Now, this requires a response. Has anybody started drafting something? If
not, I will.
...
Oakland Police Chief Howard
Jordan<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&am…
was
not pleased.
"I'm in shock that people would provide a class to teach people a skill to
violate the law," Jordan said. "It's unconscionable."
Lock-pick instructor Michael
Fitzhugh<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&…
is
a member of TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of
Lockpickers<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=sear…)ion+Of+Lockpickers%22>),
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.
Jordan has a more conventional solution to that problem: "Call a locksmith!"
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quan-s-wrong-note-on-lock-picking-cla…
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.
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.