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Officer Identified!!! Coeymans PD Steve Prokrym Involved in Raccoon Scandal!!!
Stephen Prokrym Update
We've uncovered some interesting information on Coeymans PD investigator Stephen Prokrym, one of the individuals involved in the now famous Faith Plaza Raccoon Scandal:
According to NYS Department of State Corporation Registrations., Prokrym owns and operates a security service business out of Schenectady, New York. The business address is STEPHEN S PROKRYM, 1019 DIBELLA DR, SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK, 12303, and the NYS Corporation registration looks like this:
Selected Entity Name: KEEPLOCK SECURITY SERVICES, INC
Selected Entity Status Information
Current Entity Name: KEEPLOCK SECURITY SERVICES, INC
DOS ID #: 3214945
Initial DOS Filing Date: JUNE 07, 2005
County: ALBANY
Jurisdiction: NEW YORK
Entity Type: DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION
Current Entity Status: ACTIVE
According to the business' website (https://www.keeplock.com/),
"Turn to Keeplock Security Services and TechAlbany in Schenectady, New York, for effective security solutions. Our company has two related businesses, namely Keeplock Security Services offering all aspects of NYS Security Guard Training and with TechAlbany providing first-rate CCTV camera sales and services, adding IT and computer related services from sales and service. With more than 30 years of industry experience, we take pride in providing you with prompt and top-quality security training, computer related services along with CCTV sales and services."
Maybe Prokrym should add "animal abuse" and "specializing in letting investigations go cold," as his real specialties.
How Prokrym manages to work at the Coeymans PD and operate a business in Schenectady is a big question, we'd like to have answers for. No wonder he can't invetigate cases up to arrest and prosecution of suspects! He's too busy elsewhere!!! Don't you think that if Coeymans taxpayers are paying him to investigate he should be investigating in Coeymans?
Special thanks to contributor M.C.
We've received information from a reliable source that one of the Coeymans Police personnel operating one of the vehicles involved in the scandalous incident at Faith Plaza on March 12, 2018, when a defenseless raccoon was harassed, abused, and finally run over by two Coeymans Police cars. That information informs us that one of the officers involved was Coeymans Police investigator
Stephen Prokrym.
Prokrym is employed by the Town of Coeymans, Coeymans Police Department as a police investigator, a mid-to-senior level law enforcement employee.
We demand that Prokrym and the other officer, whose identity is still pending but we're expecting his name shortly, be suspended while under investigation. Any law enforcement officer known to have been involved in such irresponsible, unprofessional conduct should be terminated immediately and prosecuted.
We have asked the Coeymans Police Department and Coeymans town supervisor Crandall to explicitly deny that Prokrym was involved in the incident. We gave the Coeymans PD and Crandall until 5 p.m. on Monday, March 26, 2018, to explicitly deny Prokrym's involvement, after which deadline we advised that we would presume the Department's and Crandall's silence to be an admission of the truth of the information. Obviously, we did not hear from them so we must consider the report to be true.
We are working on identifying the operator of the second vehicle involved in the incident and will report that information as soon as we have it.
Click here to continue reading our article on Nancy Warner.
Posted by Principal Editor on March 26, 2018 in Abuse of Police Power, Acting Police Chief, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Sheriff Department, Animal Abuse, Animal Cruelty, Animal cruelty, Animal Rights, ASPCA, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Bill Bailey, Bryana Catucci, Capital District, Carmen Warner, Catherine Deluca, Cathy Deluca, Coeymans, Coeymans Acting Police Chief, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Board, Craig D. Apple Sr., D. W. Contento, Daniel Contento, Daniel Contento, David Soares, Dead Raccoon, DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Government, Hannaford, Hannaford Supermarkets, Hudson Valley, Humane Society of the United States, Jason Albert, Jim Youmans, Joel Coye, Joseph Tanner, Keeplock Security Services, Keith Mahler, Law Enforcement, Leah Darlington, Mayor "Mouse", Mayor "Mouse" Misuraca, Misconduct, Moose Misuraca, Moose Misuraca, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, Nancy Warner, New York State, New York State Department of Health, NYS Assembly, NYS Comptroller Audit, NYS Senate, Office of the Comptroller, P. David Soares, Peter J. McKenna, Peter Mckenna, Peter McKenna, Phil Crandall, Phillip Crandall, Police Investigator, Public Safety, Raccoons, Ravena, Ravena Choices, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena CVS, Ravena Shop'n Save, Richard Touchette, Shop'n Save, Stephen Prokrym, Steve Prokrym, Steve Prokrym, TechAlbany, Thomas E. Dolan, Tom Dolan, Town of Coeymans, William Misuraca, William Misuraca
Changing the Subject for a Moment…Let's talk about Nancy Warner.
We figure you must be a bit tired of reading about rogue cop s and animal abuse, so we're going to change the subject for a moment.
Let's Talk About Nancy Warner and Irresponsibility and Corruption.
Nancy Warner: Lean and Mean behind the Ravena Dem Machine.
(The hill-town version of angry-old-woman Nancy Pelosi)
When we talk about the failure of local government, we cannot avoid thinking of the Village of Ravena, New York, a nest of political incest if there ever was one.
The recent raccoon incident calls to mind Nancy Warner, a trustee, that is, a member of the Ravena Village council, and her history of idiotic pet programs and wasteful agendas. Warner is a relic from the past, from the "Mummy Mayor" era, and has a reputation for being a veritable Witch-on-a-Stick (we all know where the stick is, too). She likes her little coven of idiots; We all know the saying "In the village of the blind the one-eyed man is mayor." Well in a village of halfwits, the idiot is wannabe mayor.
The Raccoon PETITION got 1.6 million likes on Facebook! As of this writing (March 26, 2018), the "Justice for raccoon killed by officers from Coeymans Police Department in New York State" petition on Care2 now has 88,060 signatures of which 10,589 are from New York. The goal was 85,000 but the response was so great we're looking for 90,000 signatures! Express your outrage and add your signature here. Please help get us to the goal of 90,000 protest voices!!!
One of the Coeymans Police officers driving one of the vehicles involved in the scandalous incident has been identified. Click here.
Ravena Village Trustee Nancy Warner in conference with Ravena Mayor "Mouse" Misuraca.
But let's get back to the point. The recent raccoon scandal that was perpetrated by two Coeymans police personnel at Ravena's trashy Faith Plaza, brought to light a number of problems. Of course, the first problem is making sense of how two alleged qualified law enforcement personnel could harass, terrorize and kill (by running it over after some 15 minutes of torturing it) a wild raccoon, and do this in a crowded parking lot to the absolute disgust and horror of dozens of people. The Coeymans police response: 'They had to use their vehicles to ensure the public's safety.' This situation becomes even more bizarre when you think that the scandalous scene was perped not by one idiot in one vehicle, who we then could say was just stupid and have done with it, it was two idiots in two separate vehicles. We'd love to hear the radio exchange between the two morons as they got their perverse rocks off killing the raccoon. That chapter has not yet ended and we're following it closely.
The trashy Faith Plaza in Ravena. Home of Shop'n Save, CVS, and Dolan's Choices program. Owned by the "Christian" Aaron Flach family of Ravena.
This all happened because a caller from the Ravena CVS at Faith Plaza noted the raccoon "trying to get into the building." The conclusion was not that the animal was hungry, curious, but that it had to be "rabid." A call goes into the Albany County 911 Center, which routes it then to the Coeymans Police and, well, the whole world knows the rest of the story. (For details on how owner of Faith Plaza, Aaron Flach responded, please see the Hudson Valley 360 article, "Petition calls for disciplinary action for raccoon killing," of March 18, 2018, the updated petition has 83,777 (9,620 in New York) as of March 23, 2018.)
Crandall has been cutting the police budget since day 1 of his taking office
When cornered, Coeymans Town Supervisor, Phil Crandal states that "the call should never have been given to the Coeymans police," but Mr Crandall doesn't say to whom the call should have gone. The Coeymans Police Law Enforcement Manual states clearly that animal control calls should go to the Animal Control Officer. The problem is that the Town of Coeymans doesn't have an Animal Control Officer, and the Manual hasn't been updated since 1998 (neither have the other chapters in the "Town of Coeymans Police and Village of Ravena Police" Administrative Manual, such as Traffic Operations or Recruitment/Promotion, etc.).Problem is, Crandall has been cutting the police budget since day 1 of his taking office.
The Village of Ravena Abolished its Police Department in 2006
But Ravena does not have a police department, it was abolished in 2006! Here's the official act abolishing it on January 17, 2006:
Article II:
Abolishment of Police Department
[Adopted 1-17-2006 by L.L. No. 1-2006[1]]
Editor's Note: This local law also stated that it shall take effect 30 days after its enactment and is subject to permissive referendum. This local law was approved by the majority of the electors voting in the general election held 3-21-2006.
§ 22-6
Department abolished.
The Police Department of the Village of Ravena is hereby abolished.
The reason: to reduce costs involved with the operation of the Ravena Police Department. The result: The Coeymans Police Department took over law enforcement jurisdiction in the territory of the Village of Ravena.
