Ryff in high school                                                                       Ryff getting married                                                                Ryff today                                               

Movin' on up,

turn up your sound and read along!

Ya we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Ya we're movin on up,
To the east side.
Dave finally got a piece of the pie.

Fish don't fry in the kitchen;
Beans don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin',
Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues,
It's my turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me Mosey,
There ain't nothin wrong with that.

Bye bye Jimmy. Wish you could hang around for round two, but we'll still be here for years and years, so stop by anytime and say HI!

Michelle, we're all pretty sorry to see you go. Had we known that you would . . . . oh well, what might have been. If you started today and poked one of Jimmies' buddies for 2 months, you would still have bedded less partners than Jimmy did. Watch him Michelle,  watch him. Smell his panties when he gets home.

All of us here are glad we got to know you Jimmy, good luck buddy.

I don't like how items come and go though.  There used to be stuff about other people (Baumgarth, Spradling, others) that was listed but then taken down because it didn't stick to the focus?  Now Moser and hints at everyone is fair game?  But Baumgarth and Spradling get free rides to those that weren't checking in enough to see the messages about them before they were taken down?  Or is focus only on current pd employees.  I can buy that.  But if there are previous posts about current pd employees that have been taken down I think you should put them back.  oh screw it the way it is going now people with pasts coming back to haunt them are scared pissless as it is.  Keep doing what you're doing! abc161879

We took some grief from many friends over the last 2 years. We made some mistakes. We made some bad decisions.

#036 below is what we wrote about Curt, we haven't pulled it at all. We just reinserted #039 about Spradling to make you happy.

We had been told story after story about Trantor, yet NO ONE had an ounce of evidence and no one had the same story. While he wasn't loved by all, many convicted him of an affair that has 8 different versions, which makes us believe the smell is coming from Ryff's office trying to redirect our spot light to someone else. We've asked Ralph if he is sorry for making the monster Ryff, he never answered us.

We've covered Lind, ad nauseum.

Hit the control and f keys at the same time. Then search for Curt or Trantor or Spradling or Lind. We've been fair.

You ask, is everyone fair game? Lind wasn't until he pulled his pants down. Behind the scenes we argued. Did Lind exhibit Tempe's seal's motto, of honor and integrity? No he didn't, because he was working in Chandler. But we beat on his ass because he WAS a Tempe boy. We did the same to Spradling.

Our objective has NEVER changed. Show how bad the City of Tempe administration is by knowing and allowing Tom Ryff to try and lead the troops WHEN HE IS devoid of honor or integrity. We count on all of you to give us what we need to tell the truth about him and others.

No way we're going to say someone is out of our focus. WE WANT FACTS ON THOSE CLOSE TO RYFF AND STORIES THAT SHOW WHY TOM RYFF SHOULD NOT BE CHIEF. Tom Ryff is:

" . . . a man of low moral character, no integrity,
and unfit to lead a police department of heroes".

We see some e-mails for what they are,  "Fred has been screwing Wilma".  No one else in the inner circle has ever heard this and neither party is part of the problem that exists. So we can and will say this. We have tossed many, many of these kinds of notes when they take us in a direction that doesn't support our cause.

Our focus is
Thomas J.  Ryff
and his den of clowns!

Cobbs, Hale, Carbajal, Crusa, Hallman, Ben Arredondo, Meyers

Note to Tommy, how's the last 2 years been like for you? How's the wife doing?
The home life OK? Feel like you are being watched 24/7? You are.
Tommy, many, many have heard you say your going to get us. Thanks!
Because we don't work there, Tom Ryff can no longer dick with us or intimidate us.

That's the only time you will see "Ryff" and "long" and "dick" in the same sentence.

On another note, Kim Hale lost control the other day, he yelled like a little bitch. Anyone know what caused him to piss his pants?
Do these jar your memory? Sketch. ATM. Suspect. Newspaper. Ryff. Mad. Snitch. Death. Pressure. Maybe someone will send a synopsis that confirms this story?

Since we started, a few people in the inner circle, worked at TPD. We are down to two and we cannot use all of what they offer for fear of outing them. Sooooo, we've decided on our next plan. With your help, we are going to "out" each one of the people that surrounds Ryff until he is naked and without cover or supporters.

You can help, tell us what you know!

Sarah Muench from The Arizona Republic writes

TEMPE -Municipal leaders across the state are fighting methamphetamine by restricting the sale of over-the-counter drugs used to make it. But for Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman, it’s personal. Hallman’s 37-year-old brother, Kelly, struggled with meth addiction and drug abuse for about 15 years before his family intervened and helped him kick the habit. "The destruction it has is enormous," the mayor said.

He believes "gateway drugs" led his brother to meth. After Kelly, who was a Junior Olympic diver, broke his legs and arm in high school, he got hooked on painkillers and soon began experimenting with meth, Hallman said. He said that Kelly’s wife, Catherine, then picked up the drug that led to her addiction. The two struggled with meth for at least five years before family and friends intervened.

Kelly said he went to rehab but it didn’t stick, and he was soon using again until he went to rehab a second and third time. Ultimately, Catherine, who had three children, decided she had enough and wanted herself and Kelly to be drug-free. Kelly said the two have been clean for nearly nine years. With an up-close and personal look at the effects of one of the
most addictive, easy-to-manufacture drugs, the mayor is pushing for statewide restrictions on the sale of pseudoephedrine.

Nothing pisses us off more than to have someone stand on the back of another
to make themselves look smarter, better or taller.

The real question is,
what does Hugh's brother Kelly or his sister-in-law Catherine know about that's hidden in Hugh's closet?

99.244

Many of you say what we write makes you "pucker".

Our webmaster didn't know Cobbs was black. So the slave comment got past us. Shit, we screwed up. We're sorry.

On second thought, nahhhh, we aren't.

Cobbs being black has nothing to do with him being Ryff's slave. Cobbs could be white and still be Ryff's slave.

It has to do with Cobbs wanting to be Ryff's tough guy, butt licker or is it butt locker?

Charles,  Ryff is the reason the gloves are off and both of you know why.

There are no rules, anyone and everyone around Ryff is now fair game.

Let the puckering begin!

We needed this. We had this in pieces, but no one put it all together like you did.

Hugh, the lawyer, the Mayor of Tempe? Hogwash! Does that explain why Hugh is allowing all of this to go on . . .  and on  . . . . and on?

We have the report about Hugh's kids wrapping up the youngest boy to a chair in duct tape and tossing him in their pool, but can anyone give us a synopsis of what happened after that report was made when a school teacher called CPS?

What has Ryff got on Charlie, the city manager?

We need verification about Brandon Ryff and the story that included the word "bleachers"

More background at this link.

Is that Crusa's picture? We don't remember him looking like that. Now we're really afraid!

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PLENTY OF PARTIES - BUT NO ARRESTS

Associated Press, Published: Sunday, March 17, 1996 12:00 a.m. MST

They were dispatched to bars to find and develop sources of information about stolen property. Instead, eight undercover police officers dubbed "the margarita crew" by bartenders partied hard at taxpayers' expense, spending $10,000 on restaurant and bar bills. The officers, who have been suspended, didn't develop a single source, suspect or informant, authorities said."This is a sad day for the department," Police Chief Lars Jarvie said Friday.

The money was spent between May 1, 1991, and Oct. 30, 1992, while the officers were members of EVICT, the multi-agency East Valley Interdicts Criminal Trafficking Project created to investigate property crimes, authorities said. Some of the money went for Groucho Marx masks for a staff photo, a Tasmanian Devil key chain, darts and a pornographic magazine. The unit also borrowed police bicycles for a personal trip to Colorado. The unit was headed by John Werner, a Mesa police sergeant promoted to lieutenant before the start of the probe.

A criminal investigation into the unit completed by the Department of Public Safety in October 1994 led last year to a nine-count felony indictment of Werner, who is awaiting trial on seven counts of tampering with public records and single counts of theft and fraud.

The unit set up in 1987 is credited with recovery of about $1 million in stolen property, but that was from sources developed before the task force started up, police said. The task force itself didn't develop a single criminal case, the department said. The suspensions without pay range from 18 days to five, most of them beginning next week, said Sgt. Earle Lloyd, a department spokesman.

Two members of the task force, one each from the Tempe Police Department and the Sheriff's Office, have not been disciplined. Spokesmen for those agencies said Friday that they had just received Mesa's investigative report and would review it. The eight suspended are patrol Officers Michael Collins, 33; Brian Godsil, 44; David Mauser, 40; Elizabeth Pringle, 34; Mark Reese, 35; and Ed Valinski, 48; Sgt. Carl McCormies, 33; and civilian investigator Diane Puls, 35.

Can anyone name the Tempe Officers involved?   Was Tom Ryff one of them?

Is Officer Mike Collins listed above, the same Mike Collins who is now a Lieutenant in Tempe?

So Officer Collins gets suspended in Mesa and comes to Tempe and becomes Lt. Collins?

Did he get a car  and a credit card too?

Does he get to play with the girls of the TPD?

Why is Tempe the hiding place for cops on the run from discipline? 

Why do all the perverts end up in Tempe?

Police Chief Tom Ryff's new marketing slogan:

Welcome to Tempe, fellow pervert Mike Collins

OR

"Come party in Tempe,
where you can party with animals just like you!

If you can think of a better one, let us know.

99.100

If it were only this simple
Officers File Complaint About Surprise Chief and He is Suspended.

Our goal is to bring honor and integrity BACK to the TPD.  ALL of you that have first hand knowledge of the integrity problems at the top of our Department. Maybe someday you will stand up and be counted. If you want to vent, vent to us at tempepolicecloset@gmail.com.

http://www.tempe.gov/clerk/election/Political%20Committee%20Campaign%20Finance%20Reports/Hut%20Hutson%20for%20Council/Hutson%20%20'08%20Jan31st%20Report.pdf

February 14, 2008                  Perhaps another document showing the same $300 donation?
Control F then search for Cobb.
Click here.

May 13, 2008                         Chief Ryff introduced Charles Cobbs, the new Community Outreach Specialist. He has extensive experience in the community and it is an honor and privilege to have him as a member of the Police Department.
Control F then search for Cobb twice.
Click here.

Hut is an Elk. The Elks recently honored Ryff with the Citizen of the Year award. (see #85 below)

We guess that's better than Husband of the Year !

Speaking of Ryff, no one knows how much crap we got for talking about his wife Roseanne. Many wrote in asking us to leave wives and family out of it. We paid attention and stayed away from that subject. Now, we have heard more than once, that Ryff fed Lind's wife's name and occupation to the media in his effort to further screw Lind, while standing on Moser's back. If Lind gets screwed, it should be Moser doing the screwing. We have been told Moser did not snitch Lind's wife, Ryff did. So we are going to raise the bar for Tom Ryff only.

Let's pitch the rules Tom.   Let's play for keeps.

We aren't sticking up for that cheating dark, smelly piece of shit Lind.

All we want is a clear set of rules, so we'll make them up as we go along because you do the same.

Does anyone know what Brandon Ryff or Christine Ryff have in their closets?

Hey guys,

Is guys or gals the appropriate term?

I compliment your perseverance and commitment to address the truth and reveal the real Tom Ryff. Tom has lied with impunity and successfully retaliated against anyone he suspects is opposed to his rule or stands in his way. He's created a web of deceit and terror that can not be undone. The only obstacle that stands in his way and keeps him in check is your web site. Additionally, the web site has consumed much of his time and thought and contributes to his paranoia and obsessive behavior. As long as it exists his behavior will be distorted from the stress and his few followers will eventually lose confidence. It's only a matter of time before something blows up. If there's one thing Tom could wish away is the web site. I verified the Closet comes up any time Ryff's name is searched. That's devastating to a self promoting ego centric person such as Tom.

The web site is bothersome to the Mayor; however, he won't show it. His Aide and political confidant, Mike Crusa, is much more demonstrative in expressing disdain for the web site. Mike's career is tied to the Mayor so he perceives the web site as detrimental to both the Mayor and himself. Mike is the person responsible for leaking information to press on the Mayor's enemies and organizing dirty tricks to undermine people. He and Tom have a lot in common.

Anyone know what's in Crusa's closet?

Charlie Meyer is aware that Tom has political support among the two primary council camps ruled by Mayor Hallman and Council Member Arrendondo. Arrendondo was Tom's primary supporter. Now that he's gone perhaps Mr. Meyer has greater latitude in dealing with Tom. Arrendondo's recent second attempt to garner four votes to oust Mr. Meyer also failed. Arrendondo obviously wanted strong support of the fire union for his legislative 17 run because of this article.

Firefighters approve no-confidence vote in Tempe City Manager

I wonder if Robyn ARRENDONDO-savage will support Tom as much Ben. I can't imagine any woman being tolerant of that sleaze ball but we already have a couple that are. Wouldn't it be a huge political move if a Hispanic woman were to finally stand up and take issue with one of her own. Onnie and Shanna are worthless. In the final analysis it's important for the web site to continue, even in an inactive stage. Nothing would give Tom Ryff more satisfaction than if it goes away.

Participating in the next election process is also a good strategy; however, election laws may require registration as a political action committee (PAC). Remember when Harry Mitchell removed the "voted for alt fuels" signs that had an arrow pointing towards his signs. State Senator Huppenthal just got in trouble in Chandler for pulling signs up that were critical of his campaign. Politicians hate the truth. Imagine a "Supports Tom Ryff" sign with the web site address and arrow pointing to Tempe candidates.

Turn on the closet light to shed light on Tom Ryff.  What would happen if one of our officers who recently resigned for misconduct, had hired a lawyer before they resigned and took their case to the merit board and asked the board to compare their case to Tom's case and ask about the double standard? The attorney should subpoena Tranter to testify. Trantor would because Tom having Ralph served with a grand jury subpoena to produce records regarding Tom's original contention that "The Tape" was a result of a wiretap. Additionally, Ralph has detailed information that Tom Ryff lied during the application process.

I'm surprised the union hasn't supported employees facing termination by confronting Tom during a merit board. Dale Norris would love to have this type of case. That's the route to take. The Closet should contact officers under investigation and advocate they take their case to the merit board. If you want to really promote this approach then offer to provide legal aid. Set up a fund and make it known to PD employees. The cash would fly in to see Tom Ryff held accountable.

Let the money start flying, the first four we asked pledged $5,000.00.

Lastly, Tom Ryff's involvement in motivating Moser to complain against Lind is a direct result of Ryff believing Lind is behind or involved in the Closet. Ryff's goal is to retaliate and attack Lind for vindictive purposes and in hopes it will possibly close the Closet. That's one more reason to keep it running.

You may refer to us as "Your Highness".

WOW!    You did more to pump up our skirts spirits than you could ever imagine.  And one last thing, yea, Lind is the boss of this site.

We're still looking for items in Charlie's and Hugh's closets, tell us what you know for sure, we will put it all together.

We are thinking about spending some of the money we have been given creating signs that simply say www.tempepolicecloset.com   to drive people to our site.

Or maybe place OUR signs next to political signs that say           <- Supports Tom Ryff
                                                                                                       www.tempepolicecloset.com

Good idea to get into politics or not?

If we made this a blog, would you like that better? You would still have to give us your e-mail address, but your comments would post right after you send them.

As we have it now, we rewrite what you say to cover anything that may tip off others you are the author. All of you talk "cop" so even we can guess who you are!

We are also thinking about walking away or "disappearing".   This site would stay, no one would add or administer it. Tell us what you think.

We are looking for direction.

Someone at the PD said they heard a friend of  xxn's say she heard  xxn say, (in so many words)   The only thing BIG about Tom, is his belly and his mouth. Sex with Tom is 3-5 seconds long, then he rolls his eyes and groans. Then Tom looks at one of his two cell phones and immediately complains that he has to go. He doesn't stick around to pleasure anyone . . .  other than himself.

Damn it Tom, you sure are making it tough for guys like Moser and Lind. Work with us and plan on taking another few minutes to please you know who. All of us will benefit but if the skanks of TPD start feeling a little used, that isn't good for us.

To whom it may concern:

I do not live in Tempe, am not a police officer and have nothing invested in these topics. I just wanted to say that I recognize the courage necessary for this sort of undertaking. You have my respect and I thank you for your current and/or past service to Law Enforcement, if applicable.

Best Regards, Toby  – Mesa, AZ

Thank you Toby.

Hello, I know that Ryff advised Jim moser to call and file complaint against Lind at Chandler. Just like he told his boyz to lie to their wives.

We've heard that before, thank you for sharing that with us. All three Ryff, Moser and Lind will pay a big price, if we have anything to do with exposing them.

