One week ago on this blog, San Jose Police Officers' Association President Bobby Lopez posted a challenge he issued to Mayor Reed and the entire City Council. He asked that our city leaders sign a pledge to:
• Return San Jose to the rank of “Safest Big City in America” within the next five years;
• Support our officers by refraining from knee-jerk reactions to activist complaints, particularly from those who lack expertise; and
• Involve more neighborhood leaders on committees and task forces regarding public safety.
We noted that not every member of the Council had signed or committed to sign the pledge. In the comments that followed Sgt. Lopez's post, our readers asked that we reveal the names of councilmembers who had not signed on. In the interest of sunshine and open government, we feel it's only fair to do so:
Signed pledge
Mayor Chuck Reed
Vice Mayor Judy Chirco
Councilmember Pete Constant
Councilmember Ash Kalra
Councilmember Kansen Chu
Councilmember Nora Campos
Councilmember Madison Nguyen
Councilmember Nancy Pyle
No response
Councilmember Sam Liccardo
Councilmember Rose Hererra
Other
Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio responded to our request to say that he does not sign pledges as a matter of principle.
NOTE: The Mayor and Council were contacted multiple times regarding the pledge after Sgt. Lopez hand delivered it at a City Council meeting.
Monday, July 20, 2009
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Thanks for posting this. I am not surprised by Liccardo's behavior, but I am by Rose's. The POA donated a fair amount of time and money to help her win a tight race. Hum. This is sad indeed.
ReplyDeleteI have asked PO to tell us why he didn't want to sign on, dispite his claim of principle. I also asked where he stands on the POA and SJPD. Look for is response, if I get one under his odd column today, on SJI.
I wouldn't read much into Rose not signing. She and her staff are considered weak, maybe even incompetent, inside City Hall.
ReplyDeleteAs for Liccardo, it's either arrogance or stupidity. Hard to tell sometimes.
Oliverio is just odd. This was kind of no brainer thing to sign. He doesn't seem to get it.
City Hall doesn't get the fact that we are all anger. We passed Measure O and then those stupid measure J on the promise that it was for public safety. Well where did it go. Let each council person answer that or should we ask the the head of the city Deb! We were promised many thing but everyone seems to have forgotten. We were flat out lied too. I've told all my nieghbors to buy gun because we are going to have take care of our own familes. I bet if Deb needs she will get the whole department. With the Chief kissing up to her. The wild west is coming back but at least we have art.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone be surprized to see that Licardo chose not to support our police officers? I believe he made it perfectly clear that he does not support the men and women who protect us when he proposed that idiotic memorandum to "censor" the POA for exercising their first amendment rights. Apparently the common senseless councilman believes the Murky news reporters, ACLU supporters and Debug thugs will come to his rescue in the event he gets mugged. I am sure they will help catch his assailants. The councilman needs to wake up and smell the coffee. This will take him further than his Havard degree.
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I saw that Pete Constant signed it right when it was passed out in the council meeting, had a staff member walk it right out to Bobby during the meeting. Then he made a statement encouraging everyone to do the same.
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