Neither the Village of Ravena nor the Town of Coeymans has an Animal Control Officer
In the meantime, neither the Village of Ravena nor the Town of Coeymans have animal control officers, full-time or part-time. Again, the positions were eliminated for fiscal reasons. Eliminated to save money, that is. But while the Ravena Village Council and the Town of Coeymans are cutting public safety positions to save bucks, the Village of Ravena has no scruples wasting taxpayer dollars to pad the pockets of village "friends." We're referring to Nancy Warner's pet project, the Ravena Fitness Center, for which the village of Ravena shelled out more than $40,000 to village "friend" and insider, Robert "Bob" Fisk — Fisk at the time wasn't even living in Ravena, he was in Florida! —, for used fitness equipment from his defunct fitness center, previously mismanaged and failed under Guess who? Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca's partner, Cathy Deluca. Warner promptly handed over the Ravena Fitness Center to none other than fitness-club-failure-expert, Cathy Deluca. In the two years that Deluca ran the Ravena Fitness Center, the Center lost at least $115,000 a year!!! All Ravena taxpayer dollars. Ultimately, the Center failed after a short period of Deluca's mismanagement. Deluca got paid and Carver Laraway did the village a favor by buying the equipment for pennies on the taxpayer dollar.
Nancy Warner's Response to Ravena and Coeymans Residents.
We mention the history of the Ravena Fitness Center for two reasons: Nancy Warner's stupidity and fiscal irresponsibility, and Nancy Warner's corrupt practices in doing favors for the Ravena Incest Club, friends of the administration. Nancy Warner was also behind the harassment of local youth by the Coeymans Police for hanging around the village gazebo (which has since been removed), and for her involvement with then Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington and Coeymans cop Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca for a number of violations of civil and constitutional protected rights.
And a bit THANK YOU! to Mr LP of Ravena for reminding us that it was at Nancy Warner's urging that the RCS Community Library was thrown out of the space to make it available for Cathy Deluca's most recent failure, the Ravena Fitness Center. Not only did Warner urge the Village Board to evict the Community Library, while insiders Persicos were "renovating" the Library's new digs, Warner actually punished the Community Library for not moving out by raising the Library's monthly rent!!! Warner raises the Library's rent and the money comes out of community and children's programs but that doesn't matter to someone like Nancy Warner and her pack of flying monkeys! She was sending Darlington, Deluca, and Johnson of the Coeymans Police Department out to harass the kids on the street, and you think she'd want them to be in a library? That's not the way she works. Nancy Warner works by screwing the community and taking care of her friends in the Ravena-Coeymans Incest Club! Typical of any fascist regime — and fascist is the most accurate description of Warner's little nest in Village Hall with it's figure-head mayor, Mouse Misuraca — Nancy Warner has no use for intelligence or education; after all, a stupid population is easier to control than an intelligent one. How quickly we forget, people!
Nancy Warner sending out her Monkey-Pets in the Darlington-Deluca Coeymans PD to harass local youth. One scandal after the other! Does it ever end?
Nancy Warner's husband Harold "Hal" Warner, a sitting Village justice, is the man behind the backstabbing of then part-time village justice and full-time Coeymans town justice, Phil Crandall, resulting in Crandall's forced resignation in disgrace from the elected judgeships. Nancy Warner, at the time, "supervised" her own husband's court operations.
Ravena Village Justice Hal Warner disgracing the American Flag (Warner is in the foreground).
No story about Nancy Warner would be complete without mentioning her pet rodent, Mayor Bill "Mouse" Misuraca.
The Nancy and Hal Warner are democrats as is Phil Crandall, but given their history, do you wonder that there's no dialogue and only animosity between The Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans? We tend to think that the two communities,separated only by an immaginary line — they were once a single municipality, Ravena-Coeymans, until divided into the Village of Ravena and the Hamlet of Coeymans — but even so, the Town of Coeymans offices are actually still located in the Village of Ravena, on Russell Avenue! Go figure!!!
Since March 20, 2018, the entire Ravena village board has been packed with Democrats, all under the heavy hand of Nancy Warner; the only Republican on the Ravena village board is Mayor Bill "Mouse" Misuraca, elected by his loyal barroom customers and perhaps a couple of dyed-in-the-wool die-hard Republicans still allowed to live in the Village of Ravena. That probably makes no difference anyway, since Misuraca is totally ineffectual — unless it's tapping a beer keg or pouring a shot– and Warner ran things anyway, witch that she is.
So, people, what does this mean for the perennial problems plaguing the neighbors Ravena and Coeymans, such as water, sewerage, law enforcement, animal control? Well, the picture ain't pretty, as you can well imagine. But ask Town Supervisor Phil Crandall and he'll tell you, "Put that in an email or a letter and get it to me." That's where it will die.
With Democraps commandeering both Ravena and Coeymans boards but with the seething and roiling hatred between top elected officials, Warner and Crandall, the residents and taxpayers will continue to be victimized by the self-serving, corrupt and incompetent Village and Town Halls.
The recent raccoon scandal brought the historical scandal to light but this time it came to light on a never-before-experienced scale; this time it's international.
So Ravena abolishes its police department to save money. Both Ravena and Coeymans abolish animal control to save money. Both law enforcement and animal control are public safety services.But that doesn't stop Ravena (Warner) or Coeymans (Crandall) from spending on their pet projects!
Ravena, under Warner's dictatorship, finds the money to fund a Ravena Fitness Center, and to take a load of used fitness equipment off a friend's — that is, Bob Fisk's — hands to the tune of more than $40,000. She then hands over a large portion of Ravena Village Hall to her friend Cathy Deluca, and approves a handsome salary for Deluca to manage the facility. Deluca manages the facility over a period of two years right into oblivion, as she had done with two previous fitness clubs she had "managed." A fine example of local government's idea of fiscal responsibility, right?
After Nancy Warner's husband, Hal Warner, forced his fellow justice, Phil Crandall, into disgraced resignation, Crandall, banned forever from running again for judicial office because of his corruption — in which Coeymans board member Tom Dolan and Albnay County legislator, Richard Touchette were recipients — and ethical violations while a judge, now runs for public office, for the office of Coeymans Town Supervisor.
Nancy Warner was/is breast-to-breast, vag-to-vag with Cathy Deluca and Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca
Cathy Deluca
Who does your hair, sistuh?
You'll need a little background to understand Crandall's hatred for the Coeymans Police Department and why Crandall did everything possible to drive any competent leadership from the Coeymans Police Department. Crandall's vendetta has its roots deep in the Warner-Deluca conspiracies. You see, Nancy Warner was/is breast-to-breast, vag-to-vag with Cathy Deluca and Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, who, in turn were in a love-fest with Gregory "Dumplin" Darlington. When Hal Warner disposed of Crandall, this Warner-Deluca-Darlington love triangle was going full-throttle, until their activities were getting too hot to handle and Darlington and Deluca had to go — either just go, or go to jail. Now that the Delucas and the Darlingtons were sufficiently disgraced and out of the public picture, the scene was set for the Warner-Crandall wars.(It's also interesting that Carmen Warner was fired from the Albany DA's office and Leah Darlington left the DA's office shortly thereafter to take a position as a secretary with Tom Dolan's Choices program. Was it getting too risky for Albany County DA David Soares to have these liabilities in his office?) Just one more objective was left for Crandall — and he's very near successful — that is, getting rid of the Coeymans Police Department.
Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca.
Now with the New York State Fire Chiefs Association.
Phil Crandal is a retired prison guard and brings all the charm and refinement of a prison guard personality to Coeymans Town Hall.
But Crandall is no prize when it comes to human relations and fiscal responsibility. First of all, he's a retired prison guard and brings all the charm and refinement of a prison guard personality to Coeymans Town Hall. Secondly, he's surrounded himself either with a harem of paid women or a coterie of recycled political losers like Jim Youmans (used car salesman, lost a previous election then ran again under Crandall) and Tom Dolan (director of the Ravena CHOICES program, another political loser). Dolan and Rick Touchette (director of the notorious Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany Cemeteries, and recently "elected" to the Albany County Legislature) were both involved in the corruption and unethical activities that led to Crandall's disgrace, Touchette and Dolan having received favors from Crandall while he was a judge. Touchette was part of the gang, too.
Crandall likes to hire consultants, clerks and secretaries for the Supervisor's office
As we noted above, Crandall also likes to cut budgets to pad his office staff. He likes to hire consultants, clerks and secretaries for the Supervisor's office, but likes to cut police and other budgets to save money (for his projects and friends). When cornered for answers, Crandall's stock response is "send me an email" or "put that in a letter."
A Lot of Finger-pointing going on right now in Ravena and Coeymans.
So we now have a scandal built up around the unfortunate fate of a wild raccoon who happened to be in the same space as two rogue Coeymans police idiots. The actors in this comedy of errors happen to be two Coeymans police personnel, admittedly morons, and a raccoon, at the time "presumed" to be a little too curious, a little too friendly, and thus "rabid." Crandall has his moment pointing the finger at the bad cops and promising an investigation and accountability. Bravo, you stinker! Acting Coeymans Chief of Police, Daniel Contento, asking himself how'd I get into this position and what's going to happen with my pension? Mayor "Mouse" Misuraca stands back and claims to be an animal lover and not to have any power or authority over the Coeymans Police, uses that simplistic mantra to get his useless ass re-elected. Nancy and Hal Warner are delighting that arch-enemy Phil Crandall has a scandal on his hands — again — and the public's eye is on him, not on them.
Our burning question is this: Where is the Office of the New York State Comptroller, the Office of the Albany County District Attorney, the Office of the New York State Attorney General, and the FBI while all of this public corruption and abuse of public office is going on in broad daylight and has been going on for decades?
We think it's high time for a lot of audits, investigations, indictments, prosecutions, and convictions. What do you think?
