UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY SPEAKER SERIES: Aly Raisman, Olympic Gymnast, Six-Time Medalist and Author When: Monday, December 3, 2018 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Where: SEFCU Arena Cost: Free; Advance Registration required See: http://ualbany.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event_listings.asp Description: Aly Raisman, Olympic gymnast who captained the US team to victory in 2012 and 2016, is one of the most decorated American gymnasts of all time and a hero of the #metoo movement. Her new book is Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything, an inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, and having a positive outlook even in the toughest times. Sponsored by the UAlbany Student Association, Division of Student Affairs, University Auxiliary Services, and Alumni Association. https://events.albany.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=1EFD840E322EB580AA4DD400C68E6C2FNow if only UAlbany professors, administrators (like Dean "Quid Pro Quo" Altarriba), and police (like so-called-Chief "Gang Rape" Wiley) weren't interested in intimidating witnesses and victims at UAlbany...
Monday, December 3, 2018
UAlbany pretends to welcome the #metoo movement (while forever undermining it)
Sunday, April 9, 2017
how not to find missing female undergraduate students
On March 27, 1985 SUNY Albany student Karen Wilson disappeared.
Eleven years later, the SUNY Albany Police Chief retired without having solved the case. Clearly at that point SUNY Albany would have done well to hire someone with experience closing cold cases, solving missing person cases.
Instead, in 1996 SUNY Albany hired a man allegedly employed as a Baltimore schoolteacher, an ex-athlete and ex-coach and hardcore football fan: J. "Frank" Wiley. SUNY Albany was pursuing Division II athletics status with the ultimate goal of Division I athletics, so from an utterly perverse point of view the hire made sense.
Wiley did have some out-of-state, and thus to some extent irrelevant, experience working at police departments in Maryland. Did those departments have any experience with such cases? Did he?
Campus cops keeping disappearances a mysteryIf she was ever found, it seems not to have been reported. Wiley, as mentioned here previously, had claimed to be a UMBC police officer from 1980 to 1992 even though (as in the above article) he seems to have been a police department spokesman for much or all of that period of time.Wayde Minami
Retriever Staff Writer
Despite the rumors of murder and kidnapping running rampant on campus, university police have declined to release any further details of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of student Tu Thi Cam Tran or to comment on her possible whereabouts.
Tran, a 24-year-old Vietnamese female, was last seen leaving the Fine Arts building on Nov. 26, and has not been heard from since. Police are continuing to keep the investigation into her disappearance of [sic] tightly under raps. [sic] "It's an on-going investigation," said university police spokesman Frank Wiley. "We won't release any information on an active investigation."
Wiley would only reiterate the police department's official statement: "We do have an active missing persons investigation being conducted by our investigative section. There are a number of leads involving possible whereabouts and we are investigating all of them. At this point we do not suspect foul play."
In what was termed an "unrelated event," staff member Harry Siedeman was reported missing earlier this semester. Siedeman, who directed UMBC's "Upward Bound" program, vanished on Oct. 18 while off-campus. His case is being investigated by the Baltimore County Police.
Police are asking anyone with any information as to the whereabouts of either Tran or Siedeman to contact them immediately at [phone number].
The Retriever. December 11, 1990: 3.
UMBC student has been missing for two weeks
December 13, 1990|By Alisa Samuels | Alisa Samuels,Evening Sun Staff Richard Irwin contributed to this story. A 24-year-old information systems management student at University of Maryland Baltimore County has been missing since Nov. 28.
The brother of Tu Thi Cam Tran reported her missing to the school police, said Louise M. White, director of media relations for UMBC.
Tran lives with her brother and his family in Lanham, Prince George's County, White said.
A Baltimore County police spokesman said the case is being handled by the school since its police officers are fully certified to investigate incidents believed to have occurred on the campus.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-12-13/news/1990347221_1_umbc-tran-baltimore-county
Thus, when Mr. Wiley applied at SUNY Albany for employment after having been rejected by the University of New Mexico, by Oberlin College, perhaps by others, and evidently not wanted for further employment by the City of Baltimore, UMBC, or UMES, he had failed to solve one missing persons case.
