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• 2/20/2010 6:34 AM Valigator wrote:
  Tim, your way too easy man, a "year" long investigation? How many of these violent criminals will be released back out onto the streets in the next view days? Hey call me a cynic I admit it, but quite frankly the public is tired of reading about once or twice a year "high profile" take downs and still doing a 360 scan in the publix parking lots...for as much as we pay to LE in salaries, benefits etc...I am skeptical about the numbers given...South Florida is the number one hub for State, Federal and "local" police agencies, DEA, FDLE and ATF in conjunction with locals, one must give pause for thought as to why we have so much violent crime and just so you know, your little ride along is a temporary feel-good until we read the papers the next day..
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• 2/24/2010 6:44 AM Valigator wrote:
  Here is the great job Adderley is doing for the people of Ft. Lauderdale..
  
  By Brittany Wallman
  
  Gary Kerpan, 60, is part of a group giving Fort Lauderdale politicians one of their toughest challenges yet. He's homeless.
  
  I caught up with him recently in Stranahan Park, right outside the Broward County Main Library in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The presence of so many homeless people in that park, specifically, pushed this issue into City Hall. Downtown business owners and civic boosters want the city to ban feeding of homeless people in this and all other city parks, so city officials are working on finding a place where feeding the homeless would be allowed, so that this measure would pass legal muster.
  
  Kerpan is listed here on this Illinois sex offender website as a sexual offender and "child murderer.'' Click here to see it, with photograph. He's also listed here as a registered sex offender in Florida.
  (his crime)
  Gary Douglas Kerpan murdered 12 year-old Lisa Slusher, of Waukegan, Illinois, a few days before her 13th birthday in August of 1977. She was buried on her 13th birthday. Kerpan snatched her when she was on her bike seasrching in a remote area for sticks or leaves for a school project. Her body was found in a wooded area near Antioch, Illinois, 25 miles from home. She had been raped and murdered. The coroner said she had been hit with a blunt object, like a pipe. Kerpan served 15 years for his crime, because he turned himself in to the FBI 13 years after he committed the crime. That's why he got such a lite sentence, and also because he was a VN vet. His original sentence was 30 years. She is buried at Ascension Cemetery in Libertyville, Illinois.
  
  Knock off the ride alongs Tim, and have Adderley get off his backside, pick this guy up and ship him back. The guy is in violation...Offenders who move into Florida from other states are suppose to have a "plan" Tim..that means they have to register, have a roof, an address and a job..Adderley should have shipped this guy out long before any reporter got to him..whats it gonna take Tim? If the Chief of Police can show up at an accident scene for his buddy, how much of a stretch is it to get the above freak off our streets? The Mayor should be screaming for action on this also..but dont tell me..all you guys just want to close your eyes and hope it goes away right?
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• 2/26/2010 7:02 AM Valigator wrote:
  Adderley is again back-peddaling in the SS...he says he has been looking for Kerpan since he read the story on Monday. I spent the entire morning at Stanahan Park looking for this guy and not one marked unit was to be found. Adderley didnt jump on this issue until "crap hit the fan" and he was backed into it. And think about this for a minute? The Sun-sentinel only "stumbled" on this story due to the fact they were doing a peice on the "homeless". A reader was the one who recognized this child killer having lived in Illinois and remembered the case and "Kerpan"...one must ask themselves, how many MORE Kerpans are out there and Ft. Lauderdale has no rhyme or reason on getting a handle on these guys other than "stumbling" by accident onto them? Adderley says, "we wont break the law to enforce the law" well in theory he is correct in practice he is behind the eight ball (as usual) this guy has fallen thru the cracks for years and the ball dropped when the state of Illinois gave him permission to come to Florida with "NO PLAN" then Florida dropped the ball by not enforcing the terms and conditions set forth by the Interstate Compact Agreements. It sounds to me as if, Adderley is waiting for the guy to commit a crime so he has "cause" to grab him. Well here is "cause". The powers that be screwed up in the first place. Take it back to the Judge in Illinois all the way up to Kerpan sitting and loitering and "LIVING" in the Park that day of the "accidental interview"..but Adderley doesnt grasp the fact that this guy has been in violation since he entered Florida...Addeley is a simpleton, its obvious by his past incidents of notoriety, his failure to know Kerpan was in his airspace in the first place and now his playing catch up "looking for the guy". If Kerpan isnt in custody by todays end (Friday) by one jurisdiction or another, I dont quite give a damn which one, then what does it say about all those expensive, high dollar Law Enforcement agencies we are paying for? Its not like the guy has resources to go underground, its not like he is mentally capable of circumventing the system, its not like he has family and or friends to keep him hidden? He is homeless and out there. If we go thru the week-end and this guy isnt in custody by SOMEBODY, then we should ask ourselves, exactly what and WHO are we paying for? Kerpan is a convicted child killer and sex offender..its woefully inadequate that we only "accidentally ran across him" in fact it should be a damn embarrassment to us all..
