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I'm grateful for the work done by our Minneapolis Police officers. They
do a tough job well. I've grew up in a high crime neighborhood in North
Minneapolis and now live in a low crime area of South Minneapolis. In
both areas I have appreciated their work. I've also seen officers in
other suburbs and know our officers are the best.
I don't want them to park 120 feet from where they sit so that they miss
critical time on an important call. I don't want them shooting to
injure a criminal so that they can run the risk of getting shot in
return. Make no mistake, taking a human life, for good or bad, is never
desirable but is sometimes necessary.
Frankly, I'm fed up with fellow citizens who make their job more
difficult than it already is.
Thank you Minneapolis police officers for the work you do. Some of us
do understand.
- Adam Stenberg
Fulton Neighborhood
13th Ward
timothy connolly wrote:
> I will choose my words carefully and tell a brief
> story
>
> I live at 12th and lasalle and walk to work along
> nicollet to the ids. i am observant of people and
> activity on the street.
>
> this morning as i rounded the corner from 12th onto
> the mall i noticed a mpls. squad car parked on the
> sidewalk on the west side of nicollet in front of
> caribou coffee
>
> being the nosey parker i am, i wonder what might be up
> so i checked to see what was happening in caribou.
> a(n) uniformed officer sat at a front table
> accompanied by another male drinking a liquid i would
> presume to be coffee or tea.
>
> now the question that springs to my mind is this: is
> it necessary for the police to park on the sidewalk
> when they are stopping for coffee?
>
> many of you no doubt will chide me for "monday morning
> quarterbacking" the police or being overly pedantic.
> feel free. this after all is america.
>
> were this an isolated incident of police arrogance i
> might agree. i constantly see police parked this way.
> no doubt, at times, it may make sense. god forbid a
> shoplifter from daytons etc whom the police were
> called to arrest should walk half a block to a police
> car. god forbid an officer need be more than 120 feet
> from his vehichle at any time, that is the approximate
> distance from the front door of caribouu to a corner
> metter on 11th st.
>
> there is one particular officer i see whose beat
> appears to be nicollet who in the numerous times i've
> encountered him has not been chatting up a young
> woman. you want his name, check me off-line.
>
> my point in mentioning any of this is that these ought
> to be indicators of a systemic problem with the police
> and their relation to and function within the greater
> society.
>
> to whom are the police accountable? perhaps i should
> have personally said something to the officer in
> question. on another day i might have. contrary to
> what dave dix might think i am not a masochist. i do
> enjoy being thrashed. i do not enjoy thrashing people.
> i do believe in personal responsility, discipline,
> humility, all those good things.
>
> discretion in this case seemed the better part of
> valor. i live to fight again. it was too nice a day to
> ruin his coffee or my troubled peace of mind.
>
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