Seattle Police Chief Resigns

[esmith]

Well it looks like the Seattle City Council vote finally broke the camels back.
Good-by Seattle.....
Seattle's Police Chief Resigns After Council Votes To Cut Department Funds

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Good riddance! I never did like people who quit when things get hard or don't go their way.

 

[Soapy]

Good riddance! I never did like people who quit when things get hard or don't go their way.

It’s always a dilemma in these situations:

1. Resign straight away and be vilified eternally but hope that the lack of exposure to media and public keeps your name quiet!
2. Stay and try to ‘help’ resolve the situation but remain in the limelight and expose yourself to continual negative scrutiny BUT HOPE if you help to resolve the situation you regain some credibility

Funny how some people become HEROES for resolving a problem that they themselves created... sometimes deliberately ... think about it!!!! A woman won a ‘slimmer of the year’ after gorging herself - she spent the prize money GORGING HERSELF... did she enter the competition again? She was overweight - take path 2... try to slim... but after that.. take path 1 .. go hide!!!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It’s always a dilemma in these situations:

1. Resign straight away and be vilified eternally but hope that the lack of exposure to media and public keeps your name quiet!
2. Stay and try to ‘help’ resolve the situation but remain in the limelight and expose yourself to continual negative scrutiny BUT HOPE if you help to resolve the situation you regain some credibility

Funny how some people become HEROES for resolving a problem that they themselves created... sometimes deliberately ... think about it!!!! A woman won a ‘slimmer of the year’ after gorging herself - she spent the prize money GORGING HERSELF... did she enter the competition again? She was overweight - take path 2... try to slim... but after that.. take path 1 .. go hide!!!

There is nothing wrong with attemting to ammend a problem you are a part of. It's that "right thing to do" that people talk about. Quitting and giving up at the first sign of trouble and not even attempting to fix the problem is disgraceful and an indication of a very weak and poor character who is utterly void of integrity.

 

[Soapy]

There is nothing wrong with attemting to ammend a problem you are a part of. It's that "right thing to do" that people talk about. Quitting and giving up at the first sign of trouble and not even attempting to fix the problem is disgraceful and an indication of a very weak and poor character who is utterly void of integrity.

Hmmm... I’m not so sure it’s an absolute to stay and help fix the problem... Sometimes the right decision IS to resign .... and that has been called for in many ministers and even presidents.

Perhaps we are talking across each other on this topic! In the UK (London) a (female) Fire Chief was responsible for the APPALLING LACK OF RESPONSE to a tower block blaze that killed nearly 90 people... There were calls for her immediate resignation (and loss of pension, etc ... though these high ups rarely lose out on BIG PAY OUTS despite their resignation!!!! There will be SOMETHING written in their contract to sustain them !!)

However, she attempted to ‘Stay and help fix the problem!’... She WANTED TO HELP and put right the wrongs of HERSELF and her organisation... The public outcry was UNANIMOUS: ‘out ... ouT.... oUT ... OUT ...!!’

Sad to say, I’m not acquainted with the outcome but the public sure made their voice known on what they thought her decision should be (no.1, above!!)

My mind says that her attempt to stay was simply based on ‘Saving face’ and her pension!!!