{"id":3003,"date":"2014-12-27T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2014-12-27T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:14:16","slug":"a-great-police-leader-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-great-police-leader-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"A GREAT POLICE LEADER PASSES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas week brought sad news: the passing of retired Spokane police chief Terry Mangan, at age 76 after a long illness.\u00a0 http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2025302256_spokanechiefdiesxml.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I was privileged to know the man. He was a cop\u2019s cop.\u00a0 I\u2019ve known many police chiefs who sit behind a mahogany desk wearing a gold-bedecked white uniform shirt, perhaps as a symbol of \u201cI don\u2019t have to go out and get dirty anymore,\u201d and a little vestigial gun as a badge of office, if they wore a gun at all.\u00a0 Not Terry; every time I met him, he was wearing BDU pants, a polo shirt with the department logo, and on his hip, the same .40 caliber Glock 22 he issued to his officers.<\/p>\n

An ordained clergyman in his first career before taking up police work, he was able to separate church and state while maintaining the values of fairness and kindness that had become a part of him before he pinned on the badge.\u00a0 In his younger days he participated in civil rights marches, and as a chief aggressively recruited minorities and females onto the job \u2013 not because it was the politically correct thing to do, but simply because it was the right thing to do. Terry focused on community-oriented policing before it became a buzzword, and worked hard to keep the public positively involved with the police department.<\/p>\n

A \u201cgun guy\u201d at heart, Terry could not be seen as such as a public official in one of the most anti-gun cities in America, but he made firearms safety education part and parcel of Spokane\u2019s crime prevention programs.\u00a0 He made sure that genuine self-defense uses of firearms in his city were treated as such.\u00a0 Chief of Spokane for many years, his retirement took him to Quantico where he spent the rest of his career teaching and consulting for the FBI.<\/p>\n

In a time when there is a desperate cry for police and public to come together and better understand one another, Terry Mangan would have been the ideal person to lead such a national dialogue.\u00a0 How ironic that we lost him at a time when we needed him the most.<\/p>\n

Godspeed, Chief.\u00a0 It was an honor to have known you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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