Summer's here!
Summer is here! The annual tradition of 100+ degree days has hit the city. We'll see cooler weather again in about six months.
At the county administrative headquarters in Riverside, members of the local Universalist Unitarian Church are handing out flowers and cake to celebrate same sex couples who are getting married by the county clerk or getting licenses.
Riverside's downtown restaurants are looking to promote themselves and that area from Sep. 15-19. If you have a lot of change, you might be able to afford the specials held at eight different restaurants. If not, you can still celebrate downtown unofficially at other restaurants which have more affordable prices.
Speaking of downtown, Press Enterprise Columnist Dan Bernstein's hilarious column on the city council's thinly veiled campaign to eradicate Greyhound from the city is must reading.
(excerpt)
Ellen and Milton Bettis are wondering: Is it safe to come to Riverside?
The Hemet couple plans a summer bus tour of California's coast. The tour bus leaves from San Francisco, so Ellen and Milton, suffering from acute gas-pump shock, want to ride Greyhound to The City. But Ellen says there's a catch.
"We would have to leave from Riverside to San Francisco. ... But after reading your article about Greyhound, I wonder if it would be dangerous..."
Dangerous for Ellen, 75, and Milton, 88, to catch a bus in downtown Riverside? Fair question after last week's City Council meeting. You'd have thought Greyhound had been designated the official bus line of Pelican Bay. I put Ellen Bettis' question to Councilman Mike Gardner, who represents downtown.
Gardner said there had been nearly 300 calls for cops at the Greyhound station in the last six months. He later said that number included cop calls for the Riverside Transit Agency terminal, too! Same address.
Breakdown: Most calls didn't even rate police reports. Seven serious crimes: robbery, assault and theft.
Said Gardner "I wouldn't hesitate if I were a senior to travel out of the Greyhound station."
That's not the portrait that Gardner and other city council members painted last week.
What's interesting is that at the meeting Gardner didn't mention that Greyhound wasn't solely responsible for those 300 phone calls. That information came out later and it shouldn't be surprising as Bernstein said, there are several different tenants at the same address. And even though Greyhound's passengers, who are mostly seniors, disabled or lower-income families are currently now being blamed for the downtown crime wave, in the past the police department said repeatedly at meetings that their blame was at people who loitered on the RTA bus side of the terminal all day without ever getting on or off of a bus. But RTA doesn't shoulder any of the blame and besides, what role would any blame place at a meeting orchestrated to get rid of Greyhound? That worked well until the city council started getting inklings that some tourists or just folks passing through the City of the Arts thought it might be too dangerous. Then the public relations gears started spinning.
Maybe when the RTA is on the chopping block and facing the city council's ire, the story will be changed so that all the calls for service will be from the RTA.
After all, Councilmen Frank Schiavone and Steve Adams were so gungho to say that the city didn't need Greyhound, that they would offer their services and/or vehicles to shuttle travelers out of Riverside to the Greyhound station in San Bernardino. Just kidding, of course although it's kind of scary when elected officials use jokes like that to bolster their own votes for or in this case against an issue. But there wasn't much that was factual at that meeting including most of the information offered up by non-bus-riding council officials about what else, bus riding. And that included Transportation Committee Chair Adams whose knowledge about the city's own bus system is so paltry that you wonder what it is that this committee does the few times it actually meets.
That's why it's difficult to take these discussions on vital issues at city council meetings seriously when elected officials play to the crowds and start showboating. Issues like public transportation and who's calling the police at the downtown terminal get shaped, reshaped and in some cases reinvented to fit the agenda. And no, that's not the city council meeting agenda, that's political agendas. They'll flow one direction one week, the next they'll go the other way. Sometimes so much so that not even the type of Dramamine for political situations will help.
What else is downtown to do? Tear down the old buildings, is the message from the Press Enterprise's editorial board.
(excerpt)
Besides, Riverside is hardly in danger of demolishing its heritage. The city is careful about preservation, but cannot save every old structure. Riverside still has many historic buildings, but does not have crowds in its downtown business district. The Fox Plaza and other projects can provide that missing ingredient.
Cities cannot stay frozen in time, no matter how much some people might wish it. Riverside's downtown will change, either through civic renewal or urban decay. The question is which outcome residents prefer. Riverside gains nothing if it succeeds in preserving an economic ghost town.
