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But if members came in looking for a shoulder to cry on, they immediately felt a buzz. Newly elected trustee Tim Fitz- patrick, who has matriculated from serving as a longtime unit rep, echoed the consensus about how the room elicited an en- ergy fueled by the new administration.
“It was more people than expected because the new regime really understands what needs to be done,” he added.
The energy will hopefully be a multiplier, the ripple of tell- ing two friends who tell two friends who tell two friends and so on. Catanzara expected members to come in with that typical police officer skepticism. And they did. But he projected that they left wearing maybe not rose-colored glasses but certainly in the red.
So now it becomes a question of perpetuating the energy, enthusiasm and electricity to the next meeting and the next meeting and so on. And on the streets, in the districts and wherever members go.
Markovich asserted that officers can expect to see the board members out in the street handing out water and other sup- plies just like they did to all who had to work the Memorial and Fourth of July holidays. Meeting the goals of the new FOP will rely on so much of what everybody saw at the FOP Hall on the night of June 24.
“We need to have a mass of people be together, stay togeth- er and move together, because it makes a huge difference in the way we feel and where we are trying to go,” Ortiz empha- sized. “This was an unbelievably great meeting that was a big step in that direction.”
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