Chief Tylor Mills - Layabout Hack

Hingham's Chief Mills was exposed, in the Patriot Ledger and Hingham Journal, as a do nothing layabout political Hack where everybody is guilty - except him, his family and his friends.

Chief Taylor Mills behavior, as reported, leads one to believe he is worst kind of Municipal Bully. If anything comes out of his hideous display of arrogance it was Chief Mills needs to be put-out-to-pasture to move onto the next phase of his Hack-life.

At the minimum his actions need to be fully investigated, including his financial records and the high profile cases with his involvement. There are so few and it would not take much time - but surely reveal the behavior of Hingham's Whimp-Chief.

As reported, Chief Mills said of himself about the allegations leveled: " It didn't happen". Of course, this is the same any criminal would say and the allegations need to be adjudicated.

This Hack Chief appeared ready, willing and able to speak at the quack-trial of Lt. Phillips.

That was, until he would be sworn-in and subject to cross examination. Then, all of a sudden this No-Finer-Hack decided he didn't need to speak at all.

The articles printed suggested he was ready, willing an able to lie through his teeth, but never ask him to swear to tell the truth, nor subject himself to cross examination. This is typical political behaior of a Hack-lier.

Is that Hingham's Police Chief?

Chief's Son Extracts Revenge

Board votes to fire veteran Hingham officer

By Allison Manning
The Patriot Ledger

HINGHAM —

It didn’t matter to selectmen whether the contact that Hingham police Lt. Kris Phillips made with a light plant employee was playful, accidental or intentional. They voted unanimously Tuesday night to fire the veteran officer.

Phillips may appeal the action to the state Civil Service Commission.

The decision stems from an incident in April 2008. Phillips was working a paid detail on Lincoln Street when, in response to a joking comment from a light department employee, he gestured, making contact with light department employee Todd Sherwin’s groin, causing Sherwin to double over in pain.

During a lengthy hearing Tuesday afternoon, Phillips argued that the contact was accidental in an act of horseplay, while police department attorney James Toomey said Phillips acted intentionally, because of stress.

Phillips said he had been under stress during the month prior to the incident. He had just returned to duty after an investigation into a domestic incident at his home.

“Sometimes you let your guard down,” he testified. “This is not how I would normally act.”
After the decision, Phillips declined to comment.

Police Chief Taylor Mills launched an investigation of the incident. After finding evidence of misconduct, he recommended that Phillips be fired.

Criminal charges against Phillips have been filed.

Phillips said the investigation was the culmination of years of bad blood between him and Chief Mills.

“This prosecution of Lt. Phillips reflects bad faith in small-town politics in its worst sense,” Phillips’ attorney, Alan McDonald, said during the hearing.

McDonald said the action was retaliatory, designed to discredit and possibly remove Phillips from the police force “because of ill motives of the chief that are unrelated in any way to Lt. Phillips’ performance as a police officer.”

Phillips testified that he thought the chief was retaliating against him because Phillips “would not cover up an internal-affairs investigation involving Mills’ son.”

When The Patriot Ledger asked for copies of documents created during the internal investigation, the police department declined to provide them, saying the documents were “personnel records” and therefore legally exempt from disclosure. The newspaper has appealed the decision to the secretary of state’s office.

Selectmen said they were concerned with discrepancies between the report Phillips filed during the investigation of the Lincoln Street incident, and the description of the events at the hearing. In his statement, Phillips said that in an act of horseplay he “snapped his fingertips” at Sherwin’s midsection, accidentally hitting Sherwin’s groin. When he described the incident during the hearing, he said accidental contact was made as he gestured while walking away.

“Nowhere in that statement does it say your contact ... was inadvertent,” Toomey said.
Here is some of the testimony of Police Lt. Kris Phillips at the hearing:

“I believe the chief is bringing these charges against me because I would not cover up an internal affairs investigation involving his son,” referencing an alleged underage drinking party. Mills’ son was never named.

Phillips testified that Chief Mills approached him about the party. “He stated, ‘Kris, take this information, put it in your back pocket and own this officer for the rest of his career.’”

“I’m a young sergeant, first year. I don’t need to (anger) the captain. I didn’t think that anything like this would ever come back. I know the (then) captain’s reputation and I was in fear of him.”

Phillips testified during his interview for lieutenant, he answered a question about staffing. He said that Mills later approached him. “He told me that I made him look bad. His statement was, ‘You made it look like the chief wasn’t doing his job.’ And he further stated I was not going to get his endorsement for the promotion. And he would not forget this.”

(Phillips declined to speak to a reporter after the decision Tuesday.)

Chief Mills’ response to Phillips’ testimony, following the hearing:

“It made no sense for me to get up and address these issues (at the hearing),” he said, explaining why he did not testify at the hearing. “It’s a distraction from the issue at hand, no relevance to the incident that we’re dealing with.”

