My 'Resisting Arrest' Questions for Utah DPS Sgt. Cameron Roden

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Sent: Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 3:02 AM

Subject: 9-5-23 'Resisting Arrest'  Questions for Utah DPS

September 5, 2023

Dear Utah Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer and Sgt. Cameron Roden in Taylorsville,

Best Wishes to you in your very influential role  for the Utah DPS as your crime-fighting organization reviews changing statewide demographics for Utah resulting from  recent influxes of new residents---many of them African-American, as I'm sure your state agency is very aware --- from other  U.S. states.

Sgt. Roden, has your noble statewide law-enforcement agency for Utah compiled and issued to the news media any recent report on the total percentage of all "Resisting Arrest" municipal law-enforcement crime cases in Utah during the most recent applicable six-month period, one-year period, five-year period, 10-year period, and 20-year period, respectively,  in which the crime suspect charged with "Resisting Arrest" was identified by police in Utah as African-American?

How does that percentage compare with the total combined  percentage of African-Americans who reside or resided during each of those applicable time periods in one or more municipalities of Utah that maintain or maintained  a municipal police department?

Aside from African Americans, do you know of any other racial group currently  in Utah that possibly accounts for a disproportionately high percentage of all of the "Resisting Arrest" cases here in the Beehive State?

Has  the Utah DPS officially confirmed in writing in a recent DPS report that African-American crime suspects in Utah account for a disproportionately high percentage of all the crime suspects in this state who were charged with "Resisting Arrest" when a municipal  police officer in Utah arrested them or attempted to arrest them?

Also, what percentage of the  "Resisting Arrest" cases in Utah in which the suspect injured or fatally injured  a municipal law-enforcement officer involved a crime suspect who was African-American?

Have your Utah DPS statewide reports compiled any recent statistics on the percentage of all of the "Resisting Arrest" cases in Utah in which a crime suspect who  exchanged gunfire with a  municipal police officer was himself or herself (the suspect) African-American?

Do you yourself believe that the total incidence of "Resisting Arrest" in Utah would decline significantly  if any and all "Resisting Arrest" cases  that occur here in Utah were automatically  classified by the Utah Legislature as a felony crime?

Finally, Sgt. Roden, do you have any reason to believe that violence or threatened violence  against municipal  police officers in Utah could be dramatically reduced  if all secondary-level students and post-secondary students  in our state were each and every school year  required to watch and then pass a special pop quiz on their campus? 

I am referring to a pop quiz specifically about a fact-filled and  educational videotape those students had just watched which advised  them to "Never Resist the Police Officer In Utah Who Is Attempting to Arrest You".

Thank you again, Sgt. Roden, for your numerous friendly reply letters to me in recent months on behalf of the Utah DPS.

I hope this most recent brainstorming letter will also prove to be helpful to you and your Utah DPS colleagues under the first-rate leadership of  Utah DPS Commissioner Jess L. Anderson.

Sincerely and Best Wishes from John Kevin McMillan,  a former full-time employee in Austin (TX) for the Texas Department of Public Safety; a Lincoln, Nebraska native;  and a permanently alcohol-free (ever since 1990), permanently marijuana-free (ever since 1984) and lifelong- illicit-drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially cleanshaven, permanently jewelry-less, platonicly polite, consistently clean-talking and non-profane in my everyday conversations with others, dependably civil and law-abiding and honest, gainfully employed single adult white British-German-ancestry male current permanent resident of Utah ever since January 1, 2023.

 My date of birth: 04-27-1957.

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