The question we have,  is why did Moser confide in Ryff and what did Ryff have to gain by giving Moser that advice?

Did Ryff want out from under the spotlight so he fed Moser some B.S hoping this affair would knock Ryff off our front page?

According to Moser's friends, he did not like Ryff. How or why did that change? Or is the explanation misery loves company?

Is moser really retiring the end of the month? That'll sure take the fun out of this job.

Assholes, why is Moser denying Lind porked his wife? Are you sure you didn't just unfairly trash a great guy and a great cop?

No, we are sure of what we said. Besides asshole, Lind admitted he was porking another officer's wife if you read the redacted IA report. If you don't believe us, call Lind if you have the balls, asshole.

To many, many of our bloggers. This is not a popularity contest between Lind and Moser. Each has their own, very active, camp.

We asked, does anyone else know who else Moser and Lind has been porking?

If you know, tell us. We aren't taking votes for home   cumming     King, if you get the pun  ;)

But if you want to vote for Lind or Moser for Home cumming King, go ahead. We will report the final tally.

WAIT, let's throw Ryff in the list of candidates as well.

Lind  -  Moser   -  Ryff
(listed alpha to be fair)

Polls now open!

Who gets to be called "The TPD Home Cumming King or Queen"?

VOTE NOW !

I listened to your tapes on Ryff. I have told some of my friends "you should take him out back a kick the shit of him" while referring to an child abuser. However, I didn't expect them to really do it. If the officer is so weak minded that his excuse is that he lied because it was "suggested," he has no business carrying a badge. Not condoning just think what little is posted is "weak." I am sure there is more juice to the story, but you probably can't post it without a slander suit. (keep it as an "opinion" article) and you should be o.k.

Now will you post a short piece on this piece of 5hit? or is this just a politically malicious site agains one person? You should create a forum for the site. You might get more info faster.

Time to hold the Command to the same standards as the Patrol Officers.

Go to this link, hit control and  refresh and get the updated page. http://tempepolicecloset.com/The%20Discussion.htm

We agree, Lind is a piece of shit, short, brown and smelly. He has no right to think that he can do what he wants because he is a Commander. In the inner circle have decided to take each issue and ponder it. We may look at other officers bringing dishonor to the rest, OR MAYBE WE WON'T.

SLK, TH? and 2 others  - No, we will not ask our guests if they have any dirt on your husbands, but we hope you were intending to bring a smile to our faces, you accomplished that! 

KKL - We have not lost our way. We think this simply shows the perverted, cheating husbands who NOW work and HAVE worked at the TPD.  How can anyone conclude that this does not start at the top and is condoned at the top? We all know Ryff chases women, he says so in the tape. And nothing suggests he has changed. If you know someone who wants to stand up for Ryff and tell us he is a changed man, have them e-mail us.

Jus - Thank you.

abc123 -  NO ONE has the authority to remove items from this site unless the super majority of the inner circle votes for it. We (the IC) have removed text before because it appeared we could be making the issue worse than it would be, by itself. That is a moving line for us.

Sylvester - We speak the truth, Lind is a piece of shit for screwing another man's wife. What's he going to do, sue us? We have no apologies to make. We said the same about Ryff, Kells and Harmon. The tape tells you all you need to know about Ryff, Kells and Harman, without much help from us.

Lannie - We will NOT meet you face to face, and tell Tom we all said hello.

1.  Go back and look at 91, remember we were talking about karma???? Moser, the whore, finds out his wife is porking his buddy Lind???? Does it come together now for ya? 

We posted this story 3 weeks before Lind was sent home. We knew Lind was stuffing Michelle from the start. Internally, we had a problem coming to an agreement how to treat our knowledge because so many of you insisted we focus on Ryff and leave "his family" out of it. That rule has changed and frankly we are all on the page that says, fuck 'em. If telling the story involves family, then that is no longer off limits. We know the whole story and you don't.  We  will explain everything soon. You just know the Tempe scripted story, you have no idea what Chandler guys think and know.

2.   Tell us something we don't know. Do we see sarcasm in that sentence of yours? ;)  The stats show we are a very popular destination, yet you guys act like a bunch of women, you look, you shop, but you don't buy.  It must be like watching TMZ, seeing other people in misery.

3.  We agree with you and it just isn't because of the lack of our effort.  When Ryff was asked to apply to Mesa, the invite didn't last a minute past the discovery of our website. We take full credit for his rejection from Mesa. Others have said we trapped him here by eliminating him leaving for greener pastures. Others think we are some kind of hit squad  who they can cry to and we'll do their dirty work. Exposing Ryff is a team effort and of all the parties who have an interest in Ryff, it isn't like you guys have been forthcoming. From our point of view, YOU guys are the reason Ryff is happy. He knows AND WE KNOW he has all of you scarred to death.

Someone has stepped up with an offer of money to insure this site will be up and available for the next 50 years. That should insure Ryff's tape and facts about his behavior will  be around for a very long time.  We 6 say to you,  you had your chance to get a better leader, either you are like him or you are scarred of him because few of you have spoken up and allowed us to use what you say.

All we need is what YOU heard. We'll do the rest.  I agree it looks like Ryff is winning this battle and that just plain sucks. But one by one, you are finding your wieners and coming to us with what you know and heard and were told.

Jim Moser and his best friend Dave Lind.

FACT - Dave Lind, another former Tempe scum bag, is the one who was porking Moser's wife Michelle and it went on for quite sometime. So like our friends over at  http://www.badphoenixcops.com/  would say, hey Moser, how does Dave taste? What's it like to lick her now?

Hey David, how's it going at home?  You have two Sheri's (wife and boss) to deal with and we've betting neither is cozing up to you right now. We can ask you and Moser, what's it like to pork your buddy's wife?  Lind, you piece of shit, you are no different than Ryff, Moser, Kells or Harmon. Tempe is nothing more than a playground for you perverts, a place to score and brag about it. Changing your work zip code really changed nothing.

Moser, everyone knows you too are a piece of shit. You've been screwing everything that walks for years and bragging about it. And like Ryff, 100% of the evidence comes FROM YOU BIG MOUTH. What about the quad ride to Crown King and that waitress?  The one whose teeth fell out as she was blowing you? Be careful Jimmy and David, our holsters have many more bits of information, all we need is one more witness and we'll share what we have ON EACH OF YOU with everyone.

This website.

FACT - Tom Ryff continues to tell you he knows who is behind this site. Well Tommie, the biggest pussy of all, now is the time to man up and produce your evidence. Show it to us, show it to someone. Talk is cheap, so we're calling you out. You have nothing and all of us know that. Calling you out will prove that.

FACT - NO ONE knows who we are and NO ONE has been identified a single contributor to this site BECAUSE we know what the fuck we are doing. We wait until we hear it from numerous sources, then we print it.

FACT - This site is controlled by a group who gets to see what comes in, BUT NOT FROM WHO SENDS IT. We call it the inner circle (IC). It takes sometime to gain our trust and unfortunately, ONE of us knows who everyone is, but none of the rest know who each other is. The inner circle is fed possible entries and each gets to comment to the moderator. Then the original 5 decide what gets posted. Want to apply to be one of the IC? TempePoliceCloset@hushmail.com

To all of our viewers:

We are hearing what you are saying, but like always, you pussies are willing to tease us with facts, documents and stories but are unwilling to allow us to use it. We know the Ryff management style, we've walked and worked with him. We know FEAR and INTIMIDATION are the foundation of  his management style.

You can effect change your way. We choose to do it our way. Our way is working, your way is not. We have called for a vote of confidence and not one of you pussies will allow us to say, "We have one confirmed NO vote for item #1".  As we said in #45, #49 and # 74 below, to make the vote valid we would need some number that comes from you. Once we collect the votes, we could post them with confidence. What happens after the vote is not within our control. But all of us know that many of you are just now coming to the conclusion that WE WERE  RIGHT ABOUT RYFF AND HIS MANAGEMENT STYLE.  Ryff   is a liar, he intimidates people and applies pressure to keep his actions secrets. When you get in his inner circle, you will find you must also turn into one of his butt suckers.  Like Hitler, he can't hide forever.

Hey you, be a man, step up. Tell us what you know, tell us who said what, tell us something you know or were told and that may be the piece we need to post that story or accusation. You see, our lawyers continue to tell us, there is NO DEFENSE necessary for the TRUTH. That is why we are here today, no one can prove that what we say is bullshit.

The questions to you are these:

1.    Do you have confidence that Tom Ryff  and the present administration can lead you with honor and integrity, like the Tempe seal proposes?

2.   Are you proud to be a member of the Tempe Police Dept?

                If so, why?

               And if not, why not?

No one knows what direction you are going in, but don't lose site of your original target. Are we about to hear about JM's sexual escapades? One thought I had, maybe Brian Nelson was porkin JM's wife because JM was porking Brian's fiancée several years ago. You mention karma, is that the direction you are going?

We are having a tough time reading your cryptic messages, tone them down.

052610 4567

Damn, that isn't the direction we were headed but you sure have a great memory and you made the team laugh like hell. And if what you say, "Brian Nelson was porkin JM's wife" was true, we have only one comment.

" GO MICHELLE! "

Getting even that way is better than taking half his retirement! And more fun!

We have not lost sight of our mission, but it is hard to focus on Ryff when so much of what he has done and bragged about is related to his perverted behavior. We wonder if his behavior hasn't permeated so many others?

We will try and do a better job communicating with you all, thanks to those who write in and comment, you really make us smile.

(I just listened to the tape)

"Pretty strong stuff! How do people get to be that corrupt? he can't deny the voice and shitty attitude and morals. Pretty arrogant and dangerous for a person to be in that position of power! I'm sure that some of allegations are pure mud slinging politics, but tape shows his true character, or lack of! Sad because I only remember kid I hung out with, not grownup he's become"

From one of Tom's high school classmates. BW

Karma --- is the law of moral causation.

Karma --- is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect.

Cause --- Jimmy screwing everything  he can for years and years (Jenn, Molly) and bragging about it to us and lying to his wife.

Effect  --- Country Thunder weekend, pictures, cell phone, texts, bad news,  _________________________________________

Jimmy, you are arrogant, a pompous ass, a brown Moser and a bully. It is your turn to walk down the halls with you head down, looking at the floor and wondering what we are saying about you.

Jimmy, do you want to fill in the blanks or do you want us to?

Maybe you or one of your butt buddies has something to trade? We're all ears Jimmy. Speaking of ears . .

tpc@tempepolicecloset.com  or TempePoliceCloset@hushmail.com or come see us, you big, bad stud muffin.

Chief Tom Ryff,

Are you proud of yourself? There is no one to blame for this mess except you and Charlie and of course Jimmy.  What a proud leader you must be,  to know you demonstrate, promoted, created and facilitated this perverted lifestyle. As the victims pile up around you, as people's lives start to explode, what will you say to them? Or what will they say to you?       "Thanks Chief?"

To you and Jimmy and the rest of the (FOTR) Friends Of Tom Ryff, each of you has something to fear. Because your leader has screwed with us and others for years and it's time to pay the piper.

Sooner than later, someone with a brain at City Hall will make the change necessary to put an end to the tyrant temperament, the fear, the GOBN, the preferred treatment and most important to us, THE LIES!

Sooner than later, someone will decide to ask, do you have confidence and faith in your leaders?

There will soon be an indictment. It will not be anyone we have talked about. BUT, there are still lies to the FBI and to others that must be punished and we'll be here to the end.

If you don't act like Tom Ryff, if you don't bullies like Tom Ryff, if you have been faithful to your wife, have nothing to fear from us. If you are a pervert AND a bully, we have one thing to say to you

ONE AT A TIME !

Because even if the threat of a light being shined on your behavior makes you think twice,
then you change your mind,
we have accomplished half our goals.

Here is a real eye opener.

"Within the last 12 months, I met with Charlie Meyer for an impromptu casual meeting. We were just sitting there talking. Wasn't a business meeting so his guard was down. Down enough that when we were talking I felt like he was looking at me with the "I want to f**k you look". I know the look. I have seen it and more than likely have given that look. Anyway, it was so uncomfortable that I told him that I needed to leave and ended the meeting."  050610-37

Behind the scenes, members respond:

"Boys know how to give that "look" but few recognize it.  I know because I've given it to a boy and he don't get it. Big boys or real men do."

"If true, this could explain why Charlie has basically ignored the issues with Tom."

"Maybe he is one of the many who are already beholding to Tom."

"There's a reason society doesn't knowingly hire bad guys to go catch other bad guys."

Although no one will admit or say or refer to or allude to the existence of this website, our stats on visitors are 22 times HIGHER what they were WHEN WE FIRST OPENED in December of 2008. Where's all this traffic coming from?

More than 30 people have asked:
Is this about xxxx?
Are you going to tell us about yyyyy?
zzzzzz has told a few of us that he is pissing his pants because he thinks he might be mentioned, is it zzzzzz?

Some of you ask about the same person . Of the more than 30 who named names, it would appear that there are 11 men and one women out there, that are hoping like hell their names and their story won't appear on our website anytime soon.

We will let one ass**le off the hook. It ain't Angel or Steve.  Besides, who would sleep with either one of them limp dicks anyway? If so, she or he must have been half dead or blind in both eyes. Admit it, you were thinking that anyway! Those who think they are untouchable because of who they know or what they know,   their time has come, one at a time.

Our message to all of  you is this,   one               at                  a                  time.

Tubeless, we think we have what you need. Give us an address to send it to, if you want.

1019-6557 That is news to us.

Mitch - it is better to tell the story, than have us tell it. Write to us at  TempePoliceCloset@hushmail.com

Cris, sarah, jess****, B***h, NO! Why do the wives use their names and you boys don't?

Sgt pe**l***w meet me on that day at 900/6500 and x blocks east. (x = the total of the numbers in your name)

MJ, you weren't even on our radar screen, until the other day. Your threats mean nothing to us.

We are here for one reason. That is to expose the perverts within the Tempe Police Department. And to expose those that participate in these perverted activities.

Everyone already knows that Chief Tom Ryff  cheats on his wife, Roseanne, and coaches other officers how to lie to their supervisors so they can play around on their wives as well.

We know this behavior creates more of the same because each cheater becomes more confident because each knows a lot about the others. So no one can really snitch another for fear of being exposed themselves.

#82 below says it best:

You asked about how Kim can go from badmouthing Tom to endorsing him. The answer is simple. Share in a cover up. If you finally get someone to involve themselves in your questionable types of activity, then they will seldom talk a lot of shit about you or bring up your activities for fear of being discovered themselves.5664kms

#82 also says,  It takes a mind like the devil or a sexual predator, to lure people into these compromised positions, but once there, those people become very beholding for a number of reasons.

This perverted behavior has permeated TPD and the only way to clean it up is start at the top. When you can't start at the top, you start where you can and hope one domino pushes another and another and another.

We have been told a certain Tempe Officer (who has told many, many of us about his cheating ways)  recently found  . . . . . .

Stay tuned, this is going to be a great story. Soon, we will let you in on a secret that shows nothing has changed in the ole PD.

Tempe officer admits to using position to sleep with women.

For the background on this, take this link. Pay attention to what Sgt. Steve Carbajal says in this TV clip and what is posted in the text portion of this article.

Sgt. Steve Carbajal, with the Tempe Police Department, says;

"There is a lot of trust that goes with the badge and we can’t have people abusing that trust."

Then Sgt. Steve Carbajal says;

"We don’t want our officers using their position as a peace officer as a dating service."

Who is Carbajal talking about, Police Chief Tom Ryff or his brother Angel?

We just have to ask Charlie and Hugh, explain to us the difference between what Ryff admits to doing on the tape and what Blanchard has admitted to doing?

Both are courting women using their position as a peace officer.

Both are using their badge to score dates and sex.

Ryff is even using his job as an excuse to meet women.

Blanchard fessed up.

Ryff lied to his you, his wife and the FBI about the creation of the tape.

Blanchard gets fired and Ryff gets embarrassed?

We think both should have been fired.

Nine new officers join Tempe police

June 30th, 2008, 8:01 pm by Katie McDevitt

So 88 new officers during the worst economic times of the last 80 years?

What a wonderful business decision by Chief Tom Ryff!

By Niki D'Andrea, Wednesday, Feb. 25 2009 @ 1:54PM

"In this corner, wearing the purple and orange shorts, please welcome a man who's won four NBA championships, Suns center Shaquille O'Neal!

