Jim makes some good points about qualifications for police chief. It's kind of the same as the arguments against David Jennings for School Superintendent. Even though Lucy has a POST license which says she is a police officer, she has no real experience as such. She went thru the Mpls Cadet class after she was deputy chief/director/second in command in the dept. Needless to say, the officers who were her field training officers for the six months she was supposedly 'on the street' could hardly have evaluated her performance without knowing she was their boss. Lucy is a nice, intelligent woman, but she is not a cop and will not have the respect of her peers or subordinates.
I, too, would vote for Labinski or Dolan. We need someone who knows who's who and what's what and can hit the ground running. Both of these candidates are community oriented and are respected by both the community and the officers. For the nay sayers who think we need another outsider, I would point to Chief Finney: he came up thru the ranks of St Paul PD and seems to have done alright. Anne McCandless Jordan REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