But in what's said to be some good news for the downtown area, the dreaded street sweeping will be stopped. There will be a meeting this Friday, June 20 at 7-8:30 p.m. at the downtown public library to discuss this issue further.
(excerpt)
The city's public works department was to have started Friday banning residents from parking on both sides of the street for a 4-hour period, twice a month. Violators were to face $25 citations for blocking the sweeping machines, following a 30-day warning period.
But after hearing from neighborhood activists and some of the people who live downtown -- where many older homes have neither driveways nor garages -- officials are holding off on the plan.
"We've had a number of calls, so we decided to take a step back," Public Works Director Siobhan Foster said.
The Eastside Kickoff Meeting on Thursday, June 19 between 6:30-8:30 p.m. is to discuss the neighborhood plan for this neighborhood. It's the first of four planned meetings and will be held at Longfellow Elementary School. Purportedly, it's to involve Eastside residents in planning the future vision of their neighborhood but so far, this neighborhood has been fragmented in the University of California, Riverside's Long-Range plan and similarly gentrified in the city's long-range plan. Meetings for the other two plans have already taken place months ago.
Meetings of substance or dog and pony show? You decide.
Should Palm Heights become a historical district? Hell yes, stated the Press Enterprise Editorial Board.
Riverside Unified School District to dip into reserve funding.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is trying to expand its numbers of deputies in anticipation of the opening of a new jail facility.
It's an arduous and expensive process.
(excerpt, Press Enterprise)
In seeking 1,500 new employees, some predict county officials will likely have to review at least 10,000 applications.
"The numbers are staggering," Sniff said.
Stresak said departments must screen 1,000 applications to find about 100 who will make it to the next level. From there, he said, the screening process really begins as officials review the background of applicants, including their financial records and family history. Months later, he said, after screening is complete, recruits are sent to the police academy, where another 10 percent drop out or are released.
About 10 percent who finish the academy are dropped during the probationary period, which lasts more than a year.
"There is so much involved in someone becoming a police officer," he said. "It is not a simple thing. It is time consuming and costly."
By the time the recruit completes training and the probationary period, Stresak said, the agency has invested more than $100,000. Even then, he said, the new officer might only spend a short time with a department, drawn away to another agency by higher pay or better quality of life.
"You can invest all this time and money, and still lose someone to another department," Stresak said.
Riverside County is hiring in part to staff its new jail while in other places like Riverside, most new positions are frozen including those of police officers. A $5,000 signing bonus for new hires in Riverside has been frozen for the past several months as well. Even as the city continues to grow in both area and population.
Change is coming to Norco including the once loathed but now embraced plastic trail fences.
State Senator Gloria Romero is pushing that damn bill again. You know the one that wants more public accessibility to peace officer personnel records. Only this time it's geared solely at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Not surprisingly, the police union in that department has responded.
(excerpt, Los Angeles Times)
Word of Romero's bill infuriated leaders of the Police Protective League, the union that represents the LAPD's 9,300 rank-and-file officers.
Tim Sands, the group's president, called the gambit a "legislative temper tantrum" on the senator's part and said state unions would again present a unified front before the committee next week.
"If she is doing this with the idea that she can divide and conquer us, she is making a very big mistake," he said.
The union Monday quickly pulled together a biting radio advertisement directed at Romero and the bill.
Romero said the decision to narrow the bill's scope came after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told her that he would back the effort.
It's too bad that Romero received a lot of pressure from mostly police unions to winnow down the focus of her original bill. But then the average citizen donates far less money to the state legislation than the police unions which rank second only to the corrections unions in terms of their political influence and lobbying tenacity.
I receive a lot of hateful comments and creepy messages because I blog, but I do get interesting correspondances which provide food for thought. And the more I get them, the more I realize that the public needs to be more involved in some of these issues than it is, but without information, there's not much the public can do about it. Police departments are so insulated that if there are serious problems, often it's not until they spill over or even in some cases explode into the public arena that the public whose tax dollars pay to run the agencies entrusted to protect it even have a clue that things have gone so horribly wrong. And even though state law dictates a lot of what can be said about what was done which led to the breaking point, it's hard for the public not to view these scandals which happen each day as a horrible violation of the public's trust.