And in the other corner, wearing the pink underwear and panting like a dog with emphysema, give it up for the man who's had at least nine inmates die in his jails, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio! If only Arpaio had challenged O'Neal to a boxing match. We'd love to see the old windbag on a kindergarten step stool, trying to land a shot to Shaq's stomach. But alas, Sheriff Blow apparently doesn't have those kind of balls -- only basketballs. So he's challenged O'Neal to a free throw contest, promising to return the Suns star's special deputy badge if he agrees to let the sheriff ride his jersey tails for some more pointless free publicity.

Arpaio had stripped the basketball legend of his deputy badge after Shaq made a video bad-mouthing his former L.A. Lakers teammate, Kobe Bryant. But the sheriff's baiting isn't working. Shaq's acting like Arpaio doesn't even exist (if only...)

This story on KTAR talks about how Shaq decorated his locker with yellow police tape. After denying he knew who this Arpaio dude was, Shaq said, "I work for Chief Tom Ryff, Tempe P.D." Then Shaq denied seeing the reams of yellow tape he'd put around his locker."

This webpage says   O’Neal said he chose Tempe as the city to do volunteer police work in because the police chiefs he worked for in the Los Angeles and Miami areas recommended him to Tempe police Chief Tom Ryff.

But there is the rest of the story.

Chief Ryff used to go to IPTM classes in Florida. He met a Miami area Police Chief where Shaq came from and had been deputized.  Then Shaq was traded from Miami to the Suns.

Chief Tom Ryff told many folks that he was worried about Shaq coming to Phoenix because the Miami area Police Chief had told him Shaq was a huge pain in the ass for them.  Shaq was constantly at the Police Department and everyone got tired of him hanging around. Chief Tom Ryff told many, he dreaded having Shaq follow him around and walking into his office unannounced.

Ryff told one, he didn't want to compete for women with Shaq.  Ryff, Kells and Harmon (Potsie, Richie and Chachi) were certainly not the same league as Shaq when it came to women begging for their attention.

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You can also e-mail us at our Hushmail account   (TempePoliceCloset@hushmail.com ). Hushmail is out of Canada and generally Canada won't accept US based subpoenas.

Or billyjoejimbob.jimbob@gmail.com OR you can use  tpc@tempepolicecloset.com

Not that we have had to deal with any subpoenas, but just in case. And as we promise, all e-mails are deleted after we answer them.

Is it true that the Tempe Elks Lodge voted the Honorable Police Chief Tom Ryff Citizen of the Year? To pass on comments to the Elks, use tempeelks@aol.com.

This explanation is for our civilian readers.

When a police officer is facing an internal investigation, just like citizens, we can invoke our 5th Amendment rights and that stops all questioning. Our 5th Amendment rights allow us to refuse to talk to any police investigators and subsequently incriminate ourselves.

The Tempe Police Dept has something called "Garrity Warnings and Assurances". When offered or requested, "Garrity" compels a police officer to talk to investigators, but without fear of self incrimination. Otherwise, tell us the truth and we won’t charge you or punish you. "Garrity" allows us to talk to investigators and not worry that we may incriminate ourselves.

The City of Tempe investigators can provide or offer "Garrity Warnings and Assurances" which tells the officer he must tell the truth and there will be no consequences. It can mean, "You may have lied to us in the past, but after I read "Garrity", you have to tell me the truth and all past lies are behind us."

In early 2009, Tom Ryff was accused of more than a few improprieties (See section #41 below) and he was being investigated by an Assistant City Attorney and an HR analyst.

Prior to some interviews, Bill Amato, the police departments legal advisor  called more than two officers and told them there would be "no Garrity".

One person writes, " I spoke to someone who was called by Amato and later interviewed. The tone of Amato's voice and his voice inflection made it very clear to this person, that there would be no need for Garrity in this administrative inquiry. Bill Amato also said, the usual NOI (Notice of Investigation) requirements would not apply. Because No Garrity and the absence of NOI requirements, none of us were under any obligation to tell the truth.

All of us know that "No Garrity" means you are not compelled to talk and/or it is OK to deviate from the truth during your interview. Toss in no NOI  (Notice of Investigation) requirements and the message to all concerned was very clear.

Had Ryff’s investigators been interested in the truth, Garrity would have been offered to officers to insure the investigators get the truth. This is just another example of the corruption within the Tempe Police Department directly related to Chief Tom Ryff and his constant need to cover up his illegal and immoral activities.

Can anyone remember another investigation where "Garrity" and the NOI requirements were pulled off the table?

According to city records, here is the 2009 salary figures for Tom's staff:

(to jhup1666, we can't call all of these people Tom's butt buddies and civilian ass wipers and it's our website anyway ):

Charles Cobbs    $  69,665.44  (does anyone know what he really does other than run interference for Tom?)
Brenda Buren      $136,489.60  (didn't she hate Ryff at one time?)
Moly Enright        $  60,257.60  (new PIO, is there a story behind the previous PIO, Katie McDevitt, leaving?
Paul Bentley         $ 92,399.84  (crime analyst, good guy, valuable work, not sure he is worth this much?)
Amanda Bunger   $ 47,952.32  (was Ryff's secretary, now works under Paul)

Did we miss anyone?

Would it be too much to ask many of you, two things?

1. Look over this entire page and if you have first hand knowledge about something, tell us.

2. And then allow us to print it. We will take what you say, change the words around, but still get your point across. It’s called words smithing.

In #71 below, it has been brought to our attention that some think we really thought Chief Tom Ryff had the special dollar bill. We never thought that. We knew then, this was the truth:

Someone with a very special one dollar bill and a secret serial number sends a complaint about this new information to City Manager Charlie Meyer. This complaint was received on January 27, 2009 and the investigation was concluded on February 17, 2009, a period of just 21 days. It was investigated by an Assistant City Attorney and an green HR analyst. It has been written, this is the fastest investigation EVER conducted by the city of Tempe.

When we suggested it was Ryff telling on himself, it was to get feedback. And did we get feedback on that question!

Because City Manager Meyer told POST they had investigated and closed these allegations, POST accepted that and passed on any action.

Background:   Dan Kells is on "The Tape" with Chief Tom Ryff planning to step out on their wives. He is a 20+ year veteran officer.

Chief Tom Ryff has always taken care of Dan Kells. Dan Kells failed some traffic investigation classes and Chief Tom Ryff had that data removed from his file.

When Chief Tom Ryff was the Commander of Criminal Investigations, Chief Tom Ryff made Dan Kells a homicide investigator with no testing and no selection process whatsoever.

Chief Tom Ryff recently made Dan Kells the officer in charge of motorcycle training and safety with no selection process or testing. Oh, did we mention that position has a step up in pay? Is it true that Tempe has had more motorcycle related injuries since Dan Kells took over, than before?

Everyone in traffic knows that anything you say around Kells will be reported directly to Chief Tom Ryff. So be careful.

Then Chief Tom Ryff hired Kell's son and sends him to the academy, all during the time the city is in a budget crisis. The training and hiring staff will tell you that this "hire" was labeled, "Tom wants this to happen."

Which one of you will lose your job so Kells Jr. can have one?

Many of you know someone told many others what happened in Wash DC during Police Week between Chief Tom Ryff and Baniszewski. THEN he recanted the story.

Who can tell us what he said before or after he recanted? No heresay. No "I was told". Tell us what you heard from his mouth. Then let us print it. He told more than a few, so there’s no way anyone will know who confirmed what we already know.

You see that is how we work. Just like a newspaper that cannot run with a story unless it has confirmed the story with two different sources.

Why not be the "second source" if you feel Chief Tom Ryff is . . . a man of low moral character, no integrity, and unfit to lead a police department of heroes"

Is it true that the Commander of Criminal and Special Investigations, Kim Hale, is going around and telling everyone, "You have to support Tom, you have to support Tom."? And idea what caused Kim to go from bad mouthing Tom, to supporting Tom?

Bonnie

WOW, the word is out. THANKS to all who sent votes and comments.

Here is the number of visitors over the last three days.  808, 1203, 973.

Here is the current vote tally.

17 sent an "A", Chief Tom Ryff is a hero and said, you guys are @#$%^&*(*.

547 sent a "B",  Tom Ryff is . . . a man of low moral character, no integrity,
and unfit to lead a police department of heroes" or words to that effect.

Almost all of the comments are not printable.

We're even declining to print the threats from two of the 17 "A" votes.

With the exception of the two threatening e-mails, 100% of the rest have been deleted in their entirety.

Thanks to ALL who participated in our poll. We will likely close this poll the end of February.

Someone offered this comparison:

Here's to the Heroes

These are the real Heroes. This will bring a tear to your eye.

-- OR --

Here is Police Chief Tom Ryff,  Tempe's Hero!

"What do we tell the wives?"

"I’m getting so good (at lying) . . . I’m even f**king you up."

Police Chief Ryff tells another officer HOW to lie to his supervisor.

VOTE via email tpc@tempepolicecloset.com

A     I think Tom Ryff is a hero.

B      I think Tom Ryff is . . . a man of low moral character, no integrity,
and unfit to lead a police department of heroes".

For their take on the outcome of the search warrant and pending charges, take this link http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/

For the official news piece, take this link. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3520994.htm

Bottom line is, the County Attorney declined to file charges and the grand jury refused a true bill.

Which means, WE and YOU are still free to exercise our First Amendment rights.

You know, we know and they know - - - NO ONE has been identified as a member of this site, NO ONE has been identified as a contributor to this site and NO ONE knows who sends in mail or reads the mail except NO ONE!

Pull up a chair, grab a glass and raise it high, here's to a great 2010!

Some will leave because Ryff thinks it is more important to surround himself with brown nosers, than it is for him to make sure you can feed your family.

By the way, how much did the "Mexican Cartel Caper" cost in OT?

It is true another city was involved then bailed saying this whole "Mexican Cartel Caper" thing was BS?

Will the "Mexican Cartel Caper" ever turn into anything? Or was that just a media show?

How much does the entourage cost that Ryff has surrounded himself with?

Why are street cops first to get axed, why not the Carbajal brothers, what good are they to the security of Tempe? How are they going to protect Tempe citizens, with their mouths?

We have some unasked for advice. Before you leave, take or copy or borrow what you can. You may not ever have another chance.

Get something that you can use to protect yourself in the event you end up screwed.

If and when you get called back, will any of Ryff's brown nosers be called back in front of you?

Then you have choices. You can throw it away if everything goes well, or you can share it with us!

You deserve Ryff.   Don't hold your breathe until someone else has the balls to take Ryff on again. Yeah, like who in the last 25 years has had the balls to screw with Ryff? Well, your best chance at bringing change and ending the GOBN  just walked away and said **** YOU.

It appears many of you feel Tempe is better off being led by liars and cheaters. We know we have already accomplished a lot. We've made it darn tough for Ryff to fire anyone for lying or adultery, right Jeff? All of us have better things to do that fight a battle while everyone else decides to put their panties on and be a cheerleader.

Now that we have set fire to the Ryff’s butt, you think he'll cut you any slack? Historically speaking, he will be looking for blood, Good luck boys and girls. Many of you will end up screwed long before Ryff answers for his infidelities. And the other half will have sold their soul to be one of Tom's lap dogs.   You're going to miss us.

panties?

there is still four of us and we intend to continue. we changed the front page back to the one that generated the most mail, we reinstalled the pictures of Charlie with his head in the sand and Hugh coming out of the lake looking like Rock Hudson. 

we have been told by 2 Mesa PD friends and 2 Tempe city contacts that tom was asked to apply for the Mesa Police Chief Job along with another Chief from a west valley community.  It appears when Mesa saw www.TempePoliceCloset.com they showed Tom the door. you can tell us what you know by sending mail to tpc@tempepolicecloset.com. Remember, there is no risk communicating with us through our website.

Charlie Meyer and lyle Mann. after a year, you both know of the pressure being applied to each of you over this issue. today you know far more than you did a year ago, maybe someone like Tom will someday marry your daughter.

We are not giving up the fight. We are sure that this year, someone will send us something that will be the coupe de gras and force the Tempe administration to turn all of us back in the right direction and remove the tyrant Ryff.

We also understand, as long as we are around, it is very unlikely that tom can or will move on. Just Google "Tom Ryff". we often wonder, if we close up the site, would or could tom move on? quite a predicament.

http://www.kpho.com/video/21507908/index.html  

Two very common thoughts that have been shared with us:

  1) There is no way Chief Ryff will ever hammer one of his own because ALL of us know of his transgressions well.
  2) The cop should have never been exonerated by IA because he would not have done that to his drunk daughter.

Last, while the tape says nothing about the location of this Circle K, it is in Victory Acres and very dangerous part of east Tempe.

Another example of Chief Ryff allowing someone to walk because he is incapable of disciplining others because of his outstanding issues. Chief Ryff does not want to defend his actions, so everyone gets a free pass until Chief Ryff's personal lying and cheating on his wife issues go away.  We wonder, if the entire Police Dept didn't have these "free passes", would this officer and others likely be exonerated for this and other bad decisions? Everyone has to know that sooner than later, someone will have to be fed to the meat grinder, and then what? Is it safe to assume that Chief Ryff continues to protect his men in order to eliminate a vote of no confidence?

We know all about the pressure, the vindictiveness and the subtle threats of, you screw me and I'll get you 10 times better. We know how Ryff works.

As others have mentioned, it appears the Tempe Fire Chief Jones sees this for what it is and has done his best to remove this lady's concerns. We would give anything to know what he thinks of all of this about Police Chief Tom Ryff and all of the lying and the ladies. One thing that is for sure, Jones isn't afraid of Ryff, like so many others are.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2009/10/12/20091012hazard1012.html

The readers comments reinforce this is wrong, wrong, wrong.

And just as we think we've seen it all, check this out!

NAACP salutes Tempe police chief

by Megan Boehnke - Oct. 29, 2009 10:13 AM
The Arizona Republic

Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff, the department's first Hispanic chief, was awarded for his commitment to diversity last week by the East Valley chapter of the NAACP. Ryff was given the award last Friday for his effort to diversify the department through recruiting and promoting officers with various backgrounds. He has worked with the Latino Peace Officers Association and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement   Executives in recruiting new officers to the department, said police spokeswoman Molly Enright.

To maintain the public's trust and keep our commitment to those we are sworn to protect it is imperative that the Tempe Police Dept mirrors the community we serve," he said. "I am committed to sustaining and promoting a diverse organization dedicated to fighting crime and providing quality police service."  Since he was promoted to chief in 2006, Ryff has also improved residents' satisfaction rate from 76 percent to 83 percent. Ryff, a 30-year veteran of the department and a graduate of Tempe High School, accepted the award at a gala last week. The award, according to the department, focuses on dedication to fairness, opportunity, equal rights and strong leadership.

Ryff says, "To maintain the public's trust and keep our commitment to those we are sworn to protect it is imperative that the Tempe Police Dept mirrors the community we serve,"

" . . . it is imperative that the Tempe Police Dept mirrors the community we serve,"

Does that means all of us now can cheat on our wives and lying is OK?

WOW is all we have to say!

Is there ANYTHING Ben won't do to protect the FIRST Hispanic Chief in Tempe?

NAACP, is it too late to reconsider this award?

72  Citizens speak up.

I agree that the Tom Ryff issue should be placed back on a front burner for AZPOST which controls certifications and sets and monitors standards for all sworn police officers. I further believe that police Chief Tom Ryff is a man of low moral character, no integrity, and unfit to lead a our police department.
J. Eric Andreasen, Tempe, AZ

Both of these statements below are accurate, true and applicable. Good luck with the first one, however. Lyle Mann may be as corrupt as Ryff. I don't care if you get 500 votes, Mann/AZPOST will not investigate Ryff.

I agree that the Tom Ryff issue should be placed back on a front burner for AZPOST which controls certifications and sets and monitors standards for all sworn police officers.

I believe that your police Chief Tom Ryff is a man of low moral character, no integrity, and unfit to lead a police department of heroes. Feel free to post as you see fit.
Adam Oscar

Someone writes,  "Anyone voting on your site will be treated to having their residence labeled a hazard. Please don't use my name as I am afraid of retaliation."

Anyone else strong enough to stand up and be counted?

In the last quarter of 2008, this website, the tape and other allegations surface about Chief Tom Ryff's honestly, integrity and honor. There is a small firestorm and lots of talk, but the talk is overcome by the fear of Chief Tom Ryff and the knowledge of Ryff’s ability to get even. One person commented,

"Chief Tom Ryff is a man of low moral character, no integrity, and unfit to lead a police department of heroes". No one could have said it better.

