Greensboro Police Officers Association
IUPA Local #9 AFL-CIO
Survey
1) Do you feel that Chief David Wray has a through job knowledge to effectively perform the work of the assigned position? (Uses appropriate methods, techniques and procedures)
34 99 26
21% 63% 16%
He has 20+ years with this
Department and has seen a lot over the years.
He doesn’t consider practical
police work.
Chief Wray possesses a very
extensive resume. However, I’m not sure he fully understands the requirements
and responsibilities. This may be due to his demonstrated lack of “field”
experience.
Chief Wray appears to have
attended recognized leadership training but does not apply the teachings of the
leadership courses.
He has not acquired “Objective”
feedback from people he has placed in power around him. He entered his position
with an authoritarian attitude and he has maintained it. This attitude has
permeated the young command staff with which Chief Wray has surrounded himself.
Chief Wray’s job knowledge
consists of his focus on “community” teams that have limited impact to the
public as a whole.
Chief Wray decides that the
Greensboro Police Department is going to be all things to other departments.
Even though our CSI’s are shorthanded, we now process major crime scenes in
High Point while Greensboro’s citizens and officers have their calls stacked
and wait for a CSI.
Whatever happened to having a
street-smart Chief?
He knows what to do. He just
isn’t doing it
2) Do you feel Chief Wray uses his job knowledge for the benefit of the entire community?
12 126 21
8% 79% 13%
His ego seems to have
taken over his job knowledge.
He is too self-serving
to care about the community or any one else.
He only cares about his
“legacy.”
Chief Wray presents
ideas to the community about specialized units such as TSET or SOD being the
driving force behind the Department when in fact the Field Units are the
backbone of this Department.
His answer to everything
is a special unit to deal with it.
He has an agenda to make
himself look good and create his legacy.
He only uses the
community to benefit himself and his career.
I believe Chief Wray
uses his knowledge to benefit himself, not the community. It is always “Look
what I have done,” not look what the police have done.
His allocation of
manpower out of the field into specialized units is the opposite of recommended
police practice with the manpower shortage the agency has to contend with at
this time.
3) Do you think Chief Wray uses both oral and written communications effectively and appropriately when dealing with the Police Department?
21 120 19
13% 75% 12%
Has said he “is prepared
to take casualties” as a result of his changes. This shows how little he cares
about those working for him.
Never see him.
Uses his skills for political purposes only.
Some changes to the Departmental Directives have
been too inclusive and narrow in view. To be too inclusive of what is to be
done or not done on most subject matters is to restrict the officer from using
common sense and take action that would be appropriate for the “totality of the
circumstances.”
For some reason, in his communications, he loves
to use “big” words rather than normal, easy to understand communication. His
communications tend to create confusion for those to whom he is trying to
communicate.
Rumors of change (uniforms, pay, etc.) run
rampant with little substantiation from the administration. They refuse to give
a direct answer about the changes.
Chief Wray presents a pretty picture with
rehearsed speeches about hard work, working together and caring about his
officers or even citizens. His actions clearly demonstrate his true feelings.
He gets his point across verbally and written by
saying if you don’t like it you can leave. He stated in my lineup that “I’m THE
MASTER and Commander.” “I am willing to take casualties.”
He uses oral communication to insult his
officers and to constantly demonstrate inflexibility for no other reason than
exercising his power. Function is being sacrificed for form.
Communications travel only one way for the
Chief. He has no interest in the ideas or opinions of his subordinates.
Chief Wray writes like he is trying to get his
doctorate’s degree. You need a thesaurus to read his memos. He takes credit for
the Union’s ideas that occurred during his tenure. He talks down to officers.
4) Do you feel Chief Wray treats officers in a manner that shows sensitivity to their needs and circumstances?
2 149 7
1% 94% 4%
When asked about his views on the negative
effects of rotating shifts on those officers seeking their degree(s), Chief
Wray stated “That’s not my problem.” He has showed no concern for the well being
of officers, throughout his tenure as Police Chief.
If he were sensitive to officers needs, we would
not be working rotating shifts. He would listen to our ideas and solicit input.
