To the Editor:

 

The settlement reached by the City of Key West’s legal and insurance team is the best that can be done with a bad situation, and we must implore our City Commissioners to approve it at their closed-door session next week. The danger is that some commissioners have publicly taken a hard line and may refuse to compromise, even for the good of all, especially our police department.

 

This settlement is actually better for the KWPD than it is for the Eimers. Only Officer Lovett is held in error, and the rest are uncharged. For anyone to maintain that we have to defend Officer Lovett’s egregious conduct, in order to defend the entire department, insults everyone in Blue.

 

Our insurers know what they are doing. Remarkably, we the taxpayers will not have to pay, and we, the police, and the Eimers can move on. To drag this out would risk not only financial disaster of the Ducks magnitude, but subject us all to unnecessary further distress.

 

If you have ever called or emailed a commissioner, now is the time to do so. Remember, their email addresses have changed: they are now first initial-last name as before, but @cityofkeywest-fl.gov.

For example, the Mayor’s is [email protected].

 

Rick Boettger

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