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Uh-Oh | David Brown’s Called To Rise


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NYT: Brown retired in 2016, after he noticed an uptick in the crime rate, which he attributes to budget cuts that led to staffing shortages.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/books/review/called-to-rise-david-brown-policing-the-black-man-paul-butler.html
Although Brown offers us one of the most impressive models for community policing, his view begins to look idealized in light of the racist practices described by Paul Butler in “Chokehold.”
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Brown says he didn’t always trust the police, having developed a worldview from his parents and grandparents, who grew up in the Jim Crow South, “that the police are not your friend.”
Called to Rise charts how, over his thirty-three-year career, Chief David O. Brown evolved from a “throw ’em in jail and let God sort ’em out” beat cop into a passionate advocate for community-oriented law enforcement, rising from crime scene investigator to S.W.A.T. team leader to the head of a municipal police department widely regarded as one of America’s finest. Now retired, “America’s chief” wants to bring his hard-earned knowledge of Dallas-emphasizing outreach, accountability, and inclusion-to help encourage unity in the nation’s hurting communities. https://www.christianbook.com/called-faithful-service-community-that-made/david-brown/9781524796549/pd/796550#CBD-PD-Description
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https://theundefeated.com/features/ex-police-chief-dave-brown-recalls-shootings-of-dallas-police-officers-following-black-live-matters-event-in-his-new-book-called-to-rise/
“It’s only controversial to people that weren’t getting shot at,” Brown said. “It’s not controversial to the people who lost their husband, lost their son or lost their father. It’s not controversial to those folks.
“But I understand people obviously concerned with weaponizing an armed robot, because it had never been done in American policing history. But this person was negotiated with for over 3 1/2 hours before we came to that conclusion, and during the negotiations he expressed that he wanted to kill more officers and expressed throughout negotiations that he was really excited about having already killed officers.”
Besides the five police officers killed, nine more were wounded, and two civilians were also injured.
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Posted on April 3, 2020

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