Ben Marzinski wrote:
> Living in the community doesn't necessarily make you a less violent
> person. It does mean that you will be less afraid of typical members of
> that community. Which means you (if you are an officer) are less likely to
> intimidate them, or get spooked and shoot them.
> I'm not sure living in the community would change that. A lot of people who
> become officers come from small twons and rural areas. They have more to
> contend with on a much more basic level. Like the great numbers of people, the
> mix of cultures--even among Caucasians (some small towns are all Danes, all
> German, all this or that), not knowing any of the cultures they will be dealing
> with, but not having been exposed to great numbers of people from different
> sub-cultures.
Also, I'd be willing to bet that new cops are way more jittery than experienced
cops and the only thing that will change that is time in the streets.
> But we have to train them to do what we want them to do. For ISAG the
> cops got lots of new toys to beat and shoot people with, and they got
> trained to deal with riots. Looking at it from that angle, the result is
> hardly surprising.
During the ISAG stuff I had access to people on the web who were on the ground in
Seattle, doctors, accountants, office works who came out of their offices to find
a riot in the streets and police whaling on people right and left. They told
some grizzly stories.What kind of information was the Minneapolis Police
Department getting from Seattle?
Wizard Marks, Central
>
>
> -Ben Marzinski
> Ward 6
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Russell Wayne Peterson wrote:
>
> > I don't think it is fair to say, "just because you don't live in the city
> > you don't care about the city." I may not agree with everything our police
> > department is doing, but to say you need to live in a neighborhood to offer
> > due care is bunk. That does a disservice to those who serve us in uniform.
> > In fact, there are many people who live in my neighborhood who care less
> > than the people who don't live here!
> >
> > Russ Peterson
> > Ward 9
> > Standish
> >
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