Detroit school computers, cash stolen; 2 ex-DPS employees, 8 others charged

[SpartanDem]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Two former Detroit Public Schools employees and eight others have been charged with felonies in connection with the theft of school laptops, computer equipment and cafeteria money, as well as breaking into schools, officials announced Thursday.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, along with leaders from DPS, announced the charges in 10 school-related criminal cases.


The total losses in equipment and damages to buildings amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, Worthy said."When people commit crime and violate the trust of the school system, they are taking from our children," Worthy said. "We will not allow criminals to take away the future of DPS students."


The cases are the result of a collaborative effort between DPS emergency manager Roy Roberts, the DPS Office of the Inspector General and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Public Integrity Unit.


Thieves who "think that we're not paying attention and we don't care -- they're wrong," Roberts said.
DPS has made more than 40 criminal referrals to the Public Integrity Unit since the collaboration between DPS and the Prosecutor's Office began in 2009.



Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20110915/NEWS01/110915022/Detroit-school-computers-cash-stolen-2-ex-DPS-employees-8-others-charged?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

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These creeps can't go away long enough, it's not like we don't have enough problems without people stealing.

[alp227]

1. I'm sure that Detroit has many caring families devoted to education

and how Detroit and many other inner city school districts struggle in comparison to suburban ones, BUT it seems that greedy, corrupt admins will do anything to screw over those less fortunate whose voices can't scream back.

[exboyfil]

2. It goes on everywhere

As far as you can imagine from Detroit (suburban Iowa):


Iowa School District Financial Administrator Accused Of Embezzling More Than $500K
http://fraudtalk.blogspot.com/2010/04/iowa-school-district-financial.html


Woman pleads guilty to stealing $1.2 million from Clinton schools
Read more: http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_b2f31e2a-7bf9-11e0-ae6f-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1Y6YlNYma

"Denisa C. Babcock, 36, of Camanche, Iowa, has been accused of embezzling more than $500,000 from the Clinton, Iowa School District, where she had been employed as an accountant and business office supervisor,..."



You also have the case of politicians run wild in Bell, California.

My company has common sense guidelines on reviewing expenses. When a managers neck is on the line, the expenses get looked at. It sounded like Badcock's boss moved on to another school district before this story broke.