He has made pretty speeches about caring for an
officer who was shot, but when I hear this I am reminded of the turmoil he
caused with rotating shifts. He is not concerned about officers who care for
their sick mothers, single parent officers with childcare issues, out of touch
with officers coaching kids in baseball games. He once said, “If you try to
sink my ship I’ll throw you overboard.”
He made the statement several times that he was
“willing to take causalities” (officers quitting) to ensure rotating shifts
were established, regardless of other suggestions.
Chief Wray cares more about his legacy and how
the community views him than he does about the officers who work for him.
Chief Wray seems to go out of his way to make
day-to-day life difficult for his officers and their families.
Putting officers on rotating shifts goes against
numerous medical and scientific studies and defies common sense. Chief Wray has
demonstrated that he does not care about our health, safety or family
relationships and he expects us to put our jobs ahead of anything else.
Chief Wray verbally challenges and criticizes
subordinates. He knew rotating shifts would hurt officer’s family life,
educational opportunities, their health and morale but he pushed it on. He took
advantage of the poor job market and officer’s commitment to the Department.
He will gladly hang an officer out to dry
instead of backing them. He revels in belittling officers.
He has no care whatsoever. It is all about him
and making his mark in the history of the Greensboro Police Department.
5) Do you feel Chief Wray lets his personal feelings affect administrative discipline?
120 4 33
76% 3% 21%
It is common knowledge among the ranks that the
Chief will intervene if he wants a certain finding of discipline.
This is evident in his recommendation for
dismissal and “selective” prosecution of discipline. He shields those who are
“in his camp” and applies the most severe discipline possible to those who
oppose his policies/ philosophy.
Chief Wray has expressed personal biases in
regards to many issues affecting officer’s discipline.
Recommended levels of discipline are sent up to
the Chief’s office and the Chief overrides them (setting aside guidance from
his staff) making his own decisions. Why even have an investigation at all and
waste all those man-hours to be ignored.
Chief Wray chooses to flex his administrative
muscle and disregards the unanimous opinions of his own review panel.
Chief Wray seems to take any appeal of
discipline as a personal attack.
It seems there is at least the appearance of a
double standard with discipline.
Chief Wray and his cronies interfere with both
criminal and administrative investigations. He uses all resources available to
him, CID, SID and IA to affect an outcome. He has set up a chain of command in
IA to carry out his wishes.
6) Do you feel Chief Wray can and will admit he makes mistakes?
1 151 6
1% 95% 4%
No way! He did away with MRT which was one of
the best things we had going for the Department. He now has the CSI’s trying to
do the “cold MRT” calls in their “free” time.
Ego too big! No way!
His infinite “ego” won’t allow it.
Rotating shifts are a huge mistake. His ego will
not allow him to change the schedule.
Chief Wray will never admit a mistake.
I feel Chief Wray’s developed personality is
that if he admits he has made a mistake that it will reflect poorly on his
leadership capabilities.
I believe Chief Wray could break a window and
then extol the virtue and benefits of having an open space rather than
repairing the broken glass. He had the audacity to tell the News & Record
that “Officers will thank me in a year for rotating shifts.”
He is constantly presented with reasons why the
rotating schedule is bad for the Department, yet he insist on staying with a
system that has revealed it to be a mistake.
7) Do you feel Chief Wray solicits and responds to feedback from Officers in a positive manner?
1 150 9
1% 93% 6%
I think we were originally led to believe that
he was going to.
Those who have tried to go to him with concerns
have been verbally dressed down by the Chief.
Chief Wray doesn’t want any negative feedback.
Maybe this explains his elusiveness regarding the solicitation of feedback from
officers.
I have personally heard Chief Wray’s “If you
don’t like it you can leave speech” twice. This was when he still spoke to
field officers.
Chief Wray does not solicit or respond to
feedback in a positive manner. He demands conformity to his ideas.
He will ask for feedback. Upon giving it to him,
he uses that information to determine who is for him and who is against him.
Chief Wray has said that anyone not going along
with “The Mission” are subject to being sent back to the field on rotating
shifts or resign. This attitude provides a perception that the field is the
punishment grounds.
Officers have been stopped in the hallway by
Chief Wray and asked to share their opinions on various topics. When these
officers respond in a manner, which was different than the Chief’s view, they
were told they weren’t a team player and invited to leave the agency if they
did not like the current climate.