We'll be asking similar questions about the New Baltimore town government, the New Baltimore Highway Department, and their ineffective and corrupt operations in an upcoming article. The situation, therefore, doesn't appear to be isolated only to Ravena and Coeymans; it appears to be contagious, a sort of rabies that infects neighboring local governments like Ravena/Coeymans and New Baltimore. Maybe we can find two morons to run them over, too?
WE REALLY HOPE THE TWO IDIOT COPS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED AND ARE NOT STILL OUT THERE ON OUR STREETS!!!
RECALL PHIL CRANDALL; REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE
ABOLISH THE COEYMANS POLICE DEPARTMENT
INVESTIGATE NANCY WARNER AND THE RAVENA VILLAGE BOARD
PROSECUTE THE ROGUE COPS
CLEAN UP THE COMMUNITY — CREATE A LOCAL WATCHDOG GROUP
MAKE THE ALBANY COUNTY DA P. DAVID SOARES ACCOUNTABLE
On Friday, March 23, 2018, three RCS high school students were reported to be "joking" about coming into the high school and shooting it up. Click here.
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Truth be Told: On the Heels of the Coeymans Town Board Meeting
The Real Hero in this Story!
The Real Truth is that as disgusting, scandalous and disgraceful the raccoon incident is, it has drawn public attention to a more disgraceful and insidious problem in Ravena and Coeymans: the Incompetence of Our Elected Officials and the Apathy of the Local Community.
And we can thank a poor, unfortunate wild animal for drawing the world's attention to that well-known but concealed fact about our communities!
The PETITION got 1.6 million likes on Facebook! As of this writing (March 25, 2018), the "Justice for raccoon killed by officers from Coeymans Police Department in New York State" petition on Care2 has 84,832 signatures of which 9,779 are from New York. The goal is 85,000. Express your outrage and add your signature here. Please help get us to the goal of 85,000 protest voices!!!
We suggest you email Town of Coeymans and Village of Ravena Officials to express your outrage:
Philip A. Crandall – Supervisor
James C. Youmans – Council Member
Thomas E. Dolan – Council Member
Daniel D. Baker – Council Member
Kenneth A. Burns – Council Member
Daniel Contento (SGT) – Acting as Chief of Police
Coeymans Police Department – General
William "Mouse" Misuraca – Mayor
Nancy J. Warner – Trustee
Truth be told, the Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans would have an Animal Control Officer if the Ravena Village board and the Coeymans Town Board had not eliminated the position from the Police Department's budget.
Truth be told, the Town of Coeymans Police Department would have the necessary equipment for animal control incidents if the Coeymans Town Board had not cut funding for the operations of the Coeymans Police Department.
This is a catch pole being used to capture a raccoon.
Truth be told, the Town of Coeymans Police Department would have competent law enforcement personnel if the Coeymans Town Board had not cut funding for the Coeymans Police Department. The people of Coeymans wanted their police department but Coeymans elected officials refused to fund it properly.
Truth be told, the Coeymans Chief of Police, whether permanent or acting, has no authority to tell the Coeymans Town Board to provide what the Department needs. So in all fairness, acting Chief Contento must make do with what scraps Crandall and the Town Board throw him. Contento is an experienced law enforcement professional who does his job and doesn't get into the political intrigues and infighting. He got stuck with the acting chief position because of his seniority, not because he necessarily wanted it.
Truth be told, if the Coeymans Police Department is a bunch of clowns in Kevlar vest packing guns, it's because the Coeymans Town Board has decided it wants a bunch of clowns as law enforcement. Let's face the facts: You can't attract good people when you can't offer them attractive incentives. You pay peanuts you get monkeys.
And YES, a couple of immature, unthinking, criminal dung beetles in police uniforms and operating police vehicles harassed, abused, and killed a defenseless wild animal in full view of a horrified public in a busy commercial plaza only to bring down international disgust and scandal on two otherwise backwater hill towns in New York State, Coeymans and Ravena, because their elected officials are incompetent, ignorant and out of control!
The bottom line: Bill "Moose" Misuraca, a bartender, is Mayor of the Village of Ravena, and Phil Crandall, a retired prison guard and disgraced village/town justice, is Coeymans Town Supervisor, because the voters — not necessarily the People — of the Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans put them there, together with the other clowns on the Village Board and on the Town Board. The ignorant and misguided voters in Ravena and Coeymans are actually to blame for the dunces they have in their Village and Town Halls. Thank you very much! American democratic process at work…just as it was under Stalin, Hitler, and other dictatorships.
We have to laugh every time a Village or Town board meeting opens with the American secular prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, where, unlike any other civilized country in the world, a bunch of people gather to mouth words like "liberty and justice for all," knowing full well it's all a bare-faced lie. And we know it! Ask any honest resident like Daniel Boomer.
Truth be told, many of the statements made by Mr. Phillip Crandall, Town of Coeymans Supervisor, in his public statement made at the Coeymans Town Board public meeting, were a dog and pony act. In fact, his statement made at the public meeting and his statement published on the Town of Coeymans website are not the same!
One statement made by Crandall, in particular, is grossly incorrect: Crandall says:
"There is conflicting and contradictory information about how to respond to wildlife suspected of rabies."
That is totally not true, and intentionally misleading! There is abundant information available on such sites as the New York State Department of Health, The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the Centers for Disease Control, and many others. (Click on those links to see the sites.) The information provides coordinated and clear scientific, medical, animal control information accepted as state-of-the-art, and is available to the public — even to Mr. Crandall and the Coeymans Town Board.
Before we launch into the main body of this article, we all should be aware of several important points:
Whatever the Coeymans Police did was the responsibility of the officers involved, and this particular incident should not taint the whole Department. Credit where credit is due and blame where blame is due.
"When Sue McDonough watched the viral video of Coeymans police killing a rabid raccoon last Monday by chasing it down and running over it over with their vehicles, she said she knew the officers were in over their heads — and that there was a better solution." [Source: Time Union, "Raccoon video prompts call for statewide animal control reform," March 19, 2018) (Ed. Note: McDonough is a retired State Police Investigator (Troop G) and past president of the State Humane Association.)
Blame: The police personnel involved in the incident, no matter what the "test results" show, had no way of knowing that the raccoon was or was not infected with rabies. Raccoons are incredibly intelligent and very curious. Raccons also get hungry. The raccoon's behavior, though unusual, was not evidence that the animal was rabid. The police used inappropriate judgment for their inappropriate conduct.
Blame: The police personnel involved in the incident acted like rabid teenagers rather than responsible public servants. They did not use good judgment nor did they employ the least offensive methods to get the job done. Their conduct was disappointing and indicative of characters and mental processes that should not be in law enforcement. Their actions show that they do not have the intelligence or the good judgment to make snap decisions required of competent law enforcement personnel. They must go and be banned from law enforcement. The officers involved must be held accountable under the law just like the rest of us.
Blame: The argument that discharging a fire arm at Faith Plaza is would be unsafe, to be very honest, bullshit. Law enforcement personnel authorized to carry weapons are expertly trained — or they should be — in the use of those weapons and where to point them with expectable results. Law enforcement personnel are expertly trained — or they should be — in management of a crime or incident scene and crowd control. First of all, the police have the authority and power to cordon off the entire area, even to evacuate the area, if necessary. They could have ordered all civilians into the buildings until the animal was under control and contained. Once these and other simple management operations were effected, the animal could have been mercifully, humanely and ethically euthanized by gunshot or other method with dignity and in privacy. Instead, the police personnel involved acted like so many lunatics. They must be held accountable for their poor judgment and their irresponsible behavior; they must go and be banned from law enforcement. The officers involved must be held accountable under the law just like the rest of us.
Blame: Several residents made the very true comment at the Coeymans town board meeting that if anyone other than police had done what the Coeymans police had done, they would have been arrested, arraigned and jailed. Their faces and identification would be plastered all over the media and on public access police blotters. Residents raised the very valid question of Why? the names of the police personnel involved in the incident have not been published and have been kept under wraps? Why are police personnel being given consideration that none of the rest of the community would get? Why are the police getting special treatment in a situation where any of us would be immediately shamed and punished? The names and status of the police personnel involved in the incident at Faith Plaza must be published and made accessible to the public. They are public figures and public servants; the public has a right to know who they are. This, my friends, is a matter of public safety!
Big Time Dem Machine Man. Too cozy?
P. David Soares, Albany Co. DA
Blame: The Albany County District Attorney, P. David Soares, has been in hiding with regard to this incident. Why hasn't the Albany County District Attorney come forward with a statement, a report on this incident. Not many citizens are aware of the fact that the DA is the chief law enforcement officer in the county; the police are his responsibility. In fact, Soares, as DA, picks and chooses cases to prosecute, and as a political dog, he's going to pick and choose the cases that will make him look good with the public and with the police unions. Like so many incidents involving police and law enforcement, this one is in Soares', court and he'd better play it right. We demand that Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares come forward with a statement on the incident. NOW!
The fish rots from the head down. The leaders are accountable first.
Blame: As we have published in our other articles, the fish rots from the head down. If Coeymans and Ravena don't have an Animal Control Officer, it's because the Village and Town boards eliminated the position and the funding for an Animal Control Officer. If the Coeymans Police Department does not have equipment for humane, merciful, and ethical conduct of animal control incidents, it's because the Ravena Village and the Coeymans Town boards have not allocated funding for such equipment. If the Coeymans Police Department is populated by retarded clowns rather than well-trained, intelligent law enforcement personnel, it's because the Ravena Village and the Coeymans Town boards have not provided funding for professionals or have hired clowns at professional rates.
