RCJ Parry has a lengthy post on TheFCBlog about how the Monrovia Police Officers Association has been ill treated by the city even after the shooting of Sgt. Dan Verna early Sunday.

From Parry’s commentary:

Regardless of your opinion of the Monrovia Police Officers Associations tactics, the City of Monrovia has clearly taken the most egregious steps possible in attacking not only the MPOA, but the Police Department itself.

The City Council voted Tuesday night to study three measures which would utterly destroy the police department – one of which would directly impact crime fighting efforts and, in fact, will unquestionably bring the current anti-gang effort to a screeching halt.

The proposals reflect the councils complete and utter ignorance of police work, an astounding failure to understand markets (or intentional sabotage of MPD) and the individual council members personal contempt for the officers of the department. Remarkably, all this came barely three days after MPD Sergeant Dan Verna came within a fraction of an inch of dying at the hands of a common thief.

This is strictly punitive, Phil Nelson, MPOA president, told me. It has nothing to do with improving police services in this community.

The whole enchilada is here.