Text. Black Police Association President blasts white FOP police leader.

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2 Cincinnati newspaper articles with remarks from the brave head of Cincinnati\'s black police officers organization. Sentinel Police Association President Scotty Johnson. A breath of fresh air when compared to that race-baiting, moronic, white head of the Fraternal Order of Police, Keith Fangman. Keith Fangman is regularly given the podium of \"the Big One\" WLW 700 AM radio, a local 50,000 watt, hate-radio, call-in, talk-radio station that sometimes can be heard across 38 states.

Cincinnati Post. May 19, 2001.
http://www.cincypost.com/2001/may/19/marchs051901.html

Sentinel president slams Fangman for march remarks

By Paul Gottbrath and Jennifer Edwards, Post staff reporters


The head of Cincinnati\'s black police officers organization said the police union and its president turned Friday\'s police memorial march into a soapbox from which to attack critics, including leaders in the African- American community.

Sentinel Police Association President Scotty Johnson said he thought Fraternal Order of Police President Keith Fangman could blast city leaders - including Mayor Charlie Luken and City Manager John Shirey - in public without fear of discipline because his remarks reflect what some police administrators are thinking but don\'t dare say without risking their jobs.

\'\'I doubt Keith has ever been called in (by superiors) to explain anything he\'s said,\'\' Johnson said at the Cincinnati on the Real Side conference Friday at Integrity Hall in Bond Hill. \'\'The FOP has a strong hold on this city.\'\'

Johnson said he would not attend Friday\'s ceremonies.

Fangman said he thought it \'\'a shame\'\' that Johnson couldn\'t be with the family of Officer Kevin Crayon, a black officer who was dragged to death last September, at Friday\'s memorial.

\'\'And I am also sorry he (Johnson) couldn\'t be here with the dozens and dozens of African-American officers to celebrate the lives of our cops who made the ultimate sacrifice,\'\' Fangman said.

Johnson said the Sentinels have drawn up a list of changes - which he wouldn\'t divulge - they want the FOP to make and will present it to the union soon.

How negotiations go over those changes will help to determine whether the Sentinels\' 258 members remain in the FOP, he said. Four Sentinels already have quit the union.


Publication date: 05-19-01

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Cincinnati Post. May 19, 2001.
http://www.cincypost.com/2001/may/19/cops051901.html

Conference-goers offer remedies to close police-community rift.

By Paul Gottbrath, Post staff reporter


Hire more black officers and promote them to supervisory jobs.

Move white officers assigned to patrol predominantly black neighborhoods into the community so they aren\'t looked on as an \'\'occupying force.\'\'

Stop basing enforcement on who a person is or where he lives.

Those were among remedies offered Friday at the Cincinnati on the Real Side conference in Bond Hill for the unrest that erupted in rioting following the April 7 police shooting of a black teen.

The conference, sponsored by the Cincinnati African-American Firefighters\' Association and Communiplex Entrepreneurs, explored ways to build economic, educational, union and political bridges over the gap between whites and blacks in the city. But much of the program focused on how to improve community-police relations.

Cincinnati Human Relations Council head Cecil Thomas, a retired cop, said too many young officers have no relationship with people they serve in the African-American community. \'\'They\'re not getting out of their cars, talking to the young folks, getting to know them,\'\' he said. \'\'They need to establish a relationship way above that of police and citizen.\'\'

George Beatty, president of the West End Community Council, sees that detachment as \'\'a recipe for disaster\'\' and asked why more blacks couldn\'t be assigned to those areas.

Lt. Col. Ronald Twitty, the highest ranking black in the Police Division, said the city did bring in more minority officers to riot-torn areas temporarily. The city needs more African-American officers, sergeants and higher ranks, he said.

\'\'Jackson, Miss., has a black police chief,\'\' he said. \'\'Biloxi, Miss., has had a black chief for the past 14 years.\'\'

Officer Philip Penn Jr., a resource officer at Woodward High School, said he thought part of the problem was police training. \'\'You\'ve got officers with two years\' experience who don\'t know the job trying to train new officers,\'\' he said.

Sentinel Police Association President Scotty Johnson said the Police Division\'s woes ran deeper than training or scheduling. There are still two sets of rules for enforcement, he said, depending on geography and constituency.

\'\'We need to have the same smile on our face when we\'re riding in the West End as when we see\'\' Procter & Gamble chairman John Pepper, he said.

He said the city needed to get rid of its \'\'rogue\'\' officers, and urged support of changes in the city charter that would make it easier to discipline officers.

Publication date: 05-19-01


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