Complaint Review: officer D. Cantrell #10730 - Mesa Arizona

Cantrell has moved on, replaced by other corrupt, perjuring liars and scam artists in this ridiculous department of degenerate cowards.

https://twitter.com/slopdchief?lang=en

https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/slo-police-chief-disciplined-after-leaving-gun-in-restaurant/Content?oid=8634440

She was one of the most specious liars  in law enforcement history, a  loudmouthed, corrupt fraud.

Apparently,  like the force from which the rot sprang,   her habits have not improved.   She's been there about three years.

https://www.policefoundation.org/team_detail/chief-deanna-cantrell/

Festering, festering, festering.....

Accusations? Hearsay? Minorities? Nice to read some kind of local right-wing slag heap lies from a demento who doesn't know any better, and who is likewise, apparently, completely blind. I am white. Most of my friends in Mesa were Mormon. This has nothing to do with basic issues of perjury and dishonesty, which are simple, straightforward facts of everyday life in Mesa which the repeated lies and coverups of this demented excuse for a police department in no way defuse. I have SEEN and can provide police reports by Cantrell with obvious lies and inconsistencies that any seven-year-old could prove. I have no idea whether she is a Mormon. I KNOW she is a liar and perjurer and regularly filed fraudulent police reports. And I KNOW she is still on the force. Maybe 80% of these people are at least competent, and perhaps 70% of them lie only under pressure. Questions, oh gutless and witless one: (1. when was the last time a Mesa cop suffered as much as chapped lips in "injury" protecting a "Gentile" citizen, or for that matter, anyone else? (2. How many major PROVEN scandals has Mesa P.D. and associated Maricopa County and Municipal Offices had in the last, say, eight years? And how many of those do nincompoop apologists like you think are caused by "minorities"? I love your s****.! It proves the point better than anything else. These cops may not ALL be crooks...what I know is this: NONE of them have ever been disciplined for major crimes for which any ordinary citizen would suffer penalties from years in prison to execution (death!). Yes, the have a new chief. Yes, the new city manager has slapped a few wrists for hate-mongering e-mails, obscene letters, visiting porn sites of various sorts. Fine. But these people do NOT protect Mesa. They protect the tight cadre of inbred, degenerate filth they have protected since "Deseret Days", and that's ALL they do. Read the city chart, simpleton! It gives way too much power to UNELECTED civil servants. That's how a scumbag minority stays in power for generations. Can you read?

Included in the dozens of responses to this topic are insults, baseless accusations, and a lot of "I saw," "I heard," and "Someone told me" allegations. It isn't doing much good to compare Mormons to the mafia, or an officer to the gestapo. Leaving out some of the trash might lend a little more legitimacy to some of the claims here. Some people here are treating the situation as if every member of the Mesa PD is corrupt and out to arrest law-biding citizens to avoid the real danger of busting the criminals which are busy selling drugs on our children's playgrounds; Except, of course, the minorities, who are probably all first-rate cops being denied any sort of promotion or advancement by the evil Mormons. Does it appear that there is a serious problem? Yes, but I have been a Mesa resident all my life, driving, shopping, dining, and going to school for several years in Mesa, and have never received a ticket or been accused of drug use. I was pulled over once, and let go with a warning. No, I didn't have to tell the cop I was Mormon, or show him my secret Mormon ring displaying my cult membership status. I know white Mormons with good backgrounds that have been denied entrance into the academy. Out of all my friends and family(while I don't claim to be the world's most popular guy, I work as a movie theatre manager, and as such meet a lot of people and have made a lot of friends in Mesa,) I have never heard of any horror stories like the ones posted here. Does that mean they are not true? Of course not! I don't believe they would have been posted here for fun, but when a maximum of maybe 100 people have voiced their concerns here, it would certainly indicate that the problem is not all encompassing. There are approximately half a million people in Mesa, 100 makes .02% of that population. I know that not everyone with a problem has come here to complain, but on the same token the 100 number is being extremely generous. The moral of the story is that you are only going to hurt your claims by including the subjective garbage and insults. No major media outlet is going to recognize and refer readers/listeners to a website to listen to insults and a lot of general accusations. It sounds like there are some serious and legitimate problems here, but it should also be recognized that there are plenty of good officers on the force as well. Someone earlier suggested that no Mesa officer has ever put their life on the line because they are too busy shooting first any time they get into trouble. This is nothing but an insult and destroys the credibility of the poster and the complaint. Attack the problem, but leave the general insults out of it. Living in Mesa, I know plenty of Mormons that would jump on the chance to remove the kind of leadership referenced here. Mormons don't enjoy the stereotype of being an elitist group only looking out for their own, and would love the chance to voice their disapproval to someone who appears to be doing just that. I am having trouble imaging Mormons responding in the desired manner to the writings on this report, as they will probably be too offended by the accusations contained herein to even finish reading it. Rather than taking another readers advice and focus on bringing out the non-Mormon vote to rid the city of the Mormon leadership filth, why not find a legitimate way to voice the concerns and bring out the group that has the most reason to be concerned (the Mormons)? I have not seen any grass-roots movement, I have not received letters in the mail, and I have not seen billboards on the street warning citizens of this corruption. Someone is going to have to spend some money and take a legitimate stand against what is happening. I'm not suggesting complaining to the PD, as it appears that doesn't exactly produce the desired effects, but how about a grass-roots campaign to get rid of some of these city officials that are at the root of the problem? As I stated before, if you make the case to Mormons that a Mormon in office is making them look bad, they will be more than happy to turn out the vote to remove them. I have lived in Mesa for a long time. I read the paper and watch the news, but I have never heard of many of the claims posted on this site. I would imaging the other half a million people in the city are in the same boat. You can't accuse an entire city of ignoring the concerns if you aren't doing anything to voice them. Someone suggested a boycott, why not? How about picketing, marching, or otherwise demonstrating? Obviously people aren't mad enough to take a real stand against what is happening. That does more to harm the legitimacy of the complaints than anything else. Bravo to those who file suits, protest, contact the media, and do anything else to voice their concerns. Shame on those whose actions do nothing more than harm the very cause they are "fighting" for.

Examine what amounts to my "internet history", and realized: I never posted anything, anywhere on the internet until late 2001, and nothing on this site that I can find until well into 2002. That's around four years... I suspect Steve is presuming by inference a great deal of his own fantasies. The key report he refers to was written quite some time before, but posted in August of 2002... so I guess what he's doing is presuming a lot of people who may have similar beefs are me, under some sort of disguise. What is that word for a person who imagines all sorts of conspiracies? For example, I am NOT Veronica... Her report dates from quite some time before I had my own "online" computer. And "Harry" from Tucson is a former neighbor whose slightly edited e-mail I posted, with his permission, in another report, and duly accredited it. And "Harry" is his actual first name. How strange!

No idea who you are, Steve. Nor am I interested. I do note you're kind of "haunting" and "following" me around the web, and I notice you never have any evidence or any facts, nor do you even quote anyone who does. I do "quote postings" cut and paste on a lot of these websites, including newspaper documentation directly, and I have also gotten permission from correspondents to use various e-mails and other documents related to the topics under discussion. I have also encouraged friends, several of whom used my computer, to enter their own thoughts and experiences on this and other sites. These are usually directly attributed, albeit in the "cut and paste" format, it not always real obvious. I guess that might be what you are referring to... At least, that's the only sense I can make out of your chronically mis-spelled diabtribes. Cantrell, by the way, is still very much on the force, and anyone else I refer to regularly is generally still in office. And the recurring pattern of fraud and perjury in the courts in Mesa, plus the studious efforts of the local crooked cops to avoid any real problems or actual criminals (like themselves, for example) has been noted in these annals hundreds of times. And no, I do not spend endless hours on the internet, grinding old axes. But there are few chronic miscreants who have been repeatedly identified, about whom the scions of power in Mesa and Maricopa County have opted to do NOTHING. Regular, unpunished vindictive and perjuring prosecutions need to be addressed. If they aren't--and it could be anywhere--entire communities lose faith not just in government, but in fairness in general. Apparently, that has never occurred to you. This is not MY original posting, nor are some of the others where similar remarks occur. But I did meet Cantrell, and she did perform just as many others here and elsewhere have noted. That is: with TOTAL disregard for truth. If you like police officers like that--and Mesa is awash in them--just say so.

this guy has been enthralling us for 6 yrs with his fictional yarns. 99% of everything he posts is bullshit and most of his "targets" dont even hold office anymore and are retired or dead. Marc, be careful cuz he also will steal your name and post his drivelous commentary using YOUR name. if you look at the wind-baggage on this topic, it's plain to see where he has used many different names with the same ignorant paranoid opinions. One of my favorite aliases he uses is "Harry Tucson". This town has the same problems as any fast-growing community but unfortunately with population growth also come the freaks and nutcases. Mesa is no different. As far as Sheriff Arpaio is concerned, Maricopa County elected this jackass, not just Mesa and its 200,000 voters- but also Phoenix,Scottsdale and many other cities and well over 5 million residents. As far as the sheepfu--er is concerned, this guy is a firefighter,not law enforcement.

