9/1/2007
Officer suspended over ‘Ghetto Handbook’
HOUSTON - A school district suspended a police officer as it investigates his distribution of a “Ghetto Handbook” and the three-month lapse before top district officials were informed of it.
The eight-page booklet, subtitled “Wucha dun did now?”, was handed out to about 15 Houston Independent School District police officers at a May meeting, district spokesman Terry Abbott said.
Officials declined to identify the officer who handed them out, but said he had been ordered to attend diversity training.
A supervisor immediately collected the booklets, Abbott said, but district officials said they didn’t learn about the incident until someone complained to the district’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office in mid-August.
“This publication was completely reprehensible and HISD condemns it in the strongest possible terms,” Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said in a written statement Thursday.
He said he has “mounted a very aggressive investigation.”
District Police Chief Charles Wiley had no comment, Abbott said.
The booklet billed itself as a guide to Ebonics, teaching the reader to speak “as if you just came out of the hood”.
It included definitions such as “foty: a 40-ounce bottle of beer” — “axe: to ask a question” — and “hoodrat: scummy girl.”
[ COMMENTARY ] — That always cracks me up — why do you MORONIC IDIOTS always say … “Lemme AXE you sumpin”?
I come back and “ASK” you … “What; are you going to kill the question with an AXE first?” … all of you give me that stupid “deer-in-the-headlights” look.
The booklet names six district officers “and the entire day shift patrol” as contributors. Abbott said a preliminary investigation has cleared those officers of involvement.
Last year, almost 30 percent of the district’s 202,000 students were black and almost 60 percent were Hispanic.
Even though I found this to be really funny as hell, I guess Jesse Jack-a$$ and his Side-Kick will — Call The ACLU On This One










