NIU police chief criticizes Iraq policies in Kiwanis talk (Midweek News / DeKalb County IL)

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For Thursday, May 29, 2008
By Diane Strand

DEKALB - NIU <Northern Illinois University> Police Chief Don Grady .... poke at a meeting of Kiwanis members in DeKalb on May 19. He said what's wrong with Iraq cannot be solved militarily - that the only solution is reaching the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, and that it can't be done the way we're trying to do it.

Grady has headed the NIU police force for seven years, and spent one of those years working with the police force in Iraq, serving as senior advisor to the Ministry of the Interior. He said the U.S. military has controlled development of the police force, and that the military should never control the establishment of a police force.

He described a major military effort to appoint a 320,000-member police force very quickly, for political reasons. Because of the failure to achieve a quality force, it is now dominated by militia members with no respect for public law ...

Yet the administration, he said, “wants all of you to believe it's working” ...

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