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  1. 2/26/2010 12:56 PM Bob wrote:
     How is Chief Adderley supposed to know about every homeless persons background within the city of Fort Lauderdale? The valigator is living on fantasy island. I think Adderley handled the matter properly. Once he found out about the problem, he addressed it. It sounds like you want Adderley to violate peoples constitutional rights. If the Validator isn't happy with the way Fort Lauderdale is being run, well then I suggest you move. Or if you feel you can do a better job running the city, why don't you run for office instead of being a monday morning qb.
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     1. 2/26/2010 8:33 PM Valigator wrote:
        Be careful Bob your slip is showing ..attending a cocktail party with the Chief this week-end? So you suggest I move uh? What and leave the city to guys like you that love to "yes" city officials to death in hopes they might show up at your next accident scene? Umm sorry Bob, but there are plenty examples of Great Police Chiefs in this country and your boy Adderley just isnt making the grade. See Bob, thats what is still great about this country, people like me can still callout guys like Adderley when they have more than "proven" they arent up for the job and call down guys like you who really dont care about child killers running the streets, you just want to use me to brown nose the Chief. Now here is the beauty of your post and correct me if I am wrong but you said "Once he found out about the problem, he addressed it. Now Bob, dont ya think the Chief should know about guys like Kerpan who are sitting in our airspace? I mean we "thats you and I Bob" pay an awful lot of money to run a registry and keep tabs on these guys, dont we ? Think about it, FDLE, Department of Corrections and Probation, the judicial,FLPD, hell Bob its candy store of Law enforcement agencies with their hands out with those fancy mission statements on their websites saying " We are looking out for YOU Florida"..Lets you and I get something straight BOB. I am sick to death of People sucking up my hard earned tax dollars doing one thing while standing in my face lying about another. I am sick to death reading about some other "transient perv" who drifts into Florida and grabs another child for the sole purpose of "getting off" and decimates families in the process. Unlike you BOB, I dont kiss up to every politician or Government entity that blows smoke up my dress. I make noise and make them perform and trust me Bob, if I or the people like me didnt? Adderley would still be oblivious to the child killers in his airspace..in fact BOB, the more I think about it, a simple "thank you" would have been nice..
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        1. 2/27/2010 1:47 PM Bob wrote:
           Valigator, I respect the fact that you really care about the community. I feel your intentions are in the right place, but you have no concept about how law enforcement works. Let me explain to you how the sex offender process works. FLPD has to be notified by FDLE or the Sheriffs Office regarding sex offenders who fail to be in compliance. Once they are notified, then FLPD can file charges on the individuals. You also have to remember the high volume of people that live and come through Fort Lauderdale. Do you really think a 500 man police department can keep track of every person living in the city? You need to be more realistic Valigator. In a perfect world the police force can do more, but we don't live in a perfect world. You want the impossible and then when you don't get it you tend to make personal attacks.
           
           Can you also please tell me the names of these other police chiefs you speak so fondly about? I think your post is more of a personal attack against Adderley. What is the real reason you have such a hatred toward him? Is it his race? Maybe he does not return your calls and emails? Unfortunately, your message gets lost in your posts. Your posts have such anger and bitterness. Again, I think it is great that you brought Mr.Kerpan to the publics attention, but you need to stop with ther personal attacks on the chief. Maybe then he will return your calls and emails.
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• 2/28/2010 9:33 AM Valigator wrote:
  Bob says "but you have no concept about how law enforcement works" oh but thats where your wrong Bob, I know too well how it works. Why do you think you read such a Blatant hint of discontent and cynicism in my post?
  "FLPD has to be notified by FDLE or the Sheriffs Office regarding sex offenders who fail to be in compliance. Once they are notified, then FLPD can file charges on the individuals" Bob, Local Law enforcement has millions of dollars in DOJ communications grants that give local LE the ability to walk up to a guy who is sleeping in park,or is suspicious and run a complete background check on the guy,in fact Bob to be elgible for those grants DOJ has specific protocol for local LE angencies. How many FDLE officers are cruising Ft. Lauderdale neighborhoods? Sounds like your trying to pass the buck on agencies here BOB, Local LE are the first line of defense when it comes to transient sex offenders..kinda like your trying to put the cart before the horse syndrome.