Chief Wray only solicits input from his
“bobbleheads.” Neither Chief Wray, Brady nor Hartley will show up to a line up
or ask officers in a group setting how the Department is.
You can’t talk to a man who is living in a
totally different world than everyone else.
8) Do you feel Chief Wray uses good judgment and common sense in making decisions?
5 131 23
3% 82% 15%
January 20, 2004 will forever be a day that
haunts me. In one day he changed every field officer position, working areas,
squad members, new schedule (rotating/ 4 shifts) and new computer system. It
was like stepping back in time.
Since he took over, even my job and workplace
has changed twice.
Common sense seems to be LONG GONE.
Moving all warrants to ROC 211 created a longer
time driving around with prisoners in the cars. The warrant squad now has to
drive to the magistrate’s office, when before they walked over.
Small patrol squads have created shortages when
squad members are training on duty, out sick or on vacation.
He seems more interested in making his own
legacy than actually considering what he is doing and the consequences of his
actions.
He does not consider how his judgments affect
the people involved.
His decisions are off the cuff and knee-jerk.
The Command Staff he has promoted is and will act just like him. Chief Wray and
most of his staff are above their level of ability.
His decisions are based on selfish, self-serving
ideas and no one will stand in his way.
9) Do you feel that Chief Wray promotes teamwork within the Police Department?
8 141 10
5% 89% 6%
Absolutely not. I no longer feel a part of
anything.
Teamwork? What teamwork?
Nobody sees him as a member of the team let
alone the leader of the team. He leads by intimidation alone.
There three separate Police Departments serving
Greensboro. One on S. Elm/ Eugene, one on Swing Rd and one on Maple St.
officers in one district have no idea what is going on e in the others. This
Department is more divided than it ever was during the White Administration.
10) Do you feel Chief Wray is effective in motivating others?
5 145 9
3% 91% 6%
He certainly doesn’t motivate me.
He probably is (or was) on a 1 to 1 basis but
not to our agency overall.
Completely opposite. Officers are reactive. No
one has any desire or motivation to do any self-initiated activity.
Field officers don’t believe him anymore.
Chief Wray believes in motivation through nice
speeches and fancy words.
His “Dictator” leadership style has alienated
himself from most all of the officers except his select few young commanders
who are too afraid to disagree with anything he says.
I used to be motivated. Now I do the bare
minimum. Being average does not affect my pay or my standing in the Department.
He leads by fear and demands.
Quite the opposite. He attempts to motivate the
troops under the assumption that we are dumb. We see through his BS and he
insults our intelligence.
He formed a committee to study shifts, and then
set aside the overwhelming feeling and implemented rotating shifts. Eight
months later another committee was formed to study how we wanted to rotate,
forward, backwards, 2 weeks or six weeks. We were told not rotating was not an
option. It was kind of like saying do you want to be shot in the front, top or
back of the head. Not being shot is not an option. Now he can say we got what
we asked for.
If he cared about motivating us he would care
about morale. No one wants to work. No one wants to be here. We just do it
because we know he will be gone someday.
Chief Wray has only motivated us to resent him
more deeply.
He has made it where there is no incentive,
other than your own personal motivation to go above and beyond.
He uses fear rather than positive motivation.
11) Do you think Chief Wray presents a positive outlook and sets an example for others within the Police Department?
8 132 17
5% 84% 11%
How can he do either when he is never seen by
anyone in the field?
His outlook is on how he is perceived.
He has rules for us and rules for him.
The Chief sets an example for future head
nodders and yes men.
His outlook on the Department’s direction is
self-centered and egotistical.
I have had numerous citizens and civilian
employees complain to me about Chief Wray’s conduct concerning his habit of
walking around the MMOB, a public building, in only shoes and shorts. This is
grossly unprofessional and offensive.
He has demonstrated that he is only looking out
for himself and his agenda. This does not set a good example.
I don’t think he knows what the future holds and
is shooting from the hip. This Department seems to be on the verge of
imploding.
Absolutely not. He is pretentious and
self-serving.
Chief Wray speaks of integrity but lied about knowing
of the FLSA lawsuit in advance after Union leaders gave him advance notice. He
violates Departmental Directives but holds working officers to a stricter
interpretation.
