The Martin Chronicles has been told by multiple sources that another police officer is on the verge of leaving the Villa Hills Police Department. No one can only blame the officer if it is true. The local police department has been battered and bashed by malfeasant Mayor Martin since January 1, 2011. Matters have only gotten worse for the police with the election of new council members Koenig, Menninger-Isenhour and Wischer.
Martin has spent years-well before his election in 2010-shamefully painting a false picture of a local police department that ran roughshod over his Constitutional rights. Martin and his cronies have accused police officers of committing perjury and planting evidence. Now the City Attorney is offering up hearsay claims of police intimidation and the City Clerk charges he was the victim of selective traffic enforcement, despite the fact that the Clerk was never stopped much less given a citation. We will never see proof of any of these things-because they never happened.
These incessant attacks on the police department have undeniably taken a terrible toll. There is no doubt that some people now believe Martin's never-proven claims. There is also no doubt that these scurrilous attacks have done damage to the morale of the police officers themselves. They do a great job. But let's face it. They watch the mismanaging mayor, City Attorney, City Clerk and some on council ridicule them and lie about them constantly.
We wonder if anyone will be able to repair all the damage that Martin has done if the diminutive dictator does leave office on December 31, 2014. Worse yet, what is still to come?
