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The billboards Philadelphia FOP Lodge #5 posted on Interstate 95.
parties to find solutions.
“I don’t have a problem with having a meaningful conversa-
tion about how we can improve the judicial system,” the nation- al president proposed. “We have no examples even at the high- est level of how they can fix the problem, so I suggest we do that. I welcome the conversation because I don’t see how they can allow a little decay and not think it will encourage more decay.”
The elephant in the room during the meeting stirred up the political impact of holding prosecutors accountable. Apparent- ly, the district attorneys and state’s attorneys are willing to have victims in their communities simply to appease their own polit- ical agendas and supporters.
So to ultimately clean up the mess, the FOP might have to play on this field.
“We will need to raise the awareness of the public by remind- ing them of the problem so when it comes election time, they are educated about it,” Gamaldi charged. “We have to keep re- minding the voters because ultimately, we have to take out one of these prosecutors in an election. When they see one of them lose a highly contested election where the FOP is on the other side, that might be the difference. Because we’ve seen that they only care about getting reelected.”
If you read “The Watch” and listen to the Lodge 7 president, then you know one immutable truth: enough is enough.
“We must hold the county prosecutor responsible for the actions she takes,” Graham emphasized. “If criminals are held accountable for their actions, it will make the streets safer and police officers will be safer.”
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