Mesa's crime rate is rising as it is in all of Arizona. I think it's because it's the fastest growing city and that means all the dregs follow the money. You are over-run with illegal Mexicans and and all the murders I hear of there are in the Mexican areas, committed by other Mexicans that prey on the working families. Then you have the Meth problem like everywhere else. Add to that the usual welfare-sucking shitbums smelling the bennies of a huge and growing tax base, and you have the current situation. Mesa used to be a beautiful place, but once the word got out, the usual suspects discovered it and eventually you will be a shithole like LA, unless the people are ready to take it back. Enjoy it while you can, but it's not the cops' fault.

Cantrell is a fraudulent, perjuring cop. So is Arpaio. This is typical of the valley, especially typical of the East Valley, and it is the SOUL of ratholes like Mesa, where n**i scumbags pervade the police department and city government. It gets even MORE demented, though. This is NOT from an area Nutsi-friendly "newspaper" like the TRIBUNE or REPUBLIC: Deputy Fire Chief Faces Indecency Charge Trouble Viewing? Leroy Donald Johnson is accused of abusing a sheep. Phoenix, AZ -- Leroy Donald Johnson was caught this weekend in a barn with his pants down, literally, according to a sheriff's office report. "You caught me ... I tried to (expletive) your sheep," Johnson told his neighbor, according to the report. But the Mesa Fire Department deputy fire chief changed his story when a sheriff's deputy arrived on his doorstep minutes later, denying anything happened. Johnson, 52, was jailed on suspicion of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing after the neighbor told investigators he found Johnson, unzipped and holding a sheep down on its side. That's the sanitized version. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office report released Monday night is a little more graphic. Johnson's neighbor told sheriff's deputies he was called home Saturday afternoon when his 13-year-old daughter saw Johnson drag one of their sheep into a barn. The teenager said Johnson had first knocked on the front and back door of the home in the 1200 block of East Catclaw Street, in a county island in Gilbert, before grabbing the small gray lamb, records showed. One of the deputies noted that Johnson had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol, and neighbors who confronted him said he admitted everything. According to the deputy's report, "(The owner) took me into the back yard and showed me where he and (neighbor) pulled up. He took me through the corral gate and I saw the victim for the first time. She was a small gray lamb about three feet tall and four feet long." The men then told the deputy they walked over to the small barn, opened the door and "saw Leroy holding the lamb down on its side in the hay with his pants down trying to have sex with it. That's when he made the statement about (expletive) the lamb." The men said Johnson stood up and zipped up his pants. "The sheep ran out of the barn at that point," the report says. Johnson apologized, according to the report, and said he'd had "too much to drink." The Mesa Fire Department placed Johnson, on paid leave Monday pending an internal investigation. Johnson, deputy chief of technical services, has been with the Mesa Fire Department for nearly 26 years. Assistant Fire Chief Mary Cameli said Johnson has been an "exemplary" employee with a spotless personnel record. "We were all very surprised by this," Cameli added. Johnson did not return a call for comment Monday. When confronted by a deputy at his home, Johnson initially denied the incident, saying he had been at his neighbor's house to talk about annexation. Johnson said he went into the barn after hearing noises. The deputy said to him, "I believe something more than that happened," and offered help. Johnson responded, "I probably do need some help, but I don't know if this is the time or place for it," according to the report. When asked how the animal got into the barn, Johnson said, "I'm not going there," then asked if he was going to be arrested and demanded to know his legal options. He continued to deny that anything happened in the barn and was arrested. "I think it's disgusting," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. "I think of Ghandi who said you judge the morality of a country by the way they treat their animals. . . . I do look at (bestiality) as some type of animal cruelty." KPNX Maila Rible , Web Producer 3/7/2006 5:04:12 PM WFMY News 2 While no one sane accepts anything Arpaio or Cantrell says as true, we DO regard him, generally, as an expert on abuse, which, along with demented publicity, is his line of work. By the way, despite vigiliant cretins like these, crime in Mesa is STILL rising. That's because you basically have Police who are full-time, professional criminals dominating your police force, and a two-bit cheap copy of Benito Mussolini, completely fraudulent and incompetent to boot, as a "County Sheriff".

Marc, If you do ever move back this way, make sure you move to wonderful Mesa! [/sarcasm off] If Arpaio wasn't bad enough, the folks of this town have to also deal with unchecked crime, meth labs in every apartment complex, coyotes smuggling illegal immigrants across the border, etc. And what do the city cops do? Well, they are good at shooting and killing mentally disturbed teenagers holding a 3 inch knife and threatening suicide! Anyways, come next spring I am out of this dust bowl and moving back to Florida for good, never to return. At least I've had the fortune to live in two halfway decent towns here (Chandler and Gilbert).

Not directly, but does come into contact with him. From what he tells me, Arpaio is a real good man with a tough job. I'm in Peoria and Phoenix a couple times a year because my entire family lives there, from way back when Mesa and Tempe were model towns and Peoria was feedlots and cotton fields. It amazes me how safe the place is, thanks in large part to the police force. If the city air wasn't so damned polluted I'd move back. I am most impressed with the "posse" you have, and how your citizens can carry guns and defend themselves if need be. The communist government of Hawaii would never allow that, although there are rumblings about it from time to time. Until then, we'll continue to be victims, calling 911 only to be put on hold, and release criminals instead of putting them into a tent city. You don't know how good you have it.

Marc, We would be glad to send him your way. But in a few years when you start pissing and moaning about how bad he really is (beyond all the media hype), you will not be able to return him to us. You will then be stuck with his nonsense of pink underwear and handcuffs, moldy bologna sandwiches and inhumane treatment of prisoners and detainees (notice I said DETAINEES too, not just convicted criminals). Not to mention the millions of taxpayer dollars he will be wasting on all the lawsuits that will be brought against him.

A lot of people wish Joe Arpaio was their sheriff.

A lot of people wish Joe Arpaio was their sheriff.

A lot of people wish Joe Arpaio was their sheriff.

A lot of people wish Joe Arpaio was their sheriff.

Rick Romley is no longer County Attorney. Of the great council of fraudulent liars and charlatans and crackpots who "led" Mesa and Maricopa County eight or nine years ago, only the most moronic of them all, the bogus Joe Arapaio, remains in power. So, are things getting better? Is government and especially police departments, prosecutor's offices, and the jail system making maybe some NOMINAL effort to perform without massive perjury and dishonesty every day, and MAYBE to, once in a great while, think of the needs of citizens and, maybe, something to do with law and order, instead of their criminally corrupt agenda of bribery and power brokering and a*s kissing? Nope. Not in Mesa, especially. Cantrell, the professional liar and mass perjurer, never even got a slap on the wrist for what must be thousands of bogus cases and reports and testimony. In fact, she got promoted. The Mayor, Keno Hawker, the one we all though might "reform" the scum at Messa P.D. and get rid of some of the worst of the liars, thieves, and criminals effectively added to the coverups and made everything much worse, and is retiring unscathed. Basically, in Mesa, and in Maricopa County, generally, malfeasance, perjury, crime, bribery, and "the LDS connection" lead to promotions, high income, and never any real trouble. There are no ethics or reforms in this sewer. Why, that would disturb the turds, and involve that disgusting "E" word, as opposed to "Tempe Recommends"... (the "E" word is "ethics", a discipline totally unknown to these people, much like "truth"...) This is what happens when only 25% of a community votes, and when a demented collection of pukebuckets in local government--Charles Luster springs immediately to mind--can enforce censorship in the hick town media. Thus, nobody is informed anyway, and much of the population is unaware there is a problem, secure in the belief it will never in any way impinge on them You vote and you fight, that's how you get rid of parasitic criminals like the ones in Mesa. If you don't, you wear these overweight scum around your neck like obese millstones, and in the end, will pay MUCH more.

