Shreveport Police Union Voices Doubts About Chief Roberts' Leadership

The Shreveport (LA) Times ^ | 04-26-03 | Walker, Don, and Brumble, Melody

[Theodore R.]

Pressure continued to mount against Shreveport Police Chief Jim Roberts on Friday as the police union issued a statement that officers are "beginning to lose confidence in their chief" and are ready for a change in leadership.

The union's comments come a day after three black city councilmen called for Mayor Keith Hightower to fire Roberts over his response to the recent shooting of a black man by police officers.

[Theodore R.]

We shall see if standing up for one's principles will be rewarded in Shreveport, LA.

[goldstategop]

Don't count on it.

[Theodore R.]

Police Chief Jim Roberts has defended the actions of his individual officers. The police union is supposed to stand up for officers, whether they'r in the right or wrong!

In Shreveport, though, the union is so involved in Democrat politics that it stands with the NAACP against the chief and the officers! Some union: who needs it? Will the individual officers continue to support such a union? Membership is not compulsory, for LA, despite its Long-induced liberalism, is a right-to-work state, just like all of her neighbors.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I was born in Shreveport, its a great small little city...not big yet not a 1 stop light little town.

The Shreveprot Times is a mouth piece for the Democratic party...its sickening. The only good newspaper in Shreveport-Bossier is USA Today.

Note how the article dosent say anything about the shooting incident. The man who was shot could have been coming at a cop with a axe, but you'd never know from the article what he did or didnt do that resulted in him being shot by the police.

[Theodore R.]

The Shreveport Times was conservative until it became a Gannett paper. Its former rival, the Shreveport Journal, was even more conservative than the Times until it was bought by a businessman named Charles T. Beaird. Beaird practically destroyed the Shreveport Journal with his liberal editorials, but afternoon papers throughout LA and TX were dying by the early nineties anyway. The Times is the only daily left in NW LA, and it does generally take the Democrat (Clinton-Gore-Landrieu) line, but it did endorse the reelection of Republican Rep. Jim McCrery too.