Village of Ravena Bartender Mayor Misuraca
Blame: If Ravena Mayor Bill "Moose" Misuraca and Coeymans Town Supervisor Phil Crandall don't talk and don't communicate, and if their board members have bad relations, then it's time for new leadership, not voting in known incompetents and expecting competent government. If residents don't attend Village and Town public meetings, then local residents are accomplices to whatever happens in the Village and Town. If you don't participate in your local government you share the blame and are to blame for the embarrassment and scandal, the lousy reputation your community has.
Disgraced Judge/Town Supervisor Phil Crandall
Blame: If the Law Enforcement Manual used by the Coeymans Police Department is 20 years old and hasn't been revised, updated, rewritten, replaced in 20 years, and no one notices that fact, the only conclusion to be drawn is that no one cares to follow the provisions of the manual. Our only conclusion is that the Coeymans chiefs of police and their second-in-command, as well as the rest of the freak show are not using the procedures; if they were being used, someone would certainly notice that they are out of date and do not reflect the current situation at all. This is clear negligence and incompetence. We put the blame on Coeymans law enforcement personnel, especially the Coeymans chiefs of police, and mainly on the Town Supervisor and the Town Board for not funding the Department to meet its needs.
Shame on You! Residents of the Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans!
Blame: Residents of the Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans who sit home on their fat asses on election day and don't vote!!! The voters, most of them customers of Mayor Misuraca's gin mill and bar, and most of them rabid democrats who vote the party not the issues, are to blame. Low voter turnout is the rule not the exception in the Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans!
The bottom line: Most, if not all, of the blame for this and other scandalous incidents and the poor quality of life in the Village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans must be on residents!!! Admit it, you, the community earned the lousy reputation and the shame you experience on a more than regular basis. Yet you, the communities of Ravena and Coeymans, continue to shoot yourselves in the foot by electing clowns to be your village mayor, your town supervisor, your village and town board members.
SHAME ON YOU RAVENA AND COEYMANS RESIDENTS
If all this wasn't enough, click on the READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY link below to continue reading some of the more sleazy details.
Posted by Principal Editor on March 23, 2018 in 19th Congressional District, 19th Congressional District, 2018 Elections, 20th Congressional District, 20th Congressional District, 46th Senate District, A.L. Mueller Badge 149, Abuse of Police Power, Abuse of Power, Accountability, Acting Police Chief, Albany, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Sheriff Department, Amanda L. Mueller, Amanda Mueller, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Animal Abuse, Animal Control Officer, Animal Cruelty, Animal cruelty, ASPCA, Capital District, Carmen Warner, Catherine Deluca, Cathy Deluca, Charles H. Stahlman, Charles Stahlman, Civil Right Violation, Civil Rights, Coeymans, Coeymans Acting Police Chief, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Board, Conflict of Interest, Corruption, County Legislator, Craig D. Apple Sr., Cruelty to animals, D. M. Crosier, D. W. Contento, Dan McCoy, Daniel Contento, Daniel Contento, Danielle Crosier, Danielle M. Crosier, David Soares, Dawn Dolan, Dead Raccoon, DEC, DeLuca Public Affairs, Democracy is Dead, Democrats, Department of Environmental Conservation, Dick Touchette, Drive-by Shooting, Elected Official, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Facebook, Faith Plaza, False Instrument, Falsely reporting an incident, Fitness Center, Friendship Animal Protective League, Gerald Deluca, Gregory Darlington, Hal Warner, Harassment, HSUS, Humane Society of the United States, Investigation, James Youmans, Jason Albert, Jena Misuraca, Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, Jerry Deluca, Jim Youmans, Joe Tanner, Joe Tracey, Joseph Tanner, Josephine O'Connor, Kerry Thompson, Mercy for Animals, Michael Biscone, Michael J. Biscone, Misdemeanor, Misuse of Public Office, Moose Misuraca, Mueller Automotive, Mueller's Automotive, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, New York, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Association of Fire Chiefs, New York State Association of Fire Chiefs, New York State Department of Health, News Channel 10, News Channel 13, News Channel 6, North Shore Animal League America, NYS Assembly, NYS Comptroller Audit, NYS Senate, Obstruction of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Comptroller, P. David Soares, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Perjury, Peter J. McKenna, Peter Mckenna, Peter McKenna, Phil Crandall, Phillip Crandall, Police State, Public Corruption, Public Safety, Public Safety, Raccoons, Ravena, Ravena Choices, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Retaliation, Rick Touchette, Ryan Johnson, Senate District 46, Smalbany, Stahlman, Stephen Prokrym, Steve Prokrym, Steve Prokrym, Times Union, Tom Dolan, Town and Village Judge, Town Board Meeting, Town of Coeymans, Tracey Traver, Wadsworth Center, William Misuraca, Zach Stahlman, Zachary C. Stahlman, Zachary Stahlman
More on the Coeymans Police Department. Our Recent Investigations.
Ravena Village Elections
A note from the Editor:
Ravena is irrelevant, meaningless, predictable
No. We didn't publish a word on the Ravena village elections. Why? Because Ravena is irrelevant, meaningless, predictable. We are wasting these few words on a corrupt and dying village, which, if it sunk into the Hudson River this afternoon, would hardly be missed, unless it were because the environment suddenly improved. We felt we had an obligation to those readers who asked Why? we were not following the election campaigns and the elections. Our answer: Ravena simply wasn't worth our time. But Thank you! for asking. (Besides, the Ravena elections were tainted by the Coeymans police incident. See the Times Union article, "Ravena's rabid raccoon haunts village election" (TU, Tuesday, March 20, 2018).)
The Coeymans Police Department is a Disgrace and Must be Eliminated
Our recent investigations into the operations of the Coeymans Police Department under Phillip Crandall and his cronies on the Coeymans Town Board, as well as the operations of the Town of Coeymans, leave no other conclusion than that both are so incompetently run and the total lack of leadership in both has led once again to a widely published scandal involving the Town of Coeymans, the Coeymans Police Department, and the Village of Ravena.
ex-Chief (disgraced)
G. "Dumplin" Darlington
Before Chief Patrick McKenna took over the Coeymans Police Department under then Coeymans Town Supervisor Steven Flach, we campaigned to eliminate the Coeymans Police Department. Our reasons were conspicuously clear: The Coeymans Police Deparment under then chief Gregory "Dumpy-Duplin" Darlington and Gerry "Dirty Hands" Deluca and their lackeys was a boys club. There were so many violations of protected constitutional rights and civil rights that we had to pick and choose what we published. Darlington, but especially Deluca and his partner Cathy Deluca, padded their pockets generously, while taking advantage of taxpayers and shady activities for years. Cathy Deluca was incompetent and inept but the Ravena inner circle (led by Ravena village trustee Nancy Warner) handed her the now defunct Ravena Fitness Center, which she promptly ran down the sewers with a record 2 years. Cathy Deluca got her money and the taxpayers of Ravena got their screwing. Darlington's wife, Leah Darlington, was deeply entrenched in the Democratic machine in Albany, in Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares' office, as was Ravena village justice Hal Warner's daughter, Carmen,M. Warner (see our article, "The Warners: A Family Tradition of Misconduct") until she was fired for unprofessional behavior (posting indecent pictures of herself on Facebook). Leah Darlington found a new home with Tom "Dudley Dumbass" Mumbles Dolan at the Ravena Choices office, and local schyster Michael Biscone hired Carmen, another plastic vulva in his collection of plastic females.
Gerry "Dirty Hands" Deluca, former Coeymans cop.
Ultimately, as the word on the street goes, Darlington and Deluca had to retire or face prosecution. Darlington ended up as a part-time bus driver for the RCS Central School District and part-timed as a doorman at Babcock Funeral Home in Ravena. Deluca weaseled his way into an office at the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs. Seems like the RCS Central School District and Babcock Funeral Home don't care much who they expose the district's children or our dead to. The New York State Association of Fire Chiefs is nothing more than a lobby organization, more crooked and corrupt than community oriented, so Deluca found a nice nest of like birds. Cathy Deluca has pretty much disappeared from the public eye, and so the scenery is that much better in the Ravena-Coeymans area.
When Patrick McKenna was brought on board as Coeymans' chief of police we pointed out his baggage and let him know that we were watching. McKenna proved to be a great leader and made numerous improvements both in the operation of the Coeymans Police Department and in the human resources situation. Coeymans is no place to show leadership; you have to be a rodent to succeed in Coeymans or Ravena. Now that Darlington and Deluca were out of the picture, a real professional was going to make a difference, and McKenna did. He was a professional. He was intelligent. He really cared for the community and showed it.
Disgraced Judge…
Town Supervisor Phil Crandall
When disgraced village justice Phillip Crandall crawled back out of the gutter into the public's eye and ran for Coeymans Town Supervisor — after he was forbidden to run for judicial office as part of his plea bargain — the scene changed. Crandall wanted control of the Coeymans Police Department and, when he couldn't get it, he tried every dirty trick in the book to get rid of McKenna.
You will recall that about four years ago, when the question of elimination of the Coeymans PD was hot, the people of Coeymans came out in force and loudly proclaimed that they wanted to keep their police department. Supervisor Flach got rid of Darlington and Deluca, and hired McKenna, a veteran Albany police detective. The people of Coeymans got to keep their police department and got a law enforcement professional to run it. Things started to look real good and the whole scene improved.
