. Elevated levels of violence may not be a pandemic-induced blip. |
| Americans seem worried: 51 percent of adults in 2021 said they believed more crime was happening in their area, up from 38 percent in 2020, Gallup found. |
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THE PLANET shares these items, and the following, because we harbor the seditious notion that crime in Berkshire County has been not just on the upswing but that the swing has jumped the top bar, once around, throwing public safety to the ground and elevating brazen criminals to the seat of honor. We brand this notion heretical because it goes against the fairy tale offered by the county’s current occupant of the district attorney’s office. Her interpretation of “resorative justice” has restored criminals’ their rights at the expense of Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski.
Come November, voters will have something to do about one of the largest, most damaging electoral mistakes in county history — by installing a new district attorney. THE PLANET has no doubt that as long as a credible candidate runs for the office, and as long as the voters do their job of educating themselves, the criminals on this neck of the woods will no longer be in control.
The campaign season has a long way to go, and this race will be one that will draw heavy coverage from this site, an effort that begins today.
To that end, THE PLANET presents to you Robert Sullivan, Esq., Officer of the Court, Barrister, and attorney. He appears to be that credible candidate. Unlike Wrong Way, Sullivan has tried countless hundreds of cases. In actual court, a room that the current D.A. hasn’t sniffed since Peter Arlos was in knickers. Sullivan has been a prosecutor and a defense counsel, which he presently is, in private practice with offices at 85 East St., Suite 7, in Pittsfield, and 100 Saratoga Village Blvd, Suite 36G, Malta, NY.
THE PLANET presents the following statement taken from Sullivan’s campaign website, www.sullivanforda.com. Anyone wishing to visit the current D.A.’s campaign site merely needs to contact the district attorney’s office, now serving as the D.A.’s personal campaign HQ, according to Jeanne Kempthorne.
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FROM ROBERT SULLIVAN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY CANDIDATE
I believe in fate, and there’s a reason why a man who was born and raised in the Boston area, who finished law school during a state hiring freeze, applied to be a prosecutor with the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office fourteen years ago.
All signs pointed towards me starting and working in either Essex or Suffolk county because of my internships there with the Essex County District Attorney and the Attorney General’s Office, but life has its surprises. Despite being fortunate enough to travel much of the world and attend college in Miami, Florida, western Massachusetts was a land less travelled for me. However, I committed to being a prosecutor in the Berkshires and despite leaving the District Attorney’s for private practice, the Berkshires have been my home for the entirety of my career.
I have now been an attorney with a primary presence in Pittsfield for almost a decade and a half. I have come across all walks of life and have enjoyed every moment of it. Now my county needs a change. It needs a chief prosecutor that doesn’t follow the trends of politics that reach far beyond our county, but rather focuses on the needs of the residents of Berkshire County. It needs a chief law enforcement officer who puts community safety and accountability over the false rhetoric of a certain political caucus or movement.
Crime is on the rise, including gang and gun violence, drug trafficking and its impact on overuse and overdose, and the county needs a prosecutor that isn’t a politician. The District Attorney is ignorant of this fact and I will not stand for this increase in crime and its impact on our community, family and friends. Left or right, red or blue, the obligation of the District Attorney is to be the chief prosecutor for the county and that means doing everything possible to create a safe community. The current administration has not and will not address these issues.
Why are shootings and stabbings on the rise? Why is the opioid epidemic on the rise at a higher rate than any other county in Massachusetts? I submit to you that it is the result of a lack of competence, aptitude and awareness on the part of the current District Attorney. She has run her office like an endless campaign and lacks the awareness and experience to address these problems. Her priorities are political, her cases are mishandled, and when pressed as to why, she has no legitimate answer.
She has no trial experience and therefore cannot lead and train her staff on an essential and fundamental prosecutorial skill. She wants to be involved in national political issues. I don’t.
- I want safe streets, safe homes, and a community that represents the best of what Massachusetts has to offer.
- I want an end to illegal firearms. I want an end to shootings and stabbings and the injuries and deaths they cause.
- I want an end to the dealing and trafficking of deadly drugs that so dangerously position our community for overdose.
- I want an end to the campaign culture in the District Attorney’s Office.
- I want an end to corruption. I am prepared to do anything that is proper and necessary to achieve these results.
Berkshire County does not need policies that pretend to tout progress and reform yet come at the expense of public safety and effective prosecution. The County needs a District Attorney that can understand and adapt to the progress of our society, consider changes that may be reformative, but be dynamic and intelligent enough to make such decisions only when it is consistent with the safety of our community.
I’m ready. Are you?
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If you agree with THE PLANET that Berkshire County needs a broom to sweep out the current D.A., consider Bob Sullivan. If you want to do something about it, don’t wait until election day. Contact sullivanforda.com. There are plenty of ways to get involved.
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Let me take a wild guess that this isn’t Mr. Ortiz’s first involvement with an illegal firearm.
No, I believe Terrell is a frequent flyer with PPD and BCHC. I could be wrong, but I believe he went to prison years ago for dealing drugs in Pittsfield.
I still can’t believe the Berkshire Eagle never reported on this all weekend long. It really shows the power Lazy Linda and Co. have over Freddie and his Eagle.
So much for public safety. Or tips for that matter.
How many years/decades have we heard the endless number of useless Pittsfield politicians campaign on the issue of violent crime, drugs and gangs in Berkshire County? In 2003, Jimmy Ruberto said he would fight crime in Pittsfield. How did that work out? In 2022, Attorney Robert Sullivan is doing the same as the Godfather of Pittsfield who lives in Naples Florida. To Attorney Robert Sullivan: I say BULLSHIT! If Sullivan wins the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office and serves there from 2023 – 2026, I would bet the proverbial farm that the FBI will report annually that Pittsfield and North Adams will still be in the top 10 cities for violent crime per population in Massachusetts, just as it has done for many years/decades now, including before 2019, which was the year when Andrea Harrington assumed the elected office of Berkshire County District Attorney. I am so tired of blogger Dan Valenti and many of his blog posters blaming Andrea Harrington’s progressive politics for Pittsfield’s decades of decay. Andrea Harrington has served as Berkshire County D.A. in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2 months and nearly 1 week so far in 2022. To blame Andrea Harrington for Pittsfield’s decades of decay is NOT even rational given the facts about Pittsfield’s long history of violent crime.