(See Discussion page, #41) Someone with a very special one dollar bill and a secret serial number sends a complaint about this new information to City Manager Charlie Meyer. This complaint was received on January 27, 2009 and the investigation was concluded on February 17, 2009, a period of just 21 days. It was investigated by an Assistant City Attorney and an green HR analyst. It has been written, this is the fastest investigation EVER conducted by the city of Tempe.

Chief Tom Ryff was exonerated by this investigation.

Some eight months later and after some contact with AZPOST, it looks like someone already knew that if a city government ran into an issue like this one and decided to handle it themselves, AZPOST would accept the outcome and NOT look into the matter. Which is exactly what happened.

That explains why Chief Tom Ryff told others who reported to us that Ryff said, "I am not the least concerned about the Closet asking for AZPOST intervention because this has already been investigated." See http://tempepolicecloset.com/09%20TPD%20Ryff%20Inv.pdf

Could Chief Tom Ryff have that one dollar bill? Could he or one of his posse anonymously made the complaint knowing the city’s quick investigation would shield him from AZPOST? Keep in mind, that The City Administration and Chief Ryff have regurgitated the same company line, anonymous complaints disrupt. One has to question, why take this anonymous complaint and not all the rest? Is it because they knew who this "anonymous complaint" was really from?

One lady and Tempe citizen who grew up with Chief Tom Ryff and has known him since they were both children, has clearly been offended by Chief Tom Ryff’s behavior as it has been laid out on this website. During her conversations with AZPOST, much of the above information was offered as a reason for the non-action of AZPOST.

During a conversation with Lyle Mann of AZPOST, here is her version of what transpired:

He could not understand why I would just do this on my own. I say, how can somebody NOT understand the importance of this?

But the tape, it’s contents and the behavior shown by officers STILL running and employed by the Tempe Police have never been addressed or investigated. So please vote:

Tempe citizens:

1. I agree that the Tom Ryff issue should be placed back on a front burner for AZPOST which controls certifications and sets and monitors standards for all sworn police officers.
   
   
2. I believe that your police Chief Tom Ryff is a man of low moral character, no integrity, and unfit to lead a police department of heroes.
   
   
3. I DO NOT feel another review is warranted.

In each of the three steps enumerated above, you may cut and paste the appropriate paragraph to your e-mail, for instance you send this to the e-mail link,  billyjoejimbob.jimbob@gmail.com.

Mr. Mann has a point. Where are all of the voices that find Chief Tom Ryff’s behavior offensive? We want to know if you will help us answer Mr. Mann’s very valid question.

We intend to be around during the next city election, we are having bumper stickers made with our site name in an effort to expose this to the citizens of Tempe. Then all of us can decide who was representing us when this sewage was covered up and hidden.

The fire is burning, but almost all DO NOT want their posts published. Fear is a strange emotion for most people. But for police officers to be afraid?  Maybe have your wives write to us?

And remember always and forever this is what a pervert looks like.

Jul-23 @ 10:57 PM

Ok, I live in Tempe, and I have no intention of sticking up for this guy. But what this officer is alleged to have done pales in comparison to what the Tempe Chief of Police, Tom Ryff, is recorded doing on the website www.tempepolicecloset.com  Here is the Chief of Police getting and coaching officers to lie to their sergeant on audio tape. Now he is firing an officer for inappropriate contact with a female?? I don't think that Ryff has the moral authority to lead, let alone fire anybody. Something stinks.

The chart below is about AZ Peace Officers that have violated rules like lying. They have been caught and disciplined. If you want to see the name of ALL Police Officers who have had their certifications suspended or yanked, take this link,  then click on "minutes".

• Can anyone explain why Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff skates and the guys below are facing suspension or worse?
  
• Could it be that these other guys don't have the likes of Ben Arredondo and Hugh Hallman protecting and covering up for them?
  
• Could it be because Ryff is a Chief and they are untouchable?
  
• Who really runs the City of Tempe?   Is it Hallman or is Arredondo the real puppeteer?
  
• If Arredondo is the puppeteer, where would his hands be in relationship to Hallman?
  
• Would that hurt?

What are we missing here?

Take this link to the Mission-Vision statement of AZPost.

Now take this link, go to the start of page 4 and read the first two paragraphs.  Here is what it says:

"On October 15, 2003, at the 12th Annual International Ethics Conference, Mr. Thomas Hammarstrom, Executive Director of Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training, accepted an Ethical Achievement Award on behalf of his organization. In the discussion which follows, Mr. Hammarstrom outlines and clarifies the potential responses by Arizona POST Board in cases where officers are accused of lying:

During the past several years the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board has placed substantial emphasis on the issue of peace officer honesty. The Board considers personal integrity to be the single most important qualification of an Arizona peace officer, and has shown zero tolerance in cases where officers have lied."

WHAT?

• AZPost, did you say, "The Board considers personal integrity to be the single most important qualification of an Arizona peace officer, and has shown zero tolerance in cases where officers have lied."
  
  
• AZPost, did you say, "During the past several years the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board has placed substantial emphasis on the issue of peace officer honesty."?
  
  
• Why is Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff exempt?

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  The tape (1), the original sexual harassment report (2), the TV spots where Ryff admits that it is his voice on the tape (3), and the newspaper article where Ryff misrepresents his sexual harassment incident (4) are all on this site.

Teddy Roosevelt said, "It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger."

George Orwell said, "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Take this link for another interesting newspaper article. We are not worried about this. There is no defense necessary for the truth. Our mailbox is full. All of us are very busy, so we will post what comments we are allowed to as soon as possible.

And remember always and forever this is what a pervert looks like.

Box 62 and threats, it is pretty ****in pathetic when the bullies on the playground are 50+ year old men and the playground is the City of Tempe and the Tempe Police Department.

Ok to post, no names please.

Once again, we are credible, we have kept our word to all of you. What we say, we've proved. We promise your anonymity is safe, secure and not available to anyone other than two people and they do not know one another. Each deletes all the mail they open after they cut and paste the contents to send to the rest of us without the original sender info.

Someone asked us,
What can possibly be worse that a cop caught lying?

We can only add to that question, what is worse than a liar AND a pervert? You will now wonder what has come over us, when you click on the next link. NOW we are all being threatened via e-mail by Tom Ryff and / or a supporter who are using names like glock@xxx.com   to send us death threats. So to show how scarred we are from all of the threats, we created this.    www.what-a-pervert-looks-like.com because it's more fun when the dance floor is full.

It appears we are the recipients of death threats and harm because of our anti-Ryff stance. The problem is the wrong people are being blamed. To give you an example, this link www.ralphtranter.com was purchased by someone in Florida, very close to the IPTM headquarters, because someone thinks Former Police Chief Ralph Tranter is a part of this site. Tranter knows and we know, he is not. And when the shit hits the fan, all of you that think Tranter is behind this site will have VERY dirty faces.

Two others are being blamed and threatened as well. We don't have their permission, yet,  to show you what we got about them. But it appears this is going to get real ugly, real fast and according to them, someone is going to get hurt. Threatening gun carrying policemen is a bad idea, no matter who you are. Threatening people who you THINK snitched you off is equally as stupid. It's always been a good idea to get solid proof that someone has crossed you BEFORE  you start threatening them.

Well, we would be lying if we said, nothing was happening. Oh how we wish you could see what is happening and what is being said behind the scenes. But, we'll keep our word to those who insist on communicating to us AND insist we not share their claims, notes, suggestions, ideas or vents.

Here is just a few of the many that commented when we asked  "vote "yes", he stays or "no" he needs to go."

NO NO NO This ***** should have left years ago. If you think that this Sexual Harassment complaint would have been enough to KEEP him from becoming Chief, then it should be enough to make him go away.

You guys are missing the most important point, there is no way Arredondo will let them fire the first Mexican Police Chief or forced him to resign. And EVERYONE WORKS FOR ARREDONDO, even the Mayor!

NO! He’s gotta go!

Sack him, no.

Everywhere I go, I am asked about the closet. Everyone is laughing at us. Our Chief is in hiding and NO ONE is walking around with their head up high.

I am waiting for someone to take a hit about lying, having an extramarital afair or any violation similar to those claims that have been made  about the Chief. Then I hope TOA will hire the best attornys to beat them back. Until this happens, our discipline process is paralyzed. I am pissed at you bastards for hiding and causing havoc.   I am more pissed at the Chief. ALL of us look like ******* because of a secret society of hit men. I'm pissed becase we all lost more than we gained and nobody knows your real purpose.

In response to your concerns, we have said from the start, Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff is what corruption looks like in Tempe. He is a pervert, he should not be Chief, he is an embarrassment to those of us who have spent our entire lives being GOOD cops. He is protected by those who play with him, lie for him, cover for him, look the other way and are scarred of him. We said, we would show you our facts and let you decide if we have enough for you to come to some conclusion.

We have some questions for you.

Why, after all of this, is Ryff so untouchable?
Why does Hallman, the council and Meyer fight so hard to keep him?
Why is POST and the County Attorney (Brady List) looking the other way?
How will the next liar be treated now that this precedent has been set?
What could Ryff possibly have on so many people that forces them to protect him?

The only name that has come up, when bloggers speak about Council inaction, is Woods. Many say they voted for him because they thought he would object to crap like this. He has been rather quiet, actually all of them have.

This corruption, this lying, this disrespect to women HAS TO STOP!

31 more no's and many more comments we promised not to post.

Let's recap the Ryff sexual harassment complaint.

Ryff and Kells are charged with sexually harassing a Parking Enforcement Aide. All of us remember her as attractive.

At least one comment Ryff made to the Victim during an interview, was labeled "inappropriate".

The Victim speaks to Ryff about the job opening. Ryff asks about "sexually related jokes" and describes his area of supervision as "male dominated" then says he does not want any EEOC complaints.

See page 4, Ryff's response. Is it probable a young women looking for a job, would brag about being able to keep up with the guys?

Page 4, Victim's allegation #3. "Lt. Ryff helped her move into her apartment . . .' At the conclusion, he asked about compensation, Victim offered lunch and Ryff replied, Well that's not exactly what I was talking about. " What was Ryff suggesting, a church visit?

One has to wonder, did Roseanne know Tom was helping a young, pretty single mother move?

Victim said Ryff was always talking about "partying", Ryff says it was the Victim who brought all of this up.

Review Victim allegation #5.

We have said from the start, all of this hinges around ITPM trips, women, sex and some training, although we have no idea what the subject matter was.

Going to lunch with a Parking Enforcement Aide? As a Lieutenant? Three times? If this was innocent, did Ryff tell Roseanne (his wife) about these lunches?

Don't we have to ask ourselves, is this behavior Chief material? How would the Victim knows this? Raise your hand if you agree . . . this is EXACTLY what all of us close to Tom have been hearing, come from his mouth, all the time we've known him.

Victim's allegation #7

Remember, Kells is the one who came out naked in front of a few girls they just met at an IPTM out of town convention. Now Kells wants us to believe this Parking Enforcement Aide brought up the subject of "blow jobs" to him?

We said months ago that in Ryff's sexual harassment complaint, Ryff bragged to the Victim, about how big his penis was. While that is not in this report, the "biggest condom"  part is the introduction for that conversation.

So what we know for sure today is this. 10 years ago in Tempe, all of this "rambunctious" behavior did not get anyone fired.  Today, is anything  different in Tempe?

Charlie, I have been ordered to be nicer to you. Evidentially, you are between Hugh and Ben with no place to go. So please accept my apologies.

Here it is!

Let's recap, printed on Nov 11, 2006, just two years ago,  The Tribune article reads "He (Ryff) explained the incident this way: One day in 1998, when he was traffi c lieutenant in the department, he and his men were “exchanging barbs, joking around” in a briefi ng room. About two months later, somebody complained." Ryff went on to say, "Ryff said he could not recall the nature of the language, but he believed it was not sexual or racial." Today, look at the blog above, starting with "She wen to lunch . . ."  Yea that is not " . . .sexual in nature"

Today we know Ryff lied in this article. Click here for the complete article above. 

NOW read the actual AND OFFICIAL report detailing this incident (click the link) and ask yourself:

1.   Did Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff lie to the media on 111106?

2.   In the outside or civilian world, would these actions justify calling the subject of this report a PERVERT?

3.   Coupled with all the rest of the information, the tape, the missing application, the lies, cheating on his wife, the "IPTM training classes" Kells being told to lie, etc, etc, NOW if the time for those who think Ryff should resign,  to stand up and vote.

Just send a one word e-mail to tomryff@gmail.com , vote "yes", he stays or "no" he needs to go. Trust us when we tell you any mail sent to this new e-mail address will be forwarded to us via a worldwide loop AND your email address will NOT be visible to us or anyone else.

Oh, we know the City, Ben Arredondo, Hugh Hallman and Charlie Meyer will find something wrong, something that will "tie their hands".

"This is from 1998."

         Answer - Ryff lied in 2006

"This report has not been authenticated. "

         Answer - Once you see and read this, you will be the only ones who believe that.

"He just forgot."

         Answer - If his memory is that bad, then he has no business being our Chief.

"He was misquoted. Katie was there and she knows Tommy was misquoted."

         Answer - That will be a bad move, we are ready for this one.

Last, can we remind you of something?

Page one has always said:

Our motive is simple. Expose the "bad" that effects how the public looks at all of us.

Then we say and have said from the beginning:

We intend to put our case together in front of you and the court of public opinion will judge our effort. When this is all over, we know we will be able to look our kids, our wives, our grandkids in the eyes and say, Daddy or Grandpa knows the difference between right and wrong and practices what he preaches.  Then we can explain why sometimes the end justifies the means.

Everything we've said and everything we've claimed, we've proved.

We have far more credibility than Charlie Meyer or Hallman or Arredondo has.

No one has been caught or been in trouble for communicating to us.

And trust us when we say many of you have offered information, ideas, tips and documents that allow us to do a better job.

Thank you for trusting us. Remember, we know you personally and we have not and will not violate your trust.

And forgive our humor, but other than Ryff, Kells and Horn, all the rest of you . . . ARE SAFE!

Oh well, until next week, have a damn good day. And the rest of you, God Bless you and we pray God keeps you safe.

Many have wondered about the chain of events that lead Tempe Council and  the City Manager to replace Trantor and start looking for a new Police Chief. Trantor started with Tempe in late summer of 1976. Trantor became Chief in early 2000. He was asked to leave late summer of 2006. It appears there was an incident that forced Trantors into retirement.

Before ASU games, the Explorer Scouts were allowed to rent parking spaces located in the east parking lot of the Police Dept, north side of 5th. The Scouts rented parking spots to ASU fans and were allowed to keep the money. They also had other responsibilities like cleaning up the lot and monitoring pedestrian traffic within the parking lot.  Ben Arredondo had an assigned parking spot east of City Hall on the south side of 5th, but he wanted his own parking spot for ASU games in the police lot across the street.

During Trantor's time as Chief, one ASU game night, there was a discussion, an altercation or some have called it a heated conversation between Arrendondo and the young Scouts who managed the Police parking lot. Arrendondo expected the Scouts to cone off a parking spot for him, assign someone to stand there and protect the spot because sometimes other drivers would move the cones and park in Ben's spot. Or Arrendondo would show up after kickoff and expect his spot to still be available for him. Arrendondo rarely, if ever, paid for his parking spot.  At least once, he brought other cars in with him and allegedly refused to pay for them as well. He just told the Scouts he was a TEMPE COUNCILMAN. According to our sources, this became a problem for Police staff assigned to monitor and mentor the Scouts as they rented parking spots to the football fans.

Trantor is then told of the problem and meets with Ben. Sources say the meeting did not go well because Ben was offended that Trantor though Ben had berated the kids. Trantor told others it DID NOT have to do with how Ben treated the Scouts, although that is the nail Ben hung his hat on.   It had to do with assigning someone to guard Ben's parking spot(s) and hold them until Ben and others got there. Trantor told Arredondo to simply use his assigned spot across the street and Ben refused. The conversation between Ben and Ralph did not go well. Ben is offended that Ralph thinks he berated the kids and all Ralph wants to do is handle an issue brought to him by the Scouts caused by Ben.

Shortly afterwards, Trantor is told he would be retiring soon. The Chief's job is advertised WITHIN the department ONLY, Ryff is the only one that applies. Ryff is later picked, then introduced as the first Hispanic Police Chief of Tempe. Ben Arredondo is very, very happy.

"Tribune - Oct 26, 2006   - The list of candidates for Tempe's top cop couldn't be any shorter -- there's just one person on it. That choice was somewhat deliberate because the city blocked cops from outside its police force from applying. Only Tempe's Assistant Police Chief Tom Ryff applied for the post, which he could assume by next month. The insider approach to filling the job has concerned some Tempe officials who fear the city is shortchanging itself, or at least creating suspicion of that."

