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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is awful. What in the world were these cops thinking? How is the county council only finding about this because of this lawsuit?

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/lawsuit-alleges-police-harassed-assaulted-5-year-old-boy/[/quote]

Cops? Yeah, horrible. What about the MCPS loonies who stood by and watched this happen? Fire them. Now.[/quote]
Aren't the two cops still employed?[/quote]

Very difficult to fire them.  If the chief recommended it, the could take it to an outside appeal board.   And then the final authority rests with that outside appeal board that has a union member on it.

This is what drives me nuts about the council and Elrich.  They yell and scream about police reform but they are completely unwilling to touch the union contract.   You can't have the union contract as it stands today and actually get anywhere with police reform.   The contract protects all the bad cops.[/quote]

Councilmember Reimer sent out an email on this very topic the other day. It included these two bullets that the Council was taking up:

[i]Reforming how discipline works to empower the Police Chief to discipline officers who violate policies — and abolishing the FOP's dysfunctional discipline policy that has been found highly problematic as highlighted in this NY Times editorial (Bill 34-20)

Bringing transparency to the collective bargaining agreement and limiting the FOP's ability to undermine critical public policy objectives adopted by the Council or MCPD Chief (Bill 34-20)[/i]

Now, I don't think that Riemer is moving quickly or aggressively enough on these issues, but he and some of his peers are actually trying to tackle the union and discipline pieces. If Elrich is the obstacle, that's interesting information. [/quote]

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