I tried not to post about this, but I have to. WHAT AN ASSHOLE:
Voters in Detroit should make sure 36th District Court Judge Kenneth King is permanently removed from the bench the next time he is up for reelection. No more field trips to his gulag/courtroom. Sending this guy to charm school will do no good. Wake up voters, and don’t return this man to the public payroll.
Speaking of people who should not be returned to office, perpetual Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard should be retired by the voters, if they have any sense at all. This news today really bummed me out because it is so disappointing and so consistent with the way his office has done business:
I’ve heard undercurrents about the sheriff’s office response and their hypocritical chest-puffing in the wake of the mass murder.
This office seems to always be afraid of transparency.
In 2021 I learned that an assistant prosecuting attorney for Jessica Cooper was tasked with moving their files in the OCCK case to Bouchard’s office in order to avoid compliance with any other FOIA requests that might be filed with that office after those filed by my dad, WDIV and the Detroit Free Press. This probably took place in or around the summer of 2012. This action by Cooper’s OCP office and that of Bouchard was taken to thwart FOIA laws. It was an ethical violation at a minimum.
This APA (who may still work there) should have been fired in 2021 after it was discovered the files were “missing.” As I have noted more than a few times, when I filed a FOIA request with Bouchard’s office, the online response came within 15 minutes: We don’t have any such records. https://catherinebroad.blog/2021/07/23/worlds-fastest-foia-response/ . This is a lie and it makes me believe the people who have told me over the past four-plus years that the office has withheld evidence in the OCCK case. It seems they don’t “like” the state police. Working well with others doesn’t seem to be a strong suit with this agency.
He is a Brooks Patterson acolyte. Get rid of him and clean house in Oakland County of law enforcement from that era who have enjoyed decades of cynical, hypocritical game-rigging that favors lack of transparency, resistance to reviewing mistakes and abuse of the awesome power held by law enforcement in our society.
Enough. If you won’t be transparent about cases involving the murder of four pre-teens walking the streets of your county, or the murder of four teenagers and injuries to others inside Oxford School; if you won’t closely examine what could be improved, what good are you?
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UPDATE: The Detroit Free Press reported on September 24, 2026, Judge Kenneth King successfully completed his “training” (retraining?) and is now open for business in Wayne County traffic court!! Congratulations, judge! Your pension is preserved and you live to rule from on high once again. All you have to do is keep your arrogance and anger in check. I can’t think of a better place to test your retraining than Wayne County traffic court.