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.

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.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:51 PM, J.D. Zamfirescu <zamfire@gmail.com> wrote:

I've started writing one, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the issue!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Eddan <eddan@clear.net> wrote:

Now, this requires a response. Has anybody started drafting something? If not, I will.

...
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!"

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quan-s-wrong-note-on-lock-picking-class-4318130.php

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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