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We do not want a culture of police closing ranks in controversial situations or being generally hostile to the wider community.     How will the new Chief and the mayor encourage a climate where officers can report concerns or provide productive input to improve pro-community attitudes?    There are reports that the new chief has been retaliatory to an officer who raised concerns -- how can other officers be confident that they can express their concerns?

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regarding a Power of Attorney -- my mother named me as her POA many years ago; prior to her death I found that some financial institutions refuse to recognize a POA that is more than 18 months old -- meaning that she would have had to regularly renew that POA for me to be able to transact financial business on her behalf.    This may be a good idea (to prevent abuse) but no one gave us this information ahead of time -- it ended up causing unfortunate complications for me.

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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