Pittsfield Massachusetts is an economically distressed post-industrial city with severe economic inequality whereby the one political (Democratic) party state and local provincial ruling elites are totally DISCONNECTED from the proverbial household and/or small businesses of the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski. Pittsfield’s population has diminished in numbers for decades. Pittsfield’s living wage jobs for the average working-class family are about as real as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and an honest career politician. In fact, Pittsfield and Berkshire County have lost well over ten thousand living wage jobs since the post-WW2 era. Pittsfield has Level 5 public schools. Pittsfield’s downtown is sarcastically called “Social Services Alley”, and the underclass and working poor neighborhoods that surround North Street are sarcastically called “The Ring of Poverty”. Large photos of post-industrial Pittsfield have been exhibited in upscale art galleries and museums in London, England, U.K., NYC, and L.A. as “A City in Decay”. In closing, I ask how realistic is Attorney Robert Sullivan being about fighting violent crime in Pittsfield? We all know that he is full of SHIT, SHIT, and even more SHIT!
Jonathan A. Melle
If the knuckleheads running around Pittsfield suffer no consequences from carrying illegal guns they will continue to do so. Harrington bargains away charges Jon. It’s time for her to go. By being kind to the cruel she is being cruel to the kind and gentle folks of Pittsfield, many who live in the same neighborhoods as the knuckleheads.
You made valid points about D.A. Andrea Harrington’s public record. Thank you. I understand that over 9 out of 10 criminal cases in the U.S.A. end in plea bargains. Just so you all know, I still root for my native hometown of Pittsfield Massachusetts after all of these years. I think blogger Dan Valenti does a good job covering Pittsfield politics, despite some of my disagreements with him about the lovely ladies who run the shit show there.
Whatever happened to the ruling elites investing in the people who live and pay taxes and shop at stores in their communities? I guess they moved to mansions in their gated communities a long time ago now – over 50 years ago. While I still enjoy following Pittsfield politics, it is a lost cause for me on a personal level. Most of the career politicians are part of the problem in Pittsfield and beyond!
Completely agree, Jon.
You are the one full of sh%t!
Harrington is more concerned about politics than keeping the citizens of Berkshire County safe. You love her because she’s a radical leftist social justice warrior – the only yardstick you use to assess candidates for office – just like Linda Tyer, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren etc etc., candidates you have supported in the past.
Throw her out, voters!
Thank you, Mr. Fritz. I am surprised that you did not put a link to one of your right-wing websites this time. You are being forgetful!
Setting new thumbs down records, aren’t you Jon!
I read the article a couple times Dan wrote today and couldn’t find where Dan blamed the current DA for decades of crime in Pittsfield as you claim. I believe people are wanting to hold her accountable and responsible for the outcomes from criminal actions being committed since being sworn in.
let’s start with her own crimes shall we?
Not to mention, prior to the Xiden administration realizing that “defunding the police” was probably one of the worst policies to ever get behind, DA Wrong Way Harrington made numerous references to “racially biased policing in the Berkshires.”
DA Wrong Way Harrington for the first few years of her term despised the police. She had a front page article about “Brady List” police officers in Berkshire County. She’s called them racist, without a sliver of evidence to back it up. Recent murders, shootings, aren’t reported any more. I never saw anything about Thursday nights shooting in any Berkshire newspaper. I saw a mention of it on the Planet, but nothing from the Eagle. Major case (shootings, stabbings, armed robberies, etc) updates are far and few between. Is the public in danger? Is there any person or people we should look out for? The police are always asking us to call in information. I get that, but it works both ways too. DA Wrong Way’s Office needs to give case updates. Even if it’s in the form of a press release. The problem, the people doing the shooting and robbing are POC. The same people Andrea and her Soros based “progressive cause” advocates for.
If any one of these progressives ever took an intro to sociology class, they would learn that a group of people who do not obey laws, rules, and/or regulations, when they are even moderately enforced, will act even worse and more out of control, when those same laws, rules, regulations, are not enforced at all. As we witnessed during the summer of love in 2020, it becomes a “mob mentality.” We all saw what happened during those progressive led “peaceful demonstrations.”
The first name on Nipples’ “Brady List” should be wynn. I believe the year was 2009, the month April, that wynn dressed up in his little Rambo costume announced the eradication of the drug dealing GANGS of PITTSFIELD. Pittsfield’s Lincoln Street kingpin drug dealing gangbanger had been arrested. Illegal GUNS, well, one illegal gun, had been seized, and wynn, aka little Rambo, declared Mission Accomplished on his impotent farce on the drug dealing, pistol packing GANGS OF PITTSFIELD. As for the cops calling on the public for information, this is another fucking cop lie. Why bother to turn over actual evidence of crimes, violence, death threats, property crimes, vandalism, home invasions, thefts/robbery to the cops when, not only are they going to ignore the actual evidence, but they’re also going to harass you, fabricated false narratives, and lie to you. If anyone chooses to provide the cops with evidence of criminal activity, make copies for the cops, and keep the originals for yourself in a safe place, away from the corrupt cops. Personally, I really don’t give a shit if POC want to annihilate POC. As long as POC limit their violence and annihilation to POC.
Dan,
The DA never ever called the Police racist that is totally not factual
Whatsoever. Please correct this.
Then what’s “racial biased policing in the Berkshires?” She was going to put an end to it and expose it. Remember, early in her tenure as DA, Andy? I do.
She’s never produced a sliver of evidence that any cop in Berkshire County used race as a determining factor. And a Williamstown cop who hung a Hitler picture in his locker 20 years, or two decades ago, doesn’t really count in my book.
And while were at it Andy, explain why in Andrea’s first couple of years in her “condolence letters” or press releases, she NEVER mentioned the hard work the police did. Now she does. Why the change Andy?
