Re: [Mpls] Olson reappointment confirmed

[wizardmarks]

Crime is down.  Good.  But when the statistics are trotted out, noone asks where the remaining crimes are occurring.  From my window, crime is not down one nickle's worth.  There is a whore house across the street, been there 25 years, and the police have said they will do nothing without complaints. To extend that, if I have a crack house or a meth lab acorss the street or a chop shop say, if no one complained about it the police would just allow it to operate?  What am I missing here?
I don't know what all promises Olson made to Herron, but I know one was to clean up Lake and Chicago and the immediately surrounding area.  Didn't happen and the effort made was half-hearted on the part of police department management.
WMarks, Central

Rosalind Nelson wrote:

Brian Herron, who voted for Olson's reappointment, sounded  tough anyway.
He said that Olson had made promises to him, and that in the past when a
fire chief had made promises and not followed through, Herron had called a
press conference demanding the fire chief's resignation.  It sounded like a
bit of a threat.  Herron also looked at those of us who were standing in a
group, mostly from Communities United Against Police Brutality, and
exhorted us to stick with this issue.

Sharon Sayles Belton made some very minimizing comments about racial
profiling (better now than it used to be, a problem in all cities, etc.)
that caused me and the woman beside me to look at eachother incredulously.
It was as if Sayles Belton knew absolutely nothing about the traffic stop
study, even though she was quoted about it in the Strib article on
Wednesday.

There was a lot of discussion and congratulation about the fact that crime
is down.  OK, I totally agree that crime is a bad thing, crime is a very
bad thing.  But there seemed to be an unspoken assumption that a certain
amount of government-sponsored terror is necessary to keep the crime away,
that a few Ken Whites have to get messed with in order to keep all those
other scarey Franklin Avenue guys at bay.  A very disturbing concept any
way you look at it.

Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft

The list manager wrote:
>http://startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?slug=olsn20&template=metr
>o_a_cache
>
>The vote was 8-3, with Dore Mead not voting and Jackie Cherryhomes absent.
>If the link breaks, go to the Strib's home page.
>
>David Brauer
>List manager, Minneapolis-issues
>

_______________________________________________
Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy
Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more:
http://e-democracy.org/mpls