Snarky Media Report

Jimmy F. Brooks, Jr. - LRPD's Crime Analyst Supervisor   Russ Racop - December 14, 2020 Apparently LRPD's chief crime analyst is a liar.   In an email Brooks sent to Laura Martin (LRPD's  Communication and Community Relations Manager) in October, Brooks made some shocking statements. ✦ Gunfire is "regular background noise' in some areas of the city. ✦ Citizen's make false "shots fired" calls to get a quicker response from LRPD. ✦ The expensive ShotSpotter gunfire detection system is a fail. Brooks' claims about the false calls to police about hearing gunshots to obtain a faster response time from LRPD caused us to send a Freedom of Information request to LRPD for records and data to back up his assertion.  No surprise to us, LRPD could not produce a single record or any data to substantiate Brooks statements in the October email exchange with Martin.  LRPD has policies about truthfulness for sworn and civilian personnel. They also have one abou

At-large city director Joan Adcock is well-known for her opposition of actions to remove racist social constructs in the city   Emails obtained via the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act reveal that long in the tooth at-large city director Joan Adcock once again has targeted a minority individual and spared no efforts to harass them. Back in 2013, The Arkansas Times had several stories about Adcock going after minority owned food trucks. ➖➖➖   My attention was called by someone who was there to the waning minutes of the Little Rock Board of Directors meeting Tuesday, when Director Ken Richardson took the mike to ask for a reminder for the board about a policy directive concerning contact between directors and city departments. Directors, in theory, are supposed to work through the city manager or department heads, not directly with staff members, and not micromanage city government. Policy making, not management, is the ideal. But, said Richardson, he’d been contacted recently by food