Plainfield Police Benevolent Association President Andre Crawford said Sunday his union is not in favor of a proposal to name two city men constables Monday.
The City Council will be asked to approve Sheldon Green and Frank Rokins as constables at the regular meeting, 8 p.m. Monday in Municipal Court. The matter came up in correspondence from Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs last week and since then bloggers and others have been busy trying to learn more about constables and what they do. Click here for Plaintalker's previous post.
Crawford said he was at a convention in Connecticut when he got a call about the proposal. His reaction? "We are adamantly opposed to anybody being able to do any police functions," he said Sunday.
Aong concerns about the proposed resolution, Crawford said state legislation is pending that will require six months of training for constables. He also questioned why Green, a city firefighter, would seek a constable position.
"We are not attempting to be firefighters," he said. of his members. "We have real issues with the whole situation."
Crawford said PBA representatives will attend Monday's meeting to get more information.
"The whole thing doesn't sit well," he said.
--Bernice
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Why is it that no one in the administration ever seems to be able to answer the simple question "why"? Is it because their actions rarely have a thought out plan? Is it because their actions are planned from outside of the official administration? Are they afraid of the reactions of the "crybabies"? Are they trying to hide something? Why?
ReplyDeleteI believe that Sheldon Green is Jerry's son. Need any more be said?
ReplyDeleteCan anyone say......." HEY...PLAINFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT, as much as all of us like you and support you....all of you stood right behind her at every chance you got!!"
ReplyDelete------------------ YOU GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR !!
VOTE SMART, NOT BY PARTY.
( and so you all of the Police Department remembers..nothing she does is without Jerry's ok )
Rob,
ReplyDeleteNot all stood behind her then and not all stand behind her now, just the ones with the loudest voices...
Guess Jerry's son, Sheldon, needs a little more of our cash in his pocket.
ReplyDeleteCrawford is just worried that one of the new constables will get his spot outside G.O.Kellers saving Plainfield from all the criminals not using their seatbelts or talking on a cell!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I agree and believe that to be entirely true, 100%, without a doubt I believe you are correct.
ReplyDeleteBut that's the problem with places like Plainfield. You have the vocal minority in situations like the Mayor and her former hug-a-bunnies photo op cops always going out of their way to lay their lips upon her rosy smiling cheeks, whilst the "majority" sits their quietly.
By not standing up against it and calling it out...they not only supported her, they have become complicit in her perceived support from the police department in all she does.
Much like the New Democrats vocally and continually having an issue with the reign of Jerry Green and Sharon Robinson-Briggs, but yet they stood there and screamed "VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LINE"...in the last election.
If the majority of the police department has an issue with the Mayor, start calling her out in Public en masse as the now VOCAL Majority instead of the silent majority. It's a bit more effective to show the divisive nature of people like the Mayor and King Jerry when attempting to change their policies or remove them from office.
The voting public is not smart enough to see 10 cops supporting the mayor as "NOT" the whole department.
I wrote the City Council members letting them know that they should not vote for constables and they need to remember who voted for them. I hope others will do the same. We need to get Sharon and her ilk out of office and get Sharon and Jerry's relatives off the payroll. They all want us to pay for them until they die, and I'm not willing to do that, if it means I have to move from my hometown of 30+ years.
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