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• Honest. SANTANGELO: I know you, Henry. ROSS: - Hollow point bullets should be in the Charter, forbidden, because we signed the Hague Convention in 1907 that we won't use hollow point pullets. - Make Police Commission hearings open. Only phone numbers and addresses are privileged. Number 3, prime duty of the police is to protect the public, not to harass it, and I have plenty of stuff to show you, how the public is harassed, in the paper from last week. Police must have a minimal high school education, and what they have now is an 8th grade education plus whatever additional makes it equivalent to a high school education. The Chief started out as a jail guard. I'm not saying that he didn't take courses later, but those things shouldn't happen. They cannot write. If I show you the ticket that I got the last time,, it's totally illegible. They cannot write. They cannot read. So, minimal is high school. Use disposable plastic handcuffs tied to a front belt, like the jail people do, in connection with HIV. It's like needles and so on. They have a book this thick that no policeman reads, about how to use rubber gloves and how to clean the handcuffs after each use, and so on, and so on. Nobody reads that. Just tell them, use the disposal plastic handcuffs. You get less damage, too, to your wrists. - And then express, in the Charter, that the new rules about contested case hearings go both ways, not only from the policeman. Chapter 91 says that all the parties have the right, but apparently, it has to be put in the Charter to get that done. - Maltreatment of the public, in my opinion, must be punished with double penalties, and not let them off the hook because they have such a difficult job. Nobody forced them to become a policeman, and our soldiers in the field have it much more difficult. - Convictions of police for crimes must be enhanced. Not less than the public gets. They should be set as examples. There must be appealable answers to the complaints of the public and the police must make case files. They don't have case files for their complaints. They have loose stuff all over the place. - And my last one is the Police Commission must be enabled 12