MARK
Good questions, but don’t expect the hear anytime within the next 10 millennia from the D.A.’s office, where everything is GREAT “and the skies are not cloudy all day.”
One more Andy, when will you guys release the investigation documents about the Simon’s Rock fake “racially kidnapping” hoax?
I’m curious why the black female wasn’t criminally charged? Doesn’t Andrea “fight hard for victims?”
Wouldn’t every white male in the school be considered a victim? I’m sure thye were uncomfortably questioned by state police detectives and looked at by staff as potential criminals.
Do white males not qualify as “victims” under DA Wrong Way Harrington’s playbook?
We know what punishment burning haybales got a white guy.
I don’t remember Andrea writing a “condolence letter” to all of the white males who were made to feel something they weren’t, falsely accused racists.
What was the date on that breaking news ?
J2S
Correct. I didn’t blame the current DA for that, and I never will.
As I’ve given you your 36th thumbs down, I believe you are two away from your personal record of 38.
Dan, any chance JM can get a “Raspberry Planet Award?”
Every reason or excuse he listed has been addressed by you, me, and many other Planet contributors, as to why DA Wrong Way Harrington and her policies are wrong for Berkshire County.
He either chooses not to read them, doesn’t understand them, or is trying to hard to impress Patrick Fennell with his long winded messages, but Jon has truly “earned” these thumbs down.
If there is a secret committee or star chamber on award decisions, please pass this on and consider.
Jon Melle does NOT receive Christmas/Holiday Season card from: Pittsfield’s Pot King, Shitty Pigpen, Trippy Country Buffet, Paul Marxism, Maryland Markey, and a bunch of other neoliberal career politicians. Jon Melle is honored.
Name one DA anywhere at anytime in the last 100 years that prevented addiction and crime.There is a move on to try something different and I say let’s try something different.Trumpers like their kind of failure.Liberate your thinking as you can always go back to crazy FOX philosophy of white failure is the best kind of failure,just look at Trumps overthrow of our goverment.
That’s entirely missing the point, TSC. No one of any credibility “anywhere or anytime in the last 100 years” has said that. It’s not the DA’s job to “prevent crimes.” It’s the DA’s job to punish criminals. The current DA has not a clue about the duties of her office.
Reminds me of Attorneys General William Barr.He redacted Trumps crimes.
The point is that the DA has little to do with the crimes committed.We do know that reform of this failed system is going to happen.
May I suggest you take an intro to Criminal Justice class TSC?
The DA’s Office has a lot to do with “crimes committed.” The DA’s Office makes charging decisions on defendants, make recommendations for bail or no bail, and whether to seek the death penalty or life in prison, in death penalty eligible states.
These are just the basic tasks of the DA’s office. They also represent the state in criminal and civil trials.
You know, that step people go through, before heading off to prison, if they are found guilty, TSC?
The DA’s office is not to decide what laws to enforce and what to ignore, simply based on a political agenda.
TSC, I’m going to help you see the forest through the trees. Jon Melle is unable to. Here it goes:
DA Wrong Way Harrington touts that her office doesn’t charge simple drug possession charges. Seems fair on its core.
But dig deeper, how do these addicts, who get caught (hence the possession charge) by the police with heroin/meth, get the money to buy their dope?
They rob, shoplift, break into: cars, houses, office buildings, looking for items of value. They cause financial hardship FOR OTHERS, simply to feed THEIR addiction.
This isn’t simple marijuana possession charges. These are hardcore drugs.
Understand TSC? It’s her job to enforce all the laws enacted by the legislation, and she took an oath to uphold, wether she likes it or not.
Certainly Sullivan has my vote if he is only opponent of ABA, because, let’s face it, Anybody is Better than Andrea. But, why aren’t other, more serious candidates coming out of the woodwork to knock ABA into next month. I don’t get it.
Why aren’t other candidates coming forward? Indeed. Does anyone know? I would like Mr Sullivans opinion on this as well.
Sullivan is probably the next crowned successor. Pretty sure the previous administration didn’t go too far. Fixing flawed convictions would not look good for retired law enforcement/ justices….. they gotta have someone who will be on board with the machine
Because most of them have big egos and are lazy ..Geez look at Tim Shugrue when he ran against Capeless couldn’t even get his signs out of his garage
I hear that Harrington is only putting signs on one way streets.
Backwards, so only her supporters will be able to read them.
And which way is she driving up the streets? The wrong way!
There are lots of lawyers in Berkshire County. Ask them why they won’t run. Why would you expect someone running to answer your question?
OK. Why are there not more people interested in running for the DA position? Have you considered it at all and if not why not?
I would venture a guess and say, most lawyers who have lived in Berkshire County for longer than 14 years understand Mr. Sullivan’s lofty aspirations are rooted in naïveté without a clear understanding of the history and root problems if our community. The law enforcement aspect is a losing battle.
I think you are mistaken. Harrington has destroyed the district attorneys office. Rebuilding it – its credibility, staff, training, operational effectiveness, community involvement – all of that is a monumental task. Why bother when you can reap the benefts as a defense attorney? She has done more harm to this community than any elected official past or present.
Dan, I doubt Sullivan has tried even 100 cases. Most are pleas.
and so how many of them are more than Andrea?
Harrington tried only 1 and lost, then claimed client should be granted a new trial, on appeal, due to ineffective counsel on her part. You can’t make this stuff up. And I am by no means disparaging Sullivan rather just telling the truth. There haven’t even been thousands of trials in Berkshire County in the last decade.
Always late to court disheveled to name a few ..Ask people who know him a time bomb major personal issues
He can buy an iron and an alarm clock. Harrington can’t grow a brain she’s a dipshit.
Harrington & Davis ate at the Richard Stanley BBQ joint. The People were hand selected to run a bbq joint/other ppl were not. How is this [insert legal term]? Do other ppl pay rent ? Do these ppl ? What’s the qualifier? What is going on. What about….. Equal treatment
Andy do you wear knee pads at work on state time while you post here?
Gee, wonder why more local attorneys don’t want to run? Crap like this. A time bomb? Personal issues?
