Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:37 pm
It is excellent that Ms. Michaud and Mr. O’Bryan are processing perspectives on the gap between neighborhood experience and observation of frightening crime and violent disorder and a recollection of a conversation with the captain.
It's all good.
But there are hundreds of factors we will never know.
As we have learned from postings and safety meetings at City Hall, there is a large gap between the crime stat, the court stat, the official police report, how a people in a neighborhood experience criminal and disorderly behavior.
As we post first-hand experiences, observations and opinions about safety, we are all engaged in a process of cognitive mapping focused on neighborhood chaos, crime and deteriorating quality of life.
On too many blocks the quality of life standard has been slipping from what was once enjoyed.
Now Ms. Michaud has articulated a frightening scenario, with considerable detail and perspective. Her report raises many questions best answered by professional law enforcement.
The biggest question is how manpower and use of force decisions could inform the perplexing action Ms Ms. Michaud witnessed.
Ms. Michaud’s summary provides a clear, caring and respectful report from the ground of a neighborhood observer that professional law enforcement management and rank and file must evaluate both tactically and symbolically.
How is force and tolerance calibrated in Lakewood?
How does manpower play into the calibration of force and tolerance in neighborhoods?
Clearly, the order or disorder of succession in Lakewood’s low rent neighborhoods will hinge on ample and effective community policing.
Sentiments, symbols and symptoms of chaos, crime and danger ripple through a neighborhood after one experiences such a perplexing incident.
For Lakewood to succeed there needs to be communication and connectivity between the community’s experience of chaos, crime and danger- as expressed in sentiments and symbols -and the police department’s overall understanding of the community’s expectations for safety, good order.
Does the community and police share a mutual understanding concerning the calibrations of force and tolerance and the manpower and tools required?
Again, on the LO Deck, our real names are joined to our statements in a grave and serious register of personal responsibility. By posting on this hot topic, so critical to the success of the city, we speak forcefully to the ethical charge of our efforts. In doing so we are filling the gap between neighborhood observation of violent disorder and law enforcement’s iteration of an event or capture of crime statistics. We do so to compel effective and responsible political action.
So it’s the gap where we are now focusing our attention in a process that connects neighborhood quality of life and safety to the proper calibration of force and tolerance. We are doing so in the face of the detribalization of a marauding urban core.
As Ms. Ms. Michaud's posts suggest, we must press the Mayor and Council for answers as to whether or not insufficient manpower is impeding a proper forceful response to thugs.
Our community must muster the political will and resources to correct the balance of power.
We have seen plenty of traveling chaos-makers and criminals ripping it up Lakewood neighborhoods. Some are visiting kin whose cribs become launch pads for disorder.
When Ms. Michaud supplies a credible report from a ground zero neighborhood battle zone, we can benefit from Mr. O’Bryan’s capture of the captain’s frame, while not dismissing the veracity and relevance of the citizen’s account.
We must remember that this is a cognitive process: we are mapping the gap between the professional, bureaucratic universe of crime stats and police reports and neighborhood fabric of the symbols and sentiments that inform the desire to protect and purchase real estate.
I appreciate Ms. Michaud and Mr. O’Bryan’s commitment to this process, which must, at some point I believe, activate the political determination to ensure improved police manpower levels on the streets.
Police levy please.
Kenneth Warren
It's all good.
But there are hundreds of factors we will never know.
As we have learned from postings and safety meetings at City Hall, there is a large gap between the crime stat, the court stat, the official police report, how a people in a neighborhood experience criminal and disorderly behavior.
As we post first-hand experiences, observations and opinions about safety, we are all engaged in a process of cognitive mapping focused on neighborhood chaos, crime and deteriorating quality of life.
On too many blocks the quality of life standard has been slipping from what was once enjoyed.
Now Ms. Michaud has articulated a frightening scenario, with considerable detail and perspective. Her report raises many questions best answered by professional law enforcement.
The biggest question is how manpower and use of force decisions could inform the perplexing action Ms Ms. Michaud witnessed.
Ms. Michaud’s summary provides a clear, caring and respectful report from the ground of a neighborhood observer that professional law enforcement management and rank and file must evaluate both tactically and symbolically.
How is force and tolerance calibrated in Lakewood?
How does manpower play into the calibration of force and tolerance in neighborhoods?
Clearly, the order or disorder of succession in Lakewood’s low rent neighborhoods will hinge on ample and effective community policing.
Sentiments, symbols and symptoms of chaos, crime and danger ripple through a neighborhood after one experiences such a perplexing incident.
For Lakewood to succeed there needs to be communication and connectivity between the community’s experience of chaos, crime and danger- as expressed in sentiments and symbols -and the police department’s overall understanding of the community’s expectations for safety, good order.
Does the community and police share a mutual understanding concerning the calibrations of force and tolerance and the manpower and tools required?
Again, on the LO Deck, our real names are joined to our statements in a grave and serious register of personal responsibility. By posting on this hot topic, so critical to the success of the city, we speak forcefully to the ethical charge of our efforts. In doing so we are filling the gap between neighborhood observation of violent disorder and law enforcement’s iteration of an event or capture of crime statistics. We do so to compel effective and responsible political action.
So it’s the gap where we are now focusing our attention in a process that connects neighborhood quality of life and safety to the proper calibration of force and tolerance. We are doing so in the face of the detribalization of a marauding urban core.
As Ms. Ms. Michaud's posts suggest, we must press the Mayor and Council for answers as to whether or not insufficient manpower is impeding a proper forceful response to thugs.
Our community must muster the political will and resources to correct the balance of power.
We have seen plenty of traveling chaos-makers and criminals ripping it up Lakewood neighborhoods. Some are visiting kin whose cribs become launch pads for disorder.
When Ms. Michaud supplies a credible report from a ground zero neighborhood battle zone, we can benefit from Mr. O’Bryan’s capture of the captain’s frame, while not dismissing the veracity and relevance of the citizen’s account.
We must remember that this is a cognitive process: we are mapping the gap between the professional, bureaucratic universe of crime stats and police reports and neighborhood fabric of the symbols and sentiments that inform the desire to protect and purchase real estate.
I appreciate Ms. Michaud and Mr. O’Bryan’s commitment to this process, which must, at some point I believe, activate the political determination to ensure improved police manpower levels on the streets.
Police levy please.
Kenneth Warren
