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DOJ Will Issue Draft Police Reforms to a Fractured City Hall on Friday
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Suggest SPD hire some "expert advisers" from Sanford Police...they can suggest ways of executing undesirables (anyone who shouldn't be carrying a can of tea after 7pm) and turning the perps into heroes.
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I don't believe it is correct to note that "federal and local officials will... hammer out an agreement."
I believe that the DOJ will tell the City what it wants the City to do, and the City has almost no choice but to comply. Remember, at its heart this is a Title 6 issue, and at stake is every penny of federal money that the City receives.
I believe that the DOJ will tell the City what it wants the City to do, and the City has almost no choice but to comply. Remember, at its heart this is a Title 6 issue, and at stake is every penny of federal money that the City receives.
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Nothing new here; DOJ has already laid out the processes the city must follow. Mayor et al either agree or go to court. The meet is merely to accept the city's compliance.
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@4 SPOG will fight it regardless. I look forward to them standing up to the DOJ, and the comedy that Rich O'neill will unleash on Seattle with maximum force. Hopefully it's funny enough that the rank and file wise up and get new union leadership as a result.
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@1: Ridiculous off-topic comment. Talk about Seattle, not the South.
@5: Where do you get your information? I have direct contacts to the City Council and the group was fractured because the Fed won't tell them what they want or what their "standards" are because they don't have any "standards". If they did, every city in the country could adopt them prior to or during any investigation. This is why they don't give anyone their "standards"
@4: That is the hammer the Fed uses for everything, which is how the Fed usually gets what it wants in any situation which makes everything the Fed does suspect in my book.
@5: Where do you get your information? I have direct contacts to the City Council and the group was fractured because the Fed won't tell them what they want or what their "standards" are because they don't have any "standards". If they did, every city in the country could adopt them prior to or during any investigation. This is why they don't give anyone their "standards"
@4: That is the hammer the Fed uses for everything, which is how the Fed usually gets what it wants in any situation which makes everything the Fed does suspect in my book.
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@4...(continued)...that is why we have a minimum drinking age in this country! Federal funds under Reagan were denied to any state that refused to adopt 21 as the drinking age. It covers everything.
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All a good argument to neuter the SPOG in the next contract. Maybe the DOJ can have a rep on the city's bargaining committee, and then we will have real reform. Otherwise, the SPOG will just tie up the city in litigation over whether or not DOJ mandates are legal under labor relations law in Washington.
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@4) The post already says, "The parties must ultimately settle on a court agreement, meeting standards set by federal prosecutors, that outlines steps the city must take to correct endemic problems with the SPD..." So it says what I think you want it to say. But, by all accounts I've heard, there will be some negotiations.
@5) If the DOJ has already made known those specific reforms they will ask of the city on Friday, won't you kindly point them out to us?
@5) If the DOJ has already made known those specific reforms they will ask of the city on Friday, won't you kindly point them out to us?
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First - dump the union. (They are an expensive obstacle to doing what makes sense, as a whole.)
Then, listen to what the Feds say, then do what you want. Testing their authority is really about exposing the hypocrisy.
Funny thing is, the Feds are just bigger representation of what our fair City is. Hypocrisy is the norm. Sad, but true.
Then, listen to what the Feds say, then do what you want. Testing their authority is really about exposing the hypocrisy.
Funny thing is, the Feds are just bigger representation of what our fair City is. Hypocrisy is the norm. Sad, but true.
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