And there will be police officers who say all the right things about how they will expose corruption in their ranks and how they will fight it, but what usually happens is that most who say they do or will, don't or won't and those who are brave enough just to whisper it face ostracism often from these same "corruption fighters". These individuals risk their lives, their careers and are often run out of police departments, forced to resign, are fired and then blackballed.
And what of the Internal Affairs Divisions or the Offices of Professional Integrity, which are most often umbrellaed under the police chief or sheriff's offices? Do they address corruption or the individual acts that lead up to it or do they merely put a lid on the situation? After all, as lawsuit after lawsuit filed by whistleblowers have shown, these divisions seem more intent on investigating them than looking into any reported misconduct. Almost precisely enough to set one's watch by.
That's why when the public has a sense of where law enforcement stands on these issues, it sees the "code of silence" and the "blue wall" or what law enforcement itself calls, "the thin blue line".
For me, I read stuff which runs the gambit between the just creepy, "you're the same bitter cunt I knew back when" to law enforcement including the Riverside Police Department being a "good 'ol boy network" and a lot in between. Because of this, it's a different experience for me than how others might see it and I'm not as prone to pick up the pom poms perhaps as the civic and community leaders might be.
The latter comments clearly does provide more opportunities for discussion than the former because if there are issues that need to be address, the public needs to do so because ultimately when law enforcement can't take care of its own messes and scandals, it falls on the public whether we like it or not and the taxpayers' wallets.
More and more police departments are purchasing tasers for their officers, according to Newsday. With this increase in use comes more controversy about whether or not tasers are safe to use and whether or not their use in the field is being abused. Particularly in the wake of a recent $6 million jury's verdict in California against Taser International Inc. which makes and sells the product.
(excerpt)
While officials at Arizona-based Taser International say it does no permanent harm, critics say the sudden current can cause cardiac arrhythmias - life-threatening miscues in the heartbeat, and people have died as a result.
Taser International spokesman Steve Tuttle yesterday said the company has no evidence of deaths from people being jolted by a Taser.
According to Amnesty International, more than 300 people have died since 2001 in the U.S. and Canada after being hit by police Tasers. While many of those people showed drug intoxication, the group said at least 20 coroners cited the Taser as "a causal or contributory factor" in the deaths.
Beyond the potential health risks, the Taser presents officers and policy makers with a difficult set of new questions about when and why the weapon should be used.
"Unfortunately for police, a lot of departments have not been clear under what circumstances it should be used," Kenney said. "It's something that a lot of departments have really not wrestled with."
More employees including a lieutenant are in trouble at the Atlanta Police Department after several of them were disciplined for covering up a colleague's child pornography collection.
A study found that New York City Police Department officers used force 20% of the time when they stopped people.
(excerpt, New York Daily News)
The NYPD has refused to release use-of-force data in previous and subsequent years.
In nine out of 10 police stops involving use of force in 2006, the suspects were not arrested.
"Force is liberally defined to include such things as placing the individual on a wall for a pat down, or on a car, or on the ground or handcuffing whether an arrest is made [or] not," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
The data make clear that cops appear to pull their weapons fairly frequently without making arrests, The News found.
About 2,700 police stops wound up with an officer pulling his weapon on a suspect, records show. Of those stops, only 553 ended with an arrest. That means in four out of five stops where a weapon was drawn, no arrest was made.
Until now, the NYPD has released only limited information on why, where and how its officers stop and question citizens suspected of unlawful activity. Use-of-force details have never been made public.
The New York Daily News Editorial Board stated that the NYPD was wise to tread cautiously when equipping officers with tasers.
(excerpt)
In other words, our cops are far from from trigger-happy. Bolstering that indisputable conclusion, Rand found a total of 25 incidents over several years in which cops might have been able to avoid firing weapons had they adopted different tactics.
Why, maybe those cops could have used Tasers!
Right, maybe they'd eliminate a handful of lawful gun discharges every year - while running the risk of Tasering thousands. Because that's what happens. Cops start using Tasers to subdue people whom they have traditionally take down by hand.
Consider Houston's experience. In 2007, the Houston Chronicle found that cops shot the same number of people after they were armed with Tasers and that, most often, they used the stun guns in traffic stops and other common circumstances.
That's not the way to go. Kelly was right in giving the weapons only to supervisors and testing whether they would be effective in, say, getting command of deranged individuals. To go further quickly would be shocking.
