Our Haines community will benefit more from a citizen stakeholder review of the police department than from an ill-timed, expensive, out-of-town consulting firm’s review:
1) Citizens will devise guidelines for ensuring cooperative law enforcement, including establishing criteria for hiring police personnel. Recent years’ high turnover of personnel has favored an alienating atmosphere between citizens and officials.
2) Citizens will stabilize law enforcement operations by stating expectations, thereby creating a dynamic continuum for addressing individual rights within a community.…
