Doing the Right Thing: How Chief Black Turned A Bad Situation into a Positive
On the Vanguard, we often focus on the negative–offering criticism to public entities for their service to the public and acting as a watchdog. For much of the early years on the Vanguard, we were critical of the Davis Police Department. At the same time, we have often stated that things have improved under the leadership of Chief Landy Black who was hired in early 2007.
Recently, I was a first hand witness to a situation that could have been very negative, but because it was handled promptly, became a net positive for all involved.
Today has been one of those days where I have several good ideas for a column, but no great ideas for a column. For example we have now had two horrific killings of police officers one of course down the road in Oakland and the other in Pittsburgh. There is not a great local angle on that fortunately, but it is pretty tragic, especially I guess some of the political biproduct that has crept into the latter incident.