To give you an idea of how things improved, during the Darlington-Deluca reign of terror, we were publishing several articles a week on abuses, corruption, violations of rights of local Ravena and Coeymans residents. In the 4 years of McKenna, we published perhaps 2 or 3 articles reporting problems, but we published several applauding McKenna's performance as chief.
With disgraced former justice Phil Crandall's election along with several other bullies, like used car salesman Jim Youmans, to the Coeymans town board, things deteriorated. Crandall redirected police department funding, literally stole budgetary savings made by McKenna and reused them elsewhere in Crandall's little group of cronies and pets. McKenna sometimes had to resort to using his own money to purchase needed supplies. Enough was enough.
Once McKenna resigned, the Coeymans Police Department started to spiral out of control. Here's how.
In December 2017, we were contacted by a local resident, who had been stopped by Amanda L. Mueller, daughter of the Mueller who owns Mueller Automotive, in Ravena. Mueller Automotive does all of the automotive work for the Coeymans Police Department and much of the automotive work for the Town of Coeymans. That raised red flags immediately. Conflict of interest.
But that wasn't all. You see, Amanda Mueller was a trainee in the Coeymans Police Department. She had stopped a resident for a non-working headlight, and accused him of having his high beams on. Well the resident, a professional, attempted to explain to Mueller that he did not have his high beams on; they were his fog lights. Mueller told him that she was going to let him off with a warning but because he had an "attitude", she was going to give him a ticket. We reported on the incident in detail in our article, "". (Please click the link to read the article "Coeymans Police Turning Into Coeymans Gestapo Again?".)
We asked the resident to provide the documents he received from Mueller. We examined the documents, a Simplified Traffic Ticket and a Supporting Deposition, and found numerous errors in both. Mueller couldn't even get the man's date of birth right, and that's a crucial identifier on a ticket. Furthermore, she got the Vehicle and Traffic Law section wrong. Mueller entered a non-working brakes section, a misdemeanor, instead of a non-working headlight, a minor violation!!! And there were several other mistakes in this relatively simple document. (We advised the resident and the Ravena court dismissed ticket rather than try the case.)
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At the Coeymans Town Board meeting of June 22, 2017, that approved sponsoring Mueller to attend the Zone 5 Regional Law Enforcement Training Academy, Supervisor Crandall noted, "Supervisor Crandall stated that this is a fine move as far as he was concerned. Ms. Mueller is a member of this community and her parents are upstanding members of this community." Mueller accepted the training approved by the Coeymans town board and started the academy on July 16, 2017. By January 2018, Amanda Mueller had left the Coeymans PD — after having finished her training — deserting the Town and the Coeymans PD to go to the Albany County Sheriff"s Department. "A member of the community" and "upstanding members", so much so that her thanks to Coeymans was to leave. Good riddance to local rubbish.
We didn't waste time and we immediately initiated an investigation and demanded that the Town of Coeymans Police Department and the Town of Coeymans produce certain documents relating to the incident, the operations of the Coeymans PD, and the purchasing practices of the Town of Coeymans, expecting to find numerous violations of policy, procedure and law.
Coeymans never disappoints us. Or maybe the real question is whether the Democrats in Albany County should all be convicted and jailed. All of the perps in this horror story are Democraps!!! Just a coïncidence? Yeah! And maybe 60 years of Democrat Machine Control in Albany is just a coïncidence, too? Do you want to buy a bridge? We've got one for sale in Brooklyn.
As soon as we launched the investigation, Amanda L. Mueller disappears from sight. In response to a demand for disclosure, it appears that after we launched the investigation, someone thought it best not to hire her to the Coeymans PD, and she left to take a position with the Albany County Sheriff's Department. That figures; we weren't surprised in the least. After all, the Albany County Sheriff's Department is part of the Albany County Democrat Machine, including the Albany County District Attorney's Office (P. David Soares), all of whom, historically, have been in the same bed as the local Dems and their little nest of scoundrels, including the Gregory and Leah Darlington, Gerry and Cathy Deluca, Tom Dolan (Coeymans town board member and director of Ravena Choices program), and the Phil Crandall (disgraced former Ravena village justice, now Coeymans Town Supervisor), and the Warners of Ravena Village Hall (Nancy Warner and hubby Hal Warner). Let's not forget that Hal Warner was an Albany cop who got taken off the street and given a desk job for civil rights abuses; he was later elected as a village justice in Ravena. It was Hal Warner who stabbed his colleague, then part-time village justice while also Coeymans town justice, Phil Crandall in the back when Crandall was doing favors for local Dems like Tom Dolan, Richard Touchette (Director of the Albany County Roman Catholic Diocese Cemeteries and elected two years ago to be on the Albany County Legislature. Surprised? Shouldn't be; Albany County Dems in action!) and others, leading to the investigation by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct that forced Crandall to resign as village justice and, as a condition, to never run for judicial office again. Instead, Crandall ran for Coeymans Town Supervisor under the Dems, and is now Town Supervisor. Go figure!
Have the Coeymans Police turned red-bra ho's?
Well, once the connections were made between Coeymans, Amanda Mueller, and Mueller Automotive, the cat hit the fan and Amanda Mueller disappears from Coeymans. Chief McKenna also has had enough and he resigns. Now we're left with an underfunded Police Department and no professional chief to lead it. Somehow Daniel Contento, a Coeymans police sergeant, is appointed acting chief. This is where the Coeymans PD goes into a dead-man's spiral into oblivion.
On March 12, 2018, an international scandal haunts the Town of Coeymans and the Village of Ravena, when two Coeymans police vehicles are videoed in the act of harassing, terrorizing and finally running over a defenseless raccoon in the public parking lot of Faith Plaza in Ravena. The video goes viral and causes an international uproar, national and international media carry the story, the video gets millions of hits on social media, petitions in protest get tens of thousands of signatures almost overnight. (For details, please see our article at "We are speechless! OMG! Coeymans Police Caught on Video Again!".)
Again, we launch an investigation. And again, we find that the Town of Coeymans has egg on their faces.
Town of Coeymans Police Department's Law Enforcement Manual has never been updated since 1998
As in the case of the Amanda Mueller investigation, we found that the Town of Coeymans Police Department's Law Enforcement Manual has never been updated since 1998; the procedures are 20 years old!!!
The procedures also contain outdated or incorrect information. Even if Coeymans police complied with the procedures and policies, they would be 20 years behind the times. For example, the Law Enforcement Manual title actually reads "Town of Coeymans and Village of Ravena Police." The Village police department has been out of existence for a number of years, at least ten years.
The procedures also require that in an animal control action, the local Animal Control Officer be called to the scene to manage the situation. Coeymans doesn't have an animal control officer and hasn't had one for years!
Our investigation turned up a large number of errors, inconsistencies, even lies in the documents provided by the Coeymans Police Department and the Town of Coeymans. Regrettably, we have to say that this wasn't unexpected.
Is the Department of Health Report jerry rigged?
Even the New York State Department of Health testing report read like a scripted response to provide the inept Coeymans police with at least a dumbass alibi or excuse for their scandalous behavior. (Please see our article, "Follow-up Report: Coeymans Raccoon Incident. We still have our doubts!" for details.)
The People of the Town of Coeymans wanted, insisted that they keep their Coeymans Police Department, and a responsive Supervisor Steven Flach let them have their police department, got rid of the criminals running it, and hired a professional law enforcement expert, Peter J. McKenna, who did great things for the Department and for the community.
Phil Crandall was booted from the courts and got himself elected as a Democrat to be Coeymans Town Supervisor and things started downhill to hell in a handbasket. He diverted (stole) money that was generated by McKenna, and Crandall used it elsewhere. Crandall and his board cut funding for the Police Department, and took other steps to make life unpleasant for Chief McKenna. Finally, McKenna, not needing the job, had enough and resigned. Crandall and his cronies got their way, and the Coeymans Police Department, now without leadership, spun out of control first with Amanda Mueller's antics and then with the killer cops at Faith Plaza.
We now have to resume our campaign for elimination of the Coeymans Police Department, thanks to Mr. Crandall and his dumbass clowns on the Coeymans Town Board. Coeymans wanted their police department and also wanted Crandall; one had to go. The wrong one went. It's obvious that if the People of Coeymans want a Coeymans Police Department, their elected officials like Phil Crandall have to provide the funding for it. Crandall did his best to unfund the Coeymans Police Department into the ground!!!
If Ravena has lapsed into irrelevance, Coeymans is running close behind. The events of 4 or five years ago are starting to pale in comparison to the devastation we are seeing in the village of Ravena and the Town of Coeymans. Corruption, incompetence, loss of businesses, deteriorating infrastructure, plummeting quality of life in all respects, and the crooks seem to stay in office. Is this American democracy at work? Maybe. But local residents are to blame; local residents are the only ones who can change the situation.
Finally, we would like to share this from a resident in New Baltimore:
"For several weeks now, around noontime or early afternoon, I've been driving on Route 144 in the Town of New Baltimore and noticed a Town of Coeymans Police cruiser heading South on 144, in the Town of New Baltimore (Greene County). I found that a bit unusual, since Coeymans is in Albany County, and the Coeymans police would have no business patrolling in New Baltimore, in Greene County. The first couple of sightings made me just curious but then I became suspicious. The Coeymans Police have no business in New Baltimore, at least not that much that frequently. The other day I decided to follow the Coeymans police cruiser and find out where it was heading. Perhaps the NB Town Hall for a court case? But it was not a court day. Anyway, I followed the cruiser and it turned into a residential driveway and stopped, the driver exiting and moving towards the double-wide trailer. I went a bit farther and turned around. When I got to the location, I stopped took down the car number and got a good look at the woman and the patrolman standing on the porch chatting. The car was 926. Can you find out what it's doing in the Town of New Baltimore? It's not official business, that's obvious. Is it misuse of a police vehicle for private visits?" [Name withheld on request.]
