November 2011

One of the more nettlesome questions in jurisprudence concerns the extent to which legal rights can be waived.  And even if this question is answered in the affirmative with regard to a particular law, a second question instantly arises:  waived by whom?  While it has long been known that a police union does not have the power to waive individual officers’ rights under California’s Public Safety Officers’ Procedural Bill of Rights Act (POBRA) – say, for example, in exchange for a pay raise or benefit improvement – the law has been unclear as to whether an individual officer could ever elect

By Steve Johnson

Not bad when a simple parole search of 2 suspects, who should know better, ends up with the recovery of a revolver, a shotgun, and a whole lot of narcotics which is exactly what took place when Officer Michael Ellis and Officer Dave Nastari were invited to assist several parole agents checking on a residence on Oakdale.

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

First Fijian police Officer Retires…

Officer Mukesh "Mike" Chandra, known by his friend and peers as Fiji Mike and Mike the Cop is presumably the first Fiji born Police Officer in the United States, he retires from the San Francisco Police Department after 32 years of honorable service.

At the October 19th POA Board of Directors meeting, I used some regrettable language when referring to the respective presidents of the Officers For Justice, Julian Hill, and the Asian Police Officers Association, Paul Yep. I got worked up to the point that my passion got the better of my judgment, and that is something I regret. It’s no secret that, at times, I let my passion get the better of my message.