Thursday, March 11, 1999
Shirey, FOP want to keep target range
BY TANYA BRICKING
The Cincinnati Enquirer
City administrators and the Fraternal Order of Police are fighting the mayor's proposal to give away the division's Evendale target range.
Mayor Roxanne Qualls last month proposed sharing the land with Lincoln Heights.
City Manager John Shirey asked council Wednesday to keep the range where it is because training is necessary and relocation would be problematic.
Cincinnati's police division has trained on the property since the Wright Aeronautical Ex-Servicemen's Club donated the land in 1946.
While Cincinnati owns the land, it's in Evendale, and Evendale is interested in having Lincoln Heights annex the property. That would allow Lincoln Heights to gain tax base.
But the proposal has angered some on the 1,000-member police force because it would leave the division looking for another place to practice target shooting, have K-9 unit and SWAT training, and take gun qualifications.
FOP President Keith Fangman said he hopes council members reject the motion when it comes up for a vote, which could be as soon as March 23.
Not only would an equal training center cost tens of millions of dollars, he said, but the plan would leave police without a place to practice life-saving skills.
“If council passes this motion, they may as well be spitting on the graves of Dan Pope and Ron Jeter,” officers who died in the line of duty in 1997, he said. “And that would show council's true colors as it relates to the safety of their police officers.”
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