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Be ne volent A ss oci at ion L o c a l No. 2
I have chosen to provide you, the business administrator, public safety director and the city council with a hard copy of our report. Also, I am providing you with a CD-R disk of the report in a PDF file format for the sole purpose of uploading it to the City of Hoboken webpage for everyone to review in comparison to the DLGS report. Being a strong advocate of government transparency, I encourage you to release our report on the city webpage as part of your commitment and in all fairness to the PBA and public. The PBA is completely comfortable with the total and unrestricted release to the public our own report of analysis and rebuttal and firmly stand by its comprehensive and highly competent content. Again, the PBA chose to hire a highly qualified and professional consultant to analyze and rebut the DLGS report, and to clarify the many omissions, mistakes, and faulty data calculations it contains in an effort to educate the city council, administration and the public concerning the realistic rank and file staffing levels needed in the Hoboken Police Department. Based upon our own report, we have concluded that the police officer cuts recommended in the DLGS report are outright ludicrous and implementation of these cuts, by your administration and city council, would be disastrous to safe and effective policing of our great city. Our report is open, honest, fair and factual and should be carefully read in direct comparison and contrast to that of the DLGS report. It is my strong opinion, shared by many including our own expert, that the DLGS study was drafted to purposely and deliberately misinform and mislead the administration and public. It was created to achieve a predetermined financial cost savings objective, and the study team worked backwards to accomplish such, while dangerously glossing over the probable future negative impact on overall public safety and services to the community. I hope and trust that our report will be received and read with the same careful, clear and competent mindset that required its completion and led to its conclusions. Please note that the principal author of our report has over thirty years of law enforcement and executive management experience among his other impressive credentials, and is the former Jersey City Police Chief. Respectfully yours,
Vince Lombardi President Enclosure(s): Northeast Labor Consultants, Inc. – Hoboken PBA report & DLGS report – CD-R disk of report Copies of this letter and the Hoboken PBA Analysis report will be provided to the following: C: Hon. Peter Cunningham, Council President – Councilman – 5th Ward All City Council members Hon. Angel Alicea, Director of Public Safety Hon. Arch Liston, City Business Administrator
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