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From the article: 'Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he supports the commissioner’s decision to suspend Bigda because of the likelihood firing him would not
by edc117 10y ago
From the article:
'Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he supports the commissioner’s decision to suspend Bigda because of the likelihood firing him would not survive a civil service appeal and the city would be ordered to rehire the cop with back pay.
" I am not happy about it. This is what was recommended," Sarno said. " It is a most severe suspension of 60 working days without pay and retraining."
Barbieri told The Republican newspaper that Bigda will be reassigned to uniform duty on a day shift when his suspension ends.'
The people in charge here do not sound happy, so I suspect his career prospects will be fairly limited going forward, but who knows for sure.
That said, I agree the focus should be on what can be changed. The primary difficulty appears to be the Civil Service Commissions - why are these organizations defending civil servants who are clearly in the wrong?
- kbenson 10y ago> why are these organizations defending civil servants who are clearly in the wrong? Likely because their members want it, some because they perceive the evidence to be stacked against them, so instinctively mistrust what their employers are presenting. Put another way, there are instances where the rank-and-file police become the scapegoats for officers higher in the hierarchy, or for mistakes made by the judicial branch, and their union is expected to protect them in these instances. Unfortunately, deciding when to defend an officer and when not to is often problematic because the information available may not be perfect, due to the nature of the agency and the power of those involved at all levels. Defaulting to defending the officer in question except in the more egregious cases is actually a sane policy in that case, even if it leads to the defense of the apparently indefensible.