In a message dated 12/1/03 3:38:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Some say that its bad to hire outside the Minneapolis police force for a new
Chief of Police, and that those within it's rank should be hired instead. I
say that over the years the Minneapolis police department has shown that the
trust to carry out the full rights and the responsibility for all of us who
depend upon those rights have been neglected time and again; and until the
police department can clean up the current problem's it has with communities
of color, racial profiling, excessive force issues, they have not earned the
position of high law-enforcement from within, it's just like playing Russian
roulette. We only have to view the past to get a clearer picture of the
present. The problem between police and community has gone on since at least
the mid eighties into our present times:
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Keith says; I am a little confused by the proof you offer in the context of
1985 ("mid eighties") to 2003. Wasn't the Police Chief most often not a local
boy during that time period? At best, one might say, it appears to make little
difference where the Chief originated. I, for one, would like to see Chief
Finney move across town; but only if he is willing to come out as a lesbian.
Keith Reitman NearNorth
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