The parking lot issue was never settled.

Sources say Arredondo wanted Fire Chief Cliff Jones retired. Arredondo wanted the union to be responsible for picking the Fire Chief and Jones and City Manager Will Manley thought that was a bad idea.

Manley handles the wide spread discrimination against Hispanics in the Public Works Department. But he crosses Arredondo and is gone in mid 2007.

Summer 2007, Jeff Kulaga is named acting City Manager and Ben is said to be pulling the strings.

Later in October 2007, The Tribune writes, "The head of a Tempe city department (Valerie Hernandez) has been placed on leave, though the reason why is “confidential,” interim city manager Jeff Kulaga said late Tuesday." Valerie Hernandez got on the wrong side of Arredondo and she was sent packing, however later, was compensated by Tempe.

Tempe, AZ: (Dec-20-07) Valerie Hernandez, former Tempe human resources director, brought a lawsuit against the city, alleging that she faced retaliation after reporting an information leak and refusing to obey discriminatory hiring directives from a City Council member (Arrendondo). She stated that she was fired because she told the City Attorney's Office about city employee leaking information from a closed-door City Council executive-session meeting and for refusing to obey the hiring directives she said an unidentified council member gave her. Records state that Hernandez sought payment of just over $869,000 in lost wages and benefits from Tempe, threatening to sue for more than $1 million. Hernandez was a 20-year city employee who was generally well-liked and well-respected. She worked in the Human Resources Department during her tenure with Tempe. She had been manager of the department since 2003.

As part of a settlement reached, Hernandez agreed to accept a $337,000 settlement, though has not withdrawn her allegations. Under the deal, she has agreed not to pursue them in court or talk about them. City officials denied the allegations, but stated that the payout was to avoid the costs and distractions related to litigation.

So at this point, Ben has his people in as City Manager, HR director, Diversity Office manager and Ryff will soon be the first Hispanic Chief.

Ben also was not identified as the unnamed council member who ordered Valerie Hernandez to obey hiring directives he gave her. Kulaga is under tremendous pressure to make this go away and spends $337,000 to do just that and Hernandez is paid to keep quiet and not tell who the "unnamed council person" was.

Actually, Trantor was paid off and promised to keep quiet and so was Lind. So were others. Others have tried to get copies of the termination documents of many of the TempePolice employees that left over the last 10-15 years and their requests have been refused.

So memo to troops. Gather data on someone and if you work things right, you will be paid by Tempe to keep quiet.

There is one person who knows who could do anything they wanted because of what they knew about Arrendondo, can anyone guess who that was?

Please stop asking us to not use your name of identify you, we won't and  we haven't. Only two know who each blogger is and they don't know each other. We all go by codes names, even to each other.

So long for now, my mailbox is overflowing.  TA (The Avenger).

UPDATE!    UPDATE !

Video of Tom Ryff commenting about recent accusations.    Click Here  We brought this back to the top because no one got our feeble attempt at humor. We think once we explain this, you will see how really funny this is.

Please watch this video, Clinton says three things:

"I did not have sexual relations with that women."   (Hiestand? Baniszewski? Berge-Blum? Tonya Corder?)

"I never told anyone to lie."  (Tom, what did you tell Kells to do?)

"And I need to go back to work . . ."  ( isn't that what Meyer said, this is a distraction and Chief Ryff needs to get back to work?)

Chief Ryff, you two look alike, talk alike and act alike.

It didn't work for him and it won't work for you.

Courtesy of TPD918

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (March 27) - The police chief of the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way has issued a public apology for a minor traffic accident that happened while he was checking his BlackBerry in his unmarked police car. The city summed it up Thursday in a news release that began "Federal Way Police Chief Brian Wilson is mortified." Apparently Wilson stopped for a red light on March 18 and glanced down at his BlackBerry to view newspaper headlines and e-mails. He then took his foot off the brake and collided with the car in front of him. The Seattle Times reports no one was injured and the cars weren't damaged. Still, City Manager Neal Beets gave Wilson a verbal reprimand. The police chief says he takes full responsibility.

Keep an eye on the TV5 10pm news for the next few days. Our bet is they will be talking about Ryff and it appears it won't be as nice as the article above.

We recognized the risk of this site. We've been reminded by hundreds of others about the risk we are taking. And they all say the same.  You boys better not miss. Don't piss Ryff off and then leave him here so the rest of us have to pay a price because you missed the target. We know he'll take it out on who he THINKS participated in the "closet" website. Ryff won't need a reason, if someone said so-in-so wrote to the closet, Ryff will make that person pay big time.

Side note to Tom. We hear messages from you all the time. We get messages that say, "This is what Ryff said."

One of the messages we got last week, said when you retire, you're going to spend the rest of your life hunting us down and making us pay. (We cleaned it up a bit.) Our collective answer is, none of us is going anywhere soon because without your Culos, without your ability to harm or reward other Culos, you are nothing to fear.

No power, then no fear, no retribution, no favoritism and no getting even.

Besides, you've already tried to find us and couldn't. Our lawyers tell us the same each time they review our webpages, there is no better defense for libel or slander THAN BEING ABLE TO PROVE IT IS THE TRUTH.

Tom, sincerely and from our hearts, other than a few Culos, everyone is laughing at you. Everyone is enjoying the embarrassment you are experiencing. One said, how can it be better, than the evidence is Ryff taping himself.  One said, it's like watching Osama get hung in the public square. There is something that bothers ALL of us. What we regret the most is the embarrassment YOU caused to your wife when we posted the tape you made of yourself.

ROSEANNE;

Many of us like you and many more of us love you. Some of us enjoyed your company more than Toms. We hope someday, you realize you may have been mad at the wrong group of people. Perhaps someday, you realize it is Tom you should be mad at. But watch him Roseanne. Some of the 25 and 30 year retired guys say he hasn't changed in all those years. There's nothing to suggest he has decided to stop lying and cheating. The next time we post, there will be hurtful things and we are again sorry your Husband has embarrassed you again.

WE HAVE A WINNER!
Scroll down to see who was voted the "Biggest Liar?"
In less than 24 hrs, the votes are 118 for #4 and 46 for #5.

The Trib article where Ryff admits he was disciplined for a sexual harassment complaint, says Ryff says it was nothing more than locker room talk. Click here for the article. 

Printed on Nov 11, 2006, just two years ago,  The Tribune article reads "He (Ryff) explained the incident this way: One day in 1998, when he was traffi c lieutenant in the department, he and his men were “exchanging barbs, joking around” in a briefi ng room. About two months later, somebody complained."

If Ryff lied in this article, suppose the City will say, "Oh that's old news, he's changed, look how long ago that was." Once you read the real report, you should be able to draw your own conclusions soon. We think you will agree Ryff lied.

Also remember IPTM, because that subject will come up again too.

Along with Nick Martin, Katie McDevitt co-wrote this article. Both are no longer working for the Tribune. Katie was the reporter who handled the "Cop Shop", a cop recap on the Tribune website. Guess where Katie ended up? She is now referred to as "Katie McDevitt, Tempe police spokeswoman".

What does all of this mean? Think about the "lost report",  that newspaper interview and who said what. Think about the reasons Ryff brings people into his inner circle. Think about what may happen when "The lost report" surfaces and what McDevitt may say or may do and who benefits from what she says.

Think about it. Then remember this was written on 032609, well before the "The lost report" re-surfaces.

Pick the BIGGEST liar. Send your entry to tpc@tempepolicecloset.com

                                       1 OJ                           2 Slick Willy                      3 Tricky Dick                               4 Chief Ryff                                   5 Poor Charlie

                                                                                                                                                                  Liar, liar, pants on fire!

UPDATE!    UPDATE !

Video of Tom Ryff commenting about recent accusations.    Click Here

ALL of us will soon see if Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff will continue to be protected by Mayor Hugh Hallman and City Manager Charlie Meyer. Can anyone guess those other very common names that reappear in many e-mails sent by past and present Tempe Officers? The officers who want us to write and say, "Not all of us act and talk like Chief Ryff?" In these e-mails from Tempe Police Officers, they remind us that other Officers are quiet because they are scared to death of Ryff and his posse of Culos. 

Getting back to those reappearing names, they are Councilman Ben Arredondo and his lawyer, Mr. Grant Woods who is or was Ryff's lawyer too. Woods is also a former radio talk show host, a former Attorney General and a former Republican. From Grant's mouth, "For us, being a Republican meant that you thought people should be free to rise and fall based upon their own individual talents and ambition." (source www.GrantWoods.com)

Hey Grant, does that apply to Tom Ryff too? Or is the Teflon moniker valid because Ryff is a Democrat and got a drop or two of Hispanic blood in him? Now calm down everyone, none of us have anything against Hispanics, we just think it's so damn funny that Ryff is accepted as representatives of the Hispanic community. We know Ben is Hispanic, two of the many TPC members had him as a teacher at Tempe High.

But we did hear from other sources that even Grant Woods is distancing himself from Ryff. We hope the reason is, he knows the difference between right and wrong. Woods appeared briefly when he sent a letter to TV5 threatening them if they played THE TAPE. They did play the tape and of course, nothing happened. In the media arena, that was recognized as a $125 letter, and nothing more.

Wait, is it possible that Arredondo simply had to be a part of hiring the first "Hispanic Tempe Police Chief" AND one from within AND at any cost? But Ryff's closet was full of skeletons. So all copies of Ryff's sexual harassment complaint were eliminated. All copies of Ryff's original application (where he marked the box that said "White") were also tossed. So who is leading the team that intends to protect Ryff at all costs? We see and smell the cover-up and we know who the puppeteers are. Here's a picture of one.

Ben Arredondo

We know Arredondo is a respected Hispanic member of Tempe City Council, but Ben, is Ryff the best you could come up with to represent your bloodline? Does Ryff’s carousing, drinking, chasing women, lying and demeaning women INCLUDING HIS WIFE elevate or perpetuate your bloodlines or does Ryff’s behavior degrade your ancestry? We think it's clearly the latter.

Ben, it takes a real man to step up and admit they made a mistake of judgement. Ryff can't, so you better.

Speaking of History Ben, let's recap a few things that are facts:

1.      111106    “Incoming Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff was investigated and disciplined almost nine years ago for an incident he describes as minor." But because of city policy, most records of the investigation have been purged and a written reprimand that was placed in Ryff’s file has been destroyed. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/78781#slComments

2.     June 2008, “the tape” is delivered to Tempe officials.  http://tempepolicecloset.com/The%20Tape.htm

3.     Shortly afterwards Former Chief Trantor is questioned by the FBI. Trantor still has a city laptop so he gives the FBI all of the files and information they ask for. A complete copy of Ryff’s sexual harassment report is included in the documents Trantor gave the FBI. Trantor demands a polygraph examination to clear himself of any criminal charges and is refused permission. No further action on FBI case.

4.     02/2009 TV5 makes a public records request for copy of Chief Ryff’s sexual harassment file to Tempe A-N-D Former Police Chief Trantor.

5.     March 2009 Former Police Chief Trantor delivers the only copy in existence of Chief Ryff’s sexual harassment complaint to City Manager Meyer. He refuses to touch or handle the envelope and has Trantor give it to his secretary. This is so Tempe City Officials can say they do not have possession of Ryff's sexual harassment file.

6.     March 2009 Former Police Chief Trantor notifies TV5 he has given his last copy of the file to Tempe.

7.     Tempe tells TV5 they HAD to give their ONLY copy of that file to the FBI so they have no file to give TV5. (see # 3 above) So now the FBI has two copies of the same file.

8.     FBI says they will give no public access to files involving Ryff until he gives permission or dies.

Come on, does this pass the smell test?

Then someone inside says they have a copy of Ryff's sexual harassment file, a copy was made of Trantors file BEFORE the Trantor file was sent to the FBI.

Once the file was read, someone made a decision that Tempe Police Closet was "on the right track" and says they will provide the file to us in the very near future.

We will soon prove Tempe officials lied about who has Ryff's sexual harassment file and what was done with this file. We will explain the timeline (03/09)

We will soon prove Tempe officials lied when they said they HAD to give the only copy of this sexual harassment file to the FBI. (03/09).

We will soon prove Ryff lied to the Tribune on 111106.

We have already proved Kells lied to Lind.

We have already proved Ryff told Kells to lie.

We have already proved Ryff lied to the FBI when he told them, or had Woods tell them, he was illegally taped.

We will soon prove that Kells and Ryff had fun while at IPTM functions and the evidence will come from their mouths.

And that ain't all . . . . . . . . stay tuned, it's about to get better. We've been in touch with the union reps in Virgina Beach, where Charlie Meyer came from. If they come through with half of what they say, WOW! He may not have been the best choice for our City Manager.

Let us know when you think we have PC.

Now who thinks we're scared?

Many of you asked if we're going to be around for some time and the answer is YES. Many are concerned about who actually runs this site. Many people are responsible for buying the site, owning the site, running this site and accepting, placing, editing, filtering and creating the content. Not all are involved in every decision. Not all know who the others are.

We created this anonymous discussion site because we are now and were related to law enforcement. We could no longer allow segregation of our PD that is being caused by the man who runs our department AND holds our careers in his hands AND who has  disciplined officers for violations he has committed.

Why not come forward?  Many of you and a few of us, would step forward and tell the truth, if we knew the City would protect us. Like many of you, we are scared of retribution. If we could speak our minds to one person and our identities were kept secret, we would step out of the closet. In fact, as many of you know, this topic is not openly discussed anywhere in the police dept, we don't openly discuss it and no one else is either.

What are we up against?  Look back at the original tape, start at 824. This is where Tom Ryff says, "I'm getting so good at lying . . . I'm even f**king you up." We object to that being a mentality accepted by Hallman and Meyer. Are you sure we should overlook this coming from our Chief's mouth? Is that what a leader says and brags about? We are tired of seeing officers sacrifice their moral values to promote up, in our organization.

What do you "closet" guys want?   We are working towards a fair and comprehensive examination of all of this evidence. The tape was not included in the recent investigation. Now that Ryff has admitted it is his voice on the tape,  that eliminates the cities position that it is "of questionable authenticity and legality."

We want the accusations put to rest, once and for all. Isn't it about time someone dealt with this,  that has permeated the locker rooms and hallways for years?

• We want Ryff to answer for telling a subordinate to lie to his supervisor.
• We want Dan Kells to answer for admitting he lied to his supervisor.
• We want Ryff and Kells to answer for their behavior with women during IPTM travels and other times.
• What happened to Ryff's original application?
• What happened to Ryff's sexual harassment complaint?
• Did Ryff lie to the media about his sexual harassment complaint?
• Did Ryff give special treatment to Jennifer Byrd?
• Did Ryff have an affair with Anne Hiestand?
• Did Ryff have an affair with Det. Baniszewski?
• Did Ryff have an affair with Charlene Berge-Blum?
• Did Ryff have an affair with Det. Tonya Corder?

Think this list of "other women" will grow? Ryff commonly bragged about "getting laid". He used others to cover up his sexual escapades so others knew what Ryff did. Both Ryff and others are the origins of these "stories". No one here made these up, you brought them up and others verified they too heard xxxxx from so-in-so.

Why should we join you?  We want you to join us IF you are tired of the environment of lies, the retribution, the favoritism and the fear. None of us can leave, because of the economy. Besides, we are proud of Tempe and what we have accomplished as a small group, in spite of a leader who has significant credibility and honestly issues.

What do you suggest? We suggest the EXACT procedure that has been used over the last 30 years, when a line level officer is accused of Conduct Unbecoming, lying or adultery BE USED TO INVESTIGATE RYFF.

Or in the alternative, the EXACT procedure that has been used to investigate Ryff, be used when a line level officer is accused of Conduct Unbecoming, lying or adultery.

Why wouldn't this be fair to all concerned, having retired Superior Court judge (maybe Ron Reinstien who is a lawyer and former County Attorney) handle the interviews and the investigation? Someone we can trust to interview all of us to determine what is fact and what is fiction and protect us from retaliation should we volunteer what we've seen and been told by Ryff himself?

As we've said before, we've accomplished a great deal for everyone. How can they convict and punish anyone else of lying, adultery or Conduct Unbecoming after the special treatment Ryff received?

We've had some conversation about a vote of confidence, but we've decided to shelve that idea for now. You asked, you gave good reasons, we discussed and we agree.

