Editorial | 'Any major change of culture in an institution set in its ways is bound to bring opposition from the old guard. If Aurora City Manager Jim Twombly didn’t expect bumps in the road, he is too naïve to be the head of a major city.'
All you need to know about the City of Aurora under City Manager Jim Twombly is that the chief of police presiding when police officers heartlessly contributed to the death of Elijah McClain got to keep his job, and that the chief of police who fired officers mocking McClain’s death was fired without cause.
Twombly’s loyalties clearly lie with the police officers in the Aurora Police Department who are resisting needed reforms. Police officers have made it clear through their actions, emails and tweets that they would prefer the police department go back to the good old days under Chief of Police Nick Metz when officers were not disciplined for major infractions like driving drunk and shooting a suspect through the window of his house without warning.
In a letter to Wilson obtained by The Denver Post, Twombly said that Wilson was being fired because she failed to create “a positive culture of stability, employee satisfaction and engagement” and failed to oversee police operations effectively. We are not surprised to learn that morale is low in the Aurora Police Department and that the department is having a hard time recruiting and retaining officers. Any major change of culture in an institution set in its ways is bound to bring opposition from the old guard. If Twombly didn’t expect bumps in the road, he is too naïve to be the head of a major city.
Elijah McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, put it better than we could during her interview with The Denver Post: “She was hired to be chief of police, not the cheerleader of a football team. It’s not her fault that the police are uncomfortable with all the eyes on them right now. Whoever they put up there next is probably going to be one of the good ol’ boys, who’s gonna be business as usual.
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