Four NYPD narcotics officers were arraigned on what else, drug charges.
At the county administrative headquarters in Riverside, members of the local Universalist Unitarian Church are handing out flowers and cake to celebrate same sex couples who are getting married by the county clerk or getting licenses.
Riverside's downtown restaurants are looking to promote themselves and that area from Sep. 15-19. If you have a lot of change, you might be able to afford the specials held at eight different restaurants. If not, you can still celebrate downtown unofficially at other restaurants which have more affordable prices.
Speaking of downtown, Press Enterprise Columnist Dan Bernstein's hilarious column on the city council's thinly veiled campaign to eradicate Greyhound from the city is must reading.
(excerpt)
Ellen and Milton Bettis are wondering: Is it safe to come to Riverside?
The Hemet couple plans a summer bus tour of California's coast. The tour bus leaves from San Francisco, so Ellen and Milton, suffering from acute gas-pump shock, want to ride Greyhound to The City. But Ellen says there's a catch.
"We would have to leave from Riverside to San Francisco. ... But after reading your article about Greyhound, I wonder if it would be dangerous..."
Dangerous for Ellen, 75, and Milton, 88, to catch a bus in downtown Riverside? Fair question after last week's City Council meeting. You'd have thought Greyhound had been designated the official bus line of Pelican Bay. I put Ellen Bettis' question to Councilman Mike Gardner, who represents downtown.
Gardner said there had been nearly 300 calls for cops at the Greyhound station in the last six months. He later said that number included cop calls for the Riverside Transit Agency terminal, too! Same address.
Breakdown: Most calls didn't even rate police reports. Seven serious crimes: robbery, assault and theft.
Said Gardner "I wouldn't hesitate if I were a senior to travel out of the Greyhound station."
That's not the portrait that Gardner and other city council members painted last week.
What's interesting is that at the meeting Gardner didn't mention that Greyhound wasn't solely responsible for those 300 phone calls. That information came out later and it shouldn't be surprising as Bernstein said, there are several different tenants at the same address. And even though Greyhound's passengers, who are mostly seniors, disabled or lower-income families are currently now being blamed for the downtown crime wave, in the past the police department said repeatedly at meetings that their blame was at people who loitered on the RTA bus side of the terminal all day without ever getting on or off of a bus. But RTA doesn't shoulder any of the blame and besides, what role would any blame place at a meeting orchestrated to get rid of Greyhound? That worked well until the city council started getting inklings that some tourists or just folks passing through the City of the Arts thought it might be too dangerous. Then the public relations gears started spinning.
Maybe when the RTA is on the chopping block and facing the city council's ire, the story will be changed so that all the calls for service will be from the RTA.
After all, Councilmen Frank Schiavone and Steve Adams were so gungho to say that the city didn't need Greyhound, that they would offer their services and/or vehicles to shuttle travelers out of Riverside to the Greyhound station in San Bernardino. Just kidding, of course although it's kind of scary when elected officials use jokes like that to bolster their own votes for or in this case against an issue. But there wasn't much that was factual at that meeting including most of the information offered up by non-bus-riding council officials about what else, bus riding. And that included Transportation Committee Chair Adams whose knowledge about the city's own bus system is so paltry that you wonder what it is that this committee does the few times it actually meets.
That's why it's difficult to take these discussions on vital issues at city council meetings seriously when elected officials play to the crowds and start showboating. Issues like public transportation and who's calling the police at the downtown terminal get shaped, reshaped and in some cases reinvented to fit the agenda. And no, that's not the city council meeting agenda, that's political agendas. They'll flow one direction one week, the next they'll go the other way. Sometimes so much so that not even the type of Dramamine for political situations will help.
What else is downtown to do? Tear down the old buildings, is the message from the Press Enterprise's editorial board.
(excerpt)
Besides, Riverside is hardly in danger of demolishing its heritage. The city is careful about preservation, but cannot save every old structure. Riverside still has many historic buildings, but does not have crowds in its downtown business district. The Fox Plaza and other projects can provide that missing ingredient.
Cities cannot stay frozen in time, no matter how much some people might wish it. Riverside's downtown will change, either through civic renewal or urban decay. The question is which outcome residents prefer. Riverside gains nothing if it succeeds in preserving an economic ghost town.
