Is anybody Concerned that this proposal would put the public at risk by taking police off the street, thereby allowing the thugs, murders and rapists to behave anyway they want. . . . unchecked?
Ryan Kaess
Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Or this could have the effect of cutting one of the good cops, in
essence removing a control rod from a nuclear core.
The idea is right but simply cut the cop who is convicted. With the
lottery good cops may become more vigilent, but bad cops will become
more brutal knowing that they only have a 0.1% chance of losing their
jobs for their actions.
Robert Schmid
Central
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 12:27 AM, David Shove wrote:
> Q: How do we bring give the police force reason to obey the law and not
> beat the daylights out of minorites, poor, mentally disturbed etc
> citizens?
>
> A: Every time there is a proven brutality, one position will be cut
> from
> the police force. If it is set at say 900, it gets cut to 899. Then
> ALL of
> the officers are given a number from 001 to 900, and 3 "power ball"
> single
> digit balls are drawn, preferably on TV with lots of fanfare. The
> number,
> and then the associated name, of the officer is displayed, and he/she
> is
> thereby FIRED and may not be replaced.
>
> How long do you think it would take before ALL the cops were enforcing
> the
> most decorous polite behavior on ALL other cops?
>
> If brutality anywhere could mean the loss of his/her job, how long
> until
> Mpls had the best police force on earth?
>
> --David Shove
> Roseville
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Steve Brandt wrote:
>
>> Steve Brandt: I believe that people are referring to this incident,
>> encapsulated in this morning's paper:
>>
>> In 1997, Storlie shot and wounded Lawrence Miles Jr., who was 15 at
>> the
>> time, in south Minneapolis after Miles ran past him with a BB gun.
>> Storlie shot Miles, believing the teenager was pointing a gun at his
>> partner. Miles and a friend were playing BB-gun tag in the 3600 block
>> of
>> Chicago Av. at 1:30 a.m. when that shooting happened.
>>
>> Storlie was exonerated by the Police Department and the Hennepin
>> County
>> Attorney's Office. Last year, a federal jury found no police brutality
>> in that case and declined to award money to Miles.
>>
>> Steve Brandt
>> Star Tribune
>>
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