An ill-timed police lawsuit

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Mathias D wrote:

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You adopted the screen name "nobody cares". You seem to imply that the citizens do not care about several things, including the law or a contract.
You acknowledge the management issues that led up to the lawsuit. You state that we are underpaid, but paid well enough. You claim we have a good reputation with other agencies and organizations we work with.
You have been able to provide for your family and understandably do not want to seem to profit while your neighbors suffer.
I think you imply that doing the "right thing" means forgoing our raise and dropping the current lawsuit.
I think we can agree to disagree. I stated twice in that post that I expect to take a pay cut. I just said I will not vote for it. I will not be the only one, just as you will not be alone if voting to forgo the raise for future promises.
As far as heroes seeking the limelight, I am not sure what that is all about. My post, like yours, was a response to this op-ed piece. When heroes are blamed or falsely accused, who stands to defend them? You agree that the PT has served up the PD as a scapegoat. That "everybody" has bought into that idea. What if it is wrong? Do we do the right thing then?
The morale of our department is being negatively impacted by this (as it always is around contract time) because our representatives have not spoken to us or for us publicly. We are in the dark and suspicious because we have seen this play before.
When we signed our contract your classmates and those senior to you said then, "The city will not bring us to the median. They always promise and then never do. You watch, they will not give us that last raise."
That was 2005. I believed the union board and the mayor and the city leaders when they said they would...that they had to, it was a binding contract.
The right thing to do is to acknowledge that you overextended, that you planned poorly, that you made a promise you could not deliver. Blaming the PD, or implying we are greedy and insensitive is not the "right thing to do", when you have agreed to the terms.
That is what I meant by it being unpopular or difficult, that and changing the way the money is managed. As a resident of this city, you should demand nothing less from your civic leaders, unless you as a police officer really believe that your extravagant compensation is the sole or main reason this city is struggling financially.