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Included) Sub Total G.S.T. Name: Address: Ont Sales Tax Municipality ______ Province _____ Postal Code: ____ Total 7% Goods & SeIVices Tax Extra Phone: (._<-) _______ No Ontario Sales Tax on Books Prices include Shipping & Handling end Invoice with product (Available to Paid Subscribers, Law Enforcmenet Agencies, and Educational Facilities Only) Plea e charge my VISA or MasterCard account # Exp. / ---------------~~--- Cheque Enclo cd Signature: November 1991 COVER STORY IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES Cover Story 3 Commentary: City of Angels -Robert Hotston 4 Letters To The Editor 5 Defensive Tactics: Craig Best 6 The R.I.D.E. Team 7 You Can't Go Back 8 New Mobile Computer 9 Secure Your Handgun 9 Up-Coming Events 10 Two Level Computer Security 11 Technology: Computer Woes - Tom Rataj 14 Technician Wins Award 14 Alberta Vehicles Impounded For Suspended Drivers 15 Cops and Disabled Kids - Fred Willison 16 Manitoba Amends Impound Laws 18 Blue line Alert Cat Claw 22 Vandalism is a big problem in many NEWS communities. As demonstrated by this Brandon Police officer, vandalism is a Ontario Defines Police Political Activity 12 terrific and senseless waste. Almost all New Approach To School Security 12 law enforcement agencies consume a lot Video Wins Four Awards 12 of time taking reports and monitoring Call 9-1-1 Report An Impaired Driver 13 premises for vandals. It is a problem that Law Enforcer Loves Lada 13 can only 00 attacked with the community's Here Comes The Groom 13 support. Police can not be everywhere and they require the extra eyes of the p..iblic to let them kncm where the problems CASE LAW exist and how to attack it. One aspect of vandalism is the need No Right To Consult Parent During An Investigation 19 for the perpetrator to see the results of the Entry Not Legal at Party 19 damage done and the impact it has. For ALERT Test Must Be Immediate 20 this reason it is extremely important the Charges Lost After Illegal Entry 20 owner of the property repair and replace the damage as soon as possible. Even before the public has an opportunity to see it. Sensationalizing some incidents can only cause more "copy cat" acts to occur. Community involvement was recently demonstrated in the Southern Ontario town of Unionville. Vandals entered a school and did over $170,000 damage with water and fire extinguishers. Local residents came out in large numbers to help with the clean up. It was obvious these people accepted ownership for the criminal act in their community and did something, constructive about it. November, 1991 3 Commentary: Robert C. Holston must be encouraged to do their jobs, develop their skills, and with common sense, do their sworn duty. We can Lessons From liThe City Of Angels" neither run from nor change our entire The Rodney King Incident system. Most police agencies have proper A summer of violence grows into many police officers during their careers use of force policies and training. There autumn. A summer characterized by a will suffer an injury only because they is no police agency in this country or the record number of murders in our largest attempt to subdue someone without using United States that allows or instructs its city, the murders of two police officers excessive force. members to beat people or shoot them and violent assaults on others, am statistics In poliCing we tend to go from one for no reason. As long as we hire and from the federal government which extreme to the other, to over react in our employ human beings to police, there is indicate that we are fast becoming a more thinking and actions. Some police a chance for such incidents as the one in violent, less caring, society. As I sit, administrators and trainers will over react ills Angeles to cx:cur. We are not immune. digestirg all of this, I hear a nevJS broadcast in their respective areas in trying to prevent Is it a training failure, a supervisory failure, that four Los Angeles police officers will a repeat of what happenoo in La; Angeles. an administrational failure or a systems soon stand trial for the beating ofRodney They will review and revise use of force failure? Who knO'vVS. The human element King. poliCies as if the incident is universal to fails in any such incident, for any number For a time, In the spring of this year, policing. There will be renewed and of reasons. We cannot condemn an Rodney King's name and face were as louder cries for civilian review of police entire police force, profession or class of well known as that of politicians and activities, and for greater civilian control people for the breakdown of a few soldiers. To watch the videotape of King of hiring, firing and discipline. There individuals. Despite King and similar being kicked and clubbed by some Los may be more vigorous prosecution of incidents, we must continue to do our Angeles JX)lice officers, while others looked officers accused of using excessive force, jobs. Sometimes that job requires on, was to expbre a dark comer of policing. and there may be more convictions. confrontation and the use of force. Most Not only In the United States, but here as We all realize that our police agencies times it doesnt. A good cop - the average well, many police officers feared that the have individuals who have no common cop - knows the difference. Incident would undermine their hard sense and should not be working as JX)lice earned professionalism. It became an officers. In fact, it would greatly enhance Cop-Bashing Is In occasion for dismay, soul searching and police work if they were to -leave a defensiveness. For some members of immediately. They are out there. Our Style With The the public, particularly minorities, the police agencies have hired them and we incident confirmed that the police are work with them. What is unfortunate is Media racists who routinely brutalize people. that any knee-jerk reaction will not only ImmOOiately after the Rodney King inodent Eight months after it occurred, what can affect these individuals but also the the American media jumped on the we learn from Rodney King? thousands of dedicated, professional bandwagon of cop-bashing. Within two There are two elements essential to a hardworking JX)lice officers who go about weeks of the incident the 1V serial "L.A. consideration of the Rodney King inodent. their jobs daily. Law" presented a story about a man who The first is media presentation and the The King incident presents a danger pinlcs when he realrzes police are folbwing second is any actual presence of to police officers, in that the average him for a stop sign violation. A chase widespread police misconduct, either in police officer may think twice about using ensues whereby the LA cops stop him Canada or the United States. The King appropriate force in self-defense or defense and (surprise, surprise) they DON'T beat Incident was played and replayed an of others, even when these actions are him. The motorist is then charged by uncounted number of times on television. clearly justified. Some police officers police and eventually found not guilty. That in itself completely destroyed any may decide they should avoid His defence? Given the Rodney King sense of perspective of the magnitude of confrontations ... and thereby lessen their incident he did not want to put himself at what happened. That it gained so much level of service to and interest in the the mercy of the police. attention and notoriety suggests hat it public. A less confrontational police The ABC Network, not wanting to be was Indeed an aberration - such service, in other words, may be one that left out, presentoo an ooitorial commentary common events as murder, sexual is less likely to be there when needed. on the 1V News show "The West" which assault and robbery are often buried on Those who demand unrealistic levels of trashed the San Diego Police for shooting the back pages of our newspapers. The accountability from the police, may, if 12 people in 1990. No details of the problem is that such common events they keep it up, get their wish. shootings were given. Many 1V critics affect our society, and its members I would hope that police stated the show was not only very one Immeasurably. This is clear, while what administrators, supervisors and trainers sided but outright embarassing. In this happened to Rodney King is not. The would impress upon their people that it is show the Rodney King incident was public needs to be made aware that the ethically, morally and legally right to use described as a routine traffic stop.