But in what's said to be some good news for the downtown area, the dreaded street sweeping will be stopped. There will be a meeting this Friday, June 20 at 7-8:30 p.m. at the downtown public library to discuss this issue further.
(excerpt)
The city's public works department was to have started Friday banning residents from parking on both sides of the street for a 4-hour period, twice a month. Violators were to face $25 citations for blocking the sweeping machines, following a 30-day warning period.
But after hearing from neighborhood activists and some of the people who live downtown -- where many older homes have neither driveways nor garages -- officials are holding off on the plan.
"We've had a number of calls, so we decided to take a step back," Public Works Director Siobhan Foster said.
The Eastside Kickoff Meeting on Thursday, June 19 between 6:30-8:30 p.m. is to discuss the neighborhood plan for this neighborhood. It's the first of four planned meetings and will be held at Longfellow Elementary School. Purportedly, it's to involve Eastside residents in planning the future vision of their neighborhood but so far, this neighborhood has been fragmented in the University of California, Riverside's Long-Range plan and similarly gentrified in the city's long-range plan. Meetings for the other two plans have already taken place months ago.
Meetings of substance or dog and pony show? You decide.
Should Palm Heights become a historical district? Hell yes, stated the Press Enterprise Editorial Board.
Riverside Unified School District to dip into reserve funding.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is trying to expand its numbers of deputies in anticipation of the opening of a new jail facility.
It's an arduous and expensive process.
(excerpt, Press Enterprise)
In seeking 1,500 new employees, some predict county officials will likely have to review at least 10,000 applications.
"The numbers are staggering," Sniff said.
Stresak said departments must screen 1,000 applications to find about 100 who will make it to the next level. From there, he said, the screening process really begins as officials review the background of applicants, including their financial records and family history. Months later, he said, after screening is complete, recruits are sent to the police academy, where another 10 percent drop out or are released.
About 10 percent who finish the academy are dropped during the probationary period, which lasts more than a year.
"There is so much involved in someone becoming a police officer," he said. "It is not a simple thing. It is time consuming and costly."
By the time the recruit completes training and the probationary period, Stresak said, the agency has invested more than $100,000. Even then, he said, the new officer might only spend a short time with a department, drawn away to another agency by higher pay or better quality of life.
"You can invest all this time and money, and still lose someone to another department," Stresak said.
Riverside County is hiring in part to staff its new jail while in other places like Riverside, most new positions are frozen including those of police officers. A $5,000 signing bonus for new hires in Riverside has been frozen for the past several months as well. Even as the city continues to grow in both area and population.
Change is coming to Norco including the once loathed but now embraced plastic trail fences.
State Senator Gloria Romero is pushing that damn bill again. You know the one that wants more public accessibility to peace officer personnel records. Only this time it's geared solely at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Not surprisingly, the police union in that department has responded.
(excerpt, Los Angeles Times)
Word of Romero's bill infuriated leaders of the Police Protective League, the union that represents the LAPD's 9,300 rank-and-file officers.
Tim Sands, the group's president, called the gambit a "legislative temper tantrum" on the senator's part and said state unions would again present a unified front before the committee next week.
"If she is doing this with the idea that she can divide and conquer us, she is making a very big mistake," he said.
The union Monday quickly pulled together a biting radio advertisement directed at Romero and the bill.
Romero said the decision to narrow the bill's scope came after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told her that he would back the effort.
It's too bad that Romero received a lot of pressure from mostly police unions to winnow down the focus of her original bill. But then the average citizen donates far less money to the state legislation than the police unions which rank second only to the corrections unions in terms of their political influence and lobbying tenacity.
I receive a lot of hateful comments and creepy messages because I blog, but I do get interesting correspondances which provide food for thought. And the more I get them, the more I realize that the public needs to be more involved in some of these issues than it is, but without information, there's not much the public can do about it. Police departments are so insulated that if there are serious problems, often it's not until they spill over or even in some cases explode into the public arena that the public whose tax dollars pay to run the agencies entrusted to protect it even have a clue that things have gone so horribly wrong. And even though state law dictates a lot of what can be said about what was done which led to the breaking point, it's hard for the public not to view these scandals which happen each day as a horrible violation of the public's trust.
