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Law Enforcement: Past, Present, and Future

By admin, Section Brantley in The News
Posted on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 11:23:41 AM EST

Upcoming Neighborhood Roundtable Forum: Best Opportunity for Residents to Communicate with Local Law Enforcement Agencies.

It is not everyday that residents of Springfield and Greene County have the opportunity to communicate with representatives of the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office, the Greene County Sheriff’s Department, the Springfield Police Department, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and Springfield Municipal Courts all at the same place and at the same time.

For those folks who would like the opportunity to do just that they are in luck because just such an event has been scheduled by the Neighborhood Roundtable.

Law Enforcement: Past, Present, and Future
What has changed in local law enforcement in the last few years?
Where are we compared to the past and where are we going in the future?

Date: November 12, 2007 @ 7pm
Location: The Fusion Center – 1321 N. Campbell
Across the street from the main church campus on Campbell Ave.
(Grey stone building with orange front on Campbell and Calhoun)

Each Panelist will have 2-3 minutes to introduce themselves and briefly describe the role each speaker’s organization or agency has in Springfield/Greene County. Following introductions, the floor will open to a moderated question and answer period.

According to Neighborhood Roundtable Chairman Rob Brantley this tried and trusted moderated forum is a great opportunity for residents to ask those questions that may traditionally go unanswered yet at the same time provide a buffer to the panelists that protect them from potentially negative dialogue and assaultive discourse.

Community members who have attended past events have discovered that even cantankerous questions and issues can be explored through positive dialogue and discourse in a controlled environment.

"Our method for stimulating and guiding positive discussion has been developed and refined over the past two years through other successful events," Brantley said. "Panelists continue to participate in these forums because they have learned through direct experience and third party observation that we run a clean show and a tight ship that can be trusted to impartially hold and moderate discussions that could otherwise spin out of control... or never be had in the first place."

The moderation process is pretty simple. Members of the public who have questions are asked to write their questions down on provided forms. The forms are continuously collected from audience members and like questions are compiled and asked of panelists.

As audience members discover new questions, based on answers to previous questions, they simply need to write them down to be submitted to the moderation process.

According to Brantley just about any question posed from the floor will be posed to the panelists although there are some circumstances that may cause some specific questions to be filtered out.

"Since we are dealing with issues surrounding local law enforcement there may be audience members who are currently dealing with criminal or civil litigation," Brantley said. "Any questions that refer to specific ongoing investigations or cases will be deferred and passed over."

"That said... if audience members can generalize their questions and remove personal case elements I think they will be successful in having their concerns spoken too and addressed."

This is going to be a great event and the first time this group of powerhouse panelists have agreed to participate in a forum of this type.

Members of our community would be remiss if they did not inform other community members of this event and would be remiss if they passed up this opportunity to discuss law enforcement issues with every element of law enforcement in Springfield and Greene County.

"As far as I know this lineup of panelists has never occurred in the past and will probably not happen again in the immediate future," Brantley said. "Now is the time and the opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue with elements of our local law enforcement community... use it or lose it."

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