Read this long ago, and as a former (at that time, a CURRENT) resident of Mesa, made a kind of point of following along the careers of Cantrell and various other perjuring miscreants on Mesa P.D.'s staff. The incompetent, corrupt captain who botched a drug raid I witnessed in 1994 has retired (he never had to answer for his errors or corruption). Officer Tim Gaffney, a chronic perjurer, was "SpokesCop" for Mesa P.D., has apparently been "kicked upstairs". How appropriate that a chronic liar became the "mouthpiece" for an organization OF chronic liars! Gaffney was known for ridiculous lies on DUI reports, and in one case well-known to me, claimed that a friend, in a very nearly worn out van then already twenty years old, somehow accelerated to about sixty miles an hour in about twenty feet! Try that some time! And he signed his name to that! Cantrell is on the "fast track" to promotion. And by the way, the above stories are quite understated. The officer who perjured me (I can prove that, and was foolish enough to try to pursue it) at a 1998 felony trial (the jury laughed aloud at his nonsense, and I was pronounced "innocent", by the way), and who also directly falsified police reports and lied about just about everything related to the case to make it appear as if I, a crime victim, was in fact, the "perpetrator" of a crime that never happened, has also been promoted and given raises. His name is Charles T. Lines. He has at least one brother on the force as well. He is an LDS church member. Of the fifteen or so officers who questioned me at various punitive stops 1997-2003, I can only verify that four have been promoted. They were all apparently under some kind of "stop on sight" orders because of the department's knowledge that I was looking for an attorney willing to pursue what amounted to a harassment case. I never found such an attorney, by the way. The two Mesa Officers I knew and trusted because of the work I saw them do, and who seemed to have been eminently honorable men, both left the force, one under some pressure from his "brethren" for NOT defending the acts of one of them in a gunfire incident, the other apparently simply came to hate his job and dislike the political nature of the department, and left the area very quietly. When I last spoke with him, he said he never wanted anything to do with "law enforcement" again once he left Mesa. His other remark? "I felt like a professional liar!" Does this seem like a pattern? Oh. Dennis Donna, no pillar of honesty, and deeply entrenched in the Department's power structure, is resigning effective 12-31-05. One of the criticisms frequently heard in local police union circles was that he instrumented a code of ethics for officers. Apparently, they would prefer not even having such things written on paper, let alone having to adhere to one.

I had a problem like this with this same woman. So have hundreds of others. I made it my business to follow her career, spotted as it was, so obviously, with thousands of lies and falsifications. Guess what? She is now a sergeant, and apparently this was partially a reward for "back-burnering" her sexual harassment complaint. She also gave some kind of diatribe at a motorcycles for women thing for a local Harley-Davidson dealer in mesa. This is an environment where liars and cheats not only succeed, they are officially sanctioned and advanced. Fact: the city of Mesa, which has thousands of totally bogus cases on its books, has never ONCE disciplined a police officer for lying about a citizen or falsifying a police report. In fact, these scumbags consider it a plus. When the lilly-livered cowards are not murdering children, that is.

me and my family have suffered also, thanks to the evil thugs that take the oath to PROTECT and SERVE in mesa! but who really does protect us? from those who are shielded by the badge, cuz I know if it wasnt for that,(authority) they wouldn't even dare on a one on one bases with half of the people they have or continue to pick on, to hurt,to push around! has any one ever noticed its never been reported that 1 mesa puss officer by its self beat any one with out any weapons. I NEVER HAVE!!!!serousily! I have dug and dug through files and believe me still digging on reports on them low life, crooked, crupted, bad a*s WANNA BEESSSS...money hungry, etc.....and yet to find a decent or fair file involving abuse or a fatalities involving just ONE!!! not one, even on this site (rivera, gillis, padilla, wenenerlund, mrs delarosa..)but pay back is not my thing, or reason for these comments becouse they them selves will eventually pay THEMSELVES back!! big mans rules (do on to others as you want done to you and yours)I do not know who exactly looks at this or if they even care but its all gotta be known!! no one person can be so dumb to think that every one just got together and made stories up, the truth always comes out, and good always beats evil, I promise to explain my anger (story) at a later time, just not quite ready yet! hey but thanks for the time or shall say space sincerly: to be continued and not doing it quietly

I wonder where Jody lives or lived. I was in Mesa until 2003, lived there 15 years, and it was getting continually uglier, both literally and figuratively, between what the MAGGOTS who run city government were doing to destroy downtown in their backfiring, insane demented attempts to "beautify" the cesspool... Little, crummy, "cookie cutter" "exploitation" houses, which would not pass code anywhere in the REAL United States, sold at absurb prices by the most demented cretin developers I have ever encountered, with NOT A CARE to the fact that most of them would be piles of rubble in a couple of years. It's a town that is EXTREMELY UGLY, getting uglier, going deeper in debt, and failing miserably, and this silly-assed fantasy world where the n**i criminals who run the town are trying to blame ANYBODY ELSE--EVERYBODY ELSE--is just HILARIOUS. Make a list of the responsible institutions with real income base that have moved out--Motorola, the Champlin Fighter Museum, GM proving grounds, hundreds of others--and the crooks from phone scam operators to sleazebag land developers who have moved IN and you see the atmosphere these dirtballs are creating... Illegals all over the main business arteries, obviously there to provide cheap labor for the local "gentry"... Jody, what the HELL are you talking about? I have seen prettier towns in Bosnia, WHILE the fighting was still going on. This Cantrell bozo is just another of the monumental fake "operators" who dwell in the netherworld of chicanery, lying and deceiving for a living, and the scum who employ here are the real problem. I am so glad I left! Oh, and in case you wonder, I, too, had a "CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE B.S. KIND" with that lying piece of dung. May she burn in hell! How funny to hear that even SHE had a beef with those criminal nitwits in blue! What a bed of scorpions!

Don't visit Mesa AZ at all! If you live there, MOVE! I say from a Metropolitan Police Department like the ones in Miami and Las Vegas, and kick these crooked agencies out. That may solve some of the problems. But that's besides the point. Just simply boycott the city completely. Let's see how their government likes its residents who are tired of their corrupt government move elsewhere. And as for the officer in question, I'd say fire her and throw her in the clink. The one important rule to go by when you are a police officer ANYWHERE in this country, is "To Protect and To Serve". Officer Cantrell has not done so, judging the reports I have seen here.

It says in the Bible we should send them to GOD for Murders they commit on earth.

The more one learns, the more perspectives change. Cantrell is DEANA CANTRELL, and if you search the web long enough, you will find she was the alleged "victim" of "sexual harassment" by another Mesa P.D. officer, but (swallowing her "pride") dropped the "case" and decided to stay with the department and not "make waves". She has a long history of perjury, obstruction of justice, falsification of police reports, just general lying and exaggeration, and so therefore pretty much fits right in with the Department for which she works. But SHE, TOO seems to have a complaint with these s***k. Point: this department needs reform so radical and severe as to constitute a revolution. If you think this is funny, look up some of the thugs on the lieutenant's list and their various shennanigans. Which, in turn, means the entire city administation, whose narrow vested interests are the ONLY incentives the organization has which mean anything, has to be flushed down the nearest toilet. Cantrell is revolting, but she is just another symptom, and it seems, has become just another victim of the sewer of corruption that is Mesa.

In the last eight or so months, Mesa cops have initiated what amounts to blood bath, shooting pretty much anyone they can. I believe the body count for 2003 was seven, one of two of whom still survive in some form or other. Violence like that is the last refuge of the very most corrupt cowards. One the their victims was a fifteen year old Latino kid armed with a knife... They shot him, ten times, when he was already down. No effort was made to disarm this 115-pounder. These lilly-livered maggots are CELEBRATING this act of cowardice as if it were heroic. Oh. They were "cleared" by the collection of FILTH who do those things. Meantime, the same collection of crack and meth dealers who have persisted in Mesa for twenty years or so continue to get away with whatever they wish. I am ASHAMED to live here. More. These are terrorists, in blue uniforms, the lowest sort of criminal. And like Cantrell, they are LIARS masquerading as cops. Absolutely disgusting!!!

Cantrell is what you get when you are not looking for truth or justice. You are just looking for money. I am another of her many victims. It didn't go to trial, like yours. But it cost me several days' work. I had a tire separate, and was nursing my car down Broadway for several blocks, very slow, turning aside for oncoming traffic. I was trying to make my way to a tire place, without ruining anything more or causing an accident. She said I was on some drug or other. I wasn't. I have NEVER done anything illegal, and rarely drink. Tests, more tests... These people aren't into being cops. It's about dollars. I left Mesa because of this crap, and other silly, unjust things I saw, every day. Cost me a fortune, but I left. And I am damned glad I did!!!

Coincidence? I don't think so. Funny about coincidences. I used to vacation in Mesa every winter. About this same time, I got stopped by this SAME liar. My whole drinking, last twenty years, is maybe a glass of champagne New Year's Eve, maybe a sip of cognac on my birthday, and I skipped that plenty of times, also. I had some stuff and a bottle of codeine cough syrup (not mine, my wife's name was on the bottle) in the car, and was going back, when my tire started to make noise coming back from Superstition Mall. I pulled off first chance I got, and got out of the car with my glasses on. Cantrell pulled up right behind me while I was bending over my tire, running my little flash light around the wheel well trying to inspect my tire. I was startled. Turns out, I had a big wad of gum stuck on one front tire, and a large stone in the tread of the other, but it took me a day to find that out because of the hassle this miserable, lying sonofabitch lunatic caused me. None of it worked, but I actually had to make TWO court appearances. Again, I am near 70 then. No alcohol, no drugs. That bottle of cough syrup was UNOPENED, officer Cantrell. And the name on it was my wife's, stupid! Now, this woman cost me some hours and a few dollars, because of course, she was lying on every line of this damned "police report". This judge Eppich, he also is SCUM, he would not let me even explain myself or state any evidence. All these asswipes are looking for is MONEY. So when the tests finally come back, I tell this dirty judge : "I will sue this city, and never come back. You are a pack of liars!" Well, I never come back. Cost your filthy town $20,000-30,000 a year. And I talk eight or ten friends into the same kind of thing. We do not do any crimes, but apparently because we are not full-time from Mesa, and we are not Mormon, we get ripped off by these liars. I could not find an attorney who would sue these bastards, and now it is maybe too late. But I already keep over a million dollars out of the city's hands, and others will do the same. Hope they choke on this kind of dreck.

