Chief Stan Standridge’s first day on the job fell just short of a red carpet welcome, he said in an interview with the Daily Record, awestruck over the kindness and inclusiveness of his family’s welcome to the City of San Marcos.
With just five days under his belt, the former Abilene Police Chief and current President of the Texas Police Chiefs Association already has big plans for building trust and legitimacy in San Marcos.
“This city still enjoys a very high appreciation for all first responders,” Standridge said. “As it relates to being procedurally just, I think we have to do four tenets: We have to treat people with dignity, courtesy and respect. We have to give individuals a voice. That is really important. Dr. Martin Luther King said ‘the riot is the voice of the unheard’ ... If we want more civil communities, we have to give our citizens a voice … The third thing is we need to be neutral and transparent in our decision making and the fourth thing is we need to convey trustworthy motives.”
