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2003-03-06 14:12 | User Profile

March 04, 2003 Don’t ask Chief Charles Moose

By Michelle Malkin

My famous local police chief, Charles “Still waiting for the white van” Moose, seems to have little time to take care of business here at home.

Montgomery County, Md.’s top cop is busy slapping together a tell-all book, polishing off a movie deal, and preaching his purported “crisis management” wisdom abroad.

Moose’s highly sought after wisdom is, of course, derived from his gross bungling of last fall’s sniper attacks by accused killers John Muhammad and Lee Malvo. But never mind his Keystone Cop hunt for the wrong vehicle while the snipers’ Chevy Caprice (spotted by several witnesses and stopped at least 10 times for license plate checks during the shooting spree) got away. Pay no heed to his oversight of nonsensical road blocks, botched hotline operations, and the deadly politically correct assumption that the snipers were crazed white militants in a non-existent white box truck.

Yes, despite these fatal missteps, gushing and gullible audiences outside Maryland are warmly welcoming Chief Moose as a spotless role model. A local ethics investigation into his side efforts to capitalize on the brutal slayings, such as the for-profit crisis management and conflict resolution consulting firm he formed with his wife just six weeks after the “Beltway” sniper saga ended, will likely do little to slow the jet-setting Moose’s pace.

Why any group would want to host or hire Chief Moose as an exemplar of effective, responsible public leadership is beyond me.

This six-figure-salaried public servant refuses to disclose the amount of his book advance from Dutton Books. He remains similarly tight-lipped as county ethics authorities mull this week whether he and his wife are “intentionally [using] the prestige of office for private gain." He dismisses criticism of his judgment as “attacks.”

Chief Moose’s office told me this week that he has not yet accepted any honoraria for his sniper-related speaking engagements. But by his own admission, Moose has already broken clear county government rules requiring him to have gotten permission to pursue the book deal and other off-duty, paid endeavors.

He claims he and his wife “haven’t made a single penny” from the private consulting venture. But he remains defiantly “hopeful” that he will start turning a profit while keeping his day job.

Moose doesn’t make his travel schedule available to the public on the county police department website. But my research shows that he is apparently already racking up some major frequent flyer points, room service, and invaluable pre-book publication schmooze time, as an anointed Leader in Times of Crisis.

In December, Moose was scheduled as the featured guru at an advanced professionals seminar in Braintree, Mass., where attendees learned how Moose “coordinated one of the biggest manhunts in history.” In March, he’ll do breakfast with the Virginia Press Association in Norfolk, Va. In April, he’s headed to San Francisco to address the National School Board Association for a talk on developing “effective crisis response plans” as demonstrated by his leadership in capturing the snipers.

He’ll take the same message to Los Angeles that month, at the annual leadership development conference of the National Center for Women & Policing. In May, he’ll be the special keynote speaker at a Toronto Crimestoppers convention. The group says that “Chief Moose’s skillful management of the Washington sniper events” will make his presentation “particularly meaningful and relevant.” In June, he’s trekking to Winnipeg, Canada, for the International Police Association’s “Aboriginal and Diversity Law Enforcement.” conference.

Chief Moose was closer to home this week for his regular appearance on a softball Beltway radio show called “Ask the Chief.” It was a typical exercise in evasion and idolatry. The fawning host apologized for raising questions about the ethics investigation and concluded the interview with a giggly query about which actor would be playing Moose in the sniper attack movie.

Moose wouldn’t respond to that question either. Seems there will only be three ways to get any straight answers from the book-writing, movie-making, speech-peddling Moose about his ethical lapses and management bungles: cash, check, or credit card.

Michelle Malkin [email her] is author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website.

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eric von zipper

2003-03-06 14:56 | User Profile

I knew Moose wouldn't just slip back into obscurity. The guy is a money grubbing careerist who is as ignorant, avaricious and unscrupulous as any black backwoods southern preacher.

He and his fat assed white wife are opportunistic money grubbers worthy of a Tennesse Williams novel. Face it, they teamed up and race baited and EEO'd themselves into a nice fat deal as COP at Portland and, now, Prince George's county, MD and like a college basketball coach stuck in a midling conference are looking to move up to the BIG TIME BABY.

PG county exec Doug Duncan MADE Moose. Moose would still be stuck in Portland and rapidly wearing out his welcome if Duncan hadn't said "step forward out of the crowd" to him. So how does Moose repay him? By trying to cash in on his 10 minutes of fame.

Moose has already made overtures - unsuccessfully, thank God, due to a new Republican governor - in which he sought to become head of the Md State Police. Now he is actively lobbying for the vacant Montgomery County COP job although he doesn't have the decency to admit it publicly. It is the worst kept secret in Maryland. For you out of towners, Montgomery county is the super rich big brother to rapidly becoming all black Prince Georges county, Moose's current gig. It would be like moving from Brooklyn to Westchester.

Of course, Moose is king now in PG county. PG is the most wealthy predominately black county in America (talk about damning with faint praise) yet every year there it lies next to Baltimore city as the worst school system in the state. Naturally, this fertile soil brings forth a crop of dusky morons, perennials not annuals, who regard Moose as the heir apparent to Sherlock Holmes despite the fact he'd still be stubbornly looking for a white van containing 2 angry white men if a country cop from Georgia hadn't called up and said - if I may translate here - we've solved your case for you, dummy, and we're gonna let you take all the credit.

The PG county ethics commission - there's an oxymoron for you - is now going through the motions questioning Moose on his dealings. All of which, BTW, are clear violations of the contract he signed. For any other person the commission would demand a resignation, but not for Moose.

This creep is goin Hollywood, baby. He knows it. They know it. And the sky is the limit. And that about sums up what's wrong with America in these sick times.