Re: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-23 Thread Barbara Lickness
Actually if I remember correctly from the news coverage of this issue her family made it very clear they did not want her labelled as "mentally ill". Someone correct me if I am wrong but that is how I remember it. I believe she may have had a chemical dependency problem. That does not translate to

Re: RE: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-22 Thread Russell Sasaoka
You forgot to add that I am a Minneapolis Police Reserve officer and worked in the department until the budget cuts... I guess creative journalism works... (Just in case... "As a reserve officer with the Minneapolis Police reserve, our uniforms are almost identical to that of the sworn office

RE: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-22 Thread Tim Bonham
I wonder how Russell knows this to be a fact. As there has been only 1 Minneapolis officer shot and killed in the past 10 years, and she was shot by a crazed woman who was not in any gang, this seems unlikely to be true. Or have no gang members moved up in rank in the past 10 years in Minneapol

Re: [Mpls] Police Chief Search/Poem for Poem

2003-09-20 Thread PennBroKeith
<< the legislature told the city they could not require > police to live within the city. In a message dated 9/20/03 12:38:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carpetbagger cops. Time to do whatever it takes at all levels to change the law back. No way should our (p

Re: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-20 Thread David Shove
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps this issue has already been dealt with, but police officers used to > be required to live within the city. Then about ten years ago they (police) > went to the legislature and the legislature told the city they could not require > police to li

Re: RE: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-19 Thread Russell Sasaoka
Giving officers incentives or requiring them to live in the city that they work in is a good idea, however it may not have as much as an impact as you may think. As a reserve officer with the Minneapolis Police reserve, our uniforms are almost identical to that of the sworn officers, however whe

Re: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-19 Thread KarenCollier
In a message dated 9/19/2003 8:08:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don’t think it is possible or necessarily important to have officers living inside city limits; I certainly don’t begrudge Minneapolis police officers of firefighters from living in Richfield, or St. Louis P

Re: [Mpls] Police Chief Search/In it for The Long Haul

2003-09-19 Thread PennBroKeith
In a message dated 9/19/03 6:08:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I had a similar experience with a Minneapolis police officer at a social occasion earlier this summer. He told me that several years ago he bought land and built a house "almost halfway up to (Lake) Mille

RE: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-19 Thread Dennis Plante
Dennis Plante Responds: Maybe the answer is not to require officers to live within the City limits, but to incentivize their pay for doing so. A long time ago, I lived in a remote town in South Central AK (Cordova). No roads in, no roads out. If you wanted to go elsewhere (even for the day),

RE: [Mpls] Police Chief Search

2003-09-19 Thread Jim Bernstein
I had a similar experience with a Minneapolis police officer at a social occasion earlier this summer.  He told me that several years ago he bought land and built a house “almost halfway up to (Lake) MilleLac to get away from all “that city crap”.  When I asked him why he lives so far away