On Phillips’ recollection of Chief Mills telling him to withhold information about an underage drinking party: “I absolutely have never said any such words at any time... I’m saying it never happened. ”

“His effort was to make this about me and take the focus off of him.”

On approaching Phillips after his interview for lieutenant: “I did speak with him that I didn’t think it was necessary to discuss the aspect of our effort to create a permanent intermittent program because it had been documented. He may have sensed that I was not happy with that response to the questioning ... I speak my mind, I don’t hold things in. If I’m not happy with the way an officer does something I let them know.”

Allison Manning may be reached at amanning@ledger.com.

Ready...FIRE...Aim

Hingham Police Chief Taylor Mills is Hingham's biggest Hack-Cop. He rose from police-detail-work, so prominently configured in his bank account.

He's a Hacks-Hack and permits superior officer rip-offs by scheduling overtime and allowing his administrators to abuse, continue to abuse and then abuse some more the benefits of being a police officer in Hingham.

That is, if he likes you and if you are not competing for his job. Remember how he forced out an HPD Lieutenant who was vying for his potential job, the same one he holds today?

His critics have described him as a " No finer Man...Child"

Chief Mills, permits telling elementary school children that they could be charged with " assault and battery" by throwing a piece of notebook paper at another. These yesteryear scare tactics, of force and intimidation are innermost to Hingham's Bloated and top heavy Police Department.

Mills continues to allow his overstuffed and underutilized administrators to use taxpayer’s equipment, vehicles, insurance and gas for paid-private work duty. Has anybody ever looked at what his administrator’s paychecks look like year-over-year?

Surely they must look exactly like The State Police who account for 75% of their compensation with paid-detail work.

This fat body, Police Chief Mills clings to the old ways of punishment, everybody is guilty except us and fear as the only way. He allows his administrators to falsify police records, to make minor problems into federal cases just because: 'that's the way he's always done it'.

Todays case-in-point, see Patriot Ledger 12.10.08: " Horseplay or assault " located at http://www.patriotledger.com/homepage/x2031104992/Horseplay-or-assault-Answer-to-determine-fate-of-Hingham-police-lieutenant-

It suggests Mills is just another "hater" and if it's minor he can orchestrate it into an international terror-incident.

Chief Mills, please just take your millions, your lifetime retirement, lifetime health care and stay in The Cape. BTW, get-a-life.

High School Bully, Turned Bully HPD Cop

Former Hingham High School Bully, Sgt Richard Corcorhan, still is a bully. But now he is a bully with a gun and a badge,

Richard Parker described the Corcorhan's of the world as : " a sneering, posturing bully. He cares for no cause and no person, but himself." Another said: "No question of honor had ever penetrated that thick Neanderthal skull ".

A former ex said of Corcorhan: "He cared only about the fear he could install in people". He is a dangerous man, said another gentle woman.

In Higham High School he derived joy in other peoples pain, he caused. He was the one aggressive boy that always laughed at cripples and minorities.

Sgt. Corcorhan has been recently, described as a dangerous man. He is one of the aggressive boys we all knew in high school.

In High School the now HPD cop Richard Corcorhan had a history of starting fights, stealing, cheating, using drugs/alcohol and even using a weapon for intimidation.

Any doctor would suggest Sgt' Corcorhan's brain activity shows activation of the amygdala and ventral striatum, which are connected to feelings of reward (for his agressivce behavior) while the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporoparietal junction, areas linked to self-regulation and empathy, remained inactive.

This simply means Sgt Corcorhan has a dysfunctional brain which surely qualifies him for Hingham Police Department's administrative staff.

Taylor Mills - Asshole of The Year

I smoked many-a-joint with Taylor Mills, was said by a long time friend of Hingham's now Police Chief.

Hingham's Police Chief Mills has once again shown his ignorance of not only crime prevention but repeat offender issues in his commentary in The Hingham Journal.

Chief Mills is and has mostly been removed from 70% of our society and manages as if we are still in the prohibition era. Same arguments, different time.

It didn't work then and does not work now.

His logic is identical to the domino theory of drugs - smoke a joint and you will be a heroin addict overnight.

Mills needs to wake up from his Lo-Lo Land thinking. But, he cannot as 30 years of police work has turned him into a robot of: force-is-the-only-way.

Chief Mills and his administrative staff demean the authority they have been given, by ignoring laws and scientific evidence reflective in this years ballot question two.

Mills and his minions seem to think the people believe what he says especially, when the same century old arguments that have never worked, are employed.

Chief Mills would have us believe that warts are caused from frogs if there was any enforcement effort he could waste more time and money chasing.

It's just another tired, fear based argument for Chief Mills to pretend that his department actually needs his overstaffed and under worked administrative staff.

Mills is just another Hack Police Chief that thinks his opinion matters.