Bias Based Policing Initiative Gains Media Attention

Fox 8 has a report tonight about the GPD's Biased Based Policing initiative led by Captain James Hinson:

 

Let's take this apart, piece by piece.

"This is something that is not going to be tolerated in way shape, or form in the Greensboro Police Department," said Capt. James Hinson.

Captain Hinson has apparently come full circle-- and then some.  He was the police officer made notorious by the Cops in Black and White series in the Rhino Times.  He had thrown the police department, and in fact the entire city, into chaos by making false public accusations against command staff.  Mitchell Johnson forced out the department's top leadership; and the department was severely wounded.

Now, he is making broad pronouncements in the media. He is telling us what will not be tolerated in the department.  He is apparently being rewarded for what he did six years ago.

A couple of young women allege in the Fox 8 report that they had been profiled.  They, however, did not have the whole story; and were making an accusation they could not substantiate.

What is the record?

Greensboro Police said they received a total of 25 racial profiling complaints from 2006-2010. The cases were investigated, and police said there was no evidence of racial profiling.

And yet, the committee Hinson heads, consisting of likely liberal community members, will be laying down an approach to policing that potentially ties up officers in knots, thereby fixing a problem that does not exist for the most part.

Comments

[Sal Leone]

I BET HINSON WAS THE SUSPECT IN ABOUT 20 OUT OF THE 25 COMPLAINTS, LOL. WHAT A JOKE OF A COMMITTEE. THIS IS THE NEW CITY COUNCIL FOR YOU

[Joe Guarino]

And yet, Sal, police officers on the front lines will be hung out to dry if they cross an arbitrary line set by this committee. I expect it might be a moving line.

BTW, I heard a rumor that the city council has been discussing the start-up of an external police review board, as we had feared; and that the Rev. Nelson Johnson is being contemplated to serve as the board's chairman.

That would be yet another reason to move out of town, if true.

[bubba]

I".. heard a rumor that the city council has been discussing the start-up of an external police review board, as we had feared; and that the Rev. Nelson Johnson is being contemplated to serve as the board's chairman."

We've know that sort of contemptible occurence was coming for quite some time. And our "progressive" pals won't see a single thing wrong with Johnson running his very own Star Chamber operation.