Infamous Philadelphia Police Inspector Raymond Evers has received disciplinary action for violating 1.11 and 1.12 of the Philadelphia Police Disciplinary Code during the Internal Affairs investigation of a narcotics arrest. The discipline is allegedly the result of an investigation of the “Pot Party” raid. Evers isn’t alone to receive 75-18’s.
Also being disciplined is Lieutenant Anthony Burton, currently cooling his heals in the DVIC (the place where crazy, crippled, corrupt or pregnant cops are assigned) for forging a fake doctors note so that he could cheat on a promotional exam.
Captain Laverne Vann and several other officers are being disciplined as well. Vann and Burton, along with Staff Inspector Debra Frazier has a pending lawsuit against the City and Evers. The lawsuit alleges a double standard for black cops in the Narcotics Unit.
There may be a modicum of truth because there are a slew of black cops and supervisors who were assigned to Narcotics who have been benched because of theft allegations currently assigned to the DVIC after being yanked from Narcotics.
However; some of these cops are on film. Therefore; if they are on film stealing, such as allegedly Sergeant Michael Kennedy and Sergeant Wali Shabazz, that isn’t a double standard, its simply thieves getting caught, who happen to be black.
Sergeant Kennedy’s former partner, former Police Sergeant Bryan McGraw, with whom Kennedy was charged with over 1,000 misdemeanors and acquitted. In that case, Kennedy and McGraw were accused forging an insurance policy in an worker compensation claim. They were both acquitted at trial.
Ex-Sergeant Bryan McGraw was convicted again, after serving 3 years in state prison, of harassing another police officer in May of this year. McGraw will serve an additional 2 years and is scheduled to report to prison in October for that conviction.
The double standard is why Ray Evers isn’t also benched with the rest because of his 1.11 and 1.12 allegations. You see in the Philadelphia Police culture, it is commonly understood that if you are found guilty of 1.11 and 1.12, the common punishment is dismissal. Dismissal is the natural consequence because you can’t effectively do your job if you lie and provide false information.
Evers has a colorful past, including being accused of rape when “a 22-year-old Evers and several other men had a “gang-bang” with a 19-year-old woman on a pool table at the Temple University Alpha Phi Delta frat house.” Evers and another frat member, Michael Derita were arrested. The DA’s office later dropped charged but the DA was quoted as saying the victim didn’t lie. The victim has reportedly since committed suicide.
Evers was involved in a drunken brawl in Avalon, New Jersey, where cops there claims Evers was looking for preferential treatment after getting his ass whipped after engaging patrons in the bar in a fight. The bouncer broke the fight up and Evers whined he had injuries. Not satisfied with the fighters being told to go home, Evers tried to assert the “brotherhood” argument to having the bouncer charged with a felony. Cops refused.
Patrons asserted Evers was shooting his drunken mouth off and got beat up. Cops say video surveillance didn’t corroborate Evers version of the events.
Unlike Staff Inspector Joseph Bologna, who received his promotion not based on a civil service test, but on a “meritorious” basis, Evers past transgressions did not prevent him from attending the FBI National Academy as a Police Commander. The FBI didn’t want old Bologna on the grounds of the FBI and therefore turned him down. Evers passed the muster even with his notorious background. Clearly the FBI know more about Bologna than the Police Department does.
Evers seems to have credibility issues. This is why it will be curious as to what discipline Evers will receive for violation of the disciplinary code, 1.11 and 1.12. These are violations that are lying in an official police investigation and providing false information.
Lieutenant Anthony Burton, who also have significant credibility issues, including submitting a phony doctors note in an effort to cheat on a Civil Service promotional exam, and have been accused on multiple occasions of being a thief, may not fare much better in his lawsuit or his disciplinary action.
The irony here is that in the lawsuit that Burton, Vann, Frazier, and Police Officer Shamal Bryant and the Guardian Civic League initiated against the City and Evers alleges that there is a double standard for African American cops in the unit “and that white officers in charge have systematically worked to exclude and deny African Americans from achieving upward mobility and rising up the ranks.” Here is where Evers would be innocent concerning Burton.
Ray Evers did not create a phony doctors note in an effort to cheat on a civil service promotional test, thereby impacting Tony Burton’s upward mobility in the Police Department. Burton lied, committed the crimes of forgery and fraud and submitted false documents in his official position as a Police Lieutenant. And Burton (kettle) can’t blame the Evers (pot) for that. Burton has committed acts which provides compelling evidence that he is a liar, a fraudster and possibly a thief.
The latest disciplinary action that he received along with Ray Evers is simply a long list of infractions that show Burton has little regard for his position as a Philadelphia Police Lieutenant.
In any event, the double standards lies with both Inspector Raymond Evers, in which 1.11 and 1.12 usually results in a dismissal, and Lieutenant Anthony Burton, whose latest disciplinary action on top of his prior list of offenses, should result in dismissal as well. Neither of them have a shred of credibility between them.
It’s also curious why Evers isn’t a resident at the DVIC which have an unusually high number of previously assigned Narcotics cops and supervisors. Lieutenant Charles Jackson, the illustrious aforementioned Lieutenant Anthony Burton, Sergeant Michael Kennedy, District Sergeant for NETS, Wali Shabazz and as of late, Police Officer Maurice Smith, from Narcotics Strike Force, who was scooped up by IMPACT (an arm of Internal Affairs who investigate criminality within the Police Department) recently.
Evers should join his comrades since he is accused of lying during an official investigation and providing false information during an official investigation. At least Evers has been benched, but not in the DVIC with his co-defendants, or in the other unit known as Black List row, where Staff Inspector Larry Nodiff is currently assigned, after getting unceremoniously booted from Internal Affairs. Evers has been assigned to CIB, Command Inspections Bureau or Night Command.
However; being in Night Command still allows Evers free reign over the citizens of Philadelphia. Night Command is considered punishment for some Commanders, but it isn’t desk duty.
Because of these facts, and because Evers hasn’t been totally benched (off the streets), we assign Evers the Double Standards mantra. In that vein, at least that portion of the lawsuit against Evers is correct. There is a double standard.
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