Two years after Wiley was hired by SUNY Albany, the Karen Wilson case was still unsolved and SUNY Albany Student Suzanne Lyall disappeared. All cases are still unsolved.
Tu Thi Cam Tran http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/tran_tu.html
Karen Louise Wilson http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilson_karen.html
Suzanne Gloria Lyall http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/lyall_suzanne.html
Saturday, April 8, 2017
"America is not the citadel of virtue it would have the world believe" - UMBC Police Public Information Officer Frank Wiley
Jesse Jackson's January 1984 anti-Semitic remarks soured many people on his 1984 Presidential campaign (if not the man entirely), but not Jackass "Frank" Wiley!Election To the editor:
The Presidential Election: Here we go again
The political philosophy of the nation is unconscionable. The Reagan Administration has polarized the country. The country is split along racial lines and, to some degree along socio-economic class too. The election results indicate that the country does not desire fairness, equality, and justice. The compassionate presidency is an ideal whose time has yet to come. The Reagan Administration will not even address, much less satisfy the needs of the disadvantaged and the underprivileged. The real issue was not about taxation, defense, or inflation.
The election was a referendum on America's current political philosophy. Was America prepared to embrace all of its citizens to share with them the country's wealth and power? It was not. Civil rights, affirmative action, and equal opportunity are all threatened. The conservative social mood which led to civil unrest in the sixties is present again. Mr. Reagan speaks of moving forward—but who's kidding whom?
The result could be social instability. The seeds of frustration are already present in urban communities. These are people—black, white, and brown—left out of the policy making mainstream. The spirit of intolerance clearly demonstrated by Reagan policies will fertilize the frustration. Jesse Jackson could be the galvanizing agent who fuels the explosion. (That is, peaceful resistance of course!)
America is not the citadel of virtue it would have the world believe. When its electorate sends archconservatives Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, and Ronald Reagan to high office—people who clearly desire to abridge the civil rights of many of its citizens.
Where is the quality of America's integrity?
The election speaks for itself. The winner, in Clark Clifford's world, The Amiable Dunce—overwhelmingly!
The United States. Are we really the United States?
Frank Wiley
The Retriever. November 13, 1984: 6. [Emphasis on "United" in original.]
Wiley's remarks about civil rights are quite ironic given how eager he has been at UAlbany to violate them.
how to turn an administrative assistant into an assistant chief of police
Four candidates for the position of University of New Mexico police chief will be on campus beginning today to meet with administrators and participate in public forums. [...]Wiley, it should surprise no one, had not been Chief of Police at UMBC.• May 4, J. Frank Wiley, director of public safety for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore since 1992. He served as assistant director of police for the University of Maryland Baltimore County from 1990 to 1992 and was a police officer for the same department from 1980 to 1990. He was a police officer in the Baltimore City Police Department from 1977 to 1980.
"Police Chief Finalist To Visit UNM." Albuquerque Journal. April 24, 1995: 16.
Wiley, who served as chief of police at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Baltimore County, and on the Baltimore police force, met with students, faculty and staff Tuesday.
Cotton, André. "Security candidate visits and talks with students; Comm. passes decision to Dean, final choice soon." Oberlin Review. 124(21). April 19, 1996.
Prior to his position as a teacher, Wiley was director of public safety for the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. In addition, he served as assistant director of police and as a police officer for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was also a police officer for the Baltimore City Police Department.
"University Appoints New Police Chief; Former U. of Maryland Chief Takes Reins." University Update 20(1). September 4, 1996. http://www.albany.edu/updates/1996/9-4/otherarticles.html.
From 1983 to 1989, when his position was specified, was generally identified as the "UMBC Police Public Information Officer" or "spokesperson." While that technically might be a "police officer," one suspects it did not involve physical fitness, qualifying with a weapon, patrolling, etc.
