Re: Broadcast bulletins to alert Mainers to child abductions

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Aaron [Bishop] Read wrote:
> what is required.  Think about it - you've done your job for 15 years; you 
> feel you're pretty good at it.  Do you want some no-name somebody who 
> doesn't know squat about what you do to make you look bad on regional (or 
> national) TV saying that you're an idiot and should be fired?  I sure 
> wouldn't be inclined to go the extra mile for that person after a stunt 
> like that.

I dunno....a kidnapping is a sensitive thing.  

If you're a cop working 
such a case, and you know that there is a chance of getting the child 
back; would you be able to sleep or live with yourself knowing that there 
was a chance to get that kid back even if his/her distraught parents 
called you an idiot?

So they call you an idiot? Big deal.  Your job as a cop working a 
kidnapping is to get the abductee back, alive would be preferred.

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Sven