ù Quoting Tom Rightmer from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
TR> Suggest how law enforcement  officers can use this information to 
TR> reduce crime, and this message would be  on-topic for the echo. 
TR> Otherwise, this message is off-topic for this echo.  Law Enforcement 
TR> Officers can't wave a magic wand and make someone rich,  change their 
TR> color, or change their gender, so these messages do nothing to  help 
Well, the rules that are posted periodically don't say that you have to talk 
about "reducing crime," you just have to talk about the "enforcement" of 
"law."
I can't think of a more relevant and hotly-contested issue about law 
enforcement today then police brutality, race, class, bias and corruption. 
Everything from the LA riots (& national riots that followed) and Rodney King 
to the OJ Simpson trial to the recent abuse of a Haitian with a plunger 
points 
to the fact that police brutality & corruption is a highly important topic.
The issue being debated is whether or not class should even count as a bias, 
since poor people are to blame for their situation. If that's true, then why 
should we care if cops are a little rough with the poor?
Again, I really can't see how race and class issues could be considered 
off-topic for the "Ask a Cop" echo. If you can't ask cops about corruption 
and 
brutality, what does that say for my case that these issues are swept under 
the
rug?
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