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THE CHIEF-LEADER welcomes letters from its readers for publication. I never thought I would see the day the City of New York would stoop so low as to accuse a Detective in the Police Department of causing his own illness and death. In recent articles the City Medical Examiner, Dr. More ... NYPD Officer Sean Sawyer appears to have no defense to several violations of Police Department regulations in the fatal road rage shooting of Jayson Tirado - regardless of what triggered the shooting. First, a New York City police officer is required to immediately notify a supervisor when he fires his weapon for any reason - other than practice at the firing range. More ... Wayne Bayer's recent letter to the editor attacking the Civil Service Employees Association (Oct. 19 issue) was as wrong as it was insulting to the CSEA membership. He is, at best, misinformed when he charges that CSEA's membership has declined in recent years. More ... Congratulations to John McCarthy (Oct. 26 letter) for embarrassing himself in honor of TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint. He will now be allowed to remain on release time to represent members while every elected officer in his division who opposed "corporate Roger" is being denied release time. More ... Do you ever read the responses from Police Officers about our contract talks? If you did, you would notice that just about all are in favor of Pat Lynch and not the city. The other unions just surrendered and gave in to the city. However, Pat Lynch knows that his members are undervalued, so he refused to put his members out for sale as the other unions did. More ... The vitriolic anti-Israel letter of 10/19/07 published in your paper is nothing less than an anti-Semitic letter purporting to be an objective trade-union opinion. Anyone who uses the term "Naqba" for the establishment of Israel is calling for the destruction of Israel and the extermination of its Jewish inhabitants. More ... |
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