“I feel like there’s this misperception, that youth and police are sort of antagonistic to each other, and it isn’t the message I’m getting, and I want to correct that image.”Įsparza said that he was “really honored” to get the endorsement.
“ that police officers have a role to play in all of our institutions, especially public schools,” he said. “I do believe restore mutual trust, and I do mean mutual, because our community has to be accountable,” she said.Įarls didn’t respond by deadline to a follow-up question about her feelings on the FOP endorsement.Įsparza told Austin Weekly News that addressing crime was his priority, and he believed that having a police presence in schools and parks, and keeping the officers consistently on the same beats would go a long way toward improving the relationship between the community and the police. “I’ve had subordinates whose behavior was corrected through counseling giving them an accountability partner,” she said, adding that she could only think of a handful of cases where that didn’t work and she had to fire them.Īs a life-long West Sider, Earls said she was conscious of the history between the community and the police in the 15th District – but she also believed that accountability was a two-way street.
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That is why, Earls said, it was important to not only hold the officers accountable, but make sure they get the professional support they need. It is this trauma, she argued, that is the root cause for use of force. That said, a union involvement in elections that affect its members isn’t unprecedented, either – the Chicago Teachers Union has been actively involved in electing Chicago mayors, who appoint members of the Chicago Board of Education. They will have a role in selecting the members of the city-wide Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, which will be responsible for selecting candidates for police superintendent, the head of the Community Office of Police Accountability, which is responsible for investigating allegations of police misconduct, and the Chicago Police Board, which has the final say on any disciplinary measures against police officers. It isn’t unusual for FOP to endorse political candidates in Chicago elections, but what makes these races different is that the district councils are meant to be intermediaries between the police and the community. Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7 (FOP), the labor union that represents Chicago police officers, endorsed 19 candidates running for local police district councils – including three candidates running in Austin.
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