[lbo-talk] Stamper- Seattle WTO police chief

[Celi Ben]

I think these are really interesting, and there are some interesting quotes 
here. Norm Stamper came out with a particularly progressive book about 
policework, where he advocates legalizing all drugs, and advocates community 
policing, but throughout the book and this interview, he is doing things 
like discussing the propensity for police to commit domestic violence or 
become violent people by using himself as an example, and mentions shooting 
an unarmed person, choking someone etc. Without having read his book, he is 
making a lot of sense, but he makes some statements regarding WTO=Seattle 
that don't match what those of us who were there saw - I would say having 
been there the first day but having returned to work on Wednesday, such as 
protesters carrying in their own gas weapons rather than just throwing back 
cannisters. The mayor did make him become the scapegoat for what should have 
been obvious to anyone in the city the preceding week.

http://www.alternet.org/story/22196/

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0522/050601_news_stamper_profile.php

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