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EXECUTIVE BOARD
DEAN C. ANGELO, SR.
President
RAY CASIANO, JR.
First Vice President
Frank DiMaria Second Vice President Daniel D. Gorman Third Vice President Greg Bella Recording Secretary Kevin Kilmer Financial Secretary John Capparelli Treasurer
Bill Nolan Immediate Past President John Dineen Parliamentarian
Sergeants-at-Arms
Bill Burns Al Francis, Jr. Jim Jakstavich
Trustees
Robert Rutherford, Chairman Dean Angelo, Jr.
Mark Donahue
Pat Duckhorn
Sergio Escobedo Kathleen Gahagan Michael Garza Joseph Gentile
Ken Hauser
Tom Lonergan
Kevin McNulty Landry Reeves
Inez Riley
Jay Ryan
Steve Schorsch
Ron Shogren
Daniel Trevino
Field Reps
Keith Carter Marlon Harvey Thomas McDonagh
Magazine Committee Members
Greg Bella, Chair Joseph Gentile Bill Burns Thomas McKenna Michael Carroll Reggie Smith
President’s Report
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Thank you family, friends and associates, and thank you to everyone in attendance.
When we were first invited to speak, we won- dered how we would be able to squeeze every- thing that is going on in the city, with crime and policing, into this (somewhat) limited forum.
We will try our best to cover what we believe to be pressing and pertinent information, and do so in a reasonable amount of time while still keeping everyone engaged. If we spoke about everything (going on today), we would be up here for hours...and we certainly can’t have that.
Police officers in Chicago, throughout our country and the world, for that matter, have been facing an enormous level of confrontation and abhorrent disrespect for some time now. In many areas, legislative and organizational abandonment has become commonplace.
When we ask our retired officers, whether they are in Chicago or elsewhere, they tell us they have never witnessed anything close to what officers of today face. And please remember that these retirees are people who were exposed to our county’s civil rights disturbances, Vietnam War unrest and the post-MLK assassination riots.
This past February, the Washington Post report- ed that direct attacks on police officers are on the rise, as are ambush attacks. Recently, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Foundation reported that firearm fatalities of police officers were up 17 percent compared to the same time
last year. On average, 151 officers are killed in the line of duty each and every year.
For more than a year now, CPD Officers have been facing a new level of disrespect, the likes of which I’ve not seen in my 36-plus years. In some areas of our city, nearly every contact with the public is met with a confrontation, as well as an array of cell phones recording the situation. Offi- cers are regularly baited and literally called every name in the book...people are looking for a pay- day.
When videos of police encounters are released, they get media play as if they are of a Super Bow- winning touchdown. If not edited before being turned over, the media edits them just enough to give the audience that “oh my gosh” experience. After all, we can’t have people changing channels now, can we? The videos are played over and over, and over again, in order to keep the incident imbedded deep in the viewer’s memory and to ensure the audience remains glued to the tube.
Every day, when we get our morning newspa- pers, we look for what we consider police-bashing headlines. In today’s atmosphere, reporters who have never written about police or crime before are now writing about policing every chance they get. It seems that they all want the next big head- line.
We also have everyone and their sister trying to implement changes to the way police officers do
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