{"id":6011,"date":"2009-12-20T19:12:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2009-12-20T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:12:16","slug":"danville-polices-dog-shooting-case-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/20\/danville-polices-dog-shooting-case-back-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Danville Police&#8217;s dog shooting case back in the news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And in his letter, former chief Neal Morris takes some shots of his own at Danville Police Chief Philip Broadfoot. Hoo boy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpcva.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/18\/chatham\/opinion\/opinion01.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Police chief owes officer an apology; Retired chief takes Broadfoot to task<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We need a Big Board to look at all of the issues that this letter raises&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The supervisor picked up a four-day suspension for his actions in the investigation, which he filed a grievance on.<\/li>\n<li>According to Morris, the grievance hearing was held a long time after the incident and the suspension was reduced to one day (with that notification apparently coming an amount of time after the hearing).<\/li>\n<li>The supervisor took that decision up to the next level to the City Manager&#8217;s office. After that hearing, the supervisor was cleared of all wrongdoing, but the charges were pulled by Broadfoot because of things learned in that hearing.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing has been said to the public about what&#8217;s going on, unlike the two press conferences that were held during the initial phase of the incident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With that recap of the &#8220;facts&#8221; (with that word used loosely because I haven&#8217;t been able to verify any of Morris&#8217; letter as of now), here are some questions I&#8217;ve got about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since this incident was worthy enough of two press conferences and public statements, why hasn&#8217;t a subsequent statement been issued regarding an update on this incident?<\/li>\n<li>Since the police chief issued a statement saying that disciplinary action would be taken against the supervisors, is the police chief morally obligated to issue a statement regarding the dismissal of charges against one supervisor? Does the fact that this supervisor&#8217;s name has never been released make things different?<\/li>\n<li>Did Murrill McLean (the officer that killed the dog) file a grievance regarding his firing? If so, what&#8217;s the status on that?<\/li>\n<li>With Neal Morris being a constant critic of Broadfoot&#8217;s command, is this letter an accurate description of what&#8217;s happened so far? (Note: At this time, it seems that Morris has an inside source on what&#8217;s happening, so I&#8217;m giving him credibility on this.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to take this new information. Broadfoot seems like a great guy and he really has the desire to keep the city safe. It&#8217;s a shame that an incident like this has to come up and bring office politics and internal squabbles into the public&#8217;s eye. I have to balance that by wondering that if someone is cleared of charges that were alluded to in a public statement, don&#8217;t they deserve another public statement acknowledging the dismissal of said charges?<\/p>\n<p>More to come as I try &amp; learn more of what&#8217;s going on&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in his letter, former chief Neal Morris takes some shots of his own at Danville Police Chief Philip Broadfoot. 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