In 1990 Wiley was given a new position, "Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Police for Community Relations" or "Coordinator of Community Support Services."
This summer, Chief Nielsen of the Campus Police "put his money where his mouth is" by incorporating a new position into the police department's administrative staff. This new position is one of a series of plans designed to educate students and the local community about the programs and services available to them. For some time, Nielsen has wanted the police department to become more service-oriented and increase student awareness. This semester, with the help of the new Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Police for Community Relations, Frank Wiley, the department will work towards these goals.Hawley, Pam and Peggy Foster. "New Police Position Designed to Serve Campus Community." The Retriever 26(1). September 5, 1990.
It would require something of a stretch of the imagination to turn that into "Assistant Director of Police for the University of Maryland Baltimore County" or "Chief of Police at the University of Maryland [...] Baltimore County."
Among other issues above are the competing claims to have worked as a "police officer for the Baltimore City Police Department" for three years, from 1977 to 1980, and to have worked there only about a year, from about October 1979 to October 1980.
How does one resolve such discrepancies?[Frank Wiley] was a police officer in the Baltimore City Police Department from 1977 to 1980.
"Police Chief Finalist To Visit UNM." Albuquerque Journal. April 24, 1995: 16.
[Frank Wiley's] resume includes the Baltimore Police Department, where he worked as an officer for a year through October 1980.
Odato, James M. "Top cop a cop?" Albany Times Union. June 1, 2009.
dirty UAlbany police "chief" Wiley's film credit in horror film featuring rape, full frontal nudity, lynching & "Darktown Strutter's Ball"
The Passing (1988) directed by John Huckert
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365617/fullcredits
The Passing is a little-seen film shot in Baltimore, where Wiley slouched from, and features credits thanking the UMBC Police Department (for which Wiley "worked") and thanking "Officer Frank Wiley." That's kind of amazing, and were he not a man who facilitates rape, gang rape, retaliation for reporting sexual assault, etc. might be a mark vaguely in his favor (the film isn't pro-rape or pro-lynching), at least for those who might favor some kind of underground/forgotten low-low budget film cred.
One of the funny(?) things about J. "Frank" Wiley's horror/sci-fi/head film-movie background is that, according to John Monfasani, UAlbany's crack team tried to make something out of my horror and/or Hitchcock film scholarship. Here Wiley is with a credit in a film in which a man is strung up to die by a rope with his penis in full view, an object rape involving one man shoving a wrench up another man's rectum, and the soundtrack features an early jazz standard with the derogatory name for African-American neighborhoods in the title and which had decidedly racist sheet music artwork. Mind kinda blown!
Lynching...
A wrench...
A wrench about to be used for an object rape as a man's junk dangles, you know, like in most movies that have credits for university police?!
From the tripping balls scene, something else common in movies made with the help of university police?
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
UAlbany, home of hazing, itself engages in hazing
Another student, who requested to remain anonymous in fear of retaliation from EOP officials, also remembered being put on “lockdown” for 48 hours. She explained that to satiate her need for human contact during those days, she forced herself to make undesired small talk with her EOP Student Assistant (SA).It should surprise no one. Hank Nuwer was quoted in the article commenting about UAlbany. I first wrote Nuwer about UAlbany's hazing problem FOUR YEARS AGO.Matias said her orientation group was put on group-wide “lockdown” twice.
Another punishment is known as “isolation,” and is given to students who commit individual conduct violation such as “showing shoulders,” or wearing clothing that reveals shoulders.
Matias explained that “isolation” was identical to “lockdown” but only for the student who had violated policy. Students on “isolation” in addition to not being able to speak with anyone, are required to remain with the group during free time, but are forced to sit apart from their peers.
