By Robert Petersen.
Overall, time will tell the measure of the decision to have a civilian administrator for the Franklin Township Police Department who is appointed by, and beholden to, the Township Manager. But something else occurred last night that is very troubling.
Mayor Phil Kramer’s accusations that those who only had two Township Council meeting opportunities to voice opposition to the ordinance amendment were doing so solely to inject politics into the matter are reprehensible. This is the same Council who for months and months took ZERO accountability for, or actions against, one of their own members for his unbelievably racist and bigoted comments made over a series of years and for varying town events. And only when the political pressure was high enough did this Council finally issue a sheepish and ultimately toothless censure of Township Councilman Rajiv Prasad. The apparent rush now to make the police force a department within the township bureaucracy and to then appoint a civilian administrator is highly questionable.
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