And there will be police officers who say all the right things about how they will expose corruption in their ranks and how they will fight it, but what usually happens is that most who say they do or will, don't or won't and those who are brave enough just to whisper it face ostracism often from these same "corruption fighters". These individuals risk their lives, their careers and are often run out of police departments, forced to resign, are fired and then blackballed.
And what of the Internal Affairs Divisions or the Offices of Professional Integrity, which are most often umbrellaed under the police chief or sheriff's offices? Do they address corruption or the individual acts that lead up to it or do they merely put a lid on the situation? After all, as lawsuit after lawsuit filed by whistleblowers have shown, these divisions seem more intent on investigating them than looking into any reported misconduct. Almost precisely enough to set one's watch by.
That's why when the public has a sense of where law enforcement stands on these issues, it sees the "code of silence" and the "blue wall" or what law enforcement itself calls, "the thin blue line".
For me, I read stuff which runs the gambit between the just creepy, "you're the same bitter cunt I knew back when" to law enforcement including the Riverside Police Department being a "good 'ol boy network" and a lot in between. Because of this, it's a different experience for me than how others might see it and I'm not as prone to pick up the pom poms perhaps as the civic and community leaders might be.
The latter comments clearly does provide more opportunities for discussion than the former because if there are issues that need to be address, the public needs to do so because ultimately when law enforcement can't take care of its own messes and scandals, it falls on the public whether we like it or not and the taxpayers' wallets.
More and more police departments are purchasing tasers for their officers, according to Newsday. With this increase in use comes more controversy about whether or not tasers are safe to use and whether or not their use in the field is being abused. Particularly in the wake of a recent $6 million jury's verdict in California against Taser International Inc. which makes and sells the product.
(excerpt)
While officials at Arizona-based Taser International say it does no permanent harm, critics say the sudden current can cause cardiac arrhythmias - life-threatening miscues in the heartbeat, and people have died as a result.
Taser International spokesman Steve Tuttle yesterday said the company has no evidence of deaths from people being jolted by a Taser.
According to Amnesty International, more than 300 people have died since 2001 in the U.S. and Canada after being hit by police Tasers. While many of those people showed drug intoxication, the group said at least 20 coroners cited the Taser as "a causal or contributory factor" in the deaths.
Beyond the potential health risks, the Taser presents officers and policy makers with a difficult set of new questions about when and why the weapon should be used.
"Unfortunately for police, a lot of departments have not been clear under what circumstances it should be used," Kenney said. "It's something that a lot of departments have really not wrestled with."
More employees including a lieutenant are in trouble at the Atlanta Police Department after several of them were disciplined for covering up a colleague's child pornography collection.
A study found that New York City Police Department officers used force 20% of the time when they stopped people.
(excerpt, New York Daily News)
The NYPD has refused to release use-of-force data in previous and subsequent years.
In nine out of 10 police stops involving use of force in 2006, the suspects were not arrested.
"Force is liberally defined to include such things as placing the individual on a wall for a pat down, or on a car, or on the ground or handcuffing whether an arrest is made [or] not," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
The data make clear that cops appear to pull their weapons fairly frequently without making arrests, The News found.
About 2,700 police stops wound up with an officer pulling his weapon on a suspect, records show. Of those stops, only 553 ended with an arrest. That means in four out of five stops where a weapon was drawn, no arrest was made.
Until now, the NYPD has released only limited information on why, where and how its officers stop and question citizens suspected of unlawful activity. Use-of-force details have never been made public.
The New York Daily News Editorial Board stated that the NYPD was wise to tread cautiously when equipping officers with tasers.
(excerpt)
In other words, our cops are far from from trigger-happy. Bolstering that indisputable conclusion, Rand found a total of 25 incidents over several years in which cops might have been able to avoid firing weapons had they adopted different tactics.
Why, maybe those cops could have used Tasers!
Right, maybe they'd eliminate a handful of lawful gun discharges every year - while running the risk of Tasering thousands. Because that's what happens. Cops start using Tasers to subdue people whom they have traditionally take down by hand.
Consider Houston's experience. In 2007, the Houston Chronicle found that cops shot the same number of people after they were armed with Tasers and that, most often, they used the stun guns in traffic stops and other common circumstances.
That's not the way to go. Kelly was right in giving the weapons only to supervisors and testing whether they would be effective in, say, getting command of deranged individuals. To go further quickly would be shocking.
Four NYPD narcotics officers were arraigned on what else, drug charges.
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