NJ Transit Police Chief Joseph Bober ousted

Bober canned!
by blockline4180 on Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:55 pm

Looks like he was booted on out or forced to resign.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/0 ... chief.html

Best news I've heard all day. Marvellous! A sudden outbreak of common sense, lol.

Franklin Gowen wrote:Best news I've heard all day. Marvellous! A sudden outbreak of common sense, lol.

I like your thinking!

And the irony is that while I'm typing this, "get down tonight" is playing over the radio.

Good riddance

blockline4180 wrote:Bober canned!
by blockline4180 on Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:55 pm

Looks like he was booted on out or forced to resign.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/0 ... chief.html

Here is the repaired link:

http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/in ... xml&coll=1

And the requisite brief summary:

NJ Transit ousts police chief accused in discrimination case
Friday, February 27, 2009
BY JOSH MARGOLIN, Star-Ledger Staff
NJ Transit Police Chief Joseph Bober was ousted yesterday, 24 hours after a Newark jury found he retaliated against a female lieutenant after she complained of sexual discrimination. Agency officials declined to discuss Bober's departure except to confirm that his "employment with NJ Transit ended today," according to spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett.

Watch, he'll get a severance settlement of about $500,000. Or more.

Punches subordinates? The public sector is a wonderful place. You get harass people, assault them, and then spend years haggling over how much money you should get to leave the job.

The State Police should take over the NJT Police, although I think a lot of NJT police would not pass muster with the state police. The underlying problem with these stealth police departments is that there is little accountability. Most people know the name of their local police chief, and you know where to reach the chief. There are just too many layers of law enforcement. Local, county, state, park police, etc. Just look at the Palisades Interstate Park Police. They've got plenty of their own problems. Again, little oversight.

They say Bober's been there for 35 years. Did he start out with one of the railroads?

Bober came from the Conrail police. All this animosity to him on this blog surprises me. I haven't had any problems, to speak of, with the Transit police. Were going by what the Newspaper says, which can be misleading, and by what some jury found. Remember the OJ jury? "Frizalone, the first to file a lawsuit, alleged Bober denied her a promotion, criticized her appearance and, at one point told her to "stop being so emotional." That's costing the company two million? How do we know that Bober wasn't right?

philipmartin wrote:Bober came from the Conrail police. All this animosity to him on this blog surprises me. I haven't had any problems, to speak of, with the Transit police. Were going by what the Newspaper says, which can be misleading, and by what some jury found. Remember the OJ jury? "Frizalone, the first to file a lawsuit, alleged Bober denied her a promotion, criticized her appearance and, at one point told her to "stop being so emotional." That's costing the company two million? How do we know that Bober wasn't right?

A lot of the problems that folks here have with him are because of the "trespassing" photography crackdown of a few years ago, and still ruffles feathers to this day.

So what is Rumorpace going to name their RRer bashing column now?

Here's a link that tells you a little about Bober. It's got a picture of him in 1983 with a police dog. Put the curser on the image and the caption comes up. I'm not positive he came from Conrail. The ban on photography must have come from people higher up than him.
http://enroute.njtransit.com/corpcomm/n ... ?r=79#view

Interesting news. Regardless of his guilt or not in these allegations, former Chief Bober has been attracting a lot of negative attention towards New Jersey Transit recently. "Boberwatch" in Railpace, all of the news with these allegations etc. In such a position, negative attention is bad.

I'm a little lost on this one???? Negative attenion in what way? Does this mean that the gistapo will be after us railfans for being trackside like with the last ban that took place?

Godwin's Law!!!!