[Peace-discuss] CPRB editorial

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Thanks, Ricky.  I'm finally up to speed on the Chpgn situation -- watched the rebroadcast on Ch 5 -- and have posted a couple of emails on the subject since I sent this email to you. 
   
  Jenifer    

Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Thanks, Jenifer-

The cprb is on the agenda for tonite's Urbana City
Council meeting at 7pm -- they should actually vote,
so it'll be something to see. Comments welcome, of
course, particularly support (detractors may be out on
force, whining and crying about the anarchy that's
sure to ensue, and other fantasies).

But the issue is off the agenda in Champaign. Killed
for at least the third time. They voted 5-4 not to
even discuss it further. 

Two or three Council members, however, expressed
interest in the Council itself acting as cprb. I
think it would be nice if they suddenly had a flood of
complaints before them, making public presentations in
the 5 min comment period, calling up Council members
for help, etc. Of course, floods don't just happen.

Ricky 

Ricky
--- Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

> 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 
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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> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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> Urbana, IL 61801
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