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[quote=Anonymous]I got a really bad impression of JAwando a few years ago when he was in either cnn or msnbc discussing that upsetting video of the MCPD who had responded to a small child that ran away from school.  I had watched the entire video because I cared about the issue.  It was really apparent to me in the interview that Jawando had not watched the whole video because he had made some assumptions about what had happened that were incorrect.  He’d gone on national television and was bad mouthing what is usually a pretty decent police department without even knowing what had happened.  (What happened was not good and not professional but I really did not like an elected rep talking on national tv without taking the time to educate himself).  He seemed like he just wanted the big press attention.

I think he also let the charge against SROs in schools which has turned out to be short sighted.  PG, a majority Black county, kept SROs because they understood that safety in school is actually an equity issue.  I felt like Jawando was again grand standing without actually figuring out the policy questions, which are complicated.

I don’t know if that’s typical for him and if the others are better or worse, but those two incidents made me a little nervous about him.

I don’t know if any of them has better people or administrative skills—CE is an admin position and has to coordinate a lot of different agencies in an efficient way, and manage issues when/if the agencies are dysfunctional.  That’s probably a bigger part of the job than the policy stuff—don’t know if any of them would be better or worse at that part of the job. [/quote]

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