  You also presume to think that the Chain of command in agencies are doing their "jobs", I hate to be the one to break it to you BOB, but the failure of a case like Kerpans goes all the way up to the Interstate Compact Agency who dropped the ball with this guy all the way down to him ending up in OUR airspace. But you being the front man for Adderley feel the need to placate me with "Do you really think a 500 man police department can keep track of every person living in the city? Bob, I am not asking your department to keep track of everyone in this city, I am asking your department to follow thru with the guys blatantly sleeping in PARKS.Why dont we approach it another way. Lets for sport say a child ended up missing and his last known place to be was the "library" ya know Bob, that multimillion dollar Library feet from wher Kerpans interview was? You know the definition of where "children congregate" So what is FLPD standard protocol? Get a list of all registered sex offenders within the immediate area, but guess what BOB? Lets say 10 are listed as transient? Which for the life of me is ludicrous, but I digress, so where does our first line of defense (FLPD) look Bob? Keeping in mind you only have that first three hours of a window to find that child alive. What your telling the Parents of this community is "YOU DONT KNOW WHERE THE HELL TO LOOK, because you didnt know a guy like Kerpan was under your nose, living in a Park. Is that what your telling me BOB? This city spends plenty on a Sex crimes Unit for Ft. Lauderdale and what your really saying is this SEX CRIMES unit is driving blind when it comes to missing children. No matter how you want to spin this or who you want to lay the responsibility on, if my kid ended up missing, hurt or dead and I found out your department didnt even know a guy like Kerpan was under their noses, I have to tell ya Bob, I am not quite sure what I would do about that, and I would venture every other parent out there would feel the same.
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• 2/28/2010 9:37 AM Valigator wrote:
  ..THE LAST PERSON I WOULD CALL IS THE CHIEF, I go way above him..
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• 2/28/2010 9:58 AM Valigator wrote:
  Bob says, Unfortunately, your message gets lost in your posts. Your posts have such anger and bitterness. Well Bob, if have seen what I have seen in all my years of addressing this subject, fighting the wave after wave of bad guys coming into Florida for no other reason than the beaches are better and and in the end I got an awful lot of payroll going to people who profess to be watching the store while "everyday" there is a new article about kids getting abused or killed, while those same people keep putting their hands out for "more money" you would be pissed off also. Heck its not only the sex offenders Florida families have to protect themselves from, its also the people who are suppose to have oversight of them. Think about it, in the private sector if you want to keep your job, you have to produce..with 70,000 convicted sex offenders in my state that WE KNOW OF, I would say the production on the backs of this states Law Enforcement is failing miserably..Adderley is just a symptom of it. A symptom, families cant afford.
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  1. 2/28/2010 4:38 PM Bob wrote:
     It is so easy for Valigator to sit in front of her computer and judge how well others are doing their job. I suppose in your world you believe your some sort of vigilante. Chief Adderley has done more then you ever have in front of your computer. He has been an Officer for over 30 years. He has locked up more sex offenders then you have written in peoples blogs. If you think it is so easy fighting crime, well then try and do something other then judging others.
     As far as the homeless people in Fort Lauderdale. What do you expect our Officers to do? You can't just arrest and violate peoples rights just because they are homeless. FLPD was forced to close down their jail. FLPD is doing their job. Is it their fault that judges and BSO release individuals who get arrested? I suggest you do something more then just blog. Perhaps you can become our next city commissioner or chief. I can honestly say I do more then just blog. I think you know what I do for a living. By the way, you never did mention the names of those other chiefs who do a better job then Adderley.