12) Do you think that Chief Wray delegates authority and responsibility appropriately?
17 86 53
11% 55% 34%
Some of the authority he delegated is obviously
in the wrong hands.
Chief Wray micromanages everything.
Not all Captains and Assistant Chiefs are
included in the decision making in the Department. The “good ole boy” network
is back in full force. It is amazing those with the most power in the
Department were never real “field” officers.
He has not solicited feedback from anyone other
than his “yes men.” And even they are too afraid to oppose any thought the
Chief may have in fear of being outcast.
He has surrounded himself with people who will
not question his agenda. They must understand the lack of respect I have for
them because they serve such a self-centered person.
13) Do you think Chief Wray prepares applicable budgets based on prioritized needs and objectives of the Police Department?
12 101 47
8% 63% 29%
They rushed and moved the entire Lab out to D3
to “get someone in the building.” Then 6 months later most were moved back. Now
talk is they are trying to find space to move them out there again.
He appears to have made efforts to increase
officer’s pay and requested additional officer for patrol. Upon further
examination, one learns that the requested officers are being requested for the
Chief’s personal strategies and deny the FOB the required manpower to
effectively do the job.
No. However this is not entirely his fault. He
is being convinced by “self-centered” young commanders that certain things are
needed in their areas of responsibility that are not truly needed.
If you want a great group of CSI’s you need to
continue training them. Things change in that field constantly.
We need more patrol officers.
It is obvious that response times are of
critical importance to the public. But his request for new officers would add
positions to Traffic, TSET and CRT. Patrol squads regularly go out with 2-3
officers and a supervisor.
I don’t know much about how he budgets money. We
did get a new computer system, which is horrible. He also wasted a lot of money
putting on new stickers on the cars, because the other ones were Chief White’s.
Equipment is OK. Pay goes to brass.
He is a politician. Take the pay incentives as
an example. He asks for increases for patrol officers, the brass mopped up. We
were sent crumbs or in my case nothing….Absolute brilliance.
14) Do you think Chief Wray’s budget provides you with the money, equipment and manpower needed for you to effectively serve and protect the community?
14 122 23
9% 76% 15%
Does he really need a Tahoe to be driven around
in like some kind of royalty? He should have a hybrid car. He doesn’t do any
real police work anyway.
Way to short on patrol! 10-100 all day and all
night.
Manpower is extremely short in call answering
and the cars have high mileage. I won’t even run Emergency traffic in it
because they are so ragged out. but every Capt., Lt., and Assistant Chief
always get the new vehicles.
10-18 (clear call quickly), 10-100 (no assist
car available). Priority 1’s holding.
No. And apparently the City Council feels the
same way. That is why Chief Wray was not granted the requested additional
positions for the agency.
While manpower will always be an issue, the
addition of some items such as Tasers, has been welcome.
15) Do you feel that Chief Wray administers discipline consistently, fairly and appropriately?
2 114 43
1% 72% 27%
He shelters supporters and attacks opposing
officers through inconsistent disciplinary procedures.
There seems to be no consistency in discipline.
He has let his personal feelings get in the way.
He has made bad choices and they have been thrown back in his face.
With some officers he likes to make examples.
With others he sweeps the incident under the rug so to speak.
The discipline is based on many things and
equity is not one of them.
I’m not sure we get all the facts in these
cases.
Chief Wray consistently disciplines those he
dislikes and is not in his inner circle. There is nothing fair or appropriate
about how he disciplines. Hand slaps are standard for the inner circle.
16) Do you feel that discipline in our Department has affected your ability to perform your job?
83 50 24
53% 32% 15%
I am afraid if I have a use force, the Department
may not back me up. Instead of being a man and saying that he assumes his
officers are right until proven different, he gives the politically correct
answer. Sheriff Barnes is an elected official and everyone knows he backs his
officers.
We are threatened on a daily basis that if we
don’t like something we will be put back in the field to rotate.
I am apprehensive about doing my job because I
am afraid to take action because of possible accusations.
Walking on pins and needles hoping that nothing
is alleged against me.
Chief Wray will try to hang you out to dry if it
will promote him and his position.
