STUPIDITY or ARROGANCE

"If you attack stupidity you attack an entrenched interests with friends in government and in every walk of public life , you will make small progress against it". (Samuesl Marchbanks)

One would have thought that the Council would have learned a lesson from the "Drakeford affair". Yet Monday night one Jiles Ship a Director of Public Safety in the last days of the McWilliams administration is going to address the "Governing body on strategies to enhance public safety"


Ship's credentials obtained from Google from the best bio I could find,is:

100 Black Men of New Jersey, Inc. 2009

Jiles Ship Jiles H. Ship

Regional Vice President - Central

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Jiles H. Ship started his career in law enforcement in 1985, first serving as an officer on the Edison Police Department, during which time he also served as an Instructor for the Middlesex County Police Academy. He recently served as the Director of Public Safety for the City of Plainfield, New Jersey. As Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Public Safety, he oversaw the Police Division, Fire Division and the Office of Emergency Management, having responsibility for 254 sworn personnel and 51 civilian employees and managing a budget of over $23 million. Prior to that appointment, he served in the State of New Jersey Attorney General's Office - Division of Criminal Justice as the Special Assistant to the Director and as an Administrator of Investigations. Following his tenure as Director of Public Safety for the City of Plainfield, Ship returned to the Division of Criminal Justice, where he currently serves as an Administrator of Investigations.

I tried looking up Highland Global Strategies and out of the first 10 listings in Google i received:404 - "Component not found" for all.
(You may not be able to visit this page because of:

1. an out-of-date bookmark/
2. favourites search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
3. a mistyped address you have no access to this page
4. The requested resource was not found.
5. An error has occurred while processing your request.)

We learned that he has been active in NOBLE (National Association of Black Law Enforcement Executives) but I have not found any specifics that qualify him as an expert in solving municipal security problems.


When will our political leaders understand that we will not tolerate their employing old political allies as consultants.


Along those lines I have not read or noted in this agenda the naming of a new Special Counsel to investigate the $20,000.00 radio expense. Since the uproar about appointing former Corporation Counsel Drakeford has the need for the investigation vanished. If so then the maneuver was just political and not an honest attempt to rule out improprieties.