https://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140501/two-alaska-state-troopers-killed-tanana-shooting
Two Alaska State Troopers killed in Tanana shooting
May 1, 2014
While I do not condone the violence that ensued here and my heart goes out to all the victims, including the shooter and the families of those who lost love ones; I think this all could have been avoided with proper training of the Village Public Safety Officers and Alaska State Troopers and a strong State Administration that puts public safety before profits.
The biggest question from a public perspective is:
Was the reality TV show "Alaska State Troopers" and the State Government in collusion to put on a "show" in the name of profit over public safety that led to people getting killed?
So even if the producers or TV stars were not impelled to fly in to Tanana and make a big scene for inciting a "good show", what was the urgency that the Troopers had to make such efforts to go inside a private residence to retrieve someone that may/could have been treated in due process of the Law?
-carl wassilie
1) My first question is what the heck is the State of Alaska doing with the Alaska State Troopers putting them at risk with TV Reality Show that make them "stars". http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/us/alaska-state-troopers-killed/
This TV show is an insult to the public and puts the officers involved in the show at psychological and physical risks that are unnecessary, and should now be heavily investigated if the "show" is leading toward unnecessary risks to the Public and State Troopers.
The Parnell Administration must be heavily questioned by the public in this questionable action by the "Chief" to allow this to happen in the first place. If the ties between the reality show and Troopers is influencing decision-making, don't let Parnell get away with this disregard for public safety.
2) Number 2: What was the VPSO "arresting" the man for in the first place that really needed a "show" by the Alaska State Troopers to enter a private residence without proof of being guilty or without a warrant for arrest??? The Officers may have been following some Superiors officers orders and I think the public should demand answers from the direction of the Superior officers to why the Troopers had to fly into Tanana when there are other process's under the Law that are more effective? Unnecessary risks, questionably legal? Were they filming for the show?
3) The community wasn't at risk until the Troopers arrived to arrest someone based on a report by a VPSO. Based on some information from public hearings on VPSO's, my guess is that the VPSO AND troopers may or may not have been properly trained to mitigate violence and reduce risks as such that occurred. So once again, the Federal Department of Justice and State of Alaska should take the recommendations of the Indian Law and Order Commission Report "Reforming Justice for Alaska Natives"
http://indianlaw.org/content/report-makes-40-recommendations-protect-tribal-communities
4) Systematic Societal Questions: Reflect on Policies that shape social deprivation that can lead to violence. An indigenous perspective on societal and personal violence.
Think about a few social terms that prove my point with SCIENCE when I portray my views on ANCSA as the "extermination act". I really don't like the victimization excuse of "that's all we (whoever we is) were given". So I like to describe it scientifically, which is politically incorrect for every "Alaska Native" institution in existence.
The current western models of 'reducing poverty in rural Alaska and Alaska Native villages' with Community Development Quotas (CDQs) and ANCSA Corporations have not had much of a dent in solving Absolute Poverty, despite having almost a half century of ANCSA and few decades of CDQ's.
Relative Deprivation and Absolute Poverty
Absolute poverty is the level of poverty as defined in terms of the minimal requirements necessary to afford minimal standards of food, clothing, health care and shelter.[10] For the measure to be absolute, the line must be the same in different countries, cultures, and technological levels. Such an absolute measure should look only at the individual's power to consume and it should be independent of any changes in income distribution. The intuition behind an absolute measure is that mere survival takes essentially the same amount of resources across the world and that everybody should be subject to the same standards if meaningful comparisons of policies and progress are to be made. Notice that if everyone's real income in an economy increases, and the income distribution does not change, absolute poverty will decline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_deprivation