I left Mesa recently, after years, largely because the city was becoming so ugly and dangerous, and also, of course, because of the widespread corruption, which is pretty much the cause of the other problems. Let me add, I am an upstanding citizen. I did have several run-ins with corrupt local officials and police, none of which resulted in arrest, but ALL of which were fabrications. This was a bogus city, run by the most greedy and dishonest criminals I have ever encountered, practicing corruption on a level I though impossible, save perhaps somewhere in Bulgaria or maybe South America. I took a terrible financial beating on my home, but the drug dealers everywhere, unmolested by the police, and an ugly incident in my neighborhood, made even uglier by the "police" incompetence scared me to the point where I HAD to leave, for fear of physical danger of many kinds. My kids, in particular, were bored to death with a school system which seemed to be the worst I have ever seen, and who encountered vicious discrimination of several kinds (no, we are NOT from a racial minority, I hasten to add), from some very strange quarters, because they were "outsiders"... I very much respect the Mormon/LDS religion, and many of my best friends were of that faith. Most of them, however, were deeply ashamed of the legacy certain member of and associates with the very tight "old guard" of that religion had left this dying community. Unfortunately, I see no improvement coming. Residents here need to identify the causes of the blight, the movement of businesses and responsible citizens OUT of the community, the horrible epidemic of crack cocaine and methampethamine, and it can only be placed squarely at the door of a city administration skilled at collecting fines and taxes, but as deathly afraid as their wimpy police department of actually taking any kind of a stand against hardcore crime. Such a combination of cowardice and incompetence can be neither ignored nor changed by normal means. It cannot, in fact, be tolerated. I guess the most frightening thing that happened wasn't all that violent, but it was becoming a pattern. In a nice, middle-class neighborhood, I started noticing signs of break-in attempts (and called the police for some, getting NO response) and finding hypodermic needles almost every day, in gutters, yards, and parks. If you live in Mesa and see someone breaking the law, don't call the police: the perpetrator may be one, or may be one of their employers. And make no mistake at all: when this happens, it is ALWAYS the fault of those who do nothing. I tried to do something, got beaten down for it, and finally gave up. Mesa is a hopeless community.

I left Mesa recently, after years, largely because the city was becoming so ugly and dangerous, and also, of course, because of the widespread corruption, which is pretty much the cause of the other problems. Let me add, I am an upstanding citizen. I did have several run-ins with corrupt local officials and police, none of which resulted in arrest, but ALL of which were fabrications. This was a bogus city, run by the most greedy and dishonest criminals I have ever encountered, practicing corruption on a level I though impossible, save perhaps somewhere in Bulgaria or maybe South America. I took a terrible financial beating on my home, but the drug dealers everywhere, unmolested by the police, and an ugly incident in my neighborhood, made even uglier by the "police" incompetence scared me to the point where I HAD to leave, for fear of physical danger of many kinds. My kids, in particular, were bored to death with a school system which seemed to be the worst I have ever seen, and who encountered vicious discrimination of several kinds (no, we are NOT from a racial minority, I hasten to add), from some very strange quarters, because they were "outsiders"... I very much respect the Mormon/LDS religion, and many of my best friends were of that faith. Most of them, however, were deeply ashamed of the legacy certain member of and associates with the very tight "old guard" of that religion had left this dying community. Unfortunately, I see no improvement coming. Residents here need to identify the causes of the blight, the movement of businesses and responsible citizens OUT of the community, the horrible epidemic of crack cocaine and methampethamine, and it can only be placed squarely at the door of a city administration skilled at collecting fines and taxes, but as deathly afraid as their wimpy police department of actually taking any kind of a stand against hardcore crime. Such a combination of cowardice and incompetence can be neither ignored nor changed by normal means. It cannot, in fact, be tolerated. I guess the most frightening thing that happened wasn't all that violent, but it was becoming a pattern. In a nice, middle-class neighborhood, I started noticing signs of break-in attempts (and called the police for some, getting NO response) and finding hypodermic needles almost every day, in gutters, yards, and parks. If you live in Mesa and see someone breaking the law, don't call the police: the perpetrator may be one, or may be one of their employers. And make no mistake at all: when this happens, it is ALWAYS the fault of those who do nothing. I tried to do something, got beaten down for it, and finally gave up. Mesa is a hopeless community.

Jody, wake up! Your politicians and cops are the dirtiest of the dirtiest, and the most dishonest SCUM imaginable. The reason filth like Cantrell survive is the b.s. people like you pump out in their defense. Mesa sucks, plain and simple. It is the most corrupt city in the United States, and I see nothing in your stupid, moronic diatribe to even deflect that perfectly valid observation. When you and dummies like you take some civic pride and prosecute the ratbastards like Cantrell and your gutless city managers, past and present, then maybe you can brag about doing something constructive. Meantime, you are just another part of the problem. By the way, stupid, I DID live your stinking, rotten-to-the-core city. What idiotic planet do you live on, nitwit? Mesa is the most rotten dunghole I have ever encounter, and I will never set foot in that cesspool again, unless some of your worm prosecutors start to actually destroy corrupt filth like your so-called "cops". Shove it, idiot!!!!

I read the messages here and can hardly believe what I see! Bigotry more than anything else. And I'm not even "Mormon"! You people act as if the "Mormons" are out to get you or something! It would be funny, except that you seriously think that. Mesa is a fine city, despite it's problems. You will find very few non-corrupt politicians in the world today, so that complaint is just spitting in the wind. If you hate Mesa so much, move. It's a beautiful city, more so because of the fine people living here. You obviously aren't one of them (fine people), so please, leave those of us who are content to live in peace.

I think Mark #1 and #2 and this idiot Lynn are comedy writers. Nobody who lives in Mesa or shops there or who has to deal with this place could possibly be that demented. I am 63 years old, and I ride a Harley and I drive an old Porsche. I have been stopped and harassed 35 times in Mesa, exactly ONCE for a legitimate reason (I had a tail light out in the 356). They don't like my hair, they don't like my vehicles, they kept stopping me a block from my house, on all sorts of ridiculous bullshit, which amounted to "looking inappropriate for a Mormon neighborhood"...once it was stripped of all the crap and lies these scumbags made up. Notice how carefully both Lynn and this other feeble minded sonofabitch avoid answering any of the real complaints of the citizens. Oh, Lynn, what a great one she has! She says: "The problem with this city and it's (sic) police department is morons like you (sic) not it's (sic) officers!" Well, now we know we have someone can neither spell nor punctuate, and once we read this lying, filthy dribble, we know she must be a Mesa cop...albeit their main problem is THE TOTAL INABILITY TO TELL THE TRUTH, EVEN WHEN LYING BENEFITS THEM NOTHING, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LOCAL POLICE ORGANIZATIONS, THEIR SUPERIORS, PROSECUTORS, AND OTHERS WILL NOT EVEN DISCIPLINE THEM FOR CRIMINAL PERJURY. The problem is us, Lynn? No, it's blind, illiterate simpletons like you who figure a lying cop is JUST FINE... Which suggests to me that you are a LYING PERJURING MESA POLICE OFFICER, i.e. and to wit: a typical local cop. Mesa P.D. is bullshit, in the business solely of protecting themselves and their jobs, no matter who they have to inconvenience OR KILL to do so. There are many complaints similar to this one on this and other sites, #21215 dealing directly with Cantrell and various other figments of her demented imagination. SIMPLE FACT, LYNN AND MARK: The bullshit about "bad apples" and "complaints" etc. is interesting, but any organization which would employ persons of this ilk is inherently SINGULARLY EVIL and incapable of ethical conduct. You will never hear a solid code of ethics even under discussion in relation to Mesa P.D. Oh, Mark? You are either stupid or a liar, or both. I DO DRIVE CAREFULLY AND OBEY THE LAW. It did me NO good. I was stopped once for "slowing down excessively before turning" (I was doing about 15 in a 25 zone, and by the way, the preceding is neither illegal nor in any way discouraged) and various other insanities, often used as a bogus lever to search my car. I am not in the slightest concerned what the filthy scum who act as paid informers to your DIRTBAG colleagues in Mesa P.D. may have said, I have never been involved in either the drug trade or trafficking in stolen or otherwise unlawful merchandise of any kind, and yet I have been rousted by these jerkfaced pissants any number of times for that, with no result whatsoever. I do restore automobiles, I do have several garages and storage places full of parts, but I will tell you this: if another Mesa cop "undercover" tries to sell me stolen crap, I am NOT going to react with the sense of humor I showed the last few times. My reaction MAY be violent. You scum have just about worn out my patience. Fortunately, because of the absurd and moronic actions of Cantrell and others, I have left Mesa, but the last time I was back someone tried to sell me stolen car radios. Guys, I restore classics from the 1930's, if you want to set up or entrap someone, you should try to learn to find something appropriate!!! It was such an obvious police setup, frankly, and what is hilarious is, this bozo walked right past a couple of actual "fences" and approached me. Why you jerks have focussed on me, I do not know, but just to be safe and avoid you cowardly scumbags, I have decided I will NEVER return to Mesa, sold my house (I thought maybe that was what you wanted, I sold it to an LDS member in good standing), and left a while ago, and yet you persist. Stupidity and corruption tend to go together, I guess. Drive carefully and obey the law? In Mesa? Your cops are predators and liars and cowards, and you will notice none of the sniveling, weakwilled little pansies ever directly answers anything except with some kind of b.s. smokescreen about how those who loathe them "hate law enforcement"... How would you know, you craven wretches, you have never BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR real law enforcement? I have, and you are NOT it.

