A major issue with relation to the residency requirement being repealed has
an all too familiar ring: the lack of affordable, decent housing choices in
this City. There's a public assumption that City employees, police officers
included, are paid exorbinant salaries, which in most instances is not the
case.
JBurns
Cleveland
>From: "Andy Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Eva Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, " Sen.Linda Higgins"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Mpls] We are the police
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:15:59 -0600
>
>Every statistic I've ever seen show that between 80 and 85 % of all urban
>police officers reside in the suburbs. I do not know how that would shake
>out with regard to greater incidents of violence and brutality.
>
>My belief is that, because it's such a closed society or subculture, that
>the peer preservation system rules, and that the blue curtain transcends
>residence when the numbers of nonresidents is as high as all that.
>
>I do know that almost all the major, visible thumpers - the ones who have
>actually been prosecuted - not only live outside the community, they often
>live outside the Metro Areas. This was certainly true in Detroit, in New
>York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. I think it's endemic to the entire
>urban
>law enforcement community.
>
>Evidence shows, especially in those cities where residency has been an
>issue
>and officers fake it by renting apartments in the city, but actually live
>elsewhere, that large groups of officers live in very contiguous
>circumstances. In Minnesota, I believe you find pockets of cops in
>near-collectives in Circle Pines, Forest Lake, Bethel, St. Francis, Elk
>River and even up in Mora, Princeton and Milaca. For St. Paul, it's
>Maplewood, Oakdale, Stillwater, Oak Park heights and even Hudson.
>
>Andy Driscoll
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> > From: "Eva Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:11:21 -0600
> > To: "Sen.Linda Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Mpls] We are the police
> >
> >> Employees chafed under this new rule. The city didn't offer the
> >> right kind of housing or size of lots and the crime was too bad
> >> and so on and so on and so. The police really worked the
> >> suburban legislators and the personal-freedom people and got
> >> the law repealed.
> > I remember all this..... The question I have, is there any data that
> > relates where the police live, and abuse complaints. That is, is there
>any
> > evidence that suburban Minneapolis Police officers are more likely to be
> > thumpers than home grown cops?
> >
> > Eva
> > Eva Young
> > Central
> >
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