Lembo-Stolba, Stefan "'Cult-Like' Atmosphere Found in UAlbany Summer Program." The Asp. October 25, 2016.
http://www.albanystudentpress.net/cult-like-atmosphere-found-in-ualbany-summer-program/
Monday, September 26, 2016
"Police Legitimacy," or, how to have conflicts of interest in plain sight and get away with it
2015-16 Diversity Transformation Fund Award Recipients […]There’s AMPLE evidence Wiley’s incompetent and corrupt and it’s not at all hard to find. No scholars in their right mind would work with him. But OK, it seems Wiley and Worden are buds and that their friendship transcends logic, fairness, and impartiality.James Acker, J. Frank Wiley, & Robert Worden
Fair and Impartial Policing: A Training and Research Initiative to Identify and Guard Against Implicit Biases Police Training/Implicit Bias
http://www.albany.edu/diversityandinclusion/diversity-transformation-fund-awards-2015-16.php [emphasis added]
When it comes to reaccrediting the SUNY Albany "Police," Worden makes the motion to have his bud Wiley’s corrupt and incompetent police department - at Worden’s own university - reaccredited (rather than, say, Worden recusing himself due to obvious potential conflicts of interest). Motion passes unanimously (perhaps with Worden's own vote?), despite ample evidence it should never have been accredited in the first place. Wiley accepts the reaccreditation certificate. Despite this obvious sham, Worden’s specialty is supposedly matters of police ethics!
[Law Enforcement Accreditation Agency] COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:Sergeant Louis Dini – Suffolk County Police Department, PCNY
Chief Marvin Fischer – SUNY Police Farmingdale
Chief Mark Henderson – Brighton Town Police Department
Chief Charles Koenig – Ballston Spa Police Department
Sheriff Gary Maha - Genesee County Sheriff’s Office
Deputy Thomas Marano – Orleans County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Philip Povero - Ontario County Sheriff’s Office
Supervisor Edmond Theobald – Town of Manlius
Mr. Richard Wells – Police Conference of New York
Robert E. Worden, PhD - Associate Professor, University at Albany School of Criminal Justice
[…]
SUNY Police Albany
Chief J. Frank Wiley
Deputy Chief Jennifer Fila
Deputy Chief Aran Mull
Inspector Jennifer Baldwin
Inspector Paul Burlingame
Captain William Yankowski
*Sergeant Steven Grassmann
[…]
SUNY Police Albany – Dr. Worden made a motion to reaccredit the agency and Chief Fischer seconded the motion. Chief J. Frank Wiley accepted the Certificate of Accreditation and Sergeant Steven Grassmann was awarded the John Kimball O’Neil Certificate of Achievement as the program manager. how to have conflicts of interest in plain sight and get away with it
Motion carried – 11 ayes, 0 nay
http://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/pio/open-meetings/9-8-2016-leaac/LEACPacket.pdf [emphasis added]
Rob Worden is a political scientist whose research revolves around questions about the accountability and responsiveness of criminal justice institutions to the public. [...] Most of his research has focused on police behavior and police programs and reforms [...] Professor Worden is currently engaged in studies of: (1) police legitimacy, procedural justice, and accountability; (2) police misconduct and early intervention systems; (3) citizen oversight of the police; [emphasis added]
Fair and impartial policing training was afforded to UPD through a grant created by Distinguished Teaching Professor, James Acker and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, David Bayley, and funded through UAlbany’s Office of Diversity and inclusion. UPD is also backed by a research-based component: an advisory committee, chaired by School of Criminal Justice Assistant Dean Diana Mancini and Associate Professor Robert Worden, an expert scholar in criminal justice accountability and responsiveness.I think the accreditation just goes to show that the accreditation process is seriously flawed! Ask Wiley's victims, those he's threatened, or who he's backed threats against, or those he's chosen not to help, and I think quite a different story would be told. Heck, Wiley's own Assistant Chief had claimed in court that he'd been improperly trained. Setting aside the possibility that the court testimony was false, there's some of that easy-to-find evidence right there.[Wiley said,] "Of course, there is no guarantee there will be public acknowledgement of what we do, but accreditation and our other accomplishments demonstrate that the best possible policing is being done here." [emphasis added]
