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In order to defend its assertion that the DA letter in question is still relevant, The Department inappropriately uses and stretches a “team concept” argument.
In the application of a Team Concept, if an NFL Team loses a game, and then certainly the entire team shares that loss as a Team - equally. However, when it comes to the following week of assessing what and why things failed, equality no longer has a part to play.
The Defensive Line (that may have played flawlessly) is not punished for the failure of the Offensive Line (which may not have performed well). The other players are not assessed fines because a Left Guard is fined for an unsportsmanlike conduct violation. The Coach does not suspend or replace the entire team because …show more content…

Ackermann is fully aware that since Officer Krouth and I began to replace Officers Doug Wickman and Randy Laluzerne place investigating and writing up crashes, his assignment of Recon duties to Officers has not allowed Officers to work as a team past the initial on-scene investigative phase . While The Department claims Officers worked as a team, Lt. Ackerman and the Day Shift supervision failed to coordinate and allow Officers time away from their primary assigned duties so that teamwork could occur. The Department instead took the position of it being preferable to have only one Officer out of the normal duty rotation working any given crash report, than having 2 or …show more content…

Ackermann had Officer Krouth did have Officer LaLuzerne supervising and coaching his (Krouth’s) writing of the report as part of the ongoing transition effort. All statements in that report were either approved or mandated by LaLuzerne before the report was sent to Lt. Ackermann. Officer Krouth has told me that Officer LaLuzerne specifically said to end the report with the line stating the crash was unavoidable. Had Lt. Ackermann had told ADA Elni the result of our investigation as we had told him, the DA’s Office may still have been disappointed that a prosecution for the crime mentioned was not possible, but most of the concern expressed in this letter would have been dispelled. It also demonstrates another failure of the Recon Unit mismanagement: If things go well, management takes the accolades – if not, the fault goes to the Unit.
• The Resultant Use Of The Letter Did Not Reflect Team Approach:
At the same time of applying the letter to “the reconstruction unit as a whole”, The Department mocks the team concept in that the Recon team members were not treated equally as a result of this letter. Officer Krouth was shown the letter and received a minor and short question about it from Lt. Ackermann. At this point, I am finding no indication that Officer Allcox was even talked to about it. I, however, received first knowledge of the letter’s existence and its actual wording only as being presented as part of support for a Formal Complaint Against

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