Monday, March 22, 2004



This ones may have escaped your notice: McCarthyism Watch...

Watching the Watchdogs
Mark Gillispie of the Cleveland Plain Dealer analyzed police overtime records to find that members of the Cleveland police Internal Affairs department were among the biggest recipients of overtime pay - something they are charged with policing themselves. The head of Internal Affairs through last fall, Lt. Robert Klimak, averaged more than $43,000 a year in overtime, which helped make him the highest-paid police officer in the city during the last few years.
· During Klimak’s watch, Internal Affairs was one of the biggest overtime users in the department
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