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 have noticed recently that the number of radical leftists (many of whom describe themselves as conservatives) posting of FR has jumped dramatically. There has always been a few but it seems to be getting out of hand.
I don't know exactly what the answer is. They might just go away on their on and I don't think banning people just because I don't agree with them is a good idea.
On the other hand when people are clearly just trying to disrupt the discussion, even when they are clever, I think they should be removed, although I guess all they have to do is register again.
I learn a lot on FR, just as much from people who disagree than those who do agree but these people are not seeking the truth they are purposely trying to obscure it. They are sometimes smart and sometimes just childish, but either way they are ruining this forum.
I agree. I quoted part of your last paragraph because I think it answers all your questions. Truth is the one thing the left fears more than anything else in the world. It is the one thing that destroys them.
I've actually considered writing my "final opus" to post here on FR when I officially leave this forum, but instead of awakening anyone to the changes that have taken place here, I'd only get the "don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out" comments. But like I said, I still lurk, and I wouldn't totally leave the forum because I still like to read the (sometimes braindead) comments and see what you guys have pinged me too. It's a Love/Hate type thing I guess...
So it seems.
Is cheap joke regarding name. Please have decency not to reply.
Next should be Chief Squirrel!
Ye among you who has not sinned, cast the first stone...
FReegards, MVV
His television "briefings" which go on forever -- does give new meaning to "familiarity breeds contempt". Also bring to mind the "Peter Principal"
I will be the most stunned observer -- if Chief Moose and his team actually close with and capture the shooter..
His prior experiences in Portland, and his focus since getting to Montgomery County don't justify much confidence...
A passionate and sensitive guy......obviously
Politically connected and assisted...apparently
A major crime solver or manager.......not apparent
But, my relatives still living in the county --- "feel" good about him...
Needless to say - they're the liberal side of the family, that prefers to feel rather that think or be judgmental...
Semper Fi
Brent Turvey, MS
Email: bturvey@corpus-delicti.com
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Brent Turvey received his Masters of Science in Forensic Science after studying at the University of New Haven, in West Haven, Connecticut. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University in Psychology, with an emphasis on Forensic Psychology, and an additional Bachelor of Science degree in History.
He has been studying violent and predatory sex offenders since 1990, and has conducted prison interviews with those types of offenders. He has consulted with many law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and private mental health professionals in the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia on a range of serial rapes, homicides, and multiple death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler.
He is the author of "Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis". He is currently a full partner, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Knowledge Solutions LLC
You are right! He sounds just like "the Ladies Man", actually he could do a better impression than Rich Little.
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