One in our group argues, "Go to google, type "Tom Ryff" with quotes and our site is on the first page and we've not even added meta tags. Number three on the first page is http://blog.operation-nation.com/ who has a page devoted to Tom.  Think Ryff can go to another police department and get another Chief job?"

And we got a donation and didn't know what it was for. It appears someone has been telling others that when this site is over, the real owners will be known. That is not true, but we agree the rules may change in the future so to guard against problems, we will use that money to pay for the next 30 years. So keep your eye on whoisit and you will see the expiration date go to 2039. Who is sure they will be around or much less, care about all of this in 30 years?

If the flow of information were to stop from you to us, AND US TO YOU, we could then assume either we have been successful or no one cares and we should and will move on. Are you part of the problem or part of the solution? Or you going to stand there, complain, cry and whine and hope others have a stronger backbone?

If you want a good laugh, look at 1:55 of the third TV tape. http://www.kpho.com/video/18792191/   . If anyone thinks that is true, stand up and be countted. (edited and link added)

TPD918

Helping bad things happen to bad people since 2008...

Tom, I found both of these in this month's Readers Digest, I thought of you. It's never too late to learn.

"When things go wrong in your command,  start searching for the reason in increasingly large circles around your own feet."

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retribution."

TPD 1402

We have quite a mailbag everyday, however, virtually all of you refuse to allow us to post your comments, even without your name. So, we will paraphrase what we've received this week.

You are right on, keep going.
Someone needs to ask Tom, how many people you going to throw under the bus before you do something?
It's got to get better it's can't get worse.
There is a pucker factor you are creating because so much you post is right on. Who are you?
All of you f****** are cowards, stand up identify yourselves. "Man up" yourselves.
You are destroying good people in the worst, most unethical way.
Everyone is scared and no one knows who is next to be taken down and exposed on this site.
Tom's eye damage has more than one explanation.
I think it is wrong for you to drag others into this cess pool of lies.
They will find you and when they do, your asses are grass and TR will be the lawnmower.
We know who is doing the website, the question is why. What right do you have to cause all of these innocent people so much pain?
I too have know Tom for 30 years. There is no way you are going to touch Ryff, he cannot and will not let you win, he will never walk, he's just not a quitter. He will be there at the end, just like Nixon and Bill Clinton was, "I did not have sex with that women." Tom has dodged bullets his entire life, you are wasting your time.
This is getting ugly.
Do you guys have enough staying power untill the next election?
If we could talk to you or meet with you, we would give you some really good stuff. You need a post office box so we can send mail to you.
Tempe is not asking the right people the right questions because they don't want to.
Everyone needs to read the report, it is filled with contradictions. ie, first she said this and then she said this.

Do you know has the one dollar bill?

The answer is no, we do not. It appears to our "Exec" group that this 13 page complaint was focused on line level issues, which we all want to give a vote of confidence to and show support. I think you would agree we are focussed on Chief Ryff and his activities. All of our concerns are written on our site.

Our play area is more populated with upper level management as opposed to beat cop concerns. Theirs is quite different. That also explains why so much of our mail will not allow us to repeat or post it.

We have to remind you, NO ONE has been exposed by writing to us. NO ONE has a clue who we are, although everyone seems to think they do. So, in this site we have alpha and numerical clues that we can later point to and say, "See this, it means this and this means me or him or them or xyz." It could be the numbers of an address or the middle name, our initials, our SS# middle numbers or anything.

Have a nice and safe weekend.

The lady on the right is Charlene Berge-Blum.

We have it from two different, identified sources that they knew or had been told by Mr. Ryff or others that Mr. Ryff and this lady had an longtime, recent (within the last three years) inappropriate relationship.

Others chime in and say that they were aware Mr. Ryff told them and others that he had a "contact at a Ford dealership and he could help them get a good deal." and had heard from others that Tom had a "hot blond toy". And two pointed to the women on the right.

We have also confirmed the below did happen and Mr. Ryff was allegedly talking to Charlene Berge-Blum:

Once upon a time, someone knew TR was in his office. X heard TR on the phone and then all of a sudden, TR yelled really, really loud, "I am not (another word for sleeping) my wife.".  X told TR he needed to be more discreet when on the phone. TR was allegedly speaking to this women. It is because of this and other TR related issues, that TR felt safe when accusing others of taping him, when if fact, no one ever did.

tpc@tempepolicecloset.com

Who ever u r. Lie detector for a fishing tournament and not good enough for a Chief under serious attck?  Why isn't it good enough for Chief Ryff or Det. Baniszewski?  http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/02/25/20090225odd1.html Sent from my Blackberry so you can't find me.

Am I shocked at the outcome?..........NO !!!!

Now to you in the closet.......you need to get all of this information to the city counsel members. They need to know what is going on. Also to some citizen groups out there. They have a much bigger impact in the community then the city manager, city attorney or anyone in HR. The citizens need to know as well as the city counsel. Maybe contact Mitchell, as his family has been in this city for years.  (all caps removed)

Here your go. Anyone else? All of our secret e-mail addresses, have been blocked.

hugh_hallman@tempe.gov

shana_ellis@tempe.gov

ben_arredondo@tempe.gov

mark_mitchell@tempe.gov

joel_navarro@tempe.gov

onnie_shekerjian@tempe.gov

corey_woods@tempe.gov

Send all of them to  www.TempePoliceCloset.com.

To see KPHO TV5 Wednesday's 10pm TV spot, click here          http://www.kpho.com/video/18792191/              Does anyone know what happened to Mr. Ryff's eye?  Forgive us, it's the cop in us. His left eye is damaged and Roseanne is right-handed. He has been missing for some time? If there is a reasonable explanation, tell us. 

Here is the other link for the 012809 KPHO TV5 story on what Will Manley admits. http://www.kpho.com/video/18584391/

Here is the first link for the 012709 KPHO TV 5 story on our website and related issues. http://www.kpho.com/video/18573906/

The Complaint alleges the following: (Click here to see all of the below as a 33 page pdf file. You can right click this link, then pick "Open in New Window" because it takes about 3-5 minutes to appear OR you can print it using the right mouse button This is an anonymous complaint verified in the most unusual way. The sender refers to a serial number of a dollar bill and pledges to keep that to prove their existence.

How and who scares our city employees so much, that they revert to this kind of practice?

Page 1-12     The Complaint dated 012709
Page 13-21   Findings of the investigation performed by Mr. Dave Park, an Assistant City Attorney dated 021309
Page 22-32   Findings of the investigation of Karen Mihlfeld, Sr, HR Analyst dated 021309
Page 33        Final Memo to file from Charlie Meyer dated 021709, alleging all but one issue is unfounded.

The listed issues, edited for brevity.

1.     Did Chief Ryff  violate Tempe Police Department offense of  "Conduct Unbecoming" by using a Police Officer memorial event and having sex with a line level employee?
2.     Did Chief Ryff  "Violate Public Trust" by having sex with a line level employee during a recent trip to Washington D.C paid for by Taxpayers dollars?

3.     Has Chief Ryff's past or current conduct damaged the reputation of the Office of Police Chief if any of the rumored information ever see a larger or public audience?

4.     Did Chiefs Carbajal and Rush cover up the Washington D.C. trip potential misconduct?

5.     Has a relationship between Chief Ryff and a member of the Diversity Office compromised the ability for employees to receive fairness if complaining about Police Executives?
6.     Did Chiefs Carbajal and Rush cover up the potential misconduct between Chief Ryff and a member of the Diversity Office?

7.     Is a recent survey of the Police Dept, that was done by a close acquaintance of Chief Ryff, of questionable value?
8.     Did Chiefs Carbajal and Rush cover up the any improprieties with the Citizen Survey?

9.     Does Chief Ryff use promotions and special assignments to reward those who have dirt on him?
10.    Does Chief Ryff use overtime of very questionable value to to reward those who have dirt on him or reward those on the fence?
11.    Did Chief Ryff use Taxpayers dollars to create unnecessary positions for friends and relatives?
12.    Did Chief Ryff and his Team place a PD Commander in a position, which is rated well below her current pay grade, so she may complete her educational goals?
13.    Did Chief Ryff change a test to allow an unqualified person to pass?
14.    Did Chief Ryff use Taxpayers dollars to reorganize the PD to create payback positions for friends?
15.    Has any of Chief Ryff's personal relationships created an intentional roadblock to keep employees from reporting misconduct?
16.    Chief Ryff promoted Mike Horn. Was he the most qualified and the best choice or was this a payback?
17.    Did Chiefs Carbajal and Rush cover up the any of Horn's unethical conduct?

This Complaint was received on 012709 and concluded on 021709, for a period of 21 days.

It was investigated by an Assist. City Attorney and an HR analyst.

It is being said, this is the fasterest investigation EVER conducted by Tempe!

Our comments:

These issues are generally line level issues and we support their resurfacing. And there is nothing within the two reports, one from the City Attorney's office and one from HR that will make these issues go away. This was nothing more than lip service.

Two things are sure to happen and one already has.

1.    The City Administration will claim they have given these issues all the attention they intend to give and claim these issues are now, off the table.

2.    The   City Administration and Chief Ryff have regurgitated the same company line, anonymous complaints disrupt.

However, the City takes anonymous tips and anonymous donations. Can we expect the City to investigate this? Someone complains, "A Cop is going to Starbucks and they are giving him free coffee AND he appears to be spending an extraordinary amount of time there."

We have and always will investigate that type of complaint, unless Chief Ryff has changed that.

We've been trained to handle this quite differently.

Only one question should have used to start this investigation, "Chief Ryff, will you take a polygraph examination focused on these issues?"

Numbers 1, 2, 4 could all have been handled in minutes by placing Chief Ryff or Det. Baniszewski on a polygraph examination and asking them one question:

1.      Did you have sex with anyone, other than your spouse,  while on the recent Washington DC trip?

In reality, something happened or it didn't. Either way, neither party served well by this result. Either Det. Baniszewski or Chief Ryff could have handled, finalized, addressed and ended this issue in 15 minutes.

Numbers 5, 6 could all have been handled in minutes by instructing Chief Ryff to take a polygraph examination and asking him one question:

2.      Have you ever had a sexual relationship with anyone who works for the City of Tempe HR dept?

Numbers 7, 8 could all have been handled in minutes by instructing Chief Ryff to take a polygraph examination and asking him one question:

3.      Did you manipulate or know of anyone who manipulated any portion of the data collected for the Citizens survey?

Numbers 9 through 17 could all have been handled in minutes by instructing Chief Ryff to take a polygraph examination and asking him four questions:

4.      Have you ever promoted anyone because something they did or said that benefited you or may have caused you or the police department embarrassment??

5.     Have you placed someone in a special assignment because something they did or said that benefited you or may have caused you or the police department embarrassment??

6.     Have you ever used overtime to reward someone because something they did or said that benefited you or may have caused you or the police department embarrassment??

7.     Have you ever rewarded anyone because something they did or said that benefited you or may have caused you or the police department embarrassment?

After 30-45 minutes and hooked to a polygraph examination instrument, #3 would be answered by the results of the ANSWERS to the seven questions above.

Our concerns:

We are concerned that an investigation about the conduct of police officers was handled by non police staff, working for and with the accused.

In the past, a complaint challenging the integrity of the Chief, the Executive Staff and other high level officers would have been turned over to another police agency.

We are concerned that in the past, when ANY officer's integrity was questioned, either the accused Officer would demand a polygraph examination or Command Staff or the Executive Team would insist on a polygraph examination to insure the correct outcome.

Many, if not all of us, have risked our entire future on the results of a polygraph examination. For example, when Former Chief Tranter was questioned by the FBI about Chief Ryff's complaint that someone has illegally taped recorded his telephone conversations, Former Chief Tranter insisted on taking a polygraph examination to prove his innocence. The FBI declined to provide that test and closed the case.

Is it a good idea to allow Tempe Police line level staff to expect this new pattern of investigation, where now non police staff will be used to investigate complaints against them?

Is it a good idea to allow line level staff expect to use this new way of investigation and apply this to crimes they investigate? Talk to all concerned, except the suspects? Never offer, insist or discuss the possibility of using a polygraph examination to clear or determine the truth?

Does anyone see the benefit had Chief Ryff been polygraphed by Phoenix PD and been cleared of all of these allegations? As opposed to where we are now? Are we all wet when we say it appears to us that we have more questions now, that before this 21 day "investigation"?

Can we also add four questions reference the charges we press forward on our site?

8.    Chief Ryff, have you had sex with any women other than your wife in the last 5 years?

9.    Chief Ryff, have you EVER had sex with any women other than your wife at any Taxpayer funded IPTM function?

10.  Chief Ryff, is your representation accurate to the Tribune about the sexual harassment complaint filed against you?

11.  Chief Ryff, do you have any knowledge about your missing employment application?

We don't need to ask Chief Ryff is he instructed a subordinate to lie, the tape makes that clear and on TV5, Ryff admitted that it was his voice on the tape.

When I am accused of inappropriately touching a male suspect while I have him in custody, will I be investigated by the Librarian, a few landscapers and a parking meter maid?

Does this mean we are tossing polygraph examinations out as a tool to insure we know the truth?

  Ex-cop loses certification as Arizona peace officer. In AZ Republic 022109

Investigators said Van Kuren lied when he explained that the physical contact with his fellow officer's daughter was limited to hugs and hand-holding, according to records released this week.

"It's inappropriate conduct," said Tom Hammarstrom, executive director of the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board, which took revocation action Tuesday.

"That's the type of behavior that erodes the public's trust."

We wonder what the difference is between Mr. Ryff telling a subordinate police officer to lie on a tape, and this ex-cop lying?

Mr. Hammarstrom, does adultery and lying qualify for the kind of behavior you refer to here, "That's the type of behavior that erodes the public's trust"?  And if not, why not?

Below is a portion of another e-mail listed below:

"RA, feeling very scorned at the time, went into Tranter's office to lay bare all of the sordid details of the relationship between herself and JS. Ralph told her that their personal business was just that, personal. Tranter told RA that he could not see any way that it was TPD business. I understand that the conversation became heated and Trantor kind of "threw" her out of his office.

Then Ryff stepped in. He advised Tranter that RA kind of followed JS from assignment to assignment, from patrol to (I think ) Traffic and eventually SIB. I heard that Ryff's exact words to Trantor (after he determined that RA's complaint was personal business) was "Let's think about this." Ryff made a strong argument at the time to Ralph that this was "adultery" and this misconduct could tarnish TPD. Especially if it could be shown that JS transferred RA around the PD to wherever he was currently assigned. Tom Ryff really did take the moral high ground. I guess he felt that Adultery was a sin. Ryff made the argument that the relationship should absolutely be investigated. The rest is history. JS was called up to Tranter's office, who at first denied, then 30 seconds later admitted to the affair. "

We now know  that NONE of the above EVER happened. All of it is a lie, verified by us by people who were there.
Jay never lied about anything, he told the truth from the start.
Tranter never threw RA out of his office or anything similar.
Ryff never got involved.

Let's look at this picture differently.
Jay Spradling gets into trouble.
He admits his affair.
According to insiders, JS says, it is best I leave and he leaves.
JS gets another job.

JS did what a man would do. He paid the price, he took his flogging, he reconciled with his wife and he got another job. His punishment about how he treated others should be dealt with by them. When a man does right, the flogging has to end someday and for us, IT'S TODAY. We've decided this JS issue is over, no more. All JS related discussions have been deleted.

Sorry it took so long Jay.  Maybe call Tom and tell him it is much easier to do it the way you did, than lie and lie and lie, then hide. Look at poor Charlie, hell, he just got here and is already taking a whopping because of Tom. He will forever here be known in Tempe as "The Ostridge".  People will start claiming they saw sand in his ears. People will send sand to him, place bags of it around city hall and the PD, where's the justice in that?

Does this say that the IPTM is involved in this cover-up? Why? Oh, IPTM lives in Florida.

Is that where the big boys run and "play" after telling their wives they are attending classes? Think of the fallout if IPTM wives and ex-wives get together and start comparing notes?

Sure like to hear from IPTM, before we add you to our search word pattern. All this person wants to know, is in their note above. Send evidence to support the answers to the two questions.

Tom, many are wondering how many more will be placed under the microscope or take a beating before you man up?

Found on the County Attorney's website - "Maricopa County Attorney's Officer Integrity Database, or Brady List."

"The Brady List is a database of about 350 members of law enforcement maintained by the county attorney's office. To be named on the list, officers usually must commit misconduct that involves tainted credibility, dishonesty or bias that could affect a trial."

Please read that again and emphasize the OR we have underlined.

