undercover officer hit by "friendly" fire on the southside, Re: [Mpls] Another murder in Don Samuels' Ward

[Dyna]

	I heard a call for help from an officer at 36th and Clinton at about 
2:30 am last night, on the Minneapolis police northside channel. Being 
on the wrong radio channel may be one of the many screwups that 
resulted in a hardworking Asian-American cop getting shot by another 
member of the same force.  The officer, having difficulty 
communicating, with a high pitched voice requested an ambulance "Code 
3". Fortunately the probably befuddled dispatchers put out an "officer 
needs assistance" call. At that point I was heading off to bed and shut 
off the tranceiver instead of switching channels to follow the 
incident. I at first thought the voice was a female officers, and the 
responding officers may have assumed the same... perhaps looking to 
assist a female officer. With such misinformation they may have assumed 
that officer Duy Ngo was the attacker rather than the victim.

	This tragedy shows the need for better communications systems for our 
police department. No, we don't need millions of dollars worth of 
Motorola's latest digital trunked 800 megahertz radios. What we do need 
is procedures for signing out vehicles and officers punching in and out 
so the force knows who's out there in what vehicle. The Postal Service 
doesn't allow a carrier to pull out of the parking lot without punching 
in and signing out a vehicle: why can't the Minneapolis police do the 
same? As for the radios, this may be just a software change to turn on 
a distinctive digital code that is transmitted with each radio. If 
dispatchers note that digital tone they need merely see who has that 
radio signed out and transmit that information to responding officers.

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 01:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Good post Pamela!!
	I thought it was pretty entertaining too!

As always, in any such situation, when our city is faced with serious 
problems, there are those who whine and bitch about things.
	Like the current 3rd Ward council member, who actually lives in the 
5th.

And there are those who get up off their computer chairs and do 
something to resolve the problems. Too often the whiners are herd more 
then the activists results are noticed
	
	Valdis, I don't own a computer chair so you must be talking about 
someone else. But I agree- within a few hours a citizen was murdered 
and a fine young police officer was shot by another officer.... and we 
haven't heard a peep out of our much vaunted 3rd ward council member.

It is however the unfortunate reality that those who mealy spew at the 
mouth are free to subject the rest of us to constant attacks by their 
butterknife sharp wit in just such forums.
	Valdis, sounds like you're talking about yourself or some of the 
various and sundry DFL haters on this list...

 And when called to act, they fall behind the rhetoric of prejudice, 
class envy or some other convenient shield to hide behind because to 
retort would be "politically incorrect". If we would all put forth 
more effort and less bitter, pointless banter - then our city would be 
a better place. But I know we will have more of this.
	Agreed- after all of Don Samuels rhetoric we haven't seen a lick of 
action! The gangs are expanding their turf, for sale signs are growing 
like weeds on the Northside, and what does Don Samuels give us? Poetry.

	hanging on in Hawthorne,

		Dyna Sluyter

Valdis Rozentals
SAW


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