- Update: WGCL produced the story below in the fall of 2007.
- When the “whole” story is still a work-in-progress, then sometimes a snapshot of the story is instructive. The DeKalb Co. PD has been a basket case, to varying degrees, for many years. The weird hiring of Terrell Bolton as its chief, who succeeded the sometimes-reckless Lou Graham, left the department uneasy. So hats off to Harry Samler at CBS-46 for this odd snapshot of Bolton and his tentative relationship with the county that hired him:Samler does a laudable job of following up, and it’s classic: Rather than trying to figure out a) why the chief lives in an RV in Stone Mountain Park in b) an RV stripped of county tags, the county launches an investigation into who leaked the story! But did Samler miss an important part of the story? A new blog for disgruntled DeKalb cops suggests that Chief Bolton has been living in a county-owned RV. And his family still lives in Dallas. Maybe the family feels safer there.
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Posted by A Delaney on March 12, 2008 at 11:13 pm
When he lived in Dallas, he kept an RV in a rented space in southern Dallas county. Supposedly this was his “love nest” where he entertained women other than his wife. In fact, he got his female driver pregnant twice, after alleged trysts in that RV. I think he still has a family in Mississippi he pays child support to, plus a family in Dallas, plus, the ex-driver and her two children. What a busy man!
Posted by sandra crenshaw on March 13, 2008 at 11:45 am
can you give me a description of what we are looking at, a police car with the door open what else.
Posted by liveapartmentfire on March 13, 2008 at 12:35 pm
You’re looking at a police car with the door open. Click the arrow button, and a video will play!
Posted by El Rey on March 13, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Now you know why we got rid of him in Dallas. Don’t fire him, or he will cry to reporters and sue DeKalb County! Don’t send him back here, or we will be forced to send you our District Attorney. He has a propensity to crash County vehicles into his own house!
Posted by dallasnewsgirl on March 13, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Just talked to CBS46. They said the story happened over a year ago ?!
Posted by Charles B on March 13, 2008 at 3:56 pm
We will pray for you in DeKalb County. All the officers who have to put up with Terrell Bolton. The Former mayor of Dallas labeled him, “that Idiot’ after we finally got rid of him. Looks like Vernon Jones needs to be asked why he would hire such a man with a sordid past.
Posted by Kevin on March 13, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Dallas’ loss is your gain. He’s not very good at solving crimes or building morale, but he is entertaining.
Posted by Sorry4yourburden on March 13, 2008 at 4:29 pm
We sent warning letters but he was hired anyway. Maybe someone needs to look into hiring guidelines and who actually hired him……maybe someone of the same persuasion?????????
Posted by KG on March 14, 2008 at 9:19 am
Just wanted you to know that I barely made it to retirement with this Chief who wanted his own spending account, like he thought all other department directors had…they don’t!!!!!
Posted by C.S. TULL on March 14, 2008 at 9:23 am
YOU CAN TAKE THEM OUT OF SOUTH DALLAS BUT YOU CANT TAKE SOUTH DALLAS OUT OF THEM. I FEEL SORRY FOR THE RANK AND FILE IN GA.
Posted by Sorry from TX on March 14, 2008 at 9:45 am
I think speak for most Texans, and more specifically Dallasites, when I give my sincerest apologies for unleashing Sandra Crenshaw….
Posted by A on March 14, 2008 at 10:14 am
one year old or ten.. he’s still the same mess.
Posted by Warrior on March 14, 2008 at 1:36 pm
LOL. Send him to Florida. They need some comic relief.
Posted by EX TEX COP on March 15, 2008 at 10:49 am
The hits from him will just keep coming because he is blessed with overconfidence in his intellect and abilities while being inept at managing his people. When he became DPD chief everyone wanted him to do well since he was the first black to hold that position. Took him no time to lose everyones support, confidence, get himself fired.
Posted by sandra crenshaw on March 15, 2008 at 4:43 pm
sorry from texas sign your name I did mine or is it that you are “scary from texas.” if you respond without your name I’ll know the same. Always blaming someone else for your problems. Rufus did to the end.
Just Sign you name
Posted by bountyhunter on March 17, 2008 at 6:50 am
Take that fool! Officers here still are scared looking at that video of him thinking he might try and make a comeback! AHAHHH, make it go away!
Posted by Proximo on March 17, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Indeed, I did try to warn you…
http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php?s=terrell+bolton
Posted by Will on March 20, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Bolton caused Dallas nothing but trouble, cost our city huge amounts of money with his mismanagement and later his lawsuit, and was a complete total farce. When things did not go his way, he cried like a baby on TV. I don’t mind a sensitive police officer, but sure do not want one who breaks down like a little girl. I genuinely feel sorry for the citizens and police officers of GA. But, you have been warned, he is going to cost you money, credibility, and compromise safety.
Posted by Jerry on March 25, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Bolton (AKA, Bozo The Clown) is a one-man wrecking crew. He effectively eviscerated a good department in Dallas, forcing dozens of good, dependable, experienced officers to resign or retire in disgust. The taxpayers have still not recovered from his inept, arrogant mismanagement. The fool who hired him in GA should be run out of town. You will be paying for this reckless decision for years…..
Posted by FrontBurner » Blog Archive » Terrell Bolton — The Gift That Keeps On Giving on April 30, 2008 at 1:20 pm
[...] According to the report, Bolton was living in a pricey RV out in nature (in spite of what nature did to him first) and … man, you have to see for yourself. [...]
Posted by LAF by the numbers « live apartment fire on March 8, 2010 at 6:26 am
[...] This is my most-read post ever. Some wildly popular blog in Dallas TX linked to it. Dallas was / is the hometown of former DeKalb police chief Terrell Bolton. Apparently, he’s still a controversial character there. [...]