My gumshoes tell me Harrington hasn’t filed yet because she thinks she is worthy of higher office. How about attorney general perhaps?
Are her backers planning to sneak in a ringer knowing she has a tough road ahead?
Ringer or not the papers need to be taken out and the signatures have to be obtained.
It’s very interesting. I went looking to see what races are happening in Berkshire County this year and I could only find results for 2021. Even the state website was terrible. In this day of the internet you should just be able to do a quick search on your topic and presto you have your information. Especially government functions, everything should be out as soon as possible.
Seriously?????
she ran for higher officers initially and lost to Adam Hinds and god knows who else. Something of that sort at least
Has she taken out papers?
I don’t think so. Not sure. Lots of scuttlebutt about that.
She be good dog catcher.
Dan, it can’t be that crime is on the rise because Tyer wasn’t going to stand for it, blamed Bianchi for it’s rise, etceffingcetera.
Does Tyer’s association with Harrington and or the police chief have any effects, good or bad, on crime in Pittsfield? Do Pittsfield residents have any idea how many actual muggings, stabbings, rapes or assaults have happened in Pittsfield just in the last year? Is there an actual log of all such crimes without any efforts to obscure the overall dangerousness of the city? What was the most driving factor in the mayors choice to move to the far edge of her city, away from the actual daily life experiences her constituents face?
These are great questions. It used to be the police log was in the paper daily so us citizens could read what was going on in our city. Now it is well hidden even in this day of instant information through the internet. Why are all government connected citizen paid for groups kept behind closed doors with the key hidden? Everything this city does should at least be posted on the city’s website. Instead citizens have to hear it through the rumor mill. For a mayor who ran on transparency and fixing blight she sure has failed miserably.
The selection in the local paper was limited. It was more like dragging the names of certain people through the mud. You do know that the 911 Pittsfield Police Log is posted almost daily online. I always wonder about the days that they exclude. Certainly, we know that something happened on those days. Even so, I believe the allegedly official police log is altered. A short time ago the police log actually included the names, addresses, and the nature of the calls. One call from the ghetto included an incident that involved someone finding that feces had been smeared on their door. Very disturbing!
1. Their paycheck comes from the same place.
Read the Globe
Here are your answers, Fizz, No, no, yes, and because her hubbby had the home already.
So hubby, with his connections to law enforcement, knew that the farther away you got from the center of the city the safer you are? And the mayor liked being safe?
I believe the rumor was that tyer had/has some sordid connection to wynn, something filthy no doubt. If I’m not mistaken, the sordid rumor about the 3 a.m. nightcrawler involved some unsavory connection between the 3 a.m. nightcrawler, a dentist and that lowlife creep, Lothrop.
These are great questions. The Eagle has a data and records reporter who has been focused on Covid. Now that the pandemic is over a re-direct might help the public know more about what is happening on the streets and in the courts and DA’s office. Would that be too much for hope for?
They have recently been forced to say bad things about Pittsfield horrendous roads because even special interest folk are getting upset. But despite other glaring deficiencies in her rule as mayor of Pittsfield, she gets very little negative critique. There is obviously a cloak of protection over her and her administration.
Why?
Mytown wants paving done first where all their properties are located.
You would have to get records from the DA'[s office and Harrington already broke state law over that. She does whatever she wants with impunity. She caused a highly experienced and respected attorney and whistleblower to resign over her refusal to cooperate with records requests. Then she tried to quash the story and refused to speak to the Eagle and continued to lie about complaints that were made. 8 public defenders signed a complaint letter. This is the kind of person who should be DA??????
She also stopped talking to THE PLANET. Great question at the end, KIMMER.
We have it on good source that the Eagle will rise to the occasion as it pertains to the DAs race. Probably won’t see it until the campaign gets into its latter stages. As it pertains to press relations, the current DA rates an F-. It would be difficult to see how any high-profile public office could be so ignorant about press relations.
Usually when the newspaper “rises to the occasion” it is because it benefits them. They sure as hell have never rose to the occasion for the taxpayers. EVER!
T&S
Yes! Remember the press conference she called, with Chief Wynn and all the others in on the Show? Zero tolerance on gangs. Right. Look how that turned out.
Hey Linda,
How’s dem damn roads????
Get outta your basement and do something . Let’s Go Linda.
Her answer…what’s in it for me?
Another big elected position will coming up for voters. Alf Barbalunga is testing the waters, again, for Sheriff against Tom Bowler. Great. Another has been wants back in. Remember his train wreck as head of the school committee?
Tell him to go back to Melmac
What’s that?
Pittsfields number one problem is the denial of Allendales elementary school located on top of GEs former toxic swamp.The schools Health and safety officer needs to address this emergency to Tyer,Marchetti Cameron and his immediate boss Curtis….When you are in the business of education you must educate yourself to problems.
Trump admires Putins invasion strategy so much he calls him a genius.Trumpers admire Trumps opinion of Putin so much they call Trump a genius….Republicans poisoned by FOX fascist propaganda…..Trumpers want what they cant have just like Putin.Trump will never lead you to a white America.Stop admiring Putin and stop surpressing democracy.
Fake News and TDS
100% agree.
You agree with yourself. What a surprise.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/06/metro/state-medical-examiners-cut-autopsy-rates-among-lowest-nation/#
I have a long comment, so bear with me. Hopefully not JM long, but there’s a lot to unpack here.
AH’s perceived incompetence aside, Sullivan’s position is naïve and unrealistic. A 14-year long career doesn’t even scratch the surface of the history of drugs, violence and the culture of being a poor, hopeless community. And a pivot from prosecution to private practice somewhere in those 14 years leads one to believe he has already experienced the disenfranchisement of the state’s side.
Pittsfield is poor. It is hopeless. It has ignored the need for success of future generations instead to focus and invest in old people and dying cultures (arts, “up street”, etc.)
During the last 30 years, time moved on and Pittsfield stayed stuck in an outdated, technologically-delayed, old-fashioned place in time. When people have nothing to live for, be excited about or proud of, there’s no motivation to do better. This is why generations have turned to drugs and violence.
