By: Diane Benjamin
I did not receive this information from any current member of the Bloomington Police Department. I’m sure Chief Simington will be wondering where it originated. If he launches a witch hunt to find out how I obtained it, he will further degrade what little moral still exists in the department.
The below recaps what Chief Simington told his top staff and instructed them to pass on to the entire department. The black redaction is mine—I’m keeping that part confidential!
The police union backed Dan Brady for mayor. Does this suggest the police chief doesn’t support him?
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If you want to see the list of far left radicals who supported Cody Hendricks for mayor, click here: https://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/39051/
Expect retribution from some of them too, including Hendricks.
Simington should be fired if he serves at the pleasure of the mayor. He should remember the majority voted for Dan Brady.
Well, not a majority. It was less than 50%
Still in mourning? Brady got the majority, Hendricks didn’t
No, I’m fine with the outcome. Just pointing out majority means more than 50% 🙂
Thanks for all you do Diane!
You know, he actually won the plurality, not the majority. I can understand how it could be easy to mix these up! Government and the words used around government can be hard!
Majority:
noun
1.
the greater number.
“in the majority of cases all will go smoothly”
Dan Brady won the majority is a true fact. Now in big government bureaucratic legalese speak this could mean or be anything – kind a like my gender.
Many many great officers on BPD. They are the foundation of that department. Rumor has it that Chief and upper command did not support Brady. Perhaps we get rid of Chief and a few others and get back to be a real police department. Thinking there are issues with HR as well. Wasn’t there an officer that had a medical issue and HR denied him benefits? If not HR, then someone in position to deny an officer benefits for an event that occurred while working?
On the list of supporters for Cody Hendricks, LGP Enterprises LLC, which is Lucca Grill. What a huge disappointment that place is. Not going there anymore.
Dan Brady has a long record of disappointing those who backed him. He was never really transparent with his votes and although he wasn’t a Democrat there’s a strong case to be made that he wasn’t really a Republican either. BPD should be hesitant, keep him in check. Lord knows more than 50% of voters where hesitant and decided to not elect Brady.
Statewide he didn’t have name recognition. Illinois voted aren’t smart enough to do anything but pick the D
I believe it was in an older article of yours that you encouraged voters to not vote Dan Brady. I don’t think there was much of an option for Sec. of State to not vote Democrat, lol!
Probably a primary. Considering he was in GOP leadership without anything to show for it, I probably did. Being mayor has little in common with being a state rep.
Dan Brady won handily. Mboka only won by about 250 votes and Steve Stockton won by about 12. 1 vote is enough for the Win™️. 2nd place doesn’t even get you a set ofsteak knives in politics. Cry harder Cody fanbois.
The State of IL is so crooked it’s hard to fight as is their intention. Many decent republicans have tried and not faired so well due to myriad of rinos and lack of public support. Perhaps Bloomington being Dan Brady’s home town can put him more in the drivers seat than he was with the state, that is, if he can recognize and work behind the scenes against the rino republicans in this town that profit from the status quo.
Yeah, this is extremely common practice, especially in the City of Bloomington. Most department heads have given the same exact instructions to their staff.
So common it found its way to me. Sure
I understand why it looks suspect, but it’s common for a Chief of Police to ask their command staff for awareness if there is interaction with a mayor or other political leader and a member of the police department. This is done just in case the mayor brings a topic or question to the Chief, they have a heads up about it and can be prepared for the discussion with the necessary context/facts.
Not a big deal. Worked for a municipality for 33 years. Department Heads and City Manager always told employees to let them know if mayor or a council member contacted them. Management 101.
CYA 101
BPD is a pretty good department overall. It has some good leaders and some not so great, like most organizations. I don’t think Chief Simington has any fear of Mayor Brady necessarily , but I do think he recognizes he is not going to be able to gloss over or b.s. his way through the tough situations like he could under the previous mayor or a weak inexperienced one like Mrs. Hendricks would have been had he not lost.
He claims shootings are kids target practice