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Religious group calls for police review
James Faulk/The Times-Standard
Eureka Times Standard
Article Launched:01/06/2007 04:27:08 AM PST

EUREKA -- The Humboldt Buddhist Peace Fellowship is sending a letter to
the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and the Eureka City Council
asking for a police review board.

The letter became public after the fourth police-involved shooting in
the past eight months occurred Thursday, but the letter was written
before the most recent shooting.

”The members of the Humboldt Area Chapter of the Buddhist Peace
Fellowship are alarmed and disturbed by the three fatal shootings in the
past eight months by officers of the Eureka police, and by the behavior of
members of other law enforcement agencies in Humboldt County,” said
the letter.

The letter states that data from Bureau of Justice Statistics, an arm
of the U.S. Department of Justice, indicate that Humboldt County should
have roughly one police-involved shooting every three to four years.

”We've had three in eight months,” said the letter.

”We believe it is urgent that civilian institutions with substantial
powers of investigation be created and assigned the task of reviewing
the behavior of law enforcement officers in Eureka and throughout
Humboldt County,” it reads. “We would like to see a civilian police
review board be created by the county and/or the city, and provided with
subpoena powers.”

If officials at the county or city fail to take action, the group says,
it will take the case to the Grand Jury.

”While we commend law enforcement officers for the protection they
provide us all under sometimes difficult conditions, we still believe
civilian review is imperative. We must all take responsibility for the
manner in which our government enforces laws.”

Mitch Trachtenberg, a member of the group, said the calls for police
review are not an attack on police.

”Law enforcement is the responsibility of everyone,” he said.
“When the police are behaving appropriately, there's no problem with
civilian oversight. If someone is worried about police review, then perhaps
they're behaving inappropriately.”

Eureka Police Chief Murl Harpham said he doesn't see a need for a
police review board. “We do a pretty good job of policing ourselves,”
Harpham said.

He said the last three people fired from the department were fired for
things discovered from internal investigations, not from a citizen's
complaint.

”We see a problem, we take care of it,” Harpham said.

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[Was the public ever told what these officers were doing that got them
fired? Can we trust that our public servants serve us? What else
would the EPD keep secret if they could? Here is a quote from Harpham:]

http://www.times-standard.com/local/ci_4962830

Harpham said the names of the three officers who fired at Cook would
not be released until the investigation is complete, which would take up
to 60 days. “If I had my way, you'd never get them,” Harpham said.

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