Russell Sasaoka wrote: >For the police department, there used to be such a requirement, but however with far >less people going into law enforcement and other things as well, it's getting harder >and harder to find officers or potential officers willing to live in the area that >they work in. > At some point during the years of police residency requirement, Charlie Stenvig was mayor. Police voting power played a big role in having that happen. Given numerous accounts of Stenvig's lackluster performance as mayor, it may not be such a good idea.
>Not only that, but cost of buying a home. However I would have to agree with what >Ms. Lickness stated at the end of her email in regards to the individual and the >level of commitment that a person has. > I don't buy this argument about committment being a factor of of residency. There have been notoriously bad attitudes toward Minneapolis and neighbors on the part of a few resident cops and lovely attitudes by others. A much greater factor, IMHO, is where a person grew up who later became a cop. People from the farms and small towns have an enormous adjustment to make just by living in a city. People coming from Greater Minnesota actually do define themselves as living in the city if they live on the outstate edge of Plymouth, for example. They're going, in many cases, from 300 acres between neighbors to 15 feet or fewer. Their often going from a monoculticulture to a multiculture. (Many towns in Greater MN are all Danes, all Swedes, all Germans, etc.) This is another huge leap because it means jumping from "This is how this is done" to there being at least 60 ways to do something, all contradictory. Some towns around Mpls. have rules that, for some personnel including cops, an employee of the municipality has to live within 15 minutes driving distance of where the employee report to work (Chaska, for one). Maybe that's a clue to a resolution. WizardMarks, Central >______________________________________ >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy >Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: >http://e-democracy.org/mpls > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
