Time's Up Todd! You Let Killer Cops on the Loose.

$1.2 million settlement (2013) for Racial Discrimination:

• https://youtu.be/2n9sWNLXE4k?si=bDmPPn2yq8yjqm_0

• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2013-mar-26-la-me-ln-lapd-verdict-20130326-story.html

• https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/black-lapd-officer-wins-1-2m-discrimination-suit/

Harassment of homeless lady (AKA “Operation: Bad Moody”)

• https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/homeless-woman-arrested

• https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-c1-homeless-arrests-20140429-dto-htmlstory.html

• https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/los-angeles-skid-row

• https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=1295a13d-07e5-47fe-a2c3-99e97ef4de74

Reassignment due to harassment and sexual harassment in his precinct:

• https://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/central-division-captain-transferred/article_601b5ade-fc3a-11e0-9748-001cc4c002e0.html

• https://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/year-in-review-law-and-order-and-disorder/article_a2490276-2c14-11e1-ab50-001871e3ce6c.html#:~:text=Harassment%20Suits%20Roil%20Central:%20The%20LAPD%27s%20Central%20Division&text=Area%20Captain%20Todd%20Chamberlain%2C%20who%20headed%20the%20station%20since%20January%202010%2C%20was

“Watermelon slurpies" 

• https://foxchattanooga.com/news/local/local-group-calls-for-more-community-control-in-chattanooga-police-chief-selection

MAGA Ties

• https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-aurora-police-chief-undermines-trust-by-conflating-trump-devotion-with-being-a-republican/

• https://www.westword.com/news/aurora-police-chief-faces-questions-racial-bias-trump-rally-22374339/

National Applications - Todd applied and was rejected by many places before he even thought about Aurora. He just wants to be in a position of power, he does not care about Aurora

• Cincinnati: https://www.scribd.com/document/611196198/Todd-Chamberlain

• Chattanooga, TN: 2014 and 2017

  • https://www.scribd.com/document/352466168/Police-Chief-Applications-1

• Cincinatti, OH

• Little Rock, AR

We have weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 7pm
Join us in person at Aurora Fire Rescue Station 1's Community Room
9801 E 16th Ave, Aurora, CO 80010
Or online through Jitsi (click here)

Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, anyone and everyone you know about the corruption in the Aurora Police Department. APD uses a lot of their resources to control the narrative. We as community members need to fight back against their lies by talking about it. 

Sending a message to city council that you are a concerned citizen who wants Police Chief Todd Chamberlain gone helps. You can contact: your ward representative, at-large council members, or the mayor’s office

Mayor Mike Coffman - mcoffman@auroragov.org
Gianina Hortan - Ward 1 - ghorton@auroragov.org
Amy Wiles - Ward 2 - awiles@auroragov.org
Ruben Medina - Ward 3 - rlmedina@auroragov.org 
Stephanie Hancock - Ward 4 - shancock@auroragov.org
Angela Lawson - Ward 5 - alawson@auroragov.org
Francoise Bergan - Ward 6 - fbergan@auroragov.org
Rob Andrews - at large - randrews@auroragov.org
Alison Coombs - Mayor Pro Tem - acoombs@auroragov.org
Currtis Gardner - at large - cgardner@auroragov.org
Alli Jasckson - at large- alli.jackson@auroragov.org 

City Manager - citymanager@auroragov.org

General council office email:
citycouncil@auroragov.org 

You can send letters to:

City Manager’s Office
15151 E Alameda Parkway
Aurora, CO 80012

To learn more info you can visit the official aurora site here

Aurora City Council meetings are generally conducted on two Mondays every month. (Check out our calendar on our home page for which Mondays) These meetings begin at 6PM and are held in the Paul Tauer Aurora City Council Chamber at the Aurora Municipal Center (15151 E. Alameda Parkway Aurora, CO 80012. ) 

The forms are open at 8AM on the Friday before the council meeting and close at 1PM on the day of the meeting. Click Public Invited to be Heard Sign-up Form (Comment on Non-Agenda Matters of City Concern) at this link to sign up. You can also sign up to speak in person day of before 6pm.

You have 3 minutes to speak 

Don't know what to say? That's ok. Here are some points to touch on:

• • • • Your own experience

        • If you have had a bad experience with cops in the city, share your story and experience. 

      • APD's History with racism and violence

        • Aurora has a long and corrupt history

          • The Aurora Police force is under a consent decree from the state attorney general after Elijah McClain was killed. The judge found practices and patterns of racism and excessive use of force in APD. 

          • You can read about some stories here. These are just a few stories, feel free to share others you might know more about. 

      • Talk about why Todd Chamberlain is unfit to be Aurora's Police Chief

        • You can use the points mentioned above. Pick the points that mean the most to you.

      • End with demands

        • 1) Demand Todd Chamberlain resign immediately, and if he does not the city council must remove him from his position

        • 2) Demand that the process for selecting the next police chief be open, democratic, and controlled by civilians.

        • 3) Demand a Civilian Police Accountability Council - a CPAC. (Sign our CPAC petition here) This must be a democratically elected body of civilians, with no ties to law enforcement, granted authority over APD policy, discipline, budgets, hiring, and firing. True oversight must be independent and powerful. 

We have a script below to get you started. Feel free to use this as your whole speech, or use it as a starting point to write your speech. Just remember it's important to make the demands at the end of your speech. 

Hello Aurora City Council, My name is [NAME] and I'm here to demand the firing Police Chief Todd Chamberlain, and giving community control over the police. The Aurora Police department terrorizes the community.

After the death of Elijah McClain, APD was put under a consent decree for practices and patterns of racism and excessive use of force. Even under a consent decree APD has continued to murder Black members of our community. Kylin Lewis was unarmed, had his hands up, and said “I ain’t got nothing”. Officers shot him claiming his phone looked like a gun. Jor'Dell Richardson was 14 years old when cops held him down and shot him in an alleyway. Kory Dillard, a US war veteran, was killed within 8 seconds of the police arriving on scene. APD shot and murdered unarmed Raushad Johnson. Rajon Belt-Stubblefield was sucker-punched in the back of the head by a cop, before being murdered.

Chief Todd Chamberlain lets his officers to kill innocent people. Then he spreads lies about these victims in an attempt to justify the racist murders, completely violating their constitutional rights. Before moving to Aurora he worked in the LAPD as an officer during the Rodney King beating and its subsequent riots. He was sued and lost a discrimination case for allowing officers to racially harass a black officer. He made a racist comment at a public community relations meeting that he “did not want officers hiding out at the 7-Eleven drinking watermelon slurpies”. Later in his LAPD career, Chamberlain was reassigned from the LAPD Central Division, amid reports of racial and sexual harassment by officers under his leadership.

It's clear APD and Todd Chamberlain are untrustworthy with policing themselves. As a community member I demand that
1) Fire Police Chief Todd Chamberlain

  2) The community must control the selection of the next police chief, with direct public input.

  3) a fundamental demand for lasting change: Create a Civilian Police Accountability Council - a CPAC. This must be a democratically elected body of civilians, with no ties to law enforcement, granted authority over APD policy, discipline, budgets, and hiring. It must be independent and powerful.

Thank you

File a complaint when you see an officer doing anything wrong, harassing homeless, parked in a no parking spot or speeding, even if a cop is just being rude, file a complaint. These complaints add up and show the community is unhappy with the police. This puts pressure on officials for change. 

You can file a complaint at this link. 

Scroll to 'Public Safety' and hit '! File a Complaint'. Follow the flow to submit your complaint and be heard as a community member. Once submitted, the complaint goes into the department’s complaint system and is forwarded to Internal Affairs for review.