17) Do you believe Chief Wray allows outside influences to affect discipline?
94 10 52
60% 6% 34%
Anyone so into their image will do everything
based on how it makes the GPD “look” to the public, rather than what is right
or wrong in the situation.
Oh yes!
Chief Wray only cares about what makes him look
good.
I believe Chief Wray would allow the winds of
political correctness to affect discipline. But right now his discipline
practices are so outlandish that he doesn’t need outside help.
18) Do you feel that Chief Wray has led the Police Department in the proper direction?
3 143 13
2% 90% 8%
Low morale. The Department is more about
appearance than productivity. He has created an Us vs. Them mindset.
We are going backwards at full strength.
He has turned this Department into a joke and
has lost the respect of other agencies.
He is not a leader. He uses his position to
promote his image and not the effectiveness of the Department.
I feel the Police Department is going in the
opposite direction it should be.
We are going backwards. He took away educational
incentives, which is going to kill recruiting.
We are regressing.
Chief Wray has taken an already stressful job
and added rotating shifts, manpower shortages, low morale and a feeling of
distrust to it.
Duplicating services like leaving the Sheriff’s
Department warrant repository and going back to our own fingerprinting and
photographing are stupid.
19) Do you believe Chief Wray’s initiatives are effective in curbing the community’s crime problem?
13 107 37
8% 68% 24%
We used to be rated such a great police
department but we don’t even compare any more.
TSET was a good idea.
He claims his TSET teams have helped to reduce
the homicide rate in Greensboro. There is no way to prevent most homicides.
While he makes this claim statistics show violent crimes and robberies have
skyrocketed.
Crime appears to be the same. Even worse in some
locations.
Homicides are down which could be a natural
occurrence. Based on my call load, robberies, assaults, etc. seem to be up.
He claims TSET lower homicides. That is like
saying a rock can reduce tiger attacks.
I believe TSET is a good thing. We need street
level drug enforcement.
20) Do you feel Chief Wray is allowing you to effectively serve Greensboro?
13 130 13
8% 83% 8%
When manpower is limited as it is, we cut short
with citizens who need our help. When Communications is calling 10-100 because
no cars are available, we cannot take the time with the citizens the way we
should.
As a whole- NO.
The continued mixing of shifts never allows me
to use crime trends and citizens on my beat. By the time I figure out where
crime is happening during a given time frame, I am moved to a different time
frame and shift.
Because of rotating shifts I am tired all the
time and drive around in a daze.
I do the best job I can in spite of Chief Wray.
I am tired from rotating. I am tired from being
understaffed. I have little interest in serving Greensboro because I am too run
down.
Rotating shifts discourage community policing by
the largest segment of the Department, the field officers.
21) Has the current climate within the Police Department made you reluctant to do your job?
108 43 7
68% 27% 4%
Not really. I do my job the best I can, but I
don’t really serve the public anymore. What is now asked of me is impossible to
accomplish and it’s the public that suffers.
To a degree.
It certainly doesn’t help matters.
The current climate has made me somewhat bitter
and concerned that Chief Wray will gladly sacrifice officers on the alter of
his personal reputation.
I hate coming to work and count the minutes to
leave. Chief Wray would say, “Then leave.” I would retire today if I could.
22) Do you feel that the information given to the public/ media from the Chief’s office is completely accurate in regards to crime in Greensboro?
8 116 34
5% 73% 22%
I don’t feel it will ever be, due to the
political nature of that office.
Statistics are easy to manipulate.
The Administration has focused on the reduced
homicide rate while overlooking the rise in most other areas of crime.
I request that members of the community do a
ride-a-long and see for themselves what it’s like on the street.
For years it has been common practice for the
Crime Analysis Division to classify some burglary of motor vehicles to
vandalism in order to keep the Part 1 offenses down. This is just one example
of many in which the administration manipulates the truth too obtain favorable
light.
Given his record of saying what is beneficial to
his “mission,” I believe he skews the numbers. Touting the outstanding work of
TSET in the News & Record, he later admitted it was a budget strategy.
My experience is that numbers are manipulated
all the time.
23) Do you feel Chief Wray is in tune with the working Officers?
2 157 0
1% 99% 0%
He would of taken away rotating shifts to start
with.
