Abramson tries to cancel Officer's Health Insurance...AGAIN!

In case you didn't realize it, and some people don't. The FOP has nothing to do with this website. It used to be the FOP website until Bill Keeling took over in 2006. The first thing he did was to pull the plug on the website and kick the webmaster out of the Lodge. He didn't want to make waves with Jerry Abramson. The membership LOVED this website. It is paid for by a consortium of business people and private donors that want nothing other than to see this beacon of truth continue. They don't want to meddle or tell anyone what to say or how to run it. They support our Officers on the street and want the public to have the best information availble.

You are 100% correct. Work actions are against the contract and against comon sense. Our Police Officers have families and live in this community also so we would never do anything to endanger your family or anyone elses. I think what the original post meant was that we "send a message" like we did when Gene Sherrard was demoted. For 3 weeks everyone was disconsolate over the fact that the man who stood up for what he believed in and stood behind the troops was demoted in a political gesture to appease the loudmouths from the Justice Resource Center.

Everyone quit writing tickets and quit doing anythng extra. Soon the courthouse was empty and the attorney's pocketbooks were drying up. They complained to Mayor Armstrong and got immediate results. He offered us an Olive Branch bygiving us another strong Police Chief, Greg Smith who we all respected.

Lastly I would like to point out that Officers continued to make all their runs. People that needed to go to jail went to jail. Speeders received a lot of warnings during that period and nobody was stopped for expired tags etc... if you get my drift. Did you know that Abramson takes the $20 that he receives from every citation and puts it into the general fund instead of back into the Police Department like state Law says he should?

I agree. Get the council involved and act professionally at all times. Let the FOP file the grievance and injunction like they did on '03. It was the support of the Council and the rulings in court that defeated Abramson. He hates to lose face publicly and that is why he settled.

Yes people are losing their jobs and retirement savings. I was afraid to open my Deffered Compensation statement the other day because I knew it would be ugly. I also haveenough sense to know that stocks will go back up and not to cash them in. As a matter of fact this is a good time to buy some stocks while they are low.

Are you really naïve enough to believe that the general public cares that we get a ?sweet? health insurance policy for next to nothing, while they pay several hundred dollars for a crappy one? If you people don?t grow up now and realize that by not standing up for your rights, and by that I mean a work slow down, you will lose more than your city insurance. Just look at what changes are coming out of Frankfort. Make your runs, do what KRS requires you to do and no more. Why do anything else? You can still keep the community safe by not writing tickets and anyway, do you think they are going to put everyone on late watch? You can flame me if you want for having a bad attitude and tell me to retire (which, thank God I?ve already signed my papers) but I?ve been here for 20 years and every time we got screwed, we took it. You guys now run the show, and finally the Dept. is large enough to hurt the City and the Big Giant Head. Its up to you to do it now.