tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post432076554623724925..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: UI's 21st Century MissionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-56293992814635360572007-09-20T11:44:00.000-05:002007-09-20T11:44:00.000-05:00As the daughter of a retired Omaha policemen relat...As the daughter of a retired Omaha policemen related to me, the newer generation of policemen are different from previous generations.<BR/><BR/>The older cops sought to avoid using their weapons. Many police retired without firing a service revolver, except in training.<BR/><BR/>The new generation of cops, perhaps influenced by so much TV/movie bravado wants to blow someone away.<BR/><BR/>That is an over-simplification at best, but contains a kernel of truth. The best police use planning and guile to prevent and solve crimes. Good police work would have been far more valuable to Va Tech than the armed police that patrolled the campus there.<BR/><BR/>20% of cops are shot by their own weapons.<BR/><BR/>Make no mistake about it. If campus police are armed:<BR/>1. Costs will increase, and fewer cops will be on patrol<BR/>2. A student will be shot at and perhaps hit<BR/>3. At some point in history, one of the campus police will be shot by his own weapon.<BR/><BR/>One just needs to at an incident a few years ago in the UIHC where a convict wrestled cops to the floor, and momentarily gained control of the weapon.<BR/><BR/>Is the U of Iowa prepared to arm police for dubious benefit, then suffer the consequences when a student is shot, or a policemen is shot with his own weapon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-19881738291907532007-09-20T10:41:00.000-05:002007-09-20T10:41:00.000-05:00When you talk about cooperation between Johnson Co...When you talk about cooperation between Johnson County law enforcement agencies (including UI-DPS) you have to distinguish between cooperation at the operational level and the policy level. <BR/><BR/>My take is the cooperation at the operational level is fairly good and the cooperation at the policy level has improved but could be better. I do not think that the cooperation between UI-DPS and the other agencies is fully reciprocal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com