The temporary loss of what some residents call “24/7 police coverage” has pitted neighbor against neighbor, with one faction blaming Mayor Waldrop and the other blaming Grey Forest PD, which detractors say lacked initiative and clear operating standards.
– Following the resignation of all four full-time officers with the Grey Forest Police Department, Mayor Mandie Waldrop this fall had no choice but to request the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office take over all patrol duties within the small city, located northwest of San Antonio.
Officer Charles Marcus, according to an incident report, wrote that Waldrop told him, “Rene’s little police force is going to be in trouble,” and that “she refused to give me her TDL until exiting the veh. .”While the stop resulted in only a warning being issued to Waldrop, the incident was stirred up in February after GFPD administration learned that she had entered the race for mayor.
The sergeant, Scott Ristow, in his own February letter to Chief Rodriguez, said Waldrop also referred to the department’s reserve officers as “rent a cops.” Ristow, in separate letters sent to Rodriguez and then the mayor pro tem, stated that he too feared retaliation. Waldrop reiterated statements she made to Rodriguez in a July email in which she described the “continual attacks” by Rodriguez and his officers.Waldrop told KSAT she and Marcus have moved past the incident and have a “good relationship.”GFPD, until this fall, consisted of a police chief, deputy chief, two sergeants, and a large pool of unpaid reserve officers.
A GFPD sergeant told a city councilmember via letter July 11 that he could not sign the document because Waldrop was dictating policy. He said it is important to point out that Waldrop created these expectations despite having no police management experience. Resident Paul Garro, who said he supported Waldrop’s campaign, now believes she was too heavy-handed with the city’s “model police force.”
They said suspending police operations in order to fix the department trumps temporarily losing the 24/7 coverage officers previously provided. Rodriguez pushed back on that claim this month, claiming traffic enforcement statistics for GFPD improved year after year while he led the agency.Turnover within GFPD has continued even after the resignation of Rodriguez and the three other administrators.
A second proposal floated by Boatright suggests a setup of a chief and two full-time officers supplemented by 8 to 10 reserves, which would also only provide 16 hours of patrol coverage each day.
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