Support the Officers on the Street

"The department has failed to develop strategies for reducing crime and encouraging aggressive, effective policing but instead has focused its efforts on instituting a disciplinary system that actually discourages proactive policing. Indeed, the department has more people assigned to investigate its own officers than it does to investigate homicides."
By Kristopher Baumann, chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee
Washington Post
July 23, 2006