Fruitland Pk. Florida Chief of Police - Degree Problems

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by mingan, Feb 16, 2010.

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  1. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    Many police chiefs drive a desk, but I got the impression he isn't/can't be one of them, so I agree he's on borrowed time.
     
  2. I know what the motive is... it just boggles my mind because it makes no sense.
     
  3. major56

    major56 Active Member

    I'm still convinced that the Chief (perpetrator) and those responsible in making this appointment as Chief of Police knew. Aren’t politics wonderful …? :(
     
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  4. The_Professor

    The_Professor New Member

    My sense is he didn't really pony up $7k for a bogus degree but feels the need to say something to try to cover his ass.
     
  5. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    Be interesting for someone to "apply" for such a degree and see what sort of a price can be negotiated.
     
  6. friendorfoe

    friendorfoe Active Member

    I won't say who or where but a large metropolitan police department in Texas used to pay for officers who wanted to earn a college degree, they would also of course get tax credits and when they finished get educational incentive pay. I remember working a detail with some of these officers when I was earning my BS degree and a couple of them (one was a senior officer) told me about how they did the degree mill thing, didn't have to do any work, the department paid for it and they got a nice bonus. They couldn't understand why I would do it the "hard way".

    Since then saddly their department has stopped paying for degrees but at least now they check accreditation before issuing additional pay or before considering a degree as a factor in a promotion. On an additional sad note this also promted to the department to adopt somewhat over stringent scrutiny in accreditation, in other words RA only, no NA.
     
  7. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    The Professor: "consider this guy thoroughly busted with less than five minutes of amateur detective work."

    John: Indeed. And, as I've suggested for years, the one-minute detective process available to all is the phone call to the admissions office of any college or community college or university (or even high school) asking, "Will you accept degrees or credits from Youngsfield University?"
     
  8. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Chip: "Be interesting for someone to "apply" for such a degree and see what sort of a price can be negotiated."

    John: My co-author, Allen Ezell, used to do this all the time when with the FBI, and still does it in his retirement. What we learned from our 'deep throat' contact at the University Degree Program in Romania, largest phony ever (more than 30 fake schools; $50 million a year for at least 9 years, over 400,000 degrees sold in the US and Canada), was that their telemarketers (they had 150 at one point) were instructed to ask for the advertised cost (typically $3,000 to $5,000), but then they could keep coming down, and down, to the ultimate, which was $600: ostensibly $1,200, "but because we trust you, you only need to send us $600 now, and we'll send you your diploma. Then you can send us the remaining $600 later."
     
  9. heimer

    heimer New Member

    LOL - i think someone translated a foreign phrase into english via an automated translator and didn't take the time to run it by a fluent english speaker. :)

    Oh, btw, i love the 1993 copyright on the site. What the...?
     
  10. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    I have been looking at "Don't be lonely in a fair amount of information" for 24 hours, and I still can't figure it out. However, I guess it means that don't let yourself alone for not getting promotion when everyone receives his or her.

    Oh, just want to let everybody knows that I sent this discussion forum to reporter Holly Bristow, Mayor Chris Bell, and Chief M. Isome (of course). I have not seen any of their resposes to the thread yet.
     
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  11. TMW2009

    TMW2009 New Member

    I decided to do a few web searches on the phrase, and the only that Bing came up with was for a 'College Entrance Test Education Center' site that seems to serve as a bookstore. Google didn't give me any outright hits on the phrase, but it did bring up a link to the Wikipedia article for 'Don't Be Cruel' as sung by Elvis and a Billy Squire article on Answers.com.

    I'm thinking this whole thing might be a joint venture by Squire & Presley to fund comeback albums for both... (One Elvis gets back planet-side from his interstellar traveling, of course...)
     
  12. imalcolm

    imalcolm New Member

    My best guess is that "Don't be lonely in a fair amount of information" is supposed to mean something like: "Don't be overwhelmed by the large amount of information about online degree programs (just send us some $$$)".
     

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