What Would You Ask the Police Chief Finalists?
Three finalists have been named to take over for longtime Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier.
If you could pose one question to each of the three finalists for Braintree Police Chief, what would you ask?
Tonight at 7 p.m. there will be a public forum at Town Hall, also broadcast live on BCAM, in which the final candidates are questioned by local officials. Mayor Joseph Sullivan will then make his final selection, likely next week.
One of the three will take over for Interim Chief Lt. Michael Moschella, who temporarily took the top spot after longtime Chief Paul Frazier retired in August.
Along with Russell Jenkins, who has been with the Braintree Police Department for nearly 30 years, the finalists are Framingham Deputy Chief Craig W. Davis and Richard Rudolph, a Commanding Officer and Lieutenant in the Detective Bureau of the New York City Police Department.
What public safety issue are you most concerned about? How would the new chief handle it? Pose your question below in the comments, and also stay with Braintree Patch for more coverage of the final selection.
cheryl jones
7:38 am on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
I would like to know how the new chief plans to address discrimination against women, sexual harassment and retaliation against victims of sexual harassment who come forward, and the denial of women's constitutional and civil rights, including blocking access to the justice system via use of "Good Old Boys" corruption.
I would also like to know if the new chief would address the corruption between the taxi cab companies and the police.
LCT
5:11 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Would the new chief be more accommodating with regards to our Second Amendment Rights to own and carry a gun? As it currently stands one can be denied, with no reason given, a permit to carry even if one fulfills all the cumbersome requirments and expensives. ($100 application fee; $75-$125 to take a safety course; $75 to apply for membership in a gun club & $100 a year to maintain membership; 5 letters of "recommendation" from friends). Frankly the 5 letters bothered me more than the money; I didn't like "advertising" I was getting a gun, people talk too much.
The City of Quincy also had this problem until their previous Chief left and the Mayor of Quincy directed the new Chief to issue the permits as requests by residents if they were qualified.
Braintree has stiffer rules than many cities/towns in the Commonwealth. It hardly seems fair that if I lived in Quincy I could get a permit to carry but be denied by my own town.
When I received my permit (target only) I questioned why I had not received what I asked for (carry) & was met with a silent stare. This left me believing either the Police are against women carrying weapons or on a mission to deny one's Second Amendment Rights and/or somehow feel I'm not "worthy" of a "permit" to utilized my Rights. I wouldn't be surprised to find that if I was "connected" to someone in Town government or law enforcement in some manner, I probably wouldn't have been denied.