I can guarantee you there’s not one criminal or drug addict or gang banger out here that spends even 30 seconds on considering the prosecutorial policies of the DA’s office in their choices to commit crimes. People didn’t care when we had Rockefeller-era mandatory sentences and they don’t care now. Getting caught, getting prosecuted doesn’t weigh into the lifestyle choice. A life of drugs and violence is one of desperation and hopelessness. It goes hand in hand with the social ills of a poor community.
Those social ills don’t change with heavier prosecution or locking more people up.
The recent shooting highlighted at the beginning of this article was a domestic dispute between family members that was settled with a gun instead of a fight. Another example of a person who had very little concern for consequence. Desperate. Hopeless.
The post above this one refers to the atrocious condition of the city streets. It is disgusting and unbelievable how they have been allowed to become so deteriorated. Poor leadership and infrastructure maintenance aside, it is a perfect example of how we live in a community that very visibly just doesn’t care. They don’t care about our environment, they don’t care about our finances and economic struggles, they don’t care. Period.
So why would anyone living here care either.
The condition of the roads and the garbage that is all around them is the poster child of mayor Tyers tenure. It says all you need to know about how little she cares about the city she begged to take leadership of.
I wish there were someone with some clout that could get a forensic audit done in Pittsfield. A deep audit of the last ten or fifteen years might answer a ton of questions as to why the tax rate in Pittsfield spirals out of control and no one with any power seeming to want to find out why. This mayor shuld be and advocate of one as should the city treasurer. They are not. Why? Money is not the problem so what is?
My friend’s death was ruled a suicide although he was undoubtedly murdered. How does one overcome such injustice? Just like you said.
Well said Phil. The DAs job is to prosecute not make the laws, but enforce them and they can be tough on crime but they are neither responsible for, or have the ability, to lower it directly. That can be done however via a mayor with steel balls and a police department given the resources and a prosecutor who prosecutes instead of coddles, but it takes a sustained effort across time, and there is a limit to how much it can be reduced. Your city fathers and mothers let the city go to hell in hand basket and it’s too late to turn it around fully.
PHIL
Well expressed. Thanks for your input.
I agree. Jon Melle should write shorter posts. There are many valid points expressed on this topic of violent crime in Pittsfield/Berkshire County.
Speaking of the DA, she may want to look at price gouging at the gas pump. When has our gas ever been priced higher than gas in NY state? According to the news this morning several of our gas stations are at least 10 cents a gallon higher….I find this very disturbing!
Dr. Clarke the medical examiner / inmates physician at Berkshire County House of Corrections – ironically this was Dr. Clark’s office years ago Lewis Avenue Great Barrington.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/great-barrington-doctor-visited-by-fbi-state-top-billing-dermatologist-medicare/article_7f6dec8a-5391-11ec-9918-77964234bddd.html
Our country is trying in many states to get rid of these far left Soros appointed District Attorneys because people are finally realizing that they have a dangerous agenda.
Will someone pull the plug at t b r radio on this stooge and guests like this hag Kate has been. I don’t care about how great they are because I don’t give to shits about lamenting and performing actors or plays. I like music on the radio. Don’t care about how great these actors are,really. I’ve done my part by not tuning on the pctv show- shows but would really like to hear music on my car radio going to and fro to work.
Harrington doesn’t even care about any of their “issues,” like racial disparity. It’s a campaign fundraising opportunity for her and it’s working. Not a bad gig for someone who barely made any money as a part-time attorney.
Too well fed, too well paid and too trained to go against the plantation master and DO HERJOB!
Crime being on the rise is not the point so much as that the response to crime has gone down. Way, way down. If you can’t get a conviction because you are not competent you have more offenders out and about. If you have lots of pleas to lesser charges you have offenders out and about sooner Short sentences in the name of “decarceration” despite incarcertation being lower than in history means more offenders out and about. Police get frustrated, leave, stop bothering. Pretty soon you’re Holyoke, then Minneapolis
Excellent observations, AL.
Actually Harrington is genius. She’s achieved the Soros goal of decarceration by failing to work effectively with her counterparts in law enforcement, being incompetent and sitting on her ass doing nothing. Brilliant!
Yes it last city Council meeting up at the project came in under 14 million dollars yet when you have changeovers and Now are adding a new lab? over there for testing,who do you think is gonna get the increase,the consultants,the engineers,as far as I know you don’t even need a laboratory,most of the time they sendthe stuff out to be tested to another lab,what a screw job city residents are getting,on this water taxes,and never mind about changeovers when the consultants telling you how much they need, they’re the ones making the money. Maybe on those changeovers we might be able to save a few million dollars,I doubt it though.
“We’ve all seen cases that come in and look like a straightforward drug overdose. And then you do an autopsy and find out this person was strangled,” said Dr. James Gill, Connecticut’s chief medical examiner and a past NAME president. “That’s the nightmare scenario. That’s what you don’t want to miss.”
Lenard Cohen for Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q
I cannot support a DA who employed &enforced progressive policies, ran around the country on political junkets, rebuked a sitting judge, expressed support for indicted Mosby, and whose actions suggest she feels she’s above the law (late tax payments, suspended license, driving infractions).
I will be voting for Sullivan for DA.
You may want to move to a red state such as Tennessee then. Attorney Robert Sullivan is making the same promises on criminal justice reform as countless other Pittsfield politicians and wanna be’s for many years/decades. We have heard it all before, yet violent crime in only getting worse in the beautiful Berkshires and beyond. The authorities say it is like playing whack-a-mole because when you arrest one bad guy, three more pop up in an endless cycle.
I’m not moving anywhere and I’m certainly not going to take any advice from you.
I believe in staying & fighting radical leftists like yourself. The policies you advocate for – are destroying my country. May Sullivan win in a landslide.
Well said, Lenny, anyone who signs Harrington’s papers needs their head examined.
ABA
The town manager of Lenox Ma. has cheap taxes by half of what Pittfield has.Lenox is a very well managed town.They use Pittsfield tuition to balance their bucks.
