Systems Failure: Across the Board with Fire\EMS, and Emergency Management. Reform

Systems Failure analysis not only in regards to death of Black, LatinX, Women, and other vulnerable members in our communities reformed for all elements of public safety in communities.  Public Safety components of Law Enforcement, Fire\EMS, and Emergency Management.  It cannot be for Law enforcement only.

We as emergency managers must also look in the mirror, and focus the microscope on our own profession.  Our professional structure at the  Federal, State, County, City, and local locals to save lives, to protect and serve and regain the trust and credibility of our communities.

• What are the numbers of LE professionals that have utilized job enlargement and enrichment with a transfer to emergency management?

• What are the number of ethnic minorities graduating from institutions of higher learning in emergency management to provide the new workforce to change the paradigm in emergency management?

• Who controls Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) councils?  Fire\EMS or are CERT Councils chaired by Law Enforcement as lead entity?

• What funding is being provided by emergency management to increase the number of community response teams, assist and coordinate business continuity planning, and other programs to increase individual, family, and whole community participation?

Our narrative, the narrative of members of community of color are ignored and overlooked for our professionalism, advice in resolving complex problems to resolve critical crisis events.

When ignored, this directly and indirectly affects our professionalism in our communities.  Affect us in our own communities by lack of financial support even to the point of providing awareness, education and training,

It expands to policy-makers that also ignore our organizations that are formed to address the issue of networking, job enlargement & enrichment opportunity advice, mentoring, and advising on education & training to advance in our careers.  Those that utilize more acceptable and political correct organizations within their comfort zone.

We must not only redesign our law enforcement element, but all the elements of  responders to eliminate the racial pandemic to ensure that full-inclusion is truly full-inclusion.


Charles D. Sharp

Charles D. Sharp                                                                      

Cornell University Climate Fellow                                               

Chairman Emeritus\CEO                                                          

Black Emergency Managers Association International                                                                                Washington, D.C. 

                                                                 

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Treena Wright is with Maleek Jackson.

We need to use the same brooms to clean both fire departments & police stations of racism.

Treena Wright is with Maleek Jackson.

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#WeSeeYourFace #LatoshaClemons, so when the thought and/or the unfortunate decision is made to erase, undo and or distort (DESTROY) history is implemented; THIS IS INDEED “UNACCEPTABLE”. Please keep in mind this is a NEW ERA, where there’s VIDEO RECORDINGS, SOCIAL MEDIA and PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE WHAT IS RIGHT!!! So, the moment it’s thought THE FACE of Retired Chief Latosha Denise Clemons and Former Fire Chief Glenn Joseph FACE(s) can casually, simply or blatantly be ERASED and REPLACED; let’s run this back, LATOSHA CLEMONS is a RETIRED CHIEF who was hired with the City of Boynton Fire Department on June 20 1996. The FIRST and “ONLY” Black Women hired by the BBFD as a Firefighter, in the Departments History establish 1924. Promoted through the ranks always in the TOP 3. #1 on the Lieutenant’s Promotional Exam, #3 on the Captain’s Promotional Exam, #2 on the Battalion Chief’s Promotional Exam and she possesses a Masters Degree in Executive Management and Executive Fire Officer and was also appointed to Deputy Chief December 2016. She RETIRED March 1, 2020. So thinking to dissolve HER or any other African American Leading Official because of their departure or maybe the intent to humiliate them REMAINS UNACCEPTABLE. WE STILL SEE THEIR FACE(s) and WE ALWAYS WILL. #WeSeeYourFace #LatoshaClemons

Domestic Violence. Signal for Help. Help can be given. June 2020

Domestic Violence.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1269114341456072704

“hey guys the hand signal she did signifies domestics abuse. you may not need this, but someone might so please share https://t.co/rdVBvMqjhq”

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Systems Failure: LE. Does Emergency Management Need a REDO?

Keep in mind that many jurisdictions Emergency Management offices\agencies\sections are under Law Enforcement management, and overall control (budget and financing the largest). 

Does the system failure in law enforcement directly and indirectly affect emergency management?

Does a growth and evolutionary process has to be conducted in the emergency management field?

Can the new workforce of college graduates and from the high schools with emergency management programs make the difference?

BEMA International

Disaster Declaration Process in the United States. June 2020

https://www.blackemergmanagersassociation.org/p/disaster-declaration-process-in-united.html

The Disaster Declaration Process

This page provides procedural information regarding the Stafford Act declaration process and is intended for emergency managers, elected officials, media, and stakeholders interested in the formal declaration process.  All emergency and major disaster declarations are made solely at the discretion of the President of the United States.

The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5207 (the Stafford Act) §401 states in part that: "All requests for a declaration by the President that a major disaster exists shall be made by the Governor of the affected State."  A State also includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.  The Republic of Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia are also eligible to request a declaration and receive assistance through the Compacts of Free Association.

As a result of the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act, federally recognized Indian tribal governments now have the option of pursuing a declaration directly from the President. FEMA has developed Tribal Declarations Pilot Guidance, which provides more detailed and specific guidance for Tribal requests.

FEMA has codified the declaration process at 44 C.F.R. Part §206, Subpart B.

System Failure: Law Enforcement. From Legal profession and those within.

All components of the Judicial and Legal Profession.
    "You are either part of the change and solution, or part of the problem"/
     Which are you?


https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-law-enforcement-needs-to-change-20200606-oz6byfrq45divgqxm2tv5jqeeu-story.html

How law enforcement needs to change: A former prosecutor speaks to her ex-colleagues

We have a policing crisis in this country. And I don’t just say that as a member of Congress, or as a concerned citizen. I say that as a career prosecutor.

For black and brown Americans, this comes as nothing new. In fact, many of those who have been most adversely affected by our nation’s policing practices are probably tired of hearing people like me point out the obvious. And rightfully so.

I will never fully understand what our communities of color face on a daily basis. And I’ve tried to spend these last few days listening and learning instead of talking.

I’m writing this now because I think it’s important for people who have worked in law enforcement to speak out. It’s important for people like me to state clearly and definitively that this system — which I was a part of — is broken. And it has been for some time. The deep-rooted failings of police practices in the black community have been laid bare far too often in recent years with tragic consequences. From Amadou Diallo to Eric Garner, to Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and now Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, David McAtee and George Floyd. And yet, we’ve taken no substantive measures to address the chronic violence that police departments disproportionately inflict upon communities of color.

During my two decades as a prosecutor, I saw some of the best that law enforcement had to offer — dedicated men and women who cared deeply about the communities they served. But I also saw the very worst — the misconduct, excessive force and the institutionalized racism that plagues too many departments. And worse still, I’ve seen how officers who had no business carrying a badge and a gun were allowed back on the street, even as they posed a threat to public safety. Officers like Derek Chauvin.

That’s why we first need to repeal 50-a, a New York State law that keeps all police disciplinary records confidential. Too often, instances of police brutality involve officers with long histories of misconduct. The warning signs are there, but the public isn’t allowed to see them. Repealing 50-a must also be accompanied by the creation of a federal database that would track officers who have been fired for misconduct to ensure that they are not rehired in other jurisdictions...................................

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