Right to Assembly gone too Far
David Correia, assistant professor at University of New Mexico, apparently believes his charges of alleged police violence carry more significance than the functions of our legal system. Perhaps the self promoting history professor should travel to Central America to see why so many young people are fleeing drug violence and an ineffective police force.
The good professor should spend a month in Honduras where inadequate law enforcement leads to many sleepless nights and mothers fearing for the well being of their families. As you can see in the newspaper picture, one of his followers in the street protest he organized actually has a sign that states Abolish Police.
The people who were shot by the Albuquerque Police Department were threats to the safety of the city. They all had records and previous run ins with law enforcement. One was a suicide by cop. The homeless guy in the foothills had previously assaulted a police officer.
Ask David Coreia why he uses the UNM web site to promote a book he wrote for personal gain. That is right, part of your kid's tuition dollars are being used to advertise a book written by a professor who is actively stunting our cities police officers from doing their jobs. Wouldn't you expect this history teacher to be discussing his pedagogy or teaching philosophy or even perhaps publishing his office hours so the struggling students, whose tuition dollars pay his salary, might learn something other than his ego inflated evaluation of his own book?
Police Chief Gordon Eden is doing an excellent job and UNM administration should reconsider continued employment of this disruptive, attention-seeking, professor.
The good professor should spend a month in Honduras where inadequate law enforcement leads to many sleepless nights and mothers fearing for the well being of their families. As you can see in the newspaper picture, one of his followers in the street protest he organized actually has a sign that states Abolish Police.
The people who were shot by the Albuquerque Police Department were threats to the safety of the city. They all had records and previous run ins with law enforcement. One was a suicide by cop. The homeless guy in the foothills had previously assaulted a police officer.
Ask David Coreia why he uses the UNM web site to promote a book he wrote for personal gain. That is right, part of your kid's tuition dollars are being used to advertise a book written by a professor who is actively stunting our cities police officers from doing their jobs. Wouldn't you expect this history teacher to be discussing his pedagogy or teaching philosophy or even perhaps publishing his office hours so the struggling students, whose tuition dollars pay his salary, might learn something other than his ego inflated evaluation of his own book?
Police Chief Gordon Eden is doing an excellent job and UNM administration should reconsider continued employment of this disruptive, attention-seeking, professor.
Related to all this is the comment made by Margaret Randall in the New Mexico Mercury: There is absolutely no evidence that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I believe the percentage of innocent people on death row in the United States is considerably higher than the 4.1% mentioned here.
ReplyDeleteWell Margaret, if the state kills a killer, that killer will never kill again. Sounds like a deterrent to me.