I have been at the "sharp end" of this ridiculous pack of thieves and cowards more than once, and had it not been for the willingness of my colleagues to crush them to expose their criminal conduct, they would very likely have killed or incarcerate me, of which, frankly, I would prefer the former. Cantrell is merely a symptom, but an accurate and summary one. This entire bushel of apples has been rotten for a very long time, and any decent officers extant are carefully suppressed to bring the filth and the liars to the top. Not just Cantrell, but the entire department, requires cauterization by decertification, which is the only way to even start. And records for thirty to fifty years have to be examined, and the proper heads lawfully cleaved. These facts WILL OUT, but perhaps too late. Arizona residents: ask yourself why the local media is so unwilling to objectively examine police CRIMES in your venue, and why liars and perpetrators like Cantrell are never even wrist slapped. You are not the only victim. Imbeciles like "Mark", who defend this criminal conspiracy, never having seen it the way we have, reinforce the monster. I have seen nothing, in forty years' practice, as dangerous, and that includes the recent terrorist attacks. They murdered another child this week. 15 years old. He MAY have had a knife. 30+ shots, it seems. No powder residue, so they were 25+ feet away. Draw your own conclusions. I surely have drawn mine. And what I see and have seen is predatory and illegal behavior. More important, while in Mesa--I work and live in half a dozen cities--I saw genuine crime IGNORED completely, as if it were not even there. This is a department which avoids danger and seeks revenue and public relations coups, which is overstaffed and overfunded, and which has entirely too much power. It needs to be broken. Just because mad dogs wear blue does not make them anything but mangy curs.

I live and work in Mesa. I cannot file this myself, because my computer was stolen, so a friend is using his to do this for me. I have two jobs. So does my wife. What we notice is that when we travel through Mesa, especially on foot, we see and smell drug activities in huge quantities, some of which have been in the same places for as long as ten years. Acetone, ether, anhydrous ammonia...these are the chemicals we smell, and they are not used in ordinary cooking. So to Mark #1, above, I would suggest--since my wife and I follow your advice and break no traffic laws and look and act legitimate and ordinary in every way--maybe the best way to NOT get arrested or stopped or questioned in Mesa is to be a drug dealer. My wife and I have both been questioned and/or stopped MANY times, and I have actually been ARRESTED, though for what, I am not really sure. This is a predatory town, with predatory police. Way too many of them... Millions of dollars in debt (conservative estimates say $30 million + just for this fiscal year), they persist in building speed bumps and being "politically correct" in their own narrow way, and yet do nothing for their citizens save rip them off. Cantrell is just one symptom of many. If I had not purchased the home I live in, we would have been out of here almost immediately. I see in today's paper the city of Mesa is concerned about "lack of night life" and "upscale spending after dark"... Who wants to come here to be victimized?

I do not own a computer any more, so a friend of mine is transcribing this and putting it in as a rebuttal. And I no longer have a telephone or permanent residence, so my friend's stuff is submitted here. Sherri makes a lot more sense than the first "Mark". I got tied up in a similar thing, and wound up spending two days in jail. Even though charges were dismissed (I was not "on" anything, but I did have vision problems, and was trying to pull off the road...found out later I had gotten something in my eyes off the street...), I wound up losing my job and my apartment and worse. Found out you cannot sue a police department or a cop in Arizona unless you do so pretty much immediately (180 days is the filing limit, I think), and could not find a willing attorney in that time, anyway. And despite the fake report and lies and careful deletions and perjury, I found I had no recourse whatsoever. Mesa P.D. was uninterested in investigating the officer or the report... The rest you can figure out. Interesting: the fact that I was signalling and driving so slow was the reason I was arrested. Nothing in the police report said I did anything illegal, but they tried to make it look as if I was trying to "get away"... I suppose in a way I was, but not FROM THEM. Now, though, I do NEED to get away from THEM and out of this stinking town.

Mark, you pretty much define yourself when you say you "deal" with Mesa P.D. That, alone, defines you as corrupt. I have driven in this filthy, declining, scumhole town for 17 years, and have been stopped endless times on fraudulent probable cause. I have been to court 11 times, with these criminal ratbastards, and it is quite beyond the point of "being a nice boy and driving properly". I have met Cantrell many times, and each time has generated yet another totally fraudulent police report. This department is hopelessly dishonest, at every level. No one I have ever even met doubts that for a second. What planet do you live on? Mesa P.D. is a criminal organization, plain and simple, and Cantrell is a criminal who belongs in jail. Bogus stops here are a dime a dozen. The reasons for them are very obvious. And the inbred collection of lice and other parasites which comprises this putrid dungheap called Mesa P.D. has open criteria for bogus stops. So quit lying for these rats!!! Mark, you are as bad as "Lynn", who, by the way, really IS officer Cantrell. See report # 21215 for more on this scum monster. Must be nice to live in a fantasy world. Does this involve drugs, or are you just that much the lap puppy of these racketeers that this comes from some kind of romantic/sexual passion, you scumsucking wimp dimp.

Mark: None of these things helps with scum like Cantrell and a predatory department like the Mesa filth. The are fraudulent. Your suggestions are simple moronism. These criminals need to be incarcerated. And it is at least 40% of this department. Bullshit about "bad apples" is nothing but stupidity. Kiss my a$$.

I'm not "nuts," I'm not Mormon, I'm not a cop, never have been one in Arizona. I do not know Officer Cantrell and have never heard of her anywhere other than this site, so I can't comment on her. I work in the private sector, but deal on a daily basis with officers from all over the state - including Mesa. Any workplace has its "bad apples," and all departments make mistakes now and then. I have never met a Mesa officer who demonstrated anything but professionalism and integrity. I've heard about some of the problems some officers have caused, but to believe that the entire department and whatever civilian oversight it has are all involved in some conspracy just boggles the imagination. Here's the deal: Don't break the law. Don't drive drunk. Stay at or below the speed limit. Stop at the red lights and stop signs. Do these things, and I sincerely doubt that you will have any problems with Mesa or any other police department.

When one officer elicits huge amounts of reports, it isn't a fantasy or an imaginary problem. IT'S REAL!!!!! Mesa P.D. has a reputation for cowardice, incompetence, perjury, overall criminality, and filing false police reports, which virtually everyone who has contact with them acknowledges IS a problem. Cantrell is guilty of several CRIMES. If that doesn't strike you as a problem, maybe YOU are the one who is NUTS. And she is only one of many in this ridiculous community. This is all long since proven and settled, though it hasn't yet been adequately adjudicated. That time WILL come.

When one officer elicits huge amounts of reports, it isn't a fantasy or an imaginary problem. IT'S REAL!!!!! Mesa P.D. has a reputation for cowardice, incompetence, perjury, overall criminality, and filing false police reports, which virtually everyone who has contact with them acknowledges IS a problem. Cantrell is guilty of several CRIMES. If that doesn't strike you as a problem, maybe YOU are the one who is NUTS. And she is only one of many in this ridiculous community. This is all long since proven and settled, though it hasn't yet been adequately adjudicated. That time WILL come.

What the heck is this all about? No, I'm not a cop, and I don't work for the city of Mesa or any other governmental entity. I've lived in the east valley for fifteen years. My job has me in a car every day and night, and a lot of the time I'm driving around in Mesa. I drive carefully. I obey traffic laws. Guess what? I've never so much as been stopped by Mesa PD or any other law enforcement officer. So, there's my suggestion. Drive carefully. Obey the law. You'll probably never even know the cops are out there. Geez, people. Stop looking for conspiracies and black helicopters.

