Posted on 10/11/2002 8:54:57 PM PDT by MVV
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‘Raw Intensity’
A Closer Look at the Man Behind the Sniper Investigation
Oct. 11
— Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, the man leading the search for the serial sniper who is terrifying residents in the Washington, D.C., area, is known as a passionate and sometimes controversial man.
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Moose, who spent six years as the first black police chief in Portland, Ore., is no stranger to controversial cases.
In 1994, Moose was saddled with the difficult task of answering media questions about Tonya Harding, the figure skater convicted of hindering the prosecution in a plot to injure rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Steve Duin, a reporter for the The Oregonian, told ABCNEWS that he remembers Moose as a man who doesn't hide his passionate side and sometimes his temper when on the job.
"You are getting right now, I believe, a very raw, unfiltered look at a very raw, unfiltered guy. Chief Moose is high energy and he's high strung ... he's a guy who has needed and who has taken anger management classes," Duin said. Moose's intensity has been revealed in a few of his daily news conferences since the series of sniper shootings, which has left seven dead, began last week.
After a 13-year-old boy was critically wounded by a sniper's bullet Monday, Moose held an emotional press conference. "Shooting a kid — it's getting to be really, really personal now," he said as a tear rolled down his left cheek.
The police chief also showed anger in a press conference Wednesday after the media reported leaked information about the tarot card police discovered at the scene where the boy was shot.
"We've got retired police chiefs out there looking for other jobs taking advantage of this situation to get their face on television," he said during the press conference. "Chief Moose has a temper but he has also a real raw intensity, you are seeing a real genuine guy," Duin said.
Moose, 49, grew up in Lexington, N.C., and earned a doctorate in urban studies at Portland State University.
"Here's a guy who has a doctorate and yet sometimes talks like he's some ninth-grade kid," Duin said.
Moose helped lower crime and introduced community policing in Oregon's largest city until he left for Maryland in 1999.
When Moose was named Portland's chief in 1993, he and his wife made national news when they bought a house in one of the toughest neighborhoods in town.
"Being part of that community makes my message a real message, but it also says that the people that live in and around my house don't have to worry about my house being a crackhouse," he told KATU-TV in Portland in a 1997 interview.
Moose also said that he and his wife Sandy have dealt with painful instances of discrimination over the years because he is black and she is white.
"Being a person that is in an interracial marriage, my wife and I were subject to many different types of discrimination, sometimes subtle, sometimes very blatant," he said during his interview with KATU-TV.
As the father of two sons, now 22 and 27, Moose admits he often gets emotionally fired up, especially when it comes to the safety of children.
The man who has become the face of the sniper case told KATU-TV, in the 1997 interview, that he has often regretted letting his emotions get the best of him over the years. "I know I did some things I wish I hadn't done, tried to learn from those things," he said. "I tried to move on." |
I sure hope you said that when President Bush cried in the Oval Office the day after the attacks. Showing emotion is NOT bad, if you are REALLY feeling those emotions, instead of faking it like Clintoon used to do.
I have found that to be true in just about ANY profession, especially lately with the decline in higher education. I've known plenty of folks with advanced degrees who were worthless, and I've known high-school grads and college dropouts who were top-notch. Unfortunately, most organizations do not have effective means for evaluating the ability to think outside the box, namely because they tend to be boxes themselves.
Yes the pressure is on and he is taking it very well
Good stuff, thanks. Bump for the Hero's Handbook.
And I hold a useless degree in JOURNALISM/MEDIA STUDIES from the University of North Quran-olina at Greensboro. EASILY the center of Leftist indoctrination in this State.
And I also have a Southern accent.
Dr. Moose grew up about 10 miles from me.
What are you trying to say??
You might as well say that since President Bush has a Southern accent, and has trouble speaking extemporaneously, and ONLY has a Master's Degree, that he is incompetent too.
Do you have ANY helpful suggestions about how Dr. Moose can catch the sniper, or only snide, arrogant remarks meant to tear the man down?? Do YOU hold a Doctorate, in ANY academic discipline?? From ANY University??
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Disclaimer: FJ Mitchell came up with the term describing UNC.
With this Chief, he just lost it a little too much for me - but I'm mostly talking about his tirades about how he feels about things, and yelling at the media etc...not so much his tearful moment.
Constantly Fox, MSNBC has news alerts flashing on the screne all day, when in actuality some are not news alerts. The media has stepped over the line in their quest for ratings.
Remember the media mini series of the 3 medical students on their way to Florida and the female Georgia tipster. Holy cow, that took 2 weeks, every news talk show, attorneys, and the tipster being hospitalized just because some in the news media want to be first to get the story out, even before they actually know what is going on. Reporting half truths, lies, opionions, exaggerations, and what have you. And then they have the audacity to wonder why one does not want to be interviewed.
If anyone is stupid, I think that title belongs to some of the media crowd because they ask stupid questions that they know cannot and/or will not be answered.
Some are not as articulate as others. I believe if there was not someone there to write GWB's speeches for him, he would consistantly come out with all his guns ablazing and still receive cheers and applause. Its all in who you are. Just think about Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Some on here applaude him but that is because he is agaist Jesse Jackson. But I have never heard any reference about his speech pattern. Don't know much about Charles Moose, but from day one it was obvious that he was thrushed in a limelight that he does not enjoy. After all this is not COPS.
That's odd! He spends more time in front of the cameras than Jesse Jackson!
FReegards, MVV
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