I am going to offer a much more serious response to David's post, even if Carol Becker
offered a much more clever one.
Even if Carol hadn't brought forth her point that finding David is unlikely, it must
be stated that David's comments and stereotyping of ALL police officers is unfair. I
am not defending the actions of those officers who choose to act in illegal manners.
Those individual police officers who engage in police brutality should be held
accountable. However, to say that all police officers WILL act in a certain manner
and not act in the manner of rightfully upholding the law is as improper as saying all
African Americans are thieves or all Native Americans are drunkards. If one is going
to call someone to task for stereotyping or "profiling" (and I would expect that David
Shove may do this, looking at some of his posts), then one needs to practice what they
preach.
Finally, calling all police officers thugs does nothing towards furthering any hopeful
dialogue with communities and Chief Olson.
Gary Bowman
Ward 1-Audubon Park
On Mon, 29 January 2001, "Carol Becker" wrote:
> Given there are about 35 sworn park police officers trying to patrol over
> 170 separate park properties scattered throughout the over 50 square miles
> of city, some of which are detectives and not on patrol, 24 hours a day, 7
> days a week, I would doubt the park police could ever find you.
>
> Carol Becker
> Longfellow
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Shove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Dean Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Mpls list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] Park Board
>
>
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dean Zimmermann wrote:
> > >
> > > The business you have been reading about lately about the Park Board
> sounds
> > > a bit more titillating than it really is. Actually on most things the
> Park
> > > Board has almost universal agreement and when there is a divided vote,
> the
> > > majority/minority split is always configured differently. There are
> some on
> > > the Board now who feel the current leadership, President Solomon and VP
> Fine
> > > tend to cut off debate at meetings and to bring some items to the board
> so
> > > late in the process that they are done deals before some commissioners
> know
> > > they are happening. In particular, it seems that the leadership has
> been
> > > negotiating with the city to give away some of the Park Board's police
> > > responsibilities to the city police. This is a significant issue, and
> in
> > > other cities where the Park Police have been folded into the city
> police,
> > > the parks end up not getting the police service that is needed.
> >
> > This would be very useful to me personally. After a brief examination, it
> > has become clear to me that I am full of an enormous amount of crap, and
> > with more non-park cops I stand a better chance of having it beat out of
> > me.
> >
> > With more non-park police we can blow away more useless people with
> > medical problems.
> >
> > With more non-park cops we can better defend the rich against First
> > Amendment protestors (just what country do they think they live in
> > anyway? And what makes them think they have any rights?)
> >
> > With more non-park police we can CODEFOR clear away useless poor people
> > and unAmerican small businesses so developers can make a bundle serving
> > rich people and big businesses.
> >
> > With more non-park cops we can crack a lot more heads with hard-swung
> > batons, butter up a lot more eyes with pepper spray, swear at and threaten
> > lower class people and protestors with guns.
> >
> > With more non-park cops we can hear a lot more Craak!! and Smack!! and
> > Owwww!! and Down on your knees you little piece of #####!!!
> >
> > All of this would make GREAT television!
> >
> >
> > --David Shove
> > Roseville
> >
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