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By Ben BairdA2 Journal

When a police officermakes a conscious decision

to discriminate based onrace, it’s a serious matter.

But the majority of racial profiling is anunconscious process,according to a presentationby the Washtenaw CountySheriff’s Department onfair and impartial policing.

A forum held Nov. 9 atthe Washtenaw CountySheriff’s Office provided anoverview on training cur-rently being conducted.

Peter DiDomenica is

instruct-ing dep-uties onfair andimpar-

tialpolicing, which has beencondensed into a manda-tory eight-hour course. Heis a detective lieutenantof the Boston UniversityPolice and he is retiredfrom 25 years in theMassachusetts State Police.

Between 2000 and 2010,he was responsible forstatewide training inMassachusetts on racialprofiling and biased polic-ing.

WashtenawCounty Sheriff Jerry Claytonsaid he feelsfair and impar-

tial policingis an important issue. Theforum was meant to openanother path for engag-ing the community and tomake residents aware thatthe sheriff’s department isconducting this training,he said.

Unconscious biases caninfluence the decisions of both law enforcement offi-cers and residents in ways

By Jim PruittSpecial Writer

More than 200 crossesstood as mute testimonyFriday to the cost of warat a park in Ann Arbor.

With pine treesand landscaping as abackdrop, the VeteransFor Peace’s ArlingtonMichigan Display, anoccasional car wouldhonk its horn, but mostlyall that was heard was thewind.

The crosses, which sur-rounded a peace markerthe club erected in 2009,each bore a photo andinformation of soldierswho died in Iraq orAfghanistan. Soldiers likeSgt. 1st Class Richard J.Herrema of Hudsonville,who died April 25,2006. He was assignedto the Army’s SpecialOperations Commandand was brought down byenemy fire on a mission

in Baghdad.There was also Cpl.Gary Koehner, 21, of Ypsilanti, who died onNov. 1, 2006, in the AnbarProvince of Iraq.

Other crosses hadsoldiers’ names and pho-tos from diverse localesas Detroit, Muskegon,Wyoming, Ironwood,Davison, Macomb,Hillsdale and Scotts.

Group members cameout like they do everyVeterans Day to the south-west corner of VeteransMemorial Park.

An Army reserve vet-eran from the first Gulf 

War era from Ann Arbor,who chose not to identifyhimself, was there Fridayto help set up the crosses.He said his best friend was

part of an attack that hitan Afghan wedding partyand he never got over theshock. The friend latercommitted suicide.

“Scott went to ForeignService School inGeorgetown,” the mansaid. “He was a contem-plative and thoughtfulman.

“He was not someonewho did things withoutthought. He lived his lifeon the progressive side of things, but that’s why I am

here today.”The crosses served as

a painful reminder of wars’ tragic cost for KurtBerggren, an Air Forceveteran from Ann Arbor.

“I think it’s wrong thatall these people died,” hesaid. “People think theyare doing something forthe United States, but they

are not.”Club President Bob

Krzewinski said eventhough the display doesn’tget a lot of foot traffic,

he thinks it still has animpact.

“I want to educatepeople about the true costof war,” he said. “If thereis another conflict, therehas got to be a seriousreason.”

He said he doesn’t likeit when people who havenever been in the military

start wars.“There’s nothing wrong

with never having servedin the military,” he said.

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Warren

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talk on rise

of charter

schoolsBy James David DicksonA2 Journal

In the aftermath of 

the recall that pulledRepublican state Rep. PaulScott from office, Wednesdaymorning’s House EducationCommittee meeting, atwhich the committee was totake upSenateBill618, hasbeencan-celed.Thereis noword onwhen,or if,it willbe rescheduled or when SB

618 will be considered. Scottwas the chair of the HouseEducation Committee.

Senate Bill 618 wouldeliminate existing caps andlimits on the number of charter schools in Michigan.It is the lead piece of leg-islation in the so-called“parental empowerment”package of bills working itsway through the MichiganLegislature. It is tie-barredto SBs 619, 620, 621 and 624,which means that one billcan’t become law unless allof them do.

Last week, state Sen.Rebekah Warren, aDemocrat who representsAnn Arbor in Lansing, helda town-hall discussion onthe expansion of charterschools and what it will

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Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton spoke Nov. 9 athis office’s fair and impartial policing forum.PLEASE SEE PROFILING /11-A

More than 200 crosses had soldiers’ names and photos from diverse locales asDetroit, Muskegon, Wyoming, Ironwood, Davison, Macomb, Hillsdale and Scotts.

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