http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quan-s-wrong-note-on-lock-picking-class-4318130.phpNow, this requires a response. Has anybody started drafting something? If not, I will.
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Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan 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 is a member of TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers), 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!"
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.
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