<div dir="ltr">Though I think the tone should be very respectful, it seems to me that this should be a letter directed at the Police Chief. The way Quan put it in this article as a citizen science thing is a lot more respectable a position, in my opinion.<div>
<br></div><div style>It seems to me that it is most imperative to respond most directly to his assertion that Workshop Weekend has a class "to teach people a skill to violate the law". It is carefully enough worded that it is not claiming that the workshop or the teachers are doing anything illegal. So I think it best to make the distinction very clear between the skill and the criminal intent to burglarize.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:51 PM, J.D. Zamfirescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zamfire@gmail.com" target="_blank">zamfire@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've started writing one, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the issue!</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Eddan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddan@clear.net" target="_blank">eddan@clear.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;border:0px none;padding:0px">
Now, this requires a response. Has anybody started drafting something? If not, I will.</p>
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...</p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;border:0px none;padding:0px">Oakland Police Chief <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Howard+Jordan%22" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(1,86,96);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Howard Jordan</a> was not pleased.</p>
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"I'm in shock that people would provide a class to teach people a skill to violate the law," Jordan said. "It's unconscionable."</p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;border:0px none;padding:0px">
<br></p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;border:0px none;padding:0px">Lock-pick instructor <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Michael+Fitzhugh%22" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(1,86,96);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Michael Fitzhugh</a> is a member of TOOOL (The <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Open+Organisation+Of+Lockpickers%22" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(1,86,96);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Open Organisation Of Lockpickers</a>), a Netherlands-based outfit that teaches and holds national and international lock-picking events annually. In their world, lock picking is done for sport and bragging rights. But, he says, it's also a useful tool if you lock yourself out of your home.</p>
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Jordan has a more conventional solution to that problem: "Call a locksmith!"</p><br></div><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quan-s-wrong-note-on-lock-picking-class-4318130.php" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quan-s-wrong-note-on-lock-picking-class-4318130.php</a><br>
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Even worse than Quan, this guy's so desperate to change the subject about the incompetence of the OPD in news story after news story. </p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;border:0px none;padding:0px">
<br></p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;border:0px none;padding:0px">Unconscionable!?! This coming from a police department that was about to go into an unprecedented federal receivership for its failure to reform; not to mention a police department seared with a global reputation for brutality, racism, and excessive means; and whose fundamental miscalculations and mismanagement of the response to Occupy cost the city millions of dollars.</p>
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