Best Behind-Closed-Doors Rant

Art Acevedo

Acevedo was reportedly peeved that one of his commanders secretly taped an Aug. 10 meeting, in which he went off on the February David Joseph shooting and spoke his mind about what sort of awesome responsibility it is to be a cop, but the public surely appreciated it. The Chief of Police was the talk of the town for at least a week after the Statesman’s story detailing the meeting broke. “We have got to raise our game,” he said. “If you can’t handle a kid in broad daylight, naked, and your first instinct is to come out with your gun, and your next instinct is to shoot the kid dead, you don’t need to be a cop.”

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