Lonewolf1
09-14-2008, 07:16 PM
The Ignoring of criminal activity by disregarding chain of command recommendations and collusion with the SAO to the point where they refuse to prosecute or even address police officer criminal conduct is just another downward step for LPD and the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the leadership.
Special treatment because you are a certain demographic does not grant you immunity, just because ministers and the NAACP speaks on your behalf it does not mean you are exempt from the same rules, regulations, and laws that everyone else have to obey. How many times did these same ministers and the NAACP come down to speak on the behalf of offices who were injured in the line of duty and cast aside? How many of these same community leaders spoke up when other members of the department were in trouble or even promoted? Turning a felon into a race issue is not only demeaning to the race, it is a blatantly racist tactic and no one, especially the Chief of Police should succomb to race based extortion. Sometimes some situations are not about who you are or what color your skin is, there is just right or wrong.
Understanding there is a lot of embarrassment and ill feelings about the hit that LPD is taking because of the lack of decisiveness and leadership coming from the 3rd floor, besides posting those here, write them down in an email to City Hall and in particular the City Manager here DouglasThomas@lakelandgov.net . Each and every city commissioner has an email address, write them and let them know how you feel.
Have your friends and family send him emails letting them know of your feelings and how the 3rd floor has continued to let the officers down, how morale has slumped to an all time low, how even some citizens are talking about PCSO taking over because their police department isn't what it used to be.
Besides a much needed Union vote of No Confidence, City Hall needs to understand this frustration and what is going on at LPD. A once proud and respected agency has become a shell of its former self, not because of the officers on the street, but because of a lack of leadership and negligent decision making. The "families" need to go.
Special treatment because you are a certain demographic does not grant you immunity, just because ministers and the NAACP speaks on your behalf it does not mean you are exempt from the same rules, regulations, and laws that everyone else have to obey. How many times did these same ministers and the NAACP come down to speak on the behalf of offices who were injured in the line of duty and cast aside? How many of these same community leaders spoke up when other members of the department were in trouble or even promoted? Turning a felon into a race issue is not only demeaning to the race, it is a blatantly racist tactic and no one, especially the Chief of Police should succomb to race based extortion. Sometimes some situations are not about who you are or what color your skin is, there is just right or wrong.
Understanding there is a lot of embarrassment and ill feelings about the hit that LPD is taking because of the lack of decisiveness and leadership coming from the 3rd floor, besides posting those here, write them down in an email to City Hall and in particular the City Manager here DouglasThomas@lakelandgov.net . Each and every city commissioner has an email address, write them and let them know how you feel.
Have your friends and family send him emails letting them know of your feelings and how the 3rd floor has continued to let the officers down, how morale has slumped to an all time low, how even some citizens are talking about PCSO taking over because their police department isn't what it used to be.
Besides a much needed Union vote of No Confidence, City Hall needs to understand this frustration and what is going on at LPD. A once proud and respected agency has become a shell of its former self, not because of the officers on the street, but because of a lack of leadership and negligent decision making. The "families" need to go.