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LETTER: Students should feel safe

By Letter to the Editor on September 30, 2011 2:45 am in Letters / 6 comments

 

The editorial in Central Michigan Life on Monday asks if students are safe, given the recent revelations about former police officer Jeff Card. Card’s actions represent himself and not the entire police department here at CMU. I have lived next door to one of CMU’s police officers for almost the past five years.

Detective Mike Seinkiewicz is a fine person and a fine police officer. He is also a great parent, husband, church member and a wonderful neighbor to me and others in our neighborhood. He epitomizes what we all should strive to be.

Although I don’t personally know others in the department, I can say that my every interaction with CMU police over the last twenty-five years has been professional, courteous and completely above board.

I hope that the editorial and the articles recently published don’t make students feel they cannot trust their police force to do the right thing. That would be a shame. Try to have some perspective and not judge all of the police on the basis of one who has shown poor judgment.

Sandra Snow

English Instructor

 

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  • Guest

    “Detective Mike Seinkiewicz is a fine person and a fine police officer.
    He is also a great parent, husband, church member and a wonderful
    neighbor to me and others in our neighborhood. He epitomizes what we all
    should strive to be.”

    The issue is that Jeff Card was all of these things as well.  I can’t read these stories without my jaw dropping because Jeff is one of the last people I would ever expect this from. 

  • guest

    So let me get this straight if you are Christian than you must be a good person. What a joke. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42MFPDI4SGO4OZSMUQ2VKLNGYM frmatmn2ashes

    In their own world (complete the blinders) that is sadly the case. I would give that letter a C- as it lacks depth and insight. Revise it and turn it back in to me by next Friday and you can move it up to a B.

  • Andrew

    it was a comment about his social associations you twit. there was no direct assertion that “church member” = “good person”. way to really reach for that one, you clearly completely missed the point of the letter.

  • Andrew

    the fact that you’re critiquing the letter above and then proceed to commit several grammar blunders is hilarious. thanks for playing.

  • Anonymous

    An actual investigation into corruption of any of the several police precincts in this town would most likely shock and horrify all of us.

    I can think of a couple completely unconstitutional and appalling scenarios right of the top of my head.