We have in the past asked for Coeymans Police vehicle assignment sheets and were told that there were no such documents. Does that mean that no one knows who is driving the vehicles? That's pure rubbish from a number of standpoints. But it wouldn't surprise us in the least; after all it's the Town of Coeymans.
But we do have some questions and we do want an answer: Who is driving the Coeymans Police Department cruiser No. 926 into the Town of New Baltimore in Greene County? What is the official busness being taken care of at the trailer on Route 144 in the Town of New Baltimore?
Posted by Principal Editor on March 21, 2018 in 19th Congressional District, 19th Congressional District, 2018 Elections, 20th Congressional District, 20th Congressional District, 46th District, 46th Senate District, A.L. Mueller Badge 149, Abuse of Police Power, Abuse of Power, Acting Police Chief, Albany, Albany County Civil Service, Albany County Civil Service Department, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Sheriff Department, Albany Police, Amanda L. Mueller, Amanda Mueller, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Animal Abuse, Animal Control Officer, Animal Cruelty, Animal cruelty, ASPCA, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Babcock Funeral Home, Bryana Catucci, Catherine Deluca, Catherine M. Deluca, Cathy Deluca, Civil Right Violation, Civil Rights, Coeymans, Coeymans Acting Police Chief, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Board, Coeymans Town Clerk, Conflict of Interest, Cooperative Extension, Corruption, Craig D. Apple Sr., Cruelty to animals, Daniel Contento, David Soares, Dawn Dolan, Dawn LaMountain, Dawn LaMountain, Dead Raccoon, DEC, DeLuca Public Affairs, Denis Jordan, Department of Environmental Conservation, Dumbocrap, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Facebook, Faith Plaza, Friendship Animal Protective League, George Amedore, Gerald Deluca, Greene County, Gregory Darlington, Hal Warner, Harold Warner, Hudson Valley, Humane Society of the United States, Investigation, James Youmans, Jason Albert, Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, Jerry Deluca, Jim Youmans, Joe Tanner, John Faso, Joseph Stanzione, Joseph Tanner, Kerry Thompson, Law Enforcement, Mayor "Mouse", Mayor "Mouse" Misuraca, Misconduct, Misuse of Public Office, Moose Misuraca, Moose Misuraca, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, Nancy Warner, New York, New York State, New York State Department of Health, Nick LaMountain, North Shore Animal League America, NYS Assembly, NYS Comptroller Audit, NYS Senate, NYSDOH, NYSFDA, Obstruction of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, P. David Soares, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Pete Lopez, Peter J. McKenna, Peter Mckenna, Phillip Crandall, Public Corruption, Public Safety, Raccoons, Ravena, Ravena Choices, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk Central School District, Ravena Health and Fitness Center, Ravena Shop'n Save, Richard Touchette, Rick Touchette, Ryan Johnson, Selkirk, Shop'n Save, Stephen Flach, Thomas E. Dolan, Times Union, Todd Polverelli, Tom Dolan, Tom Dolan, Town of Coeymans, Town of New Baltimore, William Misuraca, William Misuraca
Follow-up Report: Coeymans Raccoon Incident. We still have our doubts!
Please Note: On Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 7 p.m. the Town of Coeymans will hold it's Town Board Meeting. We have information that residents, citizens and animal organizations will address the board about the conduct of the Coeymans Police and what the Town of Coeymans is going to do about it. Be there. Make your voice heard! Or at least just show up to learn what the community has to say!
The Town of Coeymans Police Department continues to be the subject of widespread interest following the ugly display of unprofessional conduct and stupidity last Monday, March 12, when Coeymans Police responded to an animal control call and proceeded to provide a sickening circus freak show performance as they pursued a raccoon in their patrol cars (one marked, another unmarked), finally running down the terrified animal and running over it. All of this happened in the pothole-rich parking lot of the Ravena Shop'n Save (Village of Ravena, Town of Coeymans), after a call from the CVS Pharmacy that a raccoon had "tried to enter the building."
After one courageous residents, Ms Bryana Catucci, and several other witnesses videoed the Coeymans Police yahoos and the termination of the terrified animal, those videos went viral on several Internet sites, including Facebook and YouTube, and the Smalbany blog published a detailed and informative article on the incident. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society voiced their outrage and condemnation of the Coeymans Police actions.
To give you an idea of how outraged people are about this incident, just one site, Care2 Petitions, has more than 76,000 signatures, more than 8,500 signers in NY state alone, condemning the Coeymans Police! To give you an idea of how many people 76,000+ is, it's more than 9x the entire population of the Township of Coeymans!!! What does that tell you, dear readers?
The Coeymans Police have no up-to-date procedure for dealing with animal control issues. The town of Coeymans has no Animal Control Officer. The New York State Department of Health report on tests done on the animal sounds bogus!
I can't believe my eyes!!! I can't believe their horrible conduct!!! I can't believe the lies!!!
Almost immediately following the incident, Smalbany blog contibutors filed a demand under the provisions of the New York state Public Officers Law, Article 6 Sections 84-90 Freedom of Information Law (N.Y. Pub. Off. Law Sees. 84 to 99) for the production of documents with the Coeymans Town Clerk and the Coeymans Police Department, demanding information related to the March 12, 2018, incident in which the Coeymans Police Department used police vehicles to harrass, terrorize and kill a raccoon in front of dozens of witnesses at Faith Plaza in Ravena, New York (Town of Coeymans, in the jurisdiction of the Albany County District Attorney, P. David Soares).
Initial Information Provided by the Coeymans Police Department ("acting" police chief Daniel Contento (SGT)) and the news media were contradictory and confused. We decided to get the facts.
One glaring fact is that the Coeymans Police protect their own. They delete any references to the officer's involved or anyone involved. Do you think that's fair play? If you were picked up by the police, your face and name would be plastered all over the police blotter and the local news media. Why are the police and their cronies so protective? Aren't they public servants, paid by us? Don't we have a right to know which ones are bonkers and which ones are not?
The Town of Coeymans responded with the usual halfwit evasive answers but provided two important documents: the Testing Report No. RAB18ANI01172-SR-1 from the NYS Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, and an extract from what appears to be an ancient "Coeymans Police and Ravena Police Law Enforcement Manual, Administration (in the following called the PLEM/A)," Section 46.0, Subject: Animal Control/Rabies." the Coeymans Police Department. We say "ancient" because this section dates back to October 15, 1998 — it's almost 20 years old and hasn't been revised, updated, or replaced — and refers to "Village of Ravena Police," which hasn't existed for years, and is signed by former Police Chief Scott Geroux!
Furthermore, the Law Enforcement procedure repeatedly refers to the Animal Control Officer and how the police have to notify the Animal Control Officer for assistance when dealing with an animal control issue. According to the Law Enforcement Manual:
"46.2.1 The Animal Control Officer (ACO) is a civilian employee of the Police Department. The ACO is responsible for responding to and mitigating incidents and complaints relating to domestic and wild animal"
If the local Animal Control Officer is unavailable, the procedure requires the Coeymans Police to notify an animal control officer from a nearby jurisdiction. Again, according to the Law Enforcement Manual:
"(46.3.2.2) Request the response of the ACO to the scene whenever available.
"(46.3.2.2.1) If the case requires the immediate attention of the ACO, that information shall be relayed to the ACO. If he is still unavailable to respond an ACO from another jurisdiction shall be requested."
Town of Coeymans PD: "The Town of Coeymans does not have an Animal Control Officer."
Coeymans Police Department Procedures date back almost 20 years without revision!!!
The problem that we have identified in this entire Keystone Cops episode is that the Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department are about 20 years behind. You see, according to a certified statement provided by the Town of Coeymans, "The Town of Coeymans does not have an animal control officer."
Well if the Town of Coeymans has no animal control officer, then the entire 1998 procedure allegedly followed by the Coeymans Police Department is absolutely useless, out of date, and a sham!!! In other words, the Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department have no up-to-date guidelines for handling this type of situation.
The Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department have no up-to-date guidelines
[Editor's Note: We have considerable information that shows that the Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department Law Enforcement Manual is out-of-date and obsolete in several other areas, including How to handle a traffic stop!!!]
The basic issue is leadership and how law enforcement functions or does not function in the Town of Coeymans
Coeymans Police on Pussy Patrol.
Did you know that cats are the domestic animals most at risk for rabies?
But this whole hullabaloo is NOT about whether an animal was sick or not. The basic issue is leadership and how law enforcement functions or does not function in the Town of Coeymans. There is no leadership in the Town of Coeymans or the Town of Coeymans PD.. The Coeymans Police Department is dysfunctional. That's the question that is driving most people crazy right about now. Then there's the question of how the Coeymans Police abused and tortured a defenseless animal using their patrol cars. Anyone with half a brain would have been able to figure a reasonable and safe procedure for dealing with an animal threat, if there was one, and there was none. Just view the videos and all you'll see is a normal appearing raccoon, terrified, running for its life and two Coeymans cop cars racing back and forth. Any sane person would, as most of the witnesses did, that the cops were a greater threat to the public's safety than a terrified animal trying to escape them!!!
