Eva: You are taking what I said out of context. Racial profiling, in my belief is a systems problem that can not just be changed by changing the head of the police department. If that were the case, we could have erradicated such systems oppressions as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and heterosexism, ageism, battering, and on and on, by slimply putting an Oppression Elimination Specialist at the head of every city. Systems change issues takes a lot of serious planning, not an attack system in my opinion. I believe there has to be serious work on many different fronts to get any type of oppression to lessen, and eventually become eliminated. The oppressions I mentioned earlier have yet to be eliminated, so who do we hold accountable? And how long have we been working to eliminate them? How many organizations' missions are to eliminate these oppressions? This just seems like way too big a subject to be given "its propers" on a city list. I personally think it needs to be addressed by the Mayor and Police Chief, but we need an outside system to bring requests for change, and to work with the Civilian Review Board and the Police Review Committee (I don't remember the name of the committee) to make sure that there are standards, and training to assure these behaviors cease, and then serious sanctions for improper behavior and the CRB follows through when those infractions occur. If people in the City of Minneapolis are truly interested in doing work on Racial Profiling I DO know that the Institute on Race and Poverty has a researcher that is specifically doing research on Racial Profiling in our area. I am sure that an Action Team could get developed if you were really interested in seeing things change on the issue of Racial Profiling. I guess my biggest personal frustration is that over the last 30 years of doing systems change work I have heard crowds folks yell, but when it comes down to doing the very hard work of systems change, that crowd turns into one or two people. The name of the researcher is Susie Hartigan, Esq. and her email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthea Little Smith Powderhorn Park 9-4 ===== MattheaFREE INTERNET INCOME Course --ongoing training on how to create multiple income streams worldwide via the Internet ($295 value!). http://www.sixfigureincome.com/?779506 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
