Ellen Green-Ceisler Will Attempt To Reform City’s Institutions One-By-One If She Has To

Inquirer, today, A call for help - then things got worse, about a lawsuit filed against the police department:

The Estevez case echoes the findings of a court-mandated monitor who reviewed six years of officer-involved shootings in a 2005 report.

Ellen Green-Ceisler, then head of the Integrity and Accountability Office, found that the “majority” of internal shooting investigations were “satisfactory.”

However, she wrote: “In some cases, investigators did not ask necessary and probing questions regarding issues relevant to the shooting, did not always address inconsistencies and ambiguities…”

She added, “In some investigations, physical evidence and civilian eyewitness statements that contradicted officers’ version of events appeared to be disregarded. These practices raise questions regarding the impartiality of some investigations.”

The Green-Ceisler report covered cases from 1998 to 2003.

Inquirer, today, Report: District losing control, about the state of the Philadelphia school district:

The Philadelphia School District’s student disciplinary system is plagued by inconsistencies, high turnover in personnel, and a lack of training, staff and resources - all leading to a breakdown in procedure and an insufficient transfer of problem pupils out of the schools, according to an independent consultant’s report released yesterday.

Some school personnel have become so frustrated that they have given up carrying out discipline in all but the most serious cases, said the 47-page report prepared by Ellen Green-Ceisler, who previously monitored the Police Department as head of the city’s Integrity and Accountability Office.

Her report describes classrooms where “little or no learning was actually occurring” and “many of the students in attendance were listening to headphones, sleeping, doodling or wandering around the room talking or shouting.”

Good job with the police and schools, Ellen Green-Ceisler! Now can you get to work on PGW, SEPTA, the Streets Dept., the Zoning Board and the Sixers?

Oh, and, of course, she’s running for a judgeship.

Report: District losing control [Inquirer]
A call for help - then things got worse [Inquirer]