To answer Tim Connolly's post:
> Compared to the people writing those letters to the Editor,
> the Strib IS "liberal" (a word that is fast becoming a null
> term), though I have never found it so. I generally lean
> more toward "fuzzy thinking" to describe the editorial
> section of the Strib, because it so rarely ever poses a
> question to ponder.
>
> "I fear some proponents of racial data collection
> operate barely out of hidden agendas. I believe some
> members of the defense bar relish the possibility of
> having another strategy to suggest reasonable doubt.
> They are provided an additional device to shift the
> focus from the behavior of their clients to more
> endemic social ills."
Gee, Tim, be fair to Hestness. He's looking at it from HIS
point of view. Cops gripe a lot about working hard to harness
the "bad guys" only to have smart attorneys come up with what
appears to them as side issues as a way to get their clients
off the hook--and defense attorneys do that, regularly. This
is an old hobbyhorse of police forces to which attorneys
regularly reply: present better evidence and you'll get your
conviction.Racial profiling is not a side issue, of course,
but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that racial
profiling is the buzz word now. Further, I'm not real clear,
hearing "racial profiling" batted around in various arenas,
that any two groups have the same definition. I"m not getting
a clear picture on that at all.
People in neighborhoods are asking the same question Hestness
is, behind the attorney remark. How come these sleezoids [the
bad guys, not necesarily the attorneys]--and every
neighborhood has a few either overt or covert sleezoids--keep
walking out of jail even though they are identified as
bringing down the quality of life for everyone they come in
contact with and whole bunches of that behavior is illegaland
hurtful to others to boot. I ask that question almost every
day as I watch my neighbors and their kids dealing heroin all
around my house.
When my neighbor got clobbered with an iron pipe or other
"blunt instrument," as well as being robbed in broad daylight
when you only have to look at him to know he's no threat to
anyone, I began to see another facet of this problem of
drugs-and-prostitution (two crimes that virtually always
appear together, are they two crimes?) that's way too scarey.
These folks are not even selective in their dangerousness.
They get off on inflicting pain on others. Now that makes my
blood run cold.'
WMarks, Central
> here are a lot of "I fear"s and "I believe"s in the
> piece. One is left with the impression of the Deputy
> Chief as an earnest paranoiac.
> You go too far, Tim, Actually, Hestness is a nice guy, grew
> up in Central or Powderhorn, raised in Mt. Olive Lutheran at
> Chicago and 31st. Went to Central High before somebody made
> the decision to tear it down. Presents himself as a
> mild-mannered fellow, crisp, spit-shined, intelligent.
> Definitely a Minnesotan.
> THIS IS NOT THE LAMENT OF SOME BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL
> That's a whole nuther e-mail.
>
> WMarks, Central
>
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