A Chief of A Certain Color?

I don't know whether Commissioner O'Toole will be leaving Boston or not, though many seem to assume she will.  But I do know one thing about her successor: is doesn't matter what color he is.  If O'Toole leaves, the mayor should appoint the best qualified replacement, regardless of his race.  Anyone calling for a minority chief is a fool.

  Said the Reverend Bruce Wall,

“The kids who are dying look like me. They need a competent person of color strategizing about how to keep kids safe on the street.” (Boston Herald)

And the people paying for the police department look like me.  Neither is relevant.  We need a competent person strategizing about how to keep the city safe.

By the way, the death rate among young black men in the city is only partly a policing problem.  It's more of a cultural problem.  If Bruce Wall and Eugene Rivers want the deaths to stop, how about trying to affect some change in the culture that causes them?  Change the emphasis from bling and babes to reading and writing.  That would be a start.  And it starts at home, not at the district station.

Comments

[Bruce]

Amen to that.

[anon]

bruce wall called white boston cops aryan nation.
bruce wall = no credibility