2003 Denver Mayoral Transition
The letter to Mayor Hickenlooper's transition committee, from the Police union, upset many officers that do not agree with some of the statements about the current Chief, Gerry Whitman, according to the Rocky Mountain News [August 22, 2003, "Union's action angers cops"]. From the article, "More than two dozen Denver cops blasted their union Thursday for its push to get Denver Police Chief Gerry Whitman removed from office, an effort that raised the specter of a ticket-writing slowdown. Their complaint: The union's leadership was out of bounds in writing a letter to Mayor John Hickenlooper's transition committee linking Whitman to a number of controversies in the department and implying that officers would be less likely to write tickets, thereby denying the cash-strapped city of revenue, as long as he was still the chief." The Rocky [August 22, 2003, "Officers come to Whitman's defense"] has a list of items presented in Whitman's defense and an editorial bashing the union's letter [August 22, 2003, "Union threats mar police department"]. From the editorial, "The police union seems to have forgotten that the department is a paramilitary organization and officers don't have the right to choose their management."
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