The city government of Mesa, especially its unelected parts--the police department, the prosecutors, the city manager, and all associated criminals--are destroying the city. They are why tourists do not return, high-quality businesses leave or disappear, taxes are way too high, and moronic projects such as the perpetual "renewal"/destruction of downtown chase even more decent people and enterprises away, while the illegal drug trade prospers RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN. The city's bogus mottos are lies, and its public officials belong imprisoned. One finds certain things floating in a sewer. Cantrell is just one of them, merely a symptom of a municipal disorder so severe as to be terminal. What happened here eventuates many times every day. This very day, a methamphetamine lab was discovered in Leisure World, owned by a 72-year-old, which has apparently been in operation for quite some time. I, myself, reported that and another facility a very long time ago. Mesa P.D. did NOTHING. It was finally exposed and "busted" by the sheriff's office. There is another I go by frequently which has been operating for five years, and which has been reported at least a dozen times. Response from the cowards of Mesa P.D.? None. Cantrell (and Lynn, who I am SURE IS Cantrell, or one of her crooked associates) is part of what amounts to a conspiracy. The conspiracy works simply: give the appearance of law enforcement BUT NEVER TAKE ANY CHANCES. Make money, but never bother crimes originated by or done with the cooperation or complicity of the local power structure. And by the way, it is perfectly fine with Mesa P.D. if THEY commit a few hundred or a few thousand crimes along the way, because they know they will never have to face ANY consequences. Veronica, leave Mesa. Decent people of all kinds, leave Mesa. Let the pukebags who run the slime pit figure out how to finance their ridiculous frauds, on their own.

Lynn either IS Cantrell, or some other lowlife liar on a mission to protect her. Lying on a police report is a FELONY. Cantrell does it for a living. What, Lynn, do we call someone who commits felonies FOR A LIVING? She did it to me, too. And the department would not even discuss it. Mesa P.D. is a problem. They are a solution to nothing. Cantrell is merely a symptom, but one which deserves permanent and secure residence indoors. End of story.

I rather agree. I think Lynn IS Cantrell. Notice she's so ignorant and ill-informed she cannot even spell "burglar" (her version: burgler, which I think might be a sandwich)??? And Mesa cops risk their lives? When did that happen? They SHOOT the minute they think they might be in danger of acquiring a bruise. Cantrell belongs inside. Period. She IS the very definition of ripoff.

Whine? The problem is CITIZENS? Lynn, I think you ARE the scumbag Cantrell. The problem here is lunacy, paranoia, lies, fantasies, scams, perjury, and false police reports by ONE LYING DIRTBALL. How does YOUR whining, sniveling, gutless defense of one FILTH change anything? Talk to Mesa cops? Why not just talk to a TREE? Are you REALLY THAT MORONIC????

Lynn's suggestion about complaining to Mesa P.D. about the conduct of their officers is hilarious. How can anybody be THAT dumb? Mesa P.D. has NEVER AND WILL NEVER move against an officer for lying about a mere citizen or, as they like to call them in their criminal fantasy world, "suspects". Facts? Mesa cops know nothing about them. They aren't interested in finding out. Suggestion: pass data on to civil rights organizations or to someone in the Federal Government. Mesa P.D. is well known for obstruction of justice, faking evidence, lying, perjury, harassing anyone who complains about their continual misconduct, and just plain rip offs. Why bother to bring them a beef??? Do you think people want to get KILLED????? These are the lowest of the low. They are 800 officers, 500 other employees, and NO ethics. Except when it comes to "C.Y.A." As police departments go, this one would make a good mental ward. In some other state, preferably.

More information on Cantrell is contained in Report Number 21215. Lynn's suggest to hold police "responsible" is hilarious. There is no mechanism for doing so in Mesa, or anywhere in the East Valley of the Sun, and the County Prosecutor's office, who should handle perjury and blatant fraud and false report matters involving officers, will NOT TOUCH anything to do with these monsters. In fact, Romley tried very hard to avoid pursuing bloody murder in Chandler, until the witnesses became too many to silence. Only an outside agency will handle this level of police crime. Mesa P.D. is, itself, the largest criminal organization in the area, and the only one which functions openly--that is, other than the massive drug and coyote operations, which they are apparently bound to ignore, perhaps by financial considerations. Let's don't be totally absurd: Mesa P.D. and NO PART OF MESA will ever do anything constructive in the way of reform on its own. This may be done on paper, but officers like Cantrell are precisely the kind of liars this outfit encourages and nurtures. And even if she goes, there will be another hundred like her, ready to do the SAME THING. Fact: No Mesa Police Officer has ever been directly disciplined for lying about or harassing a citizen. For lying to a supervisor, yes, but NEVER for doing so with/to a "suspect" or witness.

Nobody in this community holds Mesa P.D. to task for anything. Keep reading, Lynn, and you will find out what happens to people stupid enough to report blatant police misconduct, including outright, obvious fraud a 5-year-old could discern. Accountable? This department is an insane parody of real police, criminal and corrupt in every respect, and only severe, crushing, brutal outside power will ever bring them to a state anywhere near clean, decent, or courageous. These are largely cowards. These are largely thieves. They are made so by the City Manager, who personally makes all personnel decisions. Not surprisingly, when these lowlifes are called upon to investigate themselves, they find themselves innocent. Suppose that might be self-interest and cover-up? How about fraud? How about miscarriage of justice? How about filing false police reports and perjury? How about harassment? How about concealment of and/or planting of evidence? How about obstruction of justice? How about knowingly prosecuting and bearing false witness against innocent people, many of whom did actual JAIL time, when they knew they didn't even have the right people? Accountable? They account to no one, except their own self-serving internal rules. They deserve NO respect, and are unworthy even to hold JOBS.

Lynn: Calling Mesa P.D. a real law enforcement agency is someone's silly fantasy. They are a racket, plain and simple, with no redeeming virtue whatsoever. Their apologists may whine and snivel and protest, but what the citizens of this community are complaining about--and what these MORONS refuse to even acknowledge--is CRIME. The fact that this department is primarily in the business of committing same is due largely to people like YOU, who apparently not only tolerate bold-faced FRAUD, but encourage and revel in it. This town is notorious for its corruption. I know fifty or sixty s****.. Were this a just community, these people would not qualify to pick up litter in its streets.

Lynn: "Getting a life" isn't that easy, and keeping it is even harder, when one has to go to court four or five times to discharge bogus, fraudulent charges lodged by an officer who is NOTHING MORE OR LESS than a loose cannon and a liar. What this woman pulled on me was even more nuts. I tried complaint procedures, and got nothing but threats and double talk. What needs to happen is simple: she and those like her need to be totally unemployed, and incarcerated for PERJURY and FILING FALSE POLICE REPORTS. The fact that these gutless worms you so cherish block every move in that direction tells us where we are. She cost me 70-80 hours of time and I do not know HOW much money, based on several things in her "police report" which could not happen on this or any other planet. I had to PROVE that in court. What ever happened to being innocent until proven guilty? And why does a criminal of this magnitude walk free? Lynn, don't give me crap about "police departments"... This one is a FRAUD, top to bottom, and Cantrell is one of the most obvious symptoms. I don't live in Mesa any more, thank God, and I rarely go there. But my friends who do (none of whom drink or do drugs, by the way) have all encountered this individual, some of them more than once. Face it, Lynn, there is a REASON most citizens have only contempt for Mesa P.D. And it is not because, as you seem to think, we "did something wrong"... It is due to the FACT that officers like Cantrell are liars and worse. And more painful than that, the structure protects and defends them against the very citizens this collection of craven slime is sworn to serve.

Oh, Lynn! Complain to Mesa P.D.? You are SO funny! I was stupid enough to try that. Twice. Might as well have thrown my time and money away. These jerks only do coverup and smoke screen. It is about the same as reporting one con man to the next you meet. Don't kid yourself. This police department is crooked, top to bottom, hand picked by the City Manager for that purpose. There may be an honest officer somewhere, but I surely have never met him. Fantasize all you want about justice and the law and police; it has nothing to do with Mesa. This Cantrell woman is trouble, a chronic and pathological liar. Mesa P.D. will never do anything positive to reform itself, its officers, or its procedures. And that includes MURDER.

Cantrell is what she is, Lynn, and most of the above reports describe her accurately. That someone like her--MANY SOMEONES LIKE HER--are employed by this absurb collection of morons which masquerades as a police department tells you, right on the face of it, what is actually wrong. It is LIARS...scam artists such as Cantrell, who serve no useful purpose AT ALL. Yes, the gutless worms who wear blue in this venue do this all the time. Yes, they are usually wrong, and still try to recover by fabricating little bits and pieces. That is why reform in this department is overdue and essential. This entire city is corrupt, openly so, and Lynn, you are a part of the whitewash. Idiot!