So one could ask, does the tape and other evidence involve "misconduct that involves tainted credibility, dishonestly . . ." ? If the evidence on this site doesn't apply,  then the Brady List is pure political bullshit.

The two or three that visit us a day, SPEAK UP if you believe in what we provide and say. Send an e-mail to Thomas, ask him what the difference is.

Others have asked, how is TPD going to discipline others who lie, who tell others to lie, who cheat on their wives, with so many knowing that Ryff own words convicted him of the same and nothing happened?

We'll tell you how. Others lower on the administrative or command chain will be charged with handing out and signing the discipline documents and Ryff will be kept away. Can you imagine what that paperwork would be worth (in the world of the internet), if someone was disciplined for lying or cheating and it was signed by Ryff?

Nice to hear from you, your comparison seems to be valid.

YA THINK? It is our opinion that bad feelings never go away and if you cross someone, they will always make you pay someday. There is at least 4 of us that firmly believe your testimony and help in those investigations was directly related to your ultimate demise. Either you are one of them or you aren't.  

Send it on to us.

I am very sorry for bringing discredit to the badge and to the Tempe Police Dept.
I am very sorry for what I did.

Curt

On behalf of those who have forgiveness in their hearts, thank you for the apology. Edited as an English teacher would.

  Here it is for those of you that missed it. On the Main Page, it was above the name of Charlie Meyer.

Ref JS,  I and many others, believe that Ryff was just eliminating competition. He saw an opportunity in RA's and JS's personal misfortune. JS was far more qualified to be Asst Chief or Chief of Police than Tom could dream of being. Ryff could never hold a candle to JS in any type of open and fair competition for Chief. It is similar as to when Ryff tested for Asst Chief against TL and BVA. Obviously, both of the other candidates were far more qualified that Tom to be Asst Chief. BVA would have chewed him up and left him a quivering mass of jelly in the public forums that were part of the testing process. So Ryff got Tranter to eliminate TL and BVA after the oral boards, even though scores were close and everybody passed. So in a way, Ralph Tranter is every much responsible for Tom Ryff rising to Chief as anything else that has occurred. Tom repaid Ralph by sticking a knife in his best friend's back to get the Chief's job. Nice.

I haven't talked to Ralph Tranter since he left, but I am sure he is less than proud of the monster he created.

We have been told that the statement above is oh-so-true.

By the way, does anybody know if the city or some outside agency is investigating all of this? I have to believe that somebody is investigating all of these allegations of misconduct. TPD will become crippled and ineffective with a wounded Chief of Police as it's leader and all of these charges of corruption hanging over his head.

Soon, these things will start affecting TPD's ability to enforce the law.

How can a Tempe Police Officer arrest somebody for False Reporting when they have a Chief of Police's voice on the world wide web, coaching a fellow officer to lie?

It is just a matter of time before defense attorneys will be using Tom's own voice to impeach the hard working, line level officers in court.

Unbelievable.

Damn, there's no comment we can make. Can anyone else corroborate any of this?

We placed this because you bring up a point none of us thought of which is the common history of  some of the players who reappear, time and time again when speaking about " . . .lies, adultery and lack of personal and professional integrity". Thank you for that.

Apparently, we aren't the only ones that have turned to the public forum about BAD cops. Check this site out.

BAD PHOENIX COPS

OK, OK, enough! Here is the link to the entire, unedited 24 min tape.
We might as well place it out in the open,
it simply verifies what we have said all along.

Click here

You are wrong when you say after the dial tone there is no phone ringing, no dial tones or anything. There is a click or a blip. Click here to hear "the click" which is right after the words "court personnel". (TR DK 005.mp3)

Now please look at these two pictures. We had an audio person look at the click or blip at the end of the memo. Here's what they sent to us and said:

The focus of my investigation is the blip at 5:21:486634 which can be seen below:

That blip or click is seen throughout this file in many other places, some described below.

There are many occurrences of this click or blip. Here is a list of only a few:

0:00:147940 when the memo first starts, microphone is first turned on

0:17:833470 pause

1:00:843605 pause

2:32:245184 pause in second image above.

5:21:486634 when the memo is finished.

Without a doubt, these clicks or blips occur when the subject talking is turning his microphone on and off. Further examination may determine if this memo was placed over other audio.

We know the FIRST PART, THE MEMO PART of this tape was made August 30, 1996 because that is what Culo first says. The end of his memo he says . . . to police and court personal." Then yes it goes right into the next call. It sounds like he just answered his phone when he says "That’s why I’m here . . ."  We have no idea why or how to explain that transition other than to ask you, is that the end of his memo, or did he stop on the memo to answer the phone? If you were dictating, the phone should still ring out loud. Otherwise, is ". . . to police and court personal." the last thing on his memo. Or is there more. I don’t know the answer to that.

We have offered the original tape to the FBI, no one has taken us up on our offer. I will get the original tape back and see if it has the same transition.

At 1430 "Culo" calls Jim Goodwin. We know Jim Goodwin, a retired Phoenix Police officer and a world class accident investigator. But Jimmy Dean, as friends called him, died 061901. Doesn't this place that portion of this tape before he died?

So now we know this ALL of this tape was made between 083096 to 061901.

At 1608, "Culo" mentions a Mike Matusac, a Calif trip and a class that Jerry attended. Are all of these guys still around? If not when did they leave? Can anyone shed light on that time frame?

At 1815 "Culo" talks to Ken who said he called Larry or Lisa. Wouldn’t this conversation predate Ken’s divorce with Donna and his hookup with Lisa? When did Ken have a tent trailer and live with Donna?

At 2130, Al Contreras calls and says today is the last day to commit to the commercial accident investigators class. NOTICE AL gives his phone numbers at 7 digit numbers, no area codes, ie 227-3838 and 495-5001 (Police Dept-Traffic Enfrcmnt. 302 E Union Hills Dr Phoenix 85024) and 866-9638. Why didn’t Al use 602-495-5001? When did we all transition to using area codes?

Al says the school was scheduled for September 16th through the 27^th. So if Al went to this class on those days in 1996, would that place this call between Aug 30, 1996 and before the class he talks about scheduled for Sept 16-27, 1996?

At 2250 Hank calls and says, I’ve handled Williams on the third, coordinate with Greco. Does Hank say it is 215p? So when did Hank handle the Williams issue?

The beginning of this tape is dated August 30, 1996. The middle is when "Culo" calls a guy who died in 2001. The end is when Al Contreras talks about a commercial accident investigators class scheduled for Sept 16 to 27. Anyone care to clear up any portion of this timeline with facts? We already know A commercial accident investigators class was in fact scheduled for Sept 16 to 27, 1996. Wanna bet that closes the timeline?

We DID NOT ALTER what was on this tape, BUT how is this explanation for that transition?

Everyone has something similar to a Philmore Phone Recorder Switch part #TEC220. Just google TEC220. You disconnect the phone headset cord, plug one end of this into your phone and plug the headset cord into the other end of this device. From this interface there is an audio cord that goes to a recorder that starts and stops when you pick up the phone.

"Culo" has THIS TAPE in his Recorder Switch and he does not know it is set to RECORD. It records all of his incoming and out going nasty calls.

On August 30, 1996, "Culo" needs a cassette tape to create this memo. He pulls THIS TAPE out of his Recorder Switch and places it in his Dictaphone. To make sure his memo is at the start of the tape, he rewinds the tape to the beginning. Then he voices his memo OVER THE TOP 5 MINUTES AND 15 SECONDS OF HIS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED CALLS.

Knowing what equipment is on his desk and as we’ve said all along, did "Culo" do this to himself?

You know the best part? "Culo" knows how this happened, has told others how it happened.

Ryff is saying and the city is implying someone committed a crime. That is going to come back and bite both of them hard.

Can anyone dispute Ryff taped the first part and Ryff taped the second part? Maybe they are dated a few days apart, but who cares.

Your Honor and the jury, we rest our case. For more discussion, look below.

Then "Culo" Ryff makes perfect sense!  Many of you will think this was a set up, we agree it looks that way, but it isn't.

Also, I have been watching this entire issue since the beginning. There is someone keeping the City Manager from looking into this. I am almost positive that it is Mayor Hallman. The big question is "Why?" What does Ryff have on Hallman? What did Ryff   DO  for Hallman that makes him so appreciative? I don't have the answers to those questions. But I will bet somebody knows. Maybe not a Tempe PD employee, but somebody knows.

Keep up the good work.

Others have suggested Hallman owes a favor to the PD over their handling or dumping of the report where two of his sons taped the youngest son to a chair and then pushed him into their pool. Apparently the school made a report, CPS was involved and the whole thing dropped off the face of the earth in a nanosecond. Others wonder if all the rest of us would have experienced the same outcome, had our families been involved.  (can you tell we are fishing? We know more, but need verification)

On behalf of the Mayor and City Council, thank you for expressing your views. Tempe City Manager Charlie Meyer and City Attorney Andrew Ching have reviewed the audio recording placed on the anonymous Web site. The recording, alleged to have been obtained 12 years ago, is of questionable authenticity and legality. In any similar situations involving city employees, even when information sources are legitimate and legally obtained, the City Manager must evaluate whether such conversations would constitute violations of policy. The City Manager has concluded, after consultation with the City Attorney, that the content of the recording in question does not rise to the level of a policy violation based on the information available at this time.

Other paragraph about the city budget process, edited out.

Sincerely,
Shelley Hearn

Dear Shelley,

This is the second time we've offered to personally hand over the original tape to the FBI.

It's OK with us if you call us "not legitimate". Please tell Hallman and Ryff to please continue to ride that "legitimate and legally obtained" tale. It is also a lie and when no charges are ever brought and the case is closed and available for public requests, will that make Hallman and Ryff wrong? But like always, they will come up with another redirection play and another lame excuse.

THIS IS THE SUPER BOWL OF CREDIBILITY, HONOR AND INTEGRITY. WE EXPECT HALLMAN AND RYFF TO PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS.

Chances are the media will find the person who first found this tape and gave it to the Command staff who kept and copied the tape over and over because it is soooo Tom "Culo" Ryff.  The media will soon start proving each of our charges above and soon, there will be no place to hide.

If the FBI wants us, have them e-mail us. Someone from this group will meet them and hand over the ORIGINAL tape.

BUT, we are negotiating with a major network TV show and they promise us they can verify the model, the maker and the year this tape was created, distributed and sold. They also have audio experts who they are checking with to verify the authenticity of the tape. It appears the candle is burning at both ends, Culo and Hugh.

Just so all of us understand, planning to cheat on your wife, lying and telling a subordinate to lie to their supervisor DOES NOT constitute violations of policy. The TOA will be notified of this good news!

Last, please tell us exactly what you are missing to overcome the "information available at this time".

Sincerely,

RH and TAV and 4 others. We're thinking about coming out of the closet.

P.S. Nope, we've changed our minds.   We're having too much fun in the closet.

Sooner or later, someone will do the something to clearly show that credibility, honor and integrity once again rule the decision making process, of the administration, of the City of Tempe.

When that happens, we'll have to say nite, nite and fade into the sunset.

Click here to see KPHO TV coverage January 27, 2009

Wow, what a great web page. As an officer of the department for years, I have seen everything. See, I used to be "one of the boys" years ago. Now im not, as im to old to play the game anymore. Have I been out with Ryff and DK? Oh yes....many times. Lets see, Tiffany's Strip Club, Christy's Strip Club to name a few. Along with our buddy, the old Chief RT. There is quite a relationship between everyone in this group. What others are saying is very true. Cheating, not being truthful. We lost a lot of good command staff members when Ryff took over. It wasn't any better with RT. He picked all of his friends for upper command staff assignments. When we heard Ryff was taking over, we all just cried. Their all good with the ladies folks. Their very smooth with their words and the ladies love it. Even some of our female officers. Right "S"? !!!!!
Keep up the good work........This site rocks

We are just dying to know what "S" has to say.

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Hello,

A couple of questions: In your website information you state that the (edited) audio recording was originally sent to Hugh Hallman and Tom Ryff. Could you state when that occurred?

June 2007

Did they both get sent the recording at the same time?

Days apart

This info would help to determine who was the City Manager at the time. Tempe has had three City Managers since Ryff was appointed as Chief. Manley, Kulaga (Interim) and Meyer.

Can you confirm that Mayor Hallman actually received his copy? How were these copies sent? In the mail?

Both CDs were personally delivered by hired couriers, well known to one of us. One copy delivered to front desk of Police Dept on 5th, one CD delivered to the front desk of city hall.

Thanks

Why not post the whole tape, unedited?

WE have the original cassette tape and all copies of this tape in the possession of others, probably came from our tape.

We have made four copies of this tape:

TR DK 001.mp3   1:28 seconds of lying and planned adultery, created 052507.

TR DK 002.mp3   6:23 just more of 001, created 052507.

TR DK 003.mp3   24 minutes 34 seconds of THE ENTIRE TAPE with a five second dead air open and close. Created 071907.

TR DK 004.mp3   17 minutes and 47 seconds tape with names and a few, unrelated calls into and out of Ryffs phone edited out. Created 110808.

TD DK 005.mp3  15 seconds of audio posted to this site to allow you to listen to the "click" created 020409

We have provided a complete, unedited copy   (TR DK 003.mp3) to the FBI and the Tribune and one other media group. We will provide an unedited copy to anyone in law enforcement as long as they send us a written request. Otherwise, if Hugh and Charlie want this full, unedited tape, all they have to do is ask for it. Hell, they can have a copy of all four of the files we made. For the purposes of this web site and especially now that we now have non law enforcement visitors, we feel obligated to cover some names and unrelated taped phone calls of other police work, police related calls and of the innocent.

While we understand why you mentioned these possible relationships, we have no evidence that any relationship exists between TR and any of these Tempe politicians. Shall we say, TR seems well connected?

Tom's long standing connections with some of these people might point you in the direction you might want to look into. Especially if the belief is that somebody in the city council might be helping this matter be swept under the rug.

We, all of us, are trying to help you by letting you know that Tom's behaviors are known and dating back into the 70's. If I think of anything else that might help you I will let you know.

Good luck to you in your quest for the truth to be revealed and dealt with in the proper manner.

Thank you. The Scales time frame and possible discrepancy should be easy to track down. If you allow us, we will contact the others and ask them if we can log their names anonymously of course, and verify their comments. We sure would like to hear that "gun" story from one of the young men that was there and heard it.

Heavily edited, full names deleted.

The following article was on the AzCentral site 1-21-09. Tom Ryff received a Diversity Award from the City. that's a joke... my comments are in CAPS:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2009/01/21/20090121tr-diversityawards0121asfT.html?source=nletter-news

Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff:

Throughout his 29-year career, Ryff has demonstrated his commitment to diversity every day.[EVERY DAY? SEXUAL HARASSMENT COMPLAINT, DISPARAGING HIS WIFE ON THE TAPE YOU HAVE] As the first Hispanic police chief in Tempe, Ryff recognized early on in his career the need to bridge the gap between the community and the Police Department.[YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN HE WAS HISPANIC UNTIL HE BECAME CHIEF] Ryff has worked on increasing the Tempe Police Department's female/minority staffing, meets with minority employees to train and mentor, promoted sworn and civilian female employees to leadership positions, diversified the Police Department's executive team and created a culturally diverse Media and Community Relations unit.[WOW! FEMALE COMMAND LEVEL OFFICERS LEFT BECAUSE OF HIM. APPEARANCE OVER SUBSTANCE..."THE TEMPE WAY"]

SEEMS LIKE THE CITY IS TRYING PROTECT HIM BY GIVING HIM AN AWARD TO DEFEND HIM AGAINST YOUR WEBSITE

Really nothing more to say, you've covered all of our thoughts!

My Wife, who is a Flight Attendant and was working that same flight and in one of the other positions. My wife was and still is a friend of that "A" flight attendant and during their flights that day, they talked about their personal lives, family members and such. After this flight had taken off and a short time into the flight, the "A" flight attendant approached my wife and handed her a business card with the name of Tom Ryff on it. The business card was an official City ot Tempe Police Department business card. The "A" flight attendant knew from previous conversations with my wife that her husband worked in the Police Department in Tempe and wanted to get more information on Assistant Chief Tom Ryff, before she accepted his offer for a date. The "A" flight attendant was single at that time.

I received a . phone call from my wife later that day, when she had stopped to unload passengers and before she started the next leg of her trip. She asked me if I knew Assistant Chief Ryff. I asked her how she knew him and she provided me the information, which had been given to her by t he"A" flight attendant. She also was reading Ryff's name from Ryff's business card. My wife asked me if Ryff was single and I began to laugh. She asked my why I was laughing and I told her that Ryff was a married man and this is a common and known practice by this married man. My wife was pissed and told me that she was going to tell her "A" flight Attendant friend about what I had told her.

