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." |
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Just Duin's way of saying he dosn't like Moosoe and Moose should be replaced.
Tia
It doesn't matter to this case if he is stupid enough to be a Kennedy,or bright enough to be a Mensa member. It's going to be resolved by either a fluke (traffic stop,SWAT team taking a coffee break across the street from a shooting,etc),or by somebody dropping a dime on the shooters. Sooner or later the shooter or his/her accomplise will brag or hint to somebody else that they are the ones outsmarting the cops,and they will get turned in for the reward money. If they were to stop right now and never brag,they would never be caught.
This guy (Moose) is incapable of thinking outside the box.
He has the authority to keep every white van in his jurisdiction off the streets until his officers check them out. .
He has the authority to get the names of every person in Maryland who has registred a white van in Maryland from the DMV.
He can stop every white van in Maryland at any time if he should so want.
He seems to like the TV time, or maybe he is on K. Kennedy Townsends promotion list ( gun control etc).
Tia
Chief Wiggum would do a better job than this guy.
I read it as being said with some incredulity. Having heard the man speak endlessly over the past ten days (local news carries every gol-darn press conference in its entirety) and having heard all the dees, dats, doze, togevvers, uvvers and flusterateds come out of the man's mouth, I have rather a hard time believing he's actually DOCTOR Moose.
Where in the hell did you get racism out of the man's statement? Or was it just time to pull that card?
Portland State University, apparently:
Moose, 49, grew up in Lexington, N.C., and earned a doctorate in urban studies at Portland State University.
Flusterating, ain't it? Makes me wonder what uvver schools are givin' out de fake sheepskins.
I realize that FR is sometimes like a toddler, going through various tantrums in its growing phase....but we "oldtimers" shouldn't contribute to the imbecility of "newbies" in their exuberance at finally finding freedom of expression.
Group HUG! TRS
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