Mayor Carl Stokes

Smedley’s “caught on tape” story is that Cleveland Heights ex-Mayor Cheryl Stephens was the hookup to “Mike Riley” and the illegal Noble Road death-spewing dump

December 26, 2020December 27, 2020

CRIME

CLEVELAND, OH – The late Gerald Strothers told me he believed Cuyahoga county council member and child of Carribbean immigrants Cheryl Stephens was the reason 5-stories of deadly construction and demolition debris death existed in East Cleveland on Noble Road. The regularly-burning demolition debris was part of the stockpile of 140,000 homes 2 self-enriching state laws written by Greek organized racketeers and lawyers James Rokakis and Gus Frangos, and backed by the Russian-owned Plain Dealer, used the office of the Cuyahoga County treasurer to steal. Stephens, Strothers believed, was the “hookup” to East Cleveland officials and an environmental terrorist and…

19,429 mayors aren’t trained to supervise violent police

by Eric Jonathan Brewer

September 18, 2018October 2, 2018

POLITICS

There are 19,429 mayors and city managers in the USA who could overnight eliminate 90 percent of the civil rights litigation and citizen complaints of police misconduct if they were trained to manage the approximately 350,000 police officers they supervise. In a nation where the national average for training police is 600 hours – a barber and cosmetologist need 1500 hours – there is no voluntary or mandatory professional police management training for mayors and city managers. In Ohio where I served four years as East Cleveland’s mayor, and in the nation, mayors are codified as the chief law enforcement…