Yeah and your current state reps kid went there. You can’t make it up.
And they rob Pittsfield’s water and sewer for pennies
Medical Examiners in Mass. Often Use Photos, Not Bodies, To Do Autopsies
Nearly 1,200 times last fiscal year — or roughly 1 in 7 cases — a medical examiner did not examine a body in person before identifying a cause of death, The Boston Globe reported. That nearly doubled the number of so-called chart reviews from the previous year, the newspaper said. It’s all part of an effort to work faster and reduce a backlog of cases.
https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Pittsfield-Massachusetts.html
So four years ago it was the DA doesn’t make the crime rate go up now you are changing the narrative ahh. I would suggest you look at the years 2014 -2018 crime was skyrocketing blame Capeless?
Look at 2019 Major crime is way down. Praise Harrington? Take out 2021 and 2022 due to covid. The narrative crime is going up is Absolutely false. Data shows that. Sully is the Republican and is endorsed by
The party. You may not like Harrington but it’s gonna be a landslide in November , to many big Dems on the ticket.
Fake news, not a republicanTrumper. When law enforcement stands up against Harrington and they will she should start packing her boxes.
Lol
Jimmy,
Paul made the same mistake. Who is advising this train wreck
Some very pissed off cops.
That’s true. Talking to one of them recently, and the word is that the way it is now, an officer stops someone in traffic, and they EXPECT to find handguns. A gun epidemic. A drug epidemic. Combine them, and WHAM-O.
America has 1 billion guns.We need to do a criminal check on gun buyers.
Dan please note this post contains information known to be false.
Which crime has gone up I’m Pittsfield? That’s false news and fact
That the Berkshire Republican association held a event for Attorney ” I’m not political” sorry bud he owns that that is fact.
Harrington gets beat up in here all the time with fake news..Sully needs to get some nads if he is gonna run.
Where is it, where is the false info about Harrington?
Harrington didn’t attempt to unseat a judge?
Harrington doesn’t get most of her campaign funds from the Soros nework?
Harrington didn’t lose the only criminal case she ever tried, a layup that put a murderer back on the street?
Harrington didn’t publicly support a federally indicted prosecutor
She didn’t lie about her license.
She didn’t try to get away with a cwof for embezzlement?
Harrington didn’t block the release of public records about a fake hate crime and lie about it?
These are all fake news? All of it. Bruh. Harrington works hard for every beating she gets and more people need to know about it.
Bruh ( Sully) you show me one dime she received from Soros please I’ll wait. Dan me crying that is fake news. You have to actually live in Berkshire county to run for DA wink wink more on that later ..Bruh will be done before June lots of skeletons.
Who paid for Harrington’s trips to Portugal, Selma. LA etc? Who gave her the playbook she’s shoving down our throats? Who are all those bundled contributors? You can run but you can’t hide from the truth!
Here you go Louis. The Harrington Soros connection was covered on this blog.
https://planetvalenti.com/2022/02/following-the-money-planet-exclusive-tracks-down-the-bucks-and-how-theyve-compromised-criminal-justice-in-berkshire-county/
Oh, Louie do tell. Waiting until June? Now Sullivan knows you creeps are going after his personal life. So oppo of you. Stop making the frat boy innuendos. Let’s talk issues.
MRS.
THE PLANET will force this very point. Issues. Our guess is that the current DA will avoid all she can, and that’s her choice. We respect everyone’s right to campaign as they wish. This time around, however, neither she nor anyone else in the race will escape THE PLANET’s scrutiny.
Harrington like Yuki Choen is a joke. The only thing left for Harrington is to dance on Yuki’s bar.
Have you already discovered election fraud in case Andrea loses? Sounds like you are going to go all out to make sure she stays in place.
Show me a donation from Soros? Or is this the best the bro club has?
I do see many donations from outside of Berkshire county for Sully ,,Trump supporters I assume. See how that sounds Bruh?
Your district attorney who has had the job for 3 years has like 75 donations from outside the county and maybe two dozen local. She is radioactive. Eveyone in local politics tells dems who come here to stay far away.
The event was not for Sullivan. I invited Harrington to attend on this blog as well and we know that her people monitor the planet. She could have told us of her many accomplishments but she was a no show. If she would like we can arrange for her to speak to area republicans.
Sorry Dave his name was on it with the other Republicans it was for him. Just own it.
Like I said we would love it if Andrea spoke to our group. Whoever this is can contact me through Dan.candidates should be willing to speak with all voters. Don’t you agree?
Will Andrea engage in a discussion with her challenger on PCTV hosted by Dan?
Maybe the police chief could sit in on the discussion and tell us where he is at on crime in Pittsfield. I would think his inside perspective would be very important to both sides. He could shed more light than anyone in the game.
Oops, so why is that a bad idea?
DAVE
I will be making an announcement about this later in the campaign but probably sooner than expected.
This was a Republican meet and greet event plain and simple.Harrington is a Dem. The optics are clear. They will have debates Did you invite Hinds Healy etc? Did they show ?
We would love to hear from them. Adam has refused other invites.
We would especially like to hear from Andrea so she can tell us of her accomplishments. Can you arrange it?
1. Get elected under false pretenses [check]
Crime rate goes down if crimes aren’t charged but in realville we know there is more crime. Only buffoons and communists endorse Harrington. Which one are you?
Uh yah, For instance did anyone get mugged in Pittsfield in the past year and if so is there a police record of it? Did any local news outlets report any muggings or do such things never happen in a city overrun with drug addicts and desperate homeless people?
And if I run a city would I be inclined to tamp down any open discussion of crimes that might effect tourism or visits to my city?
This Harrington flack thinks only far left loons should vote.
Maybe creepy Joe will stump for the dems.
No one likes Harrington except Meghan Walden. Literally the only person to say a positive word about her in 3 years. Eats , shits and leaves.
“Walden’s Pond.”
You could run a turnip against Harrington and I’d vote for the turnip every time.
Anyone who says they voted for her based on her resume and not her being female and progressive is a liar.
How about a parsnip?
