To the Editor:Re “Police in Minneapolis Blatantly Disregarded Civil Rights, U.S. Says” (front page, June 17):Once a police culture becomes entrenched, whether it is good or bad, it is very difficult to change it.
I am a retired deputy police chief with over 25 years of experience.
I worked in Portsmouth, N.H., in a department that had a rather rough reputation when I joined it in 1987.
There were officers who worked there who liked to hurt people, who had a “thump ’em and dump ’em” mentality, who abused their authority and power.
Officers who did not operate that way — and I was one of those officers — tended to be isolated, viewed with distrust, sometimes even threatened as a way to force them to leave the department.
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“ Police, Rights
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Minneapolis, Portsmouth, N.H