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     1. 2/28/2010 7:27 PM Valigator wrote:
        Thats it? Thats all you got? Attack my blogging..well I think you know who I am also Bob and I have done alot more for this community than sit behind a computer screen, I attend commission meetings, I have made sex offender requirements tougher and have held LE feet to the fire to actually enforce the laws that were written with the blood of our kids..and in all my years of "doing something" I have found most of the time our biggest problems lie with the weasel clauses your trying to push down the public's throat as I write this.Yea I know who you are now, your the guy who always tries to take the biggest chunk of money out of the taxpayers mouths for projects like a New Bridge so bigger boats can pass thru on Sunrise Blvd. Yea thats a real community service at this juncture (sarcasm)..See Bob your the type of guy who defends reasons why people "Can't" accomplish their jobs , I am the opposite.. I insist that they do. That offends people like you, because you find me harsh, I spent years being nice and years pleading with the system to do the most basic of their jobs and all I got back were those nice little automatic replies from officials thanking me for contacting them. I dont do that anymore. Running for Commissioner? I doubt it, I dont play well with others and seem to get alot more done (my way) than having tea parties with a bunch of politicians or police officials that wont move out behind their desk until they are embarrassed enough to do so. You say its easy to sit behind a computer screen, there is nothing easy about having been a target by every sex offender in the country for twenty years, its not easy trying to stem the tide of our kids getting chewed up and spit out on a daily basis by bad guys for no other reason than they "can". It angers me that only months ago our city was again in the spotlight by allowing convicted criminals to be able to work in daycare centers and nursing homes. Or how about a 4 million cost over-run that our "Supervisor of Elections" didnt see coming? Jeez, seems every entity on the public's payroll in Ft. Lauderdale should be hanging their heads. But dont tell me, I am sure you have a valid reason that these people cant do the jobs they are paid for right? Vigilante is not a dirty word to me, and no I dont think fighting crime is easy, but it definitely shouldnt be this blind. Your so simple, again in your last paragraph you want to pass the buck, well in this particular case? The buck stops with Adderley because as I said above, if my kid disappeared in the City of Ft. Lauderdale and I had to depend on him to find him, its obvious we would have been in pretty piss poor shape. I am done with you, your part of the problem and will never be part of the solution. Oh, Mike Chitwood is a Chief that makes Frank Adderley look very small. Its real nice your more concerned with my blogging capabilities than you are with the children of this community.of course I am sure Children arent a big issue with you guys
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        1. 2/28/2010 8:55 PM Bob wrote:
           Valigator, your a fool. No one listens to people like you. Your not productive because you have nothing to add. You only critique the people who serve the community. You have me all wrong. I agree with most of what you write. I am completely against the rights of sex offenders and others who victimize innocent people. I like, you have a family and I want to protect them. However, what you don't realize is how hard our police department works. Don't you think our police officers have families? They want these scum bags off the streets just like you and I do. Believe me, I know first hand (Hint, Hint). There is only so much the police department can do. Once these people are arrested, there is nothing more the PD can do. You need to be angry at the judges,prosecutors and parole commissions who are letting the scum out of prison. While I don't agree with every point you make, I do feel you have some valid points. However, I believe your points get lost in your angry responses. I can assure you the angry emails that you send to the PD and city officials will not be taken seriously if you use intimidation. Here is my suggestion. Why don't you try and run for city commission or get a job within the city so that you can make a difference. It's better then criticizing those who do make a difference. You may be done with me, but you have to admit I make some valid points. Good Luck, I hope you get taken serious by someone other then me...
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        2. 3/1/2010 3:46 PM Bob wrote:
           Valigator, I would also like to hear specifically what you did to make sex offender requirements tougher. Did you help get new legislation past? If so, you deserve to be honored at the next city commission.
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           1. 4/19/2010 6:21 AM Valigator wrote:
              I ran across this again and still think your a poor excuse for a man..this city has too many guys like you..grow a pair Bob
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           2. 8/15/2011 12:32 PM Damian wrote:
              Bob, don't waste your time with the Valigator (aka Valerie Parkhurst of Davie/coral springs). She is a modern-day Annie Oakly, who has several arrests of her own, most notably for pulling not one, but TWO guns (both without permits) on an unarmed sex offender who confronted her about passing out his flyer in their shared neighborhood. The OFFENDER called the police,
              Valigator was arrested. Her "vigilante isn't a dirty word to me" is a great understatement, she THRIVES on chaos, confrontation and badgering. Aside from clay-shooting and "gator-wrasssling", it's her favorite sport!! Don't waist your time. She jumped on this article simply to take a "cheap shot" at a black man in uniform, simple as that.
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• 12/7/2010 5:41 PM Damian wrote:
  Hey Val, NOONE cares what your old, gun-toting, shoot first-ask questions later ass thinks. You have nothing to offer accept your Opinion. You believe because you scream the loudest and type the most comments, people will “side” with you. You want to “keep the tide going in the right direction". Fine, fine. I don’t know about you, but I’ld rather have a sex offender who had sex with an underage GF living next door, that a deranged mad woman, who thinks it’s ok to pull her gun on an Unarmed sex offender, simply because he disagrees with her HARASSMENT. Geez, Val, looks like we ALL have skeletons in our closets don’t we? Look up Valerie Parkhurst (valigator), and HER police record. Good luck with your crusade, Val.
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