Letter: Regarding What is Going on With Our Police Department?

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I agree with John Thomas’ thoughtful letter in your last edition in which he pleaded for information on what is going on with the loss of Chief Robert Thompson after just five months as our Chief of Police. Since residents found Chief Thompson accessible and the police department’s rank and file felt he was “precisely what our department and members needed”, we can’t help but fear that the speculation might be true that the executive culture within the City makes Laguna a difficult place for talented new hires to do more than “grow and go”.

The fact that Dixon kept Chief Thompson’s past position as Chief of Police there open adds support to this rumor. Did Dixon just play a waiting game for Laguna’s executive management in the City to act as the negative gossip about us predicts?

Deborah Laughton, Laguna Beach

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  1. It does seem that Dixon officials may have talked to some of the police that have left Laguna for a less hostile atmosphere. It’s also very curious as to the timing of the police chief’s dismissal. Our lame duck city manager did the firing so fortuitously the incoming city manger could claim “It wasn’t my call”. Surely she must have been involved in deliberations leading to the firing. In my view real leadership would have been to insist that no action be taken until she took the helm so she could make the decision. We will probably never know what happened because those in the know in our city government aren’t about to tell us us and chief Thompson is honorable enough not to disclose anything in his NDA.

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