As far as I know that date never materialized. I find it interesting that it just so happened that my wife was on the same plane as Ryff, when he asked her friend out. You just never know who might be around, when your married and hitting on other peoples friends.

I wasn't surprised by his behavior, since this isn't news to anyone who has been with the department for any amount of time. What I am surprised about is how he continually gets away with his behavior.

I can tell you personally, that if I ever pulled any of the crap he does, I would have been fired in a heart beat. I have been around for a long time with this department and have seen people come and go for lessor things then what Chief Ryff is doing. Someone needs to take notice and correct this problem.

Oh and Dk, who is currently assigned to motors. I have a another story about his untruthfulness that I will reveal on another day. I am glad you have provided a place for us to provide such information. I have been afraid to give this information to anyone, including his wife, in fear of loosing my job. Thank you for having this site and keep up the good work, may be someone will wake up and end this nightmare.

Is it possible to get a "year" of this flight? Just to see if it was near the time frame of the tape OR in the middle of this time frame OR recently. Don't guess.

We did edit this, as an English teacher would, we did not change the message.

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Google "Tom Ryff" and you get these:

Officer in Rap Flap Case Retires

August 7th, 2007 @ 4:23pm

by KPHO.com

I am retired TPD and did so at a time that being a police officer with the City of Tempe meant that you were an individual of outstanding character and integrity. You were part of the most disciplined Law Enforcement agency in the valley. We were not embarrassed by scandals that hit other valley agencies and when something happened or someone stepped over the line it was dealt with swiftly. We known for being able to police ourselves. Does the term "Conduct Unbecoming" mean anything to anyone anymore?

That being said I know that there were some that fell through the cracks, Tom Riff was one of those. I knew Tom from the time that he first came on the department up until my retirement. I knew the guy, but did not like him. I did not respect him or did not trust him. Tom Ryff has lived a charmed life and has overcome many of "what any of us others would have been fired for" with lies and aligning himself with key people that protected him.

So are you're NOT  saying the tape is an anomaly where TR showed lack of judgement? Answer this, has he changed his stripes since you first met him and when you retired? Years between those two years?

Does anyone remember the sex scandal involving the dancer at what was once called the "Great American Bush Club"?

Most of us have some recollection of this "Great American Bush Club caper", is that where a stripper called Mrs. Ryff? Can someone fill us in on the year and circumstances?

In my opinion there have been many poor choices that the City of Tempe has made in deciding leadership of the police department, both Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs, after the departure of Ron Burns, but the one that blows me away was the selection of Tom Ryff. I thought the city may have learned with the selection of Ralph Tranter, but then again Ryff was one of his boys…

Slightly edited with periods and correct sentence structure to make it read easier. We did not change the message.

WHEW, this is turning into a full time job!

By now you know our style. There is no way for anyone to identify the writers, so stop writing us and asking us, What will you do to protect my identity? Has anyone been identified yet?

Get a Yahoo email address or one from gmail or go here http://www.AnonymousSpeech.com but we all vote what gets placed on the site based on things you write that we know are true. More than a few use their own e-mail addresses, which we protect, but we won't be telling you how. All of us are just as afraid of retribution from TR as many of you claim to be.

Be out of town for a few days, when I get back, we will have completed a Page 3.

An open letter:

I will say first that I am a veteran police officer from a city here in the valley. I became aware of this website about Xmas, but have been hesitant to write. I have been following closely the allegations of corruption regarding Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff. Although I don't work for Tempe, I grew up in Tempe. Up until recently I lived and voted in Tempe. I must say that I think that this website appears to be the act of people who are frustrated with the corruption within their department that is going un-addressed. The audio recording of this man, Chief Tom Ryff using filthy language, cheating on his wife, lying, treating women like a piece of meat, is disgusting. I am a married man and I would never treat my wife like that. I have dozens of great friends in my department who are cops and civilians alike. They don't treat their wives or families like that. This guy is allowed to be the leader of a major Police Department?

By the way, what kind of guy is stupid enough to record himself saying these things and then lose track of the tape?

I have observed from your website that the Mayor of Tempe, Hugh Hallman, and the City Manager of Tempe (I don't know who he is, and I'm too lazy to look it up) supposedly know about the misconduct of Chief Ryff, and are covering it up. I understand that this website has been up for about a month now, and it is being ignored by the Tempe Mayor and Tempe City Council.

When misconduct is being ignored and covered up instead of being investigated and dealt with, that is what is known as CORRUPTION.

I have recently seen nearly the same thing occur in my own agency of Phoenix. I watched on Channel 5 news and then read in the AZ Rep

I recommend that everyone go to the website tempepolicecloset.com Listen to the audio. This is shocking and unbelievable. Tom Ryff is obviously a sexual deviant. That guy has problems. His sexual antics and conquests are well known in police circles going back into the 1980's and up to the present. I hear from motor cops in Tempe that Chief Ryff still has several girlfriends in the valley and in Jacksonville, Florida and has more sex with them than he does with his wife. They laugh about it. I guess it is funny-unless you happen to be Mrs. Ryff. There is also a lot of stuff on this website about destroying documents, lying to the press, etc that makes me believe that Tom Ryff is truly corrupt. I hear he is also double dipping his pay like Jack Harris, receiving his retirement and drawing a salary at the same time. I don't know about that. But I can listen to the audio recording and can make a determination on that part myself. I cannot believe that this thing in Tempe is not being investigated and on the 6:00 news.

I am not thrilled to have my own department under one of these consent decrees. The police department of the fifth largest city in the nation under investigation by the FBI for corruption? Jesus! But if the alternative is further embarrassment of line level officers by corrupt chiefs and winked at sexual deviancies, then maybe this is the only avenue left to us as honest, line level, professional police officers.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I feel better getting this off of my chest, even if nobody is listening.

A longtime public servant.

Edited. 

For background of this issue take this link

http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/51831_comment.php

and

http://lists.tempe.gov/admin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0610&L=tempenews&F=P&P=4390

They should have just released it. But lying to the press is wrong. Destroying a public record is criminal. It is a class 6 felony. 13-2407 "Tampering with a Public Record." As has been proven true many times in the past, the cover up is worse than the actual situation that is being thwarted. Above all else, this alleged criminal conduct needs to be fully investigated. That is why all credible police departments investigate all allegations of criminal conduct by their officers, even anonymous complaints.

I believe that this website shows Chief Ryff to be a man of low moral character, no integrity, and unfit to lead a police department of heroes. His actions reflect poorly on each and every sworn police officer at TPD. Besides being unbelievably embarrassing, this tape recording shows lack of judgment and lack of integrity on both Chief Ryff and "DK." How can a police officer listen to this tape recording and not be offended?????

If allegations of violations of AZPOST requirements and criminal conduct fail to be investigated, it will give the appearance of corruption. I take that back. It is corruption. Not addressing these allegations will reflect poorly on all TPD Officers, other City of Tempe employees, citizens, and ultimately the City Council members.

Wow. I can't believe that these allegations have been public for three weeks and have not yet been addressed by the city.........That is almost as shocking as the tape recording itself. Almost.

Lying.               Adultery.                  Destruction of public records.

Their own words in the tape, records and interviews will handle the lying issues.

A polygraph examination given to Ryff asking about two time frames, this time frame and afterwards. That will show  if this adultery is a continuing behavior.

One has to assume it wouldn't take much to clear Horn about Ryff's original employment application. Like you said, who cares what box he checked?

It wouldn't take much to investigate the disappearance of the documents related to the sexual harassment complaint against Ryff.

I know this site is supposed to focus on all the negative, but I'm not sure that negative is the most accurate representation of what all the employees think about Chief Ryff. While I'm sure most would agree the Chief said some stuff he shouldn't have on that recorder, I can say that an overwhelming majority of the employees and certainly all the guys I talk to support the Chief and are willing to leave his personal life out of consideration for him as our chief. I'm the happiest I have ever been at the PD since Chief Ryff took over and so its kinda hard to sympathize with all the mud slinging against him.

It took some time for us to get together to answer you about the paragraph above. Is it the same for a Catholic Priest? A school teacher? A detention officer? We are unanimous that OUR integrity transcends our professional and personal lives.

How about the time Ryff was investigating a Mesa officer having sex with prostitutes? (click this link)

How can you have honor or integrity in your profession and not within your personal life?

Who respects someone who is "right" when wearing a badge and crosses the line when the badge isn’t showing? All of us know someone like that.

When we are hired, why are we polygraphed about stealing from previous employers, our sex life and animals, our recreational drug use on our own time?

Isn’t Ryff supposed to be a OUR leader? A man of honor? A man with unquestionable integrity?


I have been with the PD for a good while and I am kept pretty within 'the loop' of conversation among my fellow officers and the consensus is clearly against somehow trying to overthrow Chief Ryff just so we can end up with another Tranter who everyone absolutely HATED! So, basically, no real motivation for any of us to attack the man.

No evidence, no motivation, no attacks. You don’t really believe that overthrow comment do you? We think Ryff is bad for us. Ryff is an embarrassment. How can Ryff discipline us in light of this tape, his lies and him telling another cop to lie to his supervisor? How do you see that working? What is going to happen when Ryff has to write up another cop for lying or worse yet, something stupid they did on their personal time?   Like Dr. Phil says, how do you think that will work? If the new City Manager does his job right, we have faith our next Chief will be better, no matter where that person comes from.

Four of us swear that we have no one in mind, no one in place, no one we have our hearts set on to be the next Chief. The two others have good and bad feelings towards internal possibilities and are overruled by the other four.

WE INSIST OUR LEADER HAVE INTEGRITY AND HONOR IN EVERYTHING HE OR SHE DOES OR SAYS, 24 HRS A DAY.

After all, they demand that of us, don't they?

I know the site is supposed to target closet stories within the PD, so I might have some info that I heard a bunch of guys talking about lately. Apparently, the word is that xxxxxxx actually had 2 affairs while he was working here, with a certain employee who no longer works for the PD! Juicy Juicy!!! I wasn't sure if you guys wanted any info on that since xxxxxxxx doesn't actually work for the PD anymore, but I think people would definitely be more active if you guys put stuff on the site about xxxxxxxx also.

We are interested in the truth, not bullshit. Look above, at the allegations about Horn. See how the writer  laid out the story and then said how one could prove the story. He gave particulars, he referred to witnesses. Hey, we aren't sticking up for anyone who makes all of us look bad, but we are going to be fair.

Remember PC? Proof that would convince a normal citizen that it is more likely than not that . . . We need things like dates, times, names of hotels, credit card charges, logs, e-mails. We have no problem with posting items that can be proved, with witnesses, paperwork, tapes and so on. Saying it, is one thing, proving it is another. Ryff’s tape says it all, no one has to interpret it or explain it. The tape is Ryff’s own words.

One of us "in the circle" swears this affair was investigated by the city at xxxxx’s request and found to have no merit. It was called a "rumor". If you have more, send it and we’ll add the name of the administrator you called by name.

I'll ask around and get more details about the xxxxxxx thing and I'll pass them on if you guys are interested, or I think they were all going to put something together and send it...so either way.

Tempe PD Employee

Thanks, that was a good, thought provoking conversation.  

Hello.

I don't know who you are but I will start off by saying that you are my hero and I LOVE you! I'm not a Tempe officer...worse, I'm a wife. :) You think it's difficult to work there? Try being one of the supporters who has to sit by and watch your husband get screwed over at work over and over and over. Sometimes I wish I could have just five minutes alone with the guy...it would be a memorable experience for him, rest assured.

I had a run-in with Ryff not too long ago....and he was an a**. He thinks he is better than everyone - but that seems to be the attitude of most of the command staff at Tempe. That department must be one of the most corrupt and incestuous group of people I have ever met!

I wish I had some fabulous dirt to pass along. But the only thing I know for sure is that Ryff allowed a friend of his access to all the use of force and officer employment records for a dissertation. This dissertation writer wanted to prove that officers without a college education were involved in more use of force incidents. Essentially the dumber they were, the more likely they were to use force. It didn't pan out.

Keep up the good work. I will be an admirer and keep tabs on the site. You rock!

Wow, those of us without college degrees are really thankful you wrote in. All joking aside, thanks for writing.

The most significant portion of the audio recording is that a police lieutenant conspired with a line level officer to deceive a sergeant within his own chain of command. The lying to a supervisor part is the element that would incur both discipline and placement on the Brady list if true. That is the portion of the audio that needs to be highlighted and promoted.

You have instant credibility with us. You knew the rank of these guys and who supervised who. And we agree that the instruction to lie, is very serious.

There are some typo's on your website. "Scared" instead of "Scarred." Your website will be critically examined. I would suggest thorough proofreading.

Fixed. Thank you.

The Tempe Police Department has a policy of investigating ALL complaints of misconduct, even anonymous ones. This information needs to be structured somehow into a complaint and forwarded to the City Manager's office desiring that an outside agency investigate the allegation of lying. While not a big violation in the civilian world, it needs to be explained that lying can be grounds for decertification by AZPOST and therefore needs to be investigated, irregardless of the time that has elapsed. Copying a couple of city council members can't hurt. It will insure automatic forwarding to the media.

June 2007, THE cassette of these phone calls was placed on a CD. An edited version of this tape was delivered to Hallman and Ryff. NO DEMANDS were listed, made or inferred, actually no paperwork was attached. According to insiders, because the tape was edited and parts before and after the meat and potatoes of the tape were deleted, TR allegedly said he was taped by others and illegally. Grant Woods was brought in to represent TR and someone brought the FBI in. We would like to know - -  who paid Woods?

So the entire tape with no deletions or editing at all, start to finish, was delivered to a reporter and columnist from the Tribune. At that point, it had to be very apparent to all that TR taped himself. Shortly afterwards, the case closed without so much as a note in anyone's file or a single interview of those on the tape. The Trib did nothing because allegedly they were told the FBI was involved and to keep quiet.

The reason for this website is because we tried to get someone's attention and create the need for an investigation. We failed. All they did was hunker down and wait us out. So we went to step two.      

It will take forever for the existence of this website to get around. May I suggest some emails to various officers and civilians providing the link to your website? You already know the domain. You just have to provide the name: john_smith@tempe.gov. Several emails from a generic email address with different subject lines so as to not trip the junkmail filter should suffice. Think female employees in other parts of the city. lorraine_arkfeld@tempe.gov rosa_inchausti@tempe.gov . I would also suggest you forward the link to your website to the union folks. Jeff McHenry, Larry Wylie, Todd Bailey, Josie Montenegro, Joe Rouget, Mike Hayes and Rob Mitchell are the current board members.

The majority of visitors on this site are after 5:00 P.M. which tells us no one wants to visit us using city computers.Others can click on the links above and help us turn up the power of our spotlight.

Here is a tidbit: Two years ago when TR was becoming "appointed" to Chief he made a big deal about being Hispanic. The first "Hispanic Chief" in TPD history. Apparently, the EV Tribune made a public records request to the then PIO, Sgt. Mike Horn, asking for TR's original employment application. Horn retrieved the document and found that TR had checked "Caucasian" on his original application, not Hispanic. Horn then is reported to have told the Tribune that the application could not be found and that it was lost. I have no idea if that document is still retrievable or has been destroyed. Mike Horn apparently did this on his own without TR's knowledge. This act on Mike Horn's part immediately elevated him to "Most Trusted" status. Mike Horn and Bill Amato are TR's most trusted confidants.

A former Chief from another close by department said Tempe has always protected it's own and went out of it's way to be politically correct and would lie to the end. When under fire, they simply hunker down, cover up and wait it out. If what you write is true, this is just another example of those illegal actions. We think we know the answer, but under who's watch did this start? Brown, Burns, Tranter, who?

The above information has no supporting documentation. But it can be investigated. An IA investigator could interview Horn. If not forthcoming, Mike could take a trip to the polygrapher to make sure the above story is not true. Again, destroying a police document and/or failure to provide public records requests are serious allegations. If presented to the City Manager, even anonymously, they should be investigated. And of course by another agency who is not connected to TR. Mesa and Phoenix would be excluded. MCSO, DPS or maybe somebody from the west side like Glendale.

You toss out some BIG ifs. Polygraph? A Tempe citizen recently complained to the TPD. He asked to be polygraphed because of a dispute about the facts of a complaint that he was assaulted by TPD officers. Angel Carbajol told him TPD will not polygraph him because it only verifies "what you think happened" not "what really happened".

Thanks for the entertainment.

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