"A city man arrested in February on charges he allegedly raped girls ages 13 and a 14, was released from jail and the charges will be dropped after a paperwork mistake by the Rensselaer County District Attorney's office [...] District Attorney Richard McNally [...] will leave office to become a state Supreme Court judge in January."Gardinier, Bob. "Prosecutors admit bungling rape case; Accused attacker to go free after paperwork mix-up." Albany Times Union. November 19, 2013. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Prosecutors-admit-bungling-rape-case-4992889.php
"Bungle" McNally a Supreme Court judge. Sounds revolting.
As for the accused in the case, evidently he's a college football player.
Among its less productive members of society, Rensselaer County also has Troy Mayor Louis A. Rosamilia, an ex-football coach and UAlbany graduate who takes no issue with UAlbany's incompetent and corrupt police mismanaging a sexual offender registry for years - an inexcusable state of affairs not so far from bungling a rape case.
From: Christopher PhilippoSubject: "the safety of our students and the security of our campuses is our top priority"
Date: November 1, 2013 at 2:05:51 AM EDT
Mayor, as a fellow UAlbany grad, I wonder if you’re familiar with how bad things have gotten there in many respects?
The UAlbany Police department had, for years, elected to mismanage their sexual offender registry so badly that they wound up with two separate, different ones, both of them misinforming the campus community and the worldwide community for years:
• Sexual Offender Registry #1 "© 2009 University at Albany"
"There are currently three (4) [sic] registered sex offenders enrolled or working at the University. The following Information has been released:” was followed by a list of six (6) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAjbUOP Accessed: February 19, 2013 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EZ55k2vF(it still read © 2009 at that time)
• Sexual Offender Registry #2 No date (probably circa 2007-2008)
"There are currently two (2) registered sex offenders enrolled at the University. The following Information has been released:” was followed by a list of three (3) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAsiiOThttp://police.albany.edu/2ColPage.asp?PageSName=SOR2 now redirects to UPD’s homepage
For anyone who can count to two without making an error, those are some pretty glaringly obvious problems on each individual registry - aside from the glaringly obvious problem that there shouldn’t have been two different ones online at the same time. [...]
As a UAlbany grad and former HVCC professor, I trust you share my concern about such problems. Aside from the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as well as the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, there’s also the fact that UAlbany is a campus where at least two young women disappeared.
Such problems ought to be of some concern to Troy for any number of reasons. For example, RPI employs two former SUNY Police directors, Roger Johnson and David Schindler, despite the SUNY Police being notoriously flawed and corrupt:
"there are police chiefs in SUNY who are not mandating policer [sic] officers, certified, whatever. We have police chiefs that refuse to voluntarily give up their fingerprints"
James Lyman, Executive Director of Council 82 for the New York State Law Enforcement Officers Union. (108). http://www.nysenate.gov/files/SUNY%20testimony%20pt.%202.PDF
"SUNY police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the campus president, thus are motivated to keep crime stats down by any means […] SUNY can no longer afford to staff, or overstaff, a body, or overstaff, a body which is subject to inefficiencies, manipulation, cronyism, ill motivation and mismanagement."
Peter Barry, VP & Legislative Director of NYS University Police Officers Union Local 1792 of the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees AFSCME, Council 82 & AFL-CIO. (127-128). http://www.nysenate.gov/files/SUNY%20Testimony%20pt.%203.PDF
FWIW, I have personally never had any complaints about Troy Police: not now and not when I had lived there. A Troy officer once showed up at my apartment to take a report about a stolen bicycle, a fairly minor issue. Albany Police, in contrast, simply ignore calls for help, regardless of the severity of the crime, when they don’t feel like upholding the law (which happens far too frequently).
The rest of the e-mail is much as seen elsewhere on this blog. Mayor Rosamilia's also on the Board of Trustees for RPI, the university that hired ex-SUNY Police heads Roger Johnson and David Schindler despite the history of SUNY Police corruption, making that at least two universities whose safety is no concern of Mayor Rosamilia's even though it should be.
"Rosamilia said his accounting acumen will allow him to probe the budget to find ways to streamline operations and that his leadership roles at the college and as a football coach and athletic director at La Salle Institute provided him with managerial experience."
Crowe III, Kenneth C. "2 vie over Troy issues; Mantello, Rosamilia see city's quality of life, ethics as important challenges." Albany Times Union. October 27, 2011. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/2-vie-over-Troy-issues-2240073.php
Football's a bad penny.
Mayor Rosamilia also had nothing to say about the used condoms discarded out in the open at Troy's Poestenkill Gorge Park, despite the history of sex crimes in that area. I would've thought that condoms and graffiti would've been easier for him to address given that they would seem to have no connection to high school or college athletics (unless he knows something I don't), but no. He didn't reply. On what basis does he justify to himself his silence on graffiti, trash, sexual assault, public corruption, etc., I wonder?
From: Christopher Philippo
Subject: Re: "No Trespassing" at Poestenkill Gorge Park, Linden Ave, Troy
Date: October 31, 2013 at 11:01:31 AM EDT
[...] Sex in public, if the condoms there are spent ones (in which case they might contain DNA evidence that could be tested and run against local sex offenders, perhaps), is quite illegal if I’m not mistaken - and yet that trash is right out in the open at the park - in front of, not behind, the “no trespassing” sign. The “no trespassing” sign has been bent and sprayed with graffiti. Clearly the sign, whether one views its message as perfectly clear or as somewhat ambiguous, isn’t doing a lot of good. How often do police patrol there?
"then there was the ever present football-player rapist"
Butthole Surfers. "Pepper." Electriclarryland. Capitol, 1996.
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