Reynolds - You have a right to record the police - The Examiner Washington

Tiawanda Moore, Chicago, IL

September 4, 2011

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Under the ALL Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative, Milwaukee Professionals Association, the overarching theme is: Re-defining, Re-branding and Un-Trapping over a half-million Milwaukeeans.
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Recently, All Hands on Deck, launched the Safety Matters Response Network/SMRN to address proactively safety prevention and safety intervention issue. Its formation was a direct creation due to the BP Service Station, State Fair, Mayfair and Bayshore incidents.

It is a PROACTIVE look and discourse with SOLUTIONS in mind. Solutions through problem solving at the "neighborhood-level". Consequently, SATURDAY TALK was created as the action-forum with youth-teen-young adult-adults-practitioners-sponsors.
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This will create a NEW topic for CASE LEARNING for Milwaukeeans at SATURDAY TALK.

It is:
-- Law Enforcement - Safety Preventions and Interventions - case study, topics, articles, reports, videos for sharing proactive case learning discourse and presentation to neighborhood level stakeholders and elected/appointed/hired/ volunteered stakeholders for improving the image and Code of Conduct of our law enforcement.
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CASE LEARNING primary
The beginning Case Learning comes from a post, September 4, 2011, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Special to the Examiner - "You have a right to record the police"

Chicago, IL - Tiawanda Moore had made a sexual harassment complaint against a Chicago patrolman. When she was visited by police Internal Affairs officers who tried to persuade her to drop the charge, she recorded the audio using her Blackberry. Though the audio reflected rather poorly on the Internal Affairs officers, the response of the Chicago state's attorney was to act not against the offending officers, but against Ms. Moore, charging her with “wiretapping.”

After the tape was played, the jury took less than an hour to return a verdict of not guilty. "When we heard that, everyone (on the jury) just shook their head," said one juror interviewed afterward. "If what those two investigators were doing wasn't criminal, we felt it bordered on criminal, and she had the right to record it.”

For more, "You have a right to record the police"
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