Outer Carrier Vests: Sign The Petition & Donate Below
Support our officer's request for outer vests
(Real-Time Updates) 5:56pm 6/13: Update on Chief's Statement Release 1 hr 20 min ago 2 sections below.
The rank and file officers in CMPD have been pleading for years for the ability to wear outer carrier vests. These vests are much cooler than their current under shirt vest and allow for the officers to wear their equipment in a more erognomic manner. The belts they are forced to wear cause back pain and discomfort for them. The Chief of Police will not allow them to wear these because he does not like the militarized look of the vest.
With Officer morale being so low in CMPD right now, honoring this request of our CMPD rank and file patrol officers should be a no brainer.
Since the Chief of Police wouldn't do what is right during this budget process and accept the $500,000 my colleagues on the City Council voted UNANIMOUSLY to provide them in the 1st of 2 Budget Straw Votes,
I'm now asking the citizens and corporate partners of Charlotte to show their support and Shield the Blue in CMPD.
Here's what I need you to do:
1) Sign and share the petition below demanding our current Chief of Police allow the rank and file patrol officers to wear outer carrier vests. If we get a lot of signatures and he still refuses, I will then send out another petition demanding his resignation (but we will get to that step later and hopefully it's not necessary).
2) Donate whatever you can by clicking the GoFundMe link below. We know we need $500,000 because during the Budget Straw Vote process I did extensive research and that amount will enable us to bring top of the line outer carriers for the 1000+ patrol officers who are without them risking their lives to protect us every day. You can be confident in your donation for 2 reasons: IF we can get to $500,000, and IF the chief decides to accept it, GoFundMe allows me as the owner of this fundraiser to enter a name and email address of the Budget Director of CMPD, who will recieve an automated link that will enable them to completely take control of the funds, at which point I will no longer be able to control them, and when they route the money into the City of Charlotte bank account, every donor will recieve automated updates from the GoFundMe platform. IF we raise the money, but IF the chief decides to keep his heels dug in and refuse the officers request, I will continue fundraising while I launch the 2nd petition. If the 2nd petition doesn't work (meaning I fail at this mission and the chief wins), I will immediately click a button on the GoFundMe platform that returns all donations back to all of you. I don't plan on losing, though.
So that's the plan folks - full transparency and a specific plan with a singular mission - please get involved if this topic speaks to your heart... and then we will see what happens.
With Love, Tariq
P.S. I will be making this page look better and have more information for you to have all the info and tools you need in one place to help out. Put it together this afternoon. You can come directly here to my site, or just tell people the call to action is go to the website ShieldTheBlue.org so its easy to remember and they will be routed here.
