Pubdate: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 Source: Dallas Morning News (TX) Copyright: 2012 The Dallas Morning News, Inc. Contact: http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi Website: http://www.dallasnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/117 Author: Don Skaggs WHY SHOULD POLICE BE THE ONES TO CHANGE? Re: "Building police trust, protection - Brown wants more outreach, guidance for officers after shootings," Thursday news story. Your neighborhood has drug dealers operating openly out of one of its houses. A drug dealer is shot and killed by the police while fleeing from arrest and fighting with the arresting officer. Your neighborhood blames the police for this death and is on the verge of rioting because of false information that is widespread. In reaction to this incident, the police chief enacts additional restrictions on his police offers in dealing with those who flee from the police and requires additional training for his officers relative to enforcing the law. Will the chief's initiatives directed at his police officers make for a safer community or should the onus be placed on a community that harbors drug houses and tolerates drug dealers rather than the police? Is this an exercise in political correctness or an attempt to do the right thing? Don Skaggs, Garland - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom