LMPD's recent history of large lawsuit settlement payments, lost merit board hearings and criminal-officers allowed to resign without charges suggests the legal advice is lacking in competency. The way they have just dug deeper holes for themselves supports that too. It's hard to fire O'Connell but Sims should be replaced with outside counsel at a competent law firm. The city doesn't have enough money to be paying for all these settlements.
LMPD's recent history of large lawsuit settlement payments, lost merit board hearings and criminal-officers allowed to resign without charges suggests the legal advice is lacking in competency. The way they have just dug deeper holes for themselves supports that too. It's hard to fire O'Connell but Sims should be replaced with outside counsel at a competent law firm. The city doesn't have enough money to be paying for all these settlements.