As if he forgot where he came from.
He doesn’t care about the needs of his officers.
Heck no!!
He doesn’t come to the lineups. Neither do his
Assistant Chiefs or Captains. The Captains who do try to approach him with
concerns are rebuffed. He doesn’t care about us.
Chief Wray is here whenever a camera is around
to get his picture “bonding” with an officer or the public. He doesn’t rotate.
He doesn’t answer domestic calls or fights with no assist car available. He
doesn’t bust his butt for a yearly 2% raise.
On many occasions Chief Wray has addressed the
working officers in a demeaning and disrespectful manner.
He is so out of touch with modern police work. I
would be hesitant to have him assist me on a volatile call.
He selects the officers he wants input from. He
avoids lineups or group of officers.
He has no clue nor does he care.
He thinks we are morons, has stated it. The
incentive for pay increases for SPO and MPO- all bull- for him to collect
$12,000 with his inner circle.
24) Do you feel that more Officers should be committed to call answering and first line crime prevention?
146 8 4
92% 5% 3%
We have too much brass walking the halls looking
busy. Get them out to help.
We need at least enough officers to take care of
the call load.
Special units are nice. But if you don’t have
enough officers to be visible and answer the day-to-day calls you will never be
proactive. All we are is a reactive Dept.
Absolutely. We would have had additional
officers (40) over the next year, but the Chief blew that one by lying to the
City Council.
Believe it or not, a marked
patrol unit deters crime.
Our primary function as police
officers is call answering and protecting the public. We must deploy enough
officers to call answering so we can safely accomplish this mission.
It is insane to have citizens
wait for over an hour in the hot sun to have an officer investigate a traffic
accident. While two blocks away an officer who is exempt from call answering
runs radar.
We need help out on the streets!
Patrol officers are in the field
24/7 making them the best source of crime prevention. Any other units should
exist solely to support field officers.
More manpower committed to the
field results in reduced response times, increased patrol time and higher
visibility. High visibility prevents most crimes.
Many police practices indicate that call
answering field units provide the most effective form of crime prevention and
detection in the whole scale of things.
25) Do you feel Chief Wray’s increase in specialized units is or will be effective in fighting crime in Greensboro?
39 82 39
24% 52% 24%
Starting in the right direction.
Not until we have enough
officers to take care of the normal operations.
We have gone from a few crime prevention
officers to 20 or more.
He is moving toward disbanding the SRT team and
have TSET officers fulfill the responsibilities of the current SRT team. This
will reduce the experienced and best-trained officers needed to deal with
highly sensitive and dangerous situations. This will also create a mentality of
“superiority” in the minds of TSET officers compared to the call-answering
officers.
Only in a very limited and small scale.
26) How would you rate morale within the Police Department?
122 33 5 0 0
76% 21% 3% 0% 0%
There is no morale!
Poor. And declining every day.
Terrible. It’s a shame.
I have had Magistrate’s, Assistant DA’s and the
public say they have never seen more unhappy people in the last 18 months.
Extremely poor!!
No one I know is happy but we all know that this
situation can’t last forever and will improve once Chief Wray leaves.
If there were a category below poor I would have
chosen that. I think “poor” is giving it too much credit.
Good morale is hardly possible when the
perception is that the Chief goes out of his way to make conditions more
difficult for his officers.
27) Do you feel rotating shifts has made the working Officers more well rounded?
11 138 12
7% 86% 7%
Just an excuse for the implementation of
rotating shifts.
It has made us tired, irritable, unmotivated and
below average.
Rotating shifts do not affect him.
It’s been a 1½ years now. They are all really
well rounded to go back to permanent shifts. The same with the CSI’s!
Those that were lazy are still lazy. Those that
were motivated, are no more.
Rotating shifts do not affect him. He’s divorced
and has no young children at home depending on him to be a good parent.
It has not made me more well rounded. It has made
me bitter and frustrated.
Rotating shifts have made officers more
fatigued.
It has made me more average, not more well
rounded. I am unfocused and too tired to be effective.
28) Do you feel rotating shifts has impacted morale? If so, please explain
158 2
99% 1%
I see rotating shifts as a tool for Chief Wray
to keep us in our place.
