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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not in favor of what Jawando is trying to accomplish but I’m duly impressed you folks are so ridiculous that you would hijack that to pursue your agenda.

Thinking about this again, I encourage you to do this![/quote]

I’m confused. What’s my agenda? I would simply appreciate a balanced, logical, and reasoned approach to public safety. I don’t see that coming from Jawando AT ALL. His approach is targeted and hostile, often backed by national anecdotes instead of local data. Personally, I think local officials should be well-versed in a topic before commenting on it or proposing legislation. Have our council members or committee members bothered to do ride alongs? Have they attended the citizens’ academy? If not, they are merely amateurs play-acting instead of being a sincere, educated policymakers. I’ve lost all respect for these PAC members. Until they become well-versed in this field, and sincerely committed to it, I can’t take this seriously.

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His agenda is about pretextual traffic stops like that one he believes that he was targeted for on the ICC. Your agenda is “traffic violence”, which I would assume would include promoting more traffic stops. If people are going to hijack the meeting to discuss Vision Zero I’m going to laugh so hard. [/quote]

I don’t really have an agenda, which as an idiom means having an ulterior motive or hidden goal. My rather transparent feelings are simply that rising statistics in pedestrian deaths, car accidents, and (yes) even violent crime can be addressed by working TOGETHER as opposed to happily taking down MCPD. Since you named Jawando, I’ll feel free to comment. Yes, I do believe he has an agenda. If he were truly concerned about anything (pretextual stops included), then he would be at each station talking with officers. He would be attending the citizens’ academy so he could make informed decisions about policing. He would do ride-alongs so he can see the actual stress of being an officer. The same is true for everyone on the PAC. It’s the hostile atmosphere Jawando and others created that has led to our decimated department. It’s really hard to do your job when you are very aware you have no support from county leaders, and that they are legislating away your ability to even do what you are hired to do.

As for Monday’s meeting, it’ll be more of the same. The speakers will all be picked for their anti-police messages that contribute to the rhetoric in the report above. It’s like every other meeting. What’s the point? They already know what they want.

And no, I’m not an officer. I’m a concerned citizen who got tired of uninformed and self-serving comments made by politicians[/quote]

He got run out of 3D when he tried of visit last year.  He went there to talk about himself.  No care in the world what the cops on the street thought.[/quote]

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