One of two things is going on with you. Either you are hiding behind the fantasy that all is well within the Mesa Police Department and that they have the interests of citizens like you in mind, OR, you have been terrorized by them and they have asked you to do a little PR on their behalf. Either way, ignorance and apathy are two very dangerous things, especially when dealing with corruption of the magnitude of the Mesa PD.
I had heard horrible things about their actions long before I ever found this site.

Personally, because of what I have heard from persons I know who have been there, I would NEVER set foot in your city. Frankly, your "public servants" scare the living hell out of me much more than your "criminal element".

I think that these self declared "victims" of Mesa Police Department need to get a life. I dont't think that a newborn baby cries and whines as much as these people. I am sure that the police have more to do than just harass you "law abiding citizens." In fact I am positive that the reason the police contacted you is because you violated a law of some sort and now are mad because you got caught.

Accept responsibility for your choices...even the ilegal ones morons! You critizice the police now but I guarentee that when Mr Burgler is in your home, you will call these same officers to come and rescue you. They will be the ones who enter your house and look for the bad guy...not you. They are the ones you risk their lives everyday for you and this is what they get in return.

The problem with this city and it's police department is morons like you not it's officers. I know that the police are not perfect and we should not expect them to be. They are human like us. They make decisions based on the facts presented to them at the time. Its easy to monday morning quaterback and criticize.

If your girlfriend lies and you get arrested... be mad at her and not the police. Their reports contain the information that you provide to them. If it is inacurate... why is that I wonder? I am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that you lied.

Get a life and quit crying about the police. If you have a legitimate complaint then take it to the police department. It will be investigated and if the facts support your allegation then the officer will be disciplined. If you don't report officers that step outside the bounds then how can you complain when they do.

It is your responsibility as a citizen to hold them accountable. So either accept responsibility or shut up.

When citizens come forward with complaints like this constantly, old officers like me know what is going on. Lying and criminality have become a matter of policy.

Here, there is so much of it, these are people I would be ashamed to serve with. I came here to get away from big city crime. I am leaving because here, crime is a "police matter"...meaning these spineless cowards do most of it. This Cantrell is just one of hundreds. They lie, exaggerate, fabricate. They are rotten scum. I am ashamed I wore the same color uniform. I stepped forward to be a witness in a traffic matter where I knew one of these wimps was flat-out lying, and these ratbastards did everything they could to chase me off. I had to approach the defendant's attorney.

Real cops don't lie for a living. These are just liars. Liars and criminals.

They have been causing me a hard time over it, arresting my son for nothing, and faking all kinds of things.

This is simple: they got no GUTS, so they pick out cases they can fake, to stay away from anything that involves crooks. As a result, they ARE the crooks.

I roll out of here tonight. If I stay, there will be an ugly confrontation with these worms.

This woman is only a symptom of a problem
so deep the current guys who run Mesa can't
deal with it at all.

They whine about "minority officers",
"lower standards", and "difficulty
recruiting", but the problem is at the top.

She has hassled me, too, and lots of others.

But she is just a real little part of the
problem, which is that this whole city, and
this department, is rotten to the core, and
is in the racket of buncko business.

Cantrell and others like her-- and they are LEGION in this department-- survive and prosper because they have the full and august support of the upper echelons.

Attempts to blunt the reports of officers. who are KNOWN liars and who commit fraud even openly are greeted with immediate discipline.

Bluntly put, telling the truth is far more likely to result in suspension, discipline, and termination than is "following procedure"--that is, shutting one's mouth and, if necessary, swearing to falsehoods.

The pressure brought to bear internally on officers is irresistable. And resistance is futile, almost suicide. Telling the truth on the witness stand in such a case is particularly frowned upon, even if it does not directly contradict another officer's testimony.

The job I found when I quit the force pays much better, anyway, and the handwriting was on the wall. When I had my new position located, I did,
however, lift a load off my personal shoulders and, instead of evading the truth, made sure the facts were known in several downright bogus cases.

The unwritten law and "the code"-- thou shalt not testify against a brother officer-- is part of the reason this city is having the vast problems that are becoming so obvious.

There are many fine officers on this force, who if the pressures were re-arranged, and administrative and disciplinary pressures shuffled to a more "truth-friendly" atmosphere, could fairly rapidly change this from the very worst situation imaginable to one of the very best. But that cannot happen within the current structure, given the pressures from outside.

And those officers are forced by economic necessity and discriminatory internal policies and procedures to keep their traps SHUT.

One thin ray of hope: there are only two
old school Mormons on the City Council now,
and if enough noise is made to the others,
enough facts presented, progress might be
made.

But for right now, any officer with any ethics
at all would be committing career suicide and, I
suspect, probably family suicide as well to even
TRY to push a report on fraudulent "evidence"
or obstruction of justice to any higher channel.
And a civilian....they won't even bother to laugh at them.

Bring actual police reports to attorneys/an attorney willing to pursue a MASSIVE CLASS ACTION SUIT in Federal Court against the City of Mesa.

The goal: to de-certify this Police Department, and/or to sue this entire city out of existence.

This level of thievery and deceit can only be
approached by such radical but lawful methods.

Cases here are made up out of air, against honest, decent non-LDS citizens, simply because it is a way for cowards to give the impression they are doing something about crime, without ever having to face a genuine criminal.

Mesa P.D.--indeed, the whole administration of this criminally corrupt city--is not the solution to anything, THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.

Reports, documentation, witnesses, and attorneys from outside Arizona, but licensed to practice here...

A further note: Cantrell should have been fired years ago. There are RAFTS of citizen complaints against her, all whitewashed and covered up by the scumbags of Mesa P.D.

You pay for this crap!

Whether this woman is a paranoid
schizophrenic or just an overly imaginative lunatic of some other kind makes no difference.

Her "police reports" and everything she thinks or says is madness. This is fairly typical of the evil monsters who run and populate Mesa P.D.
Anyone who criticizes this scum pit is accused of being "anti-mormon"... How about "anti-liar"?
How about "anti-crazy"?

The very fact that we have a Mayor, a city manager, and what passes for judges who even allow crackpots like this to work for this community tells you where you are. You are in the worst part of bedlam.

This city isn't JUST corrupt. It is EVIL.

The audacity of pretending to be legitimate while employing and even encouraging this sort of rot is amazing. It is also clearly corrupt and criminal.

This Mayor and this city mangler need to hear this every day, and they need to be gone, retired, and hopefully, incarcerated, along with scumbags like Cantrell, who has "arrested" me and several family members, EVERY SINGLE TIME BASED ON HER OWN MORONIC FANTASIES AND IDIOTIC STRETCHES OF THE TRUTH.

None of them resulted in a conviction.

Send her and her colleagues to the funny farm.

Cantrell is KNOWN all over the valley for
submitting bogus reports. She has stopped me
about five times, coming home from work, stone
cold sober. I weigh about 320 lbs. and stand
about 5'7". For medical reasons, I haven't had
a drink in about thirteen years.

I have done more one-legged stands and foot-over-foot walks for this psychopath than a diva
does for a dance director. And I have blown into that "detoxylyzer" thing gizmo to the point where I nearly blacked out. Because of my cold medication, I have shown some alcohol (way below the legal limit) a couple of times. This scuzzbag believes NO ONE, and seems to get furious when she finds out her victims haven't even had a sip. She has twice told me: "I know YOU!!!! I busted you for crack!!!" Really? The only things I have ever been addicted to are mashed potatoes and ice cream. I have never even SEEN crack.

One more time, I think, and this b***h and I go to court, all right, and she will be the defendant. I don't even live in Mesa, and try hard not to drive there. But I have been to court half a dozen times, and am getting sick of the harrassment and annoyance and overall time wasting.

If she likes to watch fat people walk funny, and then lie about it on the reports--which she has done EVERY SINGLE TIME--why doesn't she try choreography or maybe get a job as a dance critic? She sure as HELL has no concept of what being a police officer entails. Because of her, I now go to, shop in, visit Mesa as little as possible, but I have actually run into her in Gilbert as well.

My suggestion: get her a job for which she might actually be suitable.

Ditto! Ditto! Ditto!

She does this all the time. In fact, this isn't one of her more extreme fantasies.

This woman is insane.

Perhaps more important, the D.U.I. task force views her as an excllent officer. I researched her. I have many of her reports on hand.

She would have embarrassed the n**i Gestapo!

Cantrell has violated her oath and every
specific and implicit standard of conduct
involved in public service.

She is overly aggressive, a chronic, pathological liar, and she falsifies police reports whenever she sees one. To give you an idea how fundamentally corrupt Mesa P.D. REALLY IS, her vicious conduct has apparently resulted in a PROMOTION.

One thing of which you may rest assured: Nothing and no one in or at Mesa P.D. will ever move against animals like this. Note how many bogus reports are filed in her name, and how many incidents of her overzealous conduct have
become near legendary in this community, and you
KNOW what you are dealing with.

