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Washtenaw County Sheriffs deputies trained to help avoid racial proling

By Ben Baird
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When a police officer makes a conscious decision to discriminate based on race, its a serious matter. But the majority of racial profiling is an unconscious process, according to a presentation by the Washtenaw County Sheriff s Department on fair and impartial policing. A forum held Nov. 9 at the Washtenaw County Sheriff s Office provided an overview on training currently being conducted. Peter DiDomenica is

instructing deputies on fair and impartial policing, which has been condensed into a mandatory eight-hour course. He is a detective lieutenant of the Boston University Police and he is retired from 25 years in the Massachusetts State Police. Between 2000 and 2010, he was responsible for statewide training in Massachusetts on racial profiling and biased policing.

Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton said he feels fair and impartial policing is an important issue. The forum was meant to open another path for engaging the community and to make residents aware that the sheriff s department is conducting this training, he said. Unconscious biases can influence the decisions of both law enforcement officers and residents in ways
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Veterans for Peace gather at Arlington Michigan display

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In the aftermath of the recall that pulled Republican state Rep. Paul Scott from office, Wednesday mornings House Education Committee meeting, at which the committee was to take up Senate Bill 618, has been canceled. There is no word on when, Warren or if, it will be rescheduled or when SB 618 will be considered. Scott was the chair of the House Education Committee. Senate Bill 618 would eliminate existing caps and limits on the number of charter schools in Michigan. It is the lead piece of legislation in the so-called parental empowerment package of bills working its way through the Michigan Legislature. It is tie-barred to SBs 619, 620, 621 and 624, which means that one bill cant become law unless all of them do. Last week, state Sen. Rebekah Warren, a Democrat who represents Ann Arbor in Lansing, held a town-hall discussion on the expansion of charter schools and what it will
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More than 200 crosses stood as mute testimony Friday to the cost of war at a park in Ann Arbor. With pine trees and landscaping as a backdrop, the Veterans For Peaces Arlington Michigan Display, an occasional car would honk its horn, but mostly all that was heard was the wind. The crosses, which surrounded a peace marker the club erected in 2009, each bore a photo and information of soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan. Soldiers like Sgt. 1st Class Richard J. Herrema of Hudsonville, who died April 25, 2006. He was assigned to the Armys Special Operations Command and was brought down by enemy fire on a mission in Baghdad. There was also Cpl. Gary Koehner, 21, of Ypsilanti, who died on Nov. 1, 2006, in the Anbar Province of Iraq. More than 200 crosses had soldiers names and photos from diverse locales as Other crosses had Detroit, Muskegon, Wyoming, Ironwood, Davison, Macomb, Hillsdale and Scotts. soldiers names and photos from diverse locales as Detroit, Muskegon, part of an attack that hit here today. he thinks it still has an Wyoming, Ironwood, an Afghan wedding party The crosses served as impact. Davison, Macomb, and he never got over the a painful reminder of I want to educate Hillsdale and Scotts. shock. The friend later wars tragic cost for Kurt people about the true cost Group members came committed suicide. Berggren, an Air Force of war, he said. If there out like they do every Scott went to Foreign veteran from Ann Arbor. is another conflict, there Veterans Day to the south- Service School in I think its wrong that has got to be a serious west corner of Veterans Georgetown, the man all these people died, he reason. Memorial Park. said. He was a contemsaid. People think they He said he doesnt like An Army reserve vetplative and thoughtful are doing something for it when people who have eran from the first Gulf man. the United States, but they never been in the military War era from Ann Arbor, He was not someone are not. start wars. who chose not to identify who did things without Club President Bob Theres nothing wrong himself, was there Friday thought. He lived his life Krzewinski said even with never having served to help set up the crosses. on the progressive side of though the display doesnt in the military, he said. He said his best friend was things, but thats why I am get a lot of foot traffic,

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