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So there it is. The email that the City Manager Sheryl Long put into writing and pushed out to the entire Department. Chief Teresa Theetge has been terminated. Effective immediately. After months of paid leave. After outside investigations. After hearings. After dragging this Department through uncertainty. After making the taxpayers fund this ridiculous spectacle. This feckless hack put out a cold and clinical email, trying to spin her decision to terminate Chief Theetge. First, that obtuse twit and the cowardly Mayor sacrificed Chief Theetge as a political pawn, in hopes to win his reelection bid. No doubt some members of City Council weighed-in on that decision as well. Now, they have decided to detonate a prestige career and then act like they’re announcing a parking update. “This morning, I terminated Police Chief Teresa Theetge…” Just like that. Over thirty-five years…a career of exemplary service. A woman who rose through the ranks, led this Department, and stood in one of the hardest jobs in this City—discarded by a City Hall machine that has done nothing but destabilize Public Safety while pretending to “carefully consider” anything at all—because from where the rank and file sit, this looks a lot more like execution by bureaucracy. And spare us the polished closing lines about bravery, steadfast service, and how “leadership change can be difficult.” No kidding. Especially when the instability is manufactured by the very people sending the email. Especially when the people creating the crisis are the same ones congratulating the Department for surviving it. That part is almost insulting. You do not get to wreck morale, fracture trust, sideline leadership, run up legal bills, plunge an entire Department into uncertainty—and then sign off with a thank-you note like you’re handing out office anniversary cupcakes. This is bigger than Chief Theetge, and City Hall knows it. This is about control. This is about power. This is about whether Police leadership in Cincinnati serves the public—or serves the political appetites of people downtown who have never worn the badge, never worked the street, never commanded a scene, and never had to make a life-or-death decision in the dark with incomplete information and no margin for error. Now the Department is told that Interim Chief Adam Hennie remains in command “as usual.” As usual? Nothing about this has been usual. Nothing about any of this has been stable, honest, or healthy for the men and women expected to keep showing up while City Hall plays chess with command staff and human lives. And Cincinnati taxpayers should be asking some very hard questions right now. What exactly justified this? What was so severe that termination—not correction, not return, not resolution—was the chosen outcome? How much did this process cost? How much more will it cost? How many more lawsuits are coming? How much more damage is this City willing to do to Public Safety leadership before somebody says enough? Because this email did not bring clarity. What it did bring, is yet another Federal lawsuit that will cost the taxpayers millions. It brought defamation to yet another outstanding City Chief’s reputation and legacy. It brought a match—and City Hall just lit it. #fyp #Signal99 #Cincinnati #share

$Signal99Cinci's tweet photo. So there it is. The email that the City Manager Sheryl Long put into writing and pushed out to the entire Department. Chief Teresa Theetge has been terminated. Effective immediately. After months of paid leave. After outside investigations. After hearings. After dragging this Department through uncertainty. After making the taxpayers fund this ridiculous spectacle. This feckless hack put out a cold and clinical email, trying to spin her decision to terminate Chief Theetge. First, that obtuse twit and the cowardly Mayor sacrificed Chief Theetge as a political pawn, in hopes to win his reelection bid. No doubt some members of City Council weighed-in on that decision as well. Now, they have decided to detonate a prestige career and then act like they’re announcing a parking update. “This morning, I terminated Police Chief Teresa Theetge…” Just like that. Over thirty-five years…a career of exemplary service. A woman who rose through the ranks, led this Department, and stood in one of the hardest jobs in this City—discarded by a City Hall machine that has done nothing but destabilize Public Safety while pretending to “carefully consider” anything at all—because from where the rank and file sit, this looks a lot more like execution by bureaucracy. And spare us the polished closing lines about bravery, steadfast service, and how “leadership change can be difficult.” No kidding. Especially when the instability is manufactured by the very people sending the email. Especially when the people creating the crisis are the same ones congratulating the Department for surviving it. That part is almost insulting. You do not get to wreck morale, fracture trust, sideline leadership, run up legal bills, plunge an entire Department into uncertainty—and then sign off with a thank-you note like you’re handing out office anniversary cupcakes. This is bigger than Chief Theetge, and City Hall knows it. This is about control. This is about power. This is about whether Police leadership in Cincinnati serves the public—or serves the political appetites of people downtown who have never worn the badge, never worked the street, never commanded a scene, and never had to make a life-or-death decision in the dark with incomplete information and no margin for error. Now the Department is told that Interim Chief Adam Hennie remains in command “as usual.” As usual? Nothing about this has been usual. Nothing about any of this has been stable, honest, or healthy for the men and women expected to keep showing up while City Hall plays chess with command staff and human lives. And Cincinnati taxpayers should be asking some very hard questions right now. What exactly justified this? What was so severe that termination—not correction, not return, not resolution—was the chosen outcome? How much did this process cost? How much more will it cost? How many more lawsuits are coming? How much more damage is this City willing to do to Public Safety leadership before somebody says enough? Because this email did not bring clarity. What it did bring, is yet another Federal lawsuit that will cost the taxpayers millions. It brought defamation to yet another outstanding City Chief’s reputation and legacy. It brought a match—and City Hall just lit it. #fyp #Signal99 #Cincinnati #share$

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