[RE-POST] Letter to the Editor from Robert Bourque published in response to Post's "LINE OF FIRE"

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Anyhow, this Letter to the Editor appeared in today's edition [5/16] and it belongs in the file, "I couldn't have said it better myself":

[Title] Special report hostile to law enforcement 

     It disturbs me that Sunday’s front page [4/26] said, “What we (The Post) found about the sheriff’s office was disturbing.” To whom?
    The Post gives the impression that because “97% of all fatal PBSO shootings (were) cleared” that 97 percent is too high, and there is something sinister going on in the sheriff’s office. What is the acceptable percentage for “cleared shootings”? It may be higher than 97 percent. But The Post insinuates that the percentage should be lower and that there is wrongdoing at PBSO. [emphasis added]
     The headlines also claimed “1 in 4 shot at were unarmed” and “More than one-third of people shot at were black.” The negative slant of these headlines could just as easily been written on a positive note: “3 out of 4 were armed” and “two-thirds of people shot at were white.”
     The Post is slanting the article in a racially biased manner. The headlines are prejudiced and hostile toward law enforcement. 

ROBERT G. BOURQUE, BOYNTON BEACH