In all fairness we should be listing MRS. Harrington s positive points as well as the not so positive ones. I will start.
1.
I’m confused as to how Massachusetts supplied a live streaming Covid deaths ticker for 2+ years if they’re not doing autopsies. Same w/ opiate overdoses? Someone please explain how it is possible.
The position of DA should not be party affiliated. It should be a position to enforce laws that are on the books and prosecute those who allegedly broke the law. Period. Why does a potential candidates political party matter. Take the politics out of law enforcement. Of course you have to run for the office publicly but loyalty to a political party will always lead to favoritism depending on who favors are owed to. This should not be the way our laws are enforced and our criminals prosecuted. OR NOT AS IS THE CASE WITH OUR CURRENT DA. Maybe if two candidates ran for office without disclosing a political affiliation, the better candidate would win and not just a democrat because we live in Mass
It never was that way in five DAs until Harrington destroyed that public trust.
Totally agree pothole. The one thing I used to respect about city politics was that it was intentionally non-partisan, which is why mayoral or council candidates do not have a D, R, or I next to their names on the ballot. It made sense. The focus of those elected should be on the needs of their constituents in Pittsfield, not how to advance their national party agenda. Now, party agenda is the only thing city politicians care about. See office of equity, diversity and inclusion.
Do city councilors really have to sign a NDA to represent Pittsfield? Most of them seem pretty tight lipped when it comes time to ask seemedly relevant questions.
Regarding the drug court Harrington campaigned so hard on…how is that going? Harrington arugued hard for drug court and claims it is a main tool in her office’s response to opioid addition. Turns out her primary benefactor does not like drug courts after all. They don’t want any punishment for drugs including being found guilty and sent to drug court. They didn’t realize you have to have conviction and can’t be a repeat dealer to qualify. All of sudden “helping people” is a bad idea. So what’s the status?
See “Why it’s time to abandon drug courts.” https://fairandjustprosecution.org/news/articles/
Dan,it’s time to ask you to get down and dirty with the goings on at the water plants and the unavailability of the mayor to give some answers concerning thism monstrosity, with the consultants getting more and more with conigencies also adding to the bill. I’ve been told the 14 million was a never was? And the lab was reintroduced but clearly not articulated with this non needed 9 million dollar water checker? Common Man ! (City Council) let’s get a better opinion on the water plant expenditures before pouring tax dollars into consultants pockets. Don’t reduce the water rate payments reduce the damn project!
Severe thunderstorm warning tonight. Of course the city hasn’t left a message on your phone. Probably to busy covering up the water rates nonsense because they dropped the ball. The bottom line is if you don’t need projects to line consultants pockets you’re not kicking the can down the road, And when you don’t need big dig projects rate raises are non existent and that payment is never kicked down the road. The bottom line is the water plant doesn’t need a 70 plus upgrade.
Gas was up to $4.29 9/10 at midday. The city-wide pothole roads are unsafe and in horrible condition, and yet, Excise Tax bills are due. Water and Sewer bills were due today. The closed off crumbling rusted Fenn Street entrance to SHITTY City Hall continues (for years now) to be festooned with tattered caution tape, The Federal Street hazardous SHITTY Hall courtyard is blocked off with safety cones, and there’s probably 50 piles of dog shit, unless its human shit, all over the green space outside SHITTY HALL on the Fenn Street side. The sidewalks around SHITTY HALL are littered with garbage, coffee cups, paper, nip bottle, face masks. But scary barry came out of the mayor’s officer today with a shit eating grin on his face. He had a look on him that suggested he just popped in for a water and sewer rate due day celebratory quickie with the crummy mayor. What other reason would she be in SHITTY HALL.
Good post City. How about this one Putin. Wanted…Dead or Alive….
I don’t know about Barry. But there on fenn street side was garbage,a used rubber and the cones on the other side and shit also. You’re right.
I drive my truck down oak Hill to lanesboro everyday and without question one of the worst pot hole trips in the city.
Don’t drive by Grove at Tyler Street unless you got your scuba gear in your car
This would not happen if Meg Whilden was still in charge. People use to leave their rubbers over in the Cumbies lot where they belong.
(unless someone left Cumbies at 3AM and dropped it on their way to city hall)
Barry gave me the first neg
What more do you need to know than that the crummy mayor’s nightcrawler trolls cumbbies at 3 a.m., creeps around in the clerk’s office, and tells lies about how safe it is in this shitty city. On the piles of dog shit all over the green space outside shitty hall on the Fenn Street side, some years ago a fat lazy slob/ex-city employee would tell stories about how he would take his dog to shitty hall so it could take its shit everyday.
Did you read the news article in the Eagle that on/after April 1st, 2022, the state will no longer provide free, asymptomatic COVID-19 testing at the Stop the Spread sites in Berkshire County? Other regions of Massachusetts will not have to pay, but unless Berkshire County residents drive to Springfield and points east, they will have to pay either out of pocket or through their health insurance plans, if they are insured. The Stop the Spread sites in Berkshire County ran from December 2020 and will run through the end of March 2022. The state will still provide at-home rapid tests to municipalities to distribute to its residents, and anyone can receive free at-home testing kits from the federal government through the U.S. Postal Service at special.usps.com/testkits. Over-the-counter tests, though less accurate than lab tests, typically cost $10 to $12 each.
Credit: Danny Jin, The Berkshire Eagle, March 7, 2022
What about the shit show that is the Williamstown PD and the North Adams district court?
Even though the state has instituted text message reminders for defendants of the time and date of their hearing if a defendant calls North Adams district court to find out that info they are told they have to come in in person and show photo ID verifying their identity before being given public docket information. Because, you know, some random person might take it upon themselves to show up in the defendant’s place??
WPD, not only displaying the photo of Adolf Hitler for decades but also surveilling Jewish families and refusing to do investigations that involve Jewish people unless “ordered to by a judge.”
Judge Vrabel in Northern Berkshire district Court handing the Ada her ass for not even attempting to present cases but instead allowing people’s personal attorneys to present, AND the ADA not even knowing what the case was about.