Paul Berger testified that he has been the Assistant Chief of the UPD since 2002. He is the night commander for the afternoon and overnight shifts. He was aware of the decoy bag operation. He was not aware of the provisions of the Personal Property law prior to the use of the decoy bag on December 13, 2007.As I'd written the former head of the SUNY Police, R. Bruce McBride:http://vertumnus.courts.state.ny.us/claims/html/2012-032-004.html
Wiley had either failed to be responsible for the training of his Assistant Chief, or Wiley had been responsible for the training of his Assistant Chief but failed to have his Assistant Chief prosecuted for lying in court testimony.University at Albany Police Department Chief J. "Frank" Wiley was not named in the decision at all, but is brought up here due to some sections of the SUNY Police Manual referring to his responsibilities, including one responsibility specifically for training officers:
§ 1.03 "Chief of the University Police Department, responsible for the command of the department"
§ 5.10 "The chief of university police is responsible for the planning, directing, coordinating, controlling and staffing all of the department activities to include the protection of people, personal property, state property and equipment and the enforcement of laws and regulation within its legal jurisdiction. The chief is also responsible for officer training and documentation of such training." [emphasis added]
How is it that Mr. Wiley had failed to be responsible, for so many years, for training Mr. Burlingame, Mr. Berger, and (one presumes since he's also named in the decision) Christopher T. Farina, and perhaps others?
"Thank you for bringing this to my attention", McBride had replied, but of course he was not at all interested in rooting out systemic corruption in a corrupt system he'd helped forge....
The State University of New York University Police, in concert with the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, today announced the formation of an Academic Advisory Committee to assist the SUNY University Police in evaluating emerging policies and practices related to law enforcement for the university system.Police Commissioner R. Bruce McBride said that this is an exciting undertaking in terms of improving University law enforcement services to the SUNY community, especially in light of national police issues related to the use of force and interactions between police and community members. [...]
Members of the Committee include faculty from the University at Albany's nationally ranked School of Criminal Justice -- James Acker, David Bayley (Ret.), and Robert Worden, all experts in community policing.
Joining the academics are State University Chiefs of Police J. Frank Wiley of UAlbany, Tim Faughnan of Binghamton University, Gerald Schoenle of the University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University's Robert Lenahan, and Deputy Commissioner Paul Berger of the SUNY University Police [formerly of the UAlbany Police].
"SUNY, UAlbany Form Advisory Committee to Evaluate Campus Police Practices and Policies." June 11, 2015. https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/june-2015/6-11-15-police/suny-ualbany-form-advisory-committee-to-evaluate-campus-police-practices-policies.html
“The way we do policing is fundamentally ineffective,” [Wiley] said.Mr. Acker seemingly has either never looked into Wiley's credentials or he's aware they're practically nonexistent and he's just being hypocritical. As for "conversations," Wiley's not big into them. He ignores calls for help from the public, refuses to answer journalists' questions, lies when he does speak or write, and is willing to back threats against freedom of speech and facilitate crime. What a sham that forum was!His suggestions were to create a concrete code of “officer behavior” and a policy to enforce this code, to allow for system complaints, to increase transparency, to conduct climate surveys, and to incorporate direct observations through the use of body cameras. [...]
Dr. James Acker, also a professor at UAlbany’s School of Criminal Justice, was present as well, and spoke about the importance of choosing police officers correctly.
“[The police] are special people because we entrust them with special powers,” he said.
Because of this, he said that we need to look at what qualifications they should meet, what kind of diversity a force needs to be successful, and what kind of training and dialogues the officers need to have to earn the trust of their community. He also said that conversations such as these were beneficial for creating trust and respect on both sides.
“When we do have these conversations, we’ll find that we hold a lot more in common than what separates us,” he said.
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