Some people call him Lurk and really he's no jerk.

Two Headed Rat Snake

Well they called him Lurk because he would lurk behind file cabinets listening in and then he would report back to Bernstein as to who was saying what about who.

A godfather or Rabbi rocketed him from lowly caseworker to SupII just before the new "reform" requirements kicked in and gave him the title of "
Instant Response Coordinator."
After about two weeks of "experience supervising an actual unit (the slowest time period and with all veteran workers) he was ready to be put in the Child Protective Manager, never even having passed a supervisor exam.
Now, tell me is that the story of a jerk?

When the Whitick case blew up he was given a pass even though he was manager on duty when the case was sent over to Emergency children's Services. I know of more than one case in which he put children in jeopardy. I wonder what other cases he might have messed up.

The difference between how NYPD and ACS function in child abuse cases.

The NYPD is of course interested in finding crime and if they find it, commencing the process of justice. They also are interested in securing the safety of children and all others. I'm the last one to say that they do these things perfectly - I've seen them mess up on child protective situations, but I feel that they can do no worse and probably can do much better than can ACS in these acute situations. Frankly the investigating of child abuse should belong to them. Some of their errors are due to lack of training, while ACS staff is trained, trained and trained again, but ignores the training in practice.

In all of my cases that involved police I was alone, on the telephone to bosses trying to get their decisions as to what I should do, while there would be several cops, detectives, and when decision time came there would be a Sergeant, a Lt. or even a captain on the scene signing off.No ACS supervisor or manager ever came out to the ground level to see the situation first hand before issuing an order as to how to resolve a case. Cops just don't work like that.

When you read about the sex abuse case at Elmhurst Hospital you can imagine a phalanx of police, including a sergeant, as well as numerous medical staff and me, the sole ACS representative trying to get the undivided attention of an Adegbola over the telephone.

That just can't work well.

It's becoming a world wide thing.

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People everywhere are learning about how New York City, the greatest city in the world puts it's most vulnerable children into the hands of irresponsible people. Child Protective Manager CPM Ramon Vargas is more or less the prototype of what Giuliani cursed Child Welfare with. People all over the world are checking in.