D.C. Police Chief Rebukes Pam Bondi for “Dangerous Directive”
While Washington, DC, continues the Trump administration for trying to install the DEA Terrance Cole administrator as the Metropolitan Police Department “Emergency police commissioner”, DC police chief Pamela Smith, filed on Friday Rebu vike of the decision with the court.
On Thursday, the United States Attorney General Pam Bondi issued the now offset order, which stipulates – in other directives – that MPD officials would need Cole approval “before issuing other directives”.
While Smith’s declaration presents itself, it would create chaos to the MPD.
“If carried out, the leaping order would upset MPD’s command structure, endangering The security of public agents and the police, “said Smith.” During my almost three decades in the police, I have never seen a single action by the government which would lead to a greater threat to the law and the order than this dangerous directive. »»
Obligning MPD leadership to receive Cole approval for all their directives would upset the “deeply familiar” and effective command structure, Smith said.
“Impose a new order structure” immediately “will be of operational ravages Within MPDs and create enormous risks for the public, “said the police chief.
Smith has also taken care of the delays according to which the new emergency commissioner, who is not familiar with the “MPD procedures” and the “communities in which we do the police”, would create.
Multiple MPD leaders constantly emit directives, she noted: “routine documents and personnel assignments to the response to domestic violence calls to the management of the crowd to execute high-risk mandates.” The heavy demand to go all through Cole “would effectively gender public security operations,” said Smith, creating “confusion and delays [that] will endanger public security, by placing the lives of MPD officers and residents of the district at serious risks. »»
It would be all the more disruptive, she added, at a time when hundreds of federal agents and members of the National Guard – all “unknown with MPD procedures” – descend into the streets of the city on the orders of Trump.