It has affected morale, families and getting
further education, every aspect of an officer’s life!
I don’t know anyone who likes is.
Rotating shifts destroyed morale.
A majority of the officers in the call answering
mode were recruited and hired with the 4/4 permanent shift benefit. Those
officers are now feeling they have made a poor decision in taking a job with
the GPD.
Rotating shifts were presented as necessary in
order to put more officers on the street. However all officers know that
rotating adds no more officers to the street than set schedules.
Chief Wray refuses to hear us because of his
attitude. His Command Staff is scared or ignores what we have to say.
29) Do you feel that there is a direct correlation between morale on the Police Department and Officer performance?
157 0 2
99% 0 % 1%
If you don’t feel good about yourself how can
you give your best to the Department?
No one wants to strive.
I see it every day.
It’s simple mathematics. With low or no morale,
there is low or no performance.
Yes if he uses them appropriately.
After a while you can’t help but let it affect
you negatively.
A happy employee is a more productive employee.
Anyone with management experience will tell you that.
The Captains know it but are afraid to speak
out.
30) Do you feel the City Council is providing the Chief with the necessary resources to remedy the manpower shortage?
49 76 35
31% 47% 22%
I think the Council needs to stop annexing and
let the officers catch up.
It is my opinion that I am serving in a city
where the City Council is anti-police. They don’t want to spend the money
necessary to hire new officers but will be the first people to complain about
response time if they need us.
We need more patrol officers. Make a call for a
loud party and see how long it takes for us to respond. It’s not because we are
lazy. It’s because of a lack of patrol officers.
No. The City Council recently denied the Chief
additional positions because the Chief was going to put them in specialized
units. They simply denied those positions rather than placing a condition on
those positions to be used for call answering.
The City Council continues to annex more and
more land without realizing its affect on the police department. I think they
should be forced to do a ride along, both day and night to see how depleted our
forces are.
Last year the City Council committed to provide
more officers due to the completed manpower study concerning response times and
active patrol. Chief Wray tried to push through his chosen specialized units.
31) As a member of the Greensboro Police Department, do you have confidence in Chief Wray’s ability as Chief of Police to lead the Greensboro Police Department in a direction that will protect and serve with courage and integrity?
4% 87% 9%
There will always be those individual officers with
courage and integrity, but I don’t feel that attitude coming from the Chief of
Police.
This is my vote of No Confidence.
I did, but not anymore.
His ego is larger than his respect for the
position.
I hate for people to know that I’m a Police
Officer in Greensboro. It’s shameful.
He needs to be removed from office.
I have lost confidence in Chief Wray. He has
displayed a total disregard for our safety and welfare. He has stated, “I am
willing to take casualties.” I personally do not wish to be any kind of
casualty under his poor leadership.
I have very little faith in Chief Wray-period.
Chief Wray has shown time and again to have no
regard for the physical and emotional well being of his officers. He is the
first Chief of the three I have worked for who does not acknowledge that patrol
is the backbone of the Department.
I have no confidence in the current
administration of the Greensboro Police Department. If I could afford it I
would resign from the agency today. However that should not be necessary for a
law-abiding police officer of any agency.
After the longwinded letter from the Chief about
how hard he was battling to get us a pay increase, my pay increase was nothing.
They continue to blow smoke up our butts about how they are doing things for
us.
I became a police officer because I was looking
for an exciting and honorable profession that offered a strong sense of
camaraderie. I still have those feelings for the people I work with on a daily
basis, but I do not trust Chief Wray to strive to maintain the tradition of the
honorable warrior within this Department.
Should Chief Wray remain our chief, I can see
nothing but a negative trend growing even worse. I have zero confidence in
Chief Wray’s ability to lead, make decisions, motivate or in any way make a
positive contribution to the Greensboro Police Department.
What services did Chief Wray have to sacrifice
to find the $100,000+ for recruiting? What services were sacrificed to find the
money for the market value adjustments that will benefit most of the Command
Staff and is retroactive to February? The SPO program was only retro-ed to
April. What services were sacrificed to buy the unnecessary rockers and
chevrons and the cost to put them on? Where is the additional money going that
Chief Wray took away from officers with the change in the educational incentive
and Corporal pay program?