| A modest group of concerned Inglewood residents, civic leaders and political candidates gathered at Faithful Central Baptist Church to join in a stimulating and meaningful discussion about the recent events that received national coverage in the media. |
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| Saturday’s meeting lacked the packed, tense, “bussed-in” carnival-like atmosphere of a gathering held a few weeks earlier at Morningside High School. That event was characterized by some observers as a “gathering of the outsiders,” who created a “We’ve Hit The Lottery” atmosphere, complete with the star-appearance of Jackson family and their lawyer, Johnny Cochran, who is reported to have since left the case. | |
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District #4 Councilwoman Judy Dunlap, who is also a candidate for Mayor, chaired Saturday’s meeting at Faith Central Church. And from the start the panel and audience focused on exploring and developing discussing corrective options geared to improving relations between the local citizens and the police.
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| Detective Neil Murray, President of the Inglewood Police Association spoke and shared his organization’s concerns regarding the recent spate of draconian measures that have been announced by City Hall which may violate State Laws and the collective bargaining agreements between the police and the city. |
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| n was also focused on Mayor Dorn’s ordinance calling for a Citizen Police Review Board which was on the Agenda for the August 13th Council Meeting. Most panel members felt the ordinance was hastily written and needed more input and development. A number of speakers were bothered by the current administration’s approach that appears to pit the residents against the police. However, most shared a common theme. They wondered, after reading articles reporting Inglewood with a “backlog” of over a hundred unresolved citizen complaints against the police, if this wasn’t a clear indication that our current administration was “asleep at the wheel?” | |
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Councilwoman Dunlap echoes those thoughts while adding that in granting Mayor Dorn the sole authority to appoint all of the members to this commission, and providing the City Administrator sole powers to decide punishment, was comparable to the government allowing Enron Executives and their Anderson Accountants the sole authority to audit and ratify their own financial misdeeds |
Further inquiries can be forwarded to:
Councilwoman Judy Dunlap
(310) 677-5040 - Fax (310) 677-4870
Email: judy@judydunlap.org