militarizing SUNY Police

[As of 2014] University police at three State University of New York campuses have received equipment through the 1033 program: police at Morrisville, Oneonta and Old Westbury each obtained one Humvee and three assault rifles since 2011.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/oct/14/new-york-police-departments-large-and-small-gain-m/

And since 2014...?

UAlbany pretends to welcome the #metoo movement (while forever undermining it)

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=1EFD840E322EB580AA4DD400C68E6C2F

Now 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...

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 mystery

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

If 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.

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

"America is not the citadel of virtue it would have the world believe" - UMBC Police Public Information Officer 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.]

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!

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. [...]

• 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.

Wiley, it should surprise no one, had not been Chief of Police at UMBC.

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.

[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.

How does one resolve such discrepancies?

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?

via GIPHY

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).

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/

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.