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21 Nov 11 - 09:21 AM (#3260865) Subject: BS: Battle in Seattle Chief on OWS From: Jack the Sailor Former Seattle police chief on OWS |
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21 Nov 11 - 10:09 AM (#3260902) Subject: RE: BS: Battle in Seattle Chief on OWS From: GUEST,999 He's not speaking so much about OWS as he is making a scathing indictment of police actions, bureaucracy and leadership. Unfortunately, he's right. |
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21 Nov 11 - 10:16 AM (#3260907) Subject: RE: BS: Battle in Seattle Chief on OWS From: Jack the Sailor He is taking the recent police actions against as a cue and as concrete examples to reintroduce the subject. That's the way I read it anyway. |
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21 Nov 11 - 10:18 AM (#3260909) Subject: RE: BS: Battle in Seattle Chief on OWS From: Bill D Interesting... a (former) police official who has seen beyond the simplistic slogans and militaristic mindset that states..."We cannot allow anyone to disrupt OUR idea of law & order, no matter what the situation or who is involved. Therefore, any means short of deadly force is justified to break up 'inconvenient' gatherings." Face it...some of the police in various places are just pissed off at having to work overtime and cope with ideas THEY do not comprehend. There will be overreaching reactions. I would not like the job of trying to hire police with the guts to DO the job, but enough reserve & common sense to exercise reasonable restraint when necessary. |
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21 Nov 11 - 10:26 AM (#3260916) Subject: RE: BS: Battle in Seattle Chief on OWS From: JohnInKansas The article fails to mention that "militarized" police departments are most common where Chiefs of Police are elected and while they do appear where Chief of Police is non-political they're much less common when the departments as a whole are not subject to "electoral And people here have been agitating to have JUDGES all elected instead of appointed (by the Governor) after Bar Association evaluation and recommendation. (With our present Governor that might not be a bad idea, but hopefully he's temporary.) John |