[Peace-discuss] CPRB editorial

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Good one, Ricky! Amazing the NG will print your corrections, and then go on printing misinformation as tho' nobody's watching.
   
  BTW, is the CPRB on the agenda at 7p this coming Monday (the 6th) or Tues (the 7th) at City Bldg in Chpgn? Or? 
   
  Thanks,
  Jenifer

Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com> wrote:
  Excellent editorial - Ricky.  BD

      Urbana public backs idea of police review    Thursday August 2, 2007
  Can the News-Gazette really be that out of it? 
  A recent editorial attack claims, "The proposed police review board in Urbana could be quite different than what the public has been told it will be." But The News-Gazette is the one misleading the public, so let us be clear.
  The vast majority of opinion that Urbana residents have ever expressed publicly has been in favor of police review. Almost every comment on the current proposal was in favor of strengthening it along the lines of the latest revisions.Yet when Alderwoman Danielle Chynoweth speaks up for this majority, The News-Gazette slurs her as "the pied piper." When Mayor Laurel Prussing agrees to make some, not all, the changes, the paper accuses her of "pacifying" Chynoweth alone, and worse, portrays this openness to input as somehow dishonest.
  The editorial conjures up a number of imaginary horrors it says could occur just because citizens might be able to appeal a decision on a complaint against a police officer, none of which are borne out in the many other towns where police review is in place.
  One is that "zealots" will somehow "wreak havoc" with the authority to subpoena evidence and witnesses, not even including police, for review. Review boards nationwide have this ability, and more. And it has been openly discussed in public in Urbana for months. But somehow the News-Gazette is surprised, just as they earlier claimed to be surprised that the board would be trained, another longtime proposal.
  RICKY BALDWIN
  Urbana
  
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