Well, we also have a copy of the Department of Health (DoH) test report done on what was left of the raccoon after the Coeymans Police had their perverse jollies. The DoH report is apparently written by a halfwit chimp. Here's why:
First of all the report does indicate that the raccoon showed evidence of rabies infection. The report did not say that the animal was capable of infecting another animal or harming a human being. Information obtained by us from the CDC clearly states that the animal is infectious only in the very late stages of the disease, shortly before the disease kills the animal. At that late stage the animal's brain is so far gone that the animal's behavior is obvious: it acts like it's drunk, it loses its balance, it staggers, it is confused. Again, the videos show none of this; in fact, the animal looks pretty coordinated as it's running across the Faith Plaza parking lot!
Some sections of the report make it look like it's been jerry rigged to provide the Coeymans Police with an alibi. Here are just a couple of examples taken directly from the DoH report:
"Signs of rabies: NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER; Other signs: MOVING ABNORMALLY, SHAKING."
Who made these observations? Do the Coeymans Police have veterinary neurological training that made it possible for them to have decided that the unfortunate animal had a "neurological disorder?" They also note in the report that the animal was "moving abnormally, shaking." Well, first of all, the DoH was unable to make those determinations because the animal was d-e-a-d, pancaked by the Coeymans Cops. So where did this information come from? Hearsay? The Coeymans PD?
Here's more of the gibberish in the report:
"Comments: Observed acting sick at the CVS in Ravena. Killed by running over with car by Officer [Redacted] of the Coeymans Police Department (…No reported contact. Rabies test need before further testing."
The only animals acting sick were the Coeymans cops who tortured the animal and killed it!
Again, we have the DoH sockpuppets repeating what the Coeymans PD was insisting but didn't have a factual basis to make the statements. The raccoon was "observed acting sick at the CVS in Ravena." Sick? Curious? Hungry? If an 8th grade science student made these statements, we'd send him or her for remedial help! But that's in an official report. Hearsay! Not facts! The only animals acting sick were the Coeymans cops who tortured the animal and killed it by "running over [it] with car by Officer [his name is deleted from the report!]." What's disturbing is not only the unsubstantiated statements but the fact that there was "no contact reported." According to the report, the animal made no contact with anyone!!!
After all is said and done, the report reads:
"Rabies testing: Evidence of Rabies was found by the fluorescent antibody test."
The report is again incomplete because it doesn't state which fluorescent antibody test was used. That information is very important in terms of whether the test is accurate. Furthermore, for scientific and epidemiological reasons the information provided is incomplete and practically useless! Again, whether this is the truth or not, the test results came fully 24 hours after the incident, and cannot provide any justification or support for the Coeymans Police stupidity.
Just by way of comment, the report concludes with the statement:
"Notes: [1] Submitting county was phoned with positive results. Reported to Marsha at 10:32 a.m. by JJ."
What in hell does that mean? Who in hell is Marsha? Who in hell is JJ? But that's supposed to be an official report from the NYS DoH in response to a serious incident. Don't we have any standards at all in this community, in this state? Or are all of our public servants halfwits and dumbasses? We think you know the answer to that question already.
So, dear readers, you have the state of affairs in the Town of Coeymans: Useless and outdated procedures no one has had any interest in updating or revising, a team of goons who have no leadership or guidance, disgraceful and despicable conduct by local law enforcement, a very questionable report from a New York State department tasked with ensuring the public's health, and another negative report gone viral about the Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department. But you must admit, they are consistent, even in making complete asses of themselves.
We are making the documents provided by the Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department available for your entertainment. Please note that the Town of Coeymans and the Coeymans Police Department refused to provide some documents, including the names of the Coeymans PD employees involved in the incident. They also have no records about callers reporting the animal, although acting Coeymans police chief, Daniel Contento (SGT), made public statements that "numerous calls" were received (but not by the Coeymans PD, since their listed number goes to Albany County 911). We verified only one 911 call about the raccoon. That call was allegedly from someone at or in the CVS pharmacy at Faith Plaza. We do know of numerous calls received by the Albany County 911 Center complaining about the conduct of the Coeymans Police. Maybe those are the calls Contento is referring to.
If you are interested in viewing/downloading the Coeymans Police 1998 procedure and the NYS DoH Test Report we refer to above, here are the links:
You can view the Town of Coeymans and Ravena Police Department Law Enforcement Manual dated October 15, 2018 here.
You can view the New York State Department of Health Report here.
As we mentioned above and as we published in our initial article on this incident, "We are speechless! OMG! Coeymans Police Caught on Video Again!" we obtained our information on rabies from several official sources. One of them was the Centers for Disease Control, the federal government's department for disease control, prevention, and reporting. Here's some additional information of interest:
According to the CDC, in the period of 2008-2017, a total of 23 human rabies cases were reported in the United States; most of the infections were acquired outside of the United States, most from animal bites in such places as Afghanistan, India, Mexico, etc. On average there are 1-3 cases/year of human rabies reported in the United States . (Source, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/surveillance/human_rabies.html) Compare that with 90 motor vehicle caused deaths each day in the United States (CDC statistics are always 3 yeas behind; in 2015 there were a total of 37,757 deaths in motor vehicle accidents (11.7/100,000 population) Source, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm).
Given those statistics, where to you suppose our law enforcement efforts should be concentrated? On a raccoon or on motor vehicles?
Furthermore,
Transmission of rabies virus usually begins when infected saliva of a rabid animal is passed to an uninfected animal. The most common mode of rabies virus transmission is through the bite and virus-containing saliva of an infected host. ( Source, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/index.html)
Other contact, such as petting a rabid animal or contact with the blood, urine or feces of a rabid animal, does not constitute an exposure. (Source, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/exposure.html)
From numerous studies conducted on rabid dogs, cats, and ferrets, we know that when the rabies virus is introduced into a muscle through a bite from another animal, it travels from the site of the bite to the brain by moving within nerves. The animal does not appear ill during this time.
The time between the bite and the appearance of symptoms is called the incubation period and it may last for weeks to months. A bite by the animal during the incubation period does not carry a risk of rabies because the virus has not yet made it to the saliva.
According to the CDC, the Infectious Path of the Rabies Virus can be outlined as follows:
An animal is bitten by a rabid animal.
Rabies virus from the infected saliva enters the wound.
Rabies virus travels through the nerves to the spinal cord and brain. This process can last approximately 3 to 12 weeks. The animal has no signs of illness during this time.
A diagnosis of rabies can be made after detection of rabies virus from any part of the affected brain, but in order to rule out rabies, the test must include tissue from at least two locations in the brain, preferably the brain stem and cerebellum. [Editor's Note: The NYS DoH report is incomplete in this respect because it does not state what parts of the animal's brain were tested!!!]
The test requires that the animal be euthanized. The test itself takes about 2 hours, but it takes time to remove the brain samples from an animal suspected of having rabies and to ship these samples to a state public health or veterinary diagnostic laboratory for diagnosis. [Editor's Note: the test requires that the animal be euthanized, killed humanely and mercifully, not terrorized and run over!!!]
In the United States, the results of a rabies test are typically available within 24 to 72 hours after an animal is collected and euthanized. (Source, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/diagnosis/animals-humans.html)
When it reaches the brain, the virus multiplies rapidly and passes to the salivary glands. The animal begins to show signs of the disease. The infected animal usually dies within 7 days of becoming sick. (Source, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/body.html)
(Please check out the references on our original article for more information on rabies.)
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We are speechless! OMG! Coeymans Police Caught on Video Again!
Well, the Coeymans Police are back in the News!
And — AGAIN, rather STILL — It Ain't Pretty!
Coeymans Police ALWAYS Get Their Coon!
Here's the video that has gone viral showing the Coeymans Police heroes as they run down a defenseless animal!!!
You never thought this would happen but we are SPEECHLESS! There's a video that's gone viral showing a Coeymans Police Car making several attempts to run over a raccoon at Faith Plaza in Ravena. The video is on every news channel online clearly showing the Coeymans Police making several attempts to run over a raccoon!!!
The irony of the entire situation is that Faith Plaza is owned by a holy-roller fundamentalist Christian group under the local Flack family banner. This is real Christian behavior, isn't it? But Ravena is noted for it's off-the-wall Christian wierdos like the Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick and it's nest of hypocrites calling themselves Catholics. Business as usual, it seems. Christians for Cash! (That's how they spell God now in Ravena.)
Bryanna Catucci, the Facebook user who posted the videos, wrote online that she was leaving a grocery store when she saw the officers charging the raccoon with their cars. It took 15 minutes for the animal to die, she said. "You would think if it had rabies they would shoot him instead of torturing. Sad day," the woman wrote. We agree with Ms Catucci! Thank you Ms Catucci for having the courage to go public with this and to have been decent enough to stand up for what's right!
According to the Albany County Sheriff, Craig Apple, who doesn't seem all too pleased with how Coeymans handled the situation, "[p]erception drives reality — and this is not perceived very well." He went on to say that "in similar situations [law enforcement] have called in local animal control officers or local trappers to contain the animal." Apple said, adding that "officers also need to know someone is always watching and will likely report any inhumane treatment of an animal." Even the Albany County Sheriff seems to feel the Coeymans dumbasses mishandled the situation. DUH!
