NAACP wants the Racine Board of Police and Fire Commissioners to return to original process
Gloria Rogers, president of the local branch of the NAACP, said
that a dark cloud has been cast over the city due to the Racine Board of Police
and Fire Commissioner’s announcement that the PFC plans to re-open the
selection process to hire a new Chief.
“We see no need for commissioners to unravel a process that seems
to have been fair and transparent up to this point,” said Rogers. She adds, “We fail to see the logic of reentering
the applications of applicants that were initially rejected.”
Journal
Times quoted Deputy City Attorney Scott Letteny as saying the final three
candidates were the best candidates of all the applicants. “How can people in the community be happy when they are
witnessing such a blatant act of injustice perpetrated on two of their own
officers,” she said.
Rogers said that the local branch will ask the Commissioners to
reverse their decision, and continue the original process of selecting a new
chief. “We would hate to think
that the two remaining officers were never really finalists, but only included
to create the appearance that the process was fair and transparent,” she
explained.
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