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To Semper Paratus
You obviously haven't been here too long if you say Chief Mann did not have our backs.
Back 5 years ago T Mobile shooting, Chief Mann watches the video of Sgt Harrison being run over by 3 fleeing felons. He decides he is not sending the case to the grand jury because he sees no need to put his officers through that because he feels it is an absolutely justifiable shooting. He had those officers backs and the rest is history, 3 habitual offenders in jail for the next 20 years. Did he catch heat for his decision? would it have been the easy way out to send the shooting to the State Attorneys Office ?.yes but he backed us because apparently he felt it was the right thing to do.
Sgt Cuddeback gets locked up in Michigan for DUI, could he have fired him,? Answer, absolutely but because of his years on the job he sends him to rehab for a second chance. Unfortunately we all know how that story ended, but again he backed one of his officers.
Officers complain about the summer heat, he allows us to wear shorts in the summer, no previous CCPD Chief would have done that.
Then a few years later he orders us all new uniforms because they can help keep us cooler.
Chief Mann pumped a ton of money into our aging gym for the benifit of us.
He has allowed numerous officer to modify their shifts to accommodate crisis in their lives, because it was the right thing to do and he had our backs.
He ordered AR rifles for everyone on the department who wanted one, again citing officer safety, because he had our backs.
Before he was discarded like crap by a clueless City Manager he ordered bigger police vehicles for our officer (Explorers) citing officer safety to the city. In our Butterfly "green" city he made his case which was extremely difficult but he did it because he had our backs.
He refused to let the papers brand our officer in as being taser killers, by saying he felt they did notihing wrong. It is now common knowledge he wanted to get in front of this story from day one but the Chief was shut down by a City Manager who ordered that he not speak to the press. Then after she created the aura of cover up by not doing what Chief Mann wanted to do in the first place, see asked him to resign to cover up her chain of screw ups. As soon as the Chief was gone she ordered everyone in the taser incident be put on restricted duty. They did nothing wrong yet they are made to look like they did so the City Manager can look like she is doing something. Another rush to judgement instead of waiting for the facts to be revealed.
I just threw out a few examples on how the Chief has always been there for the rank and file, there are many more. The Chief didn't run away he was forced to leave by someone he was loyal to, who betrayed him at the first sign that we are no longer the sleepy little town she wants it to be. Chief Mann will be proved right just like he was in the T Mobole shooting, the officers did nothing wrong. The Chief cared about the troops and people in general, just ask Commisioners Tooley. The City did Chief Mann wrong.
There are people who did not like the Chief like Semper Paratus but my guess he is nothing more the a slimmy slug. The ones who dislike the Chief the most are the malcontents that want it to back the way it was before, good ole boys, and a lack of professionalism. Unfortunately for them Chief Mann changed that but again unfortunately he put his faith in a training division who failed. For that faith he was asked to leave.
Chief Mann always had our backs and because of that he was asked to leave.. The City Manager hasn't done the smart thing and made Lees Chief. The City Manager feels she is qualified to run the police department
How do you feel now? Do you think the City Manager had your back?????
The City Managers rush to judgement has cost us a great Chief. Let's hope the Commisioners can talk some sense into the delusional City Manager Mary Blaise and appoint Lees Chief of police.
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