Why David Kunkle was a great police chief | Opinion
“The information does not belong to us,” he would say of police records and information. “It belongs to the public.”It is hard to overstate how exceptionally rare that attitude was and is among major city police chiefs and government workers generally. I know this because I not only reported on Dallas City Hall, I also later worked there for Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Like the time it was revealed that Dallas police officers had issued citations to non-English speaking motorists for… not speaking English.“I was, I guess, surprised and stunned that that would happen, particularly in the city of Dallas,” Kunkle said at a press conference during which he revealed the full scope of what had occurred.The fact that his first allegiance was to the people of Dallas did not win him points with police union bosses.
My first sit-down interview with Kunkle in 2007 was for a story about the department’s prostitution diversion program. It offered women who had a record of prostitution offenses the opportunity to get the help they needed., instead granting me access to the veteran sergeant, Louis Felini, who was the real brainchild. To me, it was a testament to the Dallas Police Department culture under Kunkle that officers at all levels were allowed, even encouraged, to be innovative.
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