Post by Site Admin on Mar 2, 2008 16:33:02 GMT -5
The Village of McCullom Lake has hired a police officer you should all be aware of. Officer Kelly Given from Marengo. Why they hired her? I do not know. Perhaps because it would save the Village money not having to train a new officer, who would then need to be sent to the Police Academy. Perhaps for other reasons. However, I believe that in the Village, the anonymous opinion of Given is that she has been railroaded in Marengo and that none of the charges for which she resigned were true.
Consider this:
1. Officer Given was involved in many incidents in Marengo involving police brutality. In one such incident a 14 year old, 5 foot, 1 inch tall girl was held on the ground while being bitten in the neck, arms by Given’s dog Quanto. This girl has scars to this day, and is currently involved in a lawsuit against officers in Marengo, including Kelly Given, who attacked her at the time. Do you want an officer on your police force who is currently being sued under these circumstances??
2. Officer Given has lied on numerous police reports in Marengo. The reason for this is that she was dating another officer at the time, Officer Scott Crawford, who beat up and seriously injured more than 30 teens in Marengo, IL, some very seriously. Officer Crawford has also been forced to resign from Marengo. If he did not resign, action would have been taken against him by the city and he would have been fired. Kelly Given purposely lied on police reports to protect Crawford by writing and testifying in court that the people he beat up broke the law and did things that they didn’t. In many cases, this has resulted in innocent teens and twenty year olds, who were on their way to college and careers, to wind up going to prison. Do you want to take a risk in your small Village that one of you or your children will be falsely arrested and lied about by this officer??
3. Officer Given has wasted time on the clock by sneaking out and meeting for lunches, and who knows what else, with Officer Crawford.
4. Officer Given and Officer Crawford went into houses of witnesses who would testify in court and threatened them personally, telling them that unless they testified a certain way, that they would be arrested or drugs would be planted on them.
5. Finally, Officer Given did something the City of Marengo could not even tolerate. She stole a police report that was sealed, on a girl who was a minor, and gave it to a NW Herald reporter. The NW Herald then wrote a story, trying to discredit this girl, who is currently involved in a lawsuit against the City of Marengo. But, Given actually stole a sealed police report of a minor. She broke a law, and in any county but this one would be sitting in jail right now. Instead she is working in your police department because your Village did not check into her records more carefully before hiring her, in order to see just what she did in Marengo. It is not surprising that people in your Village have started to have trouble with Officer Given. For your own good and peace of mind, I would say you should try to take action to have her fired.
Consider this:
1. Officer Given was involved in many incidents in Marengo involving police brutality. In one such incident a 14 year old, 5 foot, 1 inch tall girl was held on the ground while being bitten in the neck, arms by Given’s dog Quanto. This girl has scars to this day, and is currently involved in a lawsuit against officers in Marengo, including Kelly Given, who attacked her at the time. Do you want an officer on your police force who is currently being sued under these circumstances??
2. Officer Given has lied on numerous police reports in Marengo. The reason for this is that she was dating another officer at the time, Officer Scott Crawford, who beat up and seriously injured more than 30 teens in Marengo, IL, some very seriously. Officer Crawford has also been forced to resign from Marengo. If he did not resign, action would have been taken against him by the city and he would have been fired. Kelly Given purposely lied on police reports to protect Crawford by writing and testifying in court that the people he beat up broke the law and did things that they didn’t. In many cases, this has resulted in innocent teens and twenty year olds, who were on their way to college and careers, to wind up going to prison. Do you want to take a risk in your small Village that one of you or your children will be falsely arrested and lied about by this officer??
3. Officer Given has wasted time on the clock by sneaking out and meeting for lunches, and who knows what else, with Officer Crawford.
4. Officer Given and Officer Crawford went into houses of witnesses who would testify in court and threatened them personally, telling them that unless they testified a certain way, that they would be arrested or drugs would be planted on them.
5. Finally, Officer Given did something the City of Marengo could not even tolerate. She stole a police report that was sealed, on a girl who was a minor, and gave it to a NW Herald reporter. The NW Herald then wrote a story, trying to discredit this girl, who is currently involved in a lawsuit against the City of Marengo. But, Given actually stole a sealed police report of a minor. She broke a law, and in any county but this one would be sitting in jail right now. Instead she is working in your police department because your Village did not check into her records more carefully before hiring her, in order to see just what she did in Marengo. It is not surprising that people in your Village have started to have trouble with Officer Given. For your own good and peace of mind, I would say you should try to take action to have her fired.