Jackson Jambalaya

more like running it into the ground

I don't know the mayor and don't live in Pearl, but that was a very good presentation of his commitment to the citizens and businesses as well as multiple times drawing the line on what he can and cannot address.

There will be an abundance of anonymous posters, like 10:00, who pop off and love to see things go sideways.

I have 23 years of LEO experience. For the life of me I do not understand these appointments these cities are making. Every agency I know of is being run by people that shouldn't be holding that position with the exception of just a few. Good people are being forced out because they are not politicians and willing to do shady crap.

With the turnover at that place. You haven’t worked with anymore there. Great job mayor

So now the mayor is getting two paychecks like the chief was?

I lived in Pearl prior to Covid-19. My neighbor became a Pearl Police officer during that time. He was also in the news several times for his heroism and police work. He was very proud when he joined the Pearl PD. I drove down that street the other day and he still lives there. But a Richland PD cruiser was parked in his driveway.

@10:55 AM - Looking are your grammar/sentence structure you weren't included in the increased graduation rates.

this clown of a mayor looks like one of santas elves trying to make excuses for his hand picked hire police chief .

Bring back the female assistant chief you let go!

"@10:55 AM - Looking are your grammar/sentence structure you weren't included in the increased graduation rates."

So says the man who wrote "Looking are your grammar/sentence structure........"

Jake’s a good guy and a good mayor. Not everything has to be a high crime and misdemeanor.

Karma...

@11:43 imagine being a grammar nazi that f’s up your own grammar worse than the person you are policing.

Dean has been a menace for 30 years. How he had continued to get hired, let alone thrown in federal prison is beyond me.

If you are elected mayor then be the mayor. If you have experience in law enforcement that's great. Use that experience to hire a good chief. Then as the chief executive of the city use your power and experience to help the police department be productive and efficient in your role as the mayor. Shield them when and where you can and support them. Hold the chief to the standards that the citizens want. And most of all stay out of their day to day business. Let them do their job. No one cares about your "extensive background" in law enforcement. They care about how you lead a city. If you do that people will notice and they will support you.

@3:12 if his LE background was indeed extensive he would have never hired a cartoon character as chief

When Shad White's office issues a "demand letter" to this disgraced former chief y'all won't be bloviating with your "low hanging fruit" rhetoric.

Why did You, Mayor allow this behavior of Dean to continue on Your watch? Your office must follow & abide by state laws including falsification of TIME SHEETS, sick, vacation, travel reimbursements and retirement. DO AS I SAY, Not Do as I Do is very disrespectful to the taxpayers and men & women in Law Enforcement. Be sure to check travel reimbursements to verify they weren’t double paid by (2) agencies. Who approved these should also be fined & held accountable as Chief Scott cannot sign off or approve his own travel, time sheets, etc.

@2:15 - I'm not here to defend anybody, but agencies have no access to the operating forms of other agencies and there is no cross check of these documents in any state computer system.

You might also want to wonder how many legislative junkets are paid for by the taxpayers that are also paid for by lobbyists, both unbeknownst to the other.

10:59 It doesn’t take. Rocket scientist to put the forms side by side in investigation to view each one. Investigators can request copies from each agency. End of story. Yes many lobbyist are married to persons in administration of state agencies or they themselves are also working for other agencies. Doesn’t make it right so you are correct in that is why nothing will probably come of this.

So WLBT just posted an article @ Roger Lofton a MS State Hospital Employee charges with falsifying timesheets He faces up to 5 years in prison & $10,000 in fines. So what makes Dean Scott or anyone else exempt from punishment. Oh but wait MS & Shad play by different rules according to TANF funds.

Any speculation on who the new chief will be??

Dean was not an hourly employee at Rankin county. He wouldn't even be aware of any timesheets on him because he was paid a salary to be "as needed" by the assessor's office. Therefore, if Dean didn't know, I'm sure the Pearl mayor wouldn't know what the Rankin tax Assessor was turning in on any timesheets. Why not question the tax Assessor, BOS, or board attorney for an explanation? Instead let's just take CJs twisted assumptions