Police Union President's new plan?
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SAN BERNARDINO — The police union’s president vows that his organization will take a more active role in community relations.
Police Officers’ Association President Rich Lawhead hinted that he’s planning to unveil a new approach to improve relations between the police and community.
In addition to becoming a “more assertive presence in shaping the crime-fighting agenda,” Lawhead said he will suggest ways to alleviate crime and improve community relations, traditionally the territory of the mayor, city council and police chief.
“We will also introduce some plans and projects we will undertake to directly target some of the systemic causes of crime in our city,” Lawhead told a crowd of more than 200 gathered at the National Orange Show’s Valencia Room for the union’s 2007 awards banquet on Friday.
"Lawhead said he will suggest ways to alleviate crime and improve community relations."
To suggest is great, but to create and pass laws without the public vote, I really am getting tired of seeing.
Maybe he should recommend to the officers that they should be involved in the community.....the newly formed PAL (Police Activities League) would be a great place to start!
Oh wait! That would require TELLING the officers that it exists!
Last week I was speaking with a couple of them and they didn't even know that it was happening at the new Phoenix Center.
Communication, novel idea, no?!?
The Phoenix is quickly being extinguished by the Vultures...#54 logged, errr...uh...I meant crossed out yesterday...
If the victim would have been allowed to play basketball, or "shoot" pool would he still be alive? Maybe if he had been given a television, he could have been at home watching the local PBS channel...
SB wake up and address the true issues surrounding the excessive murders that occur in the city!
The recent rain has suppressed the rise of the almighty Phoenix.
PS...
SB Vulture #2 would like a new Sharpie pen for Christmas. (Needed to better "communicate" the decline in the population on local signs.)
The Phoenix is quickly being extinguished by the Vultures...#54 logged, errr...uh...I meant crossed out yesterday...
If the victim would have been allowed to play basketball, or "shoot" pool would he still be alive? Maybe if he had been given a television, he could have been at home watching the local PBS channel...
SB wake up and address the true issues surrounding the excessive murders that occur in the city!
The recent rain has suppressed the rise of the almighty Phoenix.
PS...
SB Vulture #2 would like a new Sharpie pen for Christmas. (Needed to better "communicate" the decline in the population on local signs.)
DeAr SaNtA,
If you need a funding source for the Sharpie pen I have requested, please contact Mayor P. Morris and see if he will approve expenditure from the Measure Z funds...
Santa, I have have been super duper busy this year. My New Year resolution is to manage my time more effectively.
I would appreciate it if one of your elfs could make an electronic sign that can roll the population down for me.
Thank you Santa!
203,691
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203,690 (and counting down)
Well, it's obvious that we need to get far beyond the paternalistic political theater of Mayor Paddy. Thirty-five years ago, we had youth centers and recreational programs for the grandparents of today's thugs, and it failed to stop crime. The schools have CAPS programs to babysit kids; that does not stop crime. Instead of balloons and basketballs, we need some practical, useful job training programs like the ones that Operation Second Chance used to provide in the late '60s and the 1970s. We also need a cultural turnaround where parents (and other elders) will encourage children to acquire knowledge and value academics so that they have the rudimentary skills to benefit from job training programs and employment opportunities that become available to them. If Mayor Paddy would spend less effort slandering the city attorney and fighting the City Council; and spend more time on economic development (other than warehouse building)and in networking with other municipal officials to forge a coalition to have consistent job development programs throughout the state, maybe we would get somewhere. Operation Pheonix is a goofy makeshift pallative that provides no fundamental solutions to any problems.
The first thing Lawhead needs to do is stop condoning the sell of those offensive T-shirts. Take a stand dude, be a leader!!!