Maybe a more relavent question might be "is there any evidence to suggest that further investigation (into potential wrong doing) is required?"
While I am not suggesting that it is impossible that the investigating officers may have overlooked something in their preliminary investigation, I would, at the very least, like for someone to come forward with at least a shred of evidence to the contrary.
In the interest of fairness I suggest that unless someone has good cause why either further investigation, or potential charges (against the driver) be considered, that a more reflective approach to the matter be adopted.
To insinuate that an investigation was not done BECAUSE of the victims social status (w/o proof) is no more responsible than what the police are being accused of (for not investigating) by making the statement in the 1st place.
Dennis Plante
North Minneapolis resident
>From: "Anne McCandless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Mpls] Mpls Pedestrian Killed
>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:02:53 -0600
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>Why is it automatically believed that because the Strib didn't write that an investigation was conducted, than the police must not have done one? Is it possible that the Strib just didn't include that info because of lack of space or they didn't think the story important enough to go into much detail?
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>Perhaps the attention given to stories is not based on police interest but on the newspaper's interest. For example, two children are killed by abusive custodians. One is a poor child in Minneapolis, the other a child in the suburbs, living in an expensive home. The newsmedia are 'shocked' by the death of the suburban child and days are spent following up the story. Hardly any media time is spent on the poor child's death and within a day, it is not even mentioned.
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>Later, the results from a police perspective.....the judge in the suburban case has let the suspect leave the country without charges, which again gets allot of media attention. The two suspected killers of the poor child are charged and sitting in jail awaiting trial, which gets a small story in the back of the Metro section. In both cases, the police have done the best investigations possible.
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>Stories about poor people don't sell newspapers. Until journalists are made to swear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, don't believe everything you read.
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>Anne McCandless
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