“No one’s going to tell us what to put on our union website, period,” local police union President Todd Lynch said in a recent interview, “New London police union defends use of website,” (Jan. 21).

This was Officer Lynch’s bellicose response to the recommendation of the New London Public Safety Review Committee that the Police Union “…cease targeting individuals in the community on their website and social media channels.”

We are not at all interested in telling the Union what to put on their website. We are interested in the website upholding what should be the highest professional standards of police officers. This could be accomplished by having a monitor approve or disapprove and remove postings by union members if he/she deems them to be below the standards for good community practice. It is quite a simple solution and prevents the website from being abused by disgruntled and angry members who post in a pique and should be monitored so that they do not cause damage to the good name of the union and the goodwill of the public.

Jerry Fischer

Waterford

Member, The New London Public Safety Policy Review Committee