DA’s office then sends in Dohoney, who does nothing on behalf of the state in presenting the case, steps aside and allows somebody’s private attorney to present it AGAIN. Again???
All of this happening in front of the judge who was not unseated, who is encouraging this, and now the friends and extended family of the family involved in this case have now gone to Rachel Rollins and the AG’s office to try and find some kind of relief from the insanity that is Williamstown and the Northern Berkshire district Court.
Had a proper investigation been done the local court wouldn’t even be hearing any of this and now it’s going to cost ushuge amounts of taxpayer dollars and probably people’s careers.
That tax dollar though. End goal.
Sounds bad but bottom was hit when Harrington’s office let the attempted murder of a baby slide because they couldn’t get the case together.
What is the status of the exploding pot cook?
Is the infants deat case still in the works
You mean the one involving Matt Tucker?
Yes
Do any cars get eighty miles per gallon. If you see one for sale please let me know on here.
Might want to look at mopeds!
After reading the posts on this site I got to wondering what does constitute a crime anymore? Outside of burning hay bales, it seems like anything else is fine. People rob a Subway and are let go. Government greases the favored ones hands, nothing is done. Someone is spray painting private buildings and nothing is said. So I ask what is a crime these days?
SHIRL
Great point. THE PLANET has long held that “crime” is a “legal concept.” Implicit in that, however, is a moral element closely related to justice. We agree with the DA’s understanding legal understanding of “crime.” We disagree because her office has also defined the morality of justice with respect to public safety in the same legalistic manner, which is why criminals rule and the Kapanskis stay off the mean streets.
Well you can’t burn cow food for one thing.
Hello Patrick Fennell,
When Smitty Pignatelli and company vote for new state taxes and fees, or they vote to increase them, then they should lead by example by voting for a proportional cut in their own public pay and perks to show the people and taxpayers they supposedly represent that they too will pay more into the state government’s overflowing with cash coffers, which still has billions of dollars in cash in state government surplus funds. It is NOT even rational anymore! Please let me know if Smitty writes another one of his endless lofty op-eds saying he voted for a new fee on gas ratepayers in Massachusetts on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Lastly, Sunshine Week will run from Sunday, March 13th, 2022, to Saturday, March 19th, 2022, which means the Vampires on Beacon Hill such as Smitty will be hiding behind closed doors while they continue suck the blood out of state tax and fee payers.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
Off topic but didn’t Krol and Barbalunga support Harrington? rumor was Krol was very close to her. I wonder if they will try and distance themselves from her now?
They both did. I’m guessing that JK will introduce 200 degrees of separation between where he stands now compared to then. And I respect that. It’s called manning up to a mistake. As for Alf, I don’t know.
Who are they lining up for mayor in case the current one does not get to spend the whole 43 million?
Why does DA Harrington block people on Twitter? What is she hiding?
Probably like anyone on Social media … Duh! Let me guess you want to tweet something rude or demeaning or already have
Check my tweets and get back to me with any offending tweet
You’re not missing much. It’s infantile self promotion. Here she’s laughing her ass off at the gullibe voting public.
Went to the convention – you have to be 16 years old.
School committee Richmond – FAIL, a no-show.
Ran for Senate – FAIL.
Elected DA, ROFL!!
DA Andrea Harrington @harringtonforda
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Replying to @hjessy_ @EricLesser @cdempc
Congratulations!! That’s how I got involved in politics- delegate to the MA Democratic Convention in 2014, senate candidate in 2016, school committee member in 2017, then elected DA in 2018.
Dan,
FYI Harrington took papers out long ago. Almost done with obtaining signitures.
Why don’t you ask her?
If you signed Harrington’s papers please provide a reason here.
Ohh Pick me. For one I worked in the
DA’s office and have for 15 years. I was skeptical of Andrea taking over.
However she respects the employees much like Paul did. David Capless was Always Always a grumpy man couldn’t bother to even say hello to anyone in the office. The affairs that took place in the office were disgusting one Attorney in Particular had affairs with at least 3 or more married men. The morale has never been better. Sorry probably not what you wanted to hear
PENNY
Thanks for the alternate view. We respect that. I would only ask this. If morale has never been better, then why is the D.A. so reluctant to sit down with the Eagle, the area’s only daily, and with THE PLANET, the area’s most-trafficked site? Can you please pass this along to her. Our space, as it has been since Day One and earlier, available to the office. When the phone doesn’t ring, we’ll know it’s yoose guys not getting back to us.
Sugar is sweet just like Splenda but Splenda is phony.
What kind of a mental midget bases the quality of the chief law enforcement official, the district attorney, on whether they say hello to an overpaid deadwieght? There are guns and drugs everywhere and the office can’t win cases. What’s important here is who says hello to you and who’s zooming who? I’m guessing you never should have had a job under any DA and no one respects you.
Kronick is brilliant tonight. Tyer and Kerwood caught in big time lies. Or maybe they’re just stupid.
GOB
Can you elucidate?
Marchetti is proving himself a buffoon and White is Obtuse.
Pay the new water rates. Like it. And shut the f, up.The G man tried and sends his regards from the French Riviera.
Anyone hear the Mayor yelling in the background and lumpy lousy up interrupting while Maffuccio was speaking.Then Marchetti shuts Maffuccio off just before Ricky was stepping into a bucket of shit.
And what about White saying he’d rather be at this bar and watching a band? Pay the rates or move out of town,that’s my remedy,can’t afford it. If Connell had run they had the votes the other way?
Again this is Not, the mayors meeting.But does it matter? she has thePresident in her pockets. Maffuccio should file complaint with,um with,uh? Aw never mind.
And this added multi million dollar lab? Is because workers were getting sick?Really? First I heard of that? Anyway it has gotten to this point,four long years and the rates (needless rates) are here. Pay em.
Those folks over on oak Hill rd must be stupid. They pay water rates and high property,excise, pick pocket tax, and that road looks like shit. Didn’t a resident over there say who cares, it slows the speeding down? Yeah that’s the answer.That road is AWFUL. Might be one of the worst,even cones are in the gutter.