She is only the tip of a very large iceberg.
Her and other "pretend" cops are far more vicious criminals than even the crack and meth dealers who abound in Mesa. Reason: they act with sanction, and infect EVERYONE... And they do nothing to impact the actual crime that one sees constantly in the area within a few miles of Main and/or Broadway, clear from Dobson east to about Lindsay. Why, they could get HURT!!!!

But as long as the corrupt local courts and
prosecutors not only ignore but move to protect
countless episodes of perjury, false reports, and
what amounts to "framing" people, many times daily, all we can do it pout.

Housecleaning is going to amount to a legal
purgative. It starts with getting rid of the City Manager AND HIS OFFICE and, in the meantime,
putting every possible financial squeeze on this
Byzantine corrupt town.

Cantrell is an illness that every taxpayer has
to pay, directly and indirectly. And none of the "leadership" in this cesspool is even discussing reform or simply getting rid of the criminals like her in the midst of this department. Indeed, they are looking to hire MORE.

Mesa makes the Mafia look honest.

No wonder it is easier to buy crack or crystal methamphetamine here than it is to
purchase a ball point pen.

Did anybody notice that, while the local darlings were on Television, near Horne and Main, watching a bicycle thief, just a few yards behind them was AND REMAINS a huge open-air drug market, so public it is only microns short of advertising with a huge neon sign? I have been offered all sorts of drugs, within feet of where their clever "undercover" operation proceeded, and I was once stupid enough to report this. What I learned was: DO NOT BOTHER. All it did was turn their pernicious scrutiny on me. And I am 56 years old. The last time I was even AROUND illegal drugs, the "officers" with whom I vainly tried to discuss this festering boil of corruption were not even BORN. They knew nothing about the subject matter under discussion, were unfamiliar with terms like "X" and "coyote" in
their "street" sense, but were MORE THAN WILLING to try to infer, somehow, that I was in that area TO PURCHASE UNLAWFUL CHEMICALS. One of these stalwarts made a great deal out of the fact that a single-edged razor blade and some masking tape, along with a can of spray paint, was on the counter, near my tools, accompanied by a small tube of Bondo. Anybody recognize that combination??? Well, they didn't!!!

Fact: Mesa has no Police Department. What we have is A GROTESQUE LIABILITY.

Cantrell has violated her oath and every
specific and implicit standard of conduct
involved in public service.

She is overly aggressive, a chronic, pathological liar, and she falsifies police reports whenever she sees one. To give you an idea how fundamentally corrupt Mesa P.D. REALLY IS, her vicious conduct has apparently resulted in a PROMOTION.

One thing of which you may rest assured: Nothing and no one in or at Mesa P.D. will ever move against animals like this. Note how many bogus reports are filed in her name, and how many incidents of her overzealous conduct have
become near legendary in this community, and you
KNOW what you are dealing with.

She is only the tip of a very large iceberg.
Her and other "pretend" cops are far more vicious criminals than even the crack and meth dealers who abound in Mesa. Reason: they act with sanction, and infect EVERYONE... And they do nothing to impact the actual crime that one sees constantly in the area within a few miles of Main and/or Broadway, clear from Dobson east to about Lindsay. Why, they could get HURT!!!!

But as long as the corrupt local courts and
prosecutors not only ignore but move to protect
countless episodes of perjury, false reports, and
what amounts to "framing" people, many times daily, all we can do it pout.

Housecleaning is going to amount to a legal
purgative. It starts with getting rid of the City Manager AND HIS OFFICE and, in the meantime,
putting every possible financial squeeze on this
Byzantine corrupt town.

Cantrell is an illness that every taxpayer has
to pay, directly and indirectly. And none of the "leadership" in this cesspool is even discussing reform or simply getting rid of the criminals like her in the midst of this department. Indeed, they are looking to hire MORE.

Mesa makes the Mafia look honest.

No wonder it is easier to buy crack or crystal methamphetamine here than it is to
purchase a ball point pen.

Did anybody notice that, while the local darlings were on Television, near Horne and Main, watching a bicycle thief, just a few yards behind them was AND REMAINS a huge open-air drug market, so public it is only microns short of advertising with a huge neon sign? I have been offered all sorts of drugs, within feet of where their clever "undercover" operation proceeded, and I was once stupid enough to report this. What I learned was: DO NOT BOTHER. All it did was turn their pernicious scrutiny on me. And I am 56 years old. The last time I was even AROUND illegal drugs, the "officers" with whom I vainly tried to discuss this festering boil of corruption were not even BORN. They knew nothing about the subject matter under discussion, were unfamiliar with terms like "X" and "coyote" in
their "street" sense, but were MORE THAN WILLING to try to infer, somehow, that I was in that area TO PURCHASE UNLAWFUL CHEMICALS. One of these stalwarts made a great deal out of the fact that a single-edged razor blade and some masking tape, along with a can of spray paint, was on the counter, near my tools, accompanied by a small tube of Bondo. Anybody recognize that combination??? Well, they didn't!!!

Fact: Mesa has no Police Department. What we have is A GROTESQUE LIABILITY.

You'll notice Cantrell's name comes up in several RIPOFF REPORTS. She is a rather profound symbol of what is terminally wrong with Mesa, and especially with its carbunculous police department. There is no hope of dealing with scumbag liars like her through Mesa's bogus "Internal Affairs/Citizen Complaint" people, who are squarely ensconced in the very most blatant coverups, lies, and frankly, the business of two-bit revenge. The woman and the department need to be sued, as Brown and Markley and others have done, and in Federal Court, where this city's lowlife rat administrators and politicans have less clout.

Meantime, boycott everything in Mesa that you can... Tell people back East to go somewhere else. Do not spend a dime here, and discourage friends even from visiting you here. Tell the local businesses WHY you are not dealing with them: the corrupt, byzantine criminal filth who run this community. Vote against the stadium, and turn out at the polls to reject every LDS candidate for every office. And contact the United States Department of Justice. Enough complaints, something ugly will happen to these two-bit racketeers.

Cantrell belongs locked up, whether in a funny farm or a prison makes very little difference. She is typical of what Mesa P.D. wants: loyal, psychopathic, pathological liars of the lowest order. And guess what? That is what they are getting, and these dungwads are PROUD of filth like her.

Personalities like hers should never be allowed in any public contact position of any sort, and should surely not be allowed to carry firearms, let alone granted powers of arrest and incarceration. I have met her, and I have stepped on better human beings in cow pastures. The woman is apparently incapable of uttering even a single truthful word.

Remember: ROBBERS DO NOT NEED COPS, BUT COPS MUST HAVE "ROBBERS"...and if they are too dishonest or cowardly to find real ones, or if real ones simply do not exist, they are compelled to make them up out of air.

If you want to know why Mesa is awash in crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, look no further than where these jerks spend their time... They don't seem to care where it is, as long as it helps with quotas and avoids any hint of actual danger.

Frankly, this city would be better off with no police force, or for that matter, city administration, than the collection of lice it has in place, and has had for 150 years.

Vote and withhold funds, and these vermin will disappear. Otherwise, your grandchildren will still be dealing with putrid parasites like these $35,000 a whack (to start, while still in the academy yet) incompetent bozo thieves.

Funny. Ever notice that citizens who make out false police reports or blatantly commit perjury under oath in criminal matters wind up in the slam for a very long time. Ever notice that this particular full-time perjurer is still free and working? That tell you anything?

She tried real hard to rip me off several times. Never succeeded, but I sure did hear from her scumbag associates when I tried to push back and get her and her equally filthy, dirtball partner prosecuted for harassment and false swearing.

It isn't so much that there is NO JUSTICE in Mesa...it's that these slime weasels think that is just fine!

Why isn't she imprisoned, years ago???

And in the general population, where she and Mesa cops like her would get a nice chance to explain some of their bogus crap....

Some of these putrid judges and prosecutors ought to be there as well. A society which tolerates this sort of activity and mind set is doomed. One which actually encourages it--and look no further than your friendly, local Mormon cadre--is causing a revolution which will ultimately destroy it, and in the most horrible way. Too bad this scumwad will be retired by then, probably with full benefits. Same for her weasel partner, Marrical, the f****t flunkie.

Cantrell has been involved in any number of fraudulent police reports, which in Mesa are as common as street signs and way more obvious. I have one in my own file.

These criminals think nothing of eating up your time and the city's money on stupid, fraudulent fishing expeditions, and they do it hundreds of times each day. How to solve it?

(1. do away with the City Manager and his office

(2. set up a Police review board with non-mormon members and actual powers of criminal prosecution, who will put these filth in prison, in the general population,where they belong;

(3. Get out the vote among non-Mormons, in hopes of permanently terminating and expunging this kind of filthy, corrupt government and police criminality.

This woman belongs in prison, but no one on Mesa P.D. will look into anything from a real perspective. These Nazis are a house of cards, so many criminals, no actual defense.