Dear Everyone;
Last week the Sunday SF Chronicle had an OP/ED by Joseph McNamara the former San Jose Chief of Police who wrote about what had to be done about the out of control SFPD.
Based on our proposed Police Redeployment Petition to clearing all the major crimes backlog we are considering for City wide circulation I wrote an LTE supporting the OP/ED and todays Sunday SF Chronicle published it with the Libertarian affiliation.
Perhaps a consideration for modifying the Police Redeployment Petiton would be the points addressed in the OP/ED?
Why the week delay - who knows but it got published - that's what counts.
Here's the OP/ED by McNamara which if you haven't read you should as it addresses the internal workings on assignments and promotion by seniority not by capabilities or expertise or experience.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/23/EDGVPIBPP61.DTL&hw=joseph+mcnamara&sn=002&sc=260
Here's the LTE:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/30/EDGM4IF07U1.DTL
Dear Ron,
Once again, thank you and congratulations. You ask if LPSF should
modify our Police Redeployment Campaign to address the challenges
mentioned on the Chronicle OP/ED. My "vote" would be no. I would
rather state a desired result(less violent crimes and solving of
violent cases) and a broad suggestion as to how to achieve it (let
the petty stuff alone), to start.
Marcy
--- In lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com, Ron Getty <tradergroupe@...>
wrote:
Dear Everyone;
Last week the Sunday SF Chronicle had an OP/ED by Joseph McNamara
the former San Jose Chief of Police who wrote about what had to be
done about the out of control SFPD.
Based on our proposed Police Redeployment Petition to clearing
all the major crimes backlog we are considering for City wide
circulation I wrote an LTE supporting the OP/ED and todays Sunday SF
Chronicle published it with the Libertarian affiliation.
Perhaps a consideration for modifying the Police Redeployment
Petiton would be the points addressed in the OP/ED?
Why the week delay - who knows but it got published - that's what
counts.
Here's the OP/ED by McNamara which if you haven't read you should
as it addresses the internal workings on assignments and promotion by
seniority not by capabilities or expertise or experience.
f=/c/a/2006/04/23/EDGVPIBPP61.DTL&hw=joseph+mcnamara&sn=002&sc=260
Here's the LTE:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/30/EDGM4IF07U1.DTL
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sunday, April 30, 2006
At root of cops' troubles
Editor -- Joseph McNamara's Open Forum article ("Why San
Franciscans should fight to reinvent the SFPD,'' April 23) is
absolutely correct on the dysfunctional SFPD. The SFPD has this 5-
year back log of uncleared cases: 265 homicides, 1,000 forcible
rapes, 15,000 armed robberies. This many uncleared cases are an
indictment of the do-nothing SFPD command staff. Why is the SFPD
so dysfunctional? See the collective-bargaining section of Human
Resources on SFGov.org. Read the agreement between the Police
Officers Association and the city. Nothing in the agreement has
anything about appointing officers to positions based on
capabilities, experience and expertise. There is no performance or
accountability review required before a promotion and assignment
based on seniority. The SFPD command staff needs to immediately
redeploy officers from victimless crimes and nonessential duties to
solve the backlog of major felonies. The city and the POA must
rewrite the agreement
to include promotion and assignment by expertise, experience and
capabilities not seniority. RON GETTY Chair, Initiatives
Committee Libertarian Party San Francisco
Dear Marcy;
No problemo - just like in photography - focusing is always a good thing.
A totally separate police petition could address requiring the City and the POA to re-write the Memorandum of Agreement requiring expertise, experience and capabilities situation for promotion instead of just senority with additional requirements for regularly scheduled annualized psychological re-evaluation for all cops who do street - narcotics - homicide - sex crimes etc. to see if they are going bonkers.
It is a pre-employment requirement but after that one-time no more is done.
The closest is in the psychiatric evaluation after a police officer involved shooting where someone gets killed - whether innocent civilian or a bad guy.
Otherwise, something for further consideration at the next LPSF May 13.
Ron Getty
SF Libertarian
"Amarcy D. Berry" <amarcyb@...> wrote:
Dear Ron,
Once again, thank you and congratulations. You ask if LPSF should
modify our Police Redeployment Campaign to address the challenges
mentioned on the Chronicle OP/ED. My "vote" would be no. I would
rather state a desired result(less violent crimes and solving of
violent cases) and a broad suggestion as to how to achieve it (let
the petty stuff alone), to start.
Marcy
--- In lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com, Ron Getty <tradergroupe@...>
wrote:
Dear Everyone;
Last week the Sunday SF Chronicle had an OP/ED by Joseph McNamara
the former San Jose Chief of Police who wrote about what had to be
done about the out of control SFPD.
Based on our proposed Police Redeployment Petition to clearing
all the major crimes backlog we are considering for City wide
circulation I wrote an LTE supporting the OP/ED and todays Sunday SF
Chronicle published it with the Libertarian affiliation.
Perhaps a consideration for modifying the Police Redeployment
Petiton would be the points addressed in the OP/ED?
Why the week delay - who knows but it got published - that's what
counts.
Here's the OP/ED by McNamara which if you haven't read you should
as it addresses the internal workings on assignments and promotion by
seniority not by capabilities or expertise or experience.
f=/c/a/2006/04/23/EDGVPIBPP61.DTL&hw=joseph+mcnamara&sn=002&sc=260
Here's the LTE:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/30/EDGM4IF07U1.DTL
---------------------------------
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sunday, April 30, 2006
At root of cops' troubles
Editor -- Joseph McNamara's Open Forum article ("Why San
Franciscans should fight to reinvent the SFPD,'' April 23) is
absolutely correct on the dysfunctional SFPD. The SFPD has this 5-
year back log of uncleared cases: 265 homicides, 1,000 forcible
rapes, 15,000 armed robberies. This many uncleared cases are an
indictment of the do-nothing SFPD command staff. Why is the SFPD
so dysfunctional? See the collective-bargaining section of Human
Resources on SFGov.org. Read the agreement between the Police
Officers Association and the city. Nothing in the agreement has
anything about appointing officers to positions based on
capabilities, experience and expertise. There is no performance or
accountability review required before a promotion and assignment
based on seniority. The SFPD command staff needs to immediately
redeploy officers from victimless crimes and nonessential duties to
solve the backlog of major felonies. The city and the POA must
rewrite the agreement
to include promotion and assignment by expertise, experience and
capabilities not seniority. RON GETTY Chair, Initiatives
Committee Libertarian Party San Francisco
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