PS: Your right, Wizard. In addition to identity politics, there's also gross insensitivity to communities of color who have suffered the most from police brutality and crime containment.WM: And how do you know there is "gross insensitivity" driving the CMs who want to vote against McManus? And how does this gross insensitivity touch Lubinski? I think it's an assumption. I know that, on the part of at least one CM, that is not the case. I think it's possible that each of those opposed may have a different reason why they are opposed. One possibility is that they want to square off against Rybak.
Nevertheless, she has the ISAG mess to account for.WM: I don't think so. That happened on Olson's watch and was Olson's responsibility. It was he who decided to accept the judgment of Seattle PD on what happened and who was at fault in Seattle. Some of the people in Seattle alleged to have created the problem didn't even show up here. Ergo, Mpls. responded to a threat that was not entirely there. That does not happen on the lieutenant or inspector level.
And unlike McManus, she has no proven record of effectively addressing racial profiling and police brutality.WM: Lubinski has only been a deputy chief a very short time. She has not been in a position to address racial profiling on more than a fairly limited basis, though it's clear from what Olson has said in the Strib that he's aware that it's happening. I do know that the behavior of Third Precinct officers improved and that they began to have more esprit de corps when she was Inspector of the Third. As I watch them night after night pulling people over on Lake St. I note that in each instance, the driver goes into the back of the squad car and the automobile goes to the impound lot. Most of the people pulled over are people of color, which is to be expected here. But the removal of the cars suggests that there was no driver's license or it was suspended, or there was no insurance, or the car was stolen, or there were warrants on the driver.
It takes time to inculcate better policing in a department. Sometimes it means waiting for folks to retire who are not amenable to changing their ways. The trick is how not to hire the same type of person in the future. It does not help to make assumptions on the attitudes of either CMs or police personnel. It just muddies the water.
WizardMarks, Central
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