Citizens' Police Academy gets under way

Citizens' Police Academy gets under way
By Roger Adkins, Parkersburg News (West Virginia)
Tuesday, September 14, 2004

PARKERSBURG - Area residents began an educational journey Monday into
the depths of the criminal justice system.

A class of more than 30 city residents began the first-ever Parkersburg
Police Department Citizens' Police Academy at 6 p.m. on the second
floor of the city building. The academy will be held every Monday evening
through Dec. 13.

Chief Robert Newell said the academy is designed to give residents a
better understanding of how the police department and criminal justice
system work.

www.newsandsentinel.com...

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This is a good idea, it's also a good idea to have a citizen's radio or something alike so that when the major media isn't being fair, you could turn to a citizen's radio or whatever to get an unbiased view on how things are working......After all, anything that happens in the political arena affects us all.

[edit on 15-9-2004 by TrueLies]

Here's a perfect example of why would need this sort of thing:

On August 18, 2000, a six-person jury was unanimous in its conclusion
that Akre was indeed fired for threatening to report the station's
pressure to broadcast what jurors decided was "a false, distorted, or
slanted" story about the widespread use of growth hormone in dairy
cows.The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured
her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having
to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate
advertisers.

Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions,in
front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the
grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate
distortion of the news. The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron
Rupert Murdock, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right
to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.

In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the
Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is
only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.

Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was "totally vindicated"
by the verdict.

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[edit on 15-9-2004 by TrueLies]