by Ron DeLord | Oct 8, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Dallas police officials are going back to basics as they try to deal with higher-than-usual 911 response times. Officers assigned to the gang unit, youth outreach, knock-and-talk task force, crime response teams and the metro task force are all answering 911 calls...
by rondelord | Aug 12, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Unions
Kelly Gottschalk was a month into her job as director of the Dallas police and fire pension fund when the latest numbers started arriving. She knew there’d be problems. But things were heading from bad to worse. It came just as her staff and consultants were...
by rondelord | Jul 6, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Where the West begins is increasingly where Dallas police careers end. Six Dallas officers will join the Fort Worth Police Department on July 13, Fort Worth Sgt. Steve Enright said. The officers will be reuniting with eight of their former Dallas colleagues who left...
by rondelord | Feb 22, 2015 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Officials with the city’s biggest police group believe their efforts to fix officer morale have been arrested. Dallas Police Association officials said Wednesday that their 10-point proposal for “much-needed reforms,” such as flexible scheduling, changes to the...
by rondelord | Nov 22, 2014 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The president of the Dallas Police Association has called for Chief David Brown to send two officers home while the department investigates accusations leveled against them by a fellow officer. Dallas police sergeant denies booting officer from off-duty job for...