What few people seem to be acknowledging is that thisWM: I don't have the information to say anything pertinent about John Delmonico; I don't know him. I have a mixed bag of thoughts about Robert Olson, though I have to say I was gobstruck with the way he drop kicked RT without breaking a sweat--twice, for the luv' a' Mike. Too, Olson has made staff appointments to the Third Precinct which have improved the situation in the precinct by miles over a period of years.
police department is unable to go even a month without
shooting someone who is not involved in a crime. ... This is something that will
continue as long as people like Robert Olson, Sharon Lubinsky and John Delmonico
are deciding MPD policy.
Lubinski is another story entirely. She is actually quite heroic in my estimation. She was the first GLBT person to come out in the MPD. It was a very dangerous decision; it might have cost her her life. (You couldn't get me to put on a noticeable set of clothes and run around in a flashy auty-mobile, if my photo had been in the Strib as "a lesbian" even though I are one.) I'm certain it has cost her in terms of, say, moving to another police department in a more amenable climate, for example, or hearing a lot of nasty blah-blah from assorted idiotic specimens of our species. She has been a very good manager of people to the extent that a sergeant, lieutenant or inspector can manage the behavior of a supervisee and of crowds when she has worked patrol seems like years ago she worked patrols. She cannot, nor can Olson, nor can anyone else be responsible for changing the attitude of one other person in the universe.
As a person I've worked with over the years, she has always been reliable, open to ideas, informative where she can be informative, willing to make changes and corrections, able to admit her mistakes. She is also a cop, and she takes pride in that. I don't find that offensive. People who do not take pride in their work (in this culture) can be very nasty to deal with.
On the level of codified responsibilities, she is not responsible for making MPD policy. She interprets it and holds her supervisees accountable for its execution. I have seen officer performance and professionalism improve when those officers have been under her direction. I have seen already good officers smile more, look more relaxed. (She also supervises some who are very reluctant dragons, none too willing to take direction, even direction in their own best interests. That doesn't make them any different from the rest of us.)
She was, in my estimation, highly praised by one of her supervisees when he said (not in her hearing), "She lets you do your work." That's my idea of a fantastic boss. I've always accomplished much more for my employers when they've let me do my work.
WizardMarks, Central
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