Mr. Ferman -- Would you care to expand on your statement about the "innovation to
MPD - CODEFOR..."? I fear that we must inhabit very different universes.
Jenny Heiser
Minneapolis
Ward 6-8
ferma001 wrote:
> Those who find fault with Olson have apparently not read Minneapolis
> police history. Given the long pull of my memory, I would have to rank
> Olson as either the first or second best chiefs that MPD has ever had.
> Anyone remember Charlie Stenvig, for example. Olson has worked to bring
> innovation to MPD - CODEFOR, for example. It will be interesting to see
> how McDonald's opposition will play out at the upcoming Minneapolis DFL
> city endorsing convention.
>
> >Council member McDonald stopped by our Kingfield neighborhood board meeting
> >on Wednesday and announced she would vote against Chief Olson's upcoming
> >reappointment. She cited the ISAG conference spending as one factor, and
> >also went into some detail about the police department's failure to produce
> >a policy to deal with "critical events" such confronting those with mental
> >health problems.
> >
> >I suspect - and I'm only guessing - that McDonald will be in the minority
> >when the council votes. Does anyone have a reading on the tea leaves - which
> >council members are and are not supporting Olson?
> >
> >If the chief is reappointed, he should become an election issue because
> >McDonald is running for mayor. I wonder if the pro-ISAG-protester votes
> >McDonald will pick up will be offset by the conservative law-and-order votes
> >she might lose by making the Top Cop an issue. (Yes, it's 2001 and time for
> >political analysis!) Then again, McDonald mentioned that the rank-and-file
> >cops were upset the administration had not produced the critical events
> >policy.
> >
> >Perhaps she, and others with inside connections to the police department,
> >could give us more details about the evolution - or lack thereof - of the
> >critical events policy.
> >
> >David Brauer
> >Kingfield - Ward 10
> >
> >
>
> Jack Ferman
> Minneapolis, MN
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
