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Congressional representatives Andy Harris and Steny Hoyer are the last two Maryland representatives who still refuse to co-sponsor the Social Security Fairness Act.  All we are asking for is to receive the benefits that we already pay for.  County Executive Steuart Pittman joined FOP 70 in our movement to convince Senator Ben Cardin to sign on as a co-sponsor and we are happy to report that Senator Cardin did. The bills are now sponsored by Senator Chris Van Hollen, Senator Ben Cardin, and Maryland’s Congressional representatives David Trone, Kweisi Mfume, John Sarbanes, Dutch Ruppersberger, Glenn Ivey, and Jamie Raskin.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department honored local hero George Phelps, Jr. this month by, posthumously, making him an Anne Arundel County Police Officer.  As a police officer, he would have been encouraged to join our FOP, and therefore, we recently voted to make him an honorary member of our FOP. Born in 1926, Brother Phelps  was the nephew of the late Wiley H. Bates and he graduated Wiley H. Bates High School.  Bates was the only high school in the county that black students could go to until the mid-1960s when  segregation ended in Anne Arundel County.  After high school, he attended North Carolina A&T College and joined the U.S. Army, which took him to  Europe during World War II for service as a military police officer. With his education, military, and policing background, he would have made the perfect addition to the Anne Arundel County Police Department.  But in 1950, not many people could imagine a black man hired to a position where he could arrest a white person.