According to WRGB Channel 6 News in Albany, New York:
"RAVENA, NY (WRGB) A video going viral shows Coeymans Police running over a raccoon at Faith Plaza in Ravena in Albany County.
"Police officers made several attempts at the raccoon.
"In a statement, Coeymans Acting Police Chief D.W. Contento said, "On March 12 we received numerous calls about a rabid raccoon in faith plaza. The raccoon had attempted to get into the establishment at one point. Our officer's did find the raccoon, but it was not in an area that was safe to discharge a firearm due to the proximity of pedestrians and residences. They dispatched the raccoon as quickly and humanely as possible."
[Editor's Note: For those of our readers who are not familiar with the backwater, hilltown Village of Ravena or the Town of Coeymans, Faith Plaza is a trashy strip mall in the village of Ravena that includes a supermarket, a chain drug store, a Chinese take-away restaurant, a bank and several offices. It's parking lot hasn't been maintained in years and is pockmarked with huge, deep potholes. We wonder that the police vehicle that harassed and killed the raccoon didn't lose an axle in the process. But then, what do the police care about damaging their vehicle, it's public property and maintained by the Town.]
In a statement published by acting Coeymans Police Chief D.W. Contento (Sgt.), who apparently has a degree in veterinary medcine:or animal pathology — or thinks he does — since he was able to diagnose the animal's condition without even being at the scene!!! According to our local genius Contento:
Statement on the Incident Made by Coeymans Police Department
The above statement was made by acting Coeymans Police Chief Daniel W. Contento in a feeble attempt to save face and defuse the public outcry in reaction to the disgraceful and idiotic conduct of the Coeymans Police in the verified harassment and killing of a raccoon.
Acting Coeymans Police Chief Daniel Contento makes feeble atempt to save face.
The Coeymans Police had no way of determining that the poor unfortunate creature was rabid, as acting police chief Daniel W. Contento alleges. According to the Cornell Wildlife Laboratory there is no live animal test for a diagnosis of rabies. The laboratory uses antibody to detect virus in a sample of the brain. In other words, the only way to determine that would have been to have performed a veterinary post mortem on the animal. That could only have been done by a veterinary pathologist who then would submit the tissues for examination. Rabies can be diagnosed only by microscopic examination of the animal's brain tissue, which would show characteristic signs called Negri bodies (dark spots in the tissue). (A rapid test called immunofluorescence can also be done on post-mortem brain tissue. See our comment below in regard to some Facebook comments made on the WTEN News Facebook page. Editor's Note: We believe that if it was suspected of being rabid, New York State law would require that the dead animal be tested and, the results reported. We'll follow up on this.)
Furthermore, when an animal is rabid, it's disoriented and moves around clumsily, as if it's drunk. According the the New York State Department of Health an animal with rabies will show "staggering, convulsions, choking, frothing at the mouth and paralysis…. Many animals will make very unusual sounds. Infected animals usually die within one week after showing signs of rabies." The video clearly shows that this animal was NOT disoriented or clumsy, or acting like it was drunk; in fact, it was trying to run away!!! Of course, the fact that the poor animal did not exhibit signs of rabies does not rule out rabies but certainly does not provide grounds for a definitive diagnosis and statement that it was in fact rabid, as the acting chief of Coeymans police reports!!!! The chief's statement was made only to remove some of the egg on his face and the embarrassment to the department and the Town of Coeymans!!! (NYDOH site last accessed on March 12, 2018.)
Coeymans cops in hot pursuit: "Get'em boys! He's unlicensed!
What do the local FREAKS think the animal was doing there? There's a Shop'n Save with all sorts of goodies in their dumpster garbage coons love right there. There's also a Chinese restaurant right there! Think of what they have in their waste bins. No doubt plenty of food goodies for a hungry coon. The coon was probably just foraging for food, you morons! Lord knows there's enough garbage in the area to attract the whole countryside's coon population!
We are curious as to how many calls are considered "numerous" by the Coeymans PD and why the animal control officer was not called to capture the animal. It appears no one on Faith Plaza was at risk and it was totally unnecessary to perform such a ghastly display of stupidity and inhumanity. We we sickened by the video and ashamed that we live in such an area where the local law enforcement are such immature, ignorant, dumbass thugs.
Please note: The telephone number listed on the Town of Coeymans website for the Coeymans Police Department does not go to the Coeymans Police Department but to the Albany County 911 center. This is a very misleading ploy by the Town of Coeymans and is causing problems at the 911 center, because a great many people are calling the number listed to complain about what the Coeymans Police did to that poor animal.If you want to make a complaint, please use the emails below or write a comment on this blog. We'll post your comments.
And, excuse, us for asking, where are the local animal control officers for Ravena and the Town of Coeymans when all of this is going on? Or aren't they in the budget either?
Interesting fact: Among domestic animals, cats are the most frequent carriers of rabies. So Why? are only dogs required to be licensed and proof of rabies immunization required only for dogs? Dogs are also required to be leashed and don't run free like cats. Something's wrong here, don't you think?
Write in your complaint to the Coeymans Police Department and to the Town of Coeymans. Here are the emails (click on the links and your default email will open): (Click here Coeymans PD and Raccoon Protest Text for suggested text for your protest message.)
Coeymans Police Department
Coeymans Chief of Police, acting, SGT Daniel W. Contento
Town of Coeymans Supervisor, Phil Crandall
Town of Coeymans Town Clerk, Cindy Rowzee
But don't expect a response; they'll likely ignore you, cowards that they are. Maybe you should just send us a comment and we'll take it from there. Or email us at Smalbany This blog is also published on a number of social media sites, so everyone will know what's going on in Coeymans.
They can't write a ticket correctly and can't collect evidence to solve any crimes but they sure can torture helpless animals.
Some real heroes, running down a helpless animal while in the safety of their patrol car. Real big tough law enforcement professionals, right? Big and brave enough to run down a defenseless animal and then make up some idiotic story about "rabies"! Dumbasses!
So, boys (and goofy girls), what's next on your cop superhero agenda, the family of wild ducks that are running around Faith Plaza?
Run for your lives, ducklings! Head for the hills, guys, the Coeymans cops are on their way!
You don't want them to make pâté out of you!
Editor's Note: Now that disgraced former village justice, now Coeymans town supervisor Phil Crandall has managed to drive out the only professional law enforcement officer, Chief Peter J. McKenna, from the department, after squeezing every dime out of the Chief's budget to the point where Chief McKenna was spending his own money to purchase supplies, the Coeymans Police Department has slipped back into the cesspool where McKenna found it. McKenna gave 110% but who can blame him for refusing to take any more abuse at the hands of Crandall and his lackeys Tom Dolan and Jim Youmans? Before McKenna, we demanded that the Coeymans Police Department be eliminated, during McKenna's tenure as Chief, the Department showed signs of being a real asset to the town. Now that McKenna is gone, the clowns are back in action. Time to start the Elimination Campaign again!
Here are just a few of the news publishers who have picked up and published this shameful story:
Albany Times Union "Coeymans police use cars to run down, kill rabid raccoon" (Editor's Note: Typical Times Useless jumps the guns and prematurely report that the animal was rabid. There is absolutely no evidence at this time to support that report!)
ABC News 10 "Witnesses: Police try to run over raccoon" (Editor's Note: This is inaccurate. They did finally run the animal down. The videos show this fact.")
New York Upstate "WATCH: Upstate NY police try to run over rabid raccoon in disturbing video"
Miami Herald "Cops ran over a raccoon until they killed it, video shows. There's a good reason, New York police say"
CBS Channel 6 News "Update: Video shows Coeymans Police running over raccoon"
WNYT Channel 13 News "Raccoon video has Coeymans police in hot water"
Just google "Ravena Coeymans Police Raccoon" and you'll get literally hundreds of hits on this incident. It's all over Facebook and it's on Youtube, too. It's really shameful!
Stay informed! Learn more about rabies in New York State on the Cornell Wildlife Laboratory and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) sites. (Both sites last accessed on March 12, 2018.)
Posted by Principal Editor on March 12, 2018 in 19th Congressional District, 19th Congressional District, 2018 Elections, 20th Congressional District, 20th Congressional District, 46th District, 46th Senate District, A.L. Mueller Badge 149, Abuse of Police Power, Accountability, Acting Police Chief, Albany, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Sheriff Department, Amanda L. Mueller, Amanda Mueller, Animal Control Officer, Animal cruelty, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Bryana Catucci, Capital District, Catskill-Hudson Newspapers, Cindy Rowzee, Coeymans, Coeymans Acting Police Chief, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Board, Columbia-Greene Media, Cruelty to animals, D. W. Contento, Daily Mail, Daniel Contento, David Soares, Dead Raccoon, DEC, Democrats, Denis Jordan, Department of Environmental Conservation, Dick Touchette, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Facebook, Faith Plaza, Government, Greene County, Hudson Valley, Inhumanity, James Youmans, Jeff Ruso, Jim Youmans, Joe Stanzione, Joe Tanner, Joseph Stanzione, Joseph Tanner, Law Enforcement, Mark Vinciguerra, Mayor "Mouse", Mayor "Mouse" Misuraca, Misconduct, Moose Misuraca, Mueller Automotive, Mueller's Automotive, Nancy Warner, New Baltimore, New York, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, News Channel 10, News Channel 13, News Channel 6, News Herald, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, Office of the Attorney General, P. David Soares, Patrick Linger, Peter J. McKenna, Peter Mckenna, Public Safety, Raccoons, Ravena, Times Union, William Misuraca