Jon Narcisse promised to resign from the School Board if anything in the DSM Misinformation Times turned out to be untrue (KCCI interview July 2008). Well, in case you missed it, in today’s Des Moines Register the Des Moines Police Department had this to say about the East High police calls and arrests as reported in the Misinformation Times:
“The figures are misleading any way you look at it, whether it’s the first semester, the second semester, or a combination of both,” Police Sgt. Vince Valdez said. “It’s just totally off. If that were the case, we’d look at it as a very serious situation and we’d have to totally revisit how we do things there. Obviously, the officers would be in danger if there was that much criminal activity at East."
I would call for his resignation, but what is the point?
The Register article is a fascinating read anyway. Look at what Neiderbach and Narcisse have to say about their own tabloid:
“Neiderbach acknowledged to The Des Moines Register last week that the statistics he used did not come from police. They were based, he said, on a conversation someone involved with the publication had with school officials. He could not immediately recall who was involved in the discussion or when it took place."
Translation: “It’s all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago.” (With apologies to Phil Lesh.)
“Narcisse, meanwhile, said: ‘I want to stress, this was not as much a story about the district as the failure of the media to investigate these stories."
Translation: He doesn’t understand why the media doesn’t investigate stories he makes